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Jumbo Extension Mining Company Collection

 Collection
Identifier: NC1306
Abstract

The Jumbo Extension Mining Company incorporated as successor to the Jumbo and Vernal Extension Mining Company in April 1904. Office and mining property was located in Goldfield, Nevada. Collection contains a payment receipt from the Goldfield Mine Operators' Association and a 1932 telegram regarding a "sensational strike" on the Jumbo claim.

Dates: 1908; 1932

King Leopold Mining Syndicate prospectus

 Collection
Identifier: NC66
Abstract

King Leopold Mining Syndicate was a gold mining company in Goldfield, Nevada. Collection contains printed materials advertising the mine note name of officers and superintendents, organization of the syndicate, map of claims, and other inducements to investors from 1906-1907.

Dates: 1906-1907

Letter from Bill to Kate and Mary

 Collection
Identifier: 2016-05
Abstract

Bill was a miner from Joplin, Missouri who left for Goldfield, Nevada in late March or early April 1907 to work in the mines. Collection contains one ten-page letter from Bill to wife, Kate, and daughter, Mary, in Joplin regarding how he is faring in Goldfield during a mining strike.

Dates: April 5, 1907

Looking Backwards

 Collection
Identifier: 97-22
Abstract

Lela Halsell Hempton's memoirs reveal her life as a child on a family farm in southwest Missouri; the family's move to Columbia, near Goldfield, Nevada, in 1904; childhood on the Nevada frontier; education, early teaching career in rural Nevada schools, and married life. Material from 1975.

Dates: 1975

Manuscript Thesis Draft of The Tonopah, Goldfield, Bullfrog Mining Districts, 1900-1915: History of a Twentieth Century Mining Boom

 Collection
Identifier: 2017-84
Abstract

Russell Richard Elliott was a Nevada historian, author, and professor in the History Department at the University of Nevada, Reno. Collection contains a bound copy of Russell Elliott's Ph.D. in History thesis from University of California, Berkeley in 1946.

Dates: circa 1946

Market Letter

 Collection
Identifier: 88-04
Abstract

Newsletter to clients advising of mining conditions in Goldfield and Bullfrog Mining District, Nevada, and of investment market conditions affecting the mining stock market.

Dates: 1907

Letter from Lorena E. Meadows to Hugh A. Shamberger

 Collection
Identifier: 2017-77
Abstract

Hugh Shamberger was the first director of the Nevada Department of Conservation and Natural Resources and a Nevada mining camp history enthusiast. Lorena E. Meadows was the author of a book on her family's history in Nevada. Collection contains a letter and envelope from Meadows to Shamberger from August 30, 1979 regarding Meadow's research, her short story on Weepah, Nevada, and her discovery of two photos from Goldfield, Nevada.

Dates: 1979 August 30

William J. Metscher Collection on Goldfield, Nevada

 Collection
Identifier: NC1363
Abstract

William J. Metscher grew up in Goldfield, Nevada and was actively involved in the preservation of central Nevada history. The collection contains a variety of documents collected by Metscher and created by various individuals and business in Goldfield between 1906-1916, including George Wingfield, Charles S. Thomas, and the Goldfield Consolidated Mines Company.

Dates: 1870-2005; Majority of material found within 1906-1916

Miners' attitudes in Goldfield during the labor troubles of 1906-1908

 Collection
Identifier: 84-19
Abstract

Collection contains a seminar paper which analyses the involvement of the United Mine Workers in the Goldfield (Nevada) miners' strike of 1906-1908, the union's part in organizing the International Workers of the World, and whether the principles supported by either organization reflected the aspirations of the workers they represented. Material created by Ann Harvey in 1983.

Dates: 1983

Protests regarding mining claims

 Collection
Identifier: 89-99
Abstract

Protests filed by Phenix with Judge Theron Stevens, 7th Judicial District of Nevada, against Stevens issuing any deed or conveyance to Goldfield claims owned by Phenix:

Dates: 1909

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Gutta Percha & Rubber Mfg. Co. 1
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Harris, George 1
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State Bank and Trust Company. Goldfield Branch 1
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Thomas, Charles S. (Charles Spalding), 1849-1934 1
Tonopah Belmont Development Company (Tonopah, Nev.) 1
Tonopah Belmont Mine (Nev.) 1
Tonopah Divide Mining Company 1
University of Nevada, Reno 1
Western Federation of Miners 1
Western Ore Purchasing Company 1
Wingfield, George, 1876-1959 1
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