Mines and Mining 

 to the mines of the Mountain Copper Company, Ltd., 

 which smelts its ore at Martinez, on San Francisco 

 Bay, making sulphuric acid and fertilizer as by- 

 products. At Heroult, on the branch line leaa- 

 ing to Winthrop, are the furnaces of the Noble 

 Electric Steel Company, where electric smelting of 

 iron and manganese ores is undertaken. In passing 

 through the Shasta River canon also the traveler 

 may glimpse an ill-fated gold dredge struggling not 

 any too successfully against the stiff current and 

 hard rock bottom. Below the canon at Redding is 



MAP 



showing 

 Principal Mines and. Smeltera 

 f 

 Shasta Count i/. California. 



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Figure 7 

 The Shasta mining region. 



the point of departure for the gold fields of Trinity 

 County, to be reached by stage. Both placer and 

 quartz mining are conducted, but Weaverville is 

 principally famous as being the centre of operations 

 of the La Grange Mining Company, operating the 

 largest hydraulic gold mine in the world. The prop- 

 erty is now controlled by the Consolidated Gold 

 Fields of South Africa, out is managed, as for 

 years back, by Pierre Bouery, the genial Frenchman 

 who marched with Marchand and has explored 

 many of the far places of the earth. The La Grange 

 is of the type of mines which made California 

 famous and affords the best opportunity to see 

 large-scale hydraulic mining. The water usually 

 permits mining to continue into or through June. 



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