Making a Living

For more information on the tourist industry, see the section Tourism.

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Agriculture

• [Berry Growing Business in 1896]
• Dairying in Santa Cruz, by Isabel H. Raymond.*
  [Mainly a description of the Wilder Ranch in 1896]
• The Hall that Apples Built: How Watsonville Rode Its Apple Boom, by Ross Eric Gibson.
• History of Poultry Raising Industry in Santa Cruz *
• A History of Winemaking in the Santa Cruz Mountains, by Ross Eric Gibson. *
• Planting Potatoes,by Eliza W. Farnham
  [ an excerpt from "California In-doors and Out"]
• Shippers and Shipments of Apples [in 1894-95]
• The Western Beet Sugar Company (1896) *

General Overview

• Economic Development of the City of Santa Cruz 1850-1950, by Susan Lehmann:

Mining

• Gold Mining in Santa Cruz County. from: "Twelfth Report of the State Mineralogist, two years ending September 15, 1894."
• Lime and Limestone:
  • The Bonny Doon Kilns, by Robert W. Piwarzyk
  • The H.T. Holmes Lime Company, by Robert W. Piwarzyk
  • The Laguna Limekilns: Bonny Doon, by Robert W. Piwarzyk
  • Lime [1943], by Henry G.Hubbard
  • Lime and the Lime Business, by Laurie MacDougall *
    [from "Henry Cowell and His Family, 1819--1955"]
  • Additional information on lime production in Santa Cruz County, by Robert W. Piwarzyk
    • Introduction [to lime and the lime industry]
    • Historical Background
    • Kiln Construction
    • Firebricks
    • The Bricks of Santa Cruz
    • Glossary
  • Limestone [1943], by Henry G.Hubbard
• Mineral Survey of Santa Cruz County [1926], by C. McK. Laizure.
  Inlcudes information about companies in operation, locations and production of bituminous rock, black sand, cement, clay, coal, gold, granite, iron, lime, limestone, mineral water, moulding sand, peat, petroleum, potash, and stone.
• Stone Industry: Crushed Rock, Sand and Gravel [1943], by Henry G.Hubbard

Other Industries

• California Powder Works [1896]
• Felling the Giants, [Lumbering in the Mountains] by Stephen Michael Payne. *
• Tanneries
  • Ansel Adams Photographs of the Salz Tannery *
  • Economic Development of the City of Santa Cruz 1850-1950: Tanneries, by Susan Lehmann
  • Leather with Personality [A.K. Salz Company] by D.S. Marston
  • Salz Leathers Folds Up Shop by Heather Boerner
  • Salz Leathers History: Longtime Tannery Survived Flood, Fire
  • San Lorenzo Tannery [1896]
• A Santa Cruz Laundry (1896)
• Santa Cruz Wharf Still a Vital Force after 80 Years, by Ross Eric Gibson. *
• Whales Along the Coast of Davenport, by Alverda Orlando

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