Guide to the Carson Hill Gold Mining Corporation, 1917-1942

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Guide to the Carson Hill Gold Mining Corporation, 1917-1942



California State Library

Sacramento, California

Contact Information:

  • California History Room
  • California State Library
  • Library and Courts Building II
  • 900 N. Street, Room 200
  • P.O. Box 942837
  • Sacramento, California 94237-0001
  • Phone: (916) 654-0176
  • Fax: (916) 654-8777
  • Email: cslcal@library.ca.gov
  • URL: http://www.library.ca.gov/
Processed by:
The California State Library staff
Encoded by:
James Lake
© 1998 California State Library. All rights reserved.

Descriptive Summary

Title: Carson Hill Gold Mining Corporation,
Date (inclusive): 1917-1942
Box Number: 858-877, 1636-1640
Creator: Carson Hill Gold Mining Corporation
Repository: California State Library
Sacramento, California
Language: English.

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Access Points

Gold mines and mining--California--Calaveras County.
Carson Hill Gold Mining Corporation (Calif.)
Carson Hill (Calif.)--History.

Contents

Application and information cards, bills and invoices, correspondence, daily assay, mill & precipitation reports, detailed company costs, expenditures miscellany, general accounts, journal entries, memos, mining returns, operation & production records, pay roll, requisitions, statement of bullion sent to mint, mill report, timber inventory, timebook and timecards

History

In 1919, W. J. Loring and Assoc. of Boston formed the Carson Hill Gold Mines Co., Inc. with A. D. Stevenot as superintendent. The Morgan Hill and the Calaveras Mine and Mill were purchased and a rich hanging ore wall was discovered at the Morgan mine. During the next few years, additional properties were absorbed, including those of the Melones Consolidated Mining Co., and the name of the company was changed to Carson Hill Gold Mining Corporation. However, after encountering the rich ore body in the Morgan, the other mines were neglected. Furthermore, in 1924, a policy of selective mining was adopted which ultimately resulted in a decrease in the earnings and tonnage output. The company operated the properties thus until 1926 when for lack of capital they were forced to close.
In 1933, the Carson Hill Gold Mining Corporation was reorganized by a group of western entreprenueurs led by A. O. Stewart and J. A. Burgess as mine superintendent. The Melones, Calaveras, and Morgan Mines were put back into operation. The Carson Hill Gold Mining Corp. continued operation until May 1942 when the mill was destroyed by fire.

Correspondents

Major correspondents

  • Davis, John Francis, 1859-1930.

Other correspondents

  • American Mining Congress Special Information Service
  • American Zinc, Lead and Smelting Company
  • Arizona mining journal
  • Bernard, Bandler and Sons
  • Bertheau, Cesar, 1820-1896.
  • Braun-Knecht-Heimann Company
  • Bruce, Grover L.
  • California Hotel Company
  • California. Industrial Accident Commission

    (SEE: Industrial Accident Commission of the State of California)
  • California Iron Yards Company, Inc.
  • Carson Trading Store
  • Clark, Jack
  • Consumers Fuse and Powder Company
  • Coppus Engineering Company
  • East Asiatic Company, Inc.
  • Electric Appliance Company
  • Electric, Railway and Manufacturers' Supply Co.
  • Employers' Liability Assurance Corporation, Limited
  • Emporium
  • Engineering and mining journal
  • Fairbanks, Morse and Co.
  • Finley, J. F. (Office of)
  • First National Bank.
  • Gardner Denver Company
  • General Motors Company.
  • Hamilton, Beauchamp, Woodworth
  • Harring, Wm.
  • Hildingson, N.
  • Industrial Accident Commission of the State of California
  • Isaac Upham Company
  • John A. Roebling's Sons Company of California

    (SEE: Roeblings, John A. Sons Co. of California)
  • Marhoff, Jesse
  • Melones Cyaniding Company
  • Merrick Scale Manufacturing Co.
  • Mines Supply Co.
  • Mining congress journal
  • Pacific Coast Gold Mines Corporation
  • Pacific Coast Rubber and Supply Co., Inc.
  • Pacific Foamite Firefoam Co., Inc.
  • Pacific Mill and Mine Supply Co.
  • Pennington, George W. Sons, Inc.
  • Polansky, A.R. Used Machinery.
  • Processed Diamond Bit and Tool Company Inc.
  • Raggio-Carlow Company
  • Roebling's, John A. Sons Co. of California
  • Ross Collection Agency
  • San Francisco call bulletin
  • San Francisco examiner
  • Sierra Railroad.
  • Solinsky, F. J.
  • Sonora Abstract and Title Company
  • Stockton Iron Works
  • Techow Laboratories
  • Thyle Machinery Co.
  • Tintic Standard Mining Company
  • Tyler, Ed.
  • United States. Bureau of Mines.
  • Utica Mining Co.
  • Verda, Vincent
  • Wagusie, John I.
  • Woodled-Pulich Printing Co.
  • Wright, Mark H.

Material Transferred from the Collection

Books:

  • Title: Carson Hill Gold Mining Corporation : the romance of the famous Mother Lode of California
    Identifier/Call Number: (CALIF* HD 9536 U52 C3)

Miscellaneous:

  • One deed

Box Box 858

General correspondence

 

Incoming correspondence, A-N

Box Box 859

Incoming correspondence, R-Z

Box Box 860

Outgoing correspondence, May 1917 -Dec. 1919

Box Box 861

Outgoing correspondence, Jan. 1920 -Dec. 1922

Box Box 862

Outgoing correspondence, June 1923 -Aug. 1926; Feb. 1937 -July 1942.

Box Box 863

Accident reports

 

Application and information cards

 

Banking papers

Box Box 864-870

Bills

Box Box 871

Blueprints

 

Calaveras Consolidated Syndicate

 

California Metal and Mineral Producers Assoc. report

 

Costs

 

Cyanide plant

Box Box 872

Daily assay report

 

Daily mill report

 

Daily precipitation report

 

Distribution of labor

 

Distribution of power

 

Distribution of supplies

Box Box 873

Employee earning records

 

Expenditures--misc.

 

General accounts

 

Insurance papers

 

Inventory

 

Journal entries

Box Box 874

Legal papers

 

Melones Social Club

 

Memos

 

Mine contracts

 

Mine work reports

 

Monthly analysis of operations

 

Operation & production records--misc.

 

Ore treatment costs

Box Box 875

Pay roll

 

Rate of pay

 

Requisitions: 1920, 1933-1938

Box Box 876

Requisitions: 1939-1940

 

Returns

 

Settlement concentrates

 

Statement of bullion sent to mint

Box Box 877

Thirty stamp mill report

 

Timber inventory

 

Timebook & time cards


Box Box 1636

Acknowledgement of accident report

 

Annual reports, 1926, 1936

 

Application for work

 

Blank forms

 

Daily assay reports

 

Daily labor distribution

 

Daily reports

 

Deed

 

Detailed costs

Box Box 1637

Identification cards

 

Invoices, Oct. 1918-Nov. 1938

 

Journal entries

 

List of outstanding checks, May 1921

 

Material requisitions

 

Mill data, May 1941-Jan. 1942

 

Mine work reports

Box Box 1638

Output & costs, 1919-1922

 

Payroll, 1919, 1922

 

Pay vouchers

 

Receipts

 

Receiving talley, July 1938

 

Supplies accounts

 

Supplies distribution

 

Tunnel report

Box Box 1639

Vouchers and invoices, 1926-1934

Box Box 1640

Vouchers and invoices, 1935-1940