The Goldfield news and weekly tribune. [volume] (Goldfield, Nev.) 1911-1947, 1915-09-04
CALIFORNIA GOLD
OUTPUT IS HEAVY
PRODUCTION LAST YEAR LARG-
EST IN THIRTY-TWO
YEARS

The yield of gold from California
mines in 1914, as reported by Charles
G.. Yale oil the United States geologi-
cal survey, was $20,563,496 which,
with the exception of that in 1888,
was the largest production since
1864.
The total value of the mine output
of gold silver, copper, lead and zinc
was $25,71O,645, so that the value
of the gold recovered amounted to
so per cen of the total value of the
five metals. The mine production
of copper was 3O,507 ,692 pounds,
valued at s4.057,523; hat of silver.
1471,S59 ounces, valued at $S13,-
93S: thai of lead. 4,251,923 pounds,
valued at $165,S25: that of zinc,
3S9,471 pounds, valued at $19,S36.
The number of producing mines was
65S, of which $40 were placers that
yielded gold and silver valued at
$9,100,136. The output from placer
mining was $242, $50 more in 1914
than in 1913 and was exceeded in
1914 only by that from Alaska. The
placers produced A per cent of the
output of gold from California in
1914, and the 60 gold ~dredges Oper-
ated produced Sc per cent of the
placer gold and SO per cent of the
gold derived from all sources. The
gold recovered by dredging amount
ed to ~$7,7S3,394, of which the field
near Marysville, Yuba county, pro-
duced $2,755,734; that neal Orc
vile, Butte county, 81 ,637,515; and
that near Folsom, Sacramento Co.,
$2,161,653. Dredges operated in
Calaveras, MERGED, Placer, Shasta.
Siskiyou, Stanislaus and Trinity
counties recovered $~1,22S,502.
Dredge mining was first started in
California in 1896. and the total
quantity of gold recovered by that
method of mining up to the end OF
1914 was $71,307,766.
The total quantity of ore sold or
treated in 1914 was ~2,465,4S5 tons,
and the average value per ton of all
metals recovered was 1914. OF the
ore treated, 2,050,337 tons were sill
gold ore, from which there was
an average recovery of $5.44 per ton.
The ore smelted amounted to 449,-
1872 tons, of which 397,S6S tons
were copper ore GAO tons lead ore
and 1850 tons silver-lead ore.
This smelling ore yielded metals
valued at $5,633,S56, or an average
of $12.54 a ton.
Nevada county, which produced
the most gold, had a yield of $3,3O1,-
94S, or $3S3,215 more than in 1913.
, Other counties that produced over
a million dollars in gold were ANA
dor, fuba, Sacramento. Butte, Gala
veras and Shasta. Shasta county
was the largest producer Of copper,
with an output of 25,19S, 500 pounds,
and it also made the largest pro
duction of silver, 626,954 ounces.
Inyo county supplied all the zinc and
4,205,15 pounds of lead out of a
total state production of 4,251,923
pounds.
The largest gold producing camps
we're Grass Valley (including Neva-
da City,. Nevada county. where the
|ecp HhineS ylelueu 1888 i,4U0 Ill
sold and $25,S6S in silver, and at
Jackson-Sutter Creek camp, where
The Ccep mine production was 81
| 1908 in gold, with silver valued
1t "$12,G74. The most productive
metal camp in the state was AZ
kennett, in Shasta county. From
The mines at and neal Kenneth there
were recovered precious metals val
ued at So ,OS7,279, of which $2411,-
223 was for copper.