A GUIDE TO THE COLLECTION OF

Jay Arnold Carpenter, 1883-1965 

Collection no. NC800

Scope and Content

Jay Arnold Carpenter was a Nevada professor of mining engineering, chair of the Department of Mackay School of Mines, 1926-1951, director of the Nevada State Bureau of Mines, 1939-51, consultant, Metal Research Company, 1942-1944, and a member of the Nevada State Planning Board, 1940-1951.  The collection consists of research material on Nevada mines (metals of all types) and mining companies, including the Comstock Lode, engineering field notebooks, correspondence, maps, class notes and papers, clippings, and photographs.  The collection is organized into the following six series: I. Mines and mining companies. II. Field notes. III. Correspondence, 1910-1962. IV. Carpenter's writings and miscellaneous memorabilia. V. Newspaper clippings. VI. Photographs.

Box 1          Mines and Mining Companies.   

Alaska Juneau Gold Mining Co.  

Anaconda Copper

Arizona Comstock  

Ashdown 

Atlanta Home Gold  

Basic Magnesium  

Berdan Pan 

Bretz  

Brucite  

Bruneau  

Burke Mining District 

Butters Tailings - Six Mile Canyon  

Campanas 

Candelaria Mines  

Carmen 

Century  

Church  

Churchill Milling  

Colossus  

Commodore  

Placer  

Como Mines  

Comstock District (General)  

Comstock Pumps, etc. #1  

Comstock Pumps, etc. #2  

Comstock Gold Mines  

Comstock Tunnel 

Cortez Cons.  

Crosby Tungsten  

Crown Mines  

Curtz Cons.  

Cyprus 

Eagle Pitcher  

El Progresso  

Flowery 

Garnet Tungsten  

Getchell  

Goldfield Cons.  

Goldfield Jackpot  

Goldfield Yellow Cat  

Grantisville [c.1887]  

Green Metals 

Groom Mine  

Hooper  

Imperial Gypsum  

Jim Butler Tonopah  

Kennecott Copper  

Keyes 

Keystone Divide  

McNamara 

Margrave Mayer Dolan  

Monarch (7 Troughs)  

Monarch Pittsburg  

Monitor Belmont  

Montana Tonopah  

Monte Cristo 

Nash Maloney  

Nevadau 

Nevada Copper Belt R.R.  

Nevada Milling 

Nevada Packard

Box 2               Mines and Mining Companies   

Nevada Porphyry 

Nevada Silver Dyke Tungsten  

Nevada Wonder 

New Cornelia  

Newmont Mining  

North Star (Amador)  

Ohio 

Ophir (Trona, Calif.)  

Plumas Eureka  

Primer Gusto  

Randsburg 

Red Bird  

Reno Silver  

Rochester  

Silverado & Kentuck (Mono Mining Co.)  

Standard Metals 

Sulpher Mines (Inyo Co., Calif.)  

Three Queens 

Tonopah Belmont 

Tonopah Extension  

Tonopah Merger  

Tonopah Midway  

Tonopah MWWG  

Treadwell Yukon  

Trio Chrome & Gastonguey Chrome  

Utah Copper 

Utah Spur  

Webster  

West and Chemical  

White Blowout  

White Caps Mining  

Windup 

Mining - Misc. 

Box 3               Mines and Mining Companies  

Linka 

Insulex 

Box 4               Mines and Mining Companies  

Boulder General

Boulder Elect  

Bretz (Shawano)  

Tonopah - General  

J.C.'s history of Tonopah mining  

Tonopah District 

Duplicates

Box 5               54 books of field notes. 

Box 6               Correspondence, 1910

Jay Arnold Carpenter's writings and miscellaneous memorabilia; also writings of others. Alumni Association. Maps. Class notes and papers. 

Box 8               Newspaper clippings. 

Box 9               Photographs in archives as P88-55