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Third Session-Convened at Vallejo, the new Capital, Janu- ary 5, 1852. Number of members: Senate, 27; Assembly, 62 Total, 89.
Fourth Session-Convened at Vallejo, January 2, 1853 removed to Benicia, February 4, 1853.
Fifth Session-Convened at Benicia, January 2, 1854, removed to Sacramento, February 25, 1854, wbere it has since remained.
PRESENT CAPITOL BUILDING.
In the beginning of 1860, the citizens of Sacramento decded to the State, lots of land in the city on which a new State Cap- itol could be built. Work commenced the 15th day of May. 1861, and the corner-stone was laid with Masonie ceremonies, conducted by N. Creen Curtis, then Grand Master of the Order. In a few years other bloeks were added, so that now the grounds extend from Tenth to Fifteenth and from L to N Streets. For
STATE HOUSE AT SAN JOSK, 1849.
this addition the citizens subscribed $30,000, the State appro- priation not being sufficient to fully pay for the land. The original architect was Reuben Clark, to whom the greatest meed of praise should be given for the beautiful building that now adorns the city and is an honor to the State. After the dedication ceremonies, work was discontinued on it for some time, and it was not until 1865, that labor was recommenced in earnest. Up to November 1, 1875, the cost, added to the usual items for repairs and improvements, amounted to $2,449,- 428.31. The building is 240 feet in height, the height of the main building being 94 feet. Its depth is 149 feet and its lengtb 282. The Assembly Chamber is 73 by 75, with a height of 48 feet, the Senate 73 by 56, with the same height. The first or ground story of the building, is 16 feet above level of the surrounding streets.
The State Capitol, one of the prettiest in America, stands in a park of eigbt blocks, terraced and ornamented with walks, drives, trees, shrubs, and plants, forming one of the prettiest spots in the country. This fine structure cost about $2,500,000, and its towering dome, surmounted by the Temple and Goddess
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A NEW CONSTITUTION ADOPTED.
of Liberty, rises 240 feet, and is the first object presented to view in the distance from whatever direction the traveler approaches the city. A fine engraving of this building will be found as a frontispiece.
The State Capitol Park, in which are located the Capitol build- ing, the State Arinory, and the State Printing Office, embraces ten full blocks of land, and the breadth of four streets, running north and south. Recent improvements lay out the grounds in a graceful landscape style, of extensive lawn and clumps of trees, and arranges them more especially as a drive. The main drive is in the form of an ellipse, the roadway being forty feet in width, and estimated to be about two-thirds of a mile in length. It is bordered by a double row of trees, and the grounds intervening between the roadway and the fenees are being tastefully laid out in the best style of landscape gar- dening.
FORMINO OF A NEW CONSTITUTION.
The Constitution which was framed at Monterey, when the . State was yet in its swaddling clothes, answered every pur- pose for a number of years, but the entire body politie had changed, and the popular voice became clamorous for a change in the organie law of the State. The question had often been before mooted, and votes taken upon calling a convention for the purpose of framing a new Constitution, but publie senti- ment did not reach tbe requisite condition until the general election of 1877, at which time "Constitutional Convention, Yes," carried with an overwhelming majority. During the session of the Legislature, which followed this election, a bill was framed and passed,. which provided for the election of dele- gates to the convention, and which was approved' March 30, 1878. Thirty-two of the delegates were to be elected from the State at large, not more than eight of whom should reside in any one Congressional district. In accordance with a procla- mation issued by the Governor, an election for the purpose of of elloosing delegates to the convention was held June 19, 1878. The body comprising the Constitutional Convention, met at Sae- ramento City, September 28th of that year, and continued in session 175 days. The day set for the people of the State to adopt or reject the result of the labors of the Convention was May 7, 1879, and there was a very strong, and in some instances, a bitter fight inade over it ; those opposing it, eiting wherein tbe old Constitution had proved satisfactory, and wherein the new organie law would prove disastrous ; while those who desired its adoption were as ready to show up the weak points of the old, and its inadequacy to the demands of the present advanced state of affairs, and wherein a new would almost prove a panacca for all our ills, both social, moral, and political. Thus the matter continued to be agitated until the day had come on which the die should be cast, and greatly to the surprise of everybody, the decision of the people of the State was in favor of the new law.
LIST OF CALIFORNIA GOVERNORS.
The Governors of California since its settlement to the pres- ent time were as follows :-
SPANISH RULE.
Gaspar de Portala. .1767-1771
Felipe de Barri. .1771-1774
Felipe de Neve .1774-1782
Pedro Fajes . 1782-1890
Jose Antonio Romea. 1790-1792
"Jose J. de Arrillaga
1792-1794
Diego de Boriea. .1794-1800
Jose J. de Arrillaga 1800-1814
*Jose Arguello.
.1814-1815
Pablo Vincente de Sola
1816-1822
MEXICAN RULE.
Pablo Vincente de Sola.
1822-1823
Luis Arguello 1823-1825
Jose Maria de Echeandia
June, 1825-Jan., 1831
Manuel Victoria.
Jan., 1831- Jan., 1832
*Pio Pico .. Jan., 1832-Jan., 1833
Jose Figuerra.
Jan., 1833-Aug., 1835
*Jose Castro.
. Aug., 1835- Jan., 1836
Nicolas Gutierrez.
Mariano Chico. .Jan., 1836-Apr., 1836
.Apr., 1836-Aug., 1836
Nicolas Gutierrez.
. Aug., 1836-Nov., 1836
Juan B. Alvarado.
Nov., 1836-Dee., 1842
Manuel Miebeltorena
.Dec., 1842-Feb., 1845
Pio Pico.
.Feb., 1845-July 1846
AMERICAN RULE-TERRITORIAL.
Com. Jobn D. Sloat.
July 7, 1846-Aug. 17, 1846
Com. R. F. Stockton.
. Aug. 17, 1846-Jan -, 1847
Col. John C. Fremont.
Jan. - , 1847-Mar. 1, 1847
Gen. S. W. Kearny
. Mar. 1, 1847-May 31, 18+7
Col. Richard B. Mason
.May 31, 1847-Apr. 13, 1849
Gen. Bennet Riley
. Apr. 13, 1849- Dee. 20, 1849
STATE-GOVERNORS.
NANE.
+Peter H. Burnett.
INAUGURATED.
John MeDougal.
Jan. 9, 1851
John Bigler
.Jan. 8, 1852
John Bigler
.Jan. 8, 1854
J. Neely Johnson
Jan. 8, 1856
+Milton S. Latham
.Jan.
8, 1858
.John G. Downey
Jan.
8, 18GO
Leland Stanford
Jan. 14, 1860
Frederick F. Low
Jan. 8, 1862
Henry H. Haight.
.Dee. 5, 1867
+Newton Booth.
Dec. 8, 1871
Romualdo Pacheco
Feb. 27, 18.5
William Irwin.
Dee. 9, 1875
George C. Perkins
Jan. 5, 1880
· Ad interim.
t Resigned.
I Term increased from two to four years.
.Dee. 20, 1849
Jobn B. Weller.
.Dee. 2, 1863
RESIDENCE OF A. NORTON, BLUE LAKE.
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FARM OF A.NORTON, ON MAD RIVER; NEAR BLUE LAKE, HUMBOLDT CO.CAL.
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GREAT MOUNTAIN RANGES OF THE STATE.
Geographical Features.
THE Coast Range of mountains runs parallel to the ocean, and has an altitude of from 2,000 to 4,000 feet above the sea, and an average width of twenty to forty miles.
On the general eastern boundary of California, and running nearly its entire length, lies the Sierra Nevada (snowy range). ity summit heing generally above the region of perpetual snow. In this State it is about 450 miles long and 80 miles wide, with an altitudo varying from: 5,000 to 15,000 feet abovo the level of tho sea. Nearly its wholo width is occupied with its west- ern slope, descending to a level of 300 feet above the sea; its eastern slope, five or six mniles wide, terminating abruptly in the great interior basin, which is 5,000 feet above the sea level, The sides of the Sierra Nevada, to the height of about 8,000 feet, are covered with donse forests of valuable timber, which is snc- ceeded by rugged granito and perpetual snow.
THE CALIFORNIA ALPS.
John Muir saysof tho region about the head-waters of King's River :-
" Few portions of the California Alpy are, strictly speaking picturesquo. The whole massivo uplift of the range, 450 miles long by about seventy miles wide, is one grand picture, not clearly divisiblo into smaller ones; in this respect it differs grently from the older and riper mountains of the Coast Range. All the laudseapes of the Sierra were remodeled deep down to the roots of their granite foundations by the developing ice- floodls of the last geological winter.
"On tho head-waters of the King's River is a group of wild Alps on which the geologist may say the sun has but just begun to shine, yet in a high degree picturesque, and in all its main features so regular and evenly balanced as almost to appear conventional-one somber cluster of snow-laden peaks with gray pine-fringed granite bosses braided arouud its base, the whole surging free into the sky from the head of a magnifi- cent valley, whose lofty walls are beveled away on both sides so as to embrace it all without adinitting anything not strictly belonging to it. The foreground was now all aflame with autumn colors, brown and purple aud gold, ripe with the mel- low sunshine; contrasting brightly with the deep, cobalt blue of the sky, and the black and gray and pure, spiritual white of the rocks and glaciers. Down through the midst the young river was seen pouring from its crystal fountains, now resting in glassy pools as if changing back again iuto ice; now leap- ing in white cascades as if turning to snow; gliding right and left between the granite bosses, then sweeping on through the smoothi meadowy levels of the valley, swaying pensively from side to side with calm, stately gestures, past dipping willows and scalges, and around groves of arrowy pine; and throughout its whole eventful course, flowing fast or slow, singing loud or low, ever filling the landscape with spiritual animation, and
manifesting the grandeur of its sources in every movement and tone."
MOUNT DIABLO.
The most familiar peak in the State is, however, Mount Diablo,' being very near its geographical center, and towering abovo all other peaks-prominent from its inaccessibility and inagnificent panoramic sweep from its top-prominent from its selection hy the Government as the initial point of base and meridian lines in the land survey, it being the reference point in about two-thirds of the State.
It stands out boldly 3,856 feet high, overlooking the tran- quil ocean, thirty miles due east from the Golden Gate, serving as a beacon to the weary, ses-tossed mariner, far ont on the blue, briny billows, pointing him to a haven of security in the great harbor through the Golden Gate itself; and even on through bay and strait to anchorages safe and deep, up to where the foot-stones of the great pile meet and kiss the brackish waters. Grand old mountain, majestic, silent, yet a trumpet-tongued preacher ! Who is there of the prosperous dwellers upon its slopes, or near its grateful shadows, that, going or coming by land or sea, does not look upon that blue receding or advanc. ing pile with a full heart ?
It is believed there are few points on the earth's surface from which so extensive an arca can be seen as from this mountain. The writer has from its summit, counted thirty-five cities and villages, where reside two-thirds of the inhabitants of the State.
The two great mountain ranges unite at the northern and southern part of the State, each connecting range having a lofty peak.
MOUNT SHASTA.
In the northern connecting link is Mount Shasta, 14,442 feet high. It rears its great craggy snow-covered summit high in the air, and is often seen at a distance of 200 miles at the south- west. It takes about three days to reach its summit and return. You can ride to the snow line the first day, ascend to the top the following morning, descend to your camp in the afternoon, and return to the valley ou the third day. Mount Shasta has a glacier, alinost, if not quite, the only one within the limits of the United States. The mountain is an extinet volcano. Its summit is composed of lava, and the eye can easily trace the now broken liues of this old crater when viewed from the north. Mount Shasta is clothed with snow for a virtual mile down from its summit during most of the year.
MOUNTS WHITNEY AND SAN BENARDINO.
Mount Whitney is the highest point in the United States (14,- 900 fect) ; but Monnt Shasta (14,4+2 feet) makes a more impos- ing appearance because it rises in solitary grandeur 7,000 feet above any mountains near it. A signal station has lately been established on Mount Whitney. In the Sierra Nevada Range are more than 100 peaks over 10,000 feet high, according to the
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THE GREAT VALLEYS AND PRODUCTIONS.
State Geographical Survey. In the southern connecting link is snow-capped Mount San Bernardino 11,600 feet above the sea level.
GREAT SAN JOAQUIN VALLEY.
Between these two great mountain ranges, lies the great inte- rior basin of the State, comprising the Sacramento and San Joa- quin Valleys, really but one geographical formation, drained by the two great rivers bearing their respective names, and their tributaries ; an uninterrupted level country of exceeding fertility, and the great future wheat growing section of the State. This basin extends north and south about 400 miles, with an average breadth of from fifty to sixty miles, rising into undulating slopes and low hills as the mountains are approached on either side. It is covered with a diluvium from 400 to 1,500 feet deep, and presents evidences of having once been the bed of a vast lake.
Innumerable valleys are formed by spurs shooting off from the western slope of the Sierra Nevada Range, and from the Coast Range on either side, extending the entire length of the Stato; well watered by springs and living streams, possessing a gouil soil and climate, and every way adapted to profitable nixed husbandry.
This great valloy is drained from the north by the Sacra- mento River, and from the south by the San Joaquin, which, after inceting and uniting in the center of the bas'n, break through the Coast Range to the Pacific. At the sonthern extremity are the Tulare Lakes and marshes which, in tho wet season, cover a large extent of surface. Along the great rivers the valleys are generally low and level, and extremely fertile rising into undulating slopes and low hills as the mountains aro approached on either side, and broken on the east by num- erous spurs from the Sierras. The following table gives the ruost noted elevations in the State and their distance from San Francisco.
ALTITUDE OF PROMINENT POINTS IN THE STATE
NAMES OF PLACES. Distance (SIERRA NEVADA RANGE. ) fr'm S.F. Lub'vonCa
Altitude
NAMES OF PLACES. (COAST RANGE)
Distance Altitude fr'm S. F. ab'ye sca
Mount Whitney.
173
14,900
Snow Mountain
114
7,500
Monnt Shasta.
244
14,442
Mount St. John.
96
4,500
Mount Tyndall.
100
14,386
Mount Hamilton
52
4,400
Mount Dana.
148
13,227
Mount St. Helena
70
4,343
Mount Lyell
144
13,217
Mount Diablo
32
3,656
Mount Drewer
152
13,SSG
Mount Loma Prieta. .
54
4,040
Mouut Silliman
130
11,023
Mount Balley .
280
6,375
Lassen Butte ..
183
10,577
Mount Tamalpais
15
2,604
Stanislaus Peak
125
11,500
Marysville Butte.
92
2,030
Round Top
120
10,650
Farallone Islands
200
Downieville Buttes
157
S,720 Clay Street Hill
3S7
Colfax Village.
144
2,431 Red Bluff.
225
307
Sacramento
90
30 Redding
260
558
THE STAPLE PRODUCTIONS.
Prior to 1864, no very marked results were reached in farm- ing in California, the export of agricultural products, with the exception of wool, not having been such as to attract attention abroad. And owing to the drought that prevailed in 1863 and 1864, Califo: nia had but little grain or other farm produce to
spare, flour having been to some extent imported. The large extent, undoubted fertility, and known capabilities of the lands of the San Joaquin, Sacramento and Salinas Valleys give assur- ance tbat agriculture will become the predominant interest of its people.
The principal staples which the soil and climate of these val- leys favor are the cercal grains. Wild oats are indigenous to the country, and on lands allowed to run wild, will run out other small grains, but are cultivated only as a forage plant which, cut while green, makes an excellent hay. Barley also thrives well, and, in a green state, is often cut for hay. But the great staple, from being "the staff of life," and the case of cultivation over other products in this climate, is wheat. In a moderately rainy season it is capable of perfecting its growth before the heats of summer have evaporated the moisture from the roots, and a crop is nearly sure of being made. No disease. rust, or insect harms the grain, although smut was in early days very prevalont, hut, by proper treatment has nearly dis- appeared. There has always been a good demand for the sur- plus crop of this cereal, in the mines and for export, and its cultivation has been profitable.
Cotton cultivation has been experimented upon in Fresno County, and in the Tulare Basin, where the yield has averaged 500 pounds to the acre of a fine textile fibre.
Next to the cultivation of cereals, the vine engrosses the minds of California agriculturists more than any other production, the product of her vineyards finding favor in all parts of the world.
Nearly a thousand vessels enter the port of San Francisco in a year, and a large number of these are required to carry the wheat to Europe. Some $15,000,000 is annually received for wheat alone, and it is shipped to the following countries, arranged in order according to tho amount which was sent them: Great Britain, Belgium, France, Australia, Spain, South America, New Zealand, China, Germany, Hawaiian Islands, British Columbia, Tahiti, and Mexico. By this list it is seen that we contribute breadstuff's to nearly every country of the globe.
CALIFORNIA'S VARIED INDUSTRIES.
California has now a total area of 7,000,000 acres inclosed, 4,000,000 cultivated-nine-tenths of the cultivated land being in cereals, and 90,000 in grape-vines. She has 2,500,000 bearing trees of temperate fruits-apple, pear, peach, plum, prune, apri- cot, nectarine, and cherry-300,000 bearing trces of semi-tropi- ical fruits- orange, lemon, lime, fig, and olive-400,000 almond and English walnut trees, 4,400 miles of mining ditchs, 260 gold quartz-mills, 300 saw-mills and 140 grist-mills. Among her annual products are 12,000 tons of wool, 5,000 of butter, 1,500 of cheese and 500 of honey, 6,000,000 gallons of wine and 14,000,000 of beer, and 500,000,000 feet of sawn lumber. The assessed value of her property is $578,000,000, of which half is in San Francisco and its suburbs.
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AGRICULTURAL STATISTICS OF THE STATE.
AGRICULTURAL PRODUCTIONS.
It is as an agricultural State now, however, that California is attracting attention, and to show what we are doing in that line we append a table of receipts and exports from San Fran- cisco of wheat, flour, barley, oats, beans and potatoes since 1866.
Each year terminates with June 30th :-
WIIEAT AND FLOUR.
RECEIFTN.
EXPORTS.
Pato.
bbje. Flour.
bblø. Flour
1857
151,470
1857
43,900
1858.
116.474
1858
6,654
1859
212,888
1859
20,618
1860
419,749
1860
186,182
1861
834,020
1861
707,156
1873
70,048
5,997
1873
779,379
27,086
1874
89,091
5,739
1874
781,049
33,772
1875
113,577
8,156
1875
752,456
29.441
1876
115,128
17,296
1876
731,207
25,684
1877
117,860
10,512
1877
810,576
36.818
1878
80,116
12,705
1878
624,353
18,840
1879
207,193
17,871
1879
750,211
23,440
1880
198,24!)
28,740
1880|
590,611
36,200
STATE LANDS AND HOW DIVIDED.
State Surveyor-General, William Minis, places the area of the State at 100,500,000 acres, divided as follows :-
Agricultural and mineral lands surveyed to June 30, 1879.
40,054,114
Agricultural and mineral lands unsurveyed
30,065,754
Private grants surveyed to June 30, 1879.
8.450,694
Missiou Church property
40,707
Pueblo Lands .. .
188,049
Private grants unsurveyed.
15,000
Indian and military reservations.
318.431
Lakes, islands, bays and navigable rivers.
1,561.700
Swamp and overflowed lands unsurveyed. .
110,714
Salt marsh and tide lands around San Francisco bay
100,000
Salt marsh and tide lands around Humboldt bay.
5,000
BARLEY.
OATS.
Receipts, in contuls.
Exports, in centals.
Receipts, in centals.
Exports, in ceutals.
1857
455.823
66,368
1857
157,344
8,370
1858
637.568
142,612
1858
186,039
107,659
1859
779,870
295,836
1859
320,248
218,647
1860
549,293
69,246
1860
216,898
90,682
1861
677,455
339,536
1861
315,078
116,467
1862
611,227
188,617
1862
351,633
154,585
1863
432,203
49,809
1863
177,105
39,986
1864
611,143
40,329
1864
304,044
91,086
1865
438,432
13,920
1865
273,973
3.366
1.866
1,037,209
349,990
1866
343,042
113,966
1867
730,112
142,154
1867
328,478
89,331
1868
638,020
31,342
1868
221.811
5,685
1869
608,988
91,202
1869
234,498
21,934
1870
752.418
300,528
1870
299,143
13,957
1871
701,639
138,008
1871
304,153
13,227
1872
792,198
16,707
1872
358,531
11,707
1873
981,028
226,928
1873
200,545
5,437
1874
1,127,390
243,752
1874
243,400
27,640
1875
1,243 657
182,146
1875
305,844
56,023
1876
1.142,154
204,131
1876
233,960
3,101
1877
1,552,765
282,875
1877
210,257
4,479
1878
858,967
88,887
1878
145,413
1879
1,752,712
468.335
1879
253,802
29,253
1880
1.191,451
+11.145
1880
143,366
5,372
BEANS AND POTATOES.
BEANS.
POTATOES.
Receipts, in socks.
Exports, in sacks.
Receipts, in sacks.
Exports.
1.837
55,268
638
1857
343,681
1858
65,076
6,721
1858
330,307
1859
39,682
22,953
1859
202.458
1860
38,714
8,300
1860
326,973
I1 955
1861
34.188
4.675
1861
317.419
4,1,2197
1862
58,294
11,789
1862
203,074
5,815
1863
59,620
2,863
1863
364,423
14,952
1864
83,568
21.619
1864
376,046
22.161
1865
47,822
4.244
1865
346,654
5,976
1866
45,717
6,662
1866
515,507
16,084
1867
50,678
2,921
1867
543,193
7,378
1868
50,638
12,917
18G8
632,08G
19,133
1869
53,711
1,899
1869
604,392
24,360
1870
99,585
7,890
1870
701,960
24.710
1871
85,618
21,800
1871
700,122
18 880
1872
56,390
7,479
1872
720 077
36,578
1862
560,304
1862.
385,600
1863
781,138
1863
4.02.724
1864
715,975
1864.
109.730
1865
310,691
1865
99,932
18GG
917,217
1866
026,000
1867
1,967,197
· 1867
1,697,402
1868
1,878,508
1868.
1,691,115
1869
2,238,800
1869
1,912,005
1870
2,244,061
1870
1.974,259
1871
1,597,756
1871.
1,386,83+
1872
937,203
1872
738 206
1873
.3,815,911
1873
.0,537,874
1874.
.3,079,473
1874
3,069.123
1875
.3,731,104
1875
.3,413,669
1876
.. 2.652,461
1876
2.490,633
1877
.4 115,554
1877
.4,029,253
1578.
.1,864,644
1878. ..
.. 1,765 304
1879.
.3,839,180
1879
3,867,955
1880
.2,891,660
1880.
.2,591,545
BARLEY AND OATE.
Aggregate
100,500,000
OWNERSHIP AND CULTIVATION OF LAND.
From various official sources we have compiled the subjoined table, showing the total arca, the area sold by the Government ( that is, held by private ownership ), the area enclosed, and the area cultivated, in every county of the State-all in square miles. The figures are not exact, nor is it possible to make tbem so from any official records now in existence. The arca "sold" is that treated as subject to taxation in the several counties, and the areas enclosed and cultivated are reported annually in the Assessor's reports.
In some eascs, considerable quantities of land have been dis- posed of by the Federal Government, but in such a manner that they are not subject to taxation. Thus, the Southern Pa- cific Railroad Company has built 150 miles of its road in San Diego county, and is entitled to twenty square miles of land as subsidy for each mile of the road, making a total of 3,000 square miles; but this land has not yet been conveyed by patent, and nobody is authorized to say precisely which section will pass under the grant. The total areas, as given in the following table, are taken from calculations made by J. H. Wilde, E.q.
10,756
-
Equal to
Dato.
Equal 10
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SIZE AND WEALTH OF EACH OF THE COUNTIES.
CULTIV.STED.
SOLD. 1,500
VALUATION, $1.137.570
DIAGRAM SHOWING COMPARATIVE SIZE OF COUNTIES.
Prepared for Elliott & Moore's County History.
Arranged in square miles, each aquare represents 50 square miles land. Each black square represents 50 square miles cultivated, fractions omitted. Inch dottel . square represents 50 square miles sold bat not cultivated. Each open square ropresents 50 square miles unsold land, not assessed,
The arrow in the table are not exact. The cultivated and assessed land and valuationa ur. from Assessor's reports. About one twenty fourth of the State is cultivated, and about one fourth belongs to individuals.
NAMK.
AREA.
CULTIVATED.
SOLD. 380
$ 5,616,553
Santa Crilx.
433
450
90
450
6,157,210
Sau Maten.
4,186
10
80
1,691,779
Marin.
575
25
490
7,868,917
Mutter.
576
325
576
3,90G,203
Yaba.
GOO
90
300
4,268,250
Shasta.
4,500
55
1,800
1,963,320
Lassen.
4,942
40
320
1,213,184
.. . . . ..
Tulare.
5,500
150
1,900
4,694,250
Napa.
SUN
40
350
7,873,926
Sierra.
S30
4
140
751,005
Inyo.
5,852
10
110
972.401
Calaveras. 936
35
820
1,829,865
Lako.
975
30
200
1,213,084
San Benito. 1,000
55
480
3.774,603
Los Angeles.
G,000
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