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  1. Freight Bills of Magma Copper Company

    The Magma Copper Company was a mining company operating in Superior, AZ. The collection contains typescript and holograph carbon copies of freight bills pertaining to the equipment shipment to the mine during its first years of operation, most coming from ...

    castanoe - 2020-06-09 13:27

  2. Correspondence of the Ray and Gila Valley Railroad Company

    This collection contains correspondence between the U.S. Post Office and the Ray and Gila Valley Railroad Company operating in Pinal County, AZ. The correspondence was sent to establish railroad mail service between Ray and Kelvin, AZ from 1910 to 1912. ...

    castanoe - 2020-06-09 13:33

  3. Papers of Samuel Clark

    Samuel Clark (b. 1871) was the founder of Clarkston, AZ, which would later be known as Rowood. Clark laid out the townsite of Clarkston in 1916, and operated mining properties in Ajo and Clarkston beginning in 1907. The collection contains mining papers, ...

    castanoe - 2020-06-09 13:52

  4. The Story of Patchy

    The collection contains a typescript of an unpublished manuscript, with photographs, concerning the story of Apache May (Patchy), a young Apache girl found in May of 1896 in an abandoned Apache camp by John Slaughter, a Cochise County cattleman and former ...

    castanoe - 2020-06-09 13:54

  5. Records of Pima County (Ariz.)

    Financial accounts, petitions, bonds, reports, leases, deeds, abstracts of titles, tax lists, bids, and correspondence related to Pima County operations. Chiefly records of the Board of Supervisors, such as letterpress copies of correspondence, petitions ...

    castanoe - 2020-06-09 17:39

  6. Stevens Family Correspondence

    The Stevens family were residents of Rockton, IL. Calvin Stevens’ three sons, Albion, George, and Herman, served in the U.S. Army as volunteers during the Civil War. The collection includes correspondence between members of the Stevens family, mainly sons ...

    castanoe - 2020-06-10 14:45

  7. John Francis Papers

    John Francis (1848-1899) was a manager for the Camarones Copper Company. From 1890 through 1894, he managed the Astillero Mine in Huasco, Chile. Collection includes original mechanical drawings of smelting installations used in the Chilean copper industry ...

    castanoe - 2020-06-10 16:53

  8. Brown Mercantile Company Records

    J. Sidney Brown (1833-1913) joined his brother, Junius F. Brown in Kansas, to operate a sawmill. In 1893, he started his own mercantile business, the J.S. Brown & Bro. Mercantile Company located in Denver, CO with J.F. Brown as vice president. The ...

    castanoe - 2020-06-10 17:29

  9. Cureton Cattle Company

    James White Cureton (1852-1942) was a pioneer cattleman in southern New Mexico and Texas. The collection includes business correspondence, financial accounts, and livestock records of cattle operations in New Mexico. Included materials: Manuscript Subject ...

    castanoe - 2020-06-13 15:21

  10. Will of Diego de Vargas

    Photostat of the holographic last will and testament of Diego de Vargas, composed at his death-bed in Bernalillo, New Mexico, and dated April 7, 1704. It updates a will made the previous year in Mexico City. In this detailed document, he arranges to repay ...

    castanoe - 2020-06-13 16:04

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