12. TONNAGE OF THE PORT OF SAN FRANCISCO. ARRIVALS. 1852. Dom. For'gn. Dom. For'gn. Dom. For'gn. Dom. For'gn. Dom. For'gn. Dom. For'gn. Dom. For'gn. Dom. For'gn. 8,802 24,843 15,186 21,448 6,592 85,464 16,145 84,414 9,250 26,209 2,797 27,244 1,209 7,451 18,420 9,200 25,892 5,876 26,465 19,092 36,098 11,228 23,758 4,511 24,380 1,520 6,996 17,893 10,120 17,435 12,376 82,617 15,886 30,863 6,206 24,785 8,448 40,498 8,317 29,484 14,463 24,998 12,281 30,628 12,086 23,102 5,251 87,848 5,907 81,012 8,822 5,145 30,135 9,015 21,415 15,461 31,851 15,115 83.082 8,274 31,503 4,670 25,316 9,093 5,327 13,169 17,043 31,003 9,731 17,278 12,898 16,048 3,698 29,705 12,054 29,225 7,261 22,070 16,078 41,938 10,786 6,829 26,686 11,166 32,468 15,218 22,660 10,872 36,449 22,611 11,045 23,601 11,195 18,769 6,758 17,724 7,217 85,728 12,879 8,120 23,574 7,985 27,844 9,768 24,760 18,400 36,249 14,065 8,341 21,210 18,637 26,636 6,734 22,068 10,275 85,803 13,676 10,243 20,988 12,967 14,940 6,075 20,568 10,114 32,877 108,644 65,729 255,428 131,628 292,940 125,965 268,737 182,094 404,220 124,874 336,058 DEPARTURES. 74,927 18,517 119,458 41,793 111,288 23,852 88,261 12,493 108,087 84,761 44,590 131,598 38,889 106,548 24,045 118,107 10,123 91,647 9,550 98,830 85,910 91,029 89,008 129,517 24,236 108,149 24,678 91,421 13,525 67,484 13,054 91,805 27,604 94,043 28,996 120,656 32,192 100,790 11,296 76,424 12,181 85,338 12,327 190,635 63,514 344,760 181,111 501,229 187,110 426,775 83,871 369,213 48,322 347,451 41,809 NOTE.-A great many vessels which arrived during '49 and '50 did not leave until '51 and '52, which accounts for more arrivals than there were departures during those years. *Books of the Custom House destroyed by fire, 1851. 13. TONNAGE Of the Principal Cities of the United States, 1856. Free and otherwise, imported into the District of San Francisco, from July 1st, 1853, to December 31st, 1856.+ 15. 1,777,822 1,478,544 $2,068,557 $1,681,279 $2,125,499 $1,915,523 $5,248,358 $5,899,620 $7,144,075 $9,155,507 AMOUNT OF TREASURE Shipped from the Port of San Francisco, from 1849 to 1856, inclusive. Totals 4,921,250 27,676,346 42,582,695 46,586,134 57,331,024 51,328,653 43,080.211 48,887,543 Total shipments of gold from April 11, 1849, to Dec. 31, 1856, $322,393,856. * Value of imports for the last three months of 1847, $53,590.—Annals of San Francisco. + No returns previous to July, 1853. For a statement of the yield of the gold mines of California, see Resources of the State. § The amount shipped previous to April, 1849, is estimated at $3,200,000.-Hunt's Magazine, 1853. Books of the Custom House destroyed by fire. The amount shipped during the year is here stated. The books of the Custom House were destroyed by fire, June, 1851. The returns previous to that date, have been obtained from the following sources: From April, 1849, (date of departure of the first steamer for Panama,) to November, 1849, from the shipments of the Pacific Mail S. S. Co., and from that date to June, 1851, from a communication of T. Butler King, Collector, to the Senate of California. See Senate Journal, 1852, p. 650. Exhibiting the chief articles of California Produce shipped from San Francisco from January 1, 1854, to December 31, 1856. Showing the Value of the chief articles of California Produce exported from the Port of San Francisco, from Jan. 1854, to Dec. 1856, inclusive.† Large quantities of hides and tallow have been shipped during the above period to the Atlantic States. * Compiled from the San Francisco Prices Current and Shipping List. + Value of Exports for the last three months of 1847, $49,597.—Annals of San Francisco. III. POPULATION. 1. POPULATION OF CALIFORNIA. The population of California in 1831, was estimated at 23,025,* and in January, 1849, at 26,000,† viz: Californians, 13,000; Americans, 8,000; Foreigners, 5,000. The returns of the National Census of 1850, exhibit a population of 117,538‡ and the State Census of 1852, of 264,435. The ascertainments and estimates of these enumerations are believed to be very incomplete, in consequence of the fluctuating character of the people and the difficulties which then existed to prevent a thorough canvass of the State, The following estimate of the present population of California has been prepared from information obtained through official sources and a careful investigation of the different classes of residents included therein: Returns of the County Assessors of the citizens between the ages of eighteen and forty-five, liable to military duty, to the Quartermaster-General of the State, 1856, (estimated in part) .. 175,000 Do. Total American population...... Children between four and eighteen years of age, number returned to the office of Superintendent of Public Instruction, 1856...... under four years 29,630 15,000 332,380 Chinese, (estimate of W. Hanley, Chinese Agent). 38,687 Colored Persons. 4,000 Indians, § (estimate of Col. Henley, Superintendent of Indian Affairs) 65,000 Total Population||.... *Forbes' Upper and Lower California. 507,067 + Senators Gwin and Frement, 1850. The Official Returns of the Census of 1850 exhibit a population of 92,597. See Journals of the Legislature, 1851, page 743. § This estimate, although large, is believed to be not beyond the actual number of Indians in the State. See Indian Reservations. The Population of the United States for 1856, is estimated, by Hon. James Guthrie, at 26,964,312. The vote cast at the Presidential Election, 1856, was about 4,100,000, being an average of three votes 2. The Census and Vote of 1852. The Vote of 1856 and returns of the Superintendent of Public Instruction of the Children of the State for 1856. The enumeration of the County of El Dorado was not completed within the time provided by law, for taking the Census of the State for 1852. The figures included above, are believed to be a fair approximation to the actual resident population of that year, and were taken as a basis by the Legislature, in regulating the Apportionment Act of 1853. (a) Organized 1853, from Contra Costa and Santa | (ƒ) Organized 1854, from Butte. Clara. (b) Organized 1854, from Calaveras. (g) Organized 1850, from Los Angeles. (h) Organized 1856, from San Francisco. (i) Organized 1854, from Tuolumne. () Organized 1856, from Colusa, Butte and Shasta. for each twenty inhabitants. Taking this result as a basis and estimating the population of California thereby by the vote of the same election, 110,223, the population would amount to 734,820. This mode of arriving at an approximation of the population of California, may not be regarded as a fair and reliable one, from the fact that there are not a proportional number of females and children among its residents as there are in the Eastern States. This is undoubtedly true, but will not the great excess of the foreign and Indian population of the State more than make up the difference? *No returns. |