150 A Bibliography of the Geology, etc., of California. 



California : Its past history ; its present position ; its future 

 prospects, etc., with an appendix containing the official 

 reports made to the Government of the United States. 

 ■ London, 1850. 270 pp. 



Life in ; by an American. New York, 1846. 341 pp. 



On page 90 the author speaks of visiting a spot on the Alisal, 

 near Monterey, from which considerable quantities of silver ore had 

 been obtained. It was the first mine discovered in California, from 

 this author's account. 



California as it is. Being a concise description of the 



State by counties, with memoranda of the progress of 

 each agricultural, horticultural, mining, and other indus- 

 tries up to the year 1887-88, etc. San Francisco, 1888. 

 257 pp. map. 



There are five editions of this work. The first one was published 

 by the Daily and Weekly Call in 1882. 



California Miners' Association. Annual reports from 1893 

 to 1902. San Francisco. 



California Mines and Minerals. Souvenir edition on Cali- 

 fornia mines, 1899. Issued by California Miners' Asso- 

 ciation. San Francisco, 1900. illustrated. 450 pp. 



Contains chapters as follows : Mineral industry of California, 

 by Charles G. Yale ; Mother Lode of California, by Ross E. Browne ; 

 Electric power for mining, by A. M. Hunt and W. Meredith ; Notes 

 on gold dredging, by R. H. Postlethwaite ; Deep mining in Cala- 

 veras County, by J. H. Collier, Jr. ; Genesis of petroleum and 

 asphaltum, by A. S. Cooper ; Fineness of California gold, by F. A. 

 Leach ; Petroleum in California, by W. L. Watts ; Copper resources 

 of California, by M. M. O'Shaughnessy ; Machine drills in stop- 

 ing, by B. L. Thane ; New form of purifier, by E. H. Simonds ; Col- 

 lege of Mining, University of California, by Prof. S. B. Christy; 

 Mining debris legislation, by Charles G. Yale; Sketches of min- 

 eral resources of Nevada, Butte, Placer, El Dorado, Amador, Cal- 

 averas, Tuolumne, Mariposa, Siskiyou, Trinity, and other counties ; 

 The California Miners' Association's history, by J. H. Neff; Cali- 

 fornia as a field for mining capital, by W. C. Ralston. 



Carpenter, Philip P. Lectures on the sheHs of the Gulf of 

 California. Washington. 25 pp. 6 illustrations. 



This article appeared in the Annual Report of Smithsonian Insti- 

 tution, 1859. 



