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Biographical Note
John Lawler was a Prescott, Arizona businessman and cattle rancher with
extensive mining interests chiefly in the Eureka Mining District, Yavapai
County, Arizona, the most important of which was the Hillside Mine.
Scope and Content Note
The collection includes correspondence, legal papers, assay reports,
financial records, and maps relating to mining, livestock, and ranching
operations, business property in Prescott, including construction of the
"Lawler Block", San Diego, and Kansas City, Missouri. Some business records
relate to Lawler's partnership with Edmund Wells. Also included are political
correspondence with Col. John F. Wilson, U. S. Delegate from Arizona, 1902, and
records of membership in various fraternal organizations.
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Access Terms
Personal Name(s)
Wells, Edmund William,
1846-1938
Wilson, John F., 1846-1911 --
Correspondence
Corporate Name(s)
Arizona Livestock
Board
Freemasons. Grand Lodge of
Arizona
Lawler and Wells (Firm) -- Records and
correspondence
Pick and Drill Mining Company -- Records
and correspondence
Seven Stars Gold Mining Company --
Records and correspondence
Geographic Name(s)
Prescott (Ariz.) -- Buildings -- History --
Sources
Subject(s)
Banks and banking -- Arizona -- Prescott -- History --
Sources
Banks and banking -- California -- San Diego -- History --
Sources
Cattle trade -- Arizona -- History -- Sources
Gold mines and mining -- Arizona -- Yavapai County -- History
-- Sources
Hillside Mine (Ariz.)
Mines and mineral resources -- Arizona -- Yavapai
County
Real property -- Arizona -- Prescott -- History --
Sources
Real property -- California -- San Diego -- History --
Sources
The Hillside Mines, Yavapai County, Arizona. Surveyed and
drawn by Alex O. Brodie.
, August 1,
1892
20
Map showing John Lawler's Interests in Eureka Mining
District, Yavapai County, Arizona. Compiled from official surveys by H. R.
Wood.
20
Hillside Mine Assay Section by H. R. Wood. Accompanied by
a book of computations.
, December
1903
20
Key, showing location of mining properties in the Eureka
Mining District, western Yavapai County, Arizona. Possibly by H. R. Wood.
, September
1929
20
Map of Comstock and Dexter and adjoining claims, Eureka
Mining District, Yavapai County, Arizona.
20
Claim map of Old Dick, Eureka Mining District, Yavapai
County, Arizona, by A. M. Gillespi. Data by H. R. Wood. (2 original drawings, 1
blueprint, 2 copies).
20
Plates of Old Dick, Copper King and Copper Queen.
, 1891, 1891 and
1901
20
Old Dick Assay Map by H. R. Wood.
, December
1929
20
Hillside Mine: three sectional drawings.
20
Township map of mine locations (original and blueprint).