Collection context
Summary
- Title:
- Spring Tunneling Company, Nevada County
- Creators:
- Spring Tunneling Company (Calif.)
- Language:
- English.
- Preferred citation:
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[Identification of item], Spring Tunneling Company, Nevada County, California State Library.
Background
- Scope and content:
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Minutes of meetings; laws of the company, bills of sale, accounts.
- Biographical / historical:
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The Spring Tunneling Company held its first meeting on November 24, 1855. It was located in Nevada County on Cement Hill in the Upper Rush Creek district adjacent to land owned by the Empire Company. Tunneling began in early 1856 with the object of mining gold. Meetings were held in Newtown and presided over by the company's first president, Mr. William Hill.
Records for the company continue through 1860 with no mention of its dissolution. It is possible that the tunnel was flooded in the Nevada City floods of 1861-62 then later acquired as part of the Empire claim.
Indexed terms
About this collection guide
- Date Prepared:
- © 1998
- Date Encoded:
- Machine-readable finding aid derived from WordPerfect.
Access and use
- Restrictions:
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Unrestricted.
- Terms of access:
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Please credit California State Library.
Copyright has not been assigned to California State Library. All requests for permission to publish or quote from manuscripts must be submitted in writing. Permission for publication is given on behalf of California State Library as the owner of the physical items and is not intended to include or imply permission of the copyright holder, which must also be obtained by the reader.
- Preferred citation:
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[Identification of item], Spring Tunneling Company, Nevada County, California State Library.
- Location of this collection:
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900 N Street, Room 200, P.O. Box 942837Sacramento, CA 94237-0001, US
- Contact:
- (916) 654-0176