II. JOINT AND CONCURRENT RESOLUTIONS, PASSED AT THE NINTH SESSION OF THE LEGISLATURE OF CAL'A, 1858. No. 1, C. R. No. 2, C. R. No. 3, C. R. uary 20, 1858. Relative to certain Mail Routes in this State, passed January 20, 1858. No. 4, C. R. Relative to the establishment of certain Mail Routes in the Northern part of this State, passed January 19, 1858. No. 5, C. R. Relative to a Territorial Government in Utah, passed January 28, 1858. Relative to the Sixteenth and Thirty-sixth Sections of Land, passed Feb. 8, 1858. No. 9, J. R. Asking Congress to cede to this State the Monterey Redoubt, for the purpose of establishing a Military Academy, etc., passed February 17, 1858. No. 10, J. R. Relative to the Transportation of the Mails between the Atlantic and Pacific Coasts, passed March 3, 1858. No. 11, C. R. Asking Congress to establish a Weekly Land Mail Route in certain Counties of this State, passed March 2, 1858. No. 12, C. R. Asking of Congress a donation of five per cent. upon the Sale of Public Lands for School purposes, passed March 11, 1858. No. 13, C. R. No. 14, C. R. No. 15, J. R. No. 16, C. R. March 11, 1858. No. 17, C. R. Relative to the Admission of Kansas, passed March 17, 1858. Relative to the Donation of Lands by Congress for State Colleges, passed Relative to Breakwater at San Luis Obispo, passed April 7, 1858. No. 18, C. R. Directing the Enrolling Clerk of Assembly to amend Section six of Assembly Bill No. 215, passed April 13, 1858. No. 19, J. R. In relation to the Release of J. M. Ainsa, an American citizen, in Sonora, Mexico, passed April 14, 1858. No. 20, C. R. Directing the Enrolling Clerk of the Assembly to amend the amendment to Section Three of Assembly Bill No. 37, passed April 16, 1858. No. 21, C. R. Relative to Boundary Line between the State of California and Territory of tah, passed April 12, 1858. No. 22, C. R. Relative to Weekly Mail by Ocean Steamers, from San Francisco to San Diego, via Monterey, San Luis Obispo, Santa Barbara and San Pedro, and overland from San Diego by the nearest and best route to New Orleans, passed April 14, 1858. No. 23, C. R. No. 24, C. R. No. 25, C. R. Relative to Mexican Archives, passed April 16, 1858. Relative to the passage of a law by Congress making Appropriations for the payment of the Indian War Bonds authorized for the payment of Indian hostilities, passed April 17, 1858. No. 26, J. R. Relative to the establishment of American Consuls at the ports of Guaymas, Mazatlan, Manzanillo and La Paz, passed April 20, 1858. No. 27, C. R. Relative to Collecting of Delinquent Dues from Auctioneers, throughout this State, passed April 22, 1858. No. 28, C. R. April 12, 1858. No. 29, C. R. Relative to Printing and Distribution of certain Laws in Spanish, passed Relative to a Weekly Mail from Weaverville, via the mouth of Cañon Creek, to Cañon City, in Trinity County, passed March 3, 1858. RESOURCES OF THE STATE. THE State of California, with all the imperfections alleged against her citizens, presents one of the most remarkable instances of the rapid advancement of a State in all the elements of substantial prosperity and real wealth, which the world has ever beheld. With a climate unsurpassed for salubrity; a soil, the wonderful products of which have excited the admiration and attracted the notice of her sister States and Europe; a commercial position to control almost the entire trade of Asia and the Pacific Islands, and the inexhaustible wealth of a mineral region, in extent equal to the aggregate area of several States of the Union, who shall attempt at this day to picture the brilliant future awaiting her enterprising and energetic population? A comparison of the present condition of California and its resources, with that of the different States of the Union, as set forth by the census of 1850, will exhibit a series of facts which will create surprise, and when the number of the population is considered, it will be found that it is far in advance of her sister States in nearly all the elements of civilization and of progress. I. AGRICULTURE. The amount of land in the State of California, adapted to the purposes of agriculture, is estimated at forty-one millions six hundred and twenty-two thousand four hundred acres, exclusive of the swamp and overflowed lands, estimated at five millions, which, when reclaimed, will produce every variety of crops.* The amount of grazing land is estimated at thirty millions of acres, making a total of seventy-six millions six hundred and twenty-two thousand acres of land suitable for agricultural and stock raising purposes. *If properly drained, these lands could be applied to the culture of rice or other vegetable productions, and judging from the character of the soil immediately about them, they would prove highly prolific. And here, in passing, I will mention one incident in relation to the capacity of the soil for production, that may prove not only interesting, but useful in illustration of erroneous opinions heretofore expressed relative to lands on the San Joaquin Valley, and which, perhaps, has exerted as great an influence in preventing the permanent settlement of these plains as perhaps anything that has been urged against them. Towards the foot-hills of the mountains, to the west, is a low table of the valley, apparently destitute of water, either for the support of vegetation or animal life; in some parts, this land has a slight gravelly appearance, but this is not general. On one ranch situated on this plateau, there have been two full crops of barley harvested from the same piece of ground, and when I visited this place in October, the third crop was then being harrowed in, the whole having occurred within the term of two hundred and seventy-three days.-Dr. Trask's Geology of the State, p. 54, 1854. TABLE, Exhibiting the number of acres of Land under Cultivation in California, during the year 1856, with the amount of Wheat, Barley and Oats, raised thereon. COUNTY. No.Acres Wheat. Barley. Oats. cultiva'n Acres. Bushels. Acres. Bushels. Acres. Bushels. Alameda.... Amador Butte. 56,109 22,052 462,134 20,000 918,000 4,200 260,500 52,900 442 17,680 6,445 210,000 150 6,000 Tulare.. Tuolumne. 3,000 1,500 37,500 1,000 Yolo Yuba 7,100 2,400 48,190 2,600 38,395 13,300 266,000 14,200| 350,000 19,000 3,019 60,380 5,570 111,400 462 9,240 Totals... * Estimated. 511,963 171,869 3,879,032 150,674 4,519,678 32,402 1,107,359 + Including the grain raised on the Indian Reservations. |