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Groom Mining District Records

 Collection
Identifier: 99-19
Abstract

Includes records of the Groom Nevada Lead Mining Company and the Groom Southend Mining Company: incorporation documents, correspondence, land records, maps, financial records, and photographs. Activities of T. J. (Thomas J.) Osborne and J. B. Osborne are documented as are those of several leasers.

Dates: 1871-1930; Majority of material found within 1900-1920

Alan Hensher Papers

 Collection
Identifier: NC626
Abstract Alan Hensher was a Californian and specialist in the history of the Rhyolite Herald (Nevada) newspaper. The collection includes correspondence to Hensher from Elizabeth Clemens regarding her husband Earle R. Clemens, publisher of the Rhyolite Herald; Hensher's notes on the history of southern Nevada newspapers; Earle R. Clemens's correspondence, financial, and legal papers from Rhyolite; and an official mining claims register...
Dates: 1905-1966

William W. Hoyt Papers

 Collection
Identifier: NC1044
Abstract William W. Hoyt (1842-?) was a rancher in El Dorado Springs, El Dorado County, California and a miner in Aurora, Nevada Territory from 1863-1864. He served as the superintendent for the California State Department of Engineering in 1913. The collection includes correspondence, 1873-1926; deeds and agreements, 1863-1907; financial statements, 1856-1905; depositions; diaries from Aurora, Nevada Territory, 1863-1864; account books, 1864-1913; photographs; and township plats and manuscript maps...
Dates: 1856-1926

Walter S. Hunsaker Records

 Collection
Identifier: 94-43
Abstract The Hunsaker collection consists of some of Hunsaker's personal papers and those of his wife but a major part of the collection contains the Las Vegas business records of Leigh Hunt and his family. This collection is important because it documents the twentieth century development of Las Vegas as a resort town and illustrates the long-term impact of the construction of Hoover Dam. It also serves to illustrate the formation of a multi-business, family-held corporate structure. Dates range...
Dates: 1884-1988; Majority of material found within 1924-1980

Juniata Consolidated Silver Mining Company Records

 Collection
Identifier: NC230
Abstract

The Juanita Consolidated Silver Mining Company, incorporated in 1872, was located in Aurora, Esmeralda County, Nevada. The collection contains correspondence, financial statements, and maps.

Dates: 1874-1881

C. J. Kanrohat Papers

 Collection
Identifier: NC477
Abstract

Correspondence, reports, financial documents, and a list of stockholders, all concerning the Jefferson Gold and Silver Mining Company. The collection contains material from 1915-1926 created by C. J. Kanrohat.

Dates: 1915-1926

Lapanta Consolidated Mining Company Records

 Collection
Identifier: NC117
Abstract

One of the most important early mines of the Hawthorne, Nevada mining district, mined intermittently for gold by leasers into recent times. H. M. and J. A. Yerington and G. F. Ford were principal officers. Collection contains operational records of the mine including correspondence written and received by the officers, payroll and expense records, memorandum of gold bullion deposited at the Carson City Mint, mining leases, and tax assessments.

Dates: 1885-1903

Nevada Mining Association Records

 Collection
Identifier: 88-43
Abstract

The Nevada Mining Association (NMA) was organized in Tonopah, Nevada, on March 24, 1913 as the Nevada Mine Operators Association. Its membership consisted of the principal metal producers in Nevada who banded together for protection, mutual cooperation, and assistance. These records include incorporation papers, minutes of the executive committee, membership lists, correspondence, reports, and position statements.

Dates: 1913-1975

Nevada Wonder Mining Company Records

 Collection
Identifier: 89-97
Abstract

Includes a prospectus, correspondence with the Nevada Tax Commission, tax assessment lists for the mine's property and production, and yearly reports.

Dates: 1913-1917

Ophir Silver Mining Company Records

 Collection
Identifier: NC56
Abstract

The first discovery of precious minerals in the Comstock Mining District, Virginia City, Nevada, was made on what was to become the Ophir Silver Mining claim. Collection contains daily, weekly, and annual reports, 1879-1920; letters, 1874-1913; payroll, 1879-1884; cash books, 1882-1911 abstract of title of the company's real estate and miscellaneous other business records, 1878-1906.

Dates: 1860-1935; Majority of material found within 1877-1900

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Legal instruments 4
Copper mines and mining -- Nevada 3
Maps 3
Minutes (Records) 3
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Aurora (Nev.) 2
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Groom Mining District (Nev.) 2
Mines and mineral resources -- Nevada -- Lincoln County 2
Silver mines and mining -- Nevada -- Lincoln County 2
Silver question -- Nevada 2
American newspapers -- Nevada -- History 1
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Bawdy songs 1
Bullfrog Mining District (Nev.) 1
By-laws 1
Cadastral maps 1
California -- Surveys 1
Clark County (Nev.) 1
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Dan Tucker Mine (Nev.) 1
Deeds -- Nevada -- Lincoln County 1
Diamond Springs (Calif.) 1
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Hoover Dam (Ariz. and Nev.) 1
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Lost Cabin Mine (Calif.) 1
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Mellan Gold Mines 1
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Names
Yerington, Henry M. 3
Brunswick Exploration Company 2
Groom Nevada Lead Mines Company 2
Groom Southend Mining Company 2
Nevada Tax Commission 2
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Oddie, Tasker L. (Tasker Lowndes), 1870-1950 2
Osborne, J. B., 1831-1913 2
Osborne, T. J., 1860-1918 2
United Comstock Mines Company 2
American Federation of Labor 1
American Institute of Mining, Metallurgical, and Petroleum Engineers 1
American Legion 1
Arrowhead Development Company 1
Atomic Power Utilization Committee 1
Balzar, Fredrick Bennett, 1880-1934 1
Bank of Battle Mountain 1
Belcher Mining Company 1
Best and Belcher Mining Company (Virginia City, Nev.) 1
Betty O'Neal Mines 1
Big Ledge Copper Company 1
Bonner, Charles S. 1
Boyle, Emmet Derby, 1879-1926 1
Buckhorn Mines Company 1
C & C Shaft Company 1
California Mining Company (Virginia City, Nev.) 1
Carpenter, Jay A., 1883-1965 1
Clemens, Earle R., 1877-1943 1
Clemens, Elizabeth (Of Rhyolite, Nev.) 1
Colorado River Commission 1
Colorado River Exploration Company 1
Comstock Merger Mines 1
Comstock Pumping Association 1
Consolidated California and Virginia Mining Company 1
Consolidated Virginia Mining Company 1
Crown Point Gold and Silver Mining Company 1
Deal, W. E. F., 1840- 1
Fair, James Graham, 1831-1894 1
Flood, James Clair, 1826-1888 1
Forbes, John (Miner) 1
Ford, G. F. (George F.) 1
Fox, Peter (President of Arrowhead Development Company) 1
Fraternal Order of Eagles 1
Fulton, John Allen, 1878-1939 1
Getchell, Noble Hamilton, 1875-1960 1
Gold Circle Consolidated Mines 1
Gordon, Louis D. 1
Hale and Norcross Mining Company 1
Hensher, Alan 1
Hoyt, William W. 1
Hunsaker, Martha Morrison, -1982 1
Hunsaker, Walter S., 1906- 1
Hunt, Henry L. (Henry Leigh), 1886-1972 1
Hunt, Jessie N. 1
Hunt, Leigh S. J., 1855-1933 1
Huntco (Firm : Las Vegas, Nev.) 1
Industrial Workers of the World 1
Jacket-Crown Point-Belcher Mines Company 1
James, S. E. (Miner) 1
Jefferson Gold and Silver Mining Company 1
Johnson, Ellis Stanley, 1898-1975 1
Juniata Consolidated Silver Mining Company 1
Kanrohat, C. J. (Charles John), 1849- 1
Kempvane, J. C. 1
Kennecott Copper Corporation 1
Lapanta Consolidated Mining Company 1
Mackay School of Mines 1
Mackay, Clarence H. (Clarence Hungerford), 1874-1938 1
Mackay, John William, 1831-1902 1
Malone, George W. (George Wilson), 1890-1961 1
McDonald Mines Company 1
McKay family 1
Mitchell, William, 1879-1936 1
National White Portland Cement Company 1
Nevada Consolidated Copper Company 1
Nevada Industrial Commission 1
Nevada Mining Association 1
Nevada Silver Centennial Committee 1
Nevada Wonder Mining Company 1
New York and Las Vegas Investment Company 1
New, W. R. 1
Newlands, Francis G. (Francis Griffith), 1848-1917 1
O'Brien, William Shoney 1
Ophir Silver Mining Company (Virginia City, Nev.) 1
Overman Silver Mining Company 1
Overton Syndicate 1
Pamlico Mining Company 1
Pittman, Key, 1872-1940 1
Potts Syndicate 1
Powell, Jo 1
Reconstruction Finance Corporation 1
Ridgeview Estates 1
Rives, Helen Hunt 1
Rives, Henry Macon, 1883-1952 1
Roberts, C. N. 1
Rose, Warren (Miner) 1
Round Mountain Gold Dredging Corporation 1
S.H. Brady and Company 1
Savage Mining Company (Virginia City, Nev.) 1
Scott, Andrew H., -1967 1
Security Mining Company 1
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