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Nevada County Mining Review (622.342.NEV)(1895) (158 pages)
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Page: of 158
NEVADA COUNTY
made. Buta careful estimate of Nevada County’s production from 1849
to 1880, gives a yield of $159,800,000. Of this $54,800,000 was from the
quartz mines, and $105,000,000 from the gravel or placer mines. The
average yield of the county during the last fifteen years has been between
three and four millions per year, and this would place the aggregate output of the county up to the present time at $210,000,000, which is a fair
estimate, without exaggeration. Of late years the quartz mines have
surpassed the gravel mines in the amount of their product, owing to the
MINING REVIEW
cessation of hydraulic mining by order of the courts. At this time gold
mines are being sought after by capitalists from every part of the globe
and to all we extend a cordial invitation to inspect the advantages offered
by Nevada County, and feel confident that no other section can offer such
No other section of the known world
of equal area has produced as much gold as has Nevada County during
the last forty-five years.
inducements for safe investments.