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Chollar-Potosi Mining Company Records

 Collection
Identifier: NC81
Abstract

Chollar-Potosi Mining Company was a silver mine in the Comstock Lode, Virginia City, Nevada. The collection includes accounts for milling of ore and payroll.

Dates: 1869-1877
Found in: University of Nevada, Reno. Special Collections Department

The Donovan Mill

 Collection
Identifier: 85-14
Abstract

Donovan Mill in Silver City, Nevada, was the first cyanide process mill established on the Comstock; this survey recounts the mill's history and provides a physical description of the plant and its operations in 1980.

Dates: 1980
Found in: University of Nevada, Reno. Special Collections Department

Francis G. Newlands Business Records

 Collection
Identifier: 2011-25
Abstract Francis Griffith Newlands (1848-1917) was a businessman and served as a Nevada Representative from 1893-1902 and a Senator from 1902-1917. The collection contains many legal documents directly related to the acquisition of mills along the Carson River, including the Ogden Mill, Eureka Mill, and the Morgan Mill.y. The legal work was done by Newlands who was William Sharon's attorney. It also documents the formation of the Union Mill and Mining Company by William Sharon, D. O. Mills, John D....
Dates: 1862-1910
Found in: University of Nevada, Reno. Special Collections Department

Technical drawing of twenty stamp wet crushing concentrating silver mill for Occidental Mining Company

 Collection
Identifier: 93-33
Abstract

Technical drawing of a mill at Virginia City includes side elevation of grizzly, rockbreaker shaft, battery line shaft, roadway for scouring, concentrated sulphuretts [sic], frue vanners, settling tanks, agitator, clean up pan, engine, and sand floor. Created by the Fulton Foundry in January 1889.

Dates: January 1889
Found in: University of Nevada, Reno. Special Collections Department

Pacific Mill and Mining Company Records

 Collection
Identifier: NC80
Abstract The Pacific Mill and Mining Company was incorporated in August 1877 with W. S. O’Brien, J. G. Flood, James G. Fair, John Mackay, and Edward Barron as trustees. The company owned a number of other mills in the Comstock area including the Bacon Mill, Brunswick Mill, California Mill, California Pan Mill, Consolidated Mill, Mariposa Mill, Morgan Mill, Occidental Mill, Omega Mill, Rhode Island Mill, Trench Mill, and the Woodworth Mill/Ditch. The collection contains items from the many subsidiary...
Dates: 1872-1886
Found in: University of Nevada, Reno. Special Collections Department

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Fair, James Graham, 1831-1894 1
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Hayward, Alvila 1
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Jones, John P. (John Percival), 1829-1912 1
Mackay, John William, 1831-1902 1
Mills, Darius O. (Darius Ogden), 1825-1910 1
Newlands, Francis G. (Francis Griffith), 1848-1917 1
O'Brien, William Shoney 1
Occidental Mining Company 1
Pacific Mill and Mining Company 1
Sharon, William, 1821-1885 1
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