Comstock Lode (Nev.)

 Subject
Subject Source: Library of Congress Subject Headings

Found in 70 Collections and/or Records:

Challenge Consolidated Mining Company Records

 Collection
Identifier: NC83
Abstract

The Challenge Consolidated Mining Company was a silver mine at Gold Hill, Nevada, dissolved in March 1922. The collection includes articles and certificate of incorporation, minutes, deeds and agreements.

Dates: 1873-1922

H. H. Chandler Correspondence

 Collection
Identifier: NC140
Abstract H. H. Chandler was a bookkeeper from Boston, Massachusetts who traveled from Boston to Virginia City, Nevada via Cape Horn on the steamer Champion in 1864. Collection contains first letter to "Sister Jane" [Newton], June 19, 1864, tells of Chandler's journey; his visits with Jane's husband, a mine superintendent and mining stock holder; fluctuations in mining stock prices; and descriptions of Virginia City. The second letter to Jane of Sept. 7, 1868 from Clan Alpine, Churchill County,...
Dates: 1864-1868

N. A. Chandler Correspondence

 Collection
Identifier: 92-05
Abstract

N.A. Chandler was a miner in Virginia City. He writes to his wife from San Francisco describing his rich "Washoe claims" in Virginia City, Utah Territory, festive activities in San Francisco, and his future plans. Created on July 10, 1860.

Dates: July 10, 1860

Deed of Title for the Chollar Mine Claim

 Collection
Identifier: 84-15
Abstract

Transfer of land deed title for the Chollar mine claim from William Chollar to William B. Fox in 1860.

Dates: 1860

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

Complaint

 Collection
Identifier: NC212
Abstract

Complaint in the case of Allison (Eilley Orrum) Bowers, executrix of the last will of L. S. (Sandy) Bowers vs the Mexican Gold and Silver Mining Company and the Union Consolidated Silver Mining Company, alleging that the defendants infringed on her mining claim in Virginia City.

Dates: February 21, 1876

Deed transferring ownership in the Comstock, Colowell, and Grass Valley quartz leads

 Collection
Identifier: 84-16
Abstract

Deed transferring ownership in the Comstock, Colowell, and Grass Valley quartz leads in Virginia City, Nevada. Created by George Hearst in 1860.

Dates: 1860

Comstock Golden Jubilee Program

 Collection
Identifier: 89-39
Abstract

Program includes list of names of committee chairs; photos of mines, mills, and queen of celebration; history of the Comstock; schedule of events; advertisements; and description of Reno. The collection contains materials from 1909 created by the Comstock Golden Jubilee.

Dates: 1909

Comstock Limited Records

 Collection
Identifier: 84-12
Abstract

Includes progress reports, assessment notices, and correspondence to stockholders of the Comstock Limited, Gould & Curry, Savage, and Chollar companies; a history of the Comstock Lode; and stockholder reports for the Silver Pick Consolidated Mines Company (Goldfield, Nevada) and Sunset Mining and Development Company between 1922-1938.

Dates: 1922-1938

Comstock Lode (Nev.) cipher books

 Collection
Identifier: NC188
Abstract

Code books used to write and translate coded messages so that details of the Comstock Lode mining operations could be sent but not understood by unauthorized parties.,Included are code words and translations.

Dates: undated