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Gold Mines of Nevada County by Nevada County Golden Jubilee Fair Executive Committee (PH 2-16) (22 pages)

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Were EVana(yvrv STANDS at the head of the gold producing counties of California with an annual output of $2,500,000. Its aggregate yield since 1849 has been in round numbers $212,000,000, weighing about 350 tons. In other words, nearly one-sixth of the total gold & J. production of the State, which has been $1,300, 398,779, FATE has been mined in Nevada County. . ey / fe Of Nevada County’s output, the gravel mines have yielded three-fifths of the gold and the quartz mines two-fifths. Of late years, owing to the stoppage of hydraulic mining by the courts, the product of the quartz mines has surpassed that of th» gravel mines. Notwithstanding the fact that no other portion of the world of equal area has produced as much gold during the past forty-nine years as has Nevada County, = 3