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Title: Archive of approx. 50 pieces of correspondence and other ms. items relating to mining, primarily in Colorado Author: Place: Various places Publisher: Date: c.1870-1890 Description: In ink and pencil, various sizes, housed in sleeves in a notebook. Significant collection of original correspondence and source material relating to mining in the West, primarily Colorado. Include such items as a note regarding "9 claims all adjoining Tenderfoot Hill all the work done for this year 10 ft. shaft on each claim, the surface assays $3.00 to $5,000 per ton, there are good leads on these claims, which are about 2 miles from C. C. price $2,500 spot cash..." Also a "brief report on the Big Thing Mine located in Central Mining district Bounty County Colorado and fourteen miles from Boulder City... This property consists of a claim ad mill site - all pattented free and clear of all incumberences and very favorablly located for economical working..." And a letter from a D.A. Morrison to a Mr. Hoffman in Butte City, "I have made up 2 parcels of ore in this one sack, both packages are marked so you can distinguish... You will find them to assay well as I sorted the ore..." Other letters are written from Aspen, Platteville, Denver, Jamestown, Ft. Collins and other Colorado locales, plus Rathdrum Idaho, Kingman Arizona, Nogal New Mexico, etc. Lot Amendments Condition: Very good or better. Item number: 224010