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444 POLITICAL HISTORY
appraisers’ stores, and post-offices, $2,239 ;
river and harbor imipravemente sucsd oo; liek
stations on the coast, $1,278,272; United States
mint, $2,629,192.37; arsenals and forts, $6,617,757.
An appropriation was made in the session of 1886-7
of $350,000 toward a new post-office. Los Angeles was
also granted an appropriation for a public building
and to San Francisco manufacturers was awarded thé
contract for building of a government iron cruiser
_ ata cost of $500,000, followed by others, as will be
mentioned elsewhere in this volume. Other defences will soon be provided for, congress having
taken up the matter recently in a determined spirit.
Congress at the same session appropriated $100,000
for the establishment of a branch of the National
home for disabled volunteer soldiers.* But the
money appropriated for public improvements is less
than that paid in salaries to government officials residing in California, and not connected with the army
or navy. These salaries amounted in 1872 to $743,992 per‘annum; to the post-office $126,932; to the
custom-house $289,790; to the mint $196,926; to
the internal revenue office $44,100; to the United
States courts $19,250; to the land-office $26,900; to
the light-keepers, steamboat inspectors, naval recruiting station, military surveys, marine hospital, and
Indian affairs $40,074. The post-offices and lighthouses have since become a much greater expense to
the government; but I have no figures at hand to
show the actual present expenditure or income.
At no period of the state’s existence has the immipration exceeded that of 1886-8. The arrivals overand averaged 5,000 a month, many persons of wealth
and refinement coming to remain. When the state
has attained to the age of fifty years it will be more
famed for its agricultural, horticultural, and manufactured productions than for its mining product.
The people of California had already established a soldiers’ home in
Napa co., a1 : t
far'o, ealicht national borane ene? consent to consolidate with 16 the pla
CHAPTER XVII.
MILITARY.
1848-1888,
Canrrornta Unper Minirary Rune—Dsszetions—QUARTERS AND ResErvaTions—LiaHTHouses—-CompPanizs Forssp— INDIAN TRouBLES—
Pogrs EsTaBLISHED—DEPARTMENTS— VIGILANCE ComMITTEE MatrEEs—
War vor THE Unton—Coast DEFNESES.
I wave given nothing of the military history of
California since the establishment of the United
States in possession under the rule of Governor Mason.
Influences were present in the geographical and political position of the country at this period which rendered military force a necessity; and the disbanding
of the New York volunteers on the declaration of
peace in 1848 seriously embarrassed the temporary
government,’ which feared an uprising among the na1 From the orders of the military governors I transcribe the names of .
their appointees. Frémont made few appointments, but reports giving the
office of collector of oa of San Diego to Banding Arguillo, and of San
Pedro to Pedro Carrillo, Kearney appointed D. W. Alexander collector at
San Pedro, William A. Richardson at Monterey, Angel Lebvige at La Paz,
and Miguel Chosa at San José, L.C. He also a) pointed, Feb. 22, 1847,
Edwin Bryant to succeed naval Lieut W. A. Bartlett—appointed by Capt.
Montgomery of the Portsmouth in 1846—and May 28th, George Hyde to
succeed Bryant. He appointed Edward Potty Hartnell to be translator and
interpreter to the gov't, March 10th; Walter Cotton judge of admiralty,
March 24th; John A. Sutter sub. Indian agent, April 7th; Lilburn
to be alcalde of Sonoma in place of John H. Nash, April 10th; M. G.
Vallejo sub. Ind. og’ April 14th; Mariano Bonilla alcalde of San Luis
Obispo; and Pablo de la Guerra alcalde at Sta Barbara. Mason eipaintel
Louis Robideau alealde of San Bernardino, June Ist; William B. Ide land
surveyor, June 7th; William Blackburn alcalde of Sta Cruz, June 21st;
Jasper O'Farrell asst_surveyor, July 6th; J. D. Hunter sub. Indian agent,San Luis Rey; Miguel de Pedrosena collector at San Diego, July 14th; John
Foster alcalde at Juan, July 14th; Jacob R. Snyder asst surveyor, Jul
92d; H, W. Halleck sec, of the ter. Cal., Aug. 13th, T. Minor Leavenw
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