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Vallejo was determined to have the capital, and began bril- ing members right and left with all the city lots they wanted. The Act of removal was passed February 14th, and after that date the Legislators had to suffer. The people refused to take State scrip for San Jose board, charged double prices for everything; and when, on the 16th of May, the Solons finally pulled up stakes and left, there was not thrown after them the traditional ohl shoe, but an assorted lot of mongrel oaths and Mexican maledictions.
REMOVAL OF THE CAPITAL.
Third Session-Convened at Vallejo, the new Capital. Janu- ary 5, 1752. Number of members; Senate. 27: Assembly. 62; total 89.
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REMOVAL AND LOCATION OF THE CAPITOL.
Fourth Session-Convened at Vallejo, January 2, 1853; removed to Benicia, February 4, 1853.
Fifth Session-Couvened at Benicia, January 2, 1854, re- moved to Sacramento, February 25, 1854, where it has since remained.
PRESENT CAPITOL BUILDING.
In the beginning of 1860 the citizens of Sacramento deedled 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-stoue was laid with Masonic ceremonies, conducted by N. Green Curtis, then Grand Master of the Order. In a few years other blocks were added, so that now the grounds extend from Tenth to Fifteenth and from L to N streets. For this addition the citizens subscribed $30,000, the State appro- priation not being sufficient to fully pay for the land. The original architect was Renben 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, addled to the usual items for repairs and improvements, amounted to $2,449,- 428.31. The building is two hundred and forty feet in height, the height of the main building being ninety-four feet. Its depth is one hundred and forty-nine feet and its length two hundred and eighty-two. The Assembly Chamber is seventy-three by seventy-five, with a height of forty-eight feet, and the Senate seventy-three by fifty-six, with the same height. The first, or ground story of the building, is sixteen feet above the level of the surrounding strects.
The State Capitol, one of the prettiest in America, stands in a park of eight 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 of Liberty, rises two hundred and forty feet, and is the first object presented to view in the distance from whatever direc- tion 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 building, the State Armory, and the State Printing Office, em- braces 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, ol' extensive lawn and elumps 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 fences are being tastefully laid out in the best style of landscape gar- dening.
Descriptive and Statistical Matter.
THE Coast Range of mountains runs parallel to the ocean, and has an altitude of from two thousand to four thousand feet above the sea, and an average width of twenty to forty miles.
SIERRA NEVADA RANGE.
On the general eastern boundary of California, and running nearly its entire length, lies the Sierra Nevada (snowy range), its summit being generally above the region of perpetual snow. In this State it is about four hundred and fifty miles loug and eighty miles wide, with an altitude varying from five thousand to fifteen thousand feet above the level of the sea. Nearly its whole width is occupied with its western slope, descending to a level of three hundred feet above the sea; its eastern slope, five or six miles wide, terminating abruptly in the great inte-
STATE HOUSE AT SAN JOSE, 1849.
rior basin, which is five thousand feet above the sea level, The sides of the Sierra Nevada, to a height of about eight thou- sand feet, are covered with dense forests of valuable timber, iwhich is succeeded by rugged granite and perpetual snow.
CALIFORNIA ALPS.
John Muir says :-
" Few portions of the California Alps are, strictly speaking, picturesque. The whole massive uplift of the range, four hun- dred and fifty miles long by about seventy wide, is one grand picture, not clearly divisible into smaller ones; in this respect it differs greatly from the older and riper mountains of the Coast Rauge. All the landscapes of the Sierra were remodeled deep down to the roots of their granite foundations by the developing ice-floods of the last geological winter.
HEAD-WATERS OF THE TUOLUMNE.
" On the head-waters of the Tuolunine 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 fea- tures so regular and evenly balaneed as almost to appear eon- ventional -- one somber cluster of snow-laden peaks with gray pine-fringed granite bosses braided around its base, the whole
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TWO GREAT MOUNTAIN RANGES OF THE STATE.
surging free into the sky from the head of a magnificent valley, whose lofty walls are beveled away on both sides so as to embrace it all without admitting anything not strictly belong- ing to it. The foreground was now all aflame with autumn colors, brown and purple and gold, ripe in the mellow 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 Tuolumne was seen pouring from its crystal fountains, now resting in glassy pools as if changing back again iuto ice; now leaping in white cascades as if turning to snow; gliding right and left between the granite bosses, then sweeping on through the smooth meadowy levels of the valley, swaying pensively from side to side with calm, stately gestures, past dipping willows and sedges, 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, Monut Diablo, being very near its geographical center, and towering above all other peaks-prominent from its inaccessibility and magnificent panoramie sweep from its top-prominent from its selection by 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 three thousand eight hundred and fifty- six feet high, overlooking the tranquil ocean, thirty miles due east from the Golden Gate, serving as a beacon to the weary, sea-tossed mariner, far out 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 advancing pile with a full heart ?
General Vallejo gives the following as the history of Mount Diablo (Mount Devil) : " In 1806, a military expeditiou from San Francisco marched against the tribe . Bolgones,' who were eneamped at the foot of the mountain. The Indians were pre- pared to receive the expedition, and a hot engagement eusned in the large hollow fronting the western side of the mountain. As the victory was about to be decided in favor of the Indians, an unknown persouage, decorated with the most extraordinary plumage, and making diverse movements, suddenly appeared near the combatants. The Indians were victorious, and the incognito (Puy), departed towards the mount. The defeated soldiers, on ascertaining that the Spirit went through the same
ceremony daily, and at all honrs, named the mount 'Diablo,' in allusion to its mysterious inhabitant, that continued tbus to make its strange appearance until the tribe was subdued by the troops in command of Lieutenant Gabriel Moraga, in a second campaign, the same year. In the aboriginal tongue, Puy signifies Evil Spirit; and, doubtless, it signifies devil in the Anglo-American language."
" It is believed there are few points on the earth's surface from which so extensive an area can be seen as from this mountaiu." The writer has, from its summit, counted thirty- five eities and villages, where reside two-thirds of the inbabit- ants of the State.
GREAT MOUNTAIN RANGES.
The two great mountain ranges unite at the northern and southern part of the State, each connecting range having a lofty peak.
In the northern connecting link is Mount Sbasta, fourteen thousand four hundred and forty-two feet high. It rears its great, craggy snow-covered summit high iu the air, and is often seen at a distance of two hundred 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, asceud to the top the follow- ing morning, descend to your camp in the afternoon, and return to the valley on the third day. Mount Shasta has a glacier, almost, if not quite, the only one within the limits of the United States. The mountain is an extinet volcauo. Its summit is composed of lava, and the eye can easily trace tbe now broken lines of this old crater when viewed from the nortb.
Mount Shasta is clothed with snow for a virtual mile down from its summit during most of the year. Mount Whitney is the highest point in the United States (14,900 feet); but Mount Shasta (14,442 feet) makes a more imposing appearance because it rises in solitary grandeur seven thonsaud feet above any mountains near it. In the Sierra Nevada range are more than one hundred peaks over ten thousand feet high, according to tbe State Geological Survey.
In the southern connecting link is snow-capped Mount Sau Bernardino eleven thousand six hundred feet above the sea level. Between these two great ranges, lie the great interior basin of the State, comprising the Sacramento aud San Joaquin valleys, really but one geographieal formation, drained by the two great rivers bearing their respective names, and their tributa- ries; an nuinterrupted level country of exceeding fertility, aud the great future wheat growing section of the State. This basin extends north and south about four hundred miles. with an average breadth of from fifty to sixty miles, rising into un- dulating slopes and low hills as the mountains are approached on either side. It is covered with a diluvinm from four him- dred to fifteen hundred feet deep, and presents evidences of having onco boon the bed of a vast Inke.
Innumerable valloys are formed by spurs shooting off from
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A RAPID INCREASE OF POPULATION.
the western slope of the Sierra Nevada range, and from the Coast range on either side, extending the entire length of the State; well watered by springs and living streams, possessing a good soil and climate, and every way adapted to profitable inixed husbandry.
This great valley is drained from the north by the Sacra- mento river, and from the south by the San Joaquin, which, after meeting and uniting in the center of the basin, break through the Coast Range to the Pacific. At the southern ex- tremity are the Tulare lakes and marshes, which in the 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 are approached on either side, and broken ou the east by numerous spurs from the Sierras. The following table gives the most noted mountains in the State :--
ALTITUDE OF PROMINENT POINTS IN THE STATE.
NAMES OF PLACES. Distance Altitude (SIERRA NEVADA RANGE). Er'm S.F. above sea.
NAMES OF PLACES. (COAST RANGE.)
Distance Altitude Er'm S.F. above Sea.
Mount Whitney.
173
14,900
Snow Mountain ..
11-
7,500
Mount Shasta ..
244
14.442
Mount St. John __
96
4,500
Mount Tyndall
160
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
3,85G
Mount Brewer
1,52
13,886
Mt. Loma Prieta
54
4,040
Mount Silliman.
130
11.623
Mount Balley
280
6,375
31
San Bernardino
5,551
3,988
7,800
3.812
Lassen Butte.
183
10,577
Mount Tamalpais.
15
2,604
Stanislaus Peak.
125
11,500
Marysville Buttes.
92
2,030
Round Top
120
10,650
Farallone Islands.
34
200
Downieville Buttes
157
8,720
Clay Street Hill.
387
Colfax Village.
144
2,431
Red Bluff
225
307
Sacramento
90
30
Redding
260
558
POPULATION AND INCREASE.
In 1831, the entire population of the State was 23,025, of whom 18,683 were Iudian converts. During the years 1843, '44, '45 and '46 a great many emigrants from the United States settled in California. In January, 1847, the white popu- lation was estimated at from 12,000 to 15,000. Its population, in 1850, was probably 150,000. The population of the State, in 1880, was 864,686. There are on the average, six inhabitants to the square mile. but the distribution of the settlement over the State is unequal. Thus, San Francisco has about 8,000 people to tbe square mile, while those portions of San Diego and San Bernar- dino counties in the Colorado Desert and enclosed basin, with an area of fourteen thousand square miles, have at least seven square miles to each white inhabitant. The counties of San Francisco, San Mateo, Santa Clara, Contra Costa, San Joaquin, Sacramento, Yolo, Solano, Napa, Sonoma and Marin, fronting on San Francisco, San Pablo, and Suisun bays, and the deltas of the Sacramento and San Joaquin rivers, all within thirty miles of Mount Diablo, and distinctly visible from its summit, have 580,800 inhabitants, or ahout fifty-eight to the mile, leaving a little more than two to the square mile for the remainder of the State.
CENSUS OF THE STATE BY COUNTIES* SINCE ITS ORGANIZATION.
COUNTIES
1850.
1860.
1870
1880.
Increase in
ten years.
1
Alameda
8,927
24,237
63,639
39,402
2
Alpine (a).
685
539
dec 146
B
Amador
10,930
9,582
11,386
1,804
1
Butte
3,574
12,106
11,403
18,721
7,308
5
Calaveras
16,884
16,299
8,895
8,980
85
G
Colusa
115
2,274
6,165
13,118
6,953
7
Contra Costa
5,328
8,461
12,525
4,044
9
El Dorado
20,057
20,562
10,309
10,647
338
10
Fresno
Humboldt
2,694
6,140
15,515
9,375
12
Inyo(b)
13
Kern(b).
14
Klamath(¿)
1,803
1,686
6,643
3,674
16
Lassen (d)
Los Angeles
3,530
11.333
15,309
33,392
18,083
18
Marin
323
3,334
6,903
11,326
4,423
19
Mariposa
4,379
6,243
4,572
11,000
3,455
21
Merced*
1,141
2,807
5,657
2,850
22
Mono (f)
430
5,416
5,013
23
Monterey
1,872
4,739
9,876
11,309
1,433
24
Modoc (j)
405
5,521
7,163
12,894
5,713
26
Nevada.
16,446
19,134
20,534
1,400
27
Placer
13,270
11,357
14,278
2,921
28
Plumas (d).
4,363
4,489
6,881
2,392
Sacramento
9,087
24,142
26,830
36,200
9,370
30
San Benito (A).
4,324
4,951
8,620
3,669
San Joaquin (h) __
3,647
9,435
21,050
24,323
3,273
San Luis Obispo. .
336
1,782
4,772
8,1442
3,370
San Mateo (g)
3,214
6,635
8,717
2,082
Santa Barbara
1,185
3,543
7,784
9,478
1,694
Santa Clara
11,912
26,246
35,113
8,864
39
Santa Cruz
643
4,944
8,743
12,808
4,605
Shasta (d)
378
4,360
4,173
9,700
5,527
41
Sierra
11,387
5,619
6,617
998
42
Siskiyou
580
7,169
16,871
18,475
1,604
44
Sonoma
560
11,867
19,819
25,925
6,106
15
Stanislaus (1)
2,245
6,499
8,951
2,452
46
Sutter
3,444
3,390
5,030
5,212
47
Tehama
4,044
3,587
9,414
5,827
48
Trinity
1,635
5,125
3,213
4,982
1,769
49
Tulare
8,351
16,229
8,150
7,843
dec.307
51
Ventura (j)
52
Yolo
1,086
4,716
9,899
11,880
1,981
53
Yuba
9,673
13,668
10,851
11,540
689
The State
92,597
379,994
560,247
864,686 304,439
White
91,635
323,177
499,424 767,266 267,842
Colored
962
4,086
4,272
6,265
1,993
Chinese
34,933
49,310
75,025
25,715
Indians
17,908
7,241
16,130
8,889
The returns of 1850 for Contra Costa and Santa Clara were Inst on the way to the Census Office, nul those for San Francisco were destroyed by fire. The corrected State eensus of 1852 gives the population of those three counties as follows : Contra Custa, 2,786; Saus Francisco, 36,154; and Santa Clara, 0,761; and gives tho total population of the State (savo El Dorado, not returned) 215,122. El Dorado was estimated nt. 40,000, which would make the total population at that date 255.122. (fide Doc. No, 14. Appendix to Senatu Journal, 4th sessinn Legislature.) (n) In 1863 Alpine from Amador, Calaveras, El Dorado, and Mono,
(b) In 1565 organized,
(c) In 1801 Lako from Napa.
(,) En 1863 Lassen from Plumas and Shasta. (e) In 1860 organized.
(f) In 1809 organized,
(7) In 1857 San Mateo from San Francisco,
(A) In 1834 Stanislans trom San Joaquin and Tuolumne.
(i) Divldel and attachul to other counties,
(j) Organized 1873.
(k) Organized in 1872 from Monterey.
*The census of 1880 glyce males, 518,271; fominles, 340,415; native, 672,000; foreign, 202,090.
2,925
5,600
2,675
15
Lake(c)
2,969
1,327
3,341
2,014
17
20
Mendocino(e)
55
3,967
7,545
9,478
3,142
11
Del Norte
1,993
2,022
2,499
628
4,605
6,336
1,956
2,928
477
29
5.584
5,584
32
San Diego
56,802
149,473
233,956
84,483
33
San Francisco (y)
3.4
35
3G
37
38
40
7,629
6,648
8,401
1,553
43
Solano
4,638
4,533
11,281
6,748
50
Tuolumne (A)
5,088
5,088
526 Total. .. 52
182
25
Napa (c)
4,700
4,700
4,399 dec.173
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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 1856.
Each year terminates with June 30th :-
WHEAT AND FLOUR.
EXP ETs.
FECEIFTS.
Equal to
Equal to
Date.
bble. Flour.
Date.
bbls. Flour.
151,470
1857
1857
116.474
1858
1858
212,888
1859
1859.
419,749
1860.
707,156
1873
70,048
5,739
1874
781,049
33,772
1874
89,091
8,156
1875
752,456
29.441
1875
113,577
17,296
1876
731,207
25,684
1876
115,128
1877
117,860
10,512
1877
810,576
36,818
1864.
310,691
1865
1565
917,217
1866.
1866
1,967,197
1867
1867
.1,878,508
1868
1,691,115
1868
.2,238,800
1869
1869
.2,244,061
1870
1870.
.1,597,756
1871
1871.
937,203
1872.
1872.
.3,815,911
1873.
1873
.3,079,473
1874.
.. 3,069,123
1874
.3,731,104
1875.
.3,413,669
1875
2,652,461
1876
.2,490,633
1876
.4,115,554
1877
.4,029,253
1877
1,864,644
1878
1,765,304
1878
.3,839,180
1879.
.3,867,955
1879
.2,891,660
1880
.2,591,545
1880
BARLEY AND OATE.
BARLEY.
OATS.
Receipts, in centals.
Exports, in centals.
Receipts, in centals.
Exports, in centals.
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
154,585
1862
611,227
49,809
1863
177,105
39,986
1863
611,143
40,329
1864
304,044
91,086
1864
438,432
13,920
1865
273,973
3.366
1865
1,037,209
349,990
1866
343,042
113,966
1867
730,112
142,154
1867
328,478
89,331
1868
638,920
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
981,028
226,928
1873
200,545
5,437
1873
27,640
1874
1,127,300
243,752
305,844
56,023
1875
1,243,657
1.142,154
204,131
1876
233,960
3,101
1876
1,552,765
282,875
1877
210,257
4.479
1877
858,967
88,887
1878
145,413
10,756
1879
1 752,712
468,335
1879
253,802
29,253
1880 1
1,191,451
411,145
1880.
143,366
5,372
BEANS AND POTATOES.
POTATOES.
BEANS.
Receipts, in sacks.
Exports, in sacks.
Receipts, in sacks.
Exports, in sacks.
638
1857
343,681
1857
55,268
6,721
1858
330,307
1858
69,682
22,953
1859
292,458
1859
326,973
11,955
1860
40,997
1861
34,188
11,789
1862
293,074
5,815
1862
58,294
2,863
1863
364,423
14,952
1863
22,161
1864
5,976
1865
47,822
6,662
1866
515,807
16,984
1866
45,717
2,921
1867
543,193
7,378
1867
50,678
12,917
1868
632,086
19,133
1868
50,638
1,899
1869
701,960
24,710
1870
99,585
7,890
1870
700,122
18,880
1871
85,618
7,479
1872
720,077
36,578
1872
56,390
5,997
1873
779,379
27,986
1860.
834,020
1861.
1861.
560,304
1862
1862
781,138
1863.
492,724
1863.
715,975
1864.
99,932
626,060
1878
80,116
12,705
1878
624,353
18,840
1879
207,193
17,871
1879
750,211
23,440
1880
198,249
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 ..
39,065,754
Private grants surveyed to June 30, 1879.
40,707
Mission Church property .
188,049
Pueblo Lands. .
15,000
Private grants unsurveyed .
318,631
Indian and military reservations.
1,561,700
Lakes, islands, bays and navigable rivers.
110,714
Swamp and overflowed lands unsurveyed.
100.000
Salt marsh and tide lands around San Francisco bay
5,000
Salt marsh and tide lands around Humboldt bay.
100,500,000
Aggregate
OWNERSHIP AND CULTIVATION OF LAND.
From vanous official sources we have compiled the subjoined table, showing the total area, 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 them so from any official records now in existence. The area " 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 cases, 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, nro taken from calculations made by J. Il. Wikke, Esy.
792,198
16,707
1872
358,531
11,707
1874
243,400
182,146
1875
116,467
351,633
432,203
188,617
1862
1,386,834
738,206
.3,537,874
40.054,114
Agricultural and mineral lands unsurveyed.
8,459,694
1869
53.711
21,800
1871
604,392
24,360
8,300
1860
1861
317,419
59,620
21,619
1864
376,046
83,568
4.244
1865
346,654
43,960
6,654
20,618
186,182
385,600
509,730
1,697,402
1,912,095
1,974,259
38,714
4,675
65,076
1878
1866
69
SIZE AND WEALTH OF EACH OF THE COUNTIES,
DIAGRAM SHOWING COMPARATIVE SIZE OF COUNTIES. Prepared for Elliott & Moore's County History.
NAME.
AREA. 3,160
CULTIVATED. 00
1,501
Sau Luis Obispo.
.
Monterey.
3,300
300
1,150 1
The areas in the table are not exact. The cultivated and assessed land and valuations are from Assessor's reports, About one twenty-fourth of the State is cultivated, and about oue fourth belongs to individuals,
NAME.
AREA.
CULTIVATED.
BOLD.
35
380
$ 5.616,553
Santa Cruz.
450
00
450
6,157,210
Sau Mateo.
575
25
490
7, SGS, 917
Marin.
576
325
576
3,906,203
Sutter.
GOO
00
300
1,268,250
Yuba.
.........
1
4,942
40
320
1,213.181
Lassen.
756
180
700
7,720,292
Contra Costa.
800
105
650
37,452,230
Alameda.
....... . .
190
790
8,671,022
Solano.
ʻ
I
828
40
350
7,873,926
Napa.
. I
751,005 Inyo.
5,852
10
110
972 .- 101
Sierra.
1.829, S65
Calaveras.
975
30
200
1,213,084
1
Los Angeles.
6,000
170
2,200
10,1G0,988
1,000
45
480
San Benito.
.... .
170
OSC
18,578,385
Sacramento.
1,050
80 1
SSO
Yolo.
. .
350 850
Santa Clara.
. ..
475
1,350
San Joaquin.
.
590
Stanislaus.
.. ...
78 700
Ventura.
1 1
5,832,925
Placer.
8,750
110
2,800
6,055,062
Fresno.
............................... ... . . . .
3,161,177
15,156
28
Butte.
.
.
.
12
100
1.500
'I'rinity.
1,950 86 1,649,611 Tuoluinne.
23,472 S5
700
2,601,321
San Bernardino.
Mereeil.
1.975
480
45 1,100 6,355,028
2,000
Humbolilt.
.....
435 1,800 12,51G,242
Colusa.
...................... .. ..
$578,839.214
Total.
104,031
6,941
41,350
Tehamn.
.
1
300 2,651,3G7
3,010
48
Siskiyou.
10 200 1,926,15-4
2,73G
2,800
300
750 4.199.548
ValUAI.N. 94.137,570
Arranged in square miles, ench square represents 50 square miles land. Fach black square represents 50 square miles cultivated, fractions omitted. Kach dotted j. square represents 50 square miles sold bat not cultivated. Each open "| square represents 50 square miles unsold land, not assessed.
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