Records of the Harshaw Mining Company

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Page from Black Powder Keg Ledger Book, the Harshaw Mining Company, 1881-1882

Page from Black Powder Keg Ledger Book, the Harshaw Mining Company, 1881-1882.  

Collection area: Arizona and Southwest

Collection dates: 1880-1908 bulk (bulk 1880-1882)

About this collection

Contracts, assay reports, and general inventories of company. Consists of two ledgers. The first contains 27 pages of contracts and assay reports; the second has inventories of the company followed by a newer section, 1908, in another hand, which contains company store accounts, p. 124-153.

Historical background

Mining company, based in San Francisco and New York City, operating in the Harshaw Mining District, Santa Cruz County, Ariz.

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