A typed prospectus (21 p.) for the Aspen Smelting Company accompanied by a stock certificate for 600 shares of the company, issued on July 14, 1924, to G. D. Sutton. The prospectus includes a fold-out chart of mineral production in Pitkin County from 1880 to 1924; a record of mining leases and royalty schedules; a financial statement dated August 31, 1925; airlift data; and operating costs. Seven photographs, including one of company president R. P. Sharpe and six of various mining properties, are tipped onto pages of the prospectus.
Description:
Purchased from Brian Levine on the Arthur Corbitt Hoskins Memorial Fund, 2005. and The Aspen Smelting Company was organized in Delaware in 1924. The company owned and leased several properties in the Aspen Mining District of Pitkin County, Colorado, including the Cowenhoven Tunnel, the Durant Mine, and the Smuggler Mine.
Subject (Geographic):
Aspen Mining District (Colo.) and Pitkin County (Colo.)
Subject (Name):
Aspen Smelting Company and Sharpe, R. P.
Subject (Topic):
Mineral industries--Colorado--Pitkin County and Mines and mineral resources--Colorado--Pitkin County
African American civic leaders, African American social workers, Civic leaders--United States, Civil Rights movements--United States--20th Century, and Social workers--United States
African American civic leaders, African American social workers, Civic leaders--United States, Civil Rights movements--United States--20th Century, and Social workers--United States
American fiction--20th century, American literature--20th century, Americans--France--History--20th century, and Authors, American--20th century--Archives
Typescript diary of Milton P. Skinner for 1928, bound with string. Brief daily entries from January to July describe Skinner's work on various manuscripts, local weather, auto trips, and outings with his wife Eva, including a trip to Washington in April for the annual meeting of the Society of Mammalogists and a trip from the Skinner home in Jamestown, New York to Crater Lake in Oregon. Entries omitted from August through November. December entries relate Skinner's life in Long Beach, California and note arrangement of lecture engagements at high schools and social clubs in Southern California. Typescript and manuscript financial accounts for house and automobile expenses, as well as expenses for clothes, books, amusements, and personal items are appended. Typescript calculation of personal assets dated 1928 Jan 1 also bound with diary.
Description:
Milton P. Skinner, naturalist and author. In 1920, appointed Yellowstone National Park's first park naturalist. and Purchased from Ron Lerner on the William Robertson Coe Fund, 2004.
Subject (Geographic):
California, Southern--Social life and customs, Crater Lake National Park (Or.), Jamestown (N.Y.), and Long Beach (Calif.)
Subject (Name):
American Society of Mammalogists, Skinner, Eva, and Skinner, Milton P. (Milton Philo), b. 1879