Western Trails & Treasures Auction (February 2022)

Two books of mining claims and companies in Butte, Montana. A) Title abstract for a mining claim on the Elba Quartz Lode at Lot No. 243 in Township 3

Lot of 12 items (many are multi-page letters). This important group of material comes in the aftermath of the Speculator Mine fire that occurred on Ju

Lot of 30+. Includes letterheads from the Boston & Montana Consolidated Copper & Silver Mining Company; North Butte Mining Company; Butte &a...

Lot of 2. Includes cover and copper letter - Butte Over a Mile High Everlasting Copper from Butte Montana "Butte Nearly a Mile Deep" Cop...

Large ledger, 14 x 22" x 3" thick with perhaps 300+/- maps of the Summit Valley, Oro Fino and perhaps other mining districts encompassed i...

A major archive of five letterpress books and two business ledgers from James B. Leahy of Butte (City), 1886-1893. Leahy was sole proprietor of the R

1901 Parrot Silver and Copper receipt book number 7249-8000, a couple of pages missing, each page with 4 different receipts. These receipts show the n

1.5" x 4" brass tag on one end, End dump, switches still working, wheels working condition, approx. 3.5' tall, 4' long and 2' ...

Lot of 6 multi-page letters regarding a 1917 coal mining strike at Klein, Montana. Klein is located in Musselshell County. 1) Two copies of a 5-page

Lot of 25 pieces related to the Leviathan Gold Mining Company of Mammoth, Montana. The Mammoth quartz lode was located in the Mineral Hill Mining Dist

Two ledger books for the Leviathan Gold Mining Company of Mammoth, Montana: Cash Book, 8.5 x 14.25 inches, 75 double-numbered pages (left and right fa

Frederick Robert (Roderick) Merk (1833-1912) Frederick Robert Merk was a Montana Pioneer, expert businessman in hardware and mercantile companie

Large group of corporate records for the Alice Gold And Silver Mining Co. of Walkerville, Montana, 1884-1911, incomplete. This collection consists of

Cash Book for the Home Consolidated Mining Company from 1905 to 1912 bound into the book with additional loose pages for 1/1/1912 to 8/22/1912 as loos

Stock ledger book, approx. 8.5 x 14 inches, recording the names of shareholders and the dates of their stock transactions. Earliest year found is 1900

Four ledgers from Montana mining companies. A) Home Mining Company ledger from 1902-03. This ledger has records of labor and supply costs. Under &qu...

Lot of 18. None are identified; there is paper residue on the backs which may have obscured identifications. Eleven are 5 x 7"; six are 3.5 x 4...

Lot of 25 b& white photos depicting placer mining operations in Montana. All photos white border, mounted on black cardboard within plastic sle...

Three large mammoth prints, photos 10.5 x 13.5 mounted on board 14 x 17" 1.) Deer Lodge National Forest 1908 "French Gulch and Mill Cree...

1) Geology & Ore Deposits of the Elkhorn Mining District Jefferson Co., 22nd Ann. Report, Part II, by Walter H. Weed 21 plates, (2 in pocket), 7...

Lot of 38 mining checks. No RN. 1) Idaho. Four different checks, 1918-1924. 2) Rest are Montana mining checks. Mix of issued and unissued pieces. Earl

Several hundred sheets of checks. Most are mining related, Idaho, Montana, Colorado. Includes: Busk-Ivanhoe Tunnel, Leadville, 1890s; Butte City Water

Four letters written by George W. Clinton to his wife in Reno, Nevada. These letters are written on stationary from Hotel Watt and the Elk in Austin,

Contract with George Able to sink a shaft 50' in the Northern Mine of the Williams Gold & Silver. For $625. Specifications ae clearly descri...

1) Booklet Ely & Her Mines. July 1, 1907. History of Ely camp, geology, etc. The booklet answers questions like What are the prices of sleeping...

Shows preliminary survey of lode mining claims, the Tule Canyon Mining District, Esmeralda Co., Nevada (near Goldfield) ~ (27 w x 42" h) Date...

Fourteen pages. 4 x 9.5". President was the famous Goldfield promotor L. L. Patrick. "While admitting the principal aim of this prospectus...

1) The History of Fifty Years of Mining at Tonopah: 1900-1950. Nevada Bureau of mines and geology. Bu Carpenter, Elliott & Sawyer. 1953. 153 pag...

Typewritten letter w/envelope to Mr. Barnet Nover/journalist signed by Bernard M. Baruch/NYC congratulating Mr. Nover for an article he wrote titled...

This lot contains a copper ashtray presented by the American Institute of Mining and Metallurgical Engineers at 7in. diameter X 1 in. with their organ

Nice pair. 1) A history of the Mining story of National called High-grade. By Schreier. With photos. Hardcover with dust jacket. Near perfect! 2) Geol

Lot of 6 items related to the now-nonexistent Nevada mining boomtown of Rawhide. Included in this extremely rare collection are two issued mining co

The Sutro Tunnel Company and the Sutro Tunnel. Report by Theodore Sutro to the stock holders. 1887. Hard cover in extremely nice condition. 2) Closing

Report of the Commissioners and Evidence taken by the Committee on Mines & Mining of the House of Representatives of the U.S., together with the...

Mines, Men, and Money. San Francisco Journal of Commerce Pacific Coast Annual Mining Review from 1888. This journal has information about mines on the

Great reference for early mining in Nevada. 153 pages about the Comstock, southern Nevada Colorado Basin, Esmeralda, Nye, Lincoln, Churchill, Lander,

California State Telegraph Co. telegraph sent Jan. 6, 1864 from San Francisco to Robert Morrow, mining superintendent on the Comstock Lode. Message si

This rare volume was printed in 1889 by F. Bogle. Includes the Nevada and Great Basin Region; Lake Tahoe and the High Sierra; The mineral and agricult

Shows Mining Claims embraced in Virginia City, Gold Hill, Devils Gate and China Town, Silver Star, American Flat, & the Flowery Dist. Map used b...

Plate III of the U.S.G.S.. Publication, "Comstock Mining & Miners"by Eliot Lord, 1881 ~ (34h x 20" w, in color, and Mounted on fo...

White Pine County, Nev. 1869 - Map, showing holdings near, Treasure City, and the offering of shares, also illustrates the plans for a projected tunne

With a Nevada Index!!! 1) Browne. 1867. Report Upon the Mineral Resources. 2) Raymond. 1969. Mineral Resources. Six fold outs. 3) Raymond. 1872. Stati

Four US Geological Surveys. Geology and Ore Deposits of the Bullfrog District by Emmons and Garrey, 1910. Fold out photo, fold out map and large fold

1) Golden Rule and adjacent mines, Eureka District, Drawn by T. J. Read, (No Date) - 14 .5 w x 7 .5" h 2) Sutro Tunnel & Comstock Lode topo...

Lot of 11. This group has some rare pieces! 1) 1907 prospectus for the Vulture Extension Mining Company. Opens to a map of the Wonder Mining District

1) Some Mining Districts of Northeastern California and Northwestern Nevada by Hill. Hardcover, rebound from soft cover. About 10 fold out color maps.

Lot of 14 items related to Tonopah-Goldfield-Manhattan, NV. Collection consists of (a) a rare document from the Manhattan Branch of The State Bank ...

Published weekly out of New York, volume 78 July-December, 1904, bound into 26 issues totaling 1,056 pages, with index. Is hard bound and measures 1...

Very rare booklet from J.H. Fisk's Assay and Chemical Laboratory in Portland, Oregon. The cover advertises this laboratory as "The most com...

Issued by State of Oregon, Dept. of Geology & Mineral Industries, Bulletin 61, 1968 4 maps in pocket, 61 figures, 8 tables - Part 1, General Dis...