Lucin Mining District (Utah). Recorder Mining notices filings, 1885-1896.

This series contain a listing of notices of locations filed with the district recorder with information pertaining to the name of the claim and the date filed. Also included is a diary of an unknown individual from April to June of an unknown year, containing travels through possibly Nevada or Idaho. Mining records, which constitute a legal record, are kept for the purpose of monitoring and registering mining claims and operations. The Lucin Mining District Recorder recorded mining operations in Box Elder County, Utah and Elko County, Nevada.

Until the law changed in 1897, mining districts in Utah had the option of electing their own mining district recorder. Many of the large mining districts, including the Lucin Mining District, chose to elect their own recorders while claims and other records within smaller mining districts or in unorganized areas were filed with the county recorder. Although the mining district elected its own recorder, mining operations within in the miningdistrict were also recorded with the county recorder during this time. The district recorder was created in 1869 and ended in 1897 when the law changed and the county recorder assumed sole responsibility for mining records (Laws of Utah, 1897, Chapter 36).