Horace V. Winchell papers

This is a collection of business papers of Horace Winchell. The correspondence, for the most part, pertains to mine and mineral examinations and to efforts to develop and finance mines. The majority of the papers consists of reports on mines or mining fields in California, Colorado, Idaho, Minnesota, Montana, Nevada, Arizona, Utah, Washington, Alaska, Canada, and Mexico. Also included is a reprint of an interview with Winchell by T. A. Richard containing a great deal of biographical material, as well as some discussion of the Alaskan coal fields situation culminating in the 1910 Ballinger-Pinchot controversy, a dispute between U.S. Forest Service Chief Gifford Pinchot and U.S. Secretary of the Interior Richard Achilles Ballinger that contributed to the split of the Republican Party before the 1912 Presidential Election and helped to define the U.S. conservation movement in the early 20th Century. There are also maps of mineral areas and charts of mineral production. Many of these relate either to California or Manitoba, Canada.