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Sale 2687 - Lot 71

Estimate: $ 1,000 - $ 1,500
(CALIFORNIA--INYO COUNTY.) Small archive on the Keane Wonder Mines. 3 items including report, packet of mine shaft plans, and memorandum book; moderate wear. Inyo County, CA, 1914-1935
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The Keane Wonder Mines were near the present-day ghost town of Chloride City in Death Valley National Park, close to the Nevada line. This lot includes:

Report on the Keane Wonder Mines by Homer Wilson. 10 pages, 13 x 8½ inches, typescript carbon. Describes the location of the mines "in an abrupt and extremely precipitous canyon on the western slope of the Funeral Range," the geology and development, the ore reserves, and an extensive financial report. Written in 1914, but apparently typed several years later.

Packet of hand-colored manuscript plans of the mine shafts, 10 sheets fastened with a brad in one corner, 8½ x 15¾ inches or smaller, most initialed G.W.R. and dated September 1926.

Memorandum book on the mine kept by F.A. Lawrence, [96] manuscript pages, 4¾ x 2¾ inches; a few leaves excised. Includes notes on ore samples, rough plans of mine shafts, lists of workers, and a chart of atomic weights. 1934-1935.

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