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Volume 3 (1858-1859) (592 pages)
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Page: of 592
$34 HUTCHINGS’ CALIFORNIA MAGAZINE.
for the Pacific Railroad, Wagon Roads aad
Telegraph Lines; list of Masonic and Odd
Fellows Lodges and other Societies; the
Public Libraries of the State; the Newspaper and Periodical Press of the State;
the Merchant Marine of the Pacific; Election Returns; notices of the Official Vote
of the State, and many others, in this connection? we are here to assert our own
value and accuracy, if you consult us.
“Then, to these, add the Titles and Abstracts of all the General Laws passed at
the ninth session of the California Legislature. Next, the Agricultural, Horticultural,
Live Stock and Mineral resources of the
State, with the location, number, capacity
and cost of all the Quartz Mills, Water
Ditches and Canals; the extent of the Pacific Whale Fisheries; Manufactures and
Machinery; giving the location, name and
capacity of all the Grist Mills, Lumber and
Saw Mills, Foundries, Metallurgical and
Chemical Works, Cordage and Oakum, Furniture, Agricultural Implements, Printing
Paper, Matches, Perfumery, Leather, Broom,
Maccaroniand Vermicelli, Candle and Soap,
Starch, Glue, Camphene and Oil, Stone
Ware, and other Manufactories; Ship and
Boat Building, etc. etc. With the peculiar
Topography, Legal Distances from Sacramento, Judicial Districts, Courts, Agricultural Products, Mineral Resources, Finances, Attorneys, Physicians, etc., of every
County of the State;— we are here.
In short, this is a complete California Encyclopedia of important and well digested
information concerning every department
of the State.
We have been thus particular in giving
a brief synopsis of its leading features, lest
we should do injustice to the anxious care,
patience and incessant labor of the indefatigable compiler of this invaluable book.
That the reader may form some little idea
of the trouble and pains that have been
taken to prepare it and obtain the immense
variety of correct knowledge here given,
we may mention that no less than four
thousand letters, asking for information,
have been written to various portions of
the State, besides the very numerous answers thereto. Moreover, one table of its
contents alone, and that not occupying
more than half a page, contains the gist of
over eighty letters.
With grateful pleasure we acknowledge
that the preceding volume has been of
more real value to us, ag a work of reference concerning California, than all other
works before published in or of this State.
If, therefore, you wish to add a valuable
volume to your library, or make a New
Year’s present of intrinsic value to a friend,
we counsel you to purchase “ The California State Register and Year Book of Facts
for 1859.”
Gritor’s Cable.
Kinp Reaper, Christmas and New Year
are again paying us their annual visit.
How rapidly have the footsteps of Time
been hurrying us along! It seems but the
other day, when, for the first time, we
had the pleasure of wishing you the blessings and compliments of the season, through
the columns of the California Magazine ;
and now, the third one has come. There
is a peculiarly pleasing relationship existing between the editor of a periodical like
ours and the generous and large-hearted
reader; and as, month after month rolls
past, and we give to each other the cordial
welcome, or the word of sympathy or of
brotherly kindness and love, it cements us
closer, and the hearts of each grow warmer
and better by the feeling. We have enjoyed
many pleasant seasons together, and we
trust, with God’s blessing, there are many
more in store for us; and, should a kind
Providence permit, we trust that the year
a