Box 2
Container
Contains 1 Result:
Letter signed J. & J. Latty, Shibboleth, to Kennett. Regarding leasing New Diggins. We think it bad policy to lease any part of mineral lands to outside parties. The heirs have a furnace capable of smelting five times the amount of mineral raised on all the lands and should have the profit of smelting it. Have had to close Shibboleth and other mines adjacent to R. Road. The contrabands and low whites flocked into the diggins for tiff and mineral., 1864 Aug 18
Item — Box: 2
Scope and Contents
From the Collection:
The collection comprises papers of the Kennett and Frost families, including notes and receipts of the Kennett, White and Company, circa 1840; letters of D.M. Frost to his wife from Texas in 1852 regarding Indian wars and letters dated 1856 regarding the Sioux War; diary of Edwin Harrison, 1858, which concerns the social life of St. Louis; and Civil War letters of Ferdinand Kennett, Jr. (Confederate) to his parents, 1864. (The Kennett family left Selma Hall and moved to St. Louis during...
Dates:
1864 Aug 18