Collection context
Summary
- Creators:
- Talisman Press
- Language:
- English.
Background
- Scope and content:
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Correspondence, agreements, deeds, leases, lists, and reports concerning Black Oak Mine and Clark Mining Properties, Garden Valley, California.
- Biographical / historical:
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Garden Valley, California lies between Georgetown and Coloma in El Dorado County, at the junction of Irish and Empire Creeks, and had a post office by 1852. It is said that the name was given because it was more profitable to grow vegetables there than to mine. However, it was a busy mining area by 1852. Over the years, more than a million dollars was taken out of the Black Oak Mine. It was reopened in 1934 by Russell J. Wilson.
Through the legal instruments and correspondence in this collection it is possible to trace the attempts made to develop the reopened Black Oak Mine and the Clark and Davey properties in and near Garden Valley between 1934 and 1938. The Dayton Consolidated Mines Company was the principal entity so engaged.
- Physical description:
- 1 box
Indexed terms
Access and use
- 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