VI.-MANUFACTURES AND MACHINERY. 1. GRIST MILLS. The number of grist mills in the State is one hundred and thirty-five. The aggregate run of stone, two hundred and ninety-seven. Sixty-two mills are propelled by steam and seventy-three by water. The aggregate capacity per day of the water mills, is three thousand nine hundred and fifty; of the steam, five thousand nine hundred 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 four hundred and sixty-six thousand three hundred and eighty barrels per annum. The capacity of the mills of Sacramento, San Francisco, San Joaquin and Santa Clara, is one million three 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 eight hundred thousand dollars. The assessed value is about one million five 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. NOTE. Those marked (a) attached to saw mills; (b) in course of erection. Mokelumne River. Brady's(a). . P. W. Brady..... steam CONTRA COSTA. Lafayette.. Pacheco.. DEL NORTE. Brown's.... Elam Brown..... 3 100 steam $10,000 .... Crescent City..... Crescent City Weston & Knox.. 3 75 steam 10,000 T. J. Titlow & Co Mariposa Creek... Mariposa...J. Lewis & Co.... 1 MERCED. Griffith's Ranch... Griffith's Hamlin's Ranch.. Hamlin's... Hamlin & Thurston 2 .... 223 Alton & Welch. Sewell & Greig... 2 Star Pacific. Geo. C. Yount ... 3 100 3 Nevada City Tilley & Bennett.. 3 100 steam 8,000 66 2 75 75 5,000 50 3,000 South of Nevada.. Buffalo..... Rodgers & Armst'g 1 San Bernardino... San Bernar'o L. Rich & Hanks.. A. Redding'n & Co 4 250 20,000 3 150 20,000 แ 3 100 15,000 3 100 66 15,000 3 100 water 20,000 San Francisco.... Alta.......J. Enders & Co... Knight's Ferry.... Stanislaus. . E. Hestras & Co.. 3 150 water 66 60,000 14,000 75,000 40,000 2 30 10,000 Red Woods...... Martin's.... Mr. Languedoc... 2 steam Annaly Bodega Leffingwell's Leffingwell & Co.. 1 Hudson's Creek Hudson Geo. Bell.... 66 Vallejo Township. Thompson's. M. S. Thompson.. 2 Nome Lackee.... Ind. Reser'n. Indian Department 1 Love & Tollman.. 2 50 5,000 .... Water Steam Hay Fork Hay Fork.. Baylies & Hallow' 1 Stuart's F. Trin. R. Sebastopol..J. F. Chellis Sturdivant's Creek Sturdivant's. Sturdiv't & Duncan 1 Weaver Creek.... Weaver C'k. Short, Thomas & Co 1 2 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 is nearly 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 most extensive lumber district in the State, is in the vicinity of Hum |