Collection M 005:
Mining records and printed materials:
DRAFT collection inventory

Introduction/ Scope and contents

Years this material was created: circa 1889 - 1989 (bulk years: - )

Quantity: 10 linear shelf feet (in 17 document cases and 2 records boxes)

Records of mining in the San Juan mountains of southwestern Colorado and beyond. Includes bills, deeds, newspapers, ore shipment records, invoices, receipts, maps, production reports, maps, prospectuses, agreements, histories, etc., pertaining to various mining operations in the San Juan Mountains of southwest Colorado and further afield. 

Includes mining companies' ledgers, 1894-19--; Ledge Mining and Milling Company (Silverton, Colo.) records; Iowa Mining and Milling Co. account book, 1899-1901; L.B.G. Mining Co. mining level sample books, 1926-1932; Socorro Mines; Red Arrow Mine; American Institute of Mining directories, 1927-1953; mines registers, 1937, 1946; Who's Who in Engineering, 1931-1948 various; American Mining Congress report, 1920; American Bureau of Metal Statistics yearbooks, 1951-1956; minerals yearbooks, 1944-1950; and other records and printed materials pertaining to mining. Includes 2x bound volumes (and a photocopy of the Durango, Colorado, section of) Mines and Mining Men by John G. Canfield, 1893, Southwest Colorado pages digitally accessible at http://swcenter.fortlewis.edu/images/M005/MinesAndMiners.htm

Access points:
Mining industry and finance--Four Corners Region (U.S.)
Iowa Mining and Milling Company--Accounting
Ledge Mining and Milling Company (Silverton, Colo.)--Accounting
L.B.G. Mining Company--Accounting
Socorro Mines--Accounting
Red Arrow Mine--Accounting

See also the Center's pathfinder that describes various special collections at the Center of Southwest Studies pertaining to mines and mining.

Administrative information

Acquisition of this collection:  These materials were donated by gift from various sources over time.

About the organization of this collection:  The series and boxes are numbered consecutively.  The boxes are numbered in one single numbering scheme starting with 1.

Processing information:  This collection was arranged and described by Center archival volunteers Dr. Bud Davis and Paula Wiseman in early 2008.   The folder list was produced by ___   The inventory was prepared by Fort Lewis College archivist Todd Ellison, February 2008. 

Historical note

For a brief early online history of mining in the San Juan Basin region of Southwest  Colorado, see Mines and Mining Men by John G. Canfield, 1893, Southwest Colorado pages digitally accessible at http://swcenter.fortlewis.edu/images/M005/MinesAndMiners.htm

Folder numbers start with 1 in each box.  Items within each series (e.g., correspondence, reports) and within each folder are arranged chronologically, unless noted otherwise.

The series are organized from highest hierarchical level to lowest; from most general to most specific.

Series 1:    General mines and mining printed materials, circa ____ - ____.  ## folders, in # document cases.  Arrangement is chronological.

Series 2:   Individual mines’ records, circa ____ - ____.  ## folders, in # document cases.  Arranged alphabetically by name of the mine, then chronologically under that name

Contents list:

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Series 1: A   (in box #)

Box 1:  Folder list:

Folder	Title
1
2
3
4
5
6
7
8
9
10
11
12
13
14
15

Box 2:  Folder list:

Folder	Title
1
2
3
4
5
6
7
8
9

Series 2:    M            (in box #)

Box 3:   

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