I have someone who has a collection of mining company books.  These books, mostly payroll, purchasing, and operations logs from the mid to late 19th century, are invaluable to researchers.  His problem is the books need to be appraised, and he lives in rural northern Michigan, where there are no qualified appraisers.  Does anyone have contacts that I can direct him to where he may get an appraisal?  His goal is to get these books into one of two institutions in the area where researchers will access to them, but he has to get his own appraisals.  Thank you, and you may reply off-list.  

Richard A. Fields
Mine Interpretive Supervisor
Soudan Underground Mine State Park
P.O. Box 335
Soudan, MN 55782

(218) 753-2245/ Fax 2246

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