United States Carson City Land Office papers, 1863-1891.

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United States Carson City Land Office papers, 1863-1891.

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Collection of eight volumes containing incoming and outgoing letters and accounts for the Carson City Land Office and Eureka Land Office in Nevada. The first volume contains over 200 letters to the Register and Receiver of the U.S. Land Office from January 1863 to May 1866, mostly from the Commissioner of the Land Office in Washington, together with twelve Land Office circulars relating to the Sioux Half-Breed Scrip and other land matters. The letters include materials on the beginnings of Carson City, Ophir City, Virginia City and other Nevada towns, and also relate to mines and mining, timber and railroad lands, and the attempt to establish a reservation for the Washoe Indians. Four volumes are letterpress copybooks, dating from February to June, 1876; September 1879 to October 1880; October 1886 to July 1889; and July 1889 to January 1891. These comprise approximately 2000 pages of letters to the General Land Office in Washington, and to attorneys, mine owners, claimants of lands. Much of the correspondence is devoted to the ownership of mines and lodes, including Argonaut, Bonanza, Comstock, Enterprise, Lafayette, Lucky Baldwin, Red Jacket, and Sonora. The letterbook from 1879 to 1880 is for the land office in Eureka, Nevada. The other three volumes are a quarterly account book of the receiver of public moneys for lands sold at Carson City, March-June 1869, and December 1873 to June 1880; a register of receipts under the Homestead Act of 1862. March 1864 to August 1870; certificates of purchase of town lots at Gold Hill, Nevada, February 1865 to January 1876.

8 v. (in 6 boxes)

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SNAC Resource ID: 8021868

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United States. Eureka Land Office (Eureka, Nev.)

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Noteware, Chauncey.

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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 ...

Lockhart, Warren T.

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Waitz, Adolphus

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Hinckley, F. H.

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United States. Carson City Land Office (Carson City, Nev.)

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The Carson City Land Office was the first Land Office in Nevada. Registers and Receivers of the Land Office in the years covered by the papers are: Chauncey Noteware, Adolphus Waitz, James McMartin, F.H. Hinckley, O.H. Gallup, S.C. Wright, and Warren T. Lockhart. From the description of United States Carson City Land Office papers, 1863-1891. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 702163953 ...

McMartin, James.

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Wright, S. C. D. (Susan C. D.)

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Gallup, O. H.

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