Mines and Mineral Resources
Found in 30 Collections and/or Records:
Pioneer Gold Dredging Company records
Collection consists of account books, 2 volumes, May 1935-April 1937.
Powder River gold and the settlement of Baker County
Typescript history of Baker County and gold mining along the Powder River, 333 pages, 1958.
Simeon Gannett Reed papers
Rock Mesa campaign: how hope, faith and charity saved the Three Sisters Wilderness
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.
John P. Rogers letters
Manuscript correspondence of John P. Rogers, written from California mines, mostly to his wife, Elizabeth, of Oregon City, Oregon. Also included is one letter from his father.
Charles Seymour diary
Copies of the diary of Charles Seymour in the form of letters home, 1898-1899, regarding a gold prospecting trip from San Francisco, California, to Alaska.
Sojourn in America
Typescript photocopy book, 1978, containing Haralambos Kambouris' diary, 1912-1915, describing his life in America and work on various northwest railroads and mining enterprises in Utah; poems; photographs; and miscellaneous documents and letters, many in Greek. Kambouris (1898-1964) was a Greek immigrant who lived in Oregon and various western states.
Southern Pacific Gold Company records
Southern Pacific Gold Company was headquartered in Spokane, Washington, with gold interests in Grants Pass, Oregon. Collection includes correspondence between L. T. Matthews and R. E. Pinney regarding payroll and conditions of mines and labor in Grants Pass.
Nathan B. Whitfield notes on assays
Bound manuscript notebook containing notes on metallurgy and assaying.
O. M. Yeager collection
Typescript of "Story of the Blue Bucket Mine," circa 1958, regarding the location of the gold discovery made by Steven Meek's lost wagon train; and "Selected Chapters from a Manuscript History of Morrow County," on microfilm.