Manuscripts
Letters and documents related to quartz and gold mining in Tuolumne and Placer Counties, California
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California
Manuscripts
Includes an 1885 land patent to Jacob Hosig for a placer mine claim in Tuolumne County; an 1873 deed of mining property between L.M. Robertson and the Rising Sun Consolidated Mill & Mining Company; a March 6, 1879, summons of the District Court, Eleventh Judicial District in El Dorado County in the case of W.E.C. Griffith et al vs. The Utah Gold and Silver Mining Company; an 1896 agreement of L.M. Robertson et al. to George N. Kimble; an 1894 quartz claim notice of location in El Dorado County; and an 1889 report on California Asphaltum by civil engineer Frank E. Brown to the Vulcan Pile Armor & Contracting Co.
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Miscellaneous materials on early Tuolumne County, Calif
Manuscripts
Group of items related to the early history of Tuolumune County and particularly Sonora, California. Includes lists of members and membership applications (with dates of arrival in California from abroad, including Peru) for the Pioneer Society of Tuolumne County, as well as membership lists and receipts for the Sonora Hose Company No.1 fire department. Also includes an indenture for land in Mono County, California; a trading license from Esmeralda County, Nevada; a letter to the Tuolumne County Court of Sessions regarding a public road along the Stanislaus River; and an indictment in People vs. Jose Carralles (grand larceny horse theft, Sonora, California).
mssHM 74139-74153
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U.S. topographic map showing geologic features & mines of the Goler Placer Mining District Kern County California
Visual Materials
No old shelf mark. Mining claims near Randsburg in the Mojave desert. For a map showing an enlargment of the Goler Placer, see RB ephMPCALIF0155. Prime meridian: GM. Relief: contour lines. Graphic Scale: Miles. Projection: Polyconic. Printing Process: Blue line print.
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(130) Jamestown Placers, Tuolumne County, California
Manuscripts
The collection contains letters, documents, including 190,000 reports, 1200 maps, 500 photographs, and 8200 pieces of printed material related to the life and career of Ralph Arnold. Subjects represented in the collection include: mining, petroleum, and seismology in the Western United States as well as Canada, Mexico, Cuba, and South America; political papers from 1914 to 1956, mostly concerning the campaign of Herbert Hoover for president; family and personal papers from 1836 to 1961 of Arnold and his father, Delos Arnold, containing source material on Pasadena and Southern California local history. The collection also contains Arnold's field books, including those made at Stanford University with the U.S. Geological Survey from 1900 to 1909.
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(149) Moffitt Placers, Tuolumne County, California
Manuscripts
The collection contains letters, documents, including 190,000 reports, 1200 maps, 500 photographs, and 8200 pieces of printed material related to the life and career of Ralph Arnold. Subjects represented in the collection include: mining, petroleum, and seismology in the Western United States as well as Canada, Mexico, Cuba, and South America; political papers from 1914 to 1956, mostly concerning the campaign of Herbert Hoover for president; family and personal papers from 1836 to 1961 of Arnold and his father, Delos Arnold, containing source material on Pasadena and Southern California local history. The collection also contains Arnold's field books, including those made at Stanford University with the U.S. Geological Survey from 1900 to 1909.
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Photographs related to mining in California
Visual Materials
Consists of eight photographs. Seven are taken by Rockwell Hereford while he was employed at Consolidated Western Steel Corporation. Captions are on the verso, and subjects include the Bryne (O'Bryne) covered bridge near Copperopolis in Calaveras County, the telephone line believed to be the oldest long distance telephone line in the world (as of June 1948), located between French Corral and North San Juan. Photographs taken in Nevada County include the machine shop where Pelton invented his water wheel, the Malakoff mine, an old hose cart in North San Juan with rawhide riveted nozzles and laced canvas, and Relief Hill mine. One photograph of an unidentified church choir photographed y Huddleston Photo Company, Los Angeles, is also included in this collection.
photPF 2460-2467