{"id":29,"date":"2023-06-17T17:21:08","date_gmt":"2023-06-17T17:21:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mineralmthistory.org\/?page_id=29"},"modified":"2023-06-18T17:38:20","modified_gmt":"2023-06-18T17:38:20","slug":"industry","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/mineralmthistory.org\/index.php\/industry\/","title":{"rendered":"Industry"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"180\" src=\"http:\/\/mineralmthistory.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/06\/Industry-Picture-1024x180.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-30\" srcset=\"https:\/\/mineralmthistory.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/06\/Industry-Picture-1024x180.png 1024w, https:\/\/mineralmthistory.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/06\/Industry-Picture-300x53.png 300w, https:\/\/mineralmthistory.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/06\/Industry-Picture-768x135.png 768w, https:\/\/mineralmthistory.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/06\/Industry-Picture-1536x271.png 1536w, https:\/\/mineralmthistory.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/06\/Industry-Picture-2048x361.png 2048w, https:\/\/mineralmthistory.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/06\/Industry-Picture-1568x276.png 1568w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>One of Mineral County\u2019s first industries was gold mining, but miners quickly branched out from one precious mineral into others: operators large and small looked for zinc, silver, copper, quartz, and lead. Placer and hard rock mining were being done at the same time. Timber investors set up sawmills and lumber yards to harvest the forests. Access to trails and recreation spaces gave rise to a bustling tourism industry.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"579\" src=\"http:\/\/mineralmthistory.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/06\/Gildersleeve-Mine-Camp-1024x579.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-50\" srcset=\"https:\/\/mineralmthistory.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/06\/Gildersleeve-Mine-Camp-1024x579.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/mineralmthistory.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/06\/Gildersleeve-Mine-Camp-300x170.jpg 300w, https:\/\/mineralmthistory.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/06\/Gildersleeve-Mine-Camp-768x434.jpg 768w, https:\/\/mineralmthistory.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/06\/Gildersleeve-Mine-Camp.jpg 1138w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">Buildings still exist at the Gildersleeve Mine<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>One of Mineral County\u2019s first industries was gold mining, but miners quickly branched out from one precious mineral into others: operators large and small looked for zinc, silver, copper, quartz, and lead. Placer and hard rock mining were being done at the same time. Timber investors set up sawmills and lumber yards to harvest the&hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/mineralmthistory.org\/index.php\/industry\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Industry<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-29","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mineralmthistory.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/29","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mineralmthistory.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mineralmthistory.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mineralmthistory.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mineralmthistory.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=29"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/mineralmthistory.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/29\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":52,"href":"https:\/\/mineralmthistory.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/29\/revisions\/52"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mineralmthistory.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=29"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}