Details
Title

Harpel/ Rugg collection

Call Number

751

Contents

4 boxes (36 folders, 2 cassette tapes, 1 microfilm roll, and one plat map)

Description

This collection contains the records of the town of Eldora, Colorado.

Summary

This collection includes voting records, legal and fiscal documents, minutes of the board of trustees and ordinances. It also includes papers of W. T. Harpel and his daughter Clara Harpel Rugg, mainly land deeds and tax receipts, and the records of the Harpel Mining and Milling Company.

History

William T. Harpel was mayor of Eldora, Colorado from 1908 to 1936. His wife was Maggie Carney Harpel; their daughter, Clara J. Harpel, married Merle C. Rugg. Rosamond Rugg Northrop is the daughter of Clara and Merle Rugg.

Terms of Use

RIGHTS: Materials in this collection may be used freely for any purpose, with attribution to the Carnegie Library for Local History, Boulder. No duplicated materials may be deposited or placed on file in any other archive, museum, library or similar repository. Questions of copyright are the responsibility of the user.

Format

Correspondence.
Documents.
Microforms.

Author

Harpel/ Rugg family
Northrop, Rose Rugg

Subjects

Harpel, William T, 1868-1938
Rugg, Clara J. Harpel, 1895-1987
Harpel Mining and Milling Company (Eldora, Colo.)--Records and correspondence
Eldora (Colo.)--Records and correspondence

Acquisition Note

Donor: Rose Northrop on behalf of the Harpel and Rugg families, 1989.

Note

Inventory available in box 1.

Pages

Boulder County (Colo.) treasurer deeds 1914-1936
Boulder County (Colo.) treasurer deeds 1914-1936
Call Number 751-2-1
Date 1914-1936
Contents 10 items.
Description This folder contains Boulder County treasurer's deeds to land seized for non-payment of taxes and purchased by W. T. Harpel. The lots are all in Eldora, Colo.

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Harpel Mining and Milling Company minutes 1912 Jan. 16
Harpel Mining and Milling Company minutes 1912 Jan. 16
Call Number 751-2-2
Date 1912
Contents 9 p.
Description This folder contains the minutes of the organizational meeting convened to create Harpel Mining and Milling Company on 16 Jan. 1912. It includes the bylaws.

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Mining claim location certificates 1906-1913
Mining claim location certificates 1906-1913
Call Number 751-2-3
Date 1906-1913
Contents 6 items.
Description This folder contains location certificates filed with the Boulder County Clerk for mining claims discovered by W. T. Harpel.

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Boulder County (Colo.) tax-sale certificates of purchase 1901-1935
Boulder County (Colo.) tax-sale certificates of purchase 1901-1935
Call Number 751-2-4
Date 1901-1935
Contents 10 items.
Description This folder contains Boulder County treasurer's certificates of purchase for the sale of real estate for delinquent taxes. The real estate includes both lots and mines in and around Eldora.

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Harpel and Rugg family property tax receipts
Harpel and Rugg family property tax receipts
Call Number 751-2-5
Date 1909-1951
Contents 46 items.
Description This folder contains Harpel and Rugg family receipts for county and Moffat Tunnel Improvement District taxes. Included are legal descriptions of the land and mining claims being taxed.

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William T. Harpel, Correspondence
William T. Harpel, Correspondence
Call Number 751-2-6
Date 1934
Contents 1 item.
Description This folder contains a letter from Mrs. Adeline Bowles to W. T. Harpel about her estranged husband, Charles Bowles and his disappearance from Eldora, Colorado.

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William T. Harpel, business papers
William T. Harpel, business papers
Call Number 751-2-7
Date 1916-1939
Contents 14 items.
Description This folder contains business papers of W. T. Harpel.

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William T. Harpel, Life insurance policy 1918
William T. Harpel, Life insurance policy 1918
Call Number 751-2-8
Date 1918
Contents 1 item.
Description This folder contains a life insurance policy issued by the U.S. government during World War I.

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Harpel family Papers 1916-1938
Harpel family Papers 1916-1938
Call Number 751-2-9
Date 1916-1938
Contents 3 items.
Description This folder contains a letter from Amanda H. Findling for Women of Woodcraft, Denver Circle No. 17, an order for the tombstone for Maggie Harpel's grave, made by Boulder Marble and Granite works, and a notice of delinquent taxes from the Boulder County treasurer against the estate of Maggie Harpel.

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Merle C. Rugg, Business papers
Merle C. Rugg, Business papers
Call Number 751-2-10
Date 1940-1951
Contents 7 items.
Description This folder contains a pay stub from Vanadium Corporation of America for wages earned by Merle Rugg; correspondence about an order with Gardner-Denver Company for some mining equipment; a bill of lading from the Denver and Salt Lake Railway Company for shipping ore; a government form for mine production information; a gas rationing permit; and a life insurance policy issued by Wolf Tongue Mining Company.

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Harpel and Rugg, Legal papers 1938-1940
Harpel and Rugg, Legal papers 1938-1940
Call Number 751-2-11
Date 1938-1940
Contents 5 items.
Description This folder contains legal papers, including a bankruptcy case involving the Black Swan Mining and Milling Company; matters concerning the estate of W. T. Harpel; and a cancelled check made out to John R. Wolff.

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Business papers, 1946
Business papers, 1946
Call Number 751-2-12
Date 1946
Contents 1 item.
Description This folder contains an order for government surplus equipment, specifically jackhammers for driving a tunnel.

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