The record-union., 1894-03-02
CALIFORNIA PRODUCTS.
Some Facts and Figures Which Are
of General Interest.
Interesting Report Made to the state
Board of Trade on Our Indus
trial Resources.

General \. P. Chipman, Chairman of
the State Board of Trades Committee on
Industrial Resources of the State, has
made a report full of interesting statis-
tics, from which we make the following
quotations:
It is not our purpose to discourage any
of the remarkably diversified Industries
OF the State, catalogue of which It would
be difficult to parallel anywhere on the
globe. 1t may serve useful purpose TO
present a table of some Of the more
prominent of these sources OF wealth to
our people, although this report Will not
attempt to speak of them in detail.
GENERAL FACTS ABOUT CALIFORNIA.
Second to the largest State in the Union;
area, l57, ,S0l square miles.
First State IN value Of gold product.
Value of gold produced in
1S93................... ...-........... S1o,OOO,OOO
1915 1,246.4O4,OO0
Total yield OF mines in 1888. 2O,OUU,OOO
Petroleum and bitumen pro-
ducts in 1S93.-.............-.-.... 1,OOO,OOO
Quicksilver Qiasks) produced
In 1898 @J'oOO
Borax product 1893 pounds) 100000
Wheat crop (busheis) 1898. 6,1oo1OOO
Barley crop (bushels) 1898. 14,oOO,uOO
Bean crop lpoundsl 1S93.....-. 19,24IOOo
Beet sugar, campaign 1891
(estimated) pounds. 100000
" COL products ms 1S93....-.. 3O,5OO,O00
Hop product bales )....-.--.-...--- 4o,oOO
Average annual product OF
40 ~,oOO
Whaling catch san Francisco
fleet 1898. 3...........................-. 1,OOUOOO
Lumber received at port of
San Francisco (feetl l............. S,9O6,o54
Lumber exported from san
Francisco in 1898 tfeet)-...-.. 21,3OO,OOO
San Francisco, third commercial city III the
United states.
San Francisco manufactures,
value, 1S93............. SSb, ,4OO,OOO
State, 1S93......9............... 138,O19,874
Increase over 1892 2................... 17,237,231
Our mines, our forests our board acres
of general agriculture, our stock farms
and ranges, our natural resources OF
petroleum and gas, our irrigated and our
non-irrigates areas with their endless Va
riety of products, our quarries, our fish
cries, our factories, need never be less in
Importance than they are to-day, and
may be greatly enlarged, and yet admit
OF an almost unlimited expansion OF our
orchards.
The great charm of California lies IN
the fact that all these varied occupations
may be pursued under climatic cOndi-
tIons contributing TO the highest degree OF
physical comfort and pleasure. We do
not encounter extremes of cold at all, ex-
cept in the very high attitudes of our
mountains, and extremes of heat are
never insufferable or specially irksome;
along the coast they are unknown, and III
the interior valleys the great aridity of
the atmosphere makes the heat quite en-
durable for the short period OF its dura-
ton.
California may be said to be a sanitar-
ium wherever one may GO and at the
same time it is theater for great possible
commercial, agricultural, mining and
manufacturing activities. mike + IorIda
or the humid semi-trOpical regions, the
mind and body know no enforced lassi-
tude and Indifference to labOr-lndeed,
the climate is peculiarly invigorating and
stimulating in all parts of the State.
Physical inertia does not exist IN Call
1ornia by reason of climatic Influences.
The great objection to most countries
having favorable climate is that the Oc
equations OF man are greatly curtailed;
he must give up his mental and physical
activities and abilities in order to enjoy
the desired climate. Then, too, this IA
vorabIe climate, when found, has Its sea-
sons OF great discomfort and often un-
healIhfulness. This is not true in Cali
fornia, and herein is its strongest plea to
the home-seeker. He can hardly fail to
be pleased wherever he may go, and no.
where along the coast or in any of our in
terror valley regions will he fail to find a
verification of all that has been claimed
for our climate, and almost everywhere
he has the choice of pursuits before him
that he has found congenial where he has
hitherto lived.
Thus much this board desires to say
generally of the State and its advantages
and industries.
AGRICULTURAL PRODUCTS IMPORTED.
In this connection may be mentioned
the fact that we are large importers of
products of the farm, which we ought to
produce at home, and could with great
profit This fact was very strongly pre-
sented by Governor Markham in his last
annual message. quote:
Il have eudeavored to obtain\ the
amount of the annual imports into the
State OF this class of products. The ap-
pended list is by no means complete, nor
the amounts of the items nearly as great
as they probably should be, but it is sut-
ficiently accurate for the purpose of illus
tratiOn: