OTHER RESOURCES 53 



MINES 



Wholly apart from its relations to agriculture and 

 agricultural people, some of which are indicated in 

 Chapter IV, the California mining industry is great 

 in its achievements, unique in its methods and varied 

 in its products. Greatness and variety are demon- 

 strated by the official outline of the products of 1920 

 (given in Appendix D) with a total valuation of 

 $242,142,000. A few facts about the leading items 

 in that statement are of popular interest and signifi- 

 cant even in a book treating of rural affairs as 

 showing the relations of California to other 

 states and provinces in an industry often closely 

 associated with agricultural development and a force 

 therein. 



California has justified the name "Golden State" 

 by leading in gold production for the last seventy- 

 two years, except for a few years when Colorado held 

 temporary leadership. California has yielded $1,720,- 

 139,958 during seventy-two years, nearly one-half 

 of all the gold produced in twenty-two states of the 

 Union since records began in 1792. The geographical 

 and topographical prevalence of gold in California 

 is also of striking interest as shown by the following 

 statements : x 



"California is still the leading gold producer 

 among all the states of the Union and there is still a 

 greater number of gold mines than in any other state. 



1 History of California by Zoeth Skinner Eldredge, Vol. V, 

 p. 200. Special article, "California Mining History," by 

 Charles G. Yale. 



