CALIFORNIAN STATISTICS.

Inangahua Times, Volume III, Issue 95, 28 March 1877, Page 2

CALIFORNIAN STATISTICS.

(otioo vailt tarns.) It i> aot often tint °4^p at> °* Woocbr is mocb exercised 'ijlMPff op a news* paper now-a-day* ESHk the London Times is not the woodetvlttce was $ bat we confess to t feeling asft)osely akin to that sensation ass philosophic journalist can even be supposed u>exp\frieoc» whet* ire turn orer the pages of the annual summary of the B*n Francisco Commer* cial Herald and Market Reriew, We donot remember e?en to have seen in- the cotamns of anj newspaper sneb a mat» of information on commercial matters a» is crowded into the a$ closely orinted coiwnns of that joaroal, chiefly set. in very small type. Elaborate tables,, oarefolly compiled statistics, details of transactions of every imaginable kind, with foil and able comments, crowds* err column. No one man could w*ll>tackfe> this "newspaper of the ag*** maided* And yet it represent the trade and occupations of less thtfeft million of people in California and Oregon. If the young tree ift so vigorous, what will it he whea it bis reached fail asie and maturity. Some t left of the resources and jctiritie* of this wonderful country may b» e«tb*»red from the following Scores. Tak* ing first "of all pro>locts— The assumed product of wheit (ot 1876» i» twenty million centals^ or one million toss ;. the exports were ele7e» and a-half millioa centals. The field of told aid silr«r for the yeary%as . £»,000,000 sterlißg,. reckoning we dollar at four shilling, §» as we shall do th otubout; the year's coinage »t the Mint totalle 1 £8v540,900. The product of o/iicksilrer was 76.000. feisks; of wool sss&l,oo»tbs, as nearly aa po««Me the snme as our New Zealand product. Of wine 10,000,000 galloM wa* made, and the abundance of grapes and other fruits was so great thut they cn«ld scareel? besot rid of^ timber 309,15^972^ itself representing an immense trade. Of population we do not #werre any exact return* bot the total gain by immigration in the year was 3532$ to»ls. The mercaotile transactions we get som*idea< of by noting that the banking capital of theState sums np- to forty million* sterling £ while the exports of merchandise by sea— irrespecttTe of bullion, and the oret land* trade— amounted to £6.263,000. Tbetotti movements of tonmtite by the Central Pacific Railway exceeded a million tons of two thousand pounds. The import of coal was 648,38* tons considerably more* than half the total export of Newcastle^ New Sooth Wale*. The ti«a«acttont.of the San Francisco Mining Sfcehaogethow sales of mining stuck darraff tbeyear to the Talue of £45,163,06CKand thetable of Companies in wbch transacttons bad taken place, is bewildering, to the eye,. Finally, the Savings^ Baoksshowdeposit* to the surprising amount of £14500,000.