Map indicates claim ownership. Shows roads, proposed wagon road, ranches, mountains lakes, rivers and creeks. Includes legend showing principle properties. "Locations filed for record included in this territory number 6000 to date." Scale. 1...
Mine and Mill Buildings at the Oro Fino Mine on War Eagle Mountain near Silver City in Owyhee County. Photo was taken 1866. The Oro Fino Mine was discovered in August 1863. The mine was worked for a number of years by J. Marion More and David...
Mine and mill buildings and a number of waste dumps at the Black Jack Mine on Florida Mountain in Owyhee County near Silver City, Idaho circa 1900. Note the snowshed covering the tracks leading from the mine to the mill in the middle of the photo.
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...
Washington (State)-Politics and government-History-Sources. --Idaho-Politics and government-History-Sources.
Letters (1861-1863) relate to activities in the Puget Sound region of Washington Territory, for which Wallace served as a delegate in the U.S. Congress. Letters (1864-1865), written during Wallace's term as territorial delegate from Idaho, concern...
Mines and mineral resources-Idaho-Lemhi County-History-Sources. --Mining corporations-Idaho-Lemhi County-Records.
Superintendent's report of boarding houses at mines and mills, costs of production, number of employees, costs of employees, payroll information, mining plats, mineral surveys, and maps.
Television broadcasting of news-Idaho-History-Sources. --Television stations-Idaho-Boise-History-Sources.
Assembled by Dick Eardley for KBCI (formerly KBOI) television from local newscasts as a "historical file". Arrangement is alphabetical by name or subject. The reels number 1-58, with 14 reels missing. Available reels cover A-P of the alphabet....
The certificates range in date from 1862 to 1958. Some of the most interesting and elaborate are those issued by various expositions, such as the Lewis and Clark Centennial, held in 1905. Also of note: many of the certificates in the Federal...