Series II: Financial Records

The George U. Young Papers date from 1894 to 1922 and include correspondence, commercial documents, legal documents, articles, and news clippings describing Young's industrial, journalistic, and political activities. They are divided into four series.

Series I: Correspondence dates from 1984 to 1922. Each aspect of Young's public life is represented, but this correspondence is preponderantly a compilation of routine business, traffic, personnel, and engineering communications addressing Young's mining concerns.

Series II: Financial Records dates from 1901 to 1921 and comprises Young's files of accounting source documents for his various commercial holdings. The majority of these records derive from the operations of the Young, Madizelle and Mammoth Mining Companies at Prescott and Goldfield, Arizona.

Series III: Mines and Mining contains correspondence, legal documents, articles, and news clippings concerning Young's commercial holdings. These items range in date from 1894 to 1915.

Series IV: City of Phoenix contains correspondence, commercial documents, legal documents, and news clippings. It dates from 1914 to 1915 and highlights Young's career as Mayor. Folders 28, 29, 34, 35 and 37 of Box 8 contain items concerning efforts to reform Phoenix municipal government during his tenure.