Manuscripts

Virginia & Truckee Railroad papers

Description: This collection primarily consists of business correspondence addressed to Henry M. Yerington, vice president of the Virginia & Truckee Railroad. Subjects include mines and mineral resources in Nevada and Cerro Gordo, California; pumping machinery, and water rights in Inyo County, California. Of particular interest is a payroll sheet for Chinese laborers (HM 66180) at the Carson Dump, a large lumberyard a mile south of Carson City, Nevada, and James A. Yerington's Hand Book for Homeward- Bound Travellers from India, Australia, and the East, published by Henry S. King & Co., which contain his notes (HM 66181).
Type: Manuscripts(Opens in new tab)
Date: 1865-1906
Call number: mssVTR
Creator: Virginia & Truckee Railroad(Opens in new tab)
Provenance: Gift of Jerome Schwimmer, May 10, 1968.
Associated people: Yerington, Henry M.,
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Carson and Colorado Railroad to Henry M. Yerington. Hawthorne, Nevada

Manuscripts

This collection primary consists of business correspondence addressed to Henry M. Yerington. Such subjects include mines and mineral resources in Nevada and Cerro Gordo, California; pumping machinery, and water rights in Inyo County, California. Of particular interest is a payroll sheet for Chinese laborers (HM 66180), and James A. Yerington's travel guide from 1888 (HM 66181).

HM 66148

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