Beschreibung
Three original notebooks, from ca. 9,5x18,5 cm (3 ¾ x 7 ¼ in) to ca. 9x16 cm (3 ½ x 6 ¼ in). Ca. 83, 45, 6 leaves (in all ca. 220 pp. of text). Pencil and ink on lined or graph paper, numerous calculations and graphs in text. Two notebooks with Healey's name and address written in pencil on the first leaves, one notebook with an ink stamp "Charles T. Healey" on the first leaf. Two period brown full sheep and one period brown full cloth binding. All notebooks with pencil or ink dates on the front covers; one notebook with an ink note about its contents on the front cover. Notebooks soiled and rubbed on extremities, one notebook with a large tear, separating the spine, but overall a very good collection. Manuscript field notes: ca. 1885. Folio manuscript, ca. 35,5x21,5 cm (14 x 8 ½ in). 6 leaves (9 pp. of text). Brown ink on lined paper. With an attached printed certificate, signed and sealed by the U.S. Surveyor General for California, W.H. Brown on June 29, 1885. Fold marks, paper slightly age-toned, otherwise a very good manuscript. Historically significant collection of three rare early original manuscript notebooks and field notes by an outstanding pioneer land surveyor of California, Charles Terraine Healey, who gained prominence by his surveying and mining work in Santa Clara County in the 1850s-1860s, and in the Los Angeles area in the 1870s-1900s. In 1882, Healey became the first resident of Willmore City (modern-day Long Beach) and created its first map the same year. The notebooks contain Healey's notes on the mining work in the New Almaden and Guadalupe quicksilver mines (mentioning his discovery of cinnabar), land surveys of the borders of several ranches (Rancho Los Capitancillos, Los Vergeles Ranch, Moro Cojo Ranch), work on the San Lorenzo Creek (Alameda Co.) and near the Sargent station of the Southern Pacific Railroad (now a ghost town). The Folio manuscript field notes, titled "T7S R4E MDM [Township 7 South, Range 4 East, Mount Diablo Meridian]," documents a survey (most likely by Healey, but not indicating his name) to retrace the boundaries of Los Huecos Rancho in the Diablo Mountain Range (Santa Clara County, east of San Jose), conducted in September 1881 (p. 9 of the manuscript). The document mentions the surveyor crossing the Isabel Valley, "trail to San Antonio," "high divide between Coyote and Santa Isabel [creeks]," "one of main heads of Isabel [creek]," "dense growth of caparral," &c., and fixing and setting up markers and flags (with their precise geographical coordinates). The manuscript is supplemented with an official printed certificate from the U.S. Surveyor-General's Office, dated June 29, 1885. The certificate confirms the authenticity of the manuscript and bears the signature and seal of the U.S. Surveyor-General, W.H. Brown. Overall an important collection of early rare original materials on the land survey in Northern and Central California. A list of notebooks: 1. [December 28, 1871 ? September 10, 1873, 1886. New Almaden Mine, Rancho Los Capitancillos, San Lorenzo Creek, &c.]. Ca. 83 leaves (ca. 129 pp. of manuscript text). Period brown full sleep binding. Ink stamp with Healey's name on the first leaf; Healey's name and address written in pencil on the second leaf. Ink manuscript date and a list of places on the front cover. Notes include: Dec. 28th. Commence measurements for connecting Randol Shaft with Day Tunnel. Strain a little. John Quillan and a Mexican miner assistants. Dec. 30th1871. Needle course of preliminary line from Randol shaft to Day Planilla. Dec. 31st1871. Make stakes etc. in Caprenter shop morning and make a rod in afternoon. Very heavy rain. Jan. 1st. 1872. The new discovery of cinabar made on Saturday by me has the following bearings <?> After closer examination now that it is day or nearly so, I think it is not cinabar but jasper or porphery [sic!] in serpentine or rotten soapstone. (Upon third examination we decide that it is cinnabar). Set stakes on big base. Bestandsnummer des Verkäufers MB62
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