Records 1892-1947

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Records 1892-1947

http://nwda.orbiscascade.org/ark:/80444/xv61908

Correspondence and organizational, stock, financial, ore production, plant, personnel, accident, tax, insurance, and other records of a silver-lead-zinc mine in the Coeur d'Alene region of Idaho.

73 cubic feet

eng,

University of Idaho Library Special Collections and Archives

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Hercules Mining Company.

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In August 1889, Harry L. Day, a bookkeeper and clerk in his father's general store in Wardner, Idaho, and Fred H. Harper, a prospector, walked one and one half miles up the pack trail between Burke and Murray to stake mining claims on the nearby mountain. These two claims, the "Hercules" and the "Firefly," later formed the Hercules mine, one of the richest silver and lead mines in the Coeur d'Alene region. Though Day and Harper began working their claims immediately, their lack of r...