San Andreas independent., 1857-10-31
Notes on California Life and Productions
BY ALEX. $. TAYLOR, ESQ, OF MONTEREY.

Messrs Hutchings Rosenfield, ofSan Fran
cisco, are now preparing the above work for
publication. Many of the Notes originally ap-
peared in the Monterey and Pacific Sentiaels
during the past two years; many of the 9TH
ers were published in the Herald. the Evening
Bulletin and California Farmer of San Fran
CISCO and the Daily Union of Sacramento
Some of the Notes have never appeared in
prlnt particularly memoranda of Juan de
Fuca, the discoverer of Oregon, whose histori-
cal identity has been positively denied by
Spanish writers, and held in great doubt by
literary men of America, France and England.
The work will be of practical and substantial
useto Californians desirous ofreliable informa-
ton on the history, resources and statistics
of their country, as well as to readers and wr-
ters in the United States and Europe. The
printed and manuscript matter has been cor
rected with emcndatons, to August, 1857
The publication of this work has been receiv-
ed with open favor by the people and press of
our State, and there is no doubt but that it
will meet with rapid sale. 1t will, we are
informed, make an octave volume of about
$50 pages, and the price will be placed at
very moderate figure.
The work will be divided into subjects en-
trely pertaining or effecting California, of
which the following rough abstract will show
the design of the work:
/. Influence of California on animal life
2. The commerce in wine, olives and Medi-
terranean fruits and products with the United
States-worth to California eleven millions of
dollars annually, and to the world, two hun
dred and two millions of pesos duros a year
Also about the great deposits of sulphur, cop
per- alum, gypsum, chrome, porcelain clay,
mill-stones, asphaltum obsidian, rock salt,
boraX and soda.
3. Fragmentary memorials of Juan de Fuca,
discoyerer of Oregon, in 1892; obtained from
the lonian Islands of Greece in 1854.
4. 4 memento and autograph of Alesandro
Malaspina, the California Navigator of 1891.
5. Prologo and Chronologo to California,
from the year one of Moses to the year 1855,
of Christ.
6. photographed sketch of the periodical
press of California, Oregon, Utah, and Wash
ington, from 1916 to 1857.
Z. A Christian gift to California.
8. A California drop of ink about Byron
and Shakespeare.
8. Alden, welcome and Invocation to Time
and his 1856 and l856-also touching the joy,
griets and angers thereof.
10. The discovery OF California by Cabrllo
and Ferrelo in l542-43.
IL. The Spanish land-claims in California,
the good and evil thereof
2. Concerning the country within the boun-
dairy of the counties of Santa Cruz and Monte
rev.
l3. The very pleasant but the very dry, the
very foggy, the very windy, also the very sa-
lubrious and on the whole amiabe cline of
California, in sundry meteorological ragments
from 1853 to 1857. With counsel to the Sac
ramento people te hold mp in their damna-
tionS on the Southern Railroad and Mail Stage
Route. until they witness the heavy SHOWS and
rains of 1858 and 1859
ID. Amateur dottings in the natural history
of California birds and animals.
l5. The whale fishery of California; also
that of sprats and sardines, and of herring.
mackerel, cod, salmon ETC.
l6. Touching the silver quicksilver and
copper dcpositeS of California and the Alta
Pimera of Arizona.
II. memorial of the life and times of Pa
DIRE Junipero Sierra. founder of California
with notes and autographs of the old Spanish
Priests and Officers, and an original portrait
of Sierra from the city of Mexico.
Is. The shortest route for a railroad from
the Mississippi to the Pacific Ocean, on
straight line to the great bay of Monterey
10. Considerations on the populations of
Asia with reference to Western America The
California of the Chaldeans, and the Califor-
MIA of modern Asia.
90. The population of California from 1869
to 1857.
81. Miscellaneous notes from San Francisco
to Jericho.