TK -423 CZ UC-NRLF C 3 121 flf California. MINING STATISTICS, No. 1. ttUAETZ MINES AND MILLS BETWEEN THE MERCED AND STANISLAUS RIVERS. . GEOLOGICAL SURVEY OF CALIFORNIA. J. D. WHITNEY, STATE GEOLOGIST. MINING STATISTICS. No. 1. TABULAR STATEMENT OF THE CONDITION OF THE AURIFEROUS QUARTZ MINES AND MILLS IN THAT PAKT OF MAKIPOSA AND TUOLUMNE COUNTIES LYING BETWEEN THE MERCED AND STANISLAUS EIVERS, AUGUST NOVEMBER, 1865. PUBLISHED BY AUTHORITY OF THE LEGISLATURE OF CALIFORNIA. APRIL, 1866. tx NOTE. The following tabular statement contains the results of an examination of seventy-seven gold mines and sixty-five quartz mills, situated in the region between the Merced and Stanislaus Kivers, all of which were visited by Mr. Kemond during the months of August to November, 1865. Of the seventy-seven mines, fifty- six were being worked at that time ; and of the sixty-five mills, twenty-three were running. The mines are distributed through the different kinds of rocks as follows : In Granite 23 In Mica Slate 23 Partly in Granite and partly in Mica Slate, . . 5 In Clay Slate, 3 In the Green Porphyritic Schists, .... 3 Along the Great Quartz Vein, . . ... .20 SHERMAN & CO., PRINTEBS, PHILADELPHIA. QUARTZ MINES AND MILLS. s? ,0 CJ f-t O PR o Catherine Catherine W | o o W I o 1 69 a w Brichman' -S ^ -S o & G PH o g 9 " M MINING STATISTICS. Malvina. > s - French M . 3 o W '-I A ' i G PH * J2 g 02 C3 i fc fe a 01 Ferguson' Ferguson' i3 ii CO 6 i i o ^ 1 1 a a 1 QUARTZ MINES AND MILLS. Casabon' Casabon' Funk' Sch Lou o ?:il 11- s S a ,- a a oo o - 1 S -.i- MINING STATISTICS. 3! PH w s * w 0) t-J Black' 3 ^2 *^ S '^ p O fc CC ^~* ^ p. O'oS (-1. '"^CSc^ o O> CO g o S Cl5 5^ H ^ *tc ^ ^^ 73 t. H "p, s i i H rt (? ^ ^ i ^ CQ qj 5 CD e 6 . 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