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Potosi Placers Records, 1935-1941

Overview of the Collection

Creator
Potosi Placers
Title
Potosi Placers Records
Dates
1935-1941 (inclusive)
Quantity
0.5 cubic feet
Collection Number
MG302 (collection)
Summary
Correspondence, financial statements, contracts, insurance forms, drillers field logs, and vouchers of a placer mining partnership in the Beaver Mining District of the Coeur d'Alene mining region of northern Idaho.
Repository
University of Idaho Library, Special Collections and Archives
Special Collections and Archives
University of Idaho Library
875 Perimeter Drive
MS 2350
Moscow, ID
83844-2350
Telephone: 2088850845
libspec@uidaho.edu
Languages
English
Sponsor
Funds for processing were provided by the National Historical Publications and Records Commission.
Funding for encoding this finding aid was provided through a grant awarded by the National Endowment for the Humanities.
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Historical Note

Potosi Placers, a partnership between Henry Day and L.J. Burrows, involved developing some placers in the Potosi and Pony Gulches in the Beaver Mining District near Dixie, Idaho. The partnership lasted only from August-September, 1936, and the records are accordingly slim. Day and Burrows' problems getting money owed them by an E.T. Vincent generated some documentation.

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Content Description

The records of the Potosi Placers span the years 1935 to 1941, with the bulk of the material covering the period July - September 1936. Included are correspondence, financial statements, contracts, insurance forms, drillers field logs, and vouchers.

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Administrative Information

Arrangement

The records of the Potosi Placers are divided into two series.

General Correspondence and Related Records, the first series, is an alphabetically arranged series containing correspondence, reports, real estate contracts, insurance compensation forms from the State insurance fund, leases, drillers field logs, photographs, and financial statements.

The only items in the second series, Financial Records, are vouchers.

Acquisition Information

The records of the Potosi Placers are part of the records of Day Mines, Inc., donated to the University of Idaho by Henry Day in 1984 and 1985.

Processing Note

Initial processing of this Manuscript Group was done by Dixie Miller in April 1988.

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Detailed Description of the Collection

Detailed Description of the Collection

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Subject Terms

  • Gold dredging -- Idaho -- Coeur d'Alene Mining District -- History -- Sources

Corporate Names

  • Potosi Placers (Mining partnerships)

Finding aid prepared by Judith Nielsen
1992

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