. Appendix to the Journals of the Senate and Assembly of the ... session of the Legislature of the State of California. at$1,844,239. From the report of the State Mineralogist for the year 1901we take the following figures: Gold $399,693 Silver --- $57,164 ^^2Siu^- Lea5 i«?2?J^- BQj-ax -? --- 16,796 tons. Turquoise-!. - - - ^???nA uui - - - ^H?S ^^^!; Granite - -- - - o?5S ^ui ^* Lime - •? - ---- 38,783 bbls. Limestone - -- - ^J?12 !°^® Macadam — --- .J522 !^^^- Rubble - - 297,695 tons. Paving-blocks - --- 180,000 At Declezville, a few miles west of Colton, immense quarries
. Appendix to the Journals of the Senate and Assembly of the ... session of the Legislature of the State of California. at$1,844,239. From the report of the State Mineralogist for the year 1901we take the following figures: Gold $399,693 Silver --- $57,164 ^^2Siu^- Lea5 i«?2?J^- BQj-ax -? --- 16,796 tons. Turquoise-!. - - - ^???nA uui - - - ^H?S ^^^!; Granite - -- - - o?5S ^ui ^* Lime - •? - ---- 38,783 bbls. Limestone - -- - ^J?12 !°^® Macadam — --- .J522 !^^^- Rubble - - 297,695 tons. Paving-blocks - --- 180,000 At Declezville, a few miles west of Colton, immense quarries are beingoperated, supplying rock for the Government breakwater at San PedroHarbor. Although these figures in regard to mining do not directly pertain toagriculture or horticulture, yet they are of value, because of the factthat the entire mining region must draw its supplies of vegetables andfruits from the nearby valleys. As there are thousands of men engagedin mining in the county, so there are thousands of consumers for theproducts of the farmer and fruit-grower in the arable portion of SAN DIEGO COUNTY. 361 SAN DIEGO COUNTY. By H. p. wood,Secretary Chamber of Commerce, San Diego, Califoruia. San Diego County occupies the southern part of the State of Cali-fornia, and has an area of nearly 8,500 square miles, being slightlylarger than Massachusetts. On the north the county is bounded byOrange and Riverside counties; on the east by the Colorado River,which here divides Arizona from California; on the south by therepublic of Mexico; while on the west, the Pacific Ocean washes itsshores for upward of 75 miles. The land rises gently from the oceanfor a distance of about 50 miles to a chain of peaks forming the backboneof the county, descending again quite rapidly to the Colorado Rivervalley, the greater part of which is below sea-level. ARABLE LAND. The arable portion of the western slope of the county is divided intoa series of irregular terraces or plateau
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