Papers and Photographs
Folder 1: Silver Mines, Nevada, 1880s
Notes from newspaper articles
Folder 2: Yankee John Mine, 1923-1948
Correspondence, from Richard L. Smith, Pittsburgh to W. L. Clark, Pittsburgh (original + 1 copy), July 9, 1923
Diagrams of mine shafts; scale 1 inch = 40 feet (6 drawings),
Correspondence, from W. Y. Humphreys (prior stockholder) Pittsburg to W. L. Hill, Redding, CA, February 17, 1938
Correspondence, from A. H. Merrill, French Gulch CA to J. H. Scott, San Francisco, CA, March 20, 1939
Report on Yankee John Mine by Austin H. Merrill, with history by previous owners John Reese and W. L. Hill; drawing of mine, October 14, 1948
Correspondence, from A. H. Merrill to L. T. Pockman, San Francisco, CA, December 13, 1939
Handwritten history of the mine by John F. Reese, January 3, 1939
Correspondence, from A. H. Merrill to H. A. Houser, Los Angeles, CA, September 15, 1945
Assay Certificates by James A. Leslie, Redding, July-August 1946
Folder 3: Yankee John Mine
Photographs, 1945
Folder 4: Milkmaid Mine
Photographs, 1938
Folder 5: Washington Mine
Excerpts from “Economic Geology of the French Gulch Quadrangle Shasta and Trinity Counties, California” by John P. Albers, prepared cooperatively by the United States Geological Survey
Correspondence, Laboratory Certificate of Smith, Emery & Company, San Francisco, CA, May 10, 1938
Accounts, October 14, 1937 through February 18, 1938
Folder 6: Washington Mine and Mill, French Gulch
Photographs and negatives, 1939
Folder 7: Washington Mine, French Gulch
Photographs, 1939
Folder 8: Mining Claims
Halcyon Gold Quartz Claim, locator C. C. Fox, Shasta County Recorder, Miscellaneous Records, Book 44, p. 162, July 5, 1921
Midway Gold Quartz Mine, locators W. C. Blagrave and C. C. Fox, Shasta County Recorder, Miscellaneous Records, Volume 41, p. 369, March 6, 1926
Ruby Pearl Quartz Mine, locator William C. Blagrave, Shasta County Recorder, Miscellaneous Records, Volume 41, p. 401, November 2, 1926
Lone Pine Gold Quartz Mine, locators W. C. Blagrave and C. C. Fox, Shasta County Recorder, Miscellaneous Records, Volume 41, p. 402, October 14, 1926
Globe Gold Quartz Mine, locators W. C. Blagrave and C. C. Fox, Shasta County Recorder, Miscellaneous Records, Volume 41, p. 403, October 14, 1926
Folder 9: American Mine, French Gulch, 1941
Photographs
Folder 10: Silver King Mine
Owner’s Statement (L. C. Parker) March 9, 1915
Folder 11: Niagara Summit Mining Property
Report by John A. Kruse to Lutellus Smith, Black Tom Mines Company, May 17, 1910
Report by W. M. Johnston, Glendale to Niagara-Summit Mining Company, Chicago, September 9, 1912
Folder 12: Riverside Mine, Hyder, Alaska
Photographs, 1940s
Folder 13: Golden Treasure Mine
Photographs, 1926
Folder 14: Rainbow Mine, Oregon
Photographs
Folder 15: Goldfield, Nevada
Photographs