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Potosi Placers Records, 1935-1941
Overview of the Collection
- Creator
- Potosi Placers
- Title
- Potosi Placers Records
- Dates
- 1935-1941 (inclusive)19351941
- Quantity
- 0.5 cubic feet
- Collection Number
- MG302 (collection)
- Summary
- Correspondence, financial statements, contracts, insurance forms, drillers field logs, and vouchers of a placer mining partnership in the Beaver Mining District of the Coeur d'Alene mining region of northern Idaho.
- Repository
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University of Idaho Library, Special Collections and Archives
Special Collections and Archives
University of Idaho Library
875 Perimeter Drive
MS 2350
Moscow, ID
83844-2350
Telephone: 2088850845
libspec@uidaho.edu - Languages
- English
- Sponsor
- Funds for processing were provided by the National Historical Publications and Records Commission.
Funding for encoding this finding aid was provided through a grant awarded by the National Endowment for the Humanities.
Historical NoteReturn to Top
Potosi Placers, a partnership between Henry Day and L.J. Burrows, involved developing some placers in the Potosi and Pony Gulches in the Beaver Mining District near Dixie, Idaho. The partnership lasted only from August-September, 1936, and the records are accordingly slim. Day and Burrows' problems getting money owed them by an E.T. Vincent generated some documentation.
Content DescriptionReturn to Top
The records of the Potosi Placers span the years 1935 to 1941, with the bulk of the material covering the period July - September 1936. Included are correspondence, financial statements, contracts, insurance forms, drillers field logs, and vouchers.
Administrative InformationReturn to Top
Arrangement
The records of the Potosi Placers are divided into two series.
General Correspondence and Related Records, the first series, is an alphabetically arranged series containing correspondence, reports, real estate contracts, insurance compensation forms from the State insurance fund, leases, drillers field logs, photographs, and financial statements.
The only items in the second series, Financial Records, are vouchers.
Detailed Description of the CollectionReturn to Top
Series I. General Correspondence and Related Records , 1935-1941Return to Top
| Container(s) | Description | Dates |
|---|---|---|
| Box/Folder | ||
| 1/1 | Burrows, L.J. |
June 1936-September 1937 |
| 1/2 | D; Eyster, Mrs. Sophia |
July 1935-November 1936 |
| 1/3 | Field logs, Drillers |
August-September 1936 |
| 1/4 | Hansom Brothers |
July 1936 |
| 1/5 | Harwood, Benjamin |
July-August, 1936 |
| 1/6 | Hillman, C. Kirk, Co. |
August-September 1936 |
| 1/7 | Insurance, Compensation |
August 1936 |
| 1/8 | Mather, William - Lease |
May 1935 |
| 1/9 | Patent plats |
July-August 1936 |
| 1/10 | Photographs |
undated |
| 1/11 | Placer location notices |
August 1936 |
| 1/12 | Reports; S |
September-November 1936 |
| 1/13 | Sheep Creek Placers |
September 1936 |
| 1/14 | Statements; U |
June 1936-April 1937 |
| 1/15 | Vincent, E.T. |
1936-1941 |
| 1/16 | W |
July-August 1936 |
Series II. Financial Records , 1936Return to Top
| Container(s) | Description | Dates |
|---|---|---|
| Box/Folder | ||
| 1/17 | Vouchers |
August-November 1936 |
Names and SubjectsReturn to Top
Subject Terms
- Gold dredging -- Idaho -- Coeur d'Alene Mining District -- History -- Sources
Corporate Names
- Potosi Placers (Mining partnerships)
Finding aid prepared by Judith Nielsen
1992
This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License.
