Calaveras Gold: The Impact Of Mining On A Mother Lode County

Glossary

 Notes to Pages –  (Jan. ): –; Jesse L. Coffey with George Hoeper, Bacon and Beans From a Gold Pan (Garden City, N.Y.: Doubleday, ), –. . Coffey, Bacon and Beans, –. . Milo Bird, ‘‘Charlie Allen’s Gopher Hole,’’ Las Calaveras  (Apr. ): –. . Hoeper, ‘‘Chris Porovich, Master Miner,’’ –. . O. E. Young, Western Mining, –; Hoeper, ‘‘Chris Porovich, Master Miner,’’ –. . Hoeper, ‘‘Guy Castle,’’ –; Hoeper, ‘‘Chris Porovich, Master Miner,’’ –. . Hoeper, ‘‘Guy Castle,’’ –.  :                    . Mining and Industrial News,  (Nov. , ): , ;  (July ): . Not all remained closed for the duration, however. In Grass Valley, for example, early in  the Idaho-Maryland and the Empire were permitted to reopen on a limited basis, mining just enough ore ‘‘to meet maintenance costs.’’ The modification came after  decided to ‘‘give consideration to appeals from authorized producers who are faced with drastic losses in property under wartime restrictions on manpowerand material aid.’’ Such relief was available only in special circumstances, however, and did not alter the situation at Carson Hill or at other closed Calaveras County properties. Mining and Industrial News  (Jan. , ): . . Clark and Lydon, Mines and Mineral Resources, . . Dutil, interview. . Charles Stone, interview by authors, Copperopolis, July , . . George Huyl, ‘‘Ore Deposits of Copperopolis, California,’’ in Copper in California , Bulletin  (San Francisco: California Division of Mines, ), . . Harry Sears: ‘‘The Conspiracy Against Gold,’’ Commercial and Financial Chronicle  (July–Sept. ): ; Calaveras Californian, June , , p. , col. . . C. Stone, interview. . Blomquist, ‘‘Gold Dredging in California,’’ –. . Arnold R. Ross, Twenty-five Years of Building the West (San Francisco: Calaveras Cement, ). . F. F. Momyer, article on V. F. Pickering for National Cyclopedia of American Biography (Feb. , ), in Pickering Lumber Company file, Sonora Public Library. . San Francisco Chronicle, Apr. , , p. , col. ; Bryan, ‘‘The Calaveras Timber Story,’’ Calaveras County Historical Society. . American Eagle  (Aug. ): –. . Habib, ‘‘Some Economic Aspects,’’ –. . California Statistical Abstract,  (Sacramento: State Department of Finance, ), , . . Ibid., . . Habib, ‘‘Some Economic Aspects,’’ –. . San Francisco Chronicle, Oct. , , p. C, col. ; Dec. , , p. D, col. ; Notes to Pages –  Forest Industries North American Factbook (San Francisco: Miller Freeman Publications , ); California Journal  (June ): –; Forbes  (Oct. , ): –. . Los Angeles Times, July , , p. A; Jan. , , p. A; Feb. , , p. A. . Ibid., Aug. , , p. A; Aug. , , p. A; July , , p. A; Aug. , , p. A; San Francisco Chronicle, May , , p. A. . Wall Street Journal, Aug. , , p. A; San Diego Union-Tribune, June , , p. A; San Francisco Chronicle, June , , p. A; July , , p. A; Los Angeles Times, July , , p. A; Aug. , , p. A. . Wagers, ‘‘San Joaquin and Sierra Nevada Railroad,’’ . . Stockton Record, June , , p. B. . G. O. Argall Jr., ‘‘The New California Gold Rush,’’ Engineering and Mining Journal  (Dec. ): –. . Stockton Record, Oct. , , p. B, col. . . Fred Stevenot to Archie Stevenot, Dec. , ,  , box , Stevenot Papers. . Barden Stevenot, interview by authors, Murphys, June , ; Mike Kizer, Grandview geologist, interview by authors, Carson Hill, Oct. , . John Burgess, the son of John Burgess Sr., the general manager at Carson Hill in the s, was the last manager on the island of Cyprus for Cyprus Mines, later Cyprus Minerals. At one time the Cyprus company also controlled the Western Source Company, the talc producer in Calaveras County. . Stockton Record, Sept. , , p. B, col. . . B. Stevenot, interview; Kizer, interview. . Stockton Record, May , , p. B, col. . . B. Stevenot, interview. . Argall, ‘‘Royal/Mountain King Mine,’’ –. . W. P. Fuller, Marvin, and Costello, Madam Felix’s Gold, –, . . Stockton Record, Feb. , , p. , cols. –; Dec. , , p. B, col. ; Mar. , , p. B, col. . . Stockton Record, Apr. , , p. B, col. . . Walter Nugent, Into the West: The Story of Its People (New York: Alfred A. Knopf, ), –. . Stockton Record, Jan. , , p. A, col. ; Apr. , , p. A, col. ; California State Department of Finance population estimates, as quoted in ibid., May , , p. B. . Stockton Record, Jan. , , p. A, col. ; Nov. , , p. B, col. . . Ibid., Apr. , , p. B, col. . . Tower, interview; Ella (McCarty) Hiatt, telephone interview by authors, May , . . Dutil, interview; Glen Nevens, telephone interview by authors, May , ; Bird, interview; C. Stone, interview; Vickie Hunter Saunders, ‘‘Daddy and Mamma, the Gold Bug and Me: From Beverly Hills to the Mother Lode, –’’ (,  Notes to Pages – Stockton, ); Vickie Hunter Saunders, interview by authors, Stockton, May , ; Dick Rolleri, interview and site visit by authors, Calaveras Central Mine, Altaville , May , . . Judith Marvin, ‘‘Grand Marshall, Barden Stevenot’’ (, Murphys, July ), Stevenot Family Papers, private collection, Murphys. . B. Stevenot, interview. . For example of warning, see Stockton Record, June , , p. B, cols. –. . Katherine M. Albert,William B. Hull, and Daniel M. Sprague, The Dynamic West, a Region inTransition: A Guide for State Policy Makers on theTopTenTrendsTransforming the West ([Sacramento?]: Council of State Governments, Western Region, ), –; John Leshy, ‘‘Mining’s Diminished Future...