CHAPTER 12. — State of Chihuahua — Position, Boundaries, Extent, Characteristics, Rivers, Lakes, Indians, Divisions, Climate, Productions — Cattle estates — Mint — Mines — Principal towns — Chihuahua — El Paso del Norte — Military importance — El Paso wine, etc. — Antiquities — Indian ravages — The Bolson de Mapimi — Mexican modes of travelling and transportation — Litera — Mules — Arrieros — Conducta — Coaches — Freight wagons — Mexican habit of Home-staying — want of exploration — Modern advancement,334
Appendix No. 1 — Profile of the Plateau — Mexico to Santa Fé — Santa Fé to the Gulf,346
Appendix No. 2 — Mexican Coins, Weights and Measures,347
BOOK VI.
THE TERRITORY OF NEW MEXICO. — Exploration of the far west — Long, Nicollet, Frémont — Santa Fé trade — First adventurers — Caravans — New Mexico erected by Congress into a territory — Geological structure of New Mexico — The Rio Grande — Its value — Soil — Products — Irrigation — Cattle — Indians — Mines — Gold — Silver — Copper — Iron — Gypsum — Salt — Climate — Pueblo Indians — Wild Indians enumerated — Number of Pueblo Indians — Census — Proximate present population — Character of people and government — Santa Fé — Alburquerque — Valley of Toas — Statistics of Santa Fé trade, etc. — Itinerary from Fort Leavenworth to Santa Fé and El Paso,351
THE STATE OF CALIFORNIA 1. — Title to the region — Missionary settlement. Its purposes — Character of California — Secularization of missions — Population in missions — Agricultural statistics — Cattle — Hides — Tallow — Herdsmen — Trade — The war — Condition of California at its close — Progress of settlement and law — Constitution adopted — Admission as a state — Former boundaries — The great Basin — Utah — Great Salt Lake — Pyramid lake — Rivers — Present state boundaries — Area — Geography — Sacramento — San Joaquin — Shastl peak367
STATE OF CALIFORNIA 2. — Configuration of the state — Bay of San Francisco and city — Rivers of California — Character of soil, etc. — Relative sterility and productiveness — Climate — Dry and wet seasons — Causes of change — Climate in San Francisco, coast range valleys and interior valley — Area of arable and grazing land — Productions — Discovery of gold — Its position — The placeres — Washing — Digging — The Mines — Calculations as to the yield of the mines — Gold yielded by California — Its quality — Quicksilver mines — Commerce — Population — Growth of cities — Old presidios — Towns — Land titles — Mission lands — Conclusion,378
Appendix 1 & 2. — Meteorological Observations in California,398
