Aurora (Nev.)
Subject
Subject Source: Library of Congress Subject Headings
Found in 7 Collections and/or Records:
Bodie State Historic Park Maps and Drawings
Collection
Identifier: 93-68
Abstract
Maps and engineering drawings of mines, tunnels, power houses, surveys, portions of townships and ranges, and mining equipment at Aurora, Nevada and Bodie, Green Creek (Mono County), Mono Lake, and Mammoth Lakes, California. Mines, mining companies, and power plants include Aurora Consolidated Mines Company, Bodie Consolidated Mining Company, Bodie Gold Mining Company, Bodie Tunnel and Mining Company, Bodie Venture Mining Company, Standard Consolidated Mining Company, Treadwell Yukon Company,...
Dates:
1879-1934
William W. Hoyt Papers
Collection
Identifier: NC1044
Abstract
William W. Hoyt was born 1842; rancher in El Dorado Springs, El Dorado County, California; miner in Aurora, Nevada Territory, 1863-1864; superintendent for the California State Department of Engineering, 1913. Collection includes correspondence, 1873-1926; deeds and agreements, 1863-1907; financial statements, 1856-1905; depositions; diaries, 1863-1864; account books, 1864-1913; photographs; and township plats and manuscript maps concerning the Hoyt family and the land around Diamond Springs...
Dates:
1856-1926
Juniata Consolidated Silver Mining Company Records
Collection
Identifier: NC230
Overview
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
Nevada Imprints Microfilm Collection
Collection
Identifier: 89-54
Abstract
Miscellaneous items about Nevada subjects include Sutro Tunnel agreement mining laws of Reese River, Marysville, Mt. Airy, Peavine, White Pine, and Spruce Mountain mining districts theater playbills from Carson City paper on the Shoshone Indian dialect Nevada-California boundary messages and reports from state officials constitutions and bylaws of the Gold Hill Fire Department, Carson City Knights of Pythias, Gold Hill Miners' Union, and Washoe Typographical Union no. 65 and a 1885...
Dates:
1860-1889
Real del Monte Mining Company Records
Collection
Identifier: 88-06
Abstract
Letterpress copybook of correspondence from H. M. Yerington to George A. Daly, Andrew Baird and others regarding mining operations of the Real and the neighboring Juanita Mining Company. The collection contains material from 1878-1888 created by the Real del Monte Mining Company.
Dates:
1878-1888
A thousand miles of desert and mountains: a prospecting trip across Nevada and over the Sierras
Collection
Identifier: 91-48
Abstract
Josephine C. Scott was married to miner and prospector, George R. Scott. She wrote about mining and construction in Nevada. Collection contains three volumes (of the original 4 volumes) depict the Scott's prospecting journey through southern Nevada, Death Valley, eastern California/western Nevada along the Walker River, and through Bridgeport over Sonora Pass. Created between March 14-September 9, 1914.
Dates:
March 14-September 9, 1914
Wedertz Family Papers
Collection
Identifier: NC1145
Overview
Ludowig (Louis) Edmund Wedertz (1824-1881) operated a stage station at Sulpher Springs on the Carson-Aurora road from about 1862-1866 when he moved his family to Aurora for two years. By 1874 they were living in Sulpher Springs again where Clarence R. and Frank Lewis were born. In 1881, Wedertz opened a store in Bridgeport, California, which his widow Niklamine ran after his death in December 1881. The family continued to live in Bridgeport and Smith Valley. The collection primarily contains...
Dates:
circa 1860-1930s