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Raymond Brooks Papers on Mining
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MS-01153
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The Raymond Brooks Papers on Mining (approximately 1900-1955) document Brooks' time working in the mining and railroad industries in central and southern Nevada, as well as in Rhodesia (Zimbabwe). Brooks worked as a mining engineer and executive in many Nevada mining districts, including Goldfield, Tonopah, Bullfrog, Rawhide, Chloride, Beatty, Wonder, and Searchlight. The collection consists of photographs, photograph albums, ledgers and mining certificates, correspondence, and publications that all relate to mining. Notable figures mentioned in material throughout the collection include George Nixon, George Wingfield, William MacMaster, and James Butler.
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Letter from C. A. Earle Rinker to his mother, November 26, 1906
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1906-11-26
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Letter to his mother. He wrote about how the hotel fire was only accurately accounted in one paper. He wrote that most papers do not address the disagreeable stuff and that most of the papers disregarded the tenant housing that burned along with the hotel. He also noted that most of the papers did not even list the casualties. Second half of letter describes a shaft that he plans on descending. He also thoroughly described the building that he rents a room in.
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