New Mexico mining collection, 1868-1958.

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New Mexico mining collection, 1868-1958.

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Summary: Collection consists of a broad range of materials concerning mining in New Mexico. Includes letters, contracts, reports, clippings, quit-claim deeds, and a variety of legal documents. Collection contains an 1881 report of the Bonanzas Mining, Milling and Smelting Co.; an 1869 U.S. General Land Office report on New Mexico's geology and mineral resources; 1919 stock certificates of the W.R.C. Mining, Milling and Smelting Co.; and issues of the New Mexico Mining Association's newsletter "New Mexico Miner" from 1954-1958. Also within the collection are materials concerning mining on the Maxwell Land Grant, including letters and legal documents involving Lucien B. Maxwell and Henry Northey Hooper, an attorney who assisted miners in establishing legal mining claims.

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New Mexico State Library

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W.R.C. Mining, Milling and Smelting Co.

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Bonanzas Mining, Milling and Smelting Co.

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Maxwell, Lucien Bonaparte, 1818-1875

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Lucien Bonaparte Maxwell (1818-1875), explorer and rancher. He was at one time the largest landowner in the United States. From the description of Indenture, 1868. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 122461533 From the guide to the Lucien Bonaparte Maxwell indenture, 1868, (L. Tom Perry Special Collections) ...

New Mexico Mining Association

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Hooper, Henry Northey.

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United States. General Land Office

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Under regulations approved on March 20, 1915, tracts set aside as villa sites under the provisions of an act of April 12, 1910, within the former Flathead Indian Reservation, Montana, were offered for sale at public auction, beginning at Polson, Montana, on July 26, 1915. The sale was adjourned to Dayton, Montana, on August 6 and concluded at Kalispell, Montana, on August 7, 1915. There were 889 parcels of land, not less than 2 nor more than 5 acres in area, fronting on Flathead Lake, and under ...