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Goldfield Merger Mines Company Records: Finding Aid mssHM 65037-65060

Finding aid prepared by Mitchell W. K. Toda, October 4, 2002.
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Last updated by Brooke M. Black in January 2024.
Contributing Institution: The Huntington Library
Title: Goldfield Merger Mines Company Records
Creator: Goldfield Merger Mines Company.
Identifier/Call Number: mssHM 65037-65060
Physical Description: 5 Linear Feet (1 box, 1 roll)
Date (inclusive): 1903-1914
Abstract: This collection consists of business records and a map of the Goldfield Merger Mines Company, dating from 1903-1914. The collection covers the subject of gold mines and mining in the Goldfield, Nevada, area, including information on the mineral industry and other mines and mineral resources.
Language of Material: English.

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Preferred Citation

[Identification of item]. Goldfield Merger Mines Company Records, The Huntington Library, San Marino, California.

Provenance

Purchased from Talisman Press, November 24, 1978.

Historical Note

Edward S. Byrnes and R. P. Oldham founded the Goldfield Merger Mines Company in 1908. The company had business interests in Seattle, Washington and Goldfield, Nevada. The company owned several other companies and their mining claims, including the Gold Horn Mining Company, Potlatch Mining and Milling Company, St. Ives Gold Mining and Milling Company, and the Velvet Gold Mining Company.

Scope and Content

This collection consists of the business records of the Goldfield Merger Mines Company with articles of incorporation, minutes of meetings, mining claims, reports, and legal documents. The collection covers the subject of gold mines and mining in the Goldfield, Nevada, area, including information on the mineral industry and other mines and mineral resources. Also in the collection is a manuscript map of the mining claims of the Goldfield Merger Mines Company.

Arrangement

The collection is arranged in chronological order in one box and an oversize map.

Indexing: Subjects

Gold mines and mining – Nevada – Goldfield – History – 20th century – Sources
  1. 1908-1909. [Goldfield Merger Mines Company], Articles of incorporation and minutes of meetings of incorporators, trustees, and stockholders. HM 65039.
  2. 1908, June 10. Daniel Johaussen, report on Goldfield Merger Mines Company. HM 65042.
Mineral industries – Nevada – History – 20th century – Sources
  1. 1903-1911. Statement of title to the Velvet, Sunflower, Algae, Butler, Moonshine, Potlatch, Mt. Hood and Crown lode in Goldfield Mining District, Esmeralda County, Nevada. HM 65037.
  2. 1908-1909. [Goldfield Merger Mines Company], Articles of incorporation and minutes of meetings of incorporators, trustees, and stockholders. HM 65039.
  3. 1908, Apr. 7. Washington (State). Dept. of State, annexed copy of articles of incorporation of Goldfield Merger Mines Company. HM 65040.
  4. 1908, Apr. 7. Washington (State). Dept. of State, Certified copy of articles of incorporation of the Goldfield Merger Mines Company. HM 65041.
  5. 1908, June 10. Daniel Johaussen, report on Goldfield Merger Mines Company. HM 65042.
Mines and mineral resources – Nevada – Goldfield
  1. 1903-1911. Statement of title to the Velvet, Sunflower, Algae, Butler, Moonshine, Potlatch, Mt. Hood and Crown lode in Goldfield Mining District, Esmeralda County, Nevada. HM 65037.
  2. 1908-1909. [Goldfield Merger Mines Company], Articles of incorporation and minutes of meetings of incorporators, trustees, and stockholders. HM 65039.
  3. 1908, June 10. Daniel Johaussen, report on Goldfield Merger Mines Company. HM 65042.
Mining claims – Nevada – Goldfield
  1. 1903-1911. Statement of title to the Velvet, Sunflower, Algae, Butler, Moonshine, Potlatch, Mt. Hood and Crown lode in Goldfield Mining District, Esmeralda County, Nevada. HM 65037.
  2. 1911, Mar. 16. Goldfield Merger Mines Company, application for land patent for the Velvet, Sunflower and Algae lode mining claims. HM 65045.
  3. 1913, Feb. 10. Mineral patent for Goldfield Merger Mines Company for the Butler and Moonshine lode mining claims. HM 65052.
  4. 1914, Feb. 13. Land patent to the Goldfield Merger Mines Company for the Mt. Hood, Potlatch and Crown lode mining claims. HM 65056.
Mining corporations – Nevada – Archives
  1. 1903-1911. Statement of title to the Velvet, Sunflower, Algae, Butler, Moonshine, Potlatch, Mt. Hood and Crown lode in Goldfield Mining District, Esmeralda County, Nevada. HM 65037.
  2. 1908-1909. [Goldfield Merger Mines Company], Articles of incorporation and minutes of meetings of incorporators, trustees, and stockholders. HM 65039.
  3. 1908, Apr. 7. Washington (State). Dept. of State, annexed copy of articles of incorporation of Goldfield Merger Mines Company. HM 65040.
  4. 1908, Apr. 7. Washington (State). Dept. of State, Certified copy of articles of incorporation of the Goldfield Merger Mines Company. HM 65041.
  5. 1911, Oct. 6-10. Minutes if a meeting of the Board of Trustees of Goldfield Merger Mines Company. HM 65048.
Goldfield Mining District – Maps
  1. c. 1910. Manuscript map of the mining claims of the Goldfield Merger Mines Company. HM 65060.
Goldfield (Nev.) – History – Sources
  1. 1903-1911. Statement of title to the Velvet, Sunflower, Algae, Butler, Moonshine, Potlatch, Mt. Hood and Crown lode in Goldfield Mining District, Esmeralda County, Nevada. HM 65037.
  2. 1908, June 10. Daniel Johaussen, report on Goldfield Merger Mines Company. HM 65042.

Subjects and Indexing Terms

Gold mines and mining -- Nevada -- Goldfield -- History -- 20th century
Mineral industries -- Nevada -- History -- 20th century
Mines and mineral resources -- Nevada -- Goldfield.
Mining claims -- Nevada -- Goldfield.
Mining corporations -- Nevada
Goldfield Mining District (Ariz.) -- Maps
Goldfield (Nev.) -- History -- Sources
Business records -- Nevada -- 20th century
Legal documents -- Nevada -- 20th century
Corporation records -- Nevada -- 20th century
Box 1

Business records

 

Statement of title to the Velvet, Sunflower, Algae, Butler, Moonshine, Potlatch, Mt. Hood and Crown lodes in Goldfield Mining District, Esmeralda County, Nevada HM 65037 1903-1911

 

Potlatch Mining and Milling Company. Articles of incorporation, Phoenix, Ariz. HM 65038 1904, Aug. 13

 

[Goldfield Merger Mines Company]. Articles of incorporation and minutes of meetings of incorporators, trustees, and stockholders, [Seattle, Wash.] HM 65039 1908-1909

 

Washington (State). Dept. of State. Annexed copy of articles of incorporation of Goldfield Merger Mines Company, Seattle, Wash. HM 65040 1908, Apr. 7

 

Washington (State). Dept. of State. Certified copy of articles of incorporation of the Goldfield Merger Mines Company, Seattle, Wash. HM 65041 1908, Apr. 7

 

Johaussen, Daniel. Report on Goldfield Merger Mines Company, Goldfield, Nev. HM 65042 1908, June 10

 

Legal document of L. W. Smith v. Claude M. Smith, Esmeralda County, Nev. HM 65043 1909, Aug. 13

 

Notice of attachment for Goldfield Merger Mines Company in L. W. Smith v. Claude M. Smith, Esmeralda County, Nev. HM 65044 1910, Mar. 11

 

Goldfield Merger Mines Company. Application for land patent for the Velvet, Sunflower and Algae lode mining claims, Goldfield, Nev. HM 65045 1911, Mar. 16

 

Goldfield Merger Mines Company stockholder proxy votes (117 pieces) HM 65046 1911, Aug.-Sept.

 

Smith, Claude M. "List of stockholders of record in the Goldfield Merger Mines Company," [Goldfield, Nev.] HM 65047 1911, Sept. 9

 

Minutes of a meeting of the Board of Trustees of Goldfield Merger Mines Company, [Goldfield, Nev.] HM 65048 1911, Oct. 6-10

 

Smith, Claude M. To J. Ross (James Ross) Clark, Goldfield, Nev. HM 65049 1912, Mar. 27

 

Judgment and final order of condemnation of Goldfield Merger Mines Company v. Goldfield Consolidated Eastern Extension Mines Company, Esmeralda County, Nev. HM 65050 1913, Jan. 15

 

Foley, T. L. To Goldfield Merger Mines Company, Goldfield, Nev. HM 65051 1913, Feb. 5

 

Mineral patent for Goldfield Merger Mines Company for the Butler and Moonshine lode mining claims, Carson City, Nev. HM 65052 1913, Feb. 10

 

Foley, T. L. To Goldfield Merger Mines Company, Goldfield, Nev. HM 65053 1913, Mar. 29

 

Writ of attachment to Goldfield Merger Mines Company in A. E. Talbot v. Lee Burnett, Goldfield, Nev. HM 65054 1913, Oct. 6

 

Writ of attachment for Henry Peterson v. J. W. Baker, Goldfield, Nev. HM 65055 1913, Dec. 6

 

United States. General Land Office. Land patent to the Goldfield Merger Mines Company for the Mt. Hood, Potlatch and Crown lode mining claims, Carson City, Nev. HM 65056 1914, Feb. 13

 

"Date of stockholders and trustees' meetings of Merger, St. Ives, Velvet, Gold Horn, Potlatch," [Goldfield, Nev.] HM 65057 Undated

 

Distribution list for Goldfield Merger Mines Company, [Goldfield, Nev.] HM 65058 Undated

 

Petition to help A. L. Watson, [Goldfield, Nev.] HM 65059 Undated

 

Map

Folder Oversize 1

Manuscript map of the mining claims of the Goldfield Merger Mines Company. HM 65060 Approximately 1910.

Physical Description: 107 x 144 cm.
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