| COLDEST DAY. | WARMEST DAY. | ||
| April 12th | 60° | April 16th | 74° |
| May 15th | 66 | May 23d | 77 |
| June 1st | 69 | June 3d | 80 |
| July 26th | 76 | July 11th | 84 |
| Aug. 11th | 77 | Aug. 8th | 86 |
| Sept. 23d | 66 | Sept. 27th | 90 |
| Oct. 23d | 60 | Oct. 20th | 92 |
| Nov. 7th | 64 | Nov. 20th | 87 |
| Dec. 15th | 52 | Dec. 28th | 71 |
| Jan. 11th | 56 | Jan. 3d | 76 |
| Feb. 22d | 42 | Feb. 28th | 71 |
| March 13th | 56 | March 27th | 83 |
| Coldest day in the year, Feb. 22d | 42° | ||
| Warmest day in the year, Oct. 20th | 92 | ||
| Variation | 50 | ||
Compare these with the average temperature of the Atlantic Coast, say at Trenton or New York, and what a paradise for invalids Santa Barbara must be.
Page 434.—Our yield of the precious metals for 1873 was exceptionally fine, and the following table of the total for that year, from the districts west of the Missouri River, gave immense satisfaction on the Pacific Coast:
| California | $18,025,722 |
| Nevada | 35,254,507 |
| Oregon | 1,376,389 |
| Washington | 209,395 |
| Idaho | 2,343,654 |
| Montana | 3,892,810 |
| Utah | 4,906,337 |
| Arizona | 47,778 |
| Colorado | 4,083,268 |
| Mexico | 868,798 |
| British Columbia | 1,250,035 |
| —————- | |
| Grand total | $72,258,693 |
The total yield for 1872 was only $62,236,913; so that here is a gain of $10,000,000 or so in one year. This extra increase, however, was chiefly from Nevada, whose total product, it will be seen, about equals that of all the others; and it must be credited mainly to the great Comstock Lode, whose ores, it is now about demonstrated, grow richer and better, the deeper you go down, like the best mines of Mexico and Peru. In 1871 they averaged only $27 per ton; in 1872 they increased to $32; and in 1873 to $40. These figures well sustain Mr. Sutro's theories, and his great tunnel may yet become a fixed fact, ere long.