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Authorization to sell mining interests

Date
1909-11-05
Description
This folder is from "Legal Records" file of the Sadie and Hampton George Papers (MS-00434)

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View of Gold Reed: photographic print

Date
1905 (year approximate)
Description

From the Nye County, Nevada Photograph Collection (PH-00221) -- Series VII. Other areas in Nye County -- Subseries VII.H. Reed Family (Kawich Mountains, Nevada). Gold Reed, Kawich Mountains, Nye County, Nevada, probably about 1905. It was with a mine in Gold Reed that O.K. Reed made the money to purchase the ranch at Hawes Canyon. The ore at the mine was so rich that a person could stand off 50 or 60 feet and see the gold in the original outcropping; some of the ore sold for $1,000 a ton. Reed was partners in the mine with Jack May and a Mr.Wardle, Tonopah resident Austin Wardle’s father. Jack May and Reed were married to sisters, Mabel and Maude Hanley. 

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Miners map of Death Valley and the proposed Salt Lake railroads, January 1903

Date
1903-01
Description
Subtitle: 'Including portions of San Bernardino and Inyo Counties, California; Nye and Lincoln Counties, Nevada and Mojave County, Arizona.' 'Compiled and drawn by A. Russell Crowell.' 'May 1902 (Corrected to Jan. 1903.' 'Property of H. Kehoe' written in ink in upper left corner. Scale [ca. 1:506,880]. 1 in. to 8 miles (W 118?--W 114?/N 38?--N 35?). Relief shown by hachures and spot heights. Blueline print. Library's copy has types of minerals found in different areas hand-printed in red and has red lines hand-drawn along county boundaries. G4351.H1 1903 .C76

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Letter from C. A. Earle Rinker to his mother, September 6, 1908

Date
1908-09-06
Description
Letter from C. A. Earle Rinker to his mother, September 6, 1908

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Cross-section maps of Combination and Florence Mines, Goldfield, Nevada, circa 1902-1908

Date
1902 to 1908
Description
Maps of Combination and Florence Mines, Goldfield, Nevada.

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Correspondence, William H. King to Levi Syphus

Date
1903-02-27
Description
This folder is from the "Correspondence" file of the Sadie and Hampton George Papers (MS-00434)

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Captain Fagin, prospector in Esmeralda County, image 002: photographic print

Date
1891
Description
"A prospector: 'Capt.' Fagin. Taken in Esmeralda County, Nevada, 1891. Image shows a "two room Dugout."

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Correspondence, E.H. Syphus to H.E. George

Date
1902-01-26
Description
This folder is from the "Correspondence" file of the Sadie and Hampton George Papers (MS-00434)

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Information on the composition of magnesite

Date
1874 to 1944
Description
This folder is from "Maps and Assorted Documents" file of the Sadie and Hampton George Papers (MS-00434)

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Photograph of Delamar Mill, Nevada, circa late 1800s

Date
1890 to 1899
Description
Black and white image of Delamar Mill. Transcribed from image: "Moonlight view of Delamar Mill."

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