Mining Companies Miscellany, 1900-1935

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Summary

Title:: Mining Companies Miscellany,
Dates:: 1900-1935
Creators:: California State Library
Language:: English.
Preferred citation:: [Identification of item], Mining Companies Miscellany, California State Library.

Background

Scope and content:

Reports on mining companies, including maps, photos, and broadsides; pamphlets, attorney's briefs for court cases, and surveyor's notebooks.

Biographical / historical:

Mercury, or quicksilver, has been mined in California since the late Mexican era. Gold mining dates back almost to the earliest European settlement of California.

Gold mining by large numbers of people began very quickly after the discovery by James W. Marshall on January 24, 1848. After the gold rush dwindled away in the 1860s, gold continued to be mined in California. Gold has been discovered in 52 of the present 58 counties of the state. This collection includes mining materials from El Dorado, Mono, Nevada, Sierra, Siskiyou and Riverside Counties.

Physical description:

4 boxes

Indexed terms

Subjects:: Gold mines and mining--California--El Dorado County
Gold mines and mining--California--Mono County
Gold mines and mining--California--Nevada County
Gold mines and mining--California--Riverside County
Gold mines and mining--California--Sierra County
Gold mines and mining--California--Siskiyou County
Mercury Mines and mining--California

About this collection guide

Collection Guide Author:: Processed by The California State Library staff; machine-readable finding aid created by Xiuzhi Zhou
Date Prepared:: © 1999
Date Encoded:: Machine-readable finding aid derived from WordPerfect.

Access and use

Restrictions:

Unrestricted.

Terms of access:

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:: [Identification of item], Mining Companies Miscellany, California State Library.

Location of this collection:: California State Library, California History Room

900 N Street, Room 200, P.O. Box 942837

Sacramento, CA 94237-0001, US