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Title: Charles S. Sprague Co. Papers and
Addenda
Dates (inclusive): 1907-1920
Collection Number: mssSprague Co
Creator:
Charles S. Sprague Co.
Extent: 139 items in 2
boxes
Repository:
The Huntington Library, Art Collections, and Botanical Gardens.
Manuscripts Department
1151 Oxford Road
San Marino, California 91108
Phone: (626) 405-2129
Email: reference@huntington.org
URL: http://www.huntington.org
Abstract: This collection consists mainly of letters
between investors and employees of the Charles S. Sprague Company of Goldfield, Nevada, from the mid-1910s
regarding their investments in mining stocks, including the Goldfield Merger, as well as correspondence about the business
failures before and after
Harry Schwaikert’s sale of the stock brokerage firm
Sprague & Schwaikert to Robert Byars & Co., dating from 1913-1916.
Language: English.
Open to qualified researchers by prior application through the Reader Services
Department. For more information, contact Reader Services.
The Huntington Library does not require that researchers request permission to
quote from or publish images of this material, nor does it charge fees for such
activities. The responsibility for identifying the copyright holder, if there is
one, and obtaining necessary permissions rests with the researcher.
[Identification of item]. Charles S. Sprague Co. Papers and Addenda, The
Huntington Library, San Marino, California.
Purchased from Talisman Press, March 24, 1978 and Holabird-Kagin auction,
October 29-30, 2010.
The Charles S. Sprague Company was a stock brokerage company in Goldfield, Nevada,
specializing in buying and selling mining shares in the early 1900s.
The collection is divided into two series, Correspondence (arranged in alphabetical
order, by author) and Ephemera. The Correspondence consists mainly of letters
between investors and employees of the Charles S. Sprague Co. from the mid-1910s
regarding their investments in mining stocks, including the Goldfield Merger. The
letters indicate that many of the mining operations were not yielding profits. The
Ephemera includes receipts and blank buy order forms.
The addenda includes business correspondence from 1913-1916 regarding business
failures before and after Harry Schwaikert’s sale of the stock brokerage firm
Sprague & Schwaikert to Robert Byars & Co., who refused to honor stock
existing stock contracts. The majority of the correspondence is from Harry
Schwaikert to Charles Sprague and includes references to Schwaikert’s nervous
breakdown over the business failures and his unhappiness with what he calls
Sprague’s “extravagance.” Other letters were written by various clients and regard
disputes over the non-transmittal of stock certificates purchased from Sprague &
Schwaikert.
Arranged in the following order:
- Box 1: Correspondence and Ephemera
- Box 2: Correspondence - Addenda
The following terms have been used to index the description of this collection in the
Huntington Library's Online Catalog.
Charles S. Sprague
Co.
Gold mines and mining --
Nevada.
Mines and mineral resources --
Nevada.
Securities -- Nevada.
Goldfield (Nev.)
Nevada -- History --
20th century -- Sources.
Letters (correspondence) -- Nevada --
20th century.
Schwaikert, Harry.
Sprague, Charles S.