Collection context
Summary
- Title:
- Garden Valley Mining Properties Collection,
- Dates:
- 1934-1938
- Creators:
- Talisman Press
- Language:
- English.
- Preferred citation:
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[Identification of item], Garden Valley Mining Properties Collection, California State Library.
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
About this collection guide
- Date Prepared:
- © 1999
- 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], Garden Valley Mining Properties Collection, 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