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MINING LAWS

1873

ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF COLORADO

From First to Ninth Session, Inclusive, and

THE LAWS OF THE UNITED STATES

Concerning Mines and Minerals, together with Laws and Information Concerning Farming and Grazing Lands

To March, 1873, including Instructions for Proceedings to Obtain Titles, etc.

Fourth Edition.

Central City: Published by Collier & Hall, Register Office, 1873.

Original gray printed wrappers; 100 pages; complete.  Condition: very good plus; some very light staining and abrasions to top of front cover.

Price: $125.00

 

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MAP OF GILPIN COUNTY, COLORADO

1891

Compiled from Actual Surveys and Officil Records.

E.E. Chase and S.A. Rank, U.S. Deputy Mineral Surveyors and Mining Engineers, Central City, Colorado

Also Map of the Hawkeye District, 4 miles north of Central City

 

 

Complete to September 1891

 

 

Dimensions of map: 41 inches by 26-1/2 inches

 

 

Julius Bien & Co., Photo. Lith.

Condition: very good; no missing paper or information

Price: $1,500.00

 

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Significant books related to these mining Colorado Territorial publications:

HISTORY OF CLEAR CREEK AND BOULDER VALLEYS, COLORADO, Containing a brief History of the State of Colorado from its earliest settlement to the present time, embracing its geological, physical and climatic features; its agricultural, stockgrowing, railroad and mining interests; an account of the Ute trouble; a History of Gilpin, Clear Creek, Boulder and Jefferson Counties; and Biographical Sketches, Illustrated.  Chicago: O.L. Baskin & Co., Historical Publishers, 1880; 713 pages.

ECONOMIC GEOLOGY OF GILPIN COUNTY AND ADJACENT PARTS OF CLEAR CREEK AND BOULDER COUNTIES, COLORADO, by Edson S. Bastin and James M. Hill, Washington: Government Printing Office, 1917; United States Geological Survey, Professional Paper 94.

A TRIP TO PIKE'S PEAK AND NOTES BY THE WAY, with Numerous Illustrations, Being Descriptive of Incidents and Accidents that attended the Pilgrimage; Of the Country through Kansas and Nebraska; Operations, etc., by C.M. Clark, M.D.  Chicago: S.P. Rounds' Steam Book and Job Printing House, 1861; 134 pages, plus errata sheet.

THE GOLD MINES OF GILPIN COUNTY, COLORADO: Historical, Descriptive and Statistical, by Samuel Cushman and J.P. Waterman, Central City: Register Steam Printing House, 1876; 137 pages.

THE MINES OF COLORADO, by Ovando J. Hollister, Springfield, Mass.: Samuel Bowles & Company, 1867; 450 pages, (advertisements: front [7]; back [31])

A MINE TO MAKE A MINE: Financing the Colorado Mining Industry, 1859 - 1902, by Joseph E. King, Texas A&M University Press: College Station and London, 1977; 209 pages

THE ROCKY MOUNTAIN DIRECTORY AND COLORADO GAZETTEER, FOR 1871, comprising a brief history of Colorado, and a condensed but comprehensive account of her Mining, Agricultural, Commerical and Manufacturing Interests, Climatology, Inhabitants, Advantages and Industries, together with a complete and accurate Directory of Denver, Golden City, Black Hawk, Central City, Nevada, Idaho, Georgetown, Boulder, Greeley, Colorado City, Pueblo, Trinidad, etc.; S.S. Wallihan & Company, compilers and publishers, Denver, 1871; 500 pages.

COLORADO, IN THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA: Schedule of Ores contributed by sundry person to the Paris Universal Exposition of 1867, with some Information about the Region and Its Resources, by J.P. Whitney, printed by Cassell, Petter, and Galpin, London, 1867; 61 pages.

SILVER MINING REGIONS OF COLORADO, with Some Account of the Different Processes now being Introduced for Working the Gold Ores of that Territory, by J.P. Whitney, New York: D. Van Nostrad, 1865; 107 pages.

 

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