Spearfish (S.D.)
Subject
Subject Source: Library of Congress Subject Headings
Found in 2 Collections and/or Records:
Homestake Timber Contracts Paperwork
Collection
Identifier: 5002
Abstract
The Homestake Timber Contracts Paperwork collection includes documents regarding the sale of timber from National Forest Service land to the Homestake Mining Company from the late 1890s through the 1960s. The material also includes reasearch and correspondence from as late as the 1990s. The documents list the amount of timber sold and from which locations. The collection has a particular historical significance in the documents relating to 'Case 1.' Case 1 is the first time timber was sold...
Dates:
1899 - 1999
Homestake Vested Water Rights
Collection
Identifier: 5000
Abstract
The Homestake Mining Company was founded in 1876 and operated for 126 years, ultimately growing into the oldest, largest, and deepest gold mine in the Western Hemisphere. A critical contributor to this large-scale success lies in the company’s early acquisition of water rights in the Black Hills. The water rights collection housed at the Homestake Adams Research and Cultural Center details the mine’s systematic attainment of these water rights, as well as the legal struggles that occurred in...
Dates:
1876 - 1998