The hydraulic press., 1860-03-03
STATISTICS OF NEVADA COUNTY.

STATISTICS OF NEVADA COUNTY.
From the report of Martin Brennan, Esq,
Assessor of this county, as we find it en-
bodied in the annual report of the State
Surveyor, We compile the following inter
esting statistics, which will be found much
more satisfactory than the meager epitome
copied some time since from the Uaion
The area of the county has been estimated
at one thousand square miles, more than
half of which is mineral land. The amount
of agricultural and grazing land is given by
the assessor about four hundred and thir-
ty-four square miles. Forty thousand acres
are located for agricultural purposes, and
one hundred and thirty thousand acres for
grazing purposes, with an estimated value,
IN the aggregate, for improvements, of two
hundred and sixty thousand dollars Nine
hundred and fifty seven acres were sown to
wheat last year, and yielded an average of
twenty-five bushels to the acre Twenty
seven hundred acres of barley and fifteen
hundred Of oats, yielded thirty bushels per
acre. Five hundred acres of potatoes were
raised, and about FIVE thousand acres were
cultivated as grass aud meadow land The
number Of peach trees in the county is 400.
600; apple, 5000; pear, 10000; nectarine,
3l4; ounce, 573; apricot, 376; fig, 263; plum,
800; cherry, $50; in all, 45l $40 fruit trees
The number of grape vines planted is $4,000;
and there are eleven acres of strawberry
vines. From what We know personally of
the agricultural progress of the county this
season, it is safe to infer that the above fic-
ures as to the number of acres of grain and
the number of fruit trees and vines, will be
increased fully fifty per cent. by next fall
The report makes no mention of garden
produce, which is raised in quantities suf-
hcient to nearly supply the home market.
The live stock embraces SIS horses, 363
mules, 3,724 neat cattle, 965 sheep, l29
goats, $3.50 hogs, SO 900 chickens, 59G tur-
keys, 1877 ducks, 10 geese.
The mining canals number ninetv-one,
have an aggregate length of 727 miles, vary
in capacity from one to four thousand inches,
and are assessed at $9S5,S00 dollars The
actual valne is probably near $4,000, ,o0O-
No other county in the State has an equal
length of mining bitches, a fact which H.
lustrates the extensireness of our placer dig
gings.
The number of saw mills is forty-four-
twcnty-eght propelled by steam and sixteen
by water power-running one hundred and
six saws, and cutting annually forty million
feet of lumber
There are thirty-two quartz mills Of the
aggregate value of $12l GOO. These crush
yearly 100000 tons of quartz which yields
an average of $50 per ton making the an
nual gold yield from quartz alone six million
dollars. The number Of arastras used is
thirty eight
There are but two grist mills, both pro-
PEELED by steam, with seven run of stone,
and grinding annually $500 tons of grain.
The flour made by them is justly celebrated,
and commanded a premium at the State
Fair.
Of toll roads and bridges there are twen-
ty-one. We may remark that private enter
prise has given US as wide and lightly graded
roads as there are in the State, and has be-
gun the construction of two great highways
across the summit of the Sierra Nevada
The manufactures of the county are three
tanneries, two foundries, seven breweries-
making $4,000 gallons Of beer annually
and one rope walk.
The value of real estate is So, ,628, AS. and
of personal property $l,ol4,5o0; making
total of 4,642, ,945.