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1865-Owens, George; General Directory and Business Guide of the Principal Towns east of the Cascade Mountains for the year 1865. Printed by Towne and Bacon, San Francisco, 1865.
Original Boards, reinforced spine, 211 pp. folding map at title page. Clean and tight. Not listed in Howes, or Wagner-Camp. Listed in the OCLC World Catalog, 317623254. Ten copies located on UCLC, though there is no indication if any of these are downloaded bound versions of the microfilm copy. One copy located in private hands, though there may be more. Not in several major private libraries. No auction records located. Owens also published the first Directory of Salt Lake City in 1867, according to Howes.
Contains both resident and business city directories for the following mining camps and communities:
Idaho Territory
Idaho City, Buena Vista Bar, Boise City, Placerville, Pioneer City, Centerville, Ruby City, Silver City, Booneville, Rocky Bar, Clifden.
Washing Territory
Walla Walla, Wallula, general mining regions
Oregon
Dalles City, Umatilla City, Portland, general mining regions.
Additionally, there is a section preceding each county section discussing the early occupation by white man and the gold/silver discoveries that led to the formation of the camps and towns. Much of this information is very difficult to find elsewhere. The Directory also lists the quartz mills and all of the quartz claims found in the District Recorders’ offices at the time, many records of which are lost today. These lists include a denotation of the claims (mines) that have been more heavily worked up to that time, which is very helpful information, since there is scant written history of the period surviving. J. Ross Browne devoted just 17 pages to Idaho in his 1868 work. His 1867 Report contains only a single paragraph on Idaho. The brief mention of the gold discoveries in Browne (1868) came from an unspecified article in the Idaho Times. Browne doesn’t appear to have had access to a copy of Owens.
This is a very rare and important first directory of Idaho Territory and surrounds. It was printed for a tiny population of about 25,000 miners and merchants, many itinerant, who had just come to the new mining regions of Idaho. It is amazing that any copies survive, given the small distribution area.
The Directory shows the mining activity in these remote regions and the attendant merchant business. Interestingly, there are only two private assay offices in the entire area, inclusive of Oregon and Washington. With a dozen quartz mills in Idaho at the time, these 2 small offices apparently could handle the business. No advertisements for San Francisco assay offices are present, which may indicate the production might have been quite small, though Browne estimated it at $10 million in 1866.
The Directory is the only source of detailed information on mining camp residents and merchants of the period. The map is spectacular, showing all of the mining regions and camps. Years ago, collector Lynn Langdon uncovered an early Idaho document archive from the c1862-1866 period, but that has since been disbursed. This was perhaps the only other source of original primary information available, other than newspapers, of which nearly none survive. As of press time, no early issues of the Idaho Times survive. It appears that only one issue of the Boise News survives from 1863 (Newberry Library).
In 1864, the US Government passed a bill to construct a mint in The Dalles, but it never was completed, though the building still stands today. While The Dalles was not a mining camp, it stood in a perfect location along a trade route to/from the Pacific Ocean, serving the Idaho, Canyon City and Kootenay mining regions. There is no mention of the Branch Mint in the Directory.
This is the most important source of primary information for the early Idaho mining discoveries. It is an essential element of any western Americana research lib HKA#64538
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3800 S Virginia St, Reno, Nevada, 89502, United States
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| Tax | Rate | Desc. |
| NST |
7.725% |
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| CST |
9% |
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