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wisely doing something to aid this important industry in supporting 

 a State Bureau of Mines; an appropriation of $50,000 for the 

 biennium has just been granted it. 



MINERAL PRODUCTION IN OREGON* 



FOR 1917 



Gold $1,491,798.00 



Platinum 65 ounces 



Silver . . . 125,656 fine ounces 



Copper 2,474,487 pounds 



Chromite 6,700 tons 



Lead 28,000 pounds 



Non-metals, 1916 



Coal 42,592 tons 



Mineral water 30,920 gallons 



Building sand and gravel .... 161,761 tons 



Crushed stone (1917) 282,732 tons 



*By courtesy of Charles G. Yale, statistician, United States Geological Survey. 



BIBLIOGRAPHY OF THE MORE IMPORTANT ARTICLES 



Anderson, Frank M. "Some Cretaceous Beds of the Rogue River Valley," 



Jour. Geol., Ill (1895), 455~68. 

 Arnold, Ralph, and Hannibal, Harold. "The Marine Tertiary Stratigraphy 



of the North Pacific Coast of America," Proc. Am. Phil. Soc, LII 



(November-December, 1913), 559-605, 12 pis. 

 Calkins, F. C. "A Contribution to the Petrography of the John Day Basin," 



Univ. of Col. Publ., Bull. Dept. Geol., Ill (1902), 109-72. 

 Collier, Arthur J. The Geology mtd Mineral Resources of the John Day Region, 



Oregon Bureau Mines and Geology, Mineral Resources of Oregon. I, No. 3 



(March, 1914), 47 pp., 2 maps, 4 figs., 4 pis. 

 Condon, Thomas. Oregon Geology. Portland, Ore., 1910. 



. "The Willamette Sound," Overland Monthly, VII (1871), 468-73. 



Bretz, J Harlen. "The Satsop Formation of Oregon and Washington," 



Jour. Geol., XXV (July-August, 1917), 446-58, 2 figs.; (abstract) Geol. 



Soc. America, Bull., XXVIII, No. i (March 31, 1917), pp. 170-71. 

 Butler, G. M., and Mitchell, G. J. Preliminary Survey of the Geology and 



Mineral Resources of Curry County, Oregon. Oregon Bur. Mines and 



Geol., Min. Res. Oregon, II, No. 2 (October, 1916), 134 pp., 21 figs. 



(incl. map). 

 DaU, W. H. The Miocene of Astoria and Coos Bay, Oregon. U.S. Geol. Surv., 

 Prof. Paper jg, 1909. 



