The evening telegraph. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1864-1918, 1867-08-06

l6aV6 nlS post,
CROPS IN THE GOLDEN STATE.-We have re.
ceived a copy of the San Francisco Market Re.
UieoD, for July 10, a handsome octave CONNER
cial paper, published every steamer day." by
II. Charming Beals, Esq, from which we make
the following extract;-
"In revie wing the past harvest year of Cali
foTnia, we remark at the outset that the receipts
OF wheat at this port warrant us in stating that
the crop OF 1866 was fully double that of any in
our history. From tables carefully kept by US
Tor series of years, we propose TO furnish IN
this paper full and reliable statistics of the -four
and grain product, receipts, exports, etc. These
details will be found, as has been our custom
heretofore, under their respective heads; bat for
the sake OF convenience aud compactness, we
will now give brief resume Of the whole years
business.
"The gross aggregate crop of Wheat raised in
the State was equivalent to IL 000 0O0 of bushels
OF this amount we have exported in wheat
3,650000 SACKS; and In flour, reduced to wheat
the bulk Of l,500, 900 sacks leaving for our own
consumption and distillation l,800, 900 sacks;
for seed 100000 sacks; stock on hand July Ist,
1867 l25,00O sacks of 100 lbs. each. This exhibit
is gratifying as going to show the great pro-
duCtiveness of our soil and climate, and fore
shadOwing some what our future ability when
our State shall become more pOpulous, and the
thousands of wild uncultivated acres made sub
servIent to the hand OF the husbandmen. Our
virgin soil is capable of producing per acre,
thirty, lorty, fifty, and even seventy bushels of
W0eAJ ID lDe DeSJ favored lOCHILleS Oh the state,
though perhaps the average oil the past WoIld not
exceed that of our lowest figures. private
grain circular prepared to our hand, ana from
which we copy. states that the large increase in
the business indicated by the foregoing figures
is the more gratifying, as it is due no ADVENT
tious circumstances, but Is the result of the
actual progress of the agricultural interest If
the State. The attention of the people of Cali
tornia has been called in so pointed manner to
the advantages OF farming as a business, that
large numbers who heretologe constituted a
mere floating population OF miners, wandering
hither and thither with each succeeding report
of rich diggIngs, have now settled do Yn to
the less exciting but more permanently profit
able occupation OF cultiVating the land; while
OF the new emig1ants talr proportion is also
turning its attention to farming. With millions
of acres of the most productive land lying unoc-
cupied, and the reputation of our grain esta-
bished, as 1t is, abroat all we want Is an in-
crease of population TO make California one of
the most noted of the eran-exportlng countries
Of the world.
THE United Kingdom and Eastern domestic
ports have been our largest buyers of wheat
and flour, with considerable shipments of
barley to Australia, China, and New York; and
OF oats to Australia alone. Our exports to
Mexico and the Central American States show
considerable increase; to British Columbia
serious decline, owing undoubtedly to the
gradual impoverishment of that country from the
decline in the yield OF its placer mines. The
shipments OF wheat and -four to China the past
eighteenth months did not prove altogether re-
muneratiye to shippers, and it is evident that
unless prices with us rule extremely low, but
little of our surplus will be wanted in that
quarter. The barley, which, in our list of ship
ments thither, went almost exclusively to japan,
where it was sought for as food by the people of
country during the recent scarcity in the south
ern part of the islands. Our business with
South America presents some strange features,
less than 100 sacks of barley having been
shipped against nearly 90, 900 the year previous.
This is owing to the depression existing there
in the guano and nitrate trades. On the other
hand, our shipments OF flour have very largely
increased, nearly the whole of it going to Rio
Japeiro. The business done with the East
Indies and the islands scattered throughout
the Pacific, presents no very remarkable fea-
lures, but shows healthy ii moderate growth.
Exports of both barley and oats have been,
during the past year, on very limited scale;
neither do we see any probability of an extended
shipping demand for the coming season, al
though of both the surplus crop is still large,
and ii is a question of some moment with us
where we are to find market for the same.
1.-THE average price OF -four for the past twelve
months standard brands, OF city manufacture
was about 1926 per bbl.; and for wheat, $l'75
per 100 lbs The lowest prices reached were in
September when wheat sold at $I'45, and -four
$5@5'50; the highest in May, $2'10 for wheat
per 100 lbs, being paid for good shipping par
GELS; and for flour, SCISSOR per bbL"