The Southern Mines of California. Early Development of the Sonora Mining Region.
first edition
1930 · San Francisco
by Holmes, Roberta Evelyn
San Francisco: The Grabhorn Press, 1930 First edition. Number 54 of 250 copies. Thin quarto. [x], 60pp. Folding frontis map, 2 folding facsimile lithographs, facsimile map, 3 full pages with reproductions of early photographs; notes and bibliography. Three quarter black cloth, red marbled boards, gilt-lettered red spine label. Bookplate on front free endpaper. A fine, clean copy. Very scarce and sought-after. One of the best works on the subject. Covers early mining in the area; first trails, pack trains, express lines to the Southern mines; foreigners in the mines (prejudice, foreign miner's tax, Mexicans, abuse and continued agitation against the Chinese, etc.); government in the mines (military control, gentleman's code, miner's meetings and courts, lynch law, Vigilance Committee, etc.); Mining methods (placer mining, the Rocker, mining ditches, the Long Tom, quartz, pocket and hydraulic mining, etc.); Columbia; social life in the mines (Sunday in the mines, amusements, influence of women, etc.). [Grabhorn: 140; missed by Kurutz].. (Inventory #: 8246)