County Judge.... Benjamin F. Fox.. San Mateo... 66 แ Charles E. Kelly.. Half Moon Bay. Pub. Administrator Robert O. Tripp... Woodside OFFICERS. Name. A. T. McClure.... Redwood City. Redwood City. แ P'r d'm M. S. Brittan.. Twelfth Judicial District.-Hon. Edward Norton, Judge District Court; sessions, third Monday in April, August and December. County Courts.—The terms of the County Court: First Monday in March, July and November. Court of Sessions: The Wednesday following the first Monday in March, July and November. Probate Court: The Tuesday following the first Monday in March, July and November. Fifth Senatorial District.—(Attached to San Francisco County,) Senators: Hons. Gilbert A. Grant and T. G. Phelps; term expires January, 1860. Hons. C. H. S. Williams and S. H. Parker; term expires January, 1861. Member of Assembly.-Hon. D. W. Connolly. Agricultural Products.—Wheat, 4,300 acres, 150,000 bushels; barley, 5,000 acres, 200,000 bushels; oats, 2,500 acres, 10,000 bushels; (1857) rye, 214 acres, 8,560 bushels; corn, 17 acres, 50 bushels; buckwheat, 13 acres, 260 bushels; peas, 42 acres, 1,260 bushels; beans, 306 acres, 7,650 bushels; potatoes, 1,283 acres, 179,620 bushels; onions, 75 acres, 11,250 bushels; wild oats, 1000 tuns; tobacco, 2 acres; butter, 13,000 pounds; cheese, 8,000 pounds; eggs, 23,000 dozen. Fruit Trees, (1857).—Apple, 7,200; peach, 24, 240; pear, 232; plum, 318; cherry, 1,980; nectarine, 62; quince, 85; apricot, 670; fig, 41; citron, 32; prune, 12; pecan, 9. Vines: Gooseberry, 425; raspberry, 1,461; strawberry, 4 acres; grape vines, (1858) 40,000. Live Stock.-Horses, 3,000; mules and asses, 40; cattle, 7,500; sheep 8,000; hogs, 2,500; poultry, 5,000. Saw Mills.-Number of saw mills, 10-propelled by steam, 9; by water, 1; aggregate capacity per day, 48,000 feet. Cost of construction, $104,000. Also, two shingle machines; capacity per day, 25,000. Mineral Resources.-Coal, which is represented to be of the best quality, is found here. Mineral springs, of sulphur and iron, are found on the Purissimo, about thirty miles from San Francisco, the medicinal properties of which are represented to be equal to any in the State. Finances, April, 1858.-This county is out of debt. Receipts since July, 1856, $13,354; expenditures, same period, $12,202. Assessed value of property, $1,418,901. Attorneys.-Redwood City: Charles N. Fox, William T. Gough, Charles D. Judah. Physician.-Redwood City: A. T. McClure. XXX.-SANTA BARBARA COUNTY. COUNTY SEAT-SANTA BARBARA. Santa Barbara County, organized 1850. Boundaries: North by San Luis Obispo and Tulare, east by Tulare and San Bernardino, south and west by the Pacific Ocean. Topography.-This is one of the most extensive stock raising districts in the State. The land in this county is generally adapted to agricultural purposes and the cultivation of fruit of every description. There is an abundance of pine and redwood timber in the mountainous districts. Number of acres in cultivation is estimated at twelve thousand. Legal Distances.-From Sacramento, four hundred and thirty-five miles; from Stockton, four hundred and thirty-five miles, and from San Quentin, three hundred and thirty-five miles. Office. OFFICERS. Name. Residence. Term Expires Salary. County Judge.... Charles Fernald.. Santa Barbara.... April, 1862 $1,500 Oct'r, 1859 900 Fees ... Treasurer. Assessor J. J. Sparks...... Santa Barbara.. Second Judicial District.-Hon. Joaquin Carrillo, Judge District Court. Sessions, third Monday in March, August and December. County Courts.-The terms of the County Court: Second Monday in March, August and December. Court of Sessions: First Monday in March, August Probate Court: Fourth Monday in January, April, July and December. and October. Second Senatorial District.-Senator: Hon. R. Pacheco; term expires January, 1860. Member of Assembly.-Hon. E. Lies. Resources, Etc.-"This is principally a pastoral district, more than sixty thousand head of neat cattle graze within its limits. There are also some twenty-five thousand sheep; so far, this branch of industry has been somewhat neglected on the main land, while the large islands of Santa Rosa and Santa Cruz offer facilities which our enterprising fellow-citizens, Dr. Shaw and A. B. Thompson, are engaged in turning to conspicuous advantage. There at least eight thousand horses, mares, mules and colts. Little attention has been paid, so far, to the crossing of breeds, although some exceptions exist. But the old breed of Spanish horses offers advantages for the peculiar industry of herding wild stock. Considerable grain was exported from this county during the last year, but the means of information are wanting even for a rough estimate. Agriculture is yet in its infancy here; nevertheless, I think that there are at least five thousand acres under cultivation. There are nine vineyards and orchards in full bearing and successful cultivation, beside several others which, abandoned for a season, only require a little care and fencing to be restored to their former flourishing condition. Hitherto, whether through prejudice or the dictates of experience, orchards in this vicinity were only planted in exceptional situations, remote from the sea and in the heart of deep sheltered valleys, conditions adverse to profitable culture. Tobacco of excellent quality has been grown here, and the Hon. Charles Fernald, our County Judge, is now engaged in gathering a most satisfactory experimental crop of cotton. Nothing that has been thoroughly tested here has failed. Immense deposits of bitumen, at the ocean's edge, exist on the farm of N. A. Den and on that of the late Thomas Robbins. Sulphur in inexhaustible beds, and of a superior degree of purity, protrudes all along the coast and manifests itself in several warm springs, that need but the influence of fashion to become the Baden-Baden of western America. Silver and copper are abundant, and it was in this county and just beyond its easterly limits that the first placers were worked. † The roads owe their comparative goodness to the climate and not at all to the solicitude of the most expensive and inefficient of all possible governments. It should be observed that within our limits occur the only two difficult passes in the whole distance between San Diego and San Francisco, viz: the Rincon Pass and the San Manos or Santa Inez Pass. These obstacles, occasioned by the close vicinity at this place of the ocean and the Coast Range, although too great for our individual resources, are nowise insuperable, and only require a moderate appropriation. The desiccation of salt water in several natural ponds furnishes all the salt we consume, and several lots forwarded to San Francisco have been favorably noticed." We acknowledge our obligations to N. A. Den, Esq., County Assessor, for this interesting and valuable description of Santa Barbara, contributed to the Register for 1857.-[ED. + Gold has been found in the southern portion of the county since 1840. Small quantities from these placers were sent to Boston by Alfred Robinson, Esq., long before this State came under the American flag.-[ED. Agricultural Products, (1857).—Wheat, 200 acres, 4,000 bushels; barley, 2,000 acres, 20,000 bushels; oats, 500 acres, 15,000 bushels; corn, 1,200 acres, 25,000 bushels; beans, 500 acres, 5,000 bushels; potatoes, 400 acres, 4,000 bushels; eggs, 7,000 dozen; wool, 24,000 pounds; grapes, 100 tuns; wine, 3,000 gallons; distillation from fruits, 1,500 gallons. Fruit Trees, (1857).-Apple, 1,500; peach, 1,600; pear, 5,000; plums, 200; cherry, 100; quince, 200; apricot, 1,200; fig, 1,000; olive, 2,000; pomegranate, 100; cork oaks, 12; almond, 500; walnut, 100. Vines: Gooseberry, 500; currant, 500; strawberry, 1,000, (1858,); grape, 90,000. "The grape, olive, fig, pomegranate and orange grow well, with the little care bestowed upon them by the natives. The best wine in this State is made at the vineyard of the rancho of Tapa, near the mission of San Fernardo in this county. The flavor of this wine is peculiar. Connoisseurs attribute it to properties of the soil, and call it gout de terrior. But others, with more apparent reason, seek its cause in the properties of the original stock imported here, and sustain a theory by asserting a too evident resemblance between the taste in question, and that of certain wines of Catalonia, whose chief use is to communicate body, strength and color to the sprightly juices of the vines of northern France. The olive is not surpassed in size or flavor by that of Seville, in Spain." Live Stock.-Horses, 10,000; cattle, 75,000; sheep, 35,000; goats, 200; hogs, 1,000; poultry, 25,000. Manafactures.-Grist Mill, 1-water, run of stone, 2; value, $4,000. Finances, May, 1858.-Floating debt, $25,000; receipts for fiscal year, $10,500; expenditures, same period, $12,000; assessed value of property, $1,024,643. Attorneys.-Santa Barbara: Charles Fernald, R. G. Glenn, Russel Heath, Chas. E. Huse, Eugene Lies, Albert Packard. Physicians.-Santa Barbara; J. J. Barry, Samuel B. Brinkerhoff, James L. Ord, James B. Shaw; Santa Inez: Charles J. Freeman. XXXI. SANTA CLARA COUNTY. COUNTY SEAT-SAN JOSE. Santa Clara County, organized 1850. Boundaries: North by Alameda and San Mateo, east by Stanislaus, south by Santa Cruz and Monterey and west by San Mateo and Santa Cruz. Topography. This county is one of the most flourishing agricultural districts of the State. It is situated in a pleasant and fertile valley, which is irrigated by the waters from numerous artesian wells, and it is rapidly advancing in agricultural prosperity. The adaptation of the soil and climate (of the valley lands) to the culture of nearly all kinds of grains, flowers, vegetables, etc., has been satisfactorily proven beyond a doubt, to be equal, if not superior, to any other part of the State or States. The low, but pictu resque mountains which encircle this beautiful valley, and from which many perennial streams or rivulets flow, and in which may also be found many small, but beautiful valleys, afford the finest of grazing for all kinds of stock. The timber in the valley, consisting mostly of oak, of several varieties, is scarce, but sufficient for all ordinary purposes. The mineral resources and the excellence of the literary institutions of Santa Clara, in addition to the advantages of soil and congeniality of climate, must insure for its enterprising population a degree of prosperity unequaled by any other county of the State. Area of the county, one thousand square miles, of which nearly onehalf, or two hundred and ninety-eight thousand acres are valley land, suitable for agricultural purposes. The hills surrounding the valleys afford an excellent range for grazing, and the mountains in the immediate vicinity furnish an inexhaustible supply of timber well adapted for building purposes. The number of acres inclosed is sixty thousand; under cultivation, thirty thousand. Legal Distances.-From Sacramento, one hundred and fifty miles; from Stockton, one hundred and five miles, and from San Quentin, eighty miles. OFFICERS. Office. Name. Residence. Term Expires Salary. County Judge.... John H. Moore... San José...... District Attorney. J. A. Montrie.. County Clerk John B. Hewson . San José.. 66 Fees.. A. M. Thompson John M. Murphy.. Henry C. Melone. Supervisor Third Judicial District.-Hon. Sam. Bell McKee, Judge District Court. Sessions, fourth Monday in March, July and November. County Courts.-The terms of the County Court, Court of Sessions and Probate Court: Fourth Monday in February, June and October. Fourth Senatorial District.-Senator: Hon. R. A. Redman; term expires January, 1861. Members of Assembly.-Hons. J. P. Springer and E. C. Tully. Agricultural Products. Wheat, 14,500 acres, 145,000 bushels; barley, 8,000 acres, 160,000 bushels; oats, 1,000 acres, 25,000 bushels; rye, 50 acres, 500 bushels; corn, 100 acres, 1,500 bushels; buckwheat, 10 acres, 200 bushels; peas, 18 acres, 180 bushels; beans, 200 acres, 2,000 bushels; potatoes, 100 acres, 5,000 bushels; onions, 50 acres, 5,000 bushels; hay, 5,917 acres; broom corn, 75 acres ; butter, 200,000 pounds; cheese, 250,000 pounds; |