Gold Hill daily news. [volume] (Gold Hill, N.T. [Nev.]) 1863-1882, 1870-10-01
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SAN FnANCIsco, Sept. 80, 1870.
Census Items.
The census returns come In very
slowly from the interior Of the State,
and 1t is yet impossible to more than
approximate the figures. From infor-
nation already In the hands Of the
Marshal, he believes that the popula-
ton Of California will not reach half a
million, thought the enumeration has
been as lax elsewhere as In this city,
tens Of thousands of.names must have
been omitted. I meet numbers Of peo-
pie every day who have not been
troubled with a visit from the enume.
rators, and similar complaints come
from many other places. The Sur.
veyor-General estimated our total
population last year at 56s,s27, and
those counties that have sent In COM
plete returns exceed his figures ; so
how there can be such a great falling
off In the State total Is somewhat Of a
puzzle, only to be accounted for by the
supposition that the population Of the
cities has been over-estimated. Oak
land, Brooklyn and Alameda foot up
some $4,000, a smaller number than
has for two years been claimed by Oak
land alone. Sacramento City Is cred
tied with 2 {, 1000, and the county with
TO- SOL. Trinity county has the most
Chinese, and the fewest women, In
proportion to Its population, of any
other county In the State, numbering
l,0S9 Celestials, and only 65s females
out of a total of 3,2l7. Lassen HI;
only l6 Chinese within Its borders, and
the sexes are nearly equal-U6 male;
to 636 females. San Bernardlno car
take the premium for Indians, having
2,2ls Diggers to 4.l79 whites. Santa
Cruz county returns Its residents al
8, LIB, Of which number the town o
Santa Cruz has 1855, and Jacksonville
1,l55. Benicia still rejoices In l,GSs
inhabitants, 1850 Of whom would
leave II they could,) and Vallejo Is
Growing exultantly over 6,439. There
has been a large immigration to Los
Angeles and the Southern counties,
and 1t is expected they will show a
considerable increase OIL preyiou:
figures. Mono, Alpine and Inyc
counties are almost uninhabited, ap,
proximating 700, 600 and 800 respect.
lively. The population Of San Fran
cisco is not yet made up, but is certain
to give unqualified dissatisfaction
whenever published.
Directories.
We shall have an opportunity, be-
fore the year Is out, Of comparing
the official figures with those collected
by private enterprise, as Langley com
meuced on Monday to enumerate fol
his annual Directory, and many peo'
pie place more reliance on his est.
mates than those made by the United
States Marshal.
II few men "know how to keep q
hotel" still fewer know how to com.
pile a directory and make n paying
project Of 1t. Langley Is one Of the
few, having devoted his whole atten'
ton TO the matter for years, and re-
duced it to q scientific system. Hi;
Pacific Coast Directory" now In the
press, Inns been ten months in prepare
ton, and neccssitated nh amount o.
work that would astonish the uniniti.
ated.
More than one attempt has been
made to get out n complete gazetteer
Of the State, one volume to be devoted
to each county, but the encouragement
promised has never been sufficient tc
Warrant the undertaking. A year age
Langley had Santa Clara county cali
vassed, with a view to issuing a com
plete history of each of Its towns,
villages, aud precincts, with an nc
count of the condition of their finances,
resources, ETC., but the Valley folks
looked so coldly Oh his scheme that hc
had to give up the Idea.
Outside of San Francisco, Stockton
and Sacramento are the only places In
the State that have had local Direc.
tories, and in one instance the printer
didn't get paid, and IN the other tile
compiler lost all his investment. Four
hundred copies Of the Stockton Direc-
tory were printed, Of which number
some hundred and fifty are still in the
publishers hands. or tile Sacramento
edition of 900, little more than half
was sold. Langley prints about 5000
of his city publication, 1900 of which
are sold here, and the remainder in the
interior and Eastern cities. A 400
page volume, devoted to Yolo county,
will be out In a week or two, COLL
piled by a firm at Woodland, but l am
assured It will bring financial disaster
to its projectors. The Directory busi-
ness Is n risky one, and 1t requires
close calculation to mako 1t pay.