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    Cariboo Gold Quartz Mining Company fonds

    • Title:Cariboo Gold Quartz Mining Company fonds
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    • Corporate Author/Creator:Cariboo Gold Quartz Mining Company.
    • Published/Created:1929-1971
    • Holdings

      • Location:RBSC ASRS - (Confirm availability: email rare.books@ubc.ca) Where is this?
      • Call Number: RBSC-ARC-1113
      • Number of Items:5
      • Status:c.1 Box 2 Requested
        c.1 Box 3 Requested
        c.1 Box 5 Requested
      • Location Has:Box 1-3, 5.

       
    • Library of Congress Subjects:Cariboo Gold Quartz Mining Company.
      Williams Creek Gold Quartz Company.
      Morris, J. Royden.
      Wells Townsite Company.
      Gold Quartz Hospital.
      Cariboo-Hudson Hospital.
    • Description:95 cm of textual records
      10 maps
      632 photographs
    • Summary:The fonds consists of company minutes, correspondence, printed materials, press releases, clippings, bulletins, maps and photographs as well as records of subsidiary companies (Wells Townsite Company Ltd., Cariboo-Hudson Gold Mines Ltd.), the Gold Quartz Hospital Ltd., and personal papers of J.R. Morris. The personal papers of Morris reflect the task of establishing both the mines and the town of Wells, B.C.
    • Biography/history note:Fred Marshall Wells was primarily responsible for the incorporation of the Cariboo Gold Quartz Mining Company in 1927. With the assistance of William Burnett and Oscar Solibakke of Seattle, Wells went to New York where he secured financing to develop the gold quartz veins in the Barkerville area. The town of Wells was surveyed in 1932 and the actual mining in the area began in 1933. By 1936 the Company was producing gold worth approximately 6.7 million dollars. While work was almost suspended during World War II when the market for gold collapsed, operations began again in 1947 and continued until 1967 when the mine was finally shut down. The Company merged with Coseka Resources in 1972.
    • Indexes and finding aids:Online inventory available.
    • Notes:Title based on the contents of the fonds.
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