Idaho. Board of Engineers. Nez Percé Indians-History-Sources. Gold mines and mining-Idaho-History-Sources. Nez Percé Indian Reservation (Idaho)
General correspondence (1959-1964); project files (1958-1959). Includes material on the "Nez Perce Gold Case" and correspondence, minutes, and other records relating to the Idaho State Board of Engineers (1947-1962).
Business correspondence of the Belshazzar Mine near Quartzburg, Idaho, owned by the Idawa Gold Mining Company of Valley City, North Dakota. Included are correspondence (1924-1925, 1929-1932); reports of operations (1924-1926); reports, memorandums...
A rich beauty spot in the Boise Mountains consisting of 24 mining claims with a total area of 470 acres-located 8 miles east of Boise, Idaho. Includes names of officers. Shows location of claims, geographical features such as creeks, mountains,...
Legal documents, bills of sale, claims, and notices concerning mining operations at Churchill's Bar, Gold Hill, Dry Gulch, Elk Creek and Grey Back Gulch in the Boise Basin mining district, Idaho Territory.
Letter written to a friend from Bolton, Idaho describes family, and life in a mining town. Describes dancing, skating, parties, sleighing and snow in Deer Creek area. Describes the process of buying stock in the mining company and says to, "help a...
The Caswell brothers in their cabin. The Caswell brothers discovered gold at Thunder Mountain in Valley County. The discovery of gold at Thunder Mountain initiated a massive rush to the area in the late 1890's. Left to right: Lew, Ben, Dan based...
Unidentified miners working at the Royal Placer at Rocky Bar, Elmore County, Idaho. The picture shows gold panning in progress. Note the variety of hats and clothing worn by the men. Circa 1900.
This drawing was created by Charles Ostner. He created the gold gilded George Washington statue that is now in the Idaho Statehouse. It was presented to Idaho Territory on January 8 1869 and dedicated to the Pioneers of Idaho. This is a copy of Mr....
Close connected bucketline dredge owned and operated by the Bed Rock Dredging Company near Placerville, Idaho in 1898-1899. The dredge was named the H W Lippencott after the company president Howard Lippencott. The Bed Rock Dredging Company was a...
Mining; Gold mining; Gold; Indian reservations; Indigenous peoples; Prospecting; Miners
Part of the reference series from the Idaho State Historical Society about E. D. Pierce (1824-1897) and his prospecting. Instead of searching for gold in country that was reasonably accessible, he became obsessed with the opening of a new mining...
Mines and mineral resources-West (U.S.) --Gold mines and mining-Idaho-Nez Percé Indian Reservation.
Notes, publications, photocopies, and microfilm of research materials assembled for mineral claim surveys and studies prepared for the U.S. Department of Justice and the Indian Claims Commission (Docket No. 180-A) for Indian lands throughout the...
Excerpt from an interview with Clint Whitney conducted September 17, 2003 with James Besleme, where Clint Whitney detailed his two-year employment as a laborer on the White Knob Mine Hill in Mackay, Idaho from 1929 through 1930. Whitney discussed...
Excerpt from interview with Mina S. LaMonte on May 6, 1970, where she spoke of her time in Idaho. LaMonte discussed the time period from the 1880s to about the 1920s. She spoke about how she took care of her children while her first husband was...
A display card featuring samples of gold at different degrees of fineness. The board was created by A. L. Simondi, assayer, Silver City, Idaho. The board was for R. F. Johnson, Esq., with compliments of the Donor.
