Letters and documents related to quartz and gold mining in Tuolumne and Placer Counties, California, 1876-1888.

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Wetmore, Henry Goodwin, 1828-1889,. Letters and documents related to quartz and gold mining in Tuolumne and Placer Counties, California, 1876-1888.

Letters and documents related to quartz and gold mining in Tuolumne and Placer Counties, California, 1876-1888.

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Materials on quartz and gold mining operations mainly in Tuolumne County and Placer County, California. Items include an 1884 letter to Henry G. Wetmore from Charles L. Lang of the Rising Sun Mine in Placer County in which he writes of "the idiotic manner in which my partner Comstock is running the mine;" an 1876 letter from C.J. Moore asking Wetmore to invest in the harness leather trade; an 1877 letter from C.J. Pilsbury to Wetmore with mining engineering instructions; an 1888 letter from E.A. Roberts to Wetmore about selling a mine in Sonora; an 1877 letter to Wetmore from Sam Rudolph at the Bower Cave Mine in Colorado regarding quartz testing; an 1880 description of the Well Rough Mine and statements regarding the collapse of the Soulsbyville Mill; an indenture between the Duchow brothers and Wetmore for the Lony Mine; and a printed pamphlet on the Mazeppa Gold Mining Company in Tuolumne County, California.

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