Los Angeles daily herald., 1874-01-08
gos Aaseles Aerala,
Material Progress Of California.

is progressing on the road to wealth
at an unprecedented rate.
The report of the Surveyor-General
OF the State, gives mass of statistics
that forcibly exhibits the prosperity of
our industries.
These figures show from careful
compilation madel by the Examiner,
that there are in the S tate one hun
dred and seventy-five distilleries,
which manufactured during the year
embraced in the statistics 0lS'0972gal-
Ions of whiskey and brandy; also $50
breweries that turned out 10,5O7, 243
gallons of ale and beer Besides there
was produced 4,2O2, 901 gallons of wine.
We thus have total of 1922 ,34l gal
Ions of Intoxicating drink manufac-
tuaed in year. These fignres are
rather below than above the mark.
There are 800 saw-mills in the State
-2O2 run by steam and 100 by water
power. They produced 279 ,572, $40 feet
Of lumber, and 50, lsS, 500 shingles were
made. The grist-mills number 269,
with 34l run Of stone; 1913 of the mills
are run by steam and II by water
power, and all of them produced L.
3S0,20l barrels of flour and crushed
o30,2 bushels of corn into meal.
The water works foot up TINS: 636
irrigating bitches from which 1904
-~acres of land were irrigated; and $50
mining bitches, having an aggregate
length Of 1855 miles, supplying 220,-
1877 inches of water per day.
The quartz mills number PAS, and
during the year they crushed 297,3l0
tons of rock. The amount Of gold
tliHs produced is left to the magma
ton, but observation leads us to be-
lieve that it is not short of 100000.
Eight wooden mills worked up A.
$685. pounds ofwool during the year,
whereby a handsome little sum was
added and saved to the wealth of the
State.
OF railroads, exclusive of street rail-
waysi in cities, there are |, lis miles in
the State not Including the 80 tuiles or
more constructed in Los Angeles, dur
ing the last summer and Fall.
As compared with the statistics Of
1872, the figures show these facts A
large increase in the number of bust
ness. and an increase of over POO per
cent, in their production; a decrease
in the quantity of wine and the in
crease in the quantity of brandy "a
very large increase in the number of
grist-mills, and in their products; no
increase in the number of saw-mills,
and,a very large decrease-nearly third
in the amount of their production;
an increase in the number of irrigat-
Ing and mining bitches; decrease in
the number ofquartz mills and in the
amount of rock crushed: an increase
of wooden mills, and of the amount of
wool worked up; IS miles of line were
added to the railroad system of the
State last year.
The number of tons of coal mined in
1872 was 12O, 900 tons, and in 1878 the
quantity was increased to 145,36O tons.
The returns show that no cotton wss
DIN
covered in the statistics of 1879, while
the fgnres for 1873 show that 1877 nc
res of land planted with cotton yielded
l4s,Os4 pounds of the fibre-an average
of little over 800 pounds to the acre.
The Southern portion of the State is
by no means behind in the general ad-
vance. There mas been a large Access
sion of population, while new enter
prises and improvements are springing
up in all directions. In 1871 San Diego
county had 1904 acres of land in Guilt
walton; LIB acres were sown in wheat
and 900 in barley. In 1872 there were
1880 acres in cultivation, 1904 of
which were in wheat, and 7,249 in
barley.
San Bernardino county in 1871 had
in cultivation 5,543 acres, LIB in
wheat, and 1850 in barley. In 1875 the
same county had $3.50 acres in Guilt
walton, of which 2,4l7 were in wheat,
and 1857 in barley.
Los Angeles had in 1871, A 800 acres
in cultivation, of which 500 acres were
in wheat, and II, 500 in barley. In 1872,
it had 49, 900 acres in cultivation.
Santa Barbara In 1871 had 25,O50
acres in cultivation, and in 1872. &c.
700 acres.
Ventura county not being organized
in 1871 its statistics are included in
those ofSanta Barbara.
There has also been large increase
in the number of all kinds of domestic
animals. A great many more fruit
trees have been planted out, and our
advance in the production OF fruit is
large.
Over fifty miles of railroad have
been built during the past year, and
the prospect of an early connection
with San Francisco and the East IL
good. The bounteous rains OF the
present season have infused every one
with new hope, and the amount OF