Abstract
The UNLV University Libraries Collection on Techatticup Mine (1914-1923) is comprised of administrative and financial records associated with the Techatticup Mine, located in Clark County, Nevada south of Nelson, Nevada. The administrative documents include business reports, prospectuses, and assays. Administrative documents also include foreman reports, insurance records, warehouse inventories, correspondence, and notes relating to equipment, food, employment, and taxes. Financial records include account balances, payroll, purchasing records, statements, bills, receipts, and company vouchers.
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The UNLV University Libraries Collection on Techatticup Mine (1914-1923) is comprised of administrative and financial records associated with the Techatticup Mine, located in Clark County, Nevada south of Nelson, Nevada. The administrative documents include business reports, prospectuses, and assays. Administrative documents also include foreman reports, insurance records, warehouse inventories, correspondence, and notes relating to equipment, food, employment, and taxes. Financial records include account balances, payroll, purchasing records, statements, bills, receipts, and company vouchers.
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Collection is open for research.
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Materials in this collection may be protected by copyrights and other rights. See Reproductions and Use on the UNLV Special Collections and Archives website for more information about reproductions and permissions to publish.
Arrangement
Materials are arranged by material type.
Biographical / Historical Note
The Techatticup Mine is located thirty-nine miles southeast of Las Vegas in Eldorado Canyon, Clark County, Nevada. Prospectors discovered gold in the Eldorado Canyon, then part of the Colorado Mining District, in 1861. The mine’s name was derived from the Paiute word for “hungry.” During its heyday, it produced millions of dollars in gold, silver, copper, and lead which steamboats transported south on the Colorado River to Yuma, Arizona. Although George Hearst (father of newspaper tycoon William Randolph Hearst) held some interest in the mine in its early years, the Techatticup Mine was owned primarily by the El Dorado Mining Company until 1879. At that time it was purchased by the Southwestern Mining Company (SMC), which later sold it to Barker Brothers of Philadelphia, an international mining firm. Barker Brothers mortgaged the SMC to fund a foreign mining venture, and this foreign venture failed, leading to the sale of the SMC to Joseph Wharton at a sheriff's sale in 1895. A second period of mining at the Techatticup Mine occurred from 1914 to 1918.
Source:
Townley, John M. "Early Development of El Dorado Canyon and Searchlight Mining Districts." Nevada Historical Society Quarterly. Spring 1968. 11(1).
Preferred Citation
UNLV University Libraries Collection on Techatticup Mine, 1914-1923. MS-00734. Special Collections and Archives, University Libraries, University of Nevada, Las Vegas. Las Vegas, Nevada.
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Acquisition Note
This is an artificial collection. Materials were gathered or purchased by the Director of Special Collections starting in the late 1970s; accession numbers MS11, MS11A, MS11B, MS11C, MS11D, MS11E, and 2022-040.
Processing Note
In 2022, Sarah Jones and Peter Michel separated this material out of its former collection, UNLV University Libraries Collection on Nevada Mining (MS-00011).