AGENCY: Ophir Mining District (Utah). Recorder

SERIES: 24971
TITLE: File books
DATES: 1870-1873.
ARRANGEMENT: By document type, with file entries chronological by date recorded.

DESCRIPTION: The earliest Ophir Mining District (Tooele County, Utah) recorders kept file books in which they recorded essential details about each notice of location they recorded. Each entry is headed with the name of a claim and then includes location and recording dates, the names of locators with the number of feet allotted to each, and the book and page number where a notice of location was recorded. In addition to file entries, a section of Book D was used to record claims for land to be used for milling and smelting purposes, for building lots in the town of Ophir, and for water to be used for mining purposes. These are legal instruments recorded by the county recorder concerning mining. They include the following: Notices of locations, Mining deed records, Mining claims records, Proof of labor records, Mining mortgages, Mining abstract records, Mining transfers and relocations. In some counties mining records are compiled separately, while in others they are part of the "Official records."

RETENTION

DISPOSITION

RETENTION AND DISPOSITION AUTHORIZATION

Retention and disposition for this series is authorized by Archives general schedule County official records, GRS-305

AUTHORIZED: 09/04/2019

FORMAT MANAGEMENT

Paper: Retain in Office permanently.

Microfilm master: Retain in State Archives permanently with authority to weed.

Microfilm duplicate: Retain in State Archives permanently with authority to weed.

Microfilm duplicate: Retain in Office permanently.

APPRAISAL

Historical

File books provide summary information about mining claims in the early Ophir Mining District, Tooele County, Utah.

PRIMARY DESIGNATION

Public

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