Manuscripts

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Description: The collection consists of letters, documents (including five volumes of accounts, by-laws, etc.), and three letter books related to the Brunswick Consolidated Gold Mining Company and mining enterprises in California and the West. Correspondents include: R.H. Countiss, C.H. Mallen, Harvey Seeley Mudd, Seeley Wintersmith Mudd, and W.H. Oscanyan.
Type: Manuscripts(Opens in new tab)
Date: 1887-1889
Call number: mssTurner
Creator: Turner, Robert Chester(Opens in new tab)
Provenance: Purchased from Grahame H. Hardy, July 1953.
Restrictions: Open for use by qualified researchers and by appointment. Please contact Reader Services at the Huntington Library for more information.
Rights: The Huntington Library does not require that researchers request permission to quote from or publish images of this material, nor does it charge fees for such activities. The responsibility for identifying the copyright holder, if there is one, and obtaining permission rests with the researcher.
Associated people: Countiss, R. H. (1888-1955.); Mallen, C. H. (1861-1926.); Mudd, Harvey Seeley,; Mudd, Seeley Wintersmith,; Oscanyan, W. H.
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Various letters to and from Robert C. Turner

Manuscripts

The collection consists of letters, documents (including five volumes of accounts, by-laws, etc.), and three letter books related to the Brunswick Consolidated Gold Mining Company and mining enterprises in California and the West. Correspondents include: R.H. Countiss, C.H. Mallen, Harvey Seeley Mudd, Seeley Wintersmith Mudd, and W.H. Oscanyan.

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Robert Chester Turner papers

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The majority of the twenty-nine volumes contain mining journal entries, company reports, financial accounting, and correspondence documented by John Daniell, Sr. during his time at Copper Falls Mine, the Osceola Mine, Allouez Mine, and Cliff Mine located in the Great Lakes region in Houghton County, Michigan. Daniell also recorded his travels, mine assessments, copper stock values and insider speculation, along with personal accounts of daily life. The final three volumes (27-29) document John Daniell, Jr.'s employment with the Finnish American Mining Company (Calumet, Michigan) and J.H. & W.B. Millard Mines and Mining (Virginia City, Montana) through his detailed correspondence.

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Business papers (bound volumes)

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The collection consists of letters, documents, and bound volumes documenting the legal and business affairs of the Savage Mining Company and the Hale and Norcross Mining Company. It includes receipts and disbursements, payrolls, bank books, time books, stockholders' statements and accounts, reports on ore extracted, and assays, vouchers, etc. The collection also includes letters to mining superintendents, a few pertaining to the mining town of Bodie, California, and some material concerning operations of the U.S. Mint in Carson City, Nevada, from 1888 to 1889.

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