MINES AND MINING 



Mother Lode region is easily accessible from Jack- 

 son, Angels, or Jamestown. West of it, and in the 

 foothills, is the older copper region the importance 

 of which has been dimmed by the development of 

 Shasta County. 



Quicksilver is one of the important minerals 

 mined in California which still yields 20,000 to 



Figure 

 The Mother Lode region of California. 



25,000 flasks of 70 pounds each per annum. Quick- 

 silver is found in the coastal range in connection 

 with young rocks. One of the most famous of the 

 mines, still an important producer, is at New Al- 

 maden, near San Jose, and easily accessible from 

 San Francisco, as is also the St. Johns mine, near 

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