Comstock Lode (Nev.)
Found in 70 Collections and/or Records:
Whitman Symmes records
Union Consolidated Silver Mining Company Records
United Comstock Mining Company Records
United Comstock Pumping Association Records
The Comstock Pumping Association was established in 1898 by 28 mine companies in Virginia City. Designed as a means to increase stock values, the purpose of the association was to pump water from the Comstock mines below the Sutro Tunnel level. Records of operation include daily and weekly reports (including Ward Shaft Association, 1910-1912), letters, cashbooks, financial ledgers, and a tunnel account book, 1905-1909.
Utah Gold and Silver Mining Company Records
The Utah Gold and Silver Mining Company was a silver mine located at Virginia City, Nevada. The collection includes monthly cash accounts, 1876-1884; report of operations, 1886-1888; and deeds for the Eliza Bradbury Ledge and the Utah Silver Mining Company and Santa Rita Mining Company, 1860-1863.
Virginia and Gold Hill Water Company Records
Includes agreements for water acquisition from individual mines in the Comstock Lode, correspondence, financial statements, and invoices for supplies. The collection contains material from 1864-1875 created by the Virginia and Gold Hill Water Company.
White and Murphy Claim Deeds
The White and Murphy were mines in the Comstock Load of Nevada. The collection contains copies of deeds which form a chain of title to the White and Murphy mining claims in the Comstock Lode of Nevada between 1859-1873. Also included is a narrative describing the original procedures for staking and selling legal title to a Comstock mining claim.
Agreement regarding the Williams and Company mine claim
Agreement between eight men to share expenses to work a portion of the Williams and Company mine claim, location not given but most likely in the Comstock Lode. Names include: Adolph Sutro, Orion Clemens, James C. Corey, John D. Moore, Henry Epstein, Moritz Epstein, H. L. Joachimsen, and John Williams.
Yellow Jacket Silver Mining Company Records
The Yellow Jacket Mine, staked in 1859, was one of the deepest in the Comstock Lode. Operation records of the Yellow Jacket Mine include minutes of stockholders' and directors' meetings, by-laws, deeds, financial statements, stock transfer records, and letters, from 1861-1911.
Yesterday's unsettled America
A. P. Deutsch was an Arizona writer. The collection contains his unpublished, undated, manuscript on the history of the western United States, including the California gold rush, ethnic immigrants, the Comstock and other mining sites in Nevada, Arizona Territory, Montana, Utah, Colorado, Dakota Territory, and a number of prominent individuals.