Download or read book Mother Lode Gold Belt of California (Classic Reprint) written by Clarence August Logan and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2016-12-01 with total page 296 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from Mother Lode Gold Belt of California Of the numerous reports published upon the geology and mines of the Mother Lode, none have covered its entire length with sufficient detail. The first official report was that of Dr. John B. Trask, the first State Geologist, published in 1853. Others by the same author fol lowed in the next three years. They describe a few of the principal mines. The Second Geological Survey, headed by Professor J. D. Whitney, began work in 1861. His valuable contributions to science were halted in 1874 by refusal of the Legislature to allot more money for the survey, or to even approve printing results of the work of his staff; these books were later printed by Harvard University. From 1867 to 1876 the U. S. Commissioner of Mineral Statistics prepared reports of mine production. In 1880 the State Mining Bureau was established. From that time its reports have given a partial record of the State's mining industry, interrupted and restricted by lack or curtailment of funds and by changes in political policy. Notably, between 1896 and 1914, a period of great activity in the State's gold quartz and drift mining, only one small bulletin on quartz mines, that dealing with the Mother Lode, was published. During the period from 1880 to 1900 the U. S. Geological Survey mapped the principal gold mining regions of California in its geologic folios and covered the geology. In some of the annual reports. The field covered was so large, how ever, that very little detailed treatment of individual mines was given. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.