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Title: Alexander and Brooklyn Mines Records
Dates (inclusive): 1921-1950
Collection Number: mssMudd records
Creator:
Mudd, Harvey Seeley, 1888-1955.
Extent: 294 pieces in 1 box.
Repository:
The Huntington Library, Art Collections, and Botanical Gardens.
Manuscripts Department
1151 Oxford Road
San Marino, California 91108
Phone: (626) 405-2191
Email: reference@huntington.org
URL: http://www.huntington.org
Abstract:
This collection contains records of the Alexander and Brooklyn Mines in Nye County, Nevada
including general correspondence of the company from 1921-1944; correspondence dealing with the purchase of the Alexander
and Brooklyn Mines
by the Coronado Copper and Zinc Company, 1949-1950; and assays and smelter returns from the Alexander and Brooklyn Mines,
1921-1941.
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]. Alexander and Brooklyn Mines Records, The Huntington
Library, San Marino, California.
Purchased from Fred Holabird Americana, November 4, 2002.
The Alexander and Brooklyn Mines, also known as the Silver Palace Mines, Old Grantsville Mine or the Webster Mines, are located
in the Union Mining District of Nye County, Nevada, south of Ione.
P. A. Haven discovered the Union District in 1863 and the city of Ione and camp of Grantsville were established that same
year. The mines were owned by Harvey Seeley Mudd (1888-1955),
his father Seeley Wintersmith Mudd (1861-1926), and their associates, including a William J. Webster of the Webster Mines
Corporation. They did considerable work there, but the mines were
eventually abandoned after unsuccessful attempts to make them profitable both through mining and leasing.
This collection comes from the files of Harvey Seeley Mudd and is divided into three separate sections. The first consists
of correspondence dealing with the history of the Alexander and
Brooklyn Mines from 1921 to 1944 and covers the following subjects: leasing of the property, difficulties in mining the sulphide
ore, status reports on the mines from L. W. (L. Webster) Wickes,
the strained partnership of the Mudds with William J. Webster, and the unwatering of the Mitchell mining shaft to explore
for ore. The next section contains correspondence that deals with the
purchase of the Alexander and Brooklyn Mines by the Coronado Copper and Zinc Company and the last section consists of assays
and smelter returns from the Alexander and Brooklyn Mines.
This collection is organized in three sections as follows, with materials arranged in descending chronological order:
- 1. General Correspondence 1921-1944 (5 folders)
- 2. Sale 1949-1950 (2 folders)
- 3. Assays and Smelter Returns 1921-1941 (2 folders)
The following terms have been used to index the description of this collection in the
Huntington Library's Online Catalog.
Mudd, Harvey Seeley,
1888-1955 -- Archives.
Webster Mines
Corporation.
Coronado Copper and
Zinc Company.
Mine examination -- Nevada -- Nye
County.
Mine drainage -- Nevada -- Nye
County.
Mines and mineral resources -- Nevada
-- Nye County.
Mineral industries -- Nevada -- Nye
County.
Mining engineering -- Nevada -- Nye
County.
Mining leases -- Nevada -- Nye
County.
Grantsville (Nev.) --
History -- Sources.
Nevada -- Gold mines
and mining.
Nye County (Nev.) --
History -- Sources.
Business records -- Nevada Nye County.
Letters (correspondence) -- Nevada Nye
County -- 20th century.
Letters (correspondence) -- California
-- Los Angeles -- 20th century.
Mudd, Seeley Wintersmith, 1861-1926.
Webster, William J.
Wickes, L. W. (L. Webster)