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California Register (& Directory) 1857 1857 [169395]

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California Register (& Directory) 1857  1857  [169395]
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California State Register and Yearbook of Facts, 1857 Henry G. Langley and Samual A. Mathews in San Francisco and James Queen in Sacramento.1857 viii, 384 pp. (including ads). 7½x4½, original leather-backed cloth, spine lettered in gilt. The California State Register and Year-Book of Facts for the year 1857. Published Annually. Part I - Calendar and celestial Phenomena; Part II - United States and the Officers thereof (includes details of the Branch Mint in San Francisco); Part III - California and the Officers thereof; Part IV - Statistics, Etc.; Part V - Resources of the State, Section 2 of which covers Minerals, types of Gold Mining and has a table of Quartz Mills listed by county. Section 5 has a description and table of the Canal and Ditch Companies that comprise some 4,405 miles established for mining purposes. Part - VI - Counties of the State and the organization thereof. “The plan of this work, which has been carried out with singular fidelity in this first volume, is to furnish statistics, full and reliable, concerning each branch of the resources of the State, and a complete exhibit of the finances thereof, including the different county and municipal organizations, carefully prepared and arranged, from information through official and other reliable sources. It contains nearly as much matter as the "American Almanac", and as a State work, will not sutler by comparison with that useful book of reference. The commercial, civil, and other relations of California with all our large cities cannot fail of securing for it a circulation beyond its locality. We regret that our limited space prevents us from giving even an outline of the table of contents. We commend it with confidence to all who would be well informed in regard to the "Golden State." A valuable collection of data on California’s government, business, climate, agriculture, and even earthquakes. The long (p.27-36) earthquake report by Lorenzo Hubbard M.D. concludes by warning, “Had the shock been as severe at San Francisco as at Fort Tejon [a recent quake], the whole city would have been in ruins, and thousands of lives sacrificed in the general crash.” A description of the California Metallurgical Works operated by Messrs. Uznay and Haraszthy & Co. on p.251. First year of publication for this short-lived annual; the only other year was 1859. Cowan p.620; Greenwood 882. Some staining to covers, most notably the lower portion of the front, front joint starting to split at top; light to moderate damp staining within, about very good San Francisco California Franklin Collection