3. SAN ANTONIO AND SAN DIEGO MAIL. The San Antonio and San Diego Mail, from New Orleans, by Indianoloa, to San Antonio; thence by El Paso and Fort Yuma to San Diego. Semimonthly. R. T. Doyle & Co., Contractors. 4. INDEPENDENCE AND SANTA FE MAIL. The Independence and Santa Fe Mail, from Independence to Santa Fe by Albuquerque, to Stockton. (Not yet in operation.) XV.-PRISON SYSTEM OF THE STATE.* The Act of the Legislature of April 24, 1858, constitutes the Governor, Lieutenant-Governor and Secretary of State, a Board of Directors, whose duty it shall be to take charge and control of the State Prison, the property belonging to the same, and to manage and control the convicts confined therein. The Act also provides for the employment of the labor of the convicts, and the appointment of the necessary officers for the government of the Prison. No debt or liability is to be incurred by the Board of Directors, and an appropriation of seventy-five thousand dollars is made for the maintenance of the prison for the year 1858. The prison is situated at San Quentin, Marin County, twelve miles from San Francisco. Number of convicts, July 1, 1858, five hundred and fifty. 1. XVI.-HOSPITALS. HOSPITAL SYSTEM OF THE STATE. The State of California has expended for the care of the indigent sick, from July 1, 1851, to the close of the fiscal year ending June 30, 1858, $1,250,000, being an average of $175,000 annually. The Act of the Legislature of 1855, provides that the Hospital Fund of the State shall be appropriated to each county, and be expended under the direction of the Board of Supervisors thereof. An additional tax of one-fourth of one per cent. or such sums as may be provided for by special enactments, shall be levied, whenever necessary, by the Board of Supervisors of each county, and be in like manner expended in maintaining the indigent sick within the limits thereof. 2. INSANE ASYLUM.† Established by Act of the Legislature, May 17, 1853. Appropriations for the support of the institution for fiscal year ending June 30, 1859, $103,000. The management of the Insane Asylum is intrusted to a Board of Trustees, composed of five persons, appointed by the Legislature, who is authorized to make such laws and regulations for the government thereof as they may deem necessary. There are also appointed by the Legislature, a Resident * For list of Officers and Clerks, see p. 90. + For list of Trustees, etc., see p. Physician, who is the chief executive officer, and an Assistant Physician, each of whom holds his office for the term of four years. The law establishing the Insane Asylum, provides that any person laboring under mental derangement, may be brought before the County Judge of the county in which he resides, who shall immediately cause an examination to be made by two physicians; and if the charge be sustained, the person so afflicted shall be conveyed to and placed in the asylum, and the expense incurred therefor shall be charged to the State. The asylum is pleasantly situated in the city of Stockton. The grounds attached thereto cover an extent of one hundred acres, handsomely ornamented and inclosed. The buildings are commodious, comfortable and well arranged. The main structure is ninety feet square, three stories high. The erection of two additional buildings was authorized by the Legislature of 1858, and an appropriation of forty thousand dollars made for the expense thereof. There is a commodious reading room attached to the institution, containing a library and a number of the newspapers of the day—a great accession to the means adopted to render the condition of the unfortunate inmates as comfortable and pleasant as possible. This institution is most liberally sustained by the State, and the yearly appropriations made for its support, evince a commendable interest on the part of the members of the Legislature, and a desire to place within the reach of an unfortunate class of the community the means best calculated to ameliorate their condition and restore them to the world. STATEMENT OF THE OPERATIONS OF THE INSANE ASYLUM FROM AUG. 1, 1857, TO JULY 31, 1858. Number of patients remaining Aug. 1, 1857, 162; admitted from that date to July 31, 1858, 254; total, 416. Number discharged, died, etc. 156; number remaining Aug. 1, 1858, 260. The number of patients remaining August 1, 1857, was 162; of which 132 were males and 30 females. The number received from that date to December 31, 1857, 86; of which 70 were males and 16 females; of these 17 males and 12 females were married. During this period there were discharged, 27 males and 11 females; died, 14 males and three females, and 5 males escaped. Total, 60. The number of patients admitted from January 1, 1858, to August 31, 1858, 168. FORM OF INSANITY. Simple Dementia... 63 | Partial Dementia... 34 Melancholy ... Chronic Insanity.. 8 Periodical Insanity.. 5 Total........168 From the above it will be seen that about two-fifths of the present inmates of the asylum have become patients there since the 1st of January, 1858. 3. UNITED STATES MARINE HOSPITAL, SAN FRANCISCO.* Organized March 16, 1852. Cost of building, $224,000. Expenditures fiscal year ending June 30, 1857, $48,112 56. Hospital money received at the port of San Francisco for the same period, $8,630 52. TABLE Exhibiting the number of Patients Received, Discharged, and the Deaths at the United States Marine Hospital, San Francisco, from March 16th, 1852, to December 31st, 1857. January.. : February 99 58 March 62 31 79 7 137 119 6 137 120 6 101 57 2 127 114 1 129 108 6 60 55 2 156 103 5 125 113 7 98 52 62 3 58 50 3 133 134 3 146 142 6 92 89 2 151 110 8 50 40 3 63 62 1 148 148 4 137 131 2 107 119 6 100 78 6 42 35 4 77 76 8 114 133 4 169 156 5 110 102 4 95 104 93 90 1 84 74 5 148 134 8 150 146 9 127 125 5 135 115 75 63 3 86 77 2 163 160 5 195 152 7 128 131 3 129 125 3 99 83 6 87 84 2 165 142 5 183 190 8 133 122 5 107 113 5 93 90 4 133 108 6 163 189 10 209 175 8 111 105 3 103 99 5 79 99 6 133 107 8 139 116 4 124 171 5 155 129 4 112 96 88 70 4 122 125 3 129 131 3 110 122 7 125 117 4 114 104 99 1857. Ad- Dis charged Deaths Dis charged Deaths Totals....... 733 663 35 1060 95449 1722 1623 58 1814 1726 761386 1315 48 1332 1240 54 RECAPITULATION. Total admitted from March, 1852, to December 31, 1857.............. 1. SACRAMENTO VALLEY RAILROAD. Organized August 4th, 1852. Reorganized November 9th, 1854. Capital $1,000,000. Length of road, twenty-two and a half miles. Cost of construction, $1,200,000. For list of Officers, see p. 54. The Sacramento Valley Railroad extends from Sacramento to Folsom, a distance of twenty-two and a half miles. Operations commenced February 22d, 1856; since which time the transactions of the company have been eminently successful. It is proposed to extend this road to several of the interior cities of the State, and operations have been already commenced for the extension of the road to the Yuba River, a distance of forty-two miles. The following extract from the Report of the company for 1857, will exhibit the business of the road: 2. SAN FRANCISCO AND MARYSVILLE RAILROAD. Organized 1858. Length of road, (Vallejo to Marysville,) eighty-six miles; distance from San Francisco to Vallejo by water, twenty-two miles. In the course of construction. The road will, when completed, afford a shorter and more direct communication between the cities of San Francisco and Marysville, and be of incalculable advantage to the district of country through which it passes. 3. SURVEYED ROUTES For a Railroad from the Mississippi or its Tributaries to the Pacific Ocean. [Prepared at the office of the War Department.] Route near 47th and 49th paral- Same from Westport to San Fran- Near the 35th parallel, from Fort XVIII. WAGON ROADS. A LIST Of the Principal Wagon Roads, leading from California to the East, with the distances to Carson Valley, Salt Lake, Humboldt River, etc.* NOBLE'S PASS.-The distance from the Sacramento Valley through this pass to the Humboldt, is about two hundred and fifty miles. Hight of pass, four thousand feet. BECKWORTH'S ROUTE.-From Marysville, by way of Bidwell, American Valley, Beckworth's and Truckee River, to Humboldt River, is two hundred and seventy-four miles. Or, From Marysville, by way of Gibsonville, Jameson's Creek, Mohawk River, Beckworth's to Humboldt River, two hundred miles. JOHNSON'S CUT-OFF.-From Sacramento, by way of Placerville, South Fork American River and Hope Valley, to Carson Valley, (Genoa,) one hundred and twenty-eight miles. CARSON ROUTE.-From Sacramento, by way of Diamond Springs, Sly Park, to Carson Valley, (Genoa,) one hundred and forty-six miles. BIG TREE, OR CALAVERAS ROUTE.-From Sacramento, by way of Mokelumne Hill, or Volcano, and Big Tree Road, to Carson Valley, one hundred and twenty-five miles. TEJON ROUTE.—From Stockton, by way of King's River, Tejon Pass, to Los Angeles, San Bernardino, and by the Military Road to Salt Lake City, eleven hundred miles. XIX. TELEGRAPH LINES. There are three lines in operation in this State, organized by act of the Legislature, with an aggregate communication of eight hundred and eighty miles. In addition to these principal lines, there are three branch lines with a total communication of sixty-seven miles. Total, nine hundred and fortyseven miles. 1. STATE TELEGRAPH COMPANY. Organized 1852; number of miles of communication, two hundred and ten; connecting San Francisco with San José, Stockton, Sacramento and Marysville. This line connects with the Alta line at Sacramento, and with the Northern line at Marysville. 2. ALTA TELEGRAPH COMPANY. Organized 1853; number of miles of communication, four hundred and fifty, exclusive of branch lines sixty-seven miles in length; total communication, five hundred and seventeen miles. This line connects San Francisco with * Compiled from Surveyor-General's Reports for 1855-6. |