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Mines and mineral resources-Idaho-History-Sources.

 Subject
Subject Source: Source Not Specified

Found in 15 Collections and/or Records:

D. D. White advertisement

 Collection
Identifier: MS 2/0316
Summary

For a mule train excursion from Nebraska to "Bannock and Virginia Cities, Idaho."

Dates: [1864].

Dredge Mining Control - Yes, Inc. (Idaho) records

 Collection
Identifier: MS 0393
Summary

Correspondence, petitions, advertising, and receipts relative to the adoption of the Idaho Dredge Mining Protective Act of 1968.

Dates: 1968 - 1969

Estes Real Estate (Firm: Boise, Idaho) records

 Collection
Identifier: MS 0545
Summary

Ledger (1 vol. + 1 folder: ca. 1937-1946), and invoices and correspondence (1 folder). The ledger also contains records of an unidentifeid mining venture (1920-1921).

Dates: 1920 - 1946

Frank E. Johnesse papers

 Collection
Identifier: MS 0082
Summary

Records of the Consolidated Mining Syndicate and abstracts of mining properties throughout Idaho; papers relating to Johnesse's wife, Mary Patten, including correspondence as state chair for the Democratic Party in Idaho during the 1930s, concerning her unsuccessful candidacy for Congress in 1938, and relating to the parish of St. Michael's Cathedral in Boise; photographs and memorabilia.

Dates: 1898 - 1948

Henry F. Samuels papers

 Collection
Identifier: MS 2/0567
Summary

Correspondence; Teton Coal Co. stock certificate; "Report of Idaho Cokoal Co"; various letterheads; state platform of the Progressive party of Idaho; newspaper clippings; and typewritten biography of Samuels, resident of Wallace, Idaho.

Dates: 1863 - 1951

Idaho Mining Association records

 Collection
Identifier: MS 0643
Summary

Material related to three Idaho Mining Association Annual Meetings in Boise and Sun Valley, including transcripts of speeches, correspondence, photographs and newspaper clippings.

Dates: 1944 - 1957

Idaho Surveying and Rating Bureau (Boise, Idaho) records

 Collection
Identifier: MS 0325
Summary

Reports, recommendations, and surveys relating to fire insurance ratings on approximately 50 properties (primarily mining, but including lumber companies and naval facilities) throughout Idaho. Also includes approximately 100 fire protection maps for communities and businesses throughout Idaho - these maps have been transferred to the ISHS map collection.

Dates: 1924 - 1978

Israel B. Cowen papers

 Collection
Identifier: MS 0028
Summary

Personal and business correspondence; and other papers, including material relating to the execution of several Chinese in Shoshone County in 1885 and papers concerning labor disturbances in Mullan and Gem, Idaho.

Dates: 1865 - 1922

James Henry Hawley papers (1887-1945)

 Collection
Identifier: MS 0048
Summary

Correspondence relating to Hawley's law practice, including letters pertaining to the conspiracy trials of officers of the Western Federation of Miners for crimes associated with the dynamiting of the Bunker Hill and Sullivan concentrator at Wardner, Idaho, in 1899 and for the assassination of Frank Steunenberg in 1905; correspondence and reports relating to mining operations in which the Hawley family held an interest.

Dates: 1887 - 1945

James M. Lindsay papers

 Collection
Identifier: MS 2/0514
Summary

Correspondence, receipts, water and mining right notices of Lindsay and others.

Dates: 1897 - 1940

John A. O'Farrell letter : Boise, Idaho, to Matt Graham, Hills Toll Gate, Idaho

 Collection
Identifier: MS 2/0322
Summary

Letter on mining.

Dates: 1866

Murray D. Badgley papers

 Collection
Identifier: MS 0305
Summary Correspondence and reports pertaining to Badgley's duties as Cadastral Engineer-Administrative Manager for the United States Land Survey, Department of the Interior, Boise, where he was responsible for the surveys of the public lands and mineral claims in Idaho; personal correspondence of Badgley and his wife, Blanche Kerr, and the papers of Mrs. Badgley's father, Dr. John N. Kerr, of Ohio; miscellaneous financial papers relating to the First Presbyterian Church of Boise, for which Badgley...
Dates: 1905-1967

Nort Sanders letters

 Collection
Identifier: MS 2/1318
Summary

Letters edited and annotated by Nort Sanders about Warren, Idaho and nearby areas.

Dates: 1947.

T. E. McDermott letters : Minneapolis, Minn., to J.C. Armstrong, Boise, Idaho

 Collection
Identifier: MS 2/0536
Summary

Regarding a mica mining investment in Idaho.

Dates: 1901 - 1907

William Edgar Borah papers (1890-1907)

 Collection
Identifier: MS 0006
Summary

Correspondence, legal papers, drafts of addresses, and notes relating mainly to Borah's law practice. Includes papers relating to the Republican Party; the Western Federation of Miners' conspiracy cases involving William D. Haywood and the assassination of Frank Steunenberg; William H. Dewey's mining and railroading enterprises; the Barber Lumber Company, the Potlatch Lumber Compay, and the Pacific and Idaho Northern Railway.

Dates: 1890 - 1907