It was all so different fifty or sixty years ago.

According to the census returns the population of San Francisco in 1850 was 34,000.

In 1860 there was a gain of 22,802.

In 1870 there were in the city 149,473 souls; while in 1880 there was a population of 233,959 including 30,000 Chinese.

The census of 1890 gives an increase of 64,038 during the decade, and the last enumeration shows that there has been a gain of 44,785 in the ten years.