Commercial production for 1914, giving it fiftieth place, was as fol Area: 1,753 square miles. Population: 7,492 (1910 census). Location: East central portion of the State northernmost of the Mother Lode counties. El Dorado County, which marks the spot where gold was first discovered in California, comes thirty-ninth on the list of counties ranked according to the value of their total mineral production during the year 1914. The principal mineral resources of this section, many of them undeveloped, are: Asbestos, barytes, chromite, clay, copper, gems, gold, iron, molybdenum, limestone, quartz crystals, quicksilver, sand-glass, slate, soapstone, silver, and stone industry. Commercial production for 1914 was as follows: Substance Value 90 lbs. 14,000 bbls. $2,000 3,250 20 $5,270 Value $135,000 12,082 2,600 400 $150,086 Area: 5,950 square miles. Population: 75,657 (1910 census). Location: South central portion of State. Fresno County, third in importance as a mineral producer among the counties of California, reported an output for 1914 of seven mineral substances with a total value of $7,484,231, a decrease from the reported 1913 production, which was worth $8,438,810. The great bulk of the above value is derived from the petroleum production of the Coalinga field. The mineral resources of this county are many, and, aside from crude oil, are far from being fully developed. They include asbestos, barytes, brick, chromite, copper, gems, gold, graphite, gypsum, iron, magnesite, natural gas, petroleum, quicksilver, silver, and stone industry. Commercial production for 1914 was as follows: Brick Gold Miscellaneous stone Natural gas Petroleum Total Glenn. Miscellaneous stone Humboldt. Substance Substance Amount Area: 3,634 square miles. Population: 33,857 (1910 census). 4,500 M 250,000 M cu. ft. Glenn County, standing forty-seventh, owes its position among the mineral-producing counties of the State to the presence of large deposits of sand and gravel which are annually worked, the product being used for railroad ballast, etc. In the foothills in the western portion of the county traces of chromite, copper, manganese, sandstone, and soapstone have been found. Commercial production for 1914 was as follows: Value $3,600 10,000 237,963 15,000 7,210,389 7,259 20 $7,484,231 Value $30,553 Location: Northwestern portion of State, bordering on Pacific Humboldt County is almost entirely mountainous, transportation within its limits being very largely by wagon road and trail, and until recently was reached from the outside world by steamer only. The county is rich in mineral resources, chief among which are brick, chromite, coal, clay, copper, gold, graphite, iron, mineral water, natural gas, petroleum, platinum, silver, and stone industry. Five mineral substances, as shown by the table given below, having a total value of $233,574, were produced in 1914, as compared with the 1913 output, worth $471,052. Humboldt ranks thirty-fourth among the counties of the State for the year. Commercial production for 1914 was as follows: Brick Miscellaneous stone Natural gas Total Imperial. Brick Gold Silver Total Inyo. Substance Area: 4,089 square miles. Population: 30,000 (estimated by board of supervisors). Location: Extreme southeast corner of the State. Amount 607 M Substance During 1914 Imperial County produced four mineral substances having a total value of $239,140, as compared with the 1913 output, worth $95,054. Its rank is thirty-third, and the substantial increase is due to gold, resulting from the reopening of mines at Ogilby. This county contains large undeveloped deposits of gold, gypsum, lead, marble, salt, and silver. Commercial production for 1914 was as follows: Amount Value 4,900 M 13,081 lbs. $6,120 19,000 208,204 150 100 $233,574 Value $29,400 1,740 200,000 8,000 $239,140 Area: 10,019 square miles. Population: 6,974 (1910 census). Location: Lies on eastern border of State, north of San Bernardino County. Inyo, the second largest county in the State and containing less than one inhabitant per square mile, is extremely interesting from a mineralogical point of view. It is noted because of the fact that within its borders are located both the highest point, Mount Whitney (elevation 14,502 feet), and the lowest point, Death Valley (elevation 290 feet below sea level), in the United States. In the higher mountainous sections are found many vein-forming minerals, and in the ancient lake beds of Death Valley saline deposits of all kinds exist. Inyo's mineral production during the year 1914 reached a value of $2,091,362, the county standing eleventh among the counties of the State in this respect. Its mineral resources include antimony, asbestos, barytes, bismuth, borax, copper, gems, gold, gypsum, lead, magnesite, marble, molybdenum, mineral water, nitre, platinum, quicksilver, salt, silver, soapstone, soda, sulphur, tungsten, and zinc. Commercial production for 1914 was as follows: Borax Gold Lead Marble Salt Silver Soapstone Zinc Other minerals Total Kern. Substance 7-18655 Amount 49,297 tons 336,423 lbs. 4,626,934 lbs. 3,500 cu. ft. 13,500 tons 390 tons 399,641 lbs. Area: 8,003 square miles. Population: 55,000 (estimated by board of supervisors). Location: South central portion of State. Value $1,133,831 44,744 275,000 180,450 10,500 54,000 255,000 2,060 20,381 115,396 $2,091,362 Kern County, because of its immense productive oil fields, stands pre-eminent among all counties of California in the value of its mineral output, the exact figures for 1914 being $28,047,957. This is larger by more than nineteen million dollars than the succeeding county on the list. This figure also exceeds the value of the total gold output of the entire State by approximately $7,000,000. The 1913 mineral output for the county was worth $28,406,193. Among the mineral resources, developed and undeveloped, of this section are: Antimony, asbestos, asphalt, barytes, borax, brick, clay, copper, fuller's earth, gems, gold, gypsum, iron, lead, limestone, magnesite, marble, mineral paint, natural gas, petroleum, potash, salt, silver, soapstone, soda, sulphur, and tungsten. Commercial production for 1914 was as follows: Brick Gold Gypsum Lime Natural gas Salt Silver Other minerals Totals Kings. Fuller's earth Natural gas Total Substance Lake. Amount 3,834 M 346 tons 7,394 lbs. Substance 82 tons Area: 1,159 square miles. Population: 16,230 (1910 census). Location: South central portion of State. Little development has taken place in Kings County along mineral lines to date. Deposits of fuller's earth, gypsum, mineral paint, natural gas and quicksilver, of undetermined extent, have been found in the county. Value In fifty-third place, commercial production for 1914 was as follows: Amount $29,214 172 983 20 tons 20 tons 150 M cu. ft. 600,000 320 15 65,100 390,532 26,721,046 50,000 10,000 180,575 $28,047,957 Value $160 80 500 $740 Area: 1,278 square miles. Population: 5,526 (1910 census). Location: About fifty miles north of San Francisco Bay and the same distance inland from the Pacific Ocean. On account of its topography and natural beauties, Lake County is sometimes referred to as the Switzerland of America. The mineral resources which exist here are many and varied, actual production being comparatively small, as shown by the table below. Some of the leading minerals found in this section are borax, chromite, clay, gems, gypsum, mineral water, quicksilver, and sulphur. |
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