Guide to the Quintera Mining Company Records, 1880-1909
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Guide to the Quintera Mining Company Records, 1880-1909
Collection number: BANC MSS 69/19 m
The Bancroft Library
University of California, Berkeley
Berkeley, California
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Collection Summary
Collection Title: Quintera Mining Company Records,
Date (inclusive): 1880-1909
Collection Number: BANC MSS 69/19 m
Creator: Quintera Mining Company
Extent:
Number of containers: 5 volumes and 1 carton
Repository: The
Bancroft Library
Berkeley, California 94720-6000
Physical Location: For current information on the location of these materials, please consult the Library's online catalog.
Languages Represented:
English
Information for Researchers
Access
Collection is open for research.
Publication Rights
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must be submitted in writing to the Head of Public Services. Permission for publication is given on behalf of The Bancroft
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
[Identification of item], Quintera Mining Company records, BANC MSS 69/19 m, The Bancroft Library, University of California,
Berkeley.
Scope and Content
This group of records of a mining company in Aduana, Sonora, Mexico, given to the Bancroft Library by Mrs. H. B. Walker on
August 15, 1968, contains letterpress copy books, ledgers, journals, accounts of the general store, assays, record of stampmill
operation, statements concerning ore production by various metallurgical processes, and trial balances for two years. A list
of contents follows.
volume Vol. 1
Letterpress copy book, 1880-1881, including letters from D. W. C. Morgan, C. A. Benton, W. W. MacFarland and Don McN. Palmer. Some of Palmer's letters were
written as superintendent of the nearby Rosario Mines. Fragile.
volume Vol. 2
Letterpress copy book, 1882-1884, with letters by J. H. Clewes, E. Otten and John Heard.
volume Vol. 3
Letterpress copy book, 1893-1897, mainly by F. J. Dorio and E. Renaud.
volume Vol. 9
Accounts for general store, 1897-1900
volume Vol. 10
Accounts for general store, 1900-1903
volume Vol. 11-12
Assays, Dec. 1907-Feb. 1908
volume Vol. 13
Record of stampmill operations, 1905-1909
volume Vol. 14
Records of the Hacienda (lists of workers, salaries paid, etc.), 1904-1905
volume Vol. 15
Statements on yield of ores by various metallurgical processes.
volume Vol. 16
Loose materials removed from other volumes, including trial balances for 1890 and 1894.
