TITLE: Golden Star Mining Company Collection (North Star Mine)
DATE RANGE 1908-1911
CALL NUMBER: Y-MS 32
PHYSICAL DESCRIPTION: 3 linear feet (4 boxes)
PROVENANCE: In 1965 Jean Provence of Scottsdale, Arizona donated this collection to the Arizona State College (now Northern Arizona University) Library. It was processed in 1972 and reprocessed again in 1990. Before 2012 it was transferred from the Northern Arizona University
Library’s Special Collections and Archives Department to the Arizona Historical Society-Rio Colorado Division in Yuma. To this was added a small quantity of similar material that had been donated to the Yuma County Historical Society at various times.
COPYRIGHT: Yuma County Library District owns the copyright to this collection.
RESTRICTIONS: This collection is unrestricted.
CREDIT LINE: Golden Star Mining Company Collection, Yuma County Library District, YMS 32
HISTORICAL NOTE: The Golden Star Mining Company was located in the Polaris-Kofa mining area, Yuma County, Arizona. In 1896 Felix Mayhew discovered a gold vein near the King of Arizona Mine, and in 1907 he sold his claim, the North Star Mine, to the Golden Star Mining Company (David M. Hyman, New York City). Operation was profitable, producing $1,000,000, but by 1911 the vein had been forced down to its economic limits. For information on this mine see Dunning, Charles H., Rock to Riches, Phoenix: Southwest Publishing Company, 1959, p. 152. This mining company had no relation to the Golden Star Mine located thirty miles north of Phoenix which was mentioned in Hinton’s Handbook of Arizona, 1878, p. 144.
SCOPE AND CONTENT NOTE: The collection is divided into five series. Series 1: Operating Records; Series II: Operating Costs; Series III: Business Correspondence; Series IV: Receipts and Requisitions; Series V: Miscellaneous
CONTAINER LIST:
| Box | Folder | Title | Dates |
| 1 | 1 | Operating Records: Filter Press Schedules | 1909 |
| 2 | Operating Records: Filter Press Schedules | 1910 | |
| 3 | Operating Records: Filter Press Schedules | 1910 | |
| 4 | Operating Records: Certificates of Assay | 1908-1910 | |
| 5 | Operating Records: Certificates of Assay | 1909-1910 | |
| 2 | 6 | Operating Records: Gold Tank Records | 1909-1910 |
| 7 | Operating Costs: Pay Vouchers | 1909-1910 | |
| 8 | Operating Costs: Pay Vouchers | 1909-1911 | |
| 9 | Operating Costs: Pay Vouchers | 1909-1911 | |
| 10 | Operating Costs: Pay Vouchers | 1909-1911 | |
| 11 |
Business Correspondence:
Sanguinetti Correspondence (fragile) |
1909-1910 | |
| 12 |
Business Correspondence:
Pacific Hardware and Steel Business Correspondence and Receipts |
1910-1911 | |
| 13 | Business Correspondence: Fulton Engine Works | 1909-1911 | |
| 14 | Business Correspondence: Pacific Lumber Company | 1909-1910 | |
| 15 |
Business Correspondence:
Abbe Engineering Company |
1909 | |
| 16 | Business Correspondence: Braun Corporation | 1909-1911 | |
| 17 |
Business Correspondence:
Harron, Rickard and McCone Machinery |
1909-1010 | |
| 18 |
Business Correspondence:
Locomotive Company of America |
1910 | |
| 19 | Business Correspondence: Standard Oil Company | 1909-1910 | |
| 3 | 20 |
Business Correspondence:
Meese and Gottfried Company |
1909-1910 |
| 21 | Business Correspondence: Railroad Freight | 1909-1911 | |
| 22 | Business Correspondence: Bauch Brothers | 1909-1910 | |
| 23 | Business Correspondence: General Managers | 1909-1911 | |
| 24 | Business Correspondence: Employee-Employer | 1909-1910 | |
| 25 | Business Correspondence: Miscellaneous | 1909-1911 | |
| 26 | Receipts and Requisitions: 1 of 2 | 1909-1911 | |
| 27 | Receipts and Requisitions: 2 of 2. | 1908-1911 | |
| 28 | Miscellaneous: Reports | 1908-1911 | |
| 29 | Miscellaneous: History | 1909-1982 | |
| 4 |
Oversize:
Payroll and Financial Statements |
1908-1911 |
