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Mines and mineral resources -- Utah

 Subject
Subject Source: Library of Congress Subject Headings

Found in 10 Collections and/or Records:

J. M. Boutwell papers

 Collection
Identifier: MSS 1647
Scope and Contents Consists largely of personal and business correspondence and material dealing with Boutwell's career as a geologist (maps, notebooks, manuscripts and illustrations, education, mineral samples, etc.). It also includes familial details (legal and other documentation of his divorce from Esther; family history, including documentation of his claim as a direct descendant of Francis Cooke, a passenger on the Mayflower, possessions of ancestors such as the medical notebooks of H.T. Boutwell,...
Dates: 1772-1979

P. E. Connor legal agreement

 File — Folder 1: [Barcode: 31197230241298]
Identifier: MSS SC 444
Scope and Contents Handwritten legal document in which Thomas Mathews, as administrator of the estate of Edward Lavalle, gave his rights to Connor to 200 feet of the Titus Mining Claim in Little Cottonwood Mining District, Utah. In return, Connor was to institute legal proceedings to clarify title to his property and return to Mathews 1/4 of any value recovered. The agreement was later amended by Mathews (1875, March 20); he assigned his rights to J.P. Taggart, an attorney, to defray Taggart's claims against...
Dates: 1873

The discovery and development of the Tintic Mining District

 File — Folder 1: [Barcode: 31197230242213]
Identifier: MSS SC 532
Scope and Contents

Typescript. Tells briefly of mining in Utah and of her father, Stephen B. Moore.

Dates: 1961

Lorenzo Snow Lyman collection

 File — Folder 1: [Barcode: 31197230328814]
Identifier: MSS SC 2976
Scope and Contents Correspondence and certificates of Lorenzo S. Lyman and Lyman family papers. The correspondence deals with 19th and 20th century Utah politics; references to Brigham Young, Wilford Woodruff, Lorenzo Snow, the St. George Temple, and Utah mining and politics; Family History; family activities in various locations (San Bernardino, California and Fillmore and Parowan, Utah); and letters from Francis M. Lyman about being an apostle and travels (a visit to Egypt and Palestine in 1902)....
Dates: 1853-1964

Donald A. Nelson collection of Teasdale family books and journals

 Collection
Identifier: MSS 8224
Scope and Contents

Contains two rare books and six small journals related to Latter Day Saint apostle George Teasdale (1831-1907), his son George Ezra Teasdale (1857-1935), and George Ezra's daughter June Emma Teasdale (1900-1920). Materials include in formation on family and social activities, as well as service in the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. Materials date from between 1841 and 1929.

Dates: 1841-1929

Ophir Mining District records

 Collection — Folder 1: [Barcode: 31197227637078]
Identifier: MSS 4083
Abstract

Twenty-three items concerning claims in the Ophir Mining District, 1870-1879.

Dates: Other: 1870-1879

Oral history interview

 File — Folder 1: [Barcode: 31197230238047]
Identifier: MSS SC 315
Scope and Contents

Typescript of an interview by George Addy, Brigham Young University History Department, with Johnson concerning his life.

Dates: 1961

James W. Flint report on Buckley Mine, Provo, Utah

 File — Folder 1: [Barcode: 31197227625495]
Identifier: MSS 3971
Scope and Contents

Report on Buckley Mine, Provo, Utah, 1907, is six leaves of notes on the Monarch Group of Mining Claims.

Dates: 1907

Standard Coal Company ledgers

 Collection — Box 1: [Barcode: 31197232504370]
Identifier: MSS 6149
Abstract

Ledgers of the Standard Coal Company

Dates: 1931-1948

A valley in Utah which is surrounded by coal, iron and rich minerals which is 220 miles south of Provo City and 380 miles from Los Angeles, California

 File — Folder 1: [Barcode: 31197230307636]
Identifier: MSS SC 973
Scope and Contents

Typewritten description of the mineral wealth of Southern Utah and an account of why it was not exploited by Brigham Young and the Mormons.

Dates: 1890