In the Santa Cruz Chamber of Commerce Annual Report for 1926, the chairman of the industrial committee, George H. Cardiff, wrote:

"In an effort to develop the industrial future of Santa Cruz, and recogniz[ing] the importance of building our industries from with the community, the industrial committee was success in having a survey made of the mineral resouces of the county by the California State Mining Bureau....Your committee has deemed it advisable to print this report in full believing that by so doing considerable publicity will be given to the many possibilities of industrial development and expansion.

All sections of the report are available here. The survey gives us a good idea of the mineral resources available and the industries of sixty years ago; it also tells us the general locations of those resources and may explain ruins of mining that we may find today.[RAP-ed.]

The Mineral Survey of Santa Cruz County was printed in the Santa Cruz Chamber of Commerce Annual Report, 1926. Reproduced by permission of the Santa Cruz Area Chamber of Commerce.

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