A Guide to the Records of the
Belcher Silver Mining Company
Collection no. NC92

Records 1871-1893

Scope and Content

The Belcher Mine Company's Comstock Lode claim of 1859 was 1040' long, and was between the Overman and Crown Point Mines. First work began in 1860; beginning in 1870 it was worked jointly with the Crown Point Mine and in 1873 with the Yellow Jacket Mine. In 1915 the three combined into the Jacket-Crown Point-Belcher Mines Company which in turn became part of the United Comstock Mining company in 1920. The collection consists of records of operation including weekly reports from the mine superintendent to H.D. Fry; and assay records for the Belcher and Crown Point mines; and the Santiago, Vivian, Mexican, and Eureka mills

92/1/1-2                  Reports (1871-1893)

92/1/1                Oct 28. 1871-Feb 14, 1874.

 

Draft copies of weekly reports from the mine superintendent to H.D. Fry.

92/1/2                Nov. 15, 1887- Feb. 7, 1893.  Wet copy book, marked Letters on the spine.  Contains weekly reports, letters, annual reports for 1887, 1888, 1889, 1890, 1891, 1892.

 

92/2                         Assay records.  (1885-1886)

Contains records for: Belcher Mine, Crown Point Mine, Santiago Mill, Vivian Mill, Mexican Mill, Eureka Mill.