The record-union., 1898-05-31

As far as the largest production OF
different substances. was concerned, the
banner counties of 1897 were as fol-
lows Alameda County leads in the
production of manganese and salt; Am
ador in marble; Colusa, sandstone;
Contra Costa, coal; Ell Dorado, slate;
Humboldt, rubble; Inyo, lead and
Soda Kern, antimony; Los Angeles,
brick clay, gypsum, infusorial earth,
serpentine and petroleum; Napa, mag
nestle quicksilver and mineral waters;
Nevada, gold; Riverside, pottery clay;
Sacramento granite; San Bernardino,
borax and cement; San Francisco, ma
cadam; San Joaquin, natural gas;
Santa Barbara, asphaltum; Santa
Cruz, b4tuminous rock, lime and lime
stone; Shasta, copper and silver; Sis
kiyou, platinum; SOnoma, mineral
paint and paving blocks.
1t is to be noted that only one coun-
ty has the lead in five things-Los An
geles; two lead in three articles-Napa
and Santa Cruz, and five in two-Ala-
media, Inyo, San Bernardino, Shasta
and Sonoma.
In 1897 all the antimony produced in
California was from Kern County. AS
phaltum was produced in Kern and
Santa Barbara Counties; bituminous
rock in Santa Cruz and San Luis Obs
DO Brick clay in quantities was utll-
lied in Alameda, Butte, Kern, Los An
geles, Marin, Sacramento, Santa Clara,
San joaquin, San Francisco and Shasta
Counties. The cement all came from
San Bernardino. Clay for pottery was
from Amador, Placer, Riverside, Sacra-
mento and Solano Counties. The coal
was from Alameda, Amador, Contra
Costa and Riverside Counties, and the
copper from Calaveras, Nevada and
Shasta Counties. The granite produced
was from MADEIRA, Nevada, Placer, Eac-
ramento. San Luis Obispo, Solano and
Tulare; gypsum from Los Angeles and
San Renito Counties; infusorial earth
from Los Angeles County, and lead
from Inyo and Mono Counties. The
lime and limestone came from FL Do
rado, Kern, Mono, Monterey. San Be
nito, San Bernardino, Santa Cruz, Shas-
ia. Solano and Tulare Counties. Mac
adam was quarried in large quantities
in Alameda, Los Angeles, Marin, Sac
ramento, San Benito, San Francisco, So
lano and Sonoma Counties. The mag
nestle was all from Napa County; man
ganese from Alameda; marble from Am
ador and San Luis Obispo, and mineral
paint from Calaveras, Sonoma. RIVER
side and Stanislaus Counties. Mineral
waters were bottled and sold from
Butte, Colusa, Contra Costa, Fresno,
Humboldt, Lake, Monterey, Napa, San
ia Barbara, San Benito, Santa Clara,
San Diego. San Luis Obispo, Sonoma
and Tehama Counties. The natural gas
is mainly from San Joaquin, though
little is utilized in Santa Barbara Coun-
ty.. Paving blocks are from Sacramen-
to. Solano and Sonoma. The platinum
is from Siskiyou and Del Norte. Petro-
leum is from Fresno, Los Angeles, Or
ange, Santa Barbara, Santa Clara ana
Ventura Counties. Quicksilver was
produced in Colusa Lake, Napa, San
Benito. Santa Clara, San Luis Obispo,
Sonoma and Trinity Counties Bubble
in quantities was quarried in Humboldt,
Placer, San Diego. San Francisco, Sac
ramento. San Luis Obispo and San
Mateo Counties Salt came from Ala
media Colusa, Riverside and San Diego;
sandstone from Colusa and Yo1o; SER
pentine from Los Angeles; slate from f.
Dorado and soda from Inyo. Many or
these substances are found in other
counties than those named, but were
only mined in 1897 in The counties
stated Only three counties produced
as many as seven different mineral sub
stances in 1897 and these were Los An
geles. Sacramento and San Luis Obispo.
The States product for 1897 Of vari-
Gus minerals was as follows:
Anthony % tons, $500; asphalt,
81. .697 tons, S404,3 bituminous rock,
1910 tons, S12S, 173; .borax. 5000 tons,
81. .0S0, 600; cement. $4,000 barrels. S66,-
600; brick 5000. $563. .240; pot
terry. $500. TONS, $50, ,290: coal. S7,449
tons, S196,2 ,255; copper, 13,G3S, ,Go6
pounds; s1.540666: gold. S15,ST1 ,491;
granite, 3:39,2SS cubic feet, S1SS, 024;
gypsum. 2,200 tons. so, ,250 infusoria1
earth. ; tons, 5000: lead 506 600
pounds s20,264; lime. 2s7. 800 barrels.
S252. 900; limestone, 36.796 tons, $39.-
| 556; macadam. 4S7. Oh tons, 1913 0S7;
magnesite, LAB tons. S13.671; mangan-
ese. 504 tons. S4,0S0; marble, 4,102 Gu
bic feet, S7,2s0; mineral painr. 1.115,-
2S0 pounds, SS,165; mineral waters,