California mines and minerals . e county, was not neglected. Many thingsconspired, until within recent years, to make the work of develop-ment slow and extremely expensive, such as the absence of transpor-tation facilities and machinery for the successful working of low-grade ores, and the lack of cheap motive power. All these drawbacksto the successful and economical development of the great mineralwealth, that lies within the borders of the historic old county, have 306 CALIFORNIA MINES AND MINERALS one by one been overcome. The completion of the Placerville andSacramento Railroad to Placerv
California mines and minerals . e county, was not neglected. Many thingsconspired, until within recent years, to make the work of develop-ment slow and extremely expensive, such as the absence of transpor-tation facilities and machinery for the successful working of low-grade ores, and the lack of cheap motive power. All these drawbacksto the successful and economical development of the great mineralwealth, that lies within the borders of the historic old county, have 306 CALIFORNIA MINES AND MINERALS one by one been overcome. The completion of the Placerville andSacramento Railroad to Placerville, in 1888, was a solution of thetrans])ortation problem, affordino-, as it does, cheap transportation towithin a reasonable distance to all points along the great lode. No other mining district in the West has more splendid possibili-ties for cheap and efficient motive power than El Dorado question of power is always one of pressing importance in amining section. In this respect, El Dorado County is well provided. The Georgia Slide, El Dorado County, the supposed Terminus of theGreat Mother Lode. for, as in a number of places water is available as a source of power,and, in the greater portion of the county, wood is still cheap andplentiful enough to render steam an economical power; but, in viewof the advances which have been made in the application of electricityas a motive power, especially in mining, it is evident that it is thecoming power in this county as well as elsewhere. Such being thecase, this, county has the solution of the power question within itsborders, as its rivers and streams are capable of generating sufficientpower to supply the State. EL DORADO COUNTYS MINES 307 No portion of California has a finer water supply than El DoradoCounty. The Middle and South Forks of the American, and thevarious Forks of the Cosumnes, together with their tributaries andmountain lakes, the majority of which are situated favorably for stor-age purposes, form an uns
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