Fayette I. Bristol was president of the Oregon Mining Association. This unprocessed collection consists of scrapbooks, circa 1937-1967, regarding Bristol's mining work and other topics.

Collection consists of an account book of the Bybee & Newman mine and other accounts, 1881-1883; chattel mortgage from Bybee to William Kahler, 1883; blank William Bybee mine gross production report, 1887; Bybee and C. Decker accounts, 1887. William Bybee owned and operated a placer mine in Josephine County and built one of the largest mining ditches in Southern Oregon.

Uriah S. Hayden was a politician in Jacksonville, Oregon. Collection consists of manuscript correspondence, 1878-1879, regarding Oregon and national politics and mining in Southern Oregon. Also included is Hayden's will, circa 1878.

History by Ron Eber of the campaign to prevent mining at Rock Mesa in the Three Sisters Wilderness. From 1963 to 1983, environmental activists and organizations including Friends of Three Sisters, the Sierra Club, the Oregon Environmental Council, and the Oregon Wildlife Federation lobbied the U.S. government to invalidate mining permits that the U.S. Forest Service had granted in 1961 for pumice rock mining at Rock Mesa. In July 1983, the Forest Service purchased all the mining claims.

Papers of John M. Shively (1804-1893), an emigrant to Oregon and first postmaster of Astoria. Papers include correspondence, legal documents related to land sales, an 1853 diary, historical essays and other writings, genealogical materials, information on the U.S-British controversy over the Oregon Territory, and papers of Shively's son, Charles W. Shively.