Santa Cruz County History 

Santa Cruz County History - Spanish Period & Earlier

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Prepared by C. McK. Laizure,
Mining Engineer of the California State Mining Bureau

Gold occurs in Santa Cruz County in auriferous black sand deposits, in placer deposits in a number of creeks and gulches on the sides of Ben Lomond Mountain, and in small quartz seams on Ben ..." [More]

Excerpted from Mineral Survey of Santa Cruz County - Gold by C. McK. Laizure