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Comstock Lode Collection, 1867-1923 (bulk 1875-1894).

Title: Comstock Lode Collection, 1867-1923 (bulk 1875-1894).

The material is chiefly related to the economic and social history of late 19th century Virginia City, Nevada; some materials show economic connections between Virginia City and San Francisco as well as inter-state relations between Nevada and California. The collection is 90% legal documents. These documents are related to specific court cases (most filed with the First Judicial District State of Nevada). They are grouped case by case and contained in Boxes 1-11. Other types of legal documents, including deeds, indentures, and agreements, are housed in Box 12. Finally, miscellaneous legal documents share Box 13 with non-legal documents, a letter, and ephemera. The items in each series are in chronological order. Although the Consolidated Virginia Mining Company and California Mining Company are prominent in the collection, the collection includes documents related to more than 50 other mining companies (too numerous to list here). The documents comes from a variety of different law suits including: mining companies suing one another over the uses of resources such as water, building material, railroads, roads and tunnels; and employees suing their employers for wages or injury compensation. Whereas the collection includes plenty of sources related to the mining industry, it also provides a good opportunity to look into people's lives in Virginia City in the late 19th century. There are legal documents regarding divorces, conflicts over bills, rent, and property; several of the court cases involve Chinese citizens of Virginia City. There are also several documents related to the commitments of mentally ill people. Moreover, the fact that some corporations and dealers located in California, including Belcher Silver Mining Company, Occidental Consolidated Mining Company, Holbrook, Merrill & Co, and Shea, Bocqueraz, and McKee, show up in the court cases, whether as plaintiffs or defendants, suggests that there were economic connections through the movements of capital and goods between San Francisco and Virginia City. In this point, this collection is invaluable to the study of the ways in which the regional economy of the Southwest developed through the movement of capital, goods, mining products, etc. Finally, the brief guide of Comstock Lode and the map of the Comstock and Brunswick Lodes placed in the Ephemera folder give some general and quick information of the trajectory of the mining industry and location of the mining claims, although they were printed in the early 20th century, later than the period in which most documents in this collection were created.

ArchivalResource: 898 items.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/615842728 View

Thomas, C.C. Sutro Tunnel Company letterbook, 1882, March-November.

Title: Sutro Tunnel Company letterbook, 1882, March-November.

Letterbook kept by C.C. Thomas, superintendent of the Sutro Tunnel Company, from March to November 1882. The letters describe company business and operating expenses, as well as repairs made on the Sutro Tunnel. Also includes a sketch showing the claim of the Consolidated Virginia Mining Company.

ArchivalResource: 1 bound volume, 282 pages.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/723244653 View

Consolidated Virginia Mining Company. Records of the Consolidated Virginia Mining Company, 1876-1955.

Title: Records of the Consolidated Virginia Mining Company, 1876-1955.

The collection contains correspondence, business papers, 16 ledger books, maps and reports of the Consolidated Virginia Mining Company. 112 maps (1876-1947) in the collection document the early period, the general mining district, and other mines on the Comstock Lode such as the Ophir mines and the Mexican Gold and Silver Mining Company.

ArchivalResource: 1,300 pieces.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/122644281 View

Kendall, Zebenizer, 1875-1954. Zebenizer Kendall papers, 1874-1951.

Title: Zebenizer Kendall papers, 1874-1951.

Cashbooks, checkbooks, reports, ledgers, and other Comstock mine company records, kept or collected by Kendall.

ArchivalResource: 1 box.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/642314522 View

Flood, James Clair, 1826-1888. Legal documents : John H. Burke vs. James C. Flood et al., 1875-1880 (bulk 1878-1880).

Title: Legal documents : John H. Burke vs. James C. Flood et al., 1875-1880 (bulk 1878-1880).

Complaints, subpoenas, motions, affidavits, notices, petitions, a few scattered letters, attorney's notes, newspaper clippings of testimony in one of the cases, and other legal documents and papers from six of the stockholder suits filed by John H. Burke, a San Francisco journalist, against Consolidated Virginia Mining Company, James C. Flood, John W. Mackay, James G. Fair, and Flood and James V. Coleman as executors of the estate of William Shoney O'Brien. The suits were filed for the return of profits allegedly misappropriated by the mining company and its trustees. Includes material relating to O'Brien's estate and legal papers for the related suit filed by Squire P. Dewey against Mackay, Fair, Flood, et al. Attorneys for Burk were Samuel W. Holladay and John Trehane.

ArchivalResource: 1 box (0.5 linear ft.)

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/122499007 View

Mackay, Fair, Flood, and O'Brien. Mackay, Fair, Flood, and O'Brien records, 1862-1890.

Title: Mackay, Fair, Flood, and O'Brien records, 1862-1890.

Business records, legal documents, and correspondence including operational records, payrolls, and insurance policies from the Gould & Curry Silver Mining Company, Best and Belcher Mining Company, Ophir Silver Mining Company, Mexican Gold and Silver Mining Company, Consolidated Virginia Mining Company, Consolidated California and Virginia Mining Company, Hale and Norcross Consolidated Mines Company, and Pacific Mill and Mining company and the various ore mills it operated.

ArchivalResource: 2 linear ft.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/166428947 View