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Uncovering California's Environmental Collections Project

 Subject
Subject Source: Local sources

Found in 14 Collections and/or Records:

Blue Hog Channel of Frontier Mining Property Report

 Collection
Identifier: MSS-311
Abstract

The collection consists of a five page report on the Frontier Mining Property, “Blue Hog Channel”, in Butte County, California, dated October 26, 1933.

Dates: October 26, 1933

Discovery Claims of Scholes Quartz Sedge Scott Valley

 Collection
Identifier: MSS-308
Abstract

An April 10, 1866 handwritten claim for the Scholes Quartz Sedge Scott Valley Discovery Claim.

Dates: April 10, 1866

Feather River Pine Mills Records

 Collection
Identifier: MSS-191
Abstract

The collection contains records of the Feather River Pine Mills Company, formerly known as the Hutchinson Lumber Company. The records cover mill and logging operations and production, as well as forest management.

Dates: 1920-1972

Wendell P. Hammon (1854-1939) Prospecting Log Books

 Collection
Identifier: MSS-305
Abstract

Wendell P. Hammon (1854-1939) Prospecting Log Books of Shasta and Trinity County.

Dates: 1904-1905, 1908

Wendell P. Hammon (1918-2006) Typescript: Gold Dredger as an Instrument of Conservation

 Collection
Identifier: MSS-306
Abstract

Article “The California dredger as an instrument of conservation” with rejection letter from Olaf P. Jenkins, Chief, State of California Department of Natural Resources Division of Mines, California journal of mines and geology.

Dates: 1955

Land Family Photographs and Records

 Collection
Identifier: MSS-319
Abstract The collection contains the photographs and business records of Feather River Pine Mills and the Land family, including, correspondence, financial statements, reports, and legal documents. The majority of the collection consists of photographs and negatives documenting mill construction and logging operations of Feather River Pine Mills (FRPM), including Feather River Railroad, and the National Wood Treating Corporation. The Land family was heavily involved in the business and operations of...
Dates: 1927-1957, 1987

Austin H. Merrill Papers

 Collection
Identifier: MSS-314
Abstract

The Austin H. Merrill Papers consist of correspondence, reports, diagrams, and photographs (some with accompanying negatives) related to mines and mining in Shasta County, Butte County, Mexico, Alaska, Oregon, and Nevada.

Dates: 1881-1948

Dorothea Reddy Moroney Papers

 Collection
Identifier: MSS-312
Abstract

The Dorothea Reddy Moroney Papers consists of correspondence, reports, magazine articles, a photocopy of a Quitclaim Deed, a United States Department of the Interior Geological Survey Preliminary Geologic map with Sections of the Northeastern part of the SEIAD Quadrangle, Siskiyou County, California, and a United States Department of the Interior, Chromite Deposits near Seiad and McGuffy Creeks Siskiyou county California, Geological Survey Bulletin 948-B, 1949.

Dates: 1942-1954

Mud Creek Glacier Photo Album

 Collection
Identifier: MSS-304
Abstract

Photographs of Mud Creek Glacier on Mt. Shasta in August and September of 1924. Warmer weather caused a melting of the glacier, sending down the canyon a wall of water, mud, sand, and rock.

Dates: 1924-1941

Pacific Constructors, Inc. Shasta Dam Photo Album

 Collection
Identifier: MSS-307
Abstract

The photo album contains 89 photographs detailing construction progress of the Shasta Dam by Pacific Constructors, Inc.

Dates: 1942-1945