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1. Papers Pertaining to the Silver King Mine

   Benjamin W. Reagan was a prospector and one of the discovers of the Silver King Mine, Pinal County, AZ.  The collection contains correspondence, assay reports, financial papers, legal papers, three photographs of family members and other materials ...

   castanoe - 2020-06-09 12:40

2. Papers of the Murphy Mining Company

   The Murphy Mining Company was a mining company operating the Crown King Mine and other claims in Yavapai County, AZ. The collection includes correspondence, minutes of stockholders meetings, financial and legal papers relating to the Crown King Mine and ...

   castanoe - 2020-06-09 12:40

3. Records of the Spenazuma Gold Mining and Milling Company

   The Spenazuma Gold Mining and Milling Company was formed in 1898 by Richard C. Flower to fraudulently sell stock in a non-existent mine. The scheme was exposed in 1899 by newspaperman George H. Smalley. The collection includes promotional and descriptive ...

   castanoe - 2020-06-09 13:23

4. Papers of Andres Moreno

   Andres Moreno (1840-1887) served in the 1st Infantry Regiment of the Arizona Volunteers for the U.S. Army from 1865 to 1866. The collection includes photostats of enlistment and discharge papers, Moreno’s record of service, and muster roll of Captain ...

   castanoe - 2020-06-09 13:26

5. 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

6. 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

7. 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

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   The collection contains a typescript of an unpublished manuscript, with photographs, concerning the story of Apache May (Patchy), a young Apache girl found in May of 1896 in an abandoned Apache camp by John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

9. 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

10. 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

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