Manuscripts

James Hackett correspondence, (bulk 1894-1900)

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Description: The correspondence deals primarily with the gold mining efforts of James Hackett in Rough and Ready, California. The majority of the letters are from Hackett to John E. Ellis, an investor in Hackett's mining venture, who had extensive copper mining interests in California and who was a superintendent of the San Francisco Copper Mining Company.
Type: Manuscripts(Opens in new tab)
Production date: 1882-1904.
Call number: mssHM 66055-66091
Creator: Hackett, James(Opens in new tab)
Provenance: Purchased from Patterson, 11/1965.
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John Keteltas Hackett letter to Ogden Hoffman

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Hackett writes that he has been appointed to be "a Commissioner for the State of California." Fragment; only final page of letter remains.

mssHM 19010

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Buffalo Bill incoming correspondence

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This collection of letters detail William F. Cody's investments in a Tucson mining venture known as the Camp Bonito Mine and Milling Company with John D. Burgess. Burgess is a colorful, confident and wildly optimistic person. In one letter dated July 5, 1910, Burgess assures Cody "Cheer up about Bonito! It can't fail for years! Schulite is on the rise! By the time Getch [L.W. Getchell] has made 6 carloads of concentrates you'll be overrun with applications to get into the B.B.B.B. (B's make money)." Approximately a month later, Burgess is reassuring Cody again "You & I can get rich out of those 5 claims if all else fail! But nothing will fail here Bill unless kidney's process fails!" (August 9, 1910). While the venture does not seem to have been a success, it offers a good glimpse into the kind of investments Cody entered, as well as many details about the mining business in Arizona.

mssHM 81555-81570

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Mining experiences, 1932-1985: the memoirs of Allan H. James

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Autobiographical account of Allan H. James' fifty years in the mining industry, transcribed from audio recordings made shortly before his death in 1985. The memoir begins with his going to work in the mines at Grass Valley following his graduation from Stanford, and follows his experiences mining in California and Nevada, including humorous and tragic anecdotes about his fellow miners. The memoir largely focuses on his time at various mines in South America and on the friends and co-workers he had while there, as well as his marriage in Costa Rica. James also describes the atomic bomb explosion at Alamogordo, New Mexico, in 1945; his various mining jobs with M.I.T., at the Mt. Hope Mine, and with the Kennecott Copper Corporation; and his impressions of Canada and rural Alaska. Includes 29 pages of photographs of James, his family, and various mining enterprises.

mssHM 73672

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James Judson Jerome diary

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In his diary, Jerome talks about his work with several gold, silver, and copper mines in Mohave and Yuma counties, Arizona. He talks specifically about mines around the Cedar, Planet, and Signal mining camps. Jerome performed several different tasks including surveying and recording of mine sites, posting notices on mines, and receiving, distributing, and sending out the mail in Mohave County. Included with the diary are nine pieces of ephemera including two tintypes of Jerome and several postcards.

mssHM 68418

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George E. Pilz correspondence, (bulk 1882-1898)

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This small group consists of the letters George E. Pilz to James Jerome Smith, who employed Pilz to secure profitable mining claims in Alaska and the Yukon Territory. These letters contain descriptions of Pilz's work as well as descriptions of the conditions under which he lived in Juneau, Alaska and Dawson, Yukon. Additionally there is the prospectus of the Harrisburg Consolidated Mill and Mining Company of Alaska (HM 66217)

mssHM 66195-66218

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Fair, James Graham, 1831-1894 to James De Barth Shorb

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The collection, which contains 10,844 items, consists of correspondence, letter books, manuscripts, speeches, diaries, account books, published articles, legal papers, financial statements and business records. The 10,528 pieces of correspondence are chiefly addressed to James De Barth Shorb, James M. Tiernan and Maria de Jesus Wilson Shorb. The 17 letter books are related to the business and financial affairs of Shorb and Benjamin Davis Wilson. The 75 manuscripts consist of items chiefly written by Shorb and Wilson family members. The 224 items in the Business Papers include material related to Shorb's many companies including the San Gabriel Wine Company. The following subjects are covered in the Shorb collection: the Shorb, Wilson, and Patton families, David Jacks, Mariano Vallejo, Santa Catalina Island, the Mount Wilson Observatory, California government and politics, African Americans and the Chinese in California, agriculture, the citrus fruit industry, Indians of California, irrigation, lend tenure, mining, railroads, ranching, water rights, and the wine industry. The collection also documents the history and development of the following California cities: Alhambra, Elsinore, Los Angeles, Pasadena, Ramona, San Gabriel, San Marino, and Wilmington.

mssShorb papers

James Hackett correspondence, (bulk 1894-1900)

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