The Spring Valley Mining and Irrigating Company Collection was formerly part of the Vintin Papers, found in the Vintin store in Cherokee, Butte County, California, in 1945. J.J. Madigan, Trust Officer, Bank of America, Chico, acting for the estate of Thomas Vintin et al., presented the Vintin Papers to the Library of California State University, Chico. In 1975, the papers were sorted and cataloged by James Lenhoff as a Community Research Project under the direction of the Political Science Department at California State University, Chico. The papers were ordered chronological arrangement.

After Lenhoff presented the papers to the Special Collections Department, a decision was made to divide the papers into three separate collections. These collections are 1) The Vintin Store Records, 2) Cherokee Mining District Records, and 3) The Spring Valley Mining and Irrigating Company Records.

The Records of the Spring Valley Mining and Irrigating Company Collection consists of land grants, deeds, correspondence, survey field notes, diagrams, reports, an account ledger, and maps. The content of that collection are separated into eight boxes.

Adapted from: Register of the records of the Spring Valley Mining and Irrigating Company / William A. Jones, Special Collections Librarian.