Mining History Of The Southern Mother Lode

Author : Peggy Jackson Walls
Publisher : Arcadia Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1467135984
Total Pages : 1 pages
Book Rating : 4.86/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Alabama Gold: A History of the South’s Last Mother Lode written by Peggy Jackson Walls and published by Arcadia Publishing. This book was released on 2016 with total page 1 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Gold rushes in Cleburne and Tallapoosa Counties attracted thousands of miners years before California's famous strike. In 1936, production at the Hog Mountain mine caused Alabama to be recognized as the top producer in the Appalachian states. In Hog Mountain's heyday, a local German settler discovered the precious metal while digging a wine cellar. In Log Pit, unscrupulous speculators "shot" ore into rock crevices and "salted" nuggets on land to enhance its sale value. A Cleburne County miner cleaned over eleven pounds of gold and was killed in a "free fight" all in one day. Join author Peggy Jackson Walls as she traces a century of gold mining in Alabama.

Author : Ronald H. Limbaugh
Publisher : University of Nevada Press
ISBN 13 : 087417578X
Total Pages : 429 pages
Book Rating : 4.83/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Calaveras Gold written by Ronald H. Limbaugh and published by University of Nevada Press. This book was released on 2003-10-01 with total page 429 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: California’s Calaveras County—made famous by Mark Twain and his celebrated Jumping Frog—is the focus of this comprehensive study of Mother Lode mining. Most histories of the California Mother Lode have focused on the mines around the American and Yuba Rivers. However, the “Southern Mines”—those centered around Calaveras County in the central Sierra—were also important in the development of California’s mineral wealth. Calaveras Gold offers a detailed and meticulously researched history of mining and its economic impact in this region from the first discoveries in the 1840s until the present. Mining in Calaveras County covered the full spectrum of technology from the earliest placer efforts through drift and hydraulic mining to advanced hard-rock industrial mining. Subsidiary industries such as agriculture, transportation, lumbering, and water supply, as well as a complex social and political structure, developed around the mines. The authors examine the roles of race, gender, and class in this frontier society; the generation and distribution of capital; and the impact of the mines on the development of political and cultural institutions. They also look at the impact of mining on the Native American population, the realities of day-to-day life in the mining camps, the development of agriculture and commerce, the occurrence of crime and violence, and the cosmopolitan nature of the population. Calaveras County mining continued well into the twentieth century, and the authors examine the ways that mining practices changed as the ores were depleted and how the communities evolved from mining camps into permanent towns with new economic foundations and directions. Mining is no longer the basis of Calaveras’s economy, but memories of the great days of the Mother Lode still attract tourists who bring a new form of wealth to the region.

Author : National Association of Geology Teachers. Far Western Section
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 26 pages
Book Rating : 4.01/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Mining History of the Southern Mother Lode written by National Association of Geology Teachers. Far Western Section and published by . This book was released on 1977 with total page 26 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Bob Gustafson
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 0 pages
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Download or read book Mining History of the Southern Mother Lode written by Bob Gustafson and published by . This book was released on 1977 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Arthur H. Barabas
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 138 pages
Book Rating : 4.10/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Geology, Gold Deposits, and Mining History of the Southern Mother Lode written by Arthur H. Barabas and published by . This book was released on 1991 with total page 138 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Charles Anderson McAllister
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 530 pages
Book Rating : 4.96/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Pine Tree and Josephine Mines of the Southern Mother Lode, Mariposa County, California written by Charles Anderson McAllister and published by . This book was released on 1990 with total page 530 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

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Publisher : Trafford Publishing
ISBN 13 : 155212472X
Total Pages : 340 pages
Book Rating : 4.27/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The History of the Gold Discoveries of the Northern Mine's [sic] of California's Mother Lode Gold Belt as Told by the Newspapers and Miners, 1848-1875 written by and published by Trafford Publishing. This book was released on 2000 with total page 340 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book is the chronological history of the gold rush and gold discoveries from 1848 through 1875, as viewed and reported by the newspapers and miners, on what was called the Northern Mines area of California's Mother Lode Gold Belt. The Northern Mines was that area north of the Cosumnes River, which included Placerville on northward. It included the region containing the South, Middle and North forks of the American River, the Bear River, the South, Middle and North forks of the Yuba River, and the South, Middle and North forks of the Feather River, plus all the other branches and tributaries that ran into the named forks and rivers. This book contains as many newspaper articles that could be found relating to the gold rush days. In using the newspaper articles from the golden era as printed, with their dates, this reveals just when the "New Diggings" as they were called, were found; where they were being made; how rich some of the diggings were; what type of diggings they were; the names of some of the prospectors who found some of the diggings or who were at the diggings and what they were taking out. There are tales of how some of the diggings were found and why some of them received the names they did. The overall purpose of this book is to give a full picture of exactly what was happening to as many different named diggings, locations, camps, and towns that came up in the Northern Mines area, and to give an account of events over at least a certain length of time, exactly as it was reported. To determine from just where each newspaper article within this book comes from, each of the newspaper articles used has first, the date on which it appeared in the newspaper, followed in parentheses by the name of the newspaper from which that particular article was obtained from.

Author : David Roger Hopkins
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 368 pages
Book Rating : 4.78/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Coulterville, History of a Gold Mining Town in the Southern Mother Lode, 1850-1900 written by David Roger Hopkins and published by . This book was released on 1994 with total page 368 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Lewis John Swindle
Publisher : Trafford Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1552126838
Total Pages : 217 pages
Book Rating : 4.37/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The History of the Gold Discoveries in the Southern Mines of California's Mother Lode Gold Belt as Told by the Newspapers and Miners, 1848-1860 written by Lewis John Swindle and published by Trafford Publishing. This book was released on 2001 with total page 217 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book is the chronological history of the gold rush and gold discoveries from 1848 through 1860, as viewed and reported by the newspapers and miners, on what was called the Southern Mines area of California's Mother Lode Gold Belt. It is the parallel volume to The History of the Gold Discoveries of the Northern Mines, published in 2000 by Trafford. The Southern Mines was that area south of the Cosumnes River, which also included the Mokelumne, Stanislaus, Tuolumne and Merced rivers, plus all their forks that ran into those rivers. This books contains as many newspaper articles that could be found relating to the gold rush days. In using the newspaper articles from the golden era as printed, with their dates, the information reveals just when the "New Diggings" as they were called, were found; where they were being made; how rich some of the diggings were; what type of diggings they were; the names of some of the prospectors who found some of the diggings or what was found and why some of them received the names they did. The overall purpose of this book is to give a full picture of exactly what was happening to as many different diggings, locations, camps, and towns that came up in the Southern Mines area, and to give an account of events over at least a certain length of time, exactly as it was reported.

Author : Peggy Jackson Walls
Publisher : Arcadia Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1439656614
Total Pages : 174 pages
Book Rating : 4.17/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Alabama Gold written by Peggy Jackson Walls and published by Arcadia Publishing. This book was released on 2016-07-11 with total page 174 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Gold rushes in Cleburne and Tallapoosa Counties attracted thousands of miners years before California's famous strike. In 1936, production at the Hog Mountain mine caused Alabama to be recognized as the top producer in the Appalachian states. In Hog Mountain's heyday, a local German settler discovered the precious metal while digging a wine cellar. In Log Pit, unscrupulous speculators "shot" ore into rock crevices and "salted" nuggets on land to enhance its sale value. A Cleburne County miner cleaned over eleven pounds of gold and was killed in a "free fight" all in one day. Join author Peggy Jackson Walls as she traces a century of gold mining in Alabama.