Owego Mining Company Papers: Finding Aid
Finding aid prepared by Alex Young, November 11, 2010.
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Overview of the Collection
Title: Owego Mining Company Papers
Dates (inclusive): 1867-1899
Collection Number: mssOwego mining company papers
Creator:
Owego Mining Company.
Extent: 54 items in 1 box.
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 contains 54 documents kept by Sidney A. Shepperd, secretary of the Owego Mining Company and railroad ticket
agent
for the Denver & Rio Grande/Atchison, Topeka, and Santa Fe Railroad. The material is chiefly related to the
Owego Mining Company, which operated primarily on two lodes near Georgetown, Colorado, and gives a good picture of the operation
of a small-time mining venture and the holdings
of a Denver businessman (Shepperd) during the Colorado mining boom years in the late 19th century.
Language: English.
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Preferred Citation
[Identification of item]. Owego Mining Company Papers, The Huntington Library,
San Marino, California.
Provenance
Gift of Rebecca Tait, December 1966.
Biographical Note
The Owego Mining Company operated primarily out on two lodes in the hills outside of
Georgetown, Colorado: the Owego lode and the Brick Pomeroy Lode.
Scope and Content
This collection
consists of the papers of the Owego Mining Company's secretary, and ticket agent at Grand Union
Station in Denver for the Denver & Rio Grande and Atchison, Topeka, & Santa
Fe Railroads, Sidney A. Shepperd (also spelled Shepard and Sheppard in various
documents in the collection).The two items of Shepperd's personal correspondence in
the collection indicate that he was also a member of the Colorado National Guard and
the Grand Army of the Republic (a fraternal organization for Union Civil War
veterans).
The collection consists of a variety of stock certificates, notarized mining
documents, meeting minutes and resolutions, a returns ledger, business
correspondence relating to the daily business of the Owego Mining Company, a certificate of
widowhood from the Fraternal Order of Masons, and two pieces of personal
correspondence relating to S.A. Shepperd's military service. They give a good
picture of the operation of a small-time mining venture and the holdings of a Denver
businessman (Shepperd) during the Colorado mining boom years. Shepperd's
correspondence with miners and other capitalists, as well as the documents relating
to his business deals with mining companies in Nevada and New Mexico, attest to the
networks of capital that linked Colorado silver mining to other mining boom
districts and other industries. Many of Shepperd's documents are penned on the
letterhead of the Denver & Rio Grande/Atchison, Topeka, and Santa Fe Railroad,
much of which includes promotional copy advertising the railroad's tourist routes.
Arrangement
Arranged alphabetically by document type.
Indexing Terms
Subjects
Atchison, Topeka, and
Santa Fe Railway Company.
Denver and Rio Grande
Railroad Company.
Owego Mining Company.
Mines and mineral resources --
Colorado.
Silver mines and mining --
Colorado.
Silver mines and mining --
Nevada.
Silver mines and mining -- New
Mexico.
Colorado -- History --
19th century -- Sources.
Georgetown (Colo.)
Forms/Genres
Business records -- Colorado -- 19th
century.
Letters (correspondence) -- Colorado --
19th century.
Additional Contributors
Shepperd, Sidney A.
Folder 1
Abstract of title of the Brick Pomeroy and Owego lodes.
1881
Physical Description: 1 item.
Folder 2
Affidavits of labor and improvement.
1881-1882
Physical Description: 2 items.
Folder 3
Certification of status as a mason’s widow.
1867
Physical Description: 1 item.
Folder 4
Draft description of the holdings of the Owego Mining Co.
[Approximately 1880]
Physical Description: 1 item.
Folder 5
Great West Publishing Co. Stock Certificate.
1884
Physical Description: 1 item.
Folder 6
Incoming business correspondence of S.A. Shepperd.
1881-1882
Physical Description: 9 items.
Folder 7
Incoming personal correspondence of S.A. Shepperd.
1891-1899
Physical Description: 2 items.
Folder 8
Ledger of mining returns of the Brick Pomeroy Mine.
1872-1880, 1880
Physical Description: 1 item.
Folder 9
Mining deeds of S.A. Shepperd and the Owego Mining Co.
1880-1881
Physical Description: 4 items.
Folder 10
Mining lease agreement between Owego Mining Co. and Thomas J. Williams
[Approximately 1880]
Physical Description: 1 item.
Folder 11
Mining stock certificates.
1879-1896
Physical Description: 14 items.
Folder 12
Notice of returns of the Royal Consolidated Tunneling Co. Mine.
1881
Physical Description: 1 item.
Folder 13
Onion skin paper copy of notice of the Brick Pomeroy Lode.
[Approximately 1880]
Physical Description: 1 item.
Folder 14
Quit claim deeds of S.A. Shepperd.
1800
Physical Description: 2 items.
Folder 15
Receipts of the Owego Mining Co.
1880-1881
Physical Description: 3 items.
Folder 16
Records of resolutions and meeting minutes of the Owego Mining Co.
1881
Physical Description: 6 items.
Folder 17
Warranty deed between Jacob Frick and John P. Ewen.
1883
Physical Description: 1 item.
Folder 18
Ephemera: Empty envelopes.
[Approximately 1881]
Physical Description: 3 items.
