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Gold mines and mining -- Colorado

 Subject
Subject Source: Library of Congress Subject Headings

Found in 3 Collections and/or Records:

Samuel Ryan Curtis Papers

 Collection
Call Number: WA MSS 122-125
Abstract:

The collection contains correspondence between Gen. S. R. Curtis and his family while in military service or on engineering jobs, his official correspondence with copies of orders, telegrams, and other military papers while serving in the Mexican and Civil Wars, as Indian Commissioner to make treaties with the Sioux in Montana and Dakota and while working on the Union Pacific Railroad. Family letters also record Samuel Stephen Curtis's experiences prospecting in California, 1858-60.

Dates: 1846-1866

A. H. Sasse papers

 Collection
Call Number: WA MSS S-3469
Abstract:

Business correspondence, circular letters, printed promotional materials, stock certificates, deeds, leases, receipts, ledgers, and plat maps documenting A. H. Sasse’s businesses and investments, circa 1907-1954.

Dates: circa 1907-1954, bulk 1922-1943

John Waddell Collection of Mining Papers

 Collection
Call Number: WA MSS S-3049
Abstract: The collection consists of manuscript and printed letters, prospectuses, and brochures describing oil and mining investment opportunities in Colorado, Alaska, and Arizona. The bulk of the collection concerns mining ventures in Colorado, and particularly well-represented companites include the Crosby-Ehrich Syndicate, the Jack Pot Mining Company, and Tucker, Ballard, and Company of Colorado Springs; the Ramsay C. Bogy Investment Company of Denver; and the Gold Coin Mining and Leasing Company...
Dates: 1896-1914