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Abstract : May 5, 1716. Paris. Council to Crozat. Forwards an extract from Daire\'s memoir on sending Chastelain to Vera Cruz to procure Spanish miners for Louisiana. 1p. AC., B 38:31.

Abstract : July 21, 1716. [Paris.] Minutes of council, on mines discovered by Cadillac. 5 pp. AC., C 13, 4:135. (Miss.)

Abstract : July 10, 1700. Mission of the Immaculate Conception, Illinois. Father Marest, Jesuit, to Iberville. Death of Father Binneteau. Villedieu in charge of search for mines. Copper near Chicago. Beaver trade. Kaskaskias, Peorias, and other tribes on the upper Mississippi. The Wabash. (Ext. by Claude Delisle). 6 pp. ASH., 115-10: no. 15.

Abstract : 1701. Memoir on a silver mine located between the Illinois and Lake Erie, by Genaple and Malet. 3 pp. AC., C 11, 111:176.

Abstract : April 10, 1700. Iberville to Villedieu. Order to prospect for copper and lead in the Tamaroa country. 2 pp. AM., B 4, 20:430 (LC).

Abstract : [1703. La Rochelle? Letter from] Iberville. Asks for grant of lead mines, etc. 2 pp. AC., C 13, 1:93;91. Margry, IV. 617.

Abstract : July 10, 1702. Rochefort. Extract from a letter, containing replies to various questions put to Iberville on his voyage to the Mississippi. Destruction of Fort Biloxi, and construction of Fort Mobile. Bad situation of Spaniards at Pensacola. Indians, mines, and Detroit. 3 pp. BN., MSS.fr., 9097:125.

Abstract : August 28, 1685. Rome. [Bernou to Renaudot.] La Salle's discovery. Villermont. Soundings at the mouth of the Mississippi. Spanish mines. Fortifications. 3 pp. BN., MSS. fr., n.a., 7479:249.

Abstract : February 15, 1716. Paris. Council to Cadillac and Duclos. Instructs them to follow the royal memoir of December 27, 1714, in administration of the colony; Cadillac\'s discoveries of minerals; disposition of the four new companies of troops to be sent to Louisiana. 3 pp. AC., B 38:287. (LC.) AC., F 3, 9:345.

Abstract : May 27, 1733 to July 12, 1734. [J]ournal of events at Fort St. Charles during the above period, by La Vérendrye, who is ordered to establish many posts as an aid to the discovery of the Sea of the West. Sioux wars; iron mines; beaver trade; silver mines on Red River and the English colony there; journeys to Michilimackinac. 48 pp. AE., Mém. et Doc., Amér., 8:46; AC., C 11e, 16:173 (ext.).

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