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San Diego . 10 inches
Santa Barbara 15 66
St. Augustine 55
66
St. Paul. 30
66
Mentone
23
66
Los Angeles
18
Monterey
11
66
MONTEREY'S EQUABLE TEMPERATURE
THROUGHOUT THE YEAR.
The following carefully prepared table pre- sents the maximum, minimum and mean tem- perature of Monterey, from meteorological observations, taken at Hotel del Monte, from January, 1882, to December, 1886:
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MONTHS. M EAN TEMPERATURE. TEMP. FOR MONTH RAIN 7 A. M. 2 P. M. 9 P. M. Max. Min. Mean. FALL.
1882.
January
40.32
54.58
45.64
57
38
46.75
1.50
February
44.10
54.25
46.71
58
41
51.53
2.52
March
51.29
60.48
51.35
60
49
54.29
5.64
April
53.66
61.33
52.66
63
52
57.78
1.57
May
57.58
65.74
57.58
€6
67
60
63.24
July
61.96
69.16
63.00
61.16
69
60
63.82
September
59.60
66.96
59.33
73
60 63.26
October
55.41
65.22
55.29
64
52
58.64
1.67
November
48.90
59.38
49.03
61
46
52.58
1.02
December
46.74
61.74
50.92
58
46
53.13
.86
1883.
January
39.67
59.00
46.16
70
27
48.27
2.60
February
42.17
60.75
49.50
82
29
50.80
2.22
March
51.29
62.58
54.25
84
43
56.04
5.68
April
54.36
62.80
53,33
56.64
87
50
59.99
1.32
June
59.76
70.06
59.96
87
56
63.26
.10
July
59.64
69.64
59.80
84
55
63.03
August
56.74
67.83
58.70
75
50
61.09
September
57.56
70.36
61.06
85
48
62.99
October
49.93
63.54
54.48
50.20
71
32 51.38
.39
December
43.67
60.67
49.09
73
33
50.81
1.16
1884.
January
41.71
57.29
49.54
64
31
49.51
2.60
February
43.3
59.48
49.00
74
28
50.60
5.34
March
49.67
60.29
53.58
70
40
54.51
6.08
April
53.53
62.46
54.86
71
45 56.95
3.75
May
55.70
65.35
58.00
78
50 59.68
.36
June
58.16
55.33
59.90
69
56 61.13
1.80
July
56.65
67.23
59.16
76
53
61.01
August
55.35
68.19
59.77
77
50
61.11
.07
September
52.50
65.00
55.06
77
44
57.52
.03
October
49.03
61.29
52.80
77
40
54.39
1.81
November
45.26
61.43
50.00
71
40
52.23
.30
December
45.29
60.23
50.51
68
30
52.01
1885.
43.42
58.74
47.55
65
35
49.90
1.22
February
45.93
61.29
50.18
68
35
52.46
.09
March
49.09
64.51
54.22
81
41
55.95
.40
April
54.73
64.93
55.63
76
43 58.43
1.70
May
55.48
66.09
56.48
77
52 59.35
June
56.27
64.90
57.03
60.20
75
54
62.50
August
56.29
66.68
58.00
76
53
60.31
September
53.03
66.50
57.77
72
44
59,10
October
51.71
66.94
55.74
72
41
58.13
November
51.37
62.96
55.23
74
38
56.52
6.65
March
47.50
60.90
51.70
70
35
53.40
.83
December
45.55
63.39
53.94
73
35
54.29
1.73
1886.
January
44.87
60.30
51.20
70 30 52.10 3 09
February
46.70
64.10
53.40
75
39 54.70
1.14
March
45.40
60,90
50.00
72
33
52.10
2.52
April
51.20
63.20
66.50
56.70
72
50 59.90
.08
June
56.70
65.90
67.00
57.80
76
79
54 60.12
September
54.00
66.70
56.20
79 47 58.90
October
47.40
64.60
51.60
72 38 54.55
.70
November
41.20
63.10
48.30
71
33 50.90
.78
December
46.80
59.80
48.50
70
36 51.70
.60
The following table presents the maximum, minimum and mean temperature of Monterey, from meteorological observations taken at Ho- tel del Monte, from January, 1888, to De- cember, 1891:
MONTHS. MEAN TEMPERATURE. TEMP. FOR MONTH. RAIN 7 A. M. 2 P. M. 9 P. M. Max. Min. Mean. FALL.
1888.
January
43.60
56,50
48.90 63
20 49.70
3.95
.19 .71 February
50.20
61.60
52.50
72
43 54.80
1.09
March
50.60
59.80
53.30
66
43 54.60
3,29
April
52.70
64.60
55.30 77
47 57.50
.23
May
56.20
65.20
58.70
72 52 60.00
.81
June
60.90
71.40
62.10
78 58 64 87
July
60.30
71.00
62.60
90 58 62.52
August
57.80
69.20
62.30
75 56 63.10
September
57.90
68.80
60,90
74
54 62.50
.65
October
53 70
67.80
57.00
75
44 59.50
November
51.00
64.30
56.50
71
31 57.30
1.76
December
49.00
62.80
53.70
70 40
55.20
2.75
1889.
January
40.90
62.40
46.00
70
29 48.14
.81
February
44.82
63.18
51-79
73
32
53.30
.94
March
53.30
65.50
57.30
79
45 58.70
3.58
5.33 April
56.70
66.60
58.50 70
52 60.60
1.15
May
56-60
64.40
59.00
68 50 60.00
1.22
June
61.80
71.80
62.80
98
54 65.50
July
64.30
73.50
63.90
78 60 67.20
August
58.00
74.30
55.20
78 50 62.50
September
57.40
70.70
59,60
83
48 62.60
October
56.70
68.30
59.80
85
50 61.60
4.28
November
51.00
66.00
56.40
75
44 57.80
1.62
December
49.30
57.90
51.70
64
35
53.00
1.54
1890.
January
42.60
53.50
46,70
62
29
47.60
7.67
February
43.10
56.70
47.70
68
28
48.70
2.67
April
49.80
62.20
59.10
80 42
54.70
.34
August
55.60
67.70
57.00
78 51 59.90
55 60.80
June
59.9
68.63
60.73
68
62
65.38
August
60.41
73.41
.29
1.42
May
56.80
66.54
68
46
73
37
55.98
November
44.36
59.60
July
58.65
68.61
69
52
59.40
.20 .03
3.39
May
56.50
55 60.51
July
57.70
57.00
53.80 70 42 56.10
January
56.83
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May
57.80
68.10
56.10
80
47 59.70
.37
June
55.00
68.20
55.30
80
48
59.50
July
55.50
69.00
56.00
84
50
60.20
August
57.90
70.30
56.30
82
49
61.51
.10
October
48.50
69.60
54.60
87
38
57.60
November
44.30
68.50
53.40
79
37
55.40
1.32
December
45.30
63.20
50.70
69
35
53.10
2.66
1891.
January
44.40
59.70
50.50
71
30
51 50
1.06
February
45.96
60.35
50.82
65
32
52.30
3.68
March
51.80
63.00
54.20
67
43
56.30
.95
April
52.90
63.30
56.70
70
40
65.00
2.36
May
56.50
65.50
61.00
76
50
60.10
.09
June
59.10
75.20
62.20
96
49
65.50
.08
July
55.30
71.40
57.70
86
52
61.40
August
57.70
73.90
58.50
90
52
63.40
September
58.40
73.90
63.30
82
50 65.20
.11
October
52.40
68.10
57.80
81
40
59.40
.02
November
46.00
66.70
50.70
75
40
54.50
.19
December
38.00
56.00
45.50
63
26
48.00
4.72
CHAPTER XX.
THE COUNTY.
ONTEREY COUNTY constitutes one judical district. Hon. N. A. Dorn is the present superior judge of this district, to which position he was elected in 1890, for the term of six years. He was pre- ceded in that office by Hon. John K. Alex- ander. The following is a list of attorneys of Monterey county: W. A. Kearney, S. F. Geil, J. K. Alexander, W. M. R. Parker, C. F. Lacey, J. J. Cullman, N. G. Wyatt, P. E. Zabola, B. V. Sargent, W. H. Webb, G. A. Daugherty, J. A. Wall, W. M. Pense, Chas. E. Nongues, Fred. Sherwood, G. W. Road- house, of Salinas city; Thos. Renison, of Gonzales; and W. H. Willey and Mr. Brad- ford of Monterey.
The following are the county officers for 1892: Assembly man, Claude Lacey; sheriff,
J. A. Horton, county clerk, Thos. Riordan; treasurer, U. Hartnell; auditor, W. T. Dun- can; recorder, J. R. Robinson; tax col- lector, A. J. McCullom; assessor, W. A. Anderson; district attorney, B. V. Sargent, Jr .; coroner and public administrator, J. Parker; superintendent of Schools, Job Wood, Jr .; surveyor, J. H. Garber. supervisors : H. Samuels, chairman, of Salinas; J. B. Cas- tro, Castroville; T. J. Field, Monterey; A. J. Copley, Kings City; C. T. Romie, Soledad.
The Monterey County Agricultural As- sociation, District No. 7, of the State, was organized in 1874. It was reorganized under the new State law, in 1883. Its annual fairs are held at Sherwood Park, Salinas city.
The Pacific Coast Live Stock Owners' Mutual Protective Association was incorpor- ated as a Monterey county institution, March 12, 1890. It is located at Monterey city. Its objects are the suppression and preven- tion of the spread of contagious diseases, etc. Its officers are: Hon. B. V. Sargent, presi- dent; E. Ingram, vice-president; W. C. Little, actuary; R. H. Willey, attorney; C. R. Few, secretary; M. M. Gragg, busi- ness manager; F. R. Day, general manager.
MONTEREY COUNTY PUBLIC SCHOOLS.
There are ninety-three school districts in Monterey county. Job Wood, Jr., is the county superintendent. The annnal salary of this office is $1,650. From the superin- tendent's report for the year commencing July 1, 1891, and ending June 30, 1892, the following statistics are extracted. The school
September
55.00
86.80
75.59
82
47 59.50
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census was taken May 15 -31. The total number of census children between the ages of five and seventeen years, in the county, was 4,986. Of these, 4,921 were white, to wit, 2,541 boys and 2,380 girls. There were 12 negroes, 3 boys and 9 girls; and two In- dian boys; and 51 (24 boys and 27 girls) na- tive born Mongolians or Chinese.
Total census, children under 5 years: White, 1,909; negro, 6; Mongolian, 14; total 1,929. Number of children between 5 and 17, who have attended school, 3,956; number children between 5 and 17 who have attended only private school, 86; number chil- dren between 5 and 17 who have not attended school, 944. Of these latter, two were negro and fifty-one were Mongolian children.
Nativity of children, native born, 6,797; foreign born, 118; total, 6,915.
Number schools or classes employing one teacher each, 124; number schools of each grade, high 1; grammar 41; primary, 82 ; total, 124.
Number pupils enrolled, boys, 2,169; girls 1,994: total enrolled, 4,163; average number belonging, 2,813; average daily attendance, 2,628; percentage of attendance on average, number belonging, 93.
High school, number pupils enrolled, 85; grammar school, number pupils enrolled, 846; Primary school, number pupils enrolled 3,232; total enrolled, 4,163.
Average number of months schools were maintained 8.6; number male teachers, 21; female, 103; total, 124; average monthly wages of male teachers, $76; average monthly
wages of female teachers, $62.86; number teachers holding high-school certificates, 5; number teachers holding first grade or grani- mar certificates 61; number teachers holding second grade or primary certificates, 58; number teachers who attend county institute, 124; average monthly salary of teachers, $65; total amount paid teachers' salaries for year, $68,771.71; total amount paid rent, repairs, fuel, contingent expenses, $8,345.53; total amount paid school libraries, $2,311.73; total amount paid school apparatus, $1,582.49; total current expenses, $81,011.46; amount paid for sites, buildings and school furnishing, $24,791.80; total expenditures for school year, $105,803.26.
Receipts: Balance on hand July 1, 1891, $21,437.10; from State, including library fund, $40,314.73; from county, $36,541.00; from city or district taxes, $26,609.06; from subscriptions and miscellaneous sources, $2,- 070.75; total $126,972.64; balance close school year, June 30, 1892, $21,169.38.
Valne school lots, houses and furnishings, $141,950; value school libraries, $17,970; value school apparatus, $6,825; total value school property, $166,745; number school houses in county, 90; new districts organized, 60; nuumber volumes in school libraries, 18,- 208; amount bonded or other indebtedness of districts, $39,500.
The annual teachers' institute was held at Salinas, September 21-25, 1891. Thirty- five teachers of the county are graduates of the California State Normal School, and nine
6
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· MONTEREY COUNTY.
are graduates of other State normal schools and eighteen hold life diplomas.
According to the decennial census of 1890, the population of Monterey county was then 18,637. Of this number there were: Whites, 16,821; Chinese, 1,653; Indians, 57; Ne- groes, 105; Japanese, 1.
Present estimated population: Children un- der 17, 6,915x3}=24,202.
The vote of Monterey county at the guber- natorial election of 1890 was as follows: Markham, 1,956; Pond, 1,834; Bidwell, 113; total, 3,903.
The courthouse of Monterey county was erected at a cost for building, grounds and furnishing of $60,000, in 1878, from pro- ceeds of bonds voted the same year. In 1888, bonds were issued to the amount of $150,000 for the purpose of building bridges. Of these latter, $40,000 have already been paid off.
The county hospital located one and one- half miles from Salinas, was built in 1886 at a cost of about $10,000. The land, some sixty-two acres, cost $5,000. The hospital has accommodations for seventy-five persons. The county physician is Dr. S. M. Archer, who has filled this position some fifteen years.
The Monterey Agricultural Association for District No. 7, has its headquarters at Sal- inas. Jesse D. Carr is president, and J. J. Keeley is secretary. It has held fairs an- nually during the last sixteen years.
COUNTY ASSESSMENT.
1891 .- Value real estate and impro'ments, $14,285,120 Personal property 2,142,415
Railroads. 1,284,949
County rate, $1.50. Total . . $17,712,484
1892 .- Value real estate and impro'ments, $14,722,787 Value personal property . 2,202,785
Total. $16,925,572
Railroads. 1,341,922
Total $18,267,494
County rate, $1.25 per $100. State rate, 43.04 1892 .- Number acres land assessed in M. Co., 1,109,394 1891 .- Number acres land assessed in M. Co., 1,102,084
By the Act of the Legislature of March 11, 1891, the Sixth Congressional District was constituted as follows: Santa Cruz, Santa Barbara, Monterey, Ventura, San Luis Obispo, and Los Angeles counties.
Seventh District .- Stanislaus, Kern, Mer- ced, Orange, San Benito, San Bernardino, Tu- lare, Fresno, and San Diego counties.
State Senatorial Districts, forty.
Thirty-third: Monterey and San Benito counties.
Twenty-ninth: Santa Cruz and San Mateo connties.
Assembly Districts, eighty.
Fifty-second: San Mateo county.
Fifty-third: Santa Cruz county.
Fifty-ninth: Merced county, San Benito county (part).
Sixtieth: San Benito county (part).
Sixty-first: Monterey county.
SALINAS VALLEY.
The valleys and foothills of Monterey county, which in early times had been de- voted to stock-raising, have been gradually changed into a grain and fruit growing re-
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gion. The rich and extensive salinas valley in particular, has been utilized very profit- ably for agricultural and horticultural pur- suits, and latterly also in the culture of the sugar beet. In 1874 the narrow-gauge rail- road was built, connecting the town or bay of Monterey with Salinas city. Later, the South- ern Pacific Company built its road, connect- ing various parts of the county with its general system. Although there are still many big ranches in Monterey county, yet gratifying progress has been made in the building up of homes by industrious and prosperous settlers. There has been a steady increase in population and wealth during the last twenty-five years.
Less than thirty years ago Salinas valley was mostly an open plain, with hardly a house, a fence or a corral in sight throughout its entire area; now numerous settlements, and occasionally cities. dot its beautiful land- scape. The writer of these lines well remem- bers riding in the stage between Natividad and Monterey in the '60s, and stopping at the Half-way House, or at Trescony's, where now stands the Abbott House, in the center of Salinas city. The county seat remained at Monterey till 1872. The gradual develop- meut of other portions of the county changed the center of population, and a movement was made to change the county seat to Sali- nas, which, however, was vigorously opposed. The matter was finally submitted to a vote of the people, November 6, 1872, the day of the presidential election. The vote resulted :
1,436 in favor of Salinas city, and 488 for Monterey.
The county seat was transferred to Sali- nas city, its present location, the following February.
LIGHTHOUSES-POINT PINOS LIGHT.
The Twelfth Lighthouse District of the United States extends from the southern boundary of California to the southern bound- ary of Oregon. Inspector (1891) Thomas Perry, lieutenant-commander United States Navy, San Francisco; engineer, William H. Heur, major of engineers, United States Army, San Francisco. (See United States " Official List of Lights and Fog Signals on the Pacific Coast, corrected to January 1, 1891.")
Point Pinos Lighthouse is one of the oldest stations on the coast: it was first ex- hibited February 5, 1855. It is what is known as a "fixed light," i. e., it does not revolve and flash.
It is a white light of the third order, of ninety-candle power, and is visible at a dis- tance of fifteen and one-fourth nautical miles.
Its location is in latitude N. 36° 37' 55", and in longitude W. 121° 56' 02"; and on the south side of entrance to the harbor of Monterey, height of light from sea level, ninety-one feet.
The light is supplemented by a whistling buoy of the first class, audible for a distance of six miles.
The light is surrounded by a catoptric lens of the third order.
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MONTEREY COUNTY.
Point Pinos light is a one-keeper show station.
The first keeper was Charles Layton, who was killed; and his wife applied for and succeeded to his position. Her second hus- band, George C. Harris, was her successor. The next keeper was Andrew Wasson. Allen T. Luce was appointed September 21, 1871, and he has served continuously till the present time.
POINT SUR LIGHT,
twenty-one miles south of Point Piuos, is a light of the first order, visible twenty-three and one-fourth nautical miles. It is a white light, alternated with red flashes every fifteen seconds. Altitude above sea level, 272 feet. This is a four-keeper station, and was estab- lished in 1889. It has a twelve-inch steam fog signal, with five-second blasts at inter- vals of thirty-five seconds.
CHAPTER XXI.
SALINAS CITY.
ALINAS city, situated as it is, in the midst of a splendid farming country, is a prosperous, modern American city. Its transportation facilities are excellent, its climate is healthful, making it a very de- sirable place of residence; its people are enterprising, and as both the commercial business of the valley and the political busi- ness of the county center here, it has really become one of the most important cities in the county. According to the census of 1890 its population was 2,339.
From June 1, 1891, to June 1, 1892, there were shipped from Salinas station between 8,000 and 9,000 tons of wheat, barley and oats. Owing to short rains in the early part of 1892, the secretary of the Salinas Board of Trade estimates that the crop of grain of 1892 will not be much more than one-half of an average crop. There are five points at which the products of the valley may be shipped by water.
The Salinas Milling Company, now con- solidated with The Sperry Flonr Company of San Francisco, handles an enormous amount of grain annually, mostly the product of Monterey county. A brief account of this great corporation is of sufficient local in- terest to insert here. Eleven mill com- panies have combined-not in the form of a trust at all, they claim,-but by an actual transfer of ownership,-in one company, which has incorporated under the name of " The Sperry Flour Company," with a cap- ital stock of $10,000,000, which has issued paid-up stock to the amount of $5,840,000. Horace Davis, of San Francisco, is president of this company, and D. B. Moody, secretary. The total capacity of all the mills of this huge company is 6,000 barrels of flour daily, and its markets are the Pacific coasts of America and Asia, and the islands of the Pacific ocean. Its mills, each of which has a local manager, are located as follows: One mill at Stockton, capacity 1,500 barrels daily; 1 mill at Salinas, copacity 600 barrels daily; 1 mill at Hollister, capacity 400 bar- rels daily; 1 mill at Kings' City, capacity 250
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MONTEREY COUNTY.
barrels daily; 1 mill at Paso Robles, capacity 200 barrels daily; 1 mill at Marysville; 1 mill at Gridley, Sacramento county; 2 mills at Sacramento city; 1 mill at San Francisco; 1 mill at San José.
V. D. Black is the managing director of the Salinas mill, which makes a brand of flour widely known as" Drifted Snow Flour." Its market is Monterey county, also the Pacific coast and islands. This is a full roller mill; it has twenty-four double sets of rollers. Its motive power is a 300-horse-power steam engine, the fuel used being the refuse from the Santa Cruz sawmills. The mill, which was erected in 1883, employs about thirty operatives. As it runs day and night (ex- cluding Sundays) it requires double sets of employes. In the year 1891, out of a little more than 300 working days, it ran 292 days of twenty-four hours each. Its bill for sacks (all its flour is sacked) from July 1, 1891, to July 1, 1892, was $27,000. This mill con- sumes annually 25,000 tons of wheat, which it converts into flour, and about 5,000 tons of barley, which it rolls for feed purposes. It requires about $250,000 capital to run this business, including the amount invested in the plant. The business done annually by this office amounts to something like $1,000,- 000; and that done by the Consolidated Cen- tral Company will probably amount to $1,000,000 per month. Six hundred barrels of flour, or twenty-four hours' run, require about eighty tons of wheat. Superintendent Black sells flour on thirty days' time, but buys wheat all along the railroad from Gilroy
to its terminus, in Sau Luis Obispo county, for spot cash.
The daily price of wheat is made, not by Mr. Black, nor by the Sperry Flour Company of San Francisco, but at the great centers of population in New York and in Europe. The boards of trade of the latter meet daily and fix the price for the day, according to demand and supply, and adjourn before the boards of New York and other Eastern cities of the United States meet, owing to the differ- ence in time. And the latter meet and fix the price, subject to the rate already estab- lished in the European markets the same day. Several hours later the San Francisco Board meets, and, with full knowledge of the state of the markets of the East and Europe, fixes the price for the day in San Francisco. This price is telegraphed in cypher to Mr. Black, who is then prepared to buy wheat of the farmers of Salinas valley intelligently, be- cause he knows what it is worth .in other parts of the world, or whether the tendency, as compared with its price the previous day, is upward or downward, in the great centers of consumption, where in reality the price to a large extent is made. And thus this branch of the milling business, to wit: the buying of wheat is done on scientific princi- ples, just as the conversion of the wheat into flour, is, in similar fashion, done by means of the latest-improved scientific ma- chinery. And all this is better for the farmer than the haphazard way of buying without regard to the price in other parts of the world. And by these methods of doing business, the
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ability of any local operators to bull or bear the market is confined within very narrow limitations. The level of Monterey bay is certainly steadied by its intimate connection with the universal sea.
It is estimated that Monterey is one of the largest barley-producing counties in the State. Mr. Black placed the quantity of barley on hand in the various warehouses of the Salinas valley on the first day of October, 1891, at about 32,000 tons, and the total production for the year at 50,000 tons; and the produc- tion of wheat at 60,000 tons. The quantity of hay raised in the valley, over and above what is needed for home consumption, is also very large.
Some portions of the valley are found to be admirably adapted to the growth of sugar beets; a narrow-gange railroad has been run up the valley, from the Watsonville Sugar factory, some thirteen miles, thus stimulating beet farming along its line. A Mr. Graves has a 200-acre field of sugar beets, not far from Salinas city, for which, it is reported, he has been offered, and has refused, $10,000. He estimates that his crop will average be- tween twenty and forty tons of beets per acre.
Fruit is beginning to be raised for profit in the valley, and without irrigation.
There are two commercial banks in Salinas city. The Salinas City Bank was or- ganized in April, 1873. Its directors are: J. D. Carr, president; A. B. Jackson, acting president; Elisha Archer, J. H. McDougall, Thomas Rea; W. S. Johnson, cashier. The bank has a paid-up capital of $300,000, and
a surplus of $95,000. Its sworn statement of June 30, 1892, showed:
ASSETS .- Cash and dne from bks $ 53,140.69
Loans 570,451.11
Real estate
25,714.33
Expense
3,080.10
S. F. bk stock 5,000.00
$657,386.23
LIABILITIES .- Capital stock . .. . $300,000.00
Due depositors. .. 242,576.29
Profit and Loss. . . 95,000.00
Unpaid dividends. 7,500.00
Int., dis's and rents 12,137.44
Suspense account. . 172.50
$657,386.23
The Monterey County Bank of Salinas city was incorporated October 17, 1890, with a subscribed capital stock of $200,000; paid-up capital, $120,000. Its directors are: Will- iam Vanderhurst, president; J. B. Iverson, vice-president; Luther Rodgers, cashier; R. . L. Porter, assistant cashier and secretary ; M. Lynn, J. H. McDougall, C. T. Romie, Francis Doud. Its semi-annual statement, June 30, 1892, showed:
ASSETS .- Bank premises $ 18,100.00
Loans 204,411.61
Cash and due from bks 23,612.00
Fur. and fixtures 1,900.00
Ex. and taxes 7,237.96
$255,261.57
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LIABILITIES .- Capital paid in. . . $120,000.00
Due depositors. ... 117,839.95
Due banks 1,127.46
Interest 14,908.98
Rents and exch.
1,385.18
$255,261.57
The officers of the Salinas Board of Trade, which was organized in 1887, and which has about fifty members, are as follows: Jesse D. Carr, president; Willlam Vanderhurst, vice- president; W. H. Clark, secretary; Mark Meyer, treasurer.
The following are the city officers: H. S. Ball, mayor; J. J. Wyatt, city attorney; G. S. Miller, treasurer; D. F. Davis, surveyor. Council: T. S. Mabel, William Tholke, H. Menke, J. J. Connor, P. Iverson and William Schmedel.
Salinas is divided into three wards, with two councilmen representing each ward. The indebtedness of the city is about $20,- 000. The city tax for 1892 is seventy-five cents on the $100, including twenty-five cents for schools.
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