WHISKEYTOWN Historic Resource Study

COVER

PREFACE

ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS

I. CALIFORNIA GOLD SETS PACE FOR EARLY STATE, REGIONAL, AND LOCAL DEVELOPMENT

A. Discovery Creates Worldwide Reaction
B. Northern California Rush: Delayed But Not Deficient
C. Shasta County: Early Growth
D. Local Development in Vicinity of Shasta, 1850-1880
     1. Pioneer Charles Camden's Store
     2. Physical Growth 1850-1880
          a. Hotels and Inns
          b. Sawmills
          c. Gardens and Orchards
          d. Mining Claims and Structures
          e. Roads and Bridges
     3. Social Developments
          a. Hotels as Social Centers
          b. Schools, Hospitals, Churches
          c. Intemperence and Disease
          d. Violence and Outlawry
          e. Law and Order
          f. Prejudice and Discrimination

II. EXHAUSTION OF SURFACE GOLD SPURS NEW MINING METHODS COUNTY IN SHASTA

A. Quartz Mining
     1. 1850-1880
          a. Tower, Camden, et al.
     2. 1880-1896
          a. Bell and Woodward, Shasta, Marion, Phoenix, Red Rover, and West End Mines
          b. Dreadnaught, Pugh and Lindsay, and Iron Mask Mines
     3. 1896-1914
          a. Mount Shasta Mine
          b. Gambrinus Mine
          c. Red Cross or Desmond Mine
          d. Bonanza, Whiskey Creek Group, Austrailia, Iron Clad, Oro Fino, Shasta Quartz and Placer Mining Company, Hope, Mascot, Happy Jack, and Ganim Mines
     4. 1915-1941
          a. Ganim Mine
          b. Happy Jack Quartz Mine
          c. Index Mine
          d. The North Star and Gladys Mines
          e. Shasta View Mine
          f. West End Quartz Mine
          g. El Dorado Mine
          h. Betty May, Mad Dog, Isabel and Queen, Porcupine Mining Company, and East View Mines and Prospects
          i. Hall Brothers Mine
          j. Phoenix Mine
          k. Desmond Mine
          l. Merry Mountain Diggers
     5. 1941-1975—Sunshine Mine
B. Singular or Short-Lived Mining Operations, 1896-1960
     1. Copper Mining
          a. Mountain Monarch Mine
          b. Sulphide Mine
          c. Elizabeth Con
     2. Placer Mining
          a. Princess Hydraulic Mining Company
          b. Vergnes Property
          c. Clear Creek Placer
          d. M.D. Baker
          e. B.H.K. Mining Company
          f. Hammer Placer (Potts)
     3. Granite Mining—Masterton Brothers' Quarry
     4. Talc Mining—Ganim Mine

III. TWENTIETH CENTURY SOCIAL AND ECONOMIC PATTERNS

A. Population and Transportation
B. Recreation

IV. EXISTING HISTORIC FEATURES

V. RECOMMENDATIONS

NOTES

DOCUMENTATION FOR HISTORICAL BASE MAPS

HISTORICAL BASE MAPS

I. 1850-1880
II. 1880-1896
III. 1896-1914
IV. 1915-1941
V. 1941-1960

ILLUSTRATIONS

APPENDIXES

BIBLIOGRAPHY

1. Shasta County Portion, Official Map of California, 1853

2. Official Map of Shasta County, California, 1862

3. Map of Township 33 North, Range 7W, 1868-1881

4. Map of Township 33 North, Range 7W, 1868-1881

5. Map of Township 32 North, Range 7W, 1868

6. Map of Township 32 North, Range 7W, 1868-1881

7. Map of Township 31 North, Range 7W, 1881-1882

8. Map of Township 31 North, Range 6W, 1856-1875

9. Map of Township 32 North, Range 7W, 1874 and 1890

10. Whiskeytown from Northeast (?), ca. 1913-1914

11. Whiskeytown Old Store, no date

12. Oak Bottom House, ca. 1913-14

13. Description and Sketch of a Five-Stamp Quartz Mill

14. Site of Whiskeytown, 1974

15. Shasta Bally and Site of Oak Bottom, 1974

16. Ganim Mine, 1974

17. Whiskeytown Lake from Ganim Mine, 1974

18. Main Tunnel, Ganim Mine, 1974

19. Secondary Tunnel, Ganim Mine, 1974

20. Structural and Mining Equipment Remains, Mining Equipment, Desmond Mine, 1974

21. Concrete Water Reservoir, Sunshine Mine, 1974

22. Concrete Water Reservoir, Sunshine Mine, 1974

23. Desmond Mine, 1974

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