Arnold,
George W.
Coll # Mss12
Date: 1870
Extent 1 folder (containing one letter)
Collection consists of one holograph letter from George W. Arnold
to his Uncle Gideon containing a description of Pioche (Lincoln
Co. Nevada) and mining activity there. Comments on the lack of mills
to process ores and reasons why. Describes traveling through Arizona
and Mexico, and the Indian situations there.
Barcus, Clyde S.
& Edith Giles
Coll # T138
Date: 1919 - 1970
Extent 4 boxes (2 record storage boxes, 1 document box, and 1
oversize box)
Collection contains the personal and business records of Clyde
Barcus, a mining engineer who came to Goldfield, Nevada, in 1923.
The collection includes records of his accumulation of property:
residential, commercial and mining. There are also general financial
receipts, income tax records, store records from a jewelry shop
he and his wife ran, mining reports (productivity), personal correspondence
to and from his wife Edith Barcus, and 3 family photo albums.
INVENTORY AVAILABLE
Doughty, Nan
Coll # MS21
Date: 1845 -1987
Extent 67 boxes (3 record storage boxes, 21 slim document boxes,
42 document boxes, missing box #43) (26 linear ft.)
Collection consists of two series related to the life of Las Vegas
writer Nan Doughty. The
Correspondence series contains letters written by many members
of Doughty's family. The Family papers series contains news clippings,
school papers, diaries, genealogy records, deeds, stock certificates,
manuscript drafts, Desert Research Institute Grant information
and notes from UNLV classes. Much of the material in both series
pertains to early mining in Nevada and the Southwest. COLLECTION
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Fayle Family Papers
Coll # 98-18
Date: 1916-1980's
Extent 20 boxes (1 flat box on shelf, 12 record storage boxes,
7 document boxes, 1 flat box and miscellaneous loose papers)
Collection consists of the personal and business papers of the
Fayle family of Goodsprings, Nevada, including patriarch George
Fayle and wife Jean, and son Leonard Fayle, and his wife, Anna.
Collection contains documents relating to their business, civic
and personal activities and includes correspondence, hotel registers,
account books, quit claim deeds, mine records, and photographs.
Extensive documentation on the Yellow Pine Mine.
Goldfield, Nevada
Coll # MS10
Date: 1904 - 1923
Extent 2 boxes (1 document box, 1 slim document box) and 1 oversize
folder
Collection is comprised of documents chronicling the history of
the town of Goldfield, Nevada, which began as a mining camp in
May 1903. It had a short lived boom following several large gold
strikes. The collection contains material such as mining company
minutes, ledgers, prospectuses, Nelson-Gans fight program, stock
certificates and minutes from the Goldfield Women's Club. Contains
information from the following mining companies: Forward Mining
Development Co., General Washington Mining Co., Goldfield Mascot
Mining Co., Goldfield Rex Mining Co., Goldfield Consolidated Mines
Co., and the Sandstorm -Kendall Consolidated Mining Co. COLLECTION
GUIDE AVAILABLE
Hagemann, V
Coll # Mss14
Date: 1883 June 12
Extent [2] p. on 1 leaf ; 28 cm. + verbatim transcript (1
Collection consists of a single piece of correspondence between
V. Hagemann of San Francisco to J.H.B. Harris of Silverpeak, Nevada,
dated June 12, 1883. Contains gossip related to mining of the California-Nevada
region. Transcription done by former Special Collections curator,
Anna Dean Kepper, is included with the original.
Hancock, Doris
Coll # 87-59
Date: 1915 - 1987
Extent 4 boxes (1 slim document box, 3 document boxes) 17.5 linear
in.
Collection consists of the personal papers of Doris Hancock, a
Las Vegas kindergarten teacher who helped organize the Las Vegas
Art League. Collection contains material about Southern Nevada
and surrounding areas, particularly mining towns, Colorado River,
Boulder Dam, Red Rock Canyon, early Las Vegas and Death Valley.
It also includes some of Hancock's school
memorabilia, correspondence, sketches and two scrapbooks. COLLECTION
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Hezzelwood, Larry
Coll # 1018
Date: 1953 - 1954
Extent 1 folder
Collection consists of the correspondence of Larry L. Hezzlewood
pertaining to the creation of a
titanium processing plant in Boulder City, Nevada, as part of the
Aero Metals Corporation.
Kielhofer, Charles
Coll # Mss18
Date: 1958
Extent 1 folder (contains 3 pages)
Consists of a letter (photocopy) dated 1/31/58 from Charles Kielhofer
responding to an article in the Las Vegas Review Journal concerning
the Bullfrog Mine and the establishment of the Bullfrog Mining
Company. He relates that it was George Ladd and Otis Johnson, not
Shorty Harris, who discovered Bullfrog.
Leprechaun Mining
and Chemical, Incorporated
Coll # 2003-04
Date: ca. 1950 - 1998
Extent 11 boxes (10 record storage boxes, 1 document box)
Collection contains the operational records for Leprechaun Mining
and Chemical, Inc., a salt mining company, including the financial
records: tax documents, CPA reports and records of stockholder
shares and dividends, and general mining reports on evaporation
rates and mineral grades. There are also several books of stock
certificates listing stock holders. INVENTORY AVAILABLE
McGonagill, Irma
Coll # T60
Date: 1904 - 1905
Extent 1 slim document box
Collection contains the informal records of early Nevada mining
in Tonopah, Nevada, including the outlines for a section of Irma
McGonagill's memoir and a few fleshed out paragraphs and the beginnings
of Chapter 1. There is also a stock certificate for the Silver
Bow Mining Company. (see also Photo Collection 0246)
Mim's Sutro Co.
Coll # T 170
Date: 1905
Extent 1 record storage box
Collection contains the stock ledger for the Nevada mining company
Mim's Sutro Co.
Mines and Mining
Coll # MS11
Date: 1870 - 1980
Extent 23 boxes (15 document boxes, 7 slim document boxes, 1 record
storage box) and miscellaneous scrapbooks and newspaper clippings
sitting on shelf
Collection consists of business and legal documents from a number
of mines in Southern and Central Nevada. Types of documentation
include prospectuses, stock certificates, correspondence, invoices,
employee lists, purchasing records and mill foreman reports. The
records also include the histories of the Nevada mines-location,
operation dates, mineral being mined, and production amount. This
information is related in correspondence, brochures, reports and
newspaper clippings. Mines in the collection include: Eberhardt
and Aurora Mining Company, Nevada-Utah Mines and Smelters Corporation,
Techatticup Mine, Bulen Mining Company, Bullfrog-Red Oak Mining
Company, Pioche Mines Company, Tonopah Mining Company, Yellow
Pine Mining Company, Esmeralda County, White Pine, Lincoln County,
Nye County, Goodsprings Mining District. INVENTORY AVAILABLE
Moore, William J.
Coll # T174
Date: 1925 - 1974
Extent 7 document boxes
The William J. Moore collection consists of a number of mining
publications (U of NV Bulletins on Geology and Mining, photographs
of mine locations, mine production reports, sales contracts of
various ores), maps (quadrangles with marked mine locations),
claims, and correspondence re: the casino construction. It also
includes original plans for the Last Frontier. Scrapbooks from
the Frontier Hotel are in the oversize section of Special Collections
and not included in the inventory for this collection. There is
also information on estimates and analysis for a 500 room Las
Vegas
resort hotel. INVENTORY AVAILABLE
Murphy, Franklin M.
Coll # T130
Date: 1922 -1958
Extent 6 record storage boxes
Frank M. Murphy was a geologist active in Nevada. His collection
contains numerous publications, articles, maps, and reports pertaining
to geology and mining in Nevada. The collection also includes
business and personal correspondence, resumes, and letters of
application.
Neely, William
Coll # 1029-4
Date: [18]64
Extent 1 folder
Collection consists of one typescript letter (photocopied) transcribed
from an original dated
Dec 4, [18]64, from W[illiam] Neely in Virginia City, NV, to his
nephew. The letter discusses Nevada's impending statehood and
the business and financial situation at the time. Contains some
detail about mining work and advises nephew "not" to
come to Nevada.
Rinker, C. A. Earle
Coll # MS 2006-09
Date: 1880-1960 (inclusive), 1906-1910 (bulk)
Extent 12 boxes (9 document boxes, 1 slim document box, 1 oversize box, 1 photo negative box)
This collection contains a wealth of materials that document the history of early twentieth century Goldfield, a mining boom town in central Nevada, as well as the life of its collector. Materials include highly descriptive correspondence and images of Goldfield during its peak years of 1906-1910, as well as mining prospectus, maps, ledgers, souvenirs and ephemera that document mining activity specifically and daily life in a mining boom town more generally. COLLECTION GUIDE AVAILABLE
Sadovich, Maryellen
Vallier
Coll # Mss45
Date: 1852 -1934
Extent 9 folders (144 items)
Collection consists primarily of photocopies of National Archives
material relating to early Nevada History. Documents include:
act concerning setting the boundaries for the State of Nevada,
contracts for setting up mail service btw Utah and California,
Office of Indian Affairs documents regarding a reservation in
southern Nevada, postal routes in southern Nevada, and plate showing
country tributary to SPLASL Railroad. Other items include Gibb's
phonetic alphabet of southern Nevada Indians, and numerous documents
regarding the Eldorado Mining District. INVENTORY AVAILABLE
Spur, J. F.
Coll # 1010
Date: ca. 1902-1913
Extent 1 folder
Collection consists of manuscript "Geology and Ore-Deposition
at Tonopah, Nevada" by J.E. Spurr, with hand-drawn diagrams.
This manuscript is a geological description of the Tonopah mining
area, and the Tonopah Mining Company is mentioned frequently.
It is undated, but dates could be ca. 1902-1913.
Williams, Frank
Coll # Mss33
Date: 1892 -1947
Extent 13 folders (containing 118 items)
Collection consists of manuscripts written by Frank Williams from
1892 to 1946. The bulk of the writing was done in the 1940s and
concerns his life, local histories of Goodsprings, Potosi, Mesquite
Valley and the Yellow Pine Mining District. It also contains reports
and material reflecting his role as University Regent (1909-1912
and 1923-1942) and his four terms in the State Assembly. Also
includes various addresses and articles regarding mines and mining,
the evils of gambling, and his life in Las Vegas and Vanderbilt
with wife, Edith C. Williams. COLLECTION GUIDE AVAILABLE
