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Mines and Mineral Resources

 Subject
Subject Source: Archiveswest

Found in 30 Collections and/or Records:

Clement Adams Bradbury letters

 Collection
Identifier: Mss2649
Abstract

Manuscript letters from his mother, Clarissa Adams Bradbury, relatives in Maine, and a brother, Stephen Bradbury, in the California gold fields. Collection also includes genealogical material.

Dates: 1850-1867

Benjamin Burden Branson papers

 Collection
Identifier: Mss 964
Abstract

Benjamin Branson lived in Sheridan, Oregon, and was the first president of the Dayton-Sheridan narrow gauge railroad. Collection includes an autobiographical sketch, including a short account of an overland journey to Oregon in 1848 and gold-mining activities in Yreka, California, and Jacksonville, Oregon; a manuscript diary, February 19-June 4, 1872; and papers regarding Branson's estate.

Dates: 1848-1906

Fayette Bristol scrapbooks

 Collection
Identifier: Mss1832
Abstract

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.

Dates: circa 1937-1967

British Columbia collection

 Collection
Identifier: Mss 1242
Abstract

Collection includes miscellaneous publications about British Columbia; a certificate for a stock share of the Fort Steele Waterworks Company, Ltd.; photocopy manuscript correspondence of Harry Jones, relating to mining in Cariboo, B.C.; and a photocopy manuscript report of coal deposits in the Nanaimo, B.C., area.

Dates: 1822-1941

Edward L. Bushnell diary and notebook

 Collection
Identifier: Mss2738
Abstract

Collection includes manuscript diary, 1895, regarding a prospecting trip to Yukon along with four partners from Bridal Veil, Oregon; and a manuscript notebook, 1888-1897, with accounts, song lyrics, and poems.

Dates: 1888-1897

William Bybee papers

 Collection
Identifier: Mss2139
Abstract

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.

Dates: 1881-1887

California collection

 Collection
Identifier: Mss1245
Abstract

Collection includes manuscript letters from H. B. Smith to his wife, May 11, 1855, regarding work in the Jacksonville mines; student relief pass-card, circa 1906, issued by Stanford University to students volunteering to provide relief to victims of the 1906 San Francisco earthquake; and an invitation to the Grand Anniversary Ball, July 4, 1856.

Dates: circa 1855-1906

Comer Mines Company records

 Collection
Identifier: Mss2220
Abstract

Collection consists of a stock certificate issued to Charles Lunstrom, September 25, 1912. Comer Mines Company was a gold mining company headquartered in Portland, Oregon. Its mine was located in Grant County, north of Prairie City, Oregon, along Dixie Creek, locally known as Present Need Mine.

Dates: 1912 September 25

Cracker Eagle Gold Mining Company records

 Collection
Identifier: Mss55
Abstract

Collection consists of corporate records for the Cracker Eagle Gold Mining Company, which operated in Baker County, Oregon. Records date from 1903 to 1905 and include expense accounts, business transactions, and stockholders' correspondence.

Dates: 1903-1905

Jacob Stanley Currier reminiscences of the Blue Bucket Mine

 Collection
Identifier: Mss2241
Abstract

Manuscript reminiscences of Jacob Stanley Currier, September 15, 1919, regarding his participation in the finding of the Blue Bucket Mine in 1860.

Dates: 1919 September 15