The San Francisco call., 1904-10-03

Local Promotion Committee Shoes Region
Is Entitled to Banner for It's Mines.

The Nevada County Promotion Com
mittee has issued a descriptive work
in which the fact is made duly prom
inent that Nevada is the banner gold
county Of California In support of
this claim several allegations of more
than common interest are made. AS
preamble, it is asserted, on the
title page, that Nevada is the
the most prosperous mining coun-
ty in the United States and that
it's good mines are found where there
is a perfect climate and all the COM
forts of civilization, two facts that
cannot fail to attract the attention of
miners in all parts of the world in
whose knowledge mining ordinarily
means more than common hardships
and many privations.
The history of Nevada County"
says the Nevada County Promotion
Committee, began in the year 1S49.
when thousands of gold seekers who
came to California thronged its rivers,
ravines, canyons and river banks and
enriched themselves to a far greater
extent than any of the recent explorers
Of the Klondike. Since that period
il has held it's own and is annually
producing millions Of dollars and has
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wealth of the world"
Taking another view, the Nevada
County Promotion Committee truth
fully says that this county, in addi-
tion to being q producer Of gold and
other metals, is also a land of pleasant
homes, with a genial and diversified
climate, good soil that produces fruit
magnificent forests, cities and towns
with all the comforts of civilization;
a place where a man can live in COM
fort and pursue his avocation with his
business at home
THE BANNER COUNTY.
The greatest interest will attend the
statements that the Nevada County
Promotion Committee makes in refer
ence to and in support of its claim
that Nevada County is the leading
gold mining county in the State of
California. 1t is proudly said that
"since 1S49 it has stood first in the
production of gold and for a contin-
uous period of more than fifty-four
years its mines have been in opera
tion and are to-day producing their
millions of dollars annually, with un-
explored territory to warrant their
operation for the next century"
Some large figures of production by
individual mines are instanced to il
{ lustrate the countys claim to the ban
ner. The total output of the Empire
mine at Grass Valley, the oldest quartz
mine in California, is given as more
than 81, ,000,0 900. The North Star mines
of Grass Valley are credited with a
total production to date of SIC, 900, 900,
of which, according to an official state
ment by the directors Of the company,
$736,087 was produced in gold bullion
in the year 1903. The Maryland Idaho
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ord of $20, ,000, 900. In the Nevada City
group the Champion mines are reported
to have had an output of Ecore than
SIS, ,000, 900. Many other mines in the
district have yielded more than $1,000,-
900 each.
In the county are the Bloomfield,
Eureka Washington and Meadow Lake
districts. "All through the different
parts of The county," says the County
Promotion Committee, ''the continuous
roar of hundreds Of stamps, crushing
countless tons of ore, is heard year in
and year out. Many newer properties.
developed and equipped within the last
few years, are rapidly proving their
worth and sustaining the reputation
of the county.
The largest hydraulic mine in the
world is in Nevada County. This is
the Malakoff. One brick produced from
a Nevada County hydraulic mine, the
result of one month of running, was
worth S114,000. The hydraulic mines
and the drift mines show that many
miles of ancient river channels exist
in the county. underlying lava capped
ridges, awaiting development by the
drift process to yield up their treas
ures. The product Of the Nevada Coun-
ty mines is in itself legal tender 1t
is a commodity that has no competitor
and requires, as the committee truth
fully says, no drummer to sell 1t. In
addition to its resources in gold the
county has a copper belt that passes