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James Jerome Smith collection, 1888-1908.
MANUSCRIPT4167
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Title:
James Jerome Smith collection, 1888-1908Smith, James Jerome
Creator/Contributor:
Smith, James Jerome, 1850-Creator/Contributor:
Behn, Joseph.Creator/Contributor:
Pilz, George E.Creator/Contributor:
Pilz, Emily.Abstract:
Letters, notices od location for quartz claims, agreements, and other legal documents for four separate groupings of correspondence:
1. J. J. Smith and George Pilz; 2. Smith and Joseph Behm; 3. West Point Reduction Works; 4. Misc., Potazuba Mining Co., Stockton
Woolen Mill, the California Wheat Starch Co. and the Tokay Vineyard.
Date:
1888 (issued)Subject:
n-us-caBehm Universal Pulverizer.
California Wheat Starch Factory.
Santa Helena Gold Mining Company.
Stockton Woolen Mill Company.
Tokay Vineyard Company.
West Point Reduction Works.
Mines and mineral resources -- California -- Tuolumne County
Chinese Camp (Calif.)
Note:
James Jerome Smith was born in Sydney, Australia, and came to California as a baby. Smith's parents settled in San Francisco
where James Jerome attended grammar school. James Jerome worked at many different things, but eventually worked for the Central
Pacific Railroad doing advertising. In 1886, he moved to San Diego where he worked as a real estate agent and acquired considerable
property. In 1887 he began his career in mining with a trip to Alaska on behalf of a New York Bonding syndicate looking for
good mining prospects. He continued to look for good mining prospects in Tuolumne County, after he married, in 1888, and moved
to Stockton, where he remained until his wife died in 1908. He then moved back to San Francisco, married again, eventually
retiring to Oakland, California.
Smith, James Jerome.
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Physical Description:
print
1 manuscript box; 15 1/4 x 12 x 3 in.
Language:
English
Identifier:
MANUSCRIPT4167
Origin:
CaliforniaCopyright Note:
Unrestricted. Please credit California State Library.