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NV - Virginia City,Storey County - Savage Mine Detailed Receipt Books

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NV - Virginia City,Storey County - Savage Mine Detailed Receipt Books
Session D is a Mail-Bid Only Auction. Absentee bids will be accepted only. No live bidding will be allowed. All winners will be contacted after the auction. BIDDING ENDS MONDAY JUNE 27 AT 5PM PACIFIC TIME!!!
Six large receipt books for monies paid workers and contractors, from 1862 to 1879. Two volumes 1862, two volumes 1864 (Issac Requa, H.H. Day), one volume 1865 (Sam Curtis), one volume 1879. Contains perhaps 1500 pages total. The Savage Mine was one of the most important mines on the Comstock, producing from 1860 onwards. Their superintendents were among the most famous and well accomplished of all western mining engineers.