That while this commereial business is rapidly incrasing. ithadalready attained in 187273 the aggregate of fter indred ad fifty thousand tons of eiieral fre 11". audin th year cndisg July 1. 1873. sc less thsn ne hudred and toss ssipe wyore loaded at the Oakland wharf with California wheat. ascounting to one leod asid ixthyone theusacd tons. to bo ditributed tothemarketsof theevolld. Third. The transit of passengers froa Asiatic ciis other foreign ports. from San Frncisecoand from the cities eastof tise Rocky Mnstnlins.arriving and il.earticg at Oakland by the great ovlrlos ioilsante. n14ooutd to n aggregate of sixtyraen thoesant.soouls for th year endin Jantrs -31. 1973. the locil tiovcl by forr0 boat between Oaklanid and San Fracuieto ohos a rapid yearly increase. and now requires the constant use of halfhourly boats and trains. arryine a daily aveengo of live thousand pron. en to a t - total of nearly two nillion assegors. Daring th year 1873 the tIeasure from all sources in ti interior of thc State of Califorula ti.( fIote the cOvsda raine. ralcng the Oakland dock. asnoutcd to no � less than 0t1.00000 in value. The two staples of the paciflc sl()pe. whea and hullion. find readstas. access to (leep water apon the Oakland wat rfront.