Papers, 1900-1968 (bulk 1935-1967).

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Papers, 1900-1968 (bulk 1935-1967).

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/29434422

Collection includes files of Tower & Bowers (1955-1968), Still & Still (1962-1967), and Tower-Wiles (1964-1965); mining files, including correspondence, reports, maps, graphs, notes, financial reports, etc., arranged by geographic area (1900-1967); materials related to Eureka Corporation, Silver Eureka Corporation, and several of Thayer Lindsley's companies (1931-1967); articles by and correspondence with Charles Will Wright (1963-1967); correspondence (1935-1967); 3 bound volumes of handwritten notes; financial statements (1965-1967); and mining reports, chiefly written by A.H. Heller (1918-1966).

13.95 cubic ft. (31 boxes)

Univerisity of Wyoming. American Heritage Center.

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Univerisity of Wyoming. American Heritage Center.

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Northfield Mines Inc.

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Bowers, Carlos G.

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Silver Eureka Corporation.

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Wiles, Gloyd M.

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Tower & Bowers.

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Hochschild Companies.

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Tower-Wiles & Associates.

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Still & Still.

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Lindsley, Thayer, 1882-1976.

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Thayer Lindsley, a mining executive, was born in 1882 in Yokahama, Japan to American parents. He studied civil engineering at Harvard and did post graduate work in geology at Columbia University. He made his first mining profits in the Pacific Northwest and northern Ontario in the early 1920s and in 1928 founded Ventures Ltd., a Canadian holding company with worldwide mining interests. At the height of his career, Lindsley held the presidency of 10 mining companies, directorships in 15 others, a...

Westfield Minerals Limited.

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Heller, A. H. (Albert Henry), 1866-1906

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Eureka Corporation

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Still, Arthur R.

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Wright, Charles Will, 1879-

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Southfield Mines Limited.

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Tower, George W., 1900-1968

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George W. Tower, a mining engineer, began a long association with Thayer Lindsley and his company, Ventures Limited, when he worked as a mineral scout from 1925-1927. After working in several other mining jobs, he rejoined Ventures as a mining engineer (1935-1947) and became president and director of two Ventures subsidiaries, La Luz Mines (1942-1955) and Eureka Corporation (1942-1947). From 1947-1953 Tower was general manager for Hochschild Companies' South American mining interests. In 1955, h...

Ruby Hill Mining Company.

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Still, John W.

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Ventures Limited.

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