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Manuscripts
Professional and personal papers of Otis R. Marston and his collection of the materials on the history of Colorado River and Green River regions.
mssMarston papers
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Alt. title from cover. Contained within the prospectus for this company with some statements dated 1878. A hand drawn map of the area also accompanies the prospectus. Prime meridian: GM. Relief: no. Graphic Scale: Feet. Projection: Plane. Printing Process: Lithography.
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3 photographs
mssLake papers
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The material is chiefly related to the economic and social history of late 19th century Virginia City, Nevada; some materials show economic connections between Virginia City and San Francisco as well as inter-state relations between Nevada and California. The collection is 90% legal documents. These documents are related to specific court cases (most filed with the First Judicial District State of Nevada). They are grouped case by case and contained in Boxes 1-11. Other types of legal documents, including deeds, indentures, and agreements, are housed in Box 12. Finally, miscellaneous legal documents share Box 13 with non-legal documents, a letter, and ephemera. The items in each series are in chronological order. Although the Consolidated Virginia Mining Company and California Mining Company are prominent in the collection, the collection includes documents related to more than 50 other mining companies (too numerous to list here). The documents comes from a variety of different law suits including: mining companies suing one another over the uses of resources such as water, building material, railroads, roads and tunnels; and employees suing their employers for wages or injury compensation.
mssComstocklode
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The collection contains correspondence, business papers, 16 ledger books, maps and reports of the Consolidated Virginia Mining Company. 112 maps (1876-1947) in the collection document the early period, the general mining district, and other mines on the Comstock Lode such as the Ophir mines and the Mexican Gold and Silver Mining Company.
mssConsolidated Virginia Mining Company