15. RECEIPTS OF DEPARTMENT OF CUSTOMS,* Port of San Francisco, from Nov. 12, 1849, to Dec. 1857, inclusive, fractions omitted. November. 216,453 189,947 218 968 134,638 239,970 170.976 226,622 194,786 143,080 175,352 167,193 179,560, 225,050 155,008 219,334 137,865 170,796 182,911 257,222 253,027 229,760 137,774 137,228 192,708 240,714 161,242 186,119 206,497 94,817 182,179 131,576 182,477 176,257 100,016 99,229 122,343 $216,453 1,908,220 2,316,675 2,008,410 2,589,406 1,563,103 1,804.904 1,713,408 1,504,137| 16. EXPENDITURES OF DEPARTMENT OF CUSTOMS 87,141 229,393 119,648 97,543 84,637 December.. 17. VALUATION OF IMPORTS.‡ Free and otherwise, imported into the District of San Francisco, from July 1st, 1853, to December 31st, 1857.§ $2,068,557 $1,681,279 $2,125,499 $2,422,744| 1,293,189 1,777,822 1,478,544 2,145,000 1,475,615 1,825,649 2,126,673 2,891,755 Fourth Quarter 3,332,835 1,062,259 1,859,325 3,424,791 2,068,792 Third Quarter. $1,915,523 Totals... $5,248,358 $5,899,620 $7,144,075 $9,155,507 $9,528,291 * The amount collected from August 6th, 1848, the date of notice of the treaty with Mexico, was received by Col. Mason, up to November 12th, 1849, when Col. Collier assumed the duties of Collector, was $1,365,187. Governor Johnson's Message, 1857-Total receipts from August 6th, 1848, to December 31, 1857, $16,989,903. + The expenditures for the year ending December 31st, 1857, include all payments on treasury orders for the expenses of the other Collection Districts on this coast, support of Marine Hospital, salary of light-house keepers, and maintenance of revenue cutters. The actual expenses of the District of San Francisco being but $422,341 09, inclusive of support of hospital and payment of lighthouse keepers' salaries. + Value of imports for the last three months of 1847, $53,590. § No returns previous to July, 1853. Exhibiting the chief articles of California Produce shipped from San Francisco from Jan. 1, 1854, to December 31, 1857. Showing the value of the chief articles of California Produce exported from the Port of San Francisco, from Jan. 1854, to Dec., 1856, inclusive.† Totals.... $890,675 $2,146,909 $1,782,608 $1,097,338 Large quantities of hides and tallow have been shipped during the above period to the Atlantic States. * Compiled from the San Francisco Prices Current. + Value of Exports for the last three months of 1847, $49,597.-Annals of San Francisco. Dom. Forei'n Dom. Forei'n Dom. Forei'n Dom. Forei'n Dom. Forei'n Dom. Forei'n Dom. Forei'n Dom. Forei'n Dom. Forei'n 19,799 8,802 24,843 15,186 21,448 6,592 35,464 16,145 34,414 9,250 26,209 5,953 17,340 3,187 26,642 2,797 27,244 1,209 17,341 11,551 4,511 24,330 3,448 40.498 1,520 3,745 10,553 5,951 23,336 18,090 5,907 31,012 8,008 12,517 1,037 4,670 25,316 1,856 8,295 11,131 4,677 24,556 4,101 12,223 18,339 4,065, 12,523 7,737 6,010 11,325 9,998 4 999 2,832 18.055 6,858 9,323 8,120 23,574 7,985 27,844 14,065 8,341 21,210 18,637 26,636 13,676 10,243 20,983 12,967 14,940 3,976 14,015 1,123 22,289 5,516 28,514 4,676 25,170 6,871 2,395 13,950 9,653 3,168 20,595 3,555 8,945 11,253 108,644 65,729 255,428 131,628 292,940 125,965 268,737 132,094 404,220 124,874 336,058 76,127 325,102 55,148 305,519 40,378 141,754139,018 98,830 35,910 91,029 39,008 129,517 24,236 108,149 24,678 91,421 13,525 67,434 13,054 6,648 20,224 q'r.. 2,709 18,553 5,738 20,569 4th. November... * * * 91,805 27,604 94,043 28,996 120,656 32,192 100,790 11,296 76,424 12,181 85,333 12,327 3,105 13,884 December........ q'r.. 3,239 17,588 Totals.......... 190,635 63,514 344,760 131,111 501,229 137,110 426,775 83,871 369,213 48,322 347,451 41,809 47,444 231,355 NOTE. A great many vessels which arrived during '49 and '50 did not leave until '51 and '52, which accounts for more arrivals than departures during those years. Books of the Custom House destroyed by fire, 1851. Exhibiting the average Price of Flour, Wheat, Barley and Oats, for each Month at San Francisco, from Jan. 1852 to Dec. 1857. [Compiled from the San Francisco Prices Current and Shipping List.] NOTE. The above table shows the average prices for each month, of flour per two hundred pounds, and wheat, barley and oats, per pound, from January 1st, 1852, to December 31st, 1857, at San Francisco. As these articles of consumption were mostly imported for the first few years after the influx of population into California, foreign products have been taken as the standard during that period, In flour, Chili has been quoted, in wheat, barley and oats, those of eastern importations, until February, 1854, when the domestic productions of both flour and grain are substituted. In several instances we have been unable to determine the current value of flour, and have requoted Chili; such changes are indicated by an asterisk, (*).-[ED. + Sales of Flour in barrels for the last ten days of December, 1852, $38 and $42. 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 the 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, 1857, (estimated in part)..... 183,000 Children between four and eighteen years of age, number returned to the office of Superintendent of Public Instruction, 1857... Children under four years. 36,315 18,500 Chinese, (estimate of W. Hanley, Chinese Agent, 1857). Indians (estimate of Col. Henley, Superintendent of Indian Af 38,687 2,000 fairs.)... Total population.... * Forbes' Upper and Lower California. 65,000 ||538,002 + Senators Gwin and Fremont, 1850. The Official Returns of the Census of 1850 make the population 92,597. See Journals of the Legislature, 1851, page 743. § This estimate, although large, is believed to be less than 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 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 |