Series 24508

A separate agency history is available.

DESCRIPTION: Ophir mining district (Tooele County, Utah) recorder, Lawrence Brown, recorded documents other than notices of location in a separate book. These documents include work certificates signed by witnesses verifying that assessment work on claims had been completed. Other documents affect the validity of claims. These include protests against certain claims, warnings not to interfere with certain claims, a notice of les pendens, and a power of attorney. This book also includes miners meeting minutes for September 1872 and April 1873.

ARRANGEMENT: Documents are only very roughly chronological.

RELATED RECORDS: Notices of location and other mining records for the Ophir District were recorded in MINING RECORDS, series 24165. Summary information about mining claims was recorded in FILE BOOKS, series 24971. Early Ophir mining DEEDS are series 24572.

PROCESSING NOTE: The records of the Ophir Mining District were processed by Rosemary Cundiff in December 2002. Because of the poor quality of the original filming, Ophir books were refilmed by Utah State Archives and this inventory updated in April 2003.

PREFERRED CITATION: Cite the Utah State Archives and Records Service, the creating agency name, the series title, and the series number.