'Informe general sobre California' — a comprehensive sectioned state-of-the-territory economic survey (Expanded-Entry candidate): *Agricultura* (wheat/grains, vineyards as the future export; ⭐ the indigenous natives 'han sido siempre y son hasta la fecha los únicos brazos laboriosos del país'); *Crías* (cattle/sheep/wild 'mesteña' horses); *Manufacturas* (mission-neophyte textiles/crafts; cattle hides the only export; 'falta de brazos'); ⭐⭐⭐ *Pesca* (otter & beaver 'could have been the principal element' but foreigners exploit them fraudulently, buying pelts cheap from the natives; no national ship to stop them destroying the island otter-grounds; SF-Bay-river beaver the great untapped resource); *Minas* (no valuable minerals known, iron most common — pre-Gold-Rush); ⭐⭐ *Epidemias* (smallpox rare so vaccination neglected, no physician in the whole territory, venereal disease 'devouring' the neophytes, mission medicine-chests 'no sirven de nada'; the mission regime 'no proporcionado á la salud de los indígenas,' their condition 'muy lastimosa, digna de lamentarse' — a governor's mission-health indictment); *Población* / *Milicia local* / *Tranquilidad pública* (the 1829 Solís revolution) / *Seguridad* (the vast fertile country's wealth 'excita la codicia,' keep criminal colonists out). Complete: scan n132–n139, tomo pp. 336–346
| Date | 1831-06-07 (exact) |
|---|---|
| From | Victoria |
| To | Ministro de Relaciones |
| Place | Monterey |
| Series | Departmental Records |
| Tomo | IX–XIV (volume range; this entry is not resolved to one tomo) |
| Original tomo page | 336–346 |
| Savage copy page | 133–140 |
| Scan leaf | n132–n139 |
| Document type | abstract |
| Source | Savage abstract |
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Victoria to Ministro de Relaciones, Monterey, 1831-06-07, Departmental Records, IX–XIV, 336–346, Archives of California, C-A 49, Bancroft Library, University of California, Berkeley. [the tomo is given as the volume’s full range: this entry has not been resolved to a single tomo within IX–XIV]Cite the document by series, tomo and original tomo page, as the literature does; the C-A number locates it in the repository. To cite this catalogue entry itself, use https://archivesofcalifornia.com/record/ca49/ca49-d374.html