1874 San Diego City Directory
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CITY OF SAN DIEGO.
"The principal articles exported during the past year were wool, honey, hides, and whale oil, as follows: 599,756 pounds of wool; 116,000 pounds of honey; 5,344 hides; 40,200 gallons of whale oil."
MINERAL RESOURCES.
The mineral resources of San Diego county alone bid fair to become a very important feature in her industries. The Julian mines, sixty miles from the bay, accessible by stage, or private conveyance, through a delightfully romantic section of country, were discovered five years ago. Already their yield has proved highly remunerative to their owners, given employment to a large number of laborers, and has built up a town of considerable importance, though owing to a question of title, comparatively little has yet been done. The locators of the mines have at length triumphed; the cloud which has hovered over them, and retarded the work, has been removed, and renewed energy and outside capital will give the work an impetus unknown in the past.
The shipment of bullion from the Julian mines in 1872 was $488,670; from Lower California, $50,775, making a total of $539,445 shipped from San Diego.
The recently discovered and promising Japa and Bladen mines, with increased facilities for work at Julian and San Rafael, present a most gratifying outlook, and indicate golden harvest in the future.
AGRICULTURE.
The eastern farmer, if wedded to the theories of his own latitude, or trained in the unprogressive school of one method for all places, will naturally make a failure here, where all the conditions are new to him. But to those who are ready to accept new theories, with new conditions, there are few places that promise greater returns from the soil, or a better prospect of a future independence.
This county, in common with the whole of Southern California, is, at long intervals, subject to drought; but there is no year when the rain-fall in the interior is not sufficient to
