CHAPTER II.

THE BALANCE SHEET.

California statistically considered--Cost of the Treaty of Guadalupe

Hidalgo--Price of Passage and Services of Immigrants--Total Yield

of the Mines--Amount of Property destroyed by Fires, Freshets and

Inundations--List of Sailing Vessels and Steamers Wrecked upon the

coast--Public Debt of the State--Debts of San Francisco, Sacramento

and Marysville--Loss of Life by violent measures--Extract from the

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