. The copper resources of California. --of the belt itself is one of gold and silver mining and of nearlyforty 3ears of failure thereat, but the importance which copperhas suddenly assumed makes this related history pertinent andof interest. The surface placers of Shasta County were still rich, and itsplacer mining camps were prosperous when prospectors firstnoted both gold and copper in the vein formations of the SURF.\CE MINIXG PLANT OK THE MOUNTAIX COPPER COMPANY, IN SLICK KOCK ca5Jon, with iron mountain at Tin-; right. Some of these placer districts closeh- flanked the copper belt,a
. The copper resources of California. --of the belt itself is one of gold and silver mining and of nearlyforty 3ears of failure thereat, but the importance which copperhas suddenly assumed makes this related history pertinent andof interest. The surface placers of Shasta County were still rich, and itsplacer mining camps were prosperous when prospectors firstnoted both gold and copper in the vein formations of the SURF.\CE MINIXG PLANT OK THE MOUNTAIX COPPER COMPANY, IN SLICK KOCK ca5Jon, with iron mountain at Tin-; right. Some of these placer districts closeh- flanked the copper belt,and had gained the gold in their gravels partly from the oresin the belt itself and partly from the gold quartz veins adjacentto the belt. There appear to have been no attempts at miningthe ores of the belt until in the decade of the .sixties. Asearly as 1853 placer gold was discovered in the region of BullyHill, which became known as the Pittsburg district, by a mannamed Watson, with whom were associated Riggs, Hughes,and Silverthorn. With this discovery began a stampede which HISTORICAL NOTKS—SHASTA COrXTV. 33 resulted in the location of a large number of placer claims,most of which were of little value. Although some smallplacers are still worked in this district, active interest hadlapsed long before 1870. In 1862 gold was discovered in the surface rock of theExcelsior claim, near the present site of Copper
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