The number of grist mills in the State is one hundred and thirty-one. The aggregate run of stone, two hundred and seventy. Sixty-seven mills are propelled by steam and fifty-four by water. The aggregate capacity per day of the water mills, is three thousand five hundred and fifty-two, of the steam, five thousand two hundred and forty barrels. Estimating the water mills to be in operation six months of the year, and the aggregate capacity of the mills of the State is, two million one hundred and seventy-four thousand nine hundred and sixty barrels per annum. The capacity of the mills of Sacramento, San Francisco, San Joaquin and Santa Clara is, one million two hundred thousand barrels of flour per annum; twice the quantity necessary to supply the entire population of the State. The cost of the erection of the above mills is estimated at two million four hundred thousand dollars. The assessed value is about one million seven hundred thousand dollars. TABLE Exhibiting the Grist Mills of the State, with Names of Owners, Location, Run of Stone, the Capacity per day, Power used and Cost or Valuation of each. MARIPOSA. Colusa ... Dunlap & Suydam 2 Rogers & Co. Indian Creek Ione Valley. Vulcan Mill Co... 2 50 water Vulcan.. L'ne, Reed& Wo'st'r 2 75 water Chico J. Bidwell. Wilmot & Co... 21 2 100 35 35,000 4,000 steam .... .... 50 water 5,000 Mariposa Creek... Mariposa ...J. Lewis & Co..... MERCED. Griffith's Ranch .. Griffith's Hamlin Ranch Merced Falls... * The cost has been arrived at in part by including the estimates of the present value which are indicated by a (†), the other sums are the assessed value. (4) Saw mill attached. South of Nev. City Buffalo.....Rodgers & Armst'g 1 90 steam +$10,000 90 66 +10,000 3 100 water 125,000 25 Nevada City Tilley & Bennet 3 100'steam 8,000 3,000 San Bernardino...S Bernardino L. Rich & Hanks.. 2 50 water 117 Fitch & Co...... 75 steam +8,000 R. D. Cary... 80 66 +10,000 +9,000 +20,000 +20,000 +15,000 $15,000 66 +20,000 Tarupa.. SAN FRANCISCO. San Francisco.. 66 ::: Alta Commercial. Grosh & Rutherford 3 100 +10,000 +25,000 +12,000 Golden Gate Conro & Berry +15,000 แ +4,500 Knight's Ferry+..Stanislaus. .E. Hestras & Co.. SAN LUIS OBISPO. San Luis Obispot. F. Z. Branch. W. Murray 3 70 66 +9,000 3 150 water +60,000 3 100 steam +14,000 4 150 +75,000 4 175 +40,000 2 30 "L +10,000 3 60 +14,000 1 1 1 Hay Fork Hay Fork.. Baylies& Hallowell 1 16 water $4,000 Stuart's F. T. Riv'r Sebastopol.. J. F. Chellis The manufacture of lumber is an extensive and valuable branch of the resources of California. The inexhaustible and almost boundless forests of the Coast Range and the Sierra Nevada furnish an abundance of timber for the different mills throughout the State. Some idea of the extent of this trade, and the capacity of the State to meet its requirements, may be obtained by an examination of the following list of the saw mills at present in operation in this State, the greater portion of which, it will be observed, are located in the vicinity of populous mining districts, where the demand for lumber, for the different purposes of building, mining and fluming, is constantly increasing. In fourteen counties the average capacity of each exceeds two million feet per month. The product of lumber in several counties form an important part of the resources thereof, and in Tuolumne County alone the sales are estimated to exceed eight hundred thousand dollars per annum. The number of mills in the State is three hundred and seventy-three, of which one hundred and seventy-one are propelled by steam, and two hundred and two by water. Cost of erection estimated at two and a half million of dollars. Aggregate capacity is about five hundred million of feet per year. |