Treasures from Pacific Shores ~ June 2018 Auction Catalog

DAY 2 Saturday, June 23 Mining Lot# 2196 , 2 Premier Carbide Lot# 2203 , Carbide Lamp Group Lamps From Leeds England. Five carbide miners lamps. 1 small Turquoise finished. 4” and 5” Justrite, three autolites, two small reflectors. Est. $100-200 HWAC# and one tall; one ITP superintendent 63748 size. Generally nice, but far from mint. still a nice group. Est. $120-200 HWAC# 58761 Lot# 2204 , Lunch Box Light Rare! Black color lunch box/lamp used in the Lot# 2197 , Premier Carbide mines. Lamp assembly kept in lunch Lamps (21) 21 brass carbide lamps, box. 4.75”W x 7”H x 9.5”D. Est. $70-100 only 1 has a reflector. 4”tall. Est. HWAC# 72017 $200-300 HWAC# 63770 Lot# 2198 , Premier Mining Lamp Collection (34) Approx 34 small Lot# 2205 , Massive Carbide Premier lamps with rubber grip Lamps Parts Boxload Not Justrite bases. A few are repainted. 9x lamp but many universal parts. Dozens of w/o reflectors. 10x tops only. 13x full flints, 60 lighter cap ends, 40 round unfired with 3.75” -4.5” reflectors. 2x brass water doors, 50 felt gaskets, full lamps unfired with 2” reflectors. misc lamp parts, 30 felts, 12 NOS Est. $500-900 HWAC# 64005 rubber water doors, 100 lighter Lot# 2199 , Premier Mining Lamp nuts, 5 300 gram o-rings, 37 flame proof tips, 30 lighter springs, 160 Parts Boxload Many Premier parts NOS brass wing nuts, lots of other parts including felts.Counts are all including 13 NOS white felts, 65 NOS approx. Est. $300-500 HWAC# 63763 replacement blades, 30 large rubber gaskets, 100 brass reflector bases, 50 Lot# 2206 , Catchall Group of NOS bumper grips, 20 2.75” aluminum Seven American-made Carbide reflectors, 15 4” nickel reflectors, 100 Lamps Includes Wolf, Justrite, Dewar, NOS lamp tips, 150 brass wing nuts, and others. Please inspect. Est. 50 reflector braces and more. Parts $200-400 HWAC# 42535 counts are approx. Est. $300-500 HWAC# 63764 Lot# 2200 , Unfired Premier Lot# 2207 , Superintendent Carbide Lamps (7) 7 unfired Mining Lamps (8) 8 well used Premier carbide lamps,mostly Superintendent mining lamps with mint condition. NIB 9” tall with 4” condition problems. 7” tall lamps reflector. 9” tall 4.25” reflector. 3x from Acme, Dew-R-Lite, Big Boy. 7.25” with 4.75” reflectors. Black Perfect for a public or private mine 10.5” with 4” reflector. White metal 9” with 4.75” reflector. Est. $300-500 display. Hang them up in your mine HWAC# 63772 display where you do not need a mint unit. Est. $150-250 HWAC# 64004 Lot# 2201 , . NIB Safesport Carbide Lamps (10) 10 NIB Safesport No. CL 1501 carbide lamps with 4.5” reflectors. 1 has a crushed reflector. Lot# 2208 , Two Teapot Coal Est. $250-500 HWAC# 63776 Mining Lamps 6” tall with reflector, no name visible, large spout, heavily used; 4” tall, no name, nice. Est. $100-150 HWAC# 58762 Lot# 2202 , 3 Different Carbide Superintendent Lamps Justrite 7” Lot# 2209 , Unusual Save-U-Lite reflector, unmarked 3.5” reflector, Emergency Torch System 6 unused unmarked no reflector. Est. $150-200 carbide flares and 11” red holder HWAC# 63717 metal bucket. Over 3# of carbide in each flare. Est. $200-400 HWAC# 63741 Bid online at FHWAC.com or call 775-851-1859 99

DAY 2 Saturday, June 23 Mining Lot# 2210 , Belt Generator and Lot# 2217 , Rare Lion Brand No. 6 Steel Squib Case Possible belt Blasting Cap Tin Green 100-No 6 tin, 2.75” generator, perhaps by Petzl and wide. Est. $30-60 HWAC# 64051 unfired 8.5”.Cylindrical steel squib case 10”. Est. $50-100 HWAC# 63722 Lot# 2211 , Brilliant Search Light Complete , 2 units with hose. Est. $50-100 HWAC# 63715 Lot# 2218 , New Mexico Sterling Silver Miner Lamp Lapel Pins and More 3 sterling silver miner lamp lapel pins, 1 turquoise pin, 1 gold appearing pin with center stone. Purchased in NM in 1990’s Est. Lot# 2212 , Miner Hardhat Group $100-150 HWAC# 64537 (5) 5 miner hardhats made from leather and or synthetic materials. Well used. Est. $120-150 HWAC# 63765 Lot# 2219 , Mining Lapel Pins 6 lapel pins. 2 Gold appearing miners pans one with shovel, silver wire miner candlestick, 2 sterling silver Lot# 2213 , Soft Miners Hats miner lamps, silver crossed hammers. Est. $130-200 HWAC# 64539 (2) Canvas like material with lamp holder. One with leather bill. Est. $70-120 HWAC# 63714 Lot# 2220 , 3 Unusual Mine Candlesticks and More Metal Stuff 3 unusual candlesticks. 6.75” Lot# 2214 , Georgia Galvanometer twisted, 7.25” w/o hook, 13” w/o hook. 2 crude eye nails. 3 different Uni-therm Blasting Galvanometer in leather case with strap. 2.5” x 3”. Est. size railroad spikes. Est. $150-300 $60-120 HWAC# 64250 HWAC# 64536 Lot# 2221 , Manufactured Wire Candlestick 8.25” long manufactured wire candlestick. Possibly unused and unusual. Est. $100-150 HWAC# 64535 Lot# 2215 , Mounted Mine Signal Bell Mounting 29” x 13”. Bell is 12” diameter and has a working pull handle and spring apparatus. The bell chimes loudly and sharply. Perfect for the summertime cabin to call the crew to lunch or for the mine collector. Est. $200- 400 HWAC# 75227 Lot# 2222 , Three Miners Candlesticks Three miners candlesticks, unmarked. 9”, 11” (Michigan hook), 12”. The smallest is the best condition. Nothing fancy, but all original. Est. $100-200 HWAC# Lot# 2216 , Two Signs for Mine Surface 58760 Operations Danger hook cable when not in Lot# 2223 Nevada City, California use, red white black paint on metal. Danger nightstand under crane load red white Nevada City Assay Receipts Lot of black and white. 10 x 14” 10 x 7 a.m. Both eight assay receipts from the offices signs excellent condition. Location of use of Emil J. N. Ott and C. B. Whitwell of unknown. Est. $100-250 HWAC# 43932 Nevada City, California. Dated 1912- 13. Est. $100-200 HWAC# 63267 100 June 2018 - Treasures From Pacific Shores Auction

DAY 2 Saturday, June 23 Mining Lot# 2224 Red Mountain, California 1939- Lot# 2230 , California Three 1948 Kelly Mine Assay Reports (2) 2 California Assays 1) Gold Bullion reports-1939 and 1948. Red Mountain is a deposited with Selby Smelting & major silver discovery next to Yellow Aster. Lead Co.. 1896; 2) Densmore Cons. 1939 has condition issues. Est. $50-80 G. M. Co., Columbia, California, HWAC# 65046 Reduction Works Report, 1901; 3) Memorandum of Gold Bullion, Densmore Cons., 1902; also included: Certificate of Assay from The Henry E. Wood Ore Testing Company, Denver Colo., 1919. Est. $100-150 HWAC# 57816 Lot# 2231 , Colorado 1888 2 Colorado Lot# 2225 San Francisco, California 1863 GW Bell Assay Receipt for Assay Receipts Miner’s Sampling Works and Georgetown Public Ore- Savage Mine Ore Receipt for Savage creasing Est. $150-250 HWAC# 65045 Mine, a few creases Est. $100-200 HWAC# 65050 Lot# 2226 San Francisco, California Kellog & Humberts Assay Receipt to Darius Ogden Mills & Company 1860. This bar was not the best as there was an unusually large 7 ounce Lot# 2232 , Colorado Five Colorado loss in the smelting process. Bottom Assay Documents 1) Standard Assay of receipt says “Bars bad yet.” Bottom Office and Chemical Laboratory--Gold also says “Hardy & Kennedy.” Hardy and Kennedy most likely refers and Bullion melted and Assayed, to a store in Foresthill near Auburn in Placer County. Mills obviously Central City Colo.,1903; 2) two from refers to the banking house in San Francisco. This receipt has a lot going for it! Est. $400-600 HWAC# 62262 Assay Office of J.R. Reedy, Central City, Colorado., 1888 and 1892; 3) W. J. Lot# 2227 San Francisco, California Chamberlain & Co. Sampling Works, 1859 Kellog & Humberts Assay Idaho Springs, Colorado, 1893; 4) C. Receipt to Darius Ogden Mills & E. DeForest, Mining and Mechanical Company2 Earliest. Also written is Engineer and Metallurgist, Denver Hardy & Kennedy. 10 ounces lost in Colorado., 1897. Est. $120-250 melting process. Weight of bar was HWAC# 57817 351.80 ounces. Value of gold, even after the loss, was $6,290.85. Nice haul! Condition (left top dog ear, Lot# 2233 Helena, Montana c. 1900 A.P. Webster, Assayer, Business Card right side edge issues) not quite as good as the first assay, but this is an earlier example. Est. $340-600 HWAC# 62263 Business card for A.P. Webster, Assayer and Metallurgist, Helena, Montana. Office No. Lot# 2228 San Francisco, California 62, South Main St., Opposite Cosmopolitan S. Molitor & Co. Assay Receipt Hotel. On the reverse is a list of assay prices Group Four assay receipts for gold for precious and non-precious materials bullion deposited with Stephen ranging from $1.00 for lead, $1.50 for Gold Molitor in San Francisco. 1860, 1861 and Silver, $3.00 for zinc, and $5.00 for Tin (2), 1863. Molitor used a different and for Antimony. Est. $100-200 HWAC# receipt every year, often changing 64400 the color or type font. These four all went from CTH Palmer in Folsom to Wells Fargo to Molitor. The receipts are for ingots weighing 20 to Lot# 2234 Reno, Nevada H.W. Young 99 ounces each. As was the standard practice, each bar was melted, Assayer Canvas Bags Two canvas bags, reweighed and reassayed before payment was made. Molitor himself each 11 x 6 1/2 inches. Stamped each side: signed the 1860 receipt. Est. $600-900 HWAC# 56016 “H.W. Young / Assayer / Reno, - Nev.” Est. $200-400 HWAC# 63262 Lot# 2229 San Francisco, California 1871 San Francisco Assay and Refining Works Assay Report Assay report from Live Yankee ore signed by John Hewston Jr. Left edge has ripple from backing. Est. $100-120 HWAC# 65044 Lot# 2235 Virginia City, Nevada 1866 Savage Mine Assay Receipts from 5 Different Mills Receipts from the Gould & Curry Silver Mining Co. superintendent’s office for ore delivered by the Savage Mining Company for smelting and assaying. Each receipt is from a different Comstock mill: Woodworth, Chas. Lands (rare); Savage, Mariposa, and John Dalls (rare). All signed for Louis Janin Jr. as supt. 3 x 8” Excellent condition. Est. $50-100 HWAC# 66049 Bid online at FHWAC.com or call 775-851-1859 101

DAY 2 Saturday, June 23 Mining Lot# 2236 , c1910’s 100 Troy Lot# 2241 Nome, Alaska Mining Ounce Large Assay Scale Etched and Western Photos, Many with into the base of this large well-made Horses (9) Nome, AK stereoview of scale is “CAP 100 OZ TROY” and “No. a miners house with fold, postcards, 147.” It is a Williams Reynolds and photos, rPC of menwith horses and Davis Hopper one the balance of the guns Est. $70-150 HWAC# 57217 scale. Made by Daube & Hopken of Jersey City, New Jersey. Comes with some weights. This was a first class scale with brass beam, brass center post, and nickel plated brass pans. Original wavy glass still on all four Lot# 2242 Treadwell, Alaska 1909 sides of the scale. Counter weighted front door, so when you open it, California-Nevada Copper Co. Stock it stays oper where you wanted it. Large drawer (15’5 inches deep Certificate Owned mining property and 27.5” long) with the original instructions for set-up pasted on in Alaska and California. Inc. in Maine. the bottom of the drawer. Weight holder on inside of the scale. Some No. C1746, issued for 100 shares weights included. The scale is near mint in good working condition. to Guy M. Spear on May 3, 1909. Comes with a copy of a picture that shows this scale being used in an Signed by president Underwood assay office. Notice the bank vault door on the right. We recommend and the treasurer (illegible). Not you make arrangements to have this picked up. If you need to ship cancelled. Blue border with vignette this, please figure in the shipping price in your bid. Est. $2600-5000 of miner using a drill. Folds. 6 x 9.5” Printed by International BN Co., HWAC# 59459 NY. According to the Copper Handbook Vol. 10, the company owned property in California that was idle: the Ne Plus Ultra copper mine at Lot# 2237 , Assay Cupel Tray Daulton and a 100 ton smelter at Madera. They also owned property 16 space cupel tray for the assay in Alaska: the Ebner Mine (gold) located near the Alaska-Treadwell. In department. Cast iron, made by 1910, they were making plans to build a 200-stamp mill at the Ebner. Denver Fire Clay. Est. $40-70 HWAC# Est. $50-100 HWAC# 62751 56471 Lot# 2243 Treadwell, Alaska Treadwell Gold Mining Company Printers Plate New York Bank Note Company produced printers plate for dividend warrants for the Treadwell Gold Mining Company of Alaska. Lot# 2238 , Gold Poke Leather bag used by miners to Vignette of a lovely lady. Plate is 4 x 2 1/2 store their Gold Dust. Est. $100-200 HWAC# 64174 inches and includes original envelope. Ex: Stack’s February 2008 Rich Uhrich Collection auction, lot 4036. The Treadwell gold mine was on the south side of Douglas Island, .5-mile east of downtown Douglas and southeast of downtown Juneau, owned and operated by John Treadwell. Treadwell was in its time the largest hard rock gold mine in the world, employing over 2,000 people. Between 1881 and 1922, over 3 million troy ounces of gold were extracted. Not much remains today except for a few crumbling buildings and a “glory hole”. Est. $200-400 HWAC# 63621 Lot# 2239 , 1886-1924 Assay Lot# 2244 Valdez, Alaska 1911 Ephemera (5) 1886 Tosten Smelting Spirit Mountain Copper Company letter, 1886 John Taylor billhead, Stock Certificate Not listed in Filer memo of deposit Selby Smelting and or the Copper Handbooks. “Property Lead 1887, US Smelting Co. 1917 in Alaska” printed under title. Inc. in assay report with foxing, Golden Arizona. No. 77, issued for 5 shares to Cycle Mining and Reduction 1924 ore settlement report. Est. $100-200 James R. Wager on June 22nd, 1911. HWAC# 69018 Signed by president J. Daniels and the secretary. Not cancelled. Pinholes, folds, bent corners. Pen writing in upper left. 7.5 x 11” The Spirit Mountain copper region is southeast of Lot# 2240 Chisana, Alaska 1914 Chitina. Est. $60-120 HWAC# 62857 Shushanna Mining & Trading Co. Stock Certificate--Scam! Inc. in British Columbia. No. 0574, issued for 102 shares in 1914. Signed by two directors. Green border, red corporate seal. Not cancelled. Folds, pinholes. This was a scam by the Aetna Trust & Investment Co. The company was pretending to be selling shares for gold claims in Chisana, AK. Chisana is a ghost town in the Valdez-Cordova Census Area of Alaska. (Prag Collection) Est. $60-100 HWAC# 63062 102 June 2018 - Treasures From Pacific Shores Auction

DAY 2 Saturday, June 23 Mining Lot# 2245 Yukon, Alaska 1898 Lot# 2250 Canyon Diablo, Arizona Philadelphia Exploration & Mining 1920 Crater Mining Company Stock Co. Stock Certificate Issued at the Certificate Extra rare, one of the first height of the Yukon Gold Rush. Inc. five stock certificates issued. Included in New Jersey. No. 272, issued for 60 is a brochure about the Meteor Crater shares to E. Addie Engle on March of Arizona. Certificate issued January 15th, 1898 in Philadelphia. Signed 27, 1920, cancelled. Est. $300-500 by the president (Angelo Heilprin) HWAC# 63249 and treasurer William Hollis. Not cancelled. Attractive design with Lot# 2251 Cochise County, Arizona green border, fancy logo, and 1908-1911 Three Courtland Mining underground mining vignette. Folds, pen number written in upper District Stock Certificates 1) right corner, otherwise clean. 8.5 x 10.75” Printed by W.H. Hoskins, Leadville Mining Company. Owned Philadelphia. Not in Filer. The company owned the steamboat Jennie the Leadville group which included M, which was stationed on the Alatna River during the winter of 1898- the Maid of Sunshine and King 99. Named after the wife of company founder Thomas R. Hill. No other Solomon mines. Ore was near 4% information could be found, although Yale’s library appears to have copper. The company bonded an a company archive. [Ref: http://www.npshistory.com/publications/ extension to the Calumet & Arizona gaar/arctic-odyssey.pdf] Est. $100-150 HWAC# 62804 MC in 1909. No. 189, issued for Lot# 2246 , Alaska “Alaska and Its 500 shares to A.T. Yople in 1908. Gold Fields, and How to Get There” Signed by president William Holmes and secretary William. Mirarmar. Not cancelled. Allegorical vignette. Folds. 2) The Heffern Mining & (1897 Newspaper) The National Development Company. Inc. in Territory of Arizona. No. 759, issued Tribune Library. Vol. !. September for 125 shares to Ray Krebs in 1909. Signed by president Albert 18, 1897. Published Weekly. Special Hefferin and the secretary. Not cancelled. Gilt border and three mining Klondike Gold Rush issue is written vignettes. Deep folds with a little separation. Owned claims in the by Byron Andrews. 32pp. Disbound. Swisshelm Mountains. 3) Boston-Courtland Copper Company. No. 637, Map on first page; other illustrations. issued for 9 shares in 1911 to Lawrence P. Stanton. Signed by vp Hall Articles such as: “The Yukon River,” “The Short Road to the Klondike,” “Native Races,” and more. Some toning. 8.5 x 5.5” Est. $50-100 HWAC# and treasurer Hall. Not cancelled. Orange border and background. 60413 Staple holes, deep folds. Owned 30 claims incl. the Geronimo Mine. Est. $100-150 HWAC# 66020 Lot# 2247 , Alaska Alaska Hydraulic Mining Lot# 2252 Cochise County, Arizona Postcards (3) 3 postcards, 1 is RPC of Alaskan 1904-1910 Hartford District Mining hydraulic mining. Est. $50-70 HWAC# 64276 Stock Certificate Trio Lot of 3. Located in Huachuca Mountains. Mostly copper and silver. 1) Two certificates for the Hartford Mining Corporation. One Common, one Preferred. Both issued in 1904, not cancelled. Black border and eagle vignette. Folds. Not listed in Copper Handbook. 2) Hartford-Arizona Lot# 2248 , Alaska Alaska Mining Copper Mining Company. No. 252, issued for 1,000 shares in 1910. Not cancelled. Multiple mining vignettes. Deep folds. Est. $80-120 HWAC# Postcards Lot of 5. 1) Treadwell 66018 Mines, Douglas Island. No postmark. No photographer identified. 2) Gold Lot# 2253 Cochise County, Arizona Mining, Thawing by steam points. 1903 & 1908 Two Different Postmarked 1913. Published by Huachuca Mining District Stock Lowman and Hanford Co.3) Glory Certificates Lot of 2. 1) Huachuca Consolidated Development Hole Looking East, Treadwell Mine. No postmark. Publisher Edward Company. No. 143, issued for 50 shares to Marion McLain. Signed Mitchell. 4) Alaska Treadwell Gold Mining Co. postal card.Postmarked by president Jas. Wood and secretary Harry Dewey. Not cancelled. 1909. 5) Three Hundred Stamp Mill and Concentrater at Treadwell Maroon border, green background with eagle vignette. Folds, small Mine. No postmark. Published by the Portland Post Card Co. Est. $50- tear. 2) Butte and Arizona Copper Mining Company. No. 5830, issued 80 HWAC# 63835 for 100 shares to IA Heilbronner in 1908. Signed by the president Lot# 2249 , Alaska 1898 Albany (Pohndorff) and secretary. Not cancelled. Mining vignette. Folds with Gold Mining & Prospecting Co. separation. 14 claims 35 miles west of Bisbee. Ore assayed at 18% copper. Operations suspended in 1908 after a fire. Est. $80-120 Stock Certificate Issued at the height HWAC# 66025 of the Klondike Gold Rush. Inc. in New York. No. 47, issued for 1 share to William Mason on August 13th, 1897. Signed by president P.E. Martin and secretary Miller. Not cancelled. Gilt background, ornate border, and circular vignette of miners working underground. Deep folds, toning. 8 x 10” A July 29th, 1897 article from The Courier-News states the company has formed and will “send a representative to the Klondike region to stake off a syndicate claim.” Est. $50-80 HWAC# 62775 Bid online at FHWAC.com or call 775-851-1859 103

DAY 2 Saturday, June 23 Mining Lot# 2254 Cochise County, Arizona Lot# 2258 Gila County, Arizona 1901 & 1902 Black Diamond 1901-1910 Four Different Gila Copper Mining Co. Stock Certificate County Mining Stock Certificates 1) Pair Middle Pass mining district, Cochise County. Lot of 2 different. Cracker Jack Mining Company. Green 1) No. 2035, issued for 100 shares in 1901 to William Crockard. Valley. Issued 1907, not cancelled, Signed by Frank Crockard as president and N.O. Bagge as treasurer. mining vignettes. Folds. 2) American Not cancelled. Black border with mining vignettes, green seal and Mines Development Co., Ltd. Issued background. 25 cent documentary stamp attached top center. Folds. 2) in 1901, not cancelled. Eagle vignette. No. 2363, issued for 200 shares to S.W. Park in 1902. Same corporate Folds. 3) Tornado Mining Company. signatures as previous. Not cancelled. Brown border. Two 10 cent Banner. Issued in 1905, not cancelled. documentary stamps attached bottom center. Folds, tape repaired Gilt border and mining vignette. Deep folds. 4) Ancient Gold Mining & separations. This area of the Dragoon Mountains was an important Milling Company. Sierra Ancha. Issued in 1910, not cancelled. Mining stronghold for Apache warrior Cochise and was thus not prospected vignette. Folds. Est. $80-120 HWAC# 66016 extensively until after his death in 1879. N.O. Bagge and associates from West Virginia organized the company in 1897. It was developed Lot# 2259 Gila County, Arizona through 1901 incl. a furnace and tram from the mine to the smelter. 1879 General Lee Silver Mining Co. They were up and running by 1903 but after 2 years of no profit, it was Stock Certificate, Globe Location: reorganized in 1905-06. It shutdown again in 1907. It reopened briefly Globe District, Pinal Co. Arizona (printed upper left). Inc. Oct. 1877. in 1929. Est. $60-100 HWAC# 66023 Dateline San Francisco, Oct. 8th, 1879. No. 671, issued for 1,000 shares company secretary C.E. Gillett. Also signed by the president, A. Chabol. Lot# 2255 Cochise County, Arizona Not cancelled. Four assessment stamps on reverse that bleed through 1903-1912 5 Different Cochise Co. to front of stock. Pinholes, folds. 3.75 x 8.75” Printed by GH Floto, Mining District Stock Certificates SF. The 1870s were a busy time for the Globe Mining District. Silver Lot of 6 from 5 different districts. 1) San Simon Copper Company. nuggets were being found in Richmond Basin on the SW slope of the Paradise. No. A94, issued for 25 shares in 1907. Not cancelled. Folds. Apache Mountains not far from the General Lee Mine. Hinton (1878) 2) The Silver Wave Mining Company. Pearce. No. 3252, issued for 100 does not show the General Lee on his map of the district, but mentions shares in 1910. Not cancelled. Multiple mining vignettes. Folds, some that McMillan & Co. discovered a rich vein of silver chloride near the separation. Also No. 5520 issued for 300 shares in 1912. Similar General Lee, suggesting it was close to McMillan’s Camp 20 miles east design except for logo. Pinholes, folds. 3) The International Mines and of Globe City on the east side of the Apaches. He further reported they Land Company. Whetstone. No. 75, issued for 1,000 shares to NH Adsit, produced $1,300 of silver per ton of ore from a 6-foot wide vein. [Ref: MD in 1910. Not cancelled. Farming vignette. Folds, minor separation Holabird Garbani Catalog research, pg. 72] Est. $120-180 HWAC# and one small tear. 4) Mascot Copper Company. Dos Cabezas. 66029 Unissued specimen certificate. Blue border and large vignette of mine property. 5) The Kin-E-Chy Mining & Milling Company. Aravaipa. No. Lot# 2260 Globe, Arizona 1894- 531, issued for 100 shares in 1903. Not cancelled. Green border and 1910 Globe, Arizona Mining Stock 3 mining vignettes. Deep folds, separation starting. Est. $120-200 Certificate Collection Lot of 6 HWAC# 66024 different. Included: White Star Consolidated Mining Co. (1894, not cxl); Iron Hill Copper Co. (1906, not cxl., three mining vignettes); Lot# 2256 Cochise County, Arizona Warrior Copper Company (1906, not cxl., mining vignette); Arizona 1902-1907 Four Different Cochise and Michigan Mining Company (1910, not cxl); Cordova Copper County Mining Stock Certificates Company (1909, not cxl); and Orphan Copper Company (1908, not cxl, 1) Cochise Consolidated Copper allegorical vignette). In general, very good condition. Please inspect. Company. No. 1332, issued for Est. $120-200 HWAC# 66027 1,000 shares in 1905. Not cancelled. Multiple mining vignettes. Folds, Lot# 2261 Graham County, Arizona repaired separation. 2) Peoples Three Rare Gold Cliff Mining & Mining Company. No. 131, issued for Reduction Co. Stock Certificates 3 375 shares in 1906. Not cancelled. rare certificates. Gold Cliff Mining and Gilt border and mining vignette. Folds, creases, ink stains on reverse. Reduction Co. of Arizona I/U 1897 to 3) The Southwestern Mining Company. Low No. 2 issued for 7 shares Stephen Parrish #101 for 500 shares, in 1901. Not cancelled. Green border and mine drilling vignette. Folds, #105 for 1000 shares, and #167 one pinhole. 4) The May Mining Company. Low no. 8 issued for 10,400 for 400 shares, signed by president, shares to secretary JD Barnes in 1902. Not cancelled. Green border 7.75” x 10”. This company was listed and three mining vignettes. Folds with some separation. Est. $100- in the 1904 Obsolete Securities as 150 HWAC# 66015 having mines in Arizona. No other reference to this company was located within our library. There was Lot# 2257 Coconino County, Arizona 1906- a Gold Cliff M&MC located in Graham Co and a Gold Cliff MC, but no 1907 Two Coconino County Mining Stock exact match. We have decided to place it in Graham County, Greenlee Certificates 1) Anita Copper Company. No. district. Est. $150-250 HWAC# 54350 834, issued for 50 shares in 1906. Signed by vice-president A.N. White and secretary H.I. Lot# 2262 Maricopa County, Arizona Nesmith. Not cancelled. Has a map of the 1887 Phoenix Mining Company claims on the reverse! From the map, the Stock Certificate Cave Creek Mining claims are quite close to the Grand Canyon, District, Maricopa, Arizona. Inc. in with a railroad splitting off the Sante Fe & New York. No. 1556, issued for 100 Grand Canyon RR line and heading to the shares to George Pike on March mines. Folds, ink stain. 7.75 x 10.75” 2) 7, 1887. Signed by president E.S. Buckskin Mountain Copper Company. Inc. Jennison and secretary N. Melarum. Not cancelled. Simple design with in Arizona. No. 64, issued for 2,500 shares black print and border, no vignette. Pinholes, folds, creases. 4 x 9.25” to Joseph G. Butler Jr. in 1907. Signed by the president (Levy) and In 1892 Rothwell reported that the company had finally settled its secretary Ray. Not cancelled. Gilt border and three mining vignettes. plans and was finally erecting a mill. Page 101 in Garbani. Est. $40-60 Folds, heavy toning and tear on bottom edge. Est. $100-200 HWAC# HWAC# 62823 66008 104 June 2018 - Treasures From Pacific Shores Auction

DAY 2 Saturday, June 23 Mining Lot# 2263 Maricopa County, Lot# 2266 Mohave County, Arizona Arizona Central Arizona Mining Co. 1901-1911 Mohave County Mining Stock Certificate I/U to FM Curtis Stock Certificate Collection Lot of 12 #3357 100 shares. 6.75” x 11.25” different. Included: Hualapai Mining Co. “The company owned the Vulture (1911, not cancelled); El Dorado Empire mine located 14 miles by road from Mining Co. (1908, not cancelled, mining Wickenburg at the southern margin vignettes, Gold Basin); Union Pass Gold of the Vulture Mountains, and about 9 Mining Co. (1905, not cancelled, elk miles west of the Hassayampa River. vignette); Enterprise Mining, Reduction The Vulture mine was discovered in 1863 when a German named & Improvement Co. (1911, not cancelled, Henry Wickenburg and several companions discovered a butte of mining vignettes, Maynard); The Owl quartz with traces of gold. Mr. Wickenburg processed rich portions Mining Co. (1903, not cancelled, mining of the outcrop in an arrastra at the Hassayampa River. The Apache vignette, Chemeheuvis); The Benedictine Indians made mining difficult and dangerous. In 1866, the Vulture Mining Co. (1908, not cancelled, eagle vignette, Cedar); Arizona MC acquired the property and built a 40-stamp amalgamation and Copper Mountain Mining Co. (1901, not cancelled, mining vignettes, concentration mill near the site of the present town of Wickenburg. All Copper Mtn.); Elizabeth Gold Mines Co. (1903, not cancelled, mining of the machinery for the mill was shipped from San Francisco by water vignettes, Cottonwood); Nevada-Arizona Mines Co. (1908, not to Fort Mohave, a landing on the Colorado River, and hauled overland cancelled, allegorical vignette, Hackberry); Mohave Gold Mining Co. of via Prescott. In 1873, P. Smith and P.W. Taylor located a claim on the Arizona (1904, not cancelled, vignette of mine, Oatman); Philadelphia western extension of the Vulture lode and built a 5-stamp mill at the & Arizona Mining Co. (1901, not cxl, Wallapai); and The British- Hassayampa River. They operated for about six years and produced American Copper Mines & Smelter Co. (1907, not cxl, White Hills). about $150,000 worth of gold bullion. In 1879, the Central Arizona Est. $240-400 HWAC# 63999 MC was formed by James M. Seymour of New York to work the Vulture and Taylor-Smith mines. An 80-stamp mill was built at the mine. The Lot# 2267 Mohave County, Arizona company treated a large amount of low-grade gold ore. It is estimated 1878 McCrackin Consolidated the company produced about $2,000,000 worth of gold bullion during Mining Co. Stock Certificate, Owen its operation. The company lost the ore body at the 300’ level and Mining District Location printed the mine closed again in 1888. The Vulture mine had been the most in the upper right: Owen Mining productive of Arizona’s gold mines. The town of Seymour was named District, Mohave Co., Arizona. No. after James M. Seymour, signer of this certificate. (Ref: Browne, 1868, 1029, issued for 100 shares to H. p477; Burchard, 1882, p302; Wilson, 1967, p137, 157; Dunning, pp62- Aug. Whiting, company secretary, on July 10th, 1878 in San Francisco. 3, 120-1; Barnes, p196; Sherman, p136-7, 164-5; Spude et al, p5-6.)”. Also signed by the president E. Casserly. Lith. Britton, Rey & Co. Folds. Est. $120-200 HWAC# 54358 4 x 8.5” Eugene Casserly was a journalist, lawyer, and U.S. Senator from California. The mine was discovered by Jackson McCracken Lot# 2264 Miami, Arizona (notice slight spelling difference) in 1874. Located twelve miles from Inspiration Copper Co. Brass Greenwood, six miles north from Bill Williams Fork. Owned three Equipment Tag Round brass 39mm claims: the Alta, Senator, and Palmetto, on the crest of a mountain. equipment tag. Bottom is kinked. In 1879, it was reported as having a shaft 365 ft. deep, and the vein Est. $40-60 HWAC# 64511 explored with many tunnels. The ore is described as “earthy, oxidized ore, dry and friable, easily mined and milled.” Assays run from $25-70 per ton. Weekly ore extraction is 600 tons. They also have a 20 stamp mill. The mine is described favorably and promising. [Ref: United States Annual Mining Review and Stock Ledger, 1879, pg 217] Est. $150-250 HWAC# 63890 Lot# 2268 Mohave County, Arizona Lot# 2265 Miami, Arizona Ca. 1886 Mineral Park Mining 1915 Two Postcard Views Company Stock Certificate Mineral of Miami Lot of 2 early real Park Mining District, Mohave, photo postcards. 1) Birdseye Arizona. This is not only a key View of the town. 2) Image of Arizona Mine, but it is extra rare. And the Concentrator in the mining this certificate is in great condition! area of Miami. There is no Number 62 for 10 shares to JW photographer identified. Both Parmlee. Signed by JC Denison and postcards have writing on the the secretary. 1886. Incorporated in back, but no postmark. Est. Illinois. Folds. Vignette of three prospectors looking at a large nugget. $100-200 HWAC# 63575 8 x 11” Mining in this area began in 1871 and a camp was established soon after. The mines produced primarily silver, gold, copper, lead and zinc. The Mineral Park Mine today is a large open pit copper mine located in the Cerbat Mountains 14 miles northwest of Kingman, Arizona, in the southwestern United States. A 2013 report said that Mineral Park represented one of the largest copper reserves in the United States and in the world, having estimated reserves of 389 million tonnes of ore grading 0.14% copper and 31 million oz of silver. Est. $200-400 HWAC# 62767 Bid online at FHWAC.com or call 775-851-1859 105

DAY 2 Saturday, June 23 Mining Lot# 2269 Mohave County, Arizona Lot# 2272 Pima County, Arizona 1867 Philadelphia & Arizona 1881-1909 Pima County, Arizona Mining Co. Stock Certificate, Mining Stock Certificate Collection Wauba Yuma District Very rare Lot of 11. Eleven different districts and early. “Wauba Yuma District” represented! Included: Arizona Gold- printed under title. Incorporated Copper MC (1902, Tyndall, mining in Pennsylvania. No. 33, issued for vignettes, i/u); Liberty Consolidated 5,000 shares to Joseph J. Lovering Mining & Transportation Co. (Arivaca, on November 15th, 1867. Signed 1905, i/u, mining vignette); Mineral Bed Cons. MC of AZ (1881, Myers by president T. Morris Perot and District, i/u, mining vignette); El Tiro Copper Co. (1907, Silver Bell, treasurer Samuel Townsend. Not cancelled. Black border and print on i/u); Baca Land Grant Corp. $500 bond (1902, Yavapal, not cancelled); white paper. Vignette of Pennsylvania state seal (top center). Printed Lincoln Cons. MC (1906, Lincoln vignette, i/u, Papago); Grand Central by J. Haehnlan, Philadelphia. 7.5 x 11”Pinholes, folds, otherwise very Mining & Milling Co. (1907, Cababi, mining vignettes, i/u); Big Vein nice. One 25 cent IR adhesive stamp attached bottom left. The district Copper Co. (1909, Santa Catalina, drilling vignette, i/u); Helvetia is not listed by Garbani. The Wauba Yuma district is located on the old Copper Co. (i/u, 1909, drilling vignette); Helena Gold Mines Co. road to Prescott, about 60 miles from the Colorado River. The geology (1905, Vail, i/u); and Papago MC (i/u 1905, three mining vignettes, of the district is distinctly different from most others in Arizona since Baboquivari). Please inspect. Est. $280-400 HWAC# 66009 it is composed of quartz veins cutting metamorphic rocks. Some of the quartz was gold bearing, sometimes carrying copper and iron. Lot# 2273 Pima County, Arizona A writer corresponding with J. Ross Browne in 1867 lists numerous 1883 Burro Burro Mining Company prospects including the Pride of the Pines, the Ben Franklin, the El Stock Certificate Mines Situated Bonito, and other lodes developed by a New York company. Barnes in Myers District, Pima Co., Arizona places the district 20 miles east of Hardyville at the head of the Bill Territory (printed under vignette). Williams Fork. After initial prospecting in the 1860s, the district Incorporated in 1881 in New Jersey disappeared shortly. None of the mines there produced any reasonable as the Silver King Gold and Silver or substantial ore. The mines were reportedly quartz in gneiss. {Ref: Mining Co.; changed the name in Holabird Garbani Auction #12] Est. $300-600 HWAC# 63891 1882 to Burro Burro.Certificate number 688 issued to WF Springer Lot# 2270 Mohave County, Arizona 1907-1910 Three for 1000 shares in 1883. Signed Chloride District, Mohave Co., Arizona Mining by President Albert Merritt and Treasurer Chas. Craige. No edge, Stock Certificates 1) Two issued certificates for the corner, color, or fold issues. Two small pinholes. Printed by Theo. Gold Bug Mining Company of Arizona. Both issued Leonhardt & Sons, Phila. Small vignette top center of two miners in 1907: one to George Saunders for 20,000 shares working underground. Uncancelled. Black border and print on and the other to Charles S. Blake for 250 shares. Both white paper.8 x 10. Tenney (1927, p. 123) reports that this mine was signed by George Fogg as president and John Hellen acquired by a Philadelphia company in 1883 under the management as treasurer. Neither cancelled. Brown border with of C. R. Craige. A small smelter was built, but was shutdown due to vignette of miners busily working underground. Folds, faulty construction after making only one run. It appears unlikely clean. Property located 30 miles NW of Chloride. Mine that the company recovered, or if it did, made little production from first discovered in 1893 with ore carrying gold in iron the property. The Arizona Bureau of Mines reported in 1974 that the oxide. 2) The Mines Operating and Leasing Company. Gunsight mine was the only major producer of metal from the district. No. 45, issued for 200 shares to L.A. Fletcher in 1910. Est. $150-250 HWAC# 62762 Signed by the vice-president, Jones, and the secretary. Not cancelled. Eagle vignette. Multiple folds. Neither listed in Copper Handbooks. Lot# 2274 Pima County, Arizona Est. $70-100 HWAC# 63889 1880 Papago Chief Consolidated Mining Co. Stock Certificate Very Lot# 2271 Pima County, Arizona rare. Baboquivari Mining District, 1881-1907 Pima County, Arizona Pima County. Inc. in Iowa. No. Mining Stock Certificate Collection 1085, issued for 500 shares to Lot of 5 different. 1) The Continental W.F. Witherell on Sept. 20th, 1880. Exploration Company. Ni. 175, issued Signed by president W.W. Merritt and for 500 shares in 1906. Not cancelled. secretary R.M. Roberts. Not cancelled. Eagle vignette. Staple holes, folds. 2) Very attractive design with silver- Mission Mining Company. No. 899, foil background, RN facsimile, and issued for 130 shares in 1907. Not three vignettes: underground mining scenes (at right and left) and a cancelled. Three mining vignettes. Native American warrior (top center). Printed by Western Bank Note Folds, toning. 3) Mineral Bed Engraving Co., Chicago. Folds, two creases in upper right corner. Very Consolidated Mining Company of nice condition. 8.25 x 11.25” Hamilton (1884, pg. 231) reports the Arizona. Myers District. No. 150, issued for 1,000 shares in 1881. Not property is some three miles north of the Quijotoas and has produced cancelled. Mining and allegorical vignettes. Folds. Very attractive. 4) ore worth $1,000 per ton. The ledge is large and the ore free milling. The Plenty Copper Mining and Smelting Company. No. 68, issued for The property is being fully developed. Balch (1882, pg. 1126) says 50 shares in 1900. Not cancelled. Eagle vignette. Folds, pencil writing the property consists of 3 claims totaling 50 acres. The ore is an on reverse. 5) Paymaster Consolidated Mines Company. No. 374, argentiferous (silver-bearing) galena. Assays were $96 to $124 per issued for 200 shares in 1906. Not cancelled. Four mining vignettes, ton. The length of the main lode is 500 feet with an average vein width maroon border. Very attractive. Pinholes, folds. Est. $140-200 HWAC# of two feet. Est. $200-400 HWAC# 62851 63894 106 June 2018 - Treasures From Pacific Shores Auction

DAY 2 Saturday, June 23 Mining Lot# 2275 Pima County, Arizona 1905 United Lot# 2278 Pinal County, Mining Co. Stock Certificate Pair, Brownell Arizona 1907 Central Mining & Two identical issued stocks for this company Development Co. Stock Certificates, inc. in Maine. No. A307 issued for 10 shares and Winkelman District Lot of 3 for No. B326 issued for 40 shares, both to Joseph Central Mining and Development E. Davis in 1905. Signed by the president, John Company. Owners and Operators Thomson, and assistant treasurer. Neither of Two Queens Group of mines. cancelled. Tan paper, underground tunnel Winkelman. Includes: No. 6363, vignette. Both have folds, toning. Printed by issued for 50 shares to Walter New York Bank Note Co. According to the Sauerhoff in 1907. Signed by Copper Handbook, this company also listed president S.H. SNider and secretary claims in Leadville, CO, Saltese, MT, Bland, NM, John B. Selbridge. Not cancelled. Multiple mining vignettes. Deep folds, Sinaloa, and Halifax, Nova Scotia. Considered a toning; No. 1047 issued for 100 shares in 1907, slightly different title promotional scam of Albert Freeman. Est. $60-100 HWAC# 63888 but same design. Not cancelled. Folds; and No 4261, issued for 100 shares in 1907. Same design as 1. Not cancelled. Folds, heavy toning. Lot# 2276 Est. $60-120 HWAC# 66001 Pinal County, Arizona Lot# 2279 Pinal County, Arizona 1882-1911 1887 Silver Queen Mining Company Pinal Stock Certificate, Pioneer District County Location printed on certificate: Mining Pioneer District, Pinal Co., Arizona Stock Territory. Inc in New York. No. Certificate 891, issued for 100 shares to J.L. Collection Gensler on March 7th, 1887. Signed Lot of 8 from by president Nelson Morris and 7 different secretary P.S. Swain. Not cancelled. districts. Underground mining vignette. Folds, pinholes, .5” tear top center. 7. 1) Arimex Cons. Copper Company. Bunker Hill. Also had claims in 5 x 10.75” Located near the famous Silver King and used the name in the Silver Bel lDistrict of Pima County. No. a1053, issued for 100 an effort to raise money. A high-grade silver mine. The Silver Queen shares to Edwin B. Meeks in 1904. Signed by president Frank Smith outcrop was located soon after the discovery of the Silver King. It was and treasurer Norton. Punch cancelled. Fancy logo, brown border. incorporated in New York in 1880 by Philip S. Swain. It was shut down Pinholes, folds. 2) Ray Eastern Copper Company. No. 175, issued for in 1893 due to falling silver prices. Prior to 1932, the district produced 40 shares to Christian Schaf in 1911. Signed by president Hogeboom more that $2 million in gold as a byproduct of copper. The Silver King and the secretary. Not cancelled. Orange border. Multiple mining & Queen are now part of the large Magma Copper Co. at Superior, vignettes. Deep folds, some separation starting. 3) Brownell Arizona Arizona. Est. $200-400 HWAC# 63882 Mining and Smelting Company. Quijotoa. No. 193, issued for 40 shares to Danforth in 1910. Not cancelled. Green border, drilling vignette. Lot# 2280 Pinal County, Arizona Folds, bent corner. 4) Arizona Giant Copper Mining Co. Mineral Creek. 1882 South Silver King Mining Co. Unissued. c.190_. Vignette of little girl. Staining. 5) Troy-Manhattan Stock Certificate, Pioneer District Copper Company. No. 4425, issued in 1906 for 100 shares to Whipple. Rare. Pioneer District, Pinal County, Not cancelled. Birds-eye vignette. Folds. Toning on reverse. 6) Calumet Arizona (printed under title). Inc. and Copper Creek Mining Company. No. 550. issued for 450 shares to in New York. No. 317, issued for Martin E. Few in 1910. Signed by the president and sect. Not cancelled. 500 shares to A.H. Porter on April Blue border, mill vignette. Folds. 7) Two different for Mineral Mountain 28th, 1882. Signed by vice-president McKenzie and secretary James Mining Company. Issued in 1882 and 1891. One has two mining P. Foster. Not cancelled. Folds, pinholes, clean. 4 x 9” Printed by vignettes. The other has a stagecoach train vignette. Location stated as Hamilton Bank Note Co., NY. The “South Silver King” was not sold in Santa Rita Mountains, which may put this in Santa Cruz County, though the Garbani Collection, though other Silver King certificates were. The Mineral Mountain is a Pinal Co. location? Neither cancelled. One has Silver King was discovered in March 1875 and was described in detail multiple folds and creases. The other has staining and edge wear. Est. by Raymond (1876): “Great quantities of nearly pure silver is found $300-500 HWAC# 66000 in the little black nuggets in the quartz; these nuggets are soft, have coherence like bar-lead, and can be chewed between the teeth without feeling any grit... The Silver King has been examined by experts from Lot# 2277 Pinal County, Arizona San Francisco and it is said that a company will soon be formed in 1881 Cedar Tree Mining & Milling Co. Stock Certificate, Pioneer that city (where the ore has attracted much attention) to work it on a scale commensurate with its size and richness.” Est. $150-250 HWAC# District Location of Property: 63880 Pinal County, Territory of Arizona (printed at left). Inc. in New York. Lot# 2281 Pinal County, Arizona 1902 & No. 614, issued for 100 shares to 1905 Teller Mining Co. Stock Certificate D.M. Watkins on June 2nd, 1881. Pair, Sawtooth District Two identical design Signed by president William Wilham issued stocks. No. 137, issued for 1,000 shares and the secretary. Not cancelled. Four vignettes: tree near lake (top Henry Rollins in 1902. Signed by the president center), Native Americans (bottom left), prospector (bottom right), and secretary. Not cancelled. Multiple mining and small eagle (bottom center). Printed by Crogan & Murtha, NY. 7 x vignettes incorporated into the border. Printed 11” Folds and diagonal folds at corners. Very light toning. This was a by Findelr & Wibel, NY. Folds, some toning. successful mining company, paying a $5,000 dividend in 1881, 5 cents Also No. 968, issued for 350 shares in 1905. per share. It may have been bought by the Silver King at a later date. Appears to be a different president signing [Ref:Burchard, 1881, p281] Est. $150-250 HWAC# 63881 (also illegible). Signed by secretary Rogers. Not cancelled. Folds, some separation, heavy toning. Est. $60-100 HWAC# 66002 Bid online at FHWAC.com or call 775-851-1859 107

DAY 2 Saturday, June 23 Mining Lot# 2282 Pinal County, Arizona 1902 & 1930 Lot# 2286 Santa Cruz County, Two Casa Grande District Mining Stock Arizona 1901-1908 Five Different Certificates 1) Vekol Mining Company. No. Oro Blanco District Mining Stock 1092, issued for 5,000 shares in 1910. Not Certificates Lot of 5. 1) Gold Zone cancelled. Multiple mining vignettes. Folds, Mining Company. No. 77, issued for minor wear. Reported by Hamilton (1884) as 600 shares in Minneapolis in 1901. the principal ming in the Casa Grande District. It Elk pictorial. Not cancelled. Folds, was discovered by a Papago Indian and had rich toning. Also a letter to the company chloride ore containing large nuggets of metallic purchasing stock. 2) Gold Eagle silver. The ore was being found in the chambers Mining and Milling Company. No. 248, and caves of a limestone hill, not in a vein. 2) issued for 100 shares in 1907. Not Desert Queen Gold Company. No. 438, issued for cancelled. Folds, some separation. 1,685 shares in 1902. Not cancelled. Floral and Eagle vignette. 3) Idaho Gold Mines Development Company. No. 4099 allegorical vignettes. Folds. Est. $50-90 HWAC# 66017 issued for 500,000 shares in 1906! Not cancelled. Multiple mining vignettes. Folds, toning. 4) Esperanza Gold Mining and Development Lot# 2283 Pinal County, Arizona 1901 & Company. No. 33, issued for 200 shares in 1908. Not cancelled. Gilt 1907 Two Oracle District, Pinal Co. Mining border, mining vignette. Folds. 5) Idaho Consolidated Mines Company. Stock Certificates 1) The Golden Rule Copper No. 764, issued for 63 shares in 1904. Not cancelled. Multiple mining Company. No. 350, issued for 100 shares to vignettes. Folds with major separation. Est. $100-150 HWAC# 63998 Samuel Pugsley in 1901. Signed by the president Lake and secretary. Not cancelled. Orange Lot# 2287 Santa Cruz County, border and mining vignette. Folds, creases. 8.25 Arizona 1882 Mineral Mountain x 10.5” Was a scam perpetrated by William E. Mining Company Stock Certificate, Lake, prominent church worker in New York. Santa Rita Mountains Mines located [See Copper Handbook, 1907, pg. 631] 2) in Santa Rita Mountains (printed top The Arizona Copper Hill Consolidated Mining right). Inc. in Iowa. No. 257, issued Company. No. 24, issued for 36, 965 shares to for 25 shares to William (illegible) Charles Miller in 1907. Signed by the president on Dec. 25th, 1882. Signed by the and asst. secretary. Not cancelled. Green border. Pinholes, folds, president, B.F. Karns, and secretary paperclip stain. 8 x 11” Mine office at Oracle. Four claims and property Story. Not cancelled. Two mining in the Canada del Oro district. Est. $50-80 HWAC# 63899 vignettes. Deep folds, crease, some toning. 8 x 11” Printed by Western Bank Note & Engraving Co., Chicago. Mineral Mountain was on the Lot# 2284 Pinal north side of the Gila River, 10 miles north of Florence. Originally this County, Arizona company was attributed to this Mineral Mountain in Pinal County but 1881 Mowry the stock states the location as the Santa Rita Mountains. Est. $150- Silver Mining 250 HWAC# 63883 Company Stock Certificate, Lot# 2288 Santa Cruz County, Pioneer Mining Arizona 1891 Mineral Mountain District Number Mining Company Stock Certificate, 87 for 50 shares Santa Rita Mountains Inc. in to Lyman A Illinois. No. 159, issued for 100 Ford in 1881. shares to James D. Ulery on August Signed by Hirem 29th, 1891. Signed by John P. Beal A Johnson and as president and M. Shiffler as Hutchinson. secretary. Not cancelled. Vignette of Looks almost new! No pinholes, dog ears, edge issues or discoloration. “The Old Reliable Schuttler Wagon” Uncancelled. Ever so slight staining where a paper clip once was. The train heading down a mountain trail. Folds, stain along left border. Pioneer District is located in Pinal County near Globe. It was home of Originally this company was attributed to Mineral Mountain in Pinal the famous Silver King mine, the most successful mine in the territory County, but an earlier stock for the company states the location as the at the time. The ores carried copper, silver and gold.The Mine was Santa Rita Mountains. Est. $80-150 HWAC# 62822 located by George E. Mowry, a soldier with the California Column, as early as 1862/63 and was stationed at Wilmington, CA. Est. $150- Lot# 2289 Santa Cruz County, Arizona 1882 250 HWAC# 59479 & 1890 Two Different Mineral Mountain Mining Co. Stock Certificates 1) 1882 issued stock. Mines located in Santa Rita Lot# 2285 Santa Cruz County, Arizona 1907-1909 Mountains (printed top right). Inc. in Iowa. Three Santa Cruz County, Arizona Mining Stock No. 256, issued for 25 shares to William Certificates Two are for the Wrightson District and one (illegible) on Dec. 23rd, 1882. Signed by is Nogales. 1) Red Rock Consolidated Mining Company. the president, B.F. Karns, and secretary Nogales. No. 1362, issued for 500 shares in 1907. Story. Not cancelled. Two mining vignettes. Not cancelled. Orange border with mining vignette. Folds. 8 x 11” Printed by Western Bank Toning, bent lower right corner with some separation. Note & Engraving Co., Chicago. 2) Different 2) Mansfield Mining & Smelting Company. Wrightson certificate issued in 1890. No. 24, issued for District. Two certificates: No. 4666, issued for 100 1,000 shares to Jacob L. Ulery on May 26th, shares in 1907; and No. 12722, issued for 300 shares in 1890. Signed by John P. Beal as president and M. Shiffler as secretary. 1909. Not cancelled. Brown border and patriotic eagle Not cancelled. Vignette of “The Old Reliable Schuttler Wagon” train vignette. Folds. Est. $60-90 HWAC# 63887 heading down a mountain trail. Stub still attached. Small smudge on reverse, otherwise clean. Originally this company was attributed to Mineral Mountain in Pinal County but the stock states the location as the Santa Rita Mountains. Est. $180-250 HWAC# 63884 108 June 2018 - Treasures From Pacific Shores Auction

DAY 2 Saturday, June 23 Mining Lot# 2290 Santa Cruz County, Arizona 1902-1907 Lot# 2294 Cochise County, Arizona Three Tyndall District, Santa Cruz Co, Arizona 1882 Girard Gold & Silver Mining Mining Stock Certificates Lot of 3. 1) The Santa Rita Co. Stock Certificate, Tombstone Copper Mining and Smelting Company. No. 4418, Rare but condition issues. Location: issued for 250 shares to James Moore on July 15th, Pima County, Arizona Territory 1907. Signed by the president (Myers) and secretary. (printed upper right). Cochise County Not cancelled. Green border, three mining vignettes. was formed from portions of Pima Pinholes, folds. Also No. 133, issued for 500 shares in County in 1881. Incorporated June 1903. Not cancelled. Same design. Folds, stain. 2) The 1879. Number 3929 for 500 shares to Santa Rita Consolidated Mining Company of Arizona. Paul Scull on Oct. 17th, 1882. Signed No. 378, issued for 50 shares to Chas. H. Whitt on Oct. by treasurer Loyd and president William H. Whipple. Not cancelled. 30th, 1902. Signed by the president and secretary. Large vignette of well-known American financier Stephen Girard Not cancelled. Eagle vignette. Deep folds, toning. Est. at top left. This vignette displays the only known likeness of Girard $60-90 HWAC# 63885 displaying the eye injury he suffered while a child as during his life he insisted all portraits to be done omitting this injury. A second vignette Lot# 2291 Santa Cruz County, Arizona 1906 of underground mining. Folds, heavy soiling, rough edges. 8.5 x 12”. Two Different Harshaw District, Santa Cruz The Girard was the first mine in Tombstone’s history to build their Co., Arizona Mining Stock Certificates 1) own mill in the camp using their own water. The company milled ores American Mineral Company. No. 254, issued from the Contention and Tranquility to help pay for the mill. They for 10 shares to Jay Tallman on Oct. 26th, 1906. discovered their own good ore in 1884, which lasted for about a year. Signed by the treasurer, W.A. Chapman, and They sold their mill the the Tombstone M&MC in 1886. [Ref: Tenney, the president, Henry E. Pearson. Not cancelled. Burchard] Est. $100-300 HWAC# 62850 Allegorical vignette. Folds. 8.25 x 10” 2) Alta Mining and Smelting Company. No. 570, issued for 2,500 shares to N.F. Baker on Sept. 29th, 1906. Signed by the president, Sherman, and secretary Gibson Taylor. Not cancelled. Multiple mining vignettes and red title. Folds. 8.25 x 10.75” Est. $60-100 HWAC# 63886 Lot# 2292 Superior, Arizona Magma Copper Co. Equipment Tag Magma Copper CO. round brass 39mm tag Est. $40-80 HWAC# 64509 Lot# 2295 Tombstone, Arizona Prompter G&S MC Stock Certificate Prompter, issued Aug 31, 1883 to Wm Egan for 643 shares, signed by Alpheus Lewis as president and Robert Lewis as secretary. LeCount Bros., printers. Interestingly, Egan assigned the stock to AC Merryman, who then in turn assigned it back to Egan. Issued, u/c. The Prompter was a small scale replacement type silver mine at Tombstone . Rare. Est. $200-400 HWAC# 59596 Lot# 2293 Temple Bar, Arizona 1900 Santa Ana Mining Company Stock Certificate, Temple Bar Inc. 1898 in Arizona Territory. Datelined Lot# 2296 Tombstone, Arizona 1904 Kingman. Attractive certificate No. Tombstone Consolidated Mines Co. 6816, issued for one share to Lucile Stock signed by EB Gage Collectible Monthiers Dehaymin on May 31st, Western autograph but stock has 1900. Signed by the vice-president condition issues. No. 3160, issued for Howard Kemper and secretary 11 shares to George E. Bartol on Jan. Charles Metcalf. Not cancelled. Color 2nd, 1904. Signed by HM Robinson vignette of American flag, Arizona and EB Gage. Not cancelled. Brown flag, and coat of arms. Center fold, creases on the bottom, otherwise border, gold seal, and two mining clean and nice. 10.25 x 12.5” Was previouls attributed to Cochise vignettes. Folds with tape repairs, County because of a similarity in name with the Santa Ana Arizona rips, tears, and wrinkles along top MC. However, modern research of newspaper articles in Pioche, NV border. Please inspect. Gage was a prominent mining engineer and indicate this company operated placer deposits near Temple Bar, entrepreneur and was one of the notable Tombstone residents from situated on the Colorado River 12 miles above Bonelli’s Ferry. Very the early days. He was responsible for the second boom in 1886 close to the Nevada/Arizona border. This company appears to have when he discovered a way to rid the mines of the flooding which also taken control of the lease of the Temple Bar Consolidated Mining ended much of the town’s success in 1881. Gage was instrumental in Company. They tried to setup a boat run from Needles to Temple Bar, transforming Tempe from a sleepy rural village when he organized the and even brought a Mississippi River captain to manage it, but their Tempe Land and Improvement Company. The Tombstone Consoldiated boat was not strong enough to work against the currents. The Santa was organized to get many of the best mines from 1881 under one Ana and Temple Bar Cons. then joined forces to build a railroad from working company. The object of consolidation was to coordinate Kingman through Chloride and White Hills to Temple Bar. [Ref: Pioche pumping operations. It worked as the company yielded $3,376,000 Weekly, June 8, 1899] Est. $80-100 HWAC# 66007 from 1903 to 1914. [Garbani] Est. $50-100 HWAC# 62861 Bid online at FHWAC.com or call 775-851-1859 109

DAY 2 Saturday, June 23 Mining Lot# 2297 Yavapai County, Arizona Lot# 2301 Yavapai County, Arizona 1903-1908 Six Different Yavapai 1906-1911 Three Different Copper County Mining Stock Certificates Basin Mining Stock Certificates 1) 1) Yavapai Gold Mining Company. No. 313, issued for 160 shares Portland-Arizona Mining Company. to James Bailey in 1905. Signed by president Brooks and secretary No. 32, issued for 11,439 shares to Bellew. Not cancelled. Green border, three mining vignettes. Deep John A. Sandal in 1906. Signed by folds, toning. Comes with receipt for stock from company. 2) Arizona the president and secretary Not Copper-Gold Mines Co. No. 1984, issued for 100 shares to James Luinn cancelled. Three mining vignettes. in 1908. Signed by the president and secretary. Not cancelled. Multiple Deep folds. 2) Consolidated Copper mining vignettes. Deep folds, tape repaired separations, rough edges. Creek Mining Company. No. 1751, 3) The Electra Mining & Milling Co. No. 727, issued for 600 shares to issued for 200 shares in 1907. Edward Douglass in 1903. Signed by president Wilson and secretary Signed by the president and treasurer. Not cancelled. Gilt border and Nickelson. Not cancelled. Eagle and allegorical vignette. Deep folds. 4) underground mining vignette. Deep folds with soiling. 3) McKinley Hudson Gold Mining Company. No. 567, issued for 100 shares in 1903. Mining and Development Company. No. 291, issued for 50 shares in Not cancelled. Three mining vignettes. Multiple folds. 5) Bradshaw 1911. Signed by the vice president and secretary. Not cancelled. Green Mountain Copper Mining & Smelting Company. No. 479 issued for border, three mining vignettes. 38 claims inc. the Dixie Group and 144 shares in 1904. Not cancelled. Mining vignette. Deep folds. 6) Peacock Group. Folds with repaired separation. Est. $60-100 HWAC# Gazelle Mining Company. No. 136, issued for 1,000 shares in 1908. 66006 Not cancelled. Gilt border, three mining vignettes, red title. Folds. Est. $120-200 HWAC# 66028 Lot# 2302 Yavapai County, Arizona 1904 & 1909 Two Groom Creek Lot# 2298 Yavapai County, Arizona 1899 & District, Yavapai Co., Mining Stock 1901 Two Yavapai County Mining Stocks Certificates Lot of 2 different. 1) Named After Their Districts 1) Copper Basin Montezuma Milling & Transportation Gold & Copper Mining Company. Inc. in Arizona Company. No. 461, issued for 500 Territory. No. A52, issued for 1,000 shares to shares to Clarence Bates on July J.C. Herudou in 1901. Signed by president 6th, 1909. Signed by president J.R. William Munds and the secretary. Not cancelled. Dalbey and secretary Townsend. Not Black border, green seal and background, cancelled. Locomotive vignette. Folds, mining vignette. Folds. 2) Zonia Copper Mining creases, some staining. 8.25 x 10.75” Company. Inc. in Arizona. No. 218, issued for 2) Home Run Gold Mines, Limited. 5 shares in 1899. Signed by president Henry No. 2978, issued for 1,000 shares M. Knowles and secretary Chas. AB Peterson. to JH Taylor on July 11th, 1904. Signed by VP Nolan and treasurer Not cancelled. Almost identical design to other Ceresser. Not cancelled. Gilt border and three mining vignettes. stock. Deep folds. Est. $50-90 HWAC# 66013 Pinholes, folds, some separation. 8.5 x 11” Comes with form from stock broker. Est. $50-80 HWAC# 63896 Lot# 2299 Yavapai County, Arizona 1899-1910 Yavapai County, AZ Lot# 2303 Yavapai County, Arizona Mining Stock Collection Lot of 13 1904-1910 Three Different different from 13 different districts! Included: The Great Republic Humboldt District Mining Stock Copper & Gold MC (Black Canyon, 1904, i/u); Derby MC (Thumb Butte, Certificates Humboldt was settled in 1903, i/u); High Top Mining Corp. (Eureka, 1910, i/u); Juanita Mining the 1860s .1) Consolidated Arizona & Milling Co. (Hassayampa, 1906, i/u); Black Butte MC (Castle Hot Smelting Company. Smelter was Springs, 1904, i/u); McKinley GMC (Iron Springs, 1910, i/u); Bannie constructed in 1906. About 90 claims GM&MC (Walker, 1910); Arizona Copper & Gold MC (Cherry Creek, in the vicinity of Humboldt. Owned 1899, i/u); White Horse MC (Squaw Creek, 1901, i/u);Baumann and operated the Blue Bell Mine, Copper Co. (Agua Fria, 1906, i/u); Stout MC (Juniper, 1908, i/u); which shipped 11,000 tons of ore Crown MC (Tip Top, 1903, i/u); and the United Gold Mines Co. monthly. No. 5760, issued for 100 shares to Robert G. Merritt in 1908. (Congress, 1904, i/u). Please inspect. Est. $200-400 HWAC# 66032 Signed by vp Risk and the asst. secretary. Not cancelled. Allegorical vignette. Pinholes, folds. 2) Humboldt King Mining Company. No. Lot# 2300 Yuma County, Arizona 1904 167, issued for 100 shares to Emma Riegler in 1910. Signed by the Two Different Alamo District Mining president and secretary. Not cancelled. Brown border. Folds. 3) Iron Stock Certificates 1) The Townsend Mining King Extension Mining Company. No. 2629, issued for 1,000 shares Company. No. 189, issued for 500 shares to in 1904 to Philip Miller. Signed by the president and secretary. Not L.H. Mershon in 1904. Signed by president cancelled. Gilt border and three mining vignettes. Pinholes, folds, Reed and the secretary. Not cancelled. Black some separation. The Copper Handbook says this was a Douglas-Lacey border, green background, portrait vignette swindle. Est. $60-100 HWAC# 66005 (Townsend?). Folds with some separation. Worked the Mystery Hill group. First worked Lot# 2304 Yavapai County, Arizona 1903 in the 1880s. 2) Alamo Electric Power & & 1910 Two Different Kirkland District Milling Company. No. 1891, issued for 250 Mining Stock Certificates 1) Illizona Mining shares to James Yoran in 1904. Signed by & Development Company. No. 28, issued president W. Nolan and asst. treasurer. Not for 500 shares to Peter C. Belsly on June cancelled. Green border and background, mining mill vignette. Folds. 8th, 1903. Signed by vice president Platt Not in the Copper Handbooks. Est. $60-100 HWAC# 66004 and the secretary. Not cancelled. Multiple mining vignettes. 8.5 x 11” Not listed. Deep folds with toning and some separation. 2) The Malapai Mining Company. No. 539, issued for 1,000 shares to Jay C. Park on Nov. 25th, 1910. Signed by president Hiskey and secretary Scott. Not cancelled. Three mining vignettes. Deep folds. Est. $50-80 HWAC# 63897 110 June 2018 - Treasures From Pacific Shores Auction

DAY 2 Saturday, June 23 Mining Lot# 2305 Yavapai County, Arizona 1904 & Lot# 2309 Yavapai County, Arizona 1904-1908 Three 1911 Two Martinez District Mining Stock Different Weaver District, Yavapai Co., Arizona Certificates Martinez is located on the east Mining Stock Certificates 1) Mildred Gold Mining side of Date Creek Mountains in Martinez Company. No. 27, issued for 1,000 shares Henry M. Canyon. 1) Rincon Mines Company. Inc. in Lovering on Nov. 16th, 1905. Signed by the president Arizona Territory. No. 78, issued for 5,000 (Conover) and treasurer . Not cancelled. Underground shares to Jas. Austin in 1904. Signed by the mining vignette. Folds with minor separation. 2) The president and secretary. Not cancelled. Ornate Octave Gold Mining Company. No. 180, issued for border with mining vignettes incorporated. 10,000 shares to Joseph Seep on Apr. 29, 1904. Signed Pinholes, folds. According to the Pacific Coast by the president and secretary. Not cancelled. Eagle Directory (1906), the company had a 10 stamp vignette. Folds. 3) Octave Mining Company. No. 2729, mill and a 25 ton cyanide plant employing issued for 1,000 shares to JD Moore on April 27, 1908. 25 men. 2) Arizona Gold Company. Inc. in AZ. Signed by the president and secretary (different than No. 319, issued for 200 shares to Henry Childs in 1911. Not cancelled. other Octave). Not cancelled. Green border, eagle vignette. Deep folds Green border, gold underprint. Staple holes, folds. The company with some toning. Est. $60-100 HWAC# 63892 operated the Oregon Mine. Est. $50-80 HWAC# 66014 Lot# 2310 Yavapai County, Arizona 1899 & Lot# 2306 Yavapai County, Arizona 1907 1906 Two Different Stoddard Copper Co. Two Pine Grove Mining District Stock Stock Certificates 1) No. 75, issued for 200 Certificates 1) Amalgamated Mining & Oil shares in 1899 to FE Houseman. Signed by Company. Inc. in Arizona Territory. No. 669, Isaac Stoddard as president and J.C. Carley as issued fro 315 shares to C.F. Buckhalter in secretary. Not cancelled. Folds. 6 x 9.5” 2) 1909 1907. Signed by president Goodman and issued certificate for 533 shares. Stoddard the secretary. Not cancelled. Mining and signs a vice-president. Not cancelled. 7.5 x oil vignettes. Folds. 2) Crown King Mines 11.75” Folds, toning. The Stoddard Company Company. Inc. in Arizona Territory. No. was located at Stoddard Camp, named after D1505, issued for 85 shares to W.W. White in Isaac Stoddard. He built a mine and smelter 1907. Signed by president Link and asst. sec. that were active through 1884, but closed due Gillespie. Stamped transferred. Vignette of to falling copper prices. He got the operation elk. Deep folds, creases on left side. Famous going again in 1900. The company showed promise as it had bodies of mine for this district, though this was a period where it was inactive. sulphide ore at great depths in 1902. Idle by 1906. It was reorganized Est. $50-90 HWAC# 66019 as Stoddard Mines Co. and then absorbed by Arizona Binghamton Copper Company in 1916. Est. $50-80 HWAC# 63898 Lot# 2307 Yavapai County, Arizona 1905-1909 Three Different Poland, Lot# 2311 Yavapai County, Arizona Crowned Arizona Mining Stock Certificates King Mine Receipts (2) 2 rare receipts from Lot of 4 documents. Three stocks, Crowned King Mining, 1895 and 1899 Est. one with a letter. 1) Poland Mining $50-80 HWAC# 64378 Company. No. 1422, issued for 250 shares to Thomas W. Tunnoff on Dec. 24th, 1909. Signed by the vice president and secretary. Not cancelled. Green border, ornate logo, and underground vignette showing train of ore cars. Spindle and punch holes. 10.5 x 12” Folds. 2) The Poland-American Gold Mining & Milling Company. No 1252, issued for 300 shares on May 31st, 1905. Signed Lot# 2312 Yuma County, Arizona by the president and secretary. Pen cancelled. Three mining vignettes. 1896-1911 Four Different Ellsworth Mine broker form attached to the left side. Folds. 8.25 x 11” 3) Arizona Mining District Stock Certificates Mining and Milling Company. Stock issued in 1907 for 240 shares. Not Lot of 4. Included: The Montana Bell Copper Co. (1906, unusual cancelled. Same corporate signatures as the Poland-American Gold vignette, not cxl, 3 claims); Bullard-Rand Gold Mining & Milling Co. Mining & Milling Co. Gilt border and allegorical vignette. Folds. Also (1906, bison vignette, not cxl); Golden Mound Mining and Milling Co. one page letter on company letterhead that accompanied the stock. of Arizona (1896, not cxl); and Yuma Copper Co. (1910, not cxl, 31 Est. $80-120 HWAC# 63893 claims, closed in 1911). Please inspect. Est. $60-100 HWAC# 66022 Lot# 2308 Yavapai County, Arizona Lot# 2313 Yuma County, Arizona 1903-1910 Three Tiger District 1904 The Socorro Gold Company Mining Stock Certificates Lot of Stock Certificate, Yuma Co. AZ 3. 1) Tiger Gold Company. Inc in Office and mine: Harrisburg, Yuma County, Arizona. Inc. in the Arizona Territory. No. 744, issued Territory of Arizona. No. 414, issued for 25 shares to Ralph Burnham for 70 shares to Nicholas Roggeveen in 1904. Signed by president G.D. Workman and secretary S.C. in 1903. Signed by vice president Workman. Not cancelled. Black border with multiple mining vignettes. Connelly and the secretary. Not Deep folds, minor separation. 8.25 x 11” Ten claims in the Ellsworth cancelled. Black border with mining District. Employed 20 men. Had a 20-stamp mill, 3 concentrators, and vignettes, red and black print. Folds. two cyanide plants. Assays of $10 gold and 5 oz. silver per ton. [Copper 2) Two issued certs. for Nelson Handbook, 1904] Est. $40-80 HWAC# 66026 Mining Company. Both issued in 1910 for 100 and 179 shares. Signed by president Henry Kirst and secretary William Gassner. Neither cancelled. Orange border and underground mining vignette. Both have folds, one with a little separation. Mine was located between the town of Crown King and Crown King Mine. In 1918, the company employed 15 men according to the Copper Handbook. Assays showed silver and gold with zinc, lead, and copper. Est. $80-120 HWAC# 66012 Bid online at FHWAC.com or call 775-851-1859 111

DAY 2 Saturday, June 23 Mining Lot# 2314 , Arizona 1881 Arizona Lot# 2319 , Arizona 1881 Mining & New Mexico Prospecting, Stock Cert. from Central Arizona Developing & Mining Co. Stock Mining Co. Central Arizona Mining Certificate Incorporated in New Jersey in 1881. Cert. #15 issued to Co., No. 4866, shares 100, vignette of S.H. Brown for 1000 shares. Signed by W. N. Gourlay, president, and native Americans pointing at a train J.A. Brown, treasurer. Three mining scene vignettes at left, center and down below. Vignette of small dog at right. Black border and print with green under print ($5.00) on crème bottom. Slight staining.11.5” x 7” Est. paper. U/C. No printer noted. Datelined Camden, New Jersey. 8 ½ x $120-200 HWAC# 63979 11 ½.” Folds, creases, staple holes. Not in Filer. We could not locate more information on this company. More research is needed. The Lot# 2320 , Arizona 1899-1910 only reference we could find is that this company lost a Pennsylvania Seven Different Arizona Mining lawsuit which deemed it a “foreign corporation” since it was registered Stock Certificates Lot of 7. Included: in New Jersey. Est. $200-500 HWAC# 66034 Aztec Mines Company (Senator, Yavapai Co., 1909); Silver Queen Mining Company (Pioneer, Pinal Co., 1907); Atlantic Mining & Milling Lot# 2315 , Arizona Arizona Company (Agua Fria, Yavapai Co., 1907); Baumann Mines Company Mines Postcards Lot of 10. Mining (1910); The Silver Princess Mining Company (Peck, Yavapai Co., 1909); locations include, the Inspiration Golden Rule Tunnel & Mining Company (Gold Basin, Mohave County, Mine (Miami), Clumet and Arizona 1899); and Federal Mica Company (1910). Condition is good to very Mine (Douglas), Shattuck-Arizona good. Please inspect. Est. $120-170 HWAC# 66021 Mine (Bisbee), Old Dominion Smelter (Globe), and much more. 4 of the Lot# 2321 , Arizona 1906-1917 postcards are postmarked between Three Different Arizona Mining the dates ca. 1906-1944. Est. $100- Stock Certificates 1) The Santa 200 HWAC# 63839 Fe Development Company. Bisbee. No. 21, issued for 500 shares to Lot# 2316 , Arizona Arizona Mining LG Jackson in 1908. Signed by the Stock Certificates and Promotions Lot of president E.C. Eason and secretary Simpson. Not cancelled. Gilt border five Arizona mining stock certificates and and three mining vignettes.Folds. a newspaper promotion from the Arizona 2) New York Gold Mines Company. Mining Journal of December 1923. Est. $80-120 HWAC# 71010 There was a New York Mine in the Black Mountains, Mohave County. No. 213A, issued for 5,000 shares to Ruth Elder in 1906. Signed by president Henry H. Belknap. Not cancelled. Sluice and prospecting vignettes. Folds, pinholes. 3) Red Hill Mining Company. Multiple Red Hill mines listed by Garbani in Arizona. No. 358, issued for 100 shares in 1917. Signed by president Johns and the secretary. Not cancelled. Allegorical vignette. Folds. Est. $60-90 HWAC# 66003 Lot# 2317 , Arizona 1898 & 1907 Lot# 2322 Smackover, Arkansas Arizona Mining Stock Certificates Hard to Find Arkansas Healy Oil - with Texas Names Lot of 2. 1) Ark Stock & Ephemera One 1924 stock and San Antonio Mining and Milling Company. Owned the Esmeralda certificate in the Healy Consolidated Mine located 1 mile from Cerbat, Arizona. According to a 1909 Oil Corporation, and numerous Geological Bulletin: “It is developed principally by a 200 foot shaft letters, photographs and new story and two levels containing about 250 feet of drift with some stoping reprinted from the Financial Reporter near the surface. The 110 foot level extends 90 feet south and 30 feet of 1925. One photo of “Mike Healy’s north of the shaft. At the time of visit the shaft contained water. The Triumph” a gusher behind him principal equipment is a 10 horsepower steam hoist...A carload of estimated at 30,000 barrels a day. Several Healey letterheads and the concentrates that was shipped is reported to have averaged 13.42 covers with corner advertising! Lot of twelve. Est. $80-150 HWAC# ounces of gold and 40 ounces of silver to the ton. The ore usually 45037 shows a crude banding about parallel with the vein.” Inc. in Illinois. This stock is No. 261, issued for 2,000 shares in 1898 to David Spiro. Lot# 2323 Amador County, California Signed by the president and secretary. Not cancelled. Eagle vignette. 1883 Pacific Gold Mining Co. Stock Certificate #38 i/u to Chas Bridge Deep folds, toning. 2) Lone Star Consolidated Copper Company. Inc. who was secretary, 1 share 1883. in Maine. No. 114, issued for 100 shares to Ephrain Bayard in 1907. Signed by president Stewart and secretary Folsom. Not cancelled. Plymouth, Amador County Est. Fancy logo with star. Pinholes, folds, creases. Located in Graham $100-200 HWAC# 72029 County, Arizona in the Gila Mountains. Est. $100-120 HWAC# 66036 Lot# 2324 Butte County, California Lot# 2318 , Arizona 1902-1914 1877 Red Hill Hydraulic Mining & Likely Arizona Mining Stock Water Co. Stock Certificate Located Certificates Lot of 8. This group was in Butte County, California (printed not found in our research but are possibly Arizona mining companies along the top). Inc. July 14, 1874. (based on names and/or incorporation). More research is needed. No. 325, issued for 100 shares to the Included: Arizona Prince Mining Co. (1905); Olympia Gold Mining company secretary, TB Wiegand, on Company, Ltd. (1904); Equitable Gold Mining Company (1902); The March 21st, 1877. Also signed by the president, Moore. Not cancelled. Attractive design with the certificate and share numbers written on Arizona Gold Dredging Company (1909); Arizona Midland Mining ingot vignettes. Also hydraulic mining vignette on left. Folds. 4 x 9” Company (1907); Minor-Heir Vantage Mining Company (1914); and two for Gold Standard Mining Corporation (both 1909). Generally Located in 1852 on the west branch of the Feather River near Magalia. good to very good condition. Please inspect. Est. $120-200 HWAC# One of the oldest claims in the county. [Ref: Balch, pg. 1145] Est. $60- 66031 120 HWAC# 62830 112 June 2018 - Treasures From Pacific Shores Auction

DAY 2 Saturday, June 23 Mining Lot# 2325 Calaveras County, Lot# 2328 Calaveras County, California 1852 Anglo-Californian California 1881 New York & Gold Mining Co. Stock Certificate, Calaveras County Gold Mining Gold Rush No. 7471, issued for one Company Stock Certificate Inc. share to John Barker of Richmond in New YorkNo. 6070. Issued for on July 5th, 1852. Signed by two 100 shares in 1881 to A. Peckham. directors and the secretary. Not Signed by secretary RK Southwick cancelled. 7.5 x 8.25” Folds, creases, and president JK Marshall. Endorsed some soiling. According to Filer on back. Not cancelled. Gorgeous (Holabird), this was the largest cert. with vignette of camp and mine foreign issue of a California Gold on mountain. Pinholes, folds, very fine. Printed by Stewart, Haring & Rush venture that we know of. The Warren, New York. On June 4, 1881 (four months after this stock was company literally sold thousands of shares. The company began as issued) an ad in the “Engineering and Mining Worlds” advised the New the Anglo California Gold Mining & Dredging Co. in 1849., owned York & Calaveras County Gold stockholders that they could change by Luke Williams. It was the last of Williams “gold bubble company their percent of stock for bonds in the Calaveras Water and Mining promotions.” Williams sent Henry Vere Huntley to Calaveras River Company. Southwick was the secretary of both companies. Est. $100- in 1849. Huntely was unsuccessful, so he hired miners of the Quartz 200 HWAC# 62835 Rock Mariposa Gold Co. and arranged a deal with them. While he was in America, the name of the company had changed. The lack Lot# 2329 Calaveras County, California of progress and name changing made the directors of the company c. 1898-1910 San Domingo Mine, CA very suspicious, and they forced Williams out in April 1851. The new Hydraulic Photo San Domingo Minminie directors decided to crush and process ore mined by others, and sent in Calaveras, CA. “Washing Out a Cove” two steam engines and crushing mills on the Augusta that year. [Ref: 7.5” x 7.5” Est. $100-200 HWAC# 65033 Filer and “Money Pits: British Mining Companies in the Californian and Australian Gold Rushes of the 1850s, pg 76-77, Woodward] Est. $80- 150 HWAC# 62860 Lot# 2326 Calaveras County, California 1895 Hesperides Mining Company Lot# 2330 Death Valley, California Stock Certificate Borax Mule Team Print Framed Rare. Never before print of Pacific Coast Borax mule seen by FH. According team pulling wagons thru Death to mindat, the mine Valley. Frame is 16” x 42”. Lower print was located at has a scratch. Est. $100-200 HWAC# Wallace, Camanche 73026 District, Calaveras Co., California. Inc. in California, Sep.t 23, 1895. No. 19, issued for 1,000 shares E.D. Harrison on Nov. 15th, 1895 in San Francisco. Signed by president F.P. McCray and secretary H.C. Donnel (?). Not cancelled. Ornate floral border, light orange background, California allegorical vignette. Pinholes, folds. 8 x 10.25” Not listed in Filer. The Pacific Mining News (Vol. 1) reports steam shovel gravel mining occurring at the mine in 1922. Est. $100-300 HWAC# 62748 Lot# 2327 Calaveras County, California 1897 Lightner Mining Company Stock Certificate Angels Lot# 2331 El Dorado County, California 1853 Gold Rush Stock Camp, Calaveras Co., Cal. (printed Certificate: Eureka Quartz Mining Company El Dorado County, under logo). Inc. October 1896. No. California. Unissued for two shares, but signed by Jacob A Shorb as 131, issued for 30 shares to John president and E.H. Cornwall as secretary in January 1853. Pinhole, Smith on Nov. 11th, 1897. Signed by creases, rough right edge. Printed on thin paper by Geo. E. Leefe, NY. the president G.C. Hyatt and secretary Vignette of mill and miners. Measures 11” x 6”. Not cancelled. The BF Wellington. Not cancelled. Small Eureka Quartz Mining Company was likely operating in Georgetown, circular vignette of miners. Folds, clean. 6 x x10” The company was California. There was a second Eureka Mine in Placerville, but it was awarded a settlement in a lawsuit against the Utica Mining Company not active until decades later. The Eureka quartz mine at Georgetown for theft of their ore. Located between the Angels and Utica Mines on had a 130-foot deep shaft in 1867. It was located immediately north of the Utica and Stickles Vein. Est. $100-200 HWAC# 62743 the Woodside on the same quartz vein, which was about two feet wide. They had a steam hoist, but no mill. The vein had a NE-SW strike and easterly dip averaging about $30 per ton, according to J. Ross Browne in Mineral Resources West of the Rocky Mountains, 1868. By 1882, the mine was 230 feet deep, inactive, and full of water, according to the History of El Dorado County, 1883. This is quite possibly the earliest known lode mining company stock certificate extant. Est. $700-1500 HWAC# 41146 Bid online at FHWAC.com or call 775-851-1859 113

DAY 2 Saturday, June 23 Mining Lot# 2332 El Dorado County, Lot# 2338 Grass Valley, California North California 1875 & 1880 Two El Star Mine Postcards Lot of 7 all showing Dorado County Mining Documents different views around the North Star Mine. 1) 1875 county tax receipt for George Swan for payment on his 2 of the postcards are postmarked from the mining claim on Texas Hill, Placerville, El Dorado County known as years 1909. Est. $100-200 HWAC# 63851 the Easterly Buck Eye Claim. 7 x 5.75” Swan was a lawyer and also operated a toll house at Strawberry on the road to Tahoe (and the Comstock), as well as being president of the Placerville & Sacramento Valley Railroad. 2) Argonaut Mill & Mining Co. stock certificate issued in 1880 for 100 shares to John Sproston. Signed by president W.B. Davenport and secretary Fields. Not cancelled. Pink paper with ship vignette. Mine located at Georgetown.4 x 9.5” Very fine. Est. $100- 300 HWAC# 66043 Lot# 2339 Grass Valley / Nevada City, California late 1800’s Grass Lot# 2333 Grass Valley, California Valley & Nevada City Mining Stock Central Mine and Mill Postcards Certs. (5) North Banner Con. Tunnel Lot of 10 showing various views of Co. No. 196, 100 shares, Nevada the Central Mine and Mill. 2 of the City, CA; Scadden Flat Gold Mining cards are postcards are postmarked with the years 1908 and 1914. Est. Co., Grass Valley, CA ; Anita Gold $120-200 HWAC# 63850 Mining Co., No. 124, 5000 shares, San Francisco;North Banner Con. Tunnel Co. Nevada City, CA , unissued; Murray Creek Mining Company, Re-Organized, unissued. Est. $150- 250 HWAC# 63948 Lot# 2334 Grass Valley, California Lot# 2340 Grass Valley/Nevada Empire Mine Postcards Lot of 14 terrific City, California Tightner Mining postcards showing the Empire Mine. 5 of Co. Ephemera Eleven pieces from the cards are postcard between the years Tightner Mines Company. 1800s- 1908-1927. According California State 1915. Est. $100-200 HWAC# 61972 Parks, The Empire Mine is “one of the oldest, largest, deepest, longest and richest gold mines in California.” Est. $180-350 HWAC# 63853 Lot# 2341 Ingot, California Lot# 2335 Grass Valley, California 1923 Grass Valley Postcard Afterthought Copper Co. Stock Certificate I/U Emmas Hudson 1909 Overview of the town near the #842 25 shares. Rare. Three crease Pennsylvania Mine. No postmark. Est. $40-60 HWAC# 63849 tears, edges rough condition. Mine office in Ingot, Shasta County. 19 patented claims, 380 acres with mill and smelter. [Copper HB, Vol. 15] Est. $40-50 HWAC# 64527 Lot# 2336 Grass Valley, California Idaho- Maryland Mine Postcards Lot of 9 showing Lot# 2342 Lake County, California Ca. various views of the Idaho-Maryland Mine of 1915 Lake County Mines Postcards Lot Grass Valley, CA. 3 of the cards are postmarked of 2. Both are views of the Sulphur Banks from the years 1908, 1913, and 1942. Est. $100- Quicksilver Mine. No postmark on either 200 HWAC# 63852 card. Est. $80-100 HWAC# 63841 Lot# 2337 Grass Valley, California Mics. Mines of Grass Valley Lot Lot# 2343 Mojave, California c. of 11. Some of the mines shown 1905 Mojave Miner’s Union Small are the Scotia Mine, Tightner Envelope Found in a mine, foxing, Mine, Massachusetts Mill Mine, small holes and chip missing. Est. Pennsylvania Mine, and the Idaho- $40-60 HWAC# 65041 Maryland Mine. 8 of the post cards are postmarked between the years 1908-1942. Est. $120-200 HWAC# 63854 114 June 2018 - Treasures From Pacific Shores Auction

DAY 2 Saturday, June 23 Mining Lot# 2344 Mono County, California Lot# 2349 Nevada County, California 1897 Homer Mill & Mining Stock 1880 Fortuna Gold Mining Co. Stock Certificate i/u Sylvester Gardner, Certificate Nevada County, California #769 100 shares 1899, signed by printed below logo. Inc. in New York. Vice President Jeurel? Est. $100-150 No. 134, issued for 100 shares to HWAC# 64026 William Sison on March 8th, 1880. Signed by president (Brew?) and Lot# 2345 Mono secretary (Parrish). Not cancelled. County, California Black border and print. Lady liberty Two Mono County vignette. Printed by ABN. Pinhole, Mining Stocks Homer, folds. 7 x 11” Mine began about 1879 with this company. Became part issued Jan 10, 1881 of the Mountaineer group. The Fortuna vein was one of the longest to SB Caldwell for in the Nevada City district, traceable for two miles. The Fortuna and 100 shares, signed associated mines produce about $3 million. Est. $120-250 HWAC# by McClinton as 62833 president, issued, u/c; and Muncton G&S Lot# 2350 Nevada County, MC, unissued, 1870’s. California 1901 Grizzly Ridge The homer was one Mining Company Stock Certificate of the productive Principal Place of Business Nevada mines at Lundy. The City, Cal. (printed under title but Munckton was nearby, covered by stamps). Inc. June 28, between Lundy and 1892. No.243, issued for 220 shares Bridgeport, known as to James Richards on Jan. 26th, 1901. Signed by the president, Peter the Dunderberg. Est. McAuslan, and secretary Benjamin Hall. Not cancelled. Bear vignette, $100-150 HWAC# 61714 ornate logo and title. No printed listed. Six adhesive revenue stamps attached, which partially cover the logo. Folds with some staining. 4 Lot# 2346 Nevada City, California x 9.5” According to the Report of the State Mineralogist, Vol. 16, the Nevada City Mining Postcards Grizzly Ridge was a hydraulic mine from 1886 until 1894. In 1916, it was reopened as a drift mine. Properties included the Mazuma, Outlet, Lot of 12. Some of the cards include Grey Eagle, Polar Bear, and Little Bear in the Grizzly Ridge Mining views of the Champion Mine, Hope District, 17 miles from Nevada City. Est. $60-100 HWAC# 62749 Mine, Murchie Mine, Gold mine on Deer Creek, and the Manzanita Lot# 2351 Nevada County, California Hydraulic Mine. 5 of the postcards are 1878 Pittsburg Gold Mining postmarked but the years are difficult Company Stock Certificate Rare! to read. Est. $100-150 HWAC# 63855 Nevada County, California (printed below logo). Inc. Sept. 22nd, 1877, No. 117, issued for 500 shares to Samuel Granger on Oct. 23, 1878 in Lot# 2347 Nevada County, California San Francisco. Signed by president 1904-1918 Columbia Hill Gold Julius Bandmann and secretary R. Wegener. Not cancelled. Small Mining Stocks (2) 2 rare certificates. vignette of prospector standing with pick over should and scale in his i/u C Hunt 1904 #57 313 shares, i/c hand. No printer listed. Pinholes, folds, crinkle at bottom center fold. 5 W Morrow 1918 #66 4900 shares-2 x 9.5” Discovered in 1861. Located between the Sierra Nevada and the chips on bottom. Est. $60-100 old Sacramento and Meredith. Originally explored by a 540 ft. tunnel HWAC# 64019 into Cedar Hill, which did provide some results. They decided to sink a shaft which, in 1878, was 300 feet below the tunnel. A drift from this tunnel struck ore that assayed at $7 gold per ton. They have erected more machinery to continue exploring (as of Sept. 1878.). [Ref: United Staes Annual Mining Review, 1879, pg 232-33] Est. $150-300 HWAC# Lot# 2348 Nevada County, California 62750 1879 Deadwood Gold Mining Co. Stock Certificate Location: Willow Lot# 2352 New Almaden, California Valley District, Nevada County, 1902 Quicksilver Mining Co. Stock California. Dateline Nevada City, I/C Frederick Stevens #6533 1902 Cal., Jan. 15th, 1879. No. 285, issued 100 shares. “Located just 12 miles for 500 shares to William R Knight. south of San Jose, California is the Signed by company president R.B. Symington and the company tiny village of New Almaden, the secretary Wm. H. Smith. Not cancelled. Reverse has pen notations once world famous quicksilver about assessments. Foldlines, toning on left border, otherwise very (mercury) mining community that is fine. According to the 1922 Mines Register, the mine at that time was now a National Historic Landmark idle and the property consisted of 95 patented acres, 2 miles E. of district. The New Almaden Mine produced mercury beginning in 1845, Nevada City. Ore occured in a vein up to 18” wide, carrying pyrite, making it California’s oldest mining operation. Predating the major galena, sphalerite and arsenopyrite. Development was by incline shaft California gold rush of 1849, the mines at new Almaden produced and 400’ of drifts. According to Gudde, Deadwood was located on the $70,000,000 in quicksilver – a fortune greater than any California gold Deadwood Ledge in 1856 and listed as a settlement in Bean’s 1867 mine that made New Almaden the most valuable single mine in the directory. 4 x 9.5” Est. $100-150 HWAC# 62815 State. Quicksilver was the leading reduction agent for gold and silver until the discovery of the cyanide process in 1887. Using Spanish and Mexican mining techniques, Mexicans were the first to develop the New Almaden mining area, and therefore were essential to the rapid growth of California’s great gold and silver mining industries.” from www.nps.gov. Left border stain. Est. $150-300 HWAC# 72028 Bid online at FHWAC.com or call 775-851-1859 115

DAY 2 Saturday, June 23 Mining Lot# 2353 Parks’ Bar & North Fork of American Lot# 2357 Plumas County, California River, California 1854 Pictorial of Parks’ Bar 1880 Bell Gold Mining Co. Stock & North Fork, American River Interesting Certificate, Plumas County Inc. large scale Placer mining along the American in Iowa, 1876. No. 632, issued for River of California. Gleason’s Pictorial of gold 10 shares to Frank Lamberson dredging with miners in 1854. 11” x 15”. Tearing on May 3rd, 1880. Signed by along edges. Does not encroach on pictorial. president D.L. Olvier and secretary Mounted on mat board. If mats are shipped then Bayliss. Not cancelled. Folds, additional shipping may apply. Est. $50-80 pinholes, bent corners. Formed HWAC# 72004 by a group of prominent Dubuque residents. Property incl. 75 acres. Named for the Bell Ledge which was discovered in 1873. On June 29, 1878 the Plumas National, a newspaper published at Quincy, California near the Bell mines Lot# 2354 Placer County, California 1899 Pioneer Gold Mining Co. reported: “Last Saturday one of the richest deposits of quartz ever Stock Certificate, Placer County found in Plumas was struck in the upper level of the Bell Mine, near Elizabethtown...the rock is so rich that it is impossible to find a piece Inc. in Montana. Location of Mines: from the vein that does not show free gold, and the vein is ten feet Placer County, California (printed wide, and showing better every day.” Est. $50-100 HWAC# 62778 at bottom). No. 4731, issued for 50 shares to Foote & French on March Lot# 2358 Plumas County, California 17th, 1899. Signed by president Plumas Mines Postcards Lot of 4. 1) Jaques and secretary Howard. Folds, Ore Mill from Eaglemine. Produced some toning. Not listed in Filer. According to California Mines & by Eastman Photo. Postmarked, but Minerals (1899), the mine was located 8 miles south of Towle and had date is unknown. Possibly from ca. the deepest quartz mining operations in the county. JJ Sulivan is supt. 1925. 2) Golden nugget samples from Ledge located on the north fork of the American River. Tunnel No. 4 the Plumas gravel bed, Postmarked cuts the vein at the 1,000 ft. level. They have a 20 stamp mill driven by water horsepower. Est. $60-120 HWAC# 62834 but date is slightly removed. Pre 1910. 3) Mining camp scene at the Lot# 2355 Placerville, California head of Nelson Creek. No postmark. Placerville, CA Dredging Negatives 4) Entrance to Old Jaminson Mine, and Stock 2 dredging negatives, Johnsville. Produced by Eastman Studios. Ca. 1945. Est. $100-150 HWAC# 63843 probably near Placerville, CA 2.5” x 3.5”. I/U Emigrant Gulch Consolidated Lot# 2359 Randsburg, California Placer Mines 1904 stock Est. $50-70 HWAC# 65029 Yellow Aster Mine Ephemera Assortment of Yellow Aster Mine Lot# 2356 Ephemera including bullion assays, receipts, 30 day option to buy Placerville, California 1852 mining property, industrial accident South Fork commission opinion and findings on Canal Company case of Joe Kraljlvich v. Yellow Aster Stock Certificate, Mine, ore smaple tag, dividend tags, California post cards, bullion memorandums. Est. $200-300 HWAC# 69002 Gold Rush Very Lot# 2360 Randsburg, California rare. Dateline 1907 Yellow Aster Mining and Placerville, El Milling Co. Checks Discovery group Dorado County, of seven checks signed by Singleton Cal., December and Burcham, among others. Green 9th, 1852. Unissued, but filled out for one share. Signed by B.F. and gold paper, vignette of the mill Reese, president, and A.T. Taylor, secretary. Not cancelled. Interesting in operation. Est. $100-200 HWAC# “bookend” borders and vignette of dog outside next to safe with 63251 flume feeding a lake in the background. Reverse has salmon-colored background of eagle and ornate design. Printed on thin paper by Harmon & Springer, El Dorado News Office, Placerville. 6 x 10.5 Horizontal fold. Very light wear. In amazing condition given its age. Lot# 2361 Red Bluff, California c. Browne (1868) reports a main ditch line of 34 miles carrying 600 1870-1880 Red Bluff, CA Hydraulic inches of water 24 miles at a grade of 4.5 feet per mile from the south Mining Cabinet Card Red Bluff, CA fork of the American River supplying Placerville and vicinity. Original hydraulic mining cabinet card 3.5” x 5.75’, right crease Est. $200-400 cost was $500,000 but the value in 1868 had dropped to $50,000. HWAC# 65030 There were 108 miles of lateral channels and three reservoirs: Silver Lake, Red, Lake, and Willow Valley, all of which held nearly Lot# 2362 San Bernardino County, 350 million cubic feet of water. They charged 25 cents per inch for California 1903 North Arkansas mining and domestic use, and $7 per acre for vineyards. B.F. Keene & Arizona Zinc, Lead, Copper, was a physician, popular California Mother Lode politician and once Silver & Gold Mining Co. Stock Certificate Swindle! The Copper president pro-term of the Senate. He died in 1856 while president Handbook (1907) says they have 25 claims located 18 miles east of of the State Medical Society. A.T. Taylor was a California pioneer and Randsburg in the Spangler District of San Bernardino County; claims one of California’s earliest historians and prolific writers. He came to near Morristown, Maricopa Co, AZ; and zinc lands in Baxter County, California from China in Sept. 1848. Bancroft consulted with Taylor Arkansas. Listed as idle and without funds. Inc. in the Territory for his monumental work on the history of California. Est. $400-800 of Arizona. No. 551, issued for 5,000 shares to Loyd M. Pease in HWAC# 62755 1903. Signed by president J.M. Graybill and secretary MH Wells. Not cancelled. Deep folds with some separation, antique paper clip rust stains, pinholes. Est. $50-100 HWAC# 66033 116 June 2018 - Treasures From Pacific Shores Auction

DAY 2 Saturday, June 23 Mining Lot# 2363 Santa Maria, California Lot# 2369 Yosemite, California Pinal Dome Oil Annual Statement 1880’s North Hite & Yosemite Pictorial annual statement from Pinal Gold Mining Co. Stock Certificate Dome Oil Co. June 1, 1913. 6 folded Incorporated in New York in 1880. pages. 2 chips, water stains and Cert. # 685 issued to Wm. B. Rees creases Est. $60-100 HWAC# 63955 for 100 shares. Signed by Edward H. Spooner as president and Lindly Lot# 2364 Sierra County, California F.xxxx as secretary. Three vignettes: 1881 Uncas Mining Co. Stock one at top right of 4 miners working Certificate I/U #28 1000 shares a rock face, with mountains and mill site in the background; at left, 1881. Lower right corner crease. Est. a second vignette of a mine shaft cross section, showing 2 miners $100-200 HWAC# 72030 on the surface lowering a bucket to miners below; a small vignette of a stag at bottom. Orange borer and safety print with black print. Lot# 2365 Silver Mountain, Uncancelled. Printer: Snyder & Black, N.Y. Measures 6.75 x 10.25.” California The Pearl Gold and From the Engineering and Mining Journal, Vol. XXX, #1 (July 3, 1880), Silver Mining Co. Stock Certificate p. 114: “The agent of this company telegraphed on the 4th inst. as I/U Mary Owens #109 5 shares 1863. follows. Surveyor commenced making his his surveys on the 2nd. We Signed by president JO Eleridge. Est. shall have extracted by the 7th of September about 1200 tons of ore, $400-600 HWAC# 72031 which will mill $20 per ton.” Nice uncreased condition. Est. $100-200 HWAC# 72027 Lot# 2366 Silver Mountain, Lot# 2370 , California 1907- California 1863 “The Pearl” Gold 1942 California General Mining and Silver Mining Company Postcards Lot of 14 postcards that Stock Mine in Silver Mountain later show both general and hydraulic renamed Oro Grande in Mojave mining in California. The postcards Desert. #110 i/u Mary F Owens are a mix of color illustrations and 1863 5 shares. The dateline is San color photo. 3 are post marked Francisco. Signed by President J. between the years 1907-1942. Est. (James) O. (Oscar) Eldridge and $40-80 HWAC# 63831 Secretary James C. Dayley. Three vignettes: one of young girl with left hand to head top center, a second of a dog’s head at bottom center and Lot# 2371 , California California a third of a woman with a fancy hat at left. A brown 25 cent Internal Mining Postcard Set Approx 20 Revenue Certificate stamp attached. Black on white; 5.25 x 9.25 California mostly gold mining inches, printed by Waters Brothers & Co. The Silver Mountain camp postcards with B/W and chromolitho was probably discovered in the late 1850’s but no intense activity scenes of hydraulic mining, a until 1863. Ref. James O. Eldridge is listed in Langley’s San Francisco large donkey engine, a dredge, Directory for 1865 (p. 166 & 366) as working for the firm of H. M. underground gold miners, panning, Newhall & Co., auction and commission merchants. The firm was an old safe, Big Chief Mine and more. located on the SW corner of Sansome and Halleck Streets. He was also Est. $100-200 HWAC# 53651 identified as President of the S. F. and San Jose R. R. Co. James C. Dayley is also listed in the same directory (p. 145) as a mining secretary at 338 Montgomery and residing in Oakland. Est. $300-400 HWAC# Lot# 2372 , California Mother Lode 72024 Mining Area Postcards Lot of 8. 1) Jas W. Marshall. No postmark. 2) Lot# 2367 Sonoma County, California Tunnel Entrance to Gold Mine near 1878 Ino Plumbago Mining & Placerville. No postmark. 3) The Manufacturing Co. Stock Certificate Kennedy Mine, Jackson. No postmark. Rare Sonoma County mining stock. 4) The Argonaut Mine. Postmarked Inc. two weeks prior to issue in Feb. 1922. 5) Keystone Mine, Amador City. 1878. No. 19, issued to G. Cane for Postmarked 1910. 6) The Malone 1,000 shares on Feb. 23, 1878 in San Mine, Stanislaus River. Postmark Francisco. Signed by president Julius Hirschfield and the secretary JM appears to be 1918. 7) Gallows Buffington. Not cancelled. Ornate border and logo. Printed by LeCount Frame, Utica Mining Co. Postmarked Bros. Pinholes, folds, tear in upper left corner. 4 x 9.5” Not listed in 1907. 8) Photograph from an old Filer. We can only find a newspaper reference to the company being steroview from 1866 produced by Lawrence and Houseworth. Est. incorporated (which gave us the location). More research is needed. $70-100 HWAC# 63847 Est. $150-300 HWAC# 62740 Lot# 2373 , California Central Mother Lode Lot# 2368 Tuolumne County, California Mining Postcards Lot of 3. 1) Real photo postcard Tuolumne County Mining Postcards Lot out of Calaveras. Postmarked December 31, 1906. of 6. 1) Dutch Mine, ca. 1910. No postmark. 2) Eagle Shawmut Mine, near Chinese, CA ( later 2) Providence Mine and Mill. Postmarked known as Chinese Camp). No postmark. 3) Central 1905. 3) The Pioneer Twins of Groveland. Eureka Mine, Sutter Creek. No postmark but there is Postmarked 1910. 4) & 5) Empire Mills. No writing on the back. Est. $40-80 HWAC# 63840 postmark. 6) Siamese Twins and Diamond Cascade Mercers of the New Calaveras Cave. Est. $70-100 HWAC# 63848 Bid online at FHWAC.com or call 775-851-1859 117

DAY 2 Saturday, June 23 Mining Lot# 2374 , Lot# 2380 , California El Dorado, California Ca. 1909- Taylor, 1861 Originally published 1950 Northern in 1850, this is the 18th edition of California Mines this very famous gold rush book. 444 Postcards Lot of 7. pp. 44 chapters of Bayard Taylor’s Locations include adventures in the gold rush country. Oroville, Trinity, Dark cloth binding, condition Happy Camp, and problems along back cover at spine. Shasta County. 2 19th century bookplate from the are postmarked Peoria Library assoc. Est. $100-200 between the dates HWAC# 59518 1909-1915. Est. $100-150 HWAC# Lot# 2381 , California Gold Mines 63842 of California; & Gold in His Veins (2 books) 1 hardback book, Gold Mines of California by Jack R. Wagner c.1970, includes many photos, pp.251; Lot# 2375 , California California 1 paperback, Gold In His Veins, includes many photos, signed page by authors, pp.203. 8.5” x 11”. Est. $50-100 HWAC# 64254 Gold Mining, Motherlode lot Misc. ephemera: 1) A Walking Tour of Lot# 2382 , California 1853 Gold Historic Placerville by Jane Schlappi Rush ‘Miner’s Ten Commandments’ & Marilyn Ferguson; 2) The History Lettersheet - Proof The Miner’s Ten of the Weaverville Joss House and Commandments was an 1853 Original Wood Engraving published by the Chinese of Trinity County, CA by James Mason Hutchings. Hutchings came to California from England in Douglas and Gina McDonald c.1986, 1849, seeking a fortune in gold like untold thousands of others. While pp.33; El Dorado County, CA Internal he didn’t find any, he did find success as a writer. In the June 4, 1853 Revenue Receipt; Placerville, CA issue of the Placerville Herald newspaper, he published a piece called 1867, El Dorado Co. Tax Assessment on G.W. Swain’s Property. Just to the “The Miner’s Ten Commandments” and it was so successful that name a few. Est. $120-150 HWAC# 63423 Hutchings published an exact reprint as a lettersheet. This is most Lot# 2376 , California California Mining famous for the illustrations around the ten commandments which are not found on this lettersheet which seems to be a proof as we have not Article, New York, 1875 Three columns on seen one like this before! Commandments include” only one claim, no the California Mines. Discusses hydraulic, false claims, don’t grow discouraged, etc. Quite famous and in Baird placer and lode mines. Interesting, a good (167). Est. $200-400 HWAC# 61759 read. These are the sorts of articles that got eastern financiers interested in California Lot# 2383 , California 1935 The mines. Est. $60-100 HWAC# 63918 Inside Story of the Gold Rush by Moerrenhout Hardcover 94pp, foldout back map on mining district of California. Covers are detaching, toning on inside front page. Est. $100-200 HWAC# 69078 Lot# 2377 , California 1896-1923 California Mining Stock Certificates (10) 10 different California mining stocks-Hammon Consolidated, Greenwater Copper Mines and Smelter, Mount Whipple Gold Lot# 2384 Alma, Colorado 1902 Mining, Bunker Hill Consolidated & 1911 Colorado Gold Mining & Mining,Mount Blanc Consolidated Smelting Co. Stock and Bond Alma Gravel Mining, United Water and District, Park County. Lot of 2. 1)$100 Power, Kern River Gold quartz Mining bond issued in 1902, not cancelled. and more. Est. $100-150 HWAC# Eagle vignette. Eleven coupons still 64020 attached. Signed by secretary Charles Lot# 2378 , California Three Perkins and the president Stowall California Mining Stock Certificates (?). Printed by Denver Lith. Co. 2) 1911 issued stock certificate for 250 1) Pennsylvania Consolidated Mining shares. Different corporate signatures. Not cancelled. Red and black issued 1898 2) San Domingo Gold print. Folds. According to Mining & Engineering World (Vol. 28, 1908), Mining issued 1904 3) Golden Gate the Alma District’s prospects were looking up due to the investments mining issued 1903 Est. $60-80 HWAC# 56163 from this company. They had purchased the Key placer, 150 acres of land, a 3 story sampling works, with a 20 stamp mill. They had 100,000 tons of tailings which had been there for 25 years since the Lot# 2379 , California c. 1907-1923 mine was owned by London investors.They have built a spur from the US Oil Stocks Approx 10 Oil stock, Colorado & Southern, and they are going to erect a power plant and some early Southern California. La copper smelter. Est. $100-200 HWAC# 62757 Point Oil, Arrowhead Oil, Creston Oil and Gas, Great West Oil and Coal Est. $150-200 HWAC# 65070 118 June 2018 - Treasures From Pacific Shores Auction

DAY 2 Saturday, June 23 Mining Lot# 2385 Lot# 2389 Crested Butte, Breckenridge, Colorado 1882 Colorado Colorado Union Anthracite Company District, 1861 Stock Certificate Official Discovery Dateline Gunnison, Col., Record Very May 19th, 1882. No. 89, early, first part issued for 1,000 shares of the Colorado to A.S. Roberts. Signed gold rush, Union by vice president HP Mining District of Sloan and secretary W.J. Kansas Territory McKnight. Not cancelled. notice/receipt for Ornate border and H. E. Favre for a logo. Tiny vignette of dog. Printed by National Bureau of Engraving, mining claim on the Philadelphia. Folds, pinholes. 6.5 x 10.75” According to the 1883 Douglas Lode, April Colorado Mining Directory (Page 326), this Company owned 2,560 1861. The receipt acres of coal land, situated on the east and west side of Slate River, notes the claim between O-Be-Joyful and Poverty gulches, near Crested Butte. Est. was registered in $100-150 HWAC# 62768 Book A, page 157, indicating it was one of the fist claims in the District. about 5 x 8” in 16 x 18” frame. Est. $300-600 HWAC# 59367 Lot# 2390 Cripple Creek, Colorado Ca. 1908 Cripple Creek Mining Postcards Lot of 8. This lot shows various mining scenes Lot# 2386 Breckenridge, Colorado including John A. Logan Mine, Vindicator 1907 O’Reilly Gold Mining Mine, Southwest Slope of Bull Hill, Mollie Company Stock Certificate Kathleen Gold Mine, Portland Mine, Mary Breckenridge, Summit County, McKinney Mine, and the Elkton Gold Mine. Colorado. A.C. Howard was 3 are postmarked from the years 1908. Est. superintendent. Owned the Bay State $80-120 HWAC# 63837 group developed by a 300’ tunnel. [Ref: 1910 Copper Handbook] Inc. in Arizona. No. 212, issued for 50 shares to Henry C. White in 1907. Signed Lot# 2391 Cripple Creek, Colorado by president H.E. Haughton and 1896 Cripple Creek Mining Stock treasurer Michael F. Burke. Not cancelled. Green border and seal, three mining vignettes. Folds, toning. 8.25 x 11” Est. $40-60 HWAC# 66011 Certificate Union Gold Mining Co. Stock cert. I/punch cancelled, No. 7081, shares 500, gold seal, good Lot# 2387 Clear Creek County, Colorado 1879 Benton Gold & Silver condition. 11.5” x 8”. Est. $70-120 Mining Co. Stock Certificate Mine HWAC# 63972 located in the Queen Mining District, Clear Creek County, Colorado, 3 miles from Georgetown on Brown and Lot# 2392 Cripple Creek, Colorado Sherman Mountains. Inc. in Illinois. 1904 Golden Age No. 2 Mining and No. 251, issued for 50 shares to Milling Co. #667 i/c William Pettis John Shannon on Sept. 23rd, 1879. 400 shares 1904. Punch canceled. Signed by president L.G. Calkins Signed by President CE Hoadley. Est. and secretary Harrison. Not cancelled. Attractive certificate with $60-100 HWAC# 64008 ornate border and two mining vignettes. Silver gilt background. Folds, some staining around the edges. 7.75 x 10.75” According to Corbett (1879), the main shaft was 80’ deep, tunnels 70’ and 30’. Ore is galena, tetrahedrite and pyrite producing 100 ounces of silver per ton. Est. $150-300 HWAC# 62843 Lot# 2393 Cripple Creek, Colorado 1901 Par Value Gold Mining Company Stock Certificate No. 302, Lot# 2388 Clear Creek County, Colorado 1876 Benton Gold & Silver Mining issued for 300 shares in 1901 to Mrs. Georgia E. Miller. Signed by president Company Bond Inc. in Illinois. Mine located Asall and treasurer Marsten(?). Not in the Queen Mining District, Clear Creek cancelled. Vignette of three miners, County, Colorado, 3 miles from Georgetown two with headlamps, inspecting on Brown and Sherman Mountains. a piece of ore. Two documentary According to Corbett (1879), the main shaft stamps upper left, cut cancelled. was 80’ deep, tunnels 70’ and 30’. Ore is Folds, creases. 8 x 11.75” According to the United States Investor (Vol galena, tetrahedrite and pyrite producing 14, 1903), the company was leasing portions of property owned by the 100 ounces of silver per ton. Bond is Mary Cashen MC, Monument GMC, and Independence Cons. GMC. Also low no. 7. Nine coupons remaining (one owns mineral land in Fremont Co., Colorado. Also has been working cutout). Silver background, fancy logo and a lease in the Caribou Mining District in Boulder County. Est. $60-80 underground mining vignette. Signed by HWAC# 62821 president Evans and secretary Calkins. Deep folds with wear in middle fold. 19 x 15” Est. $150-300 HWAC# 62759 Bid online at FHWAC.com or call 775-851-1859 119

DAY 2 Saturday, June 23 Mining Lot# 2394 Cripple Creek, Colorado Lot# 2399 Denver, Colorado 1909 Delegate Portland Gold Mining Stock Ribbon for 1909 Miner’s Convention in Certificate Colorado’s richest gold Denver This rare item is a delegate ribbon mine. i/u AH Bailey #1678 100 for the 17th Annual Convention of the shares 1896, signed by founders Western Federation of Miners held in Denver, Doyle and Burns. Est. $100-200 Colorado, in July of 1909. A faux gold nugget is HWAC# 64009 suspended from the pin-back clasp at the top of the 1.5-inch-wide, faded blue ribbon, and a 1.5-inch-diameter medallion with W F and M Lot# 2395 Cripple Creek, Colorado superimposed on three stars surrounding a 1899 Rattler Gold Mining Company shovel, mallet, and pickax hangs from the end Stock Certificate Mines at Cripple of the ribbon. Total length from the top of clasp Creek, Colo. (printed under title). to the bottom of the medallion is approximately Inc. in Colorado, 1896. No. 1992, 5.625 inches. The back of the ribbon has a tag issued for 1,000 shares to Benjamin identifying The Colorado Badge and Novelty Tripp on Dec. 29, 1899 in Colorado Company, Champa St., Denver. The back of the Springs. Signed by vice-president F.E. medallion is stamped with the same name. Est. Brooks and secretary S.L. Caldwell. $200-400 HWAC# 64232 Not cancelled. Brown seal and print, ornate logo with clouds background. Folds, light toning. 6.75 x 10” Owned the Rattler and 2-3 interest in the part of the Bertha B. lying north of Little Frank S. on Raven Hill. 10.5 patented acres. Five shafts Lot# 2400 Denver, Colorado with drifting: two 50 ft. deep, one 100 ft., one 125 ft., and one 165 ft. 1923 Truax Manufacturing Co. deep shaft, all on the Rattler. The Bertha B. claim has two shafts each Ephemera 2 Receipts for freight 100 feet deep. Production is 30 tons of ore. [Ref: Official Manual of charges & Extra labor on iron truck Cripple Creek, 1900] Est. $100-200 HWAC# 62827 frames & extra weight. Letter from Truax Manufacturing Co. to Hanover- Lot# 2396 Cripple Creek, Colorado Bessemer Iron & Copper Co. dated 1895 Two Rebecca Gold Mining 1916, reference to purchase of 10 ore Company Stock Certificates Two cars . Est. $60-90 HWAC# 64358 different denominations: one and five shares. Both issued, uncancelled. 36 dividend coupons attached to each. Same underground mining vignette. Signed by the vice president and secretary. 16 x 9.25” Very good condition. Owned the Rebecca and C.O.D. Mining Claims located in Poverty Gulch. Production up to Jan. 1st, 1900 was $300,000. {Ref: Cripple Creek Manual, 1900] Est. $120- 200 HWAC# 62808 Lot# 2397 Cripple Creek, Colorado RETURN POLICY Three Different Cripple Creek Mining Stock Certificates Isabella Gold Mining Co I/C 1896 to Oscar All items are guaranteed to be authentic unless otherwise noted. If authenticity Whitelaw #78 250 shares, signed by president Hagerman. Cripple is challenged, please call our office for Creek Gold Rock Mining Co. I/U 1895 to Howard Slade #222 100 assistance. ALL SALES ARE FINAL. You may only return any piece that was significantly shares signed by president Wheeler, Freeport and Cripple Creek Gold inaccurately described by calling our Mining Co I/U to AL Putnam 1899 #106 10000 shares signed by president Freeman. All approx 7.75” x office within 10 days of receipt of item(s) 9.5”. Est. $100-200 HWAC# 54344 and notifying us of the error and reason for return. We do not refund postage or Lot# 2398 Denver, Colorado c.1890s insurance. PLEASE CALL US IF YOU REQUIRE Denver Business Card A MORE SPECIFIC CONDITION REPORT OR for Mining Agent Stephens, Hanchett ADDITIONAL PHOTOS. Any items that are & Co., Money Loaned, returned must be returned in the exact, Real Estate, Mining unaltered condition. When we receive and Insurance, Office at 1638 Curtis St. your bids we will assume you have read the in Denver. Reverse description in the catalog, viewed the image has pencil note from of the item, have contacted us regarding any Stephens to his cousin. 2.5 x 4.5” Cardstock with toning. Est. $50-70 HWAC# 63083 questions you may have on any lot and/or have previewed the lot in person. 120 June 2018 - Treasures From Pacific Shores Auction

DAY 2 Saturday, June 23 Mining Lot# 2401 Georgetown, Colorado Lot# 2406 Gunnison County, 1874 Herrmann Silver Mining Co. Colorado 1889 Gee Zee Mining Stock Certificate Inc. in New York. Company Stock Certificate, Tin No. 67, issued for 25 shares to Geo. Cup, Colorado Property located at E. Abbe on March 12th, 1874 in Tin Cup, Gunnison County, Colorado New York. Signed by president Ford according to Poole Bros. Mining William Herrmann and secretary L.W. Directory (1898, pg. 337). Inc. in Winchester. Not cancelled. Ornate Illinois. No. 77, issued for 1,000 border and logo, no vignette. Folds, shares to A. Bouzano on Oct. 31st, creases, an ink stain. 9.25 x 10.5” The 1889. Signed by president Solon N. company owned the Dunkirk Mine Sapp and secretary Chas. Carroll. Not cancelled. Simple design with located on Republican Mountain in script text printed in black and a gold seal. Folds, bent lower right the vicinity of Georgetown. In 1879, they had 40 men employed and corner, very minor separation. 7.25 x 10” The superintendent is listed were managed by Charles Morris. Ore was high-grade galena and zinc. as James Perkins. A silver and lead property. Tin Cup (or Tincup) was [Ref: E&MJ, Vol. 28, 1879, pg. 221] Est. $100-200 HWAC# 62812 originally called Virginia City, but the name was changed to avoid confusion with the Virginia City in Nevada and Montana. The original Lot# 2402 Georgetown, Colorado 1873 The gold discovery dates back to 1859, when Jim Taylor panned gold from Snowdrift Silver Mining and Reduction Willow Creek and carried it back in his tin cup. Est. $60-100 HWAC# Company, Limited This is the second 62845 time we have seen this stock certificate (mortgage debenture) in 40 years. English Lot# 2407 Gunnison County, Mortgage Debenture. To Frederick Connon Colorado 1891 Mono Gold & Silver of Scarsdale Villas, Kensington. Number Mining Company Stock Certificate 169. The Snowdrift seems to be one of the Very rare. Possibly the only one earliest mines sold to an English company known. No previous sales. According from Colorado. John Collom and the British to the Mine, Quarry and Metallurgical and Colorado Bureau arranged this in 1871. Record, 1897, the company owned Ernest Le Neve Foster and Captain Bennett the Mono and San de Costa Mines at seemed to be in charge of this mine and the Pitkin, Gunnison County, Colorado. Silver Plume during this time. [British Investments in the American They had 50 and 140 ft. shafts, Mining Frontier, by Spence] Est. $100-200 HWAC# 40573 refractory ore, and a 10 stamp mill with a 20 tons/day capacity. They were employing the cyanide process. This certificate is No. 70, issued Lot# 2403 Gilpin County, Colorado for 20 shares to D. MKeag on May 14th, 1891 in Pittsburgh. Signed 1890 Brooklyn Mining Company by president W.W. Murray and the secretary. Not cancelled. Blue Stock Certificate Location of Mine, border, black print, gold corporate seal. Heavy wear. Deep folds with Gilpin County, Colorado (printed tape repaired separations and heavy toning. 7.5 x 11” You won’t find at the top). Inc. in Kentucky. No. another! Est. $100-300 HWAC# 62829 1065, issued for 100 shares to B.L. Cutting on Feb. 13th, 1890. Signed Lot# 2408 Idaho Springs, Colorado by the president and secretary. 1925 Silver Cycle / Gold Dyke Not cancelled. Green border and Mining Archive Lot of seven. 1-2) background, black print. Vignette of miners working underground. Two Silver Cycle Mining Company Printed by Dennison & Brown. Folds, nice condition. 6.5 x 10.25” stocks (#’s 2280 and 3809). Issued Located between Mammoth and Bobtail Hills, Central City/ Black in 1924 and 1925. One is stamp Hawk region. No production numbers found. Est. $120-200 HWAC# cancelled “100% Dividend, Silver 62820 Cycle Mining Company, Idaho Falls, Colorado.” 3-4) Two stocks from the Lot# 2404 Gilpin County, Colorado Gold Valley Mining Company. 1925. 1891 Gold Rock Mining & Milling 5-7) Two letters (with one envelope) Stock Certificate Location of Mines, pertaining to the mines. 1925 letter Gilpin County, Colorado. Nice mining telling the buyer “Mr. Ryan our mine superintendent called us over vignette in the upper left corner of long distance telephone to announce that the lost round of shots had this 9 x 3 /12 inch stock certificate. revealed a rich vein...” The second letter is 1927 and states, “...notified Issued to Albion Little in November Silver Cycle stockholders that the company was a legitamate failure...” of 1891. Est. $60-80 HWAC# 74018 But take heart, the new Gold Medal Mining Company would fix all of that. There are 4 pages worth of how they will do that. Est. $80-160 Lot# 2405 Gilpin County, Colorado HWAC# 45463 1866 Nye Gold Mining Company Stock Certificate Nye Gold Mining Lot# 2409 Leadville, Colorado Company of the City of New York, Carbonate Weekly Chronicle Mines in Gilpin County, Colorado, one 1879, Leadville Mining News Rare thousand shares of capital shares newspaper, section on the mines issued to E.W. Moss, dated Nov 5, that is quite interesting. Includes a 1866, and signed by John A. Nye. Mr. column on the daily production of Nye is listed as the president of an unnamed company in the 1866 about 30 mines. Most mines were at Directory of New York, then as a merchant in the 1867 edition, and 10-30 tons per day except Chrysolite, not listed in the 1868 edition. Nye Gold Mining Company is not listed Little Pittsburgh and the Little Chief, in Wallihan (1871), nor in Corbett (1879), nor in Hollister (1867). which were 100-125 tons per day. Certificate includes a vertical vignette of a mining shaft with miners on good condition. Est. $80-120 HWAC# 63910 three levels. The Online Archive of California lists a John A. Nye (1832- 1906) from Unadilla, NY. Est. $300-500 HWAC# 64059 Bid online at FHWAC.com or call 775-851-1859 121

DAY 2 Saturday, June 23 Mining Lot# 2410 Lot# 2415 Ouray, Colorado 1891 Leadville, Happy Jack Gold & Silver Mining Colorado Amie Co. Stock Certificate According to a Consolidated bond from the company also offered Mining in this sale, the company properties Co. Stock included the Happy Jack Lode, the Certificate, Towanda Lode, the Keystone Lode, Leadville, and the Keystone Mill Site in Ouray Colorado, 1880 County. Stock No. 172, issued for Inc. in New York. 100 shares to C.A. Miller on April No. 1254, issued 20th, 1891 in Ouray. Signed by the for a 100 shares president L.L. Lyon and secretary Sproul. Not cancelled. Vignette to BR Carman, of five miners working underground with headlamps. Folds. 7.25 x May 13th, 10.25” Not listed in our Colorado references, so it likely was not a big 1880. Signed producer. Est. $120-200 HWAC# 62766 by president McFarland and secretary Ebert. Not cancelled. Green and black print. Surface mining vignette and two allegorical women Lot# 2416 Ouray, Colorado Vulcan vignettes in borders. Printed by ABN. Folds, some toning. According Gold and Silver Mining Stock, to Burchard, it was located in the Fryer Hill district of Leadville, Ouray- 1880 Cert. #18, issued to Colorado. In 1883, it had been consolidated with the Deer Lodge Shalor W. Eldridge for 200 shares property, totaling 15 acres. Productive through leasing with pockets of in 1880. Incorporated in New York. carbonate ore being found. Dividends to date amounted to $305,000. Signed by Lewis Jones as president Water encountered at a depth of 482 feet when they were looking for a and Meredith L. Jones as secretary. second contact [pg. 484]. Est. $120-200 HWAC# 62825 The company incorporated in 1879 in New York city. The company owned the Vulcan lode, 300 x 1500 feet; Lot# 2411 Leadville, Colorado 1883 situated on the south slope of Potosi Mountain, 6 1/2 mi. sw of Ouray, Brookland Mining Stock Certificate Mt. Sneffles district. The lode was patented in 1879; vein a fissure Rare certificate with only 2 tiny from eight to twelve feet wide, pay streak 12 inches, containing galena staple perforations and map on back. with some brittle and ruby silver in a quartz gangue, milling when i/u James D??? 1883#234 500 shares. sorted on average fifty ounces of silver per ton. The Vulcan lode was Est. $90-120 HWAC# 64017 developed by one tunnel 100 foot long on the vein and one fifteen-foot crosscut (Corregan and Lingane, 1883). In fine, uncancelled condition. Est. $150-300 HWAC# 41343 Lot# 2412 Leadville, Colorado Carbonate Hill Lot# 2417 Ouray area, Colorado Consolidated Mining Co. 1911-1950 Camp Bird Limited Stock Certificate I/u to Stock Certificates Lot of three. 1) V Baker 1881 #484 781 The earliest is dated 1911. Stocks shares. We could not find from 898019 to 898040 (out of any info on this company 1,100,000). In English and French. in our library. 6.75” x 14 coupons still attached, 2) 1934 11.25”. Est. $100-200 option certificate to bearer number HWAC# 54357 3287 for 750 shares. 3) 1950 for 200 shares registered to Stephen George Williams of 128 Addiscombe Road Lot# 2413 Leadville, Colorado in Croydon. Certificates are in fair to good condition. The Camp Bird Central Colorado Prospecting Mine is a famous and highly productive old gold mine located between and Mine Development Co. Stock Ouray and Telluride, Colorado. The mine is within the Sneffels-Red Mountain-Telluride mining district in the San Juan Mountains. The Certificate I/U to C Needles who is mine produced about 1.5 million troy ounces of gold, and 4 million the president. 1880. #292, for 20 troy ounces of silver from 1896 to 1990. Est. $100-200 HWAC# 40576 shares, underground miner vignette. 6.75” x 11”. Est. $100-200 HWAC# Lot# 2418 Park County, Colorado 54361 1893 Mascotte Gold Mining Co. Lot# 2414 Ouray, Colorado 1889 Stock Certificate “The Phillips and Orphan Boy Hill Consolidated Happy Jack Gold & Silver Mining properties, which adjoin the Mascotte Co. Bond, Ouray $25 bond no. 32 property on either side and which issued to C.S. Russell on May 13th, made the reputation of Buckskin 1889. Lists the properties in the text: Joe and this section of the country, the Happy Jack Lode, the Towanda have produced probably over two Lode, the Keystone Lode, and the million dollars in gold and continue Keystone Mill Site in Ouray County. to produce, the Orphan Boy Hill Signed by the vice-president F.F. Consolidated now yielding larger than at any time in its history. The Lyon and treasurer Heicheuser. Not Mascotte property, covering over one hundred acres, lies between cancelled. Five coupons attached. these great properties and may properly be considered a “ mineral Folds. 10.25 x 11” Not listed in our farm.” from The Colorado Magazine, 1893. #109 i/c EW Bass 1893 500 Colorado references, so it likely was shares. Est. $100-200 HWAC# 72032 not a big producer. Est. $60-100 HWAC# 62841 122 June 2018 - Treasures From Pacific Shores Auction

DAY 2 Saturday, June 23 Mining Lot# 2419 Querida, Colorado Bassick Lot# 2423 Summit County, Colorado Gold Mine Company Records Original Graphic Consolidated Mining black tin box full of the company’s & Milling Co. Bond, 1883 Mine records from 1899-1901. The group names printed on the left side of consists of several thousand checks, the certificate: Graphic, St. James, all with RNX, Also hundreds (or more) Windsor, Crown Point, Crown Point of invoices. This original batch of Tunnel, Savage, Belcher & Princton. records is as found, and has not been All located on Sheep Mountain, “high-graded” for better letter or bill Robinson, Summit County, Colorado. No. 319, issued for $100 on June heads. There are many from small 5, 1883. Signed by president S.W. Hayward and the secretary. Not towns in Colorado, and many from the cancelled. Green border. Vignette of mining claims on a mountain. Four Thomkins family businesses of banks coupons attached. Printed by Collier & Cleaveland Lith, Denver. 6.5 and hardware stores in Leadville, x 12.25” Bent corner, folds. (Prag Collection) Est. $100-150 HWAC# and the Silver Cliff area. Bassick was 60488 discovered by E.C. Bassick in 1877. he made a reported $500,000 in the Lot# 2424 San Juan, Colorado 1898 first year and a half, then sold out. Inter Ocean Mining Company Vanderwilt reports the Bassick mine of San Juan Stock Certificate has ore in a large vertical pipe 20 x Location: Eureka District, San Juan, 100’,that may represent the neck of a volcano. Emmons reported in Colorado (printed at the bottom of 1896 that the Bassick had produced nearly $6million on gold. This was the certificate). Inc. in Iowa in 1878. the major mine in the district, and these records are representative No. 185, issued for 5 shares to Fred J. of a renewed effort to mine there. This is a wonderful archive that we Donihoo in 1898 in Chicago. Signed couldn’t bear to split up. Est. $2000-3000 HWAC# 59829 by president Moses Wells and secretary John E. Frasher. Not cancelled. Small certificate (4 x 7.5”) with gilt background. Fold. Works on the Scotia Lode at Animas Forks, Colorado. Est. $60-100 HWAC# 62824 Lot# 2420 Querida, Colorado 1884 Bassick Mining Company Stock Lot# 2425 San Juan Mining Certificate Situated at Querida, District, Colorado c1880 Ultra Rare Hardscrabble Mining District. Inc. in San Juan Consolidated Mining New York July 1879. No. 452, issued Prospectus and Stock Certificate for 100 shares to Darwin Codey on Rare opportunity to purchase this Oct. 20th, 1884. Signed by Frank prospectus. Contains a two page map Brown, president, and W.S. Hayt. Not on pink paper of the vicinity and cancelled. Mine/mill vignette and railroad lines. Outside pages show an fancy logo. Printed by ABN. Pinholes, illustration of Arrastar Gulch where folds, and some other light wear. Overall very nice. 7 x 10.5” Not in the mine is located high up in the mountains and a map of the San Filer. Bassick City was founded in 1877 when E.C. Bassick discovered Juan Mining District. Five illustrations in the back of the prospectus: a rich outcropping on his way home from working for the Centennial 1) Mexican method of removing water from the mines by carrying Mining Co. on Tyndal Mountain. He took out more than half a million jugs up a ladder. 2) Improved method of removing water with a steam in gold and silver before selling to an Eastern company. The Bassick engine. 3) A true fissure vein. 4) Donkey powered arrasta. 5) Stamp Mine was one of Colorado’s richest, deepest, and most advanced gold mill. 9 x 6”. The condition of the prospectus is poor. Cover has been mines for its time (1877-1885). They built a mill to treat gold ore, ripped and has amateur repairs. The bottom right corner of the first fluming the tailings into an adjacent creek for disposal. The town page as a 2 x 2” ripped corner. All pages are loose. The prospectus has peaked in 1882. It is a ghost town today. Est. $150-300 HWAC# 62839 been folded in fourths. But the contents are remarkable. Inside a nice decorative box. Stock certificate is also heavily folded. Number 310 Lot# 2421 Red Cliff, Colorado for 50 shares to Sarah E Conners. Signed by Henry Hull and Edward Keystone Consolidated Mining Wehe?. First year of incorporation, Est. $800-2000 HWAC# 45511 Company Stock Certificate Issued 1882 to Michael Jordan # 2530 100 Lot# 2426 Silver Plume, Colorado shares. According to Balch, 1882, the Republican Mountain Silver Mines company--not to be confused with Ephemera 1) List of mining capital stock the famous mine in California with owners (one is Kit Carson) and some the same name--operated claims expenses for the Consolidated Republican in the Battle Mountain Mining District, Red Cliff, Summit County, Mountain Mining Co. 20 Abstract of record Colorado. Their 13 claims included: the Keystone, Governor Tabor, and argument in The Supreme Court of the Allegheny City, Mt. Vesuvius, Tabor Mount, B.F. Smith, J.B. McDonald, State of Colorado. J. Warren Brown, plaintiff C.G. McDonald, Consolidated, General Custer, Fleur de lis, Rose Bud, in error vs. The Republican Mountain Silver and Keystone Consolidated. Ore was being shipped to Red Cliff and Mines, defendant in error. 1889. 2 blank Leadville. Est. $100-200 HWAC# 56159 receipts from the Consolidated Republican Mountain Mining Co. Est. $150-300 HWAC# Lot# 2422 Robinson, Colorado 37425 Graphic Consolidated Mining and Milling Certificate Mines in Lot# 2427 Silverton, Colorado Robinson, CO. Green 1883 $100 bond, Mining the Hard Rock in the signed by president Hayward. 6.75” Silverton San Juans (Books) By x 12.5”. Side of bond lists the various John Marshall with Zeke Zanoni, properties including the Graphic, beautiful black & white photos, St. James, Windsor, Crown Point hardback pp.216 2) Catalogs of & Crown Point Tunnel, Savage, Belcher, & Princton Est. $100-150 “Eureka! The Journal of Mining HWAC# 54351 Collectibles” Est. $50-80 HWAC# 64263 Bid online at FHWAC.com or call 775-851-1859 123

DAY 2 Saturday, June 23 Mining Lot# 2428 Victor, Colorado Portland Gold Lot# 2434 , Colorado Southern Mine Original Photo Mounted photo of Colorado Mines Newspaper the most famous mine at Cripple Creek, the Article, 1875 New York Tribune, Portland, discovered by Winfield Stratton, 4 7.9.1875 entitled “Southern Mines. x 6” Clear, crisp, good focus, good contrast. Discussed are the routes to the Circa 1900-1905. This major mine is now mines, the San Juan District and in the center of the largest open pit mine in the Del Norte mines. This is early- Colorado. Its massive wealth had a great start just after discovery, and would in the nineteenth century, only to carry over have caused much excitement and to today! A visit to the Pioneer Museum in eastern financier investment. Est. Colorado Springs will show you the first mill $60-100 HWAC# 63916 product from the Portland, a small gold ingot from Winfield’s own collection. Est. $100-180 HWAC# 62253 Lot# 2429 , Colorado Baskin Consol and other Colorado stocks Beautiful uncancelled Baskin Consolidated, Lot# 2435 , Colorado 1866, 1882, issued to Geo. A. Gary fopr 50 1873 Two Colorado Mining shares, signed by P. LeB. Coombs. Stock Certificates (Snowdrift not listed in C&L or Burchard. Also & Pottsville) 1) Pottsville & includes: Great Western G&SMC 1945 Colorado Gold and SIlver Mining (2), Triumph Gold, 1965; United Company. Number 298 for 50 Empire (1949, 2); Mytus Gold 1939, shares to Fanny Farquhar(?). Has United Gold 1934; Gold Hub 1936, the famous dog guarding the gold Lucky Discovery Gold 1934. ; all bars pictorial. Signed by James issued, u/c Est. $150-250 HWAC# Conner per CH Tyson and PW 571610 Sheaper. Vignette of a large dog Lot# 2430 , Colorado Choice guarding a crate. This company Colorado Mining Stock Certificates was located in or near Georgetown. Excellent condition. One horizontal Gold Rock Mining Co I/U 1896 to fold. 2) Snowdrift Silver Mining and signed by WM Clark #721 1000 and Reduction Company. English shares, tent and covered wagon Mortgage Debenture Number 173 vignette. Gene Field Gold Mining with six coupons still attached. Co. in Cripple Creek I/U to SP Booth To Frederick Connon of Scarsdale 1896 #341 1000 shares, underground miners vignette. Both 8”x 10”. Villas, Kensington. Number 169. Est. $100-200 HWAC# 54354 The Snowdrift seems to be one of the earliest mines sold to an English Lot# 2431 , Colorado Colorado company from Colorado. John Collom and the British and Colorado Bureau arranged this in 1871. Ernest Le Neve Foster and Captain Mining Postcards Lot of 9. Bennett seemed to be in charge of this mine and the Silver Plume Mayflower Mill, Silverton. No during this time. [British Investments in the American Mining Frontier, postmark, no photographer identified. 2) Sunnyside Mill, Eureka. by Spence] Rips at folds. 21 x 17”. Est. $150-300 HWAC# 44027 Produced by Walker Art Studios, Montrose. No postmark. 3) Geyser Mine, Silver Cliff. No postmark. 4) Mendota Mine and Mill, Silver Plume. No photographer identified , no postmark. 5) & 6) Ruins of Lot# 2436 , Colorado 1882 & 1906 the Famous (Tabor) Matchless Mine. Photographer is identified as Two Different Colorado Mining Sombaro. No postmark. 7) Little Johnny Mine, Leadville. Photographer Bonds 1) London Mining Company. is identified as Sombaro. No postmark.8) Famous Commodore Mine, $500 bond, No. 448. Issued in 1882. Pen cancelled. Signed by president Creede. Published by M.H. Eaves. No postmark. 9) Panorama of Climax George Blanchard and secretary H.S. Comstock. Three coupons Molybdenum Mine near Leadville. No photographer and no postmark. attached. The London Mine was located on Lincoln Mountain in the Est. $90-130 HWAC# 3836 Alma District, Park County, Colorado near Fairplay. 2) The Dexter Lot# 2432 , Colorado 1884 & 1908 Mining Company. Located in Teller County. $500 bond issued in 1906. Colorado Mining Stock Certificate Not cancelled. Signed by the president and secretary. Full sheet of 40 coupons attached. Excellent condition. Est. $80-120 HWAC# 67001 and Bond Lot of 2. 1) The Jewell Mining & Milling Company. Stock certificate issued in 1884 for Lot# 2437 , Colorado 1904 & 1912 200 shares to the company president, D.C. Ball. Also signed by the Two Different Colorado Mining secretary Rice. Not cancelled. Small certificate (3.25 x 7.75”) made to Stock Certificates 1) Telluride Gold resemble currency. Pinholes, folds, creases, and soiling. Owned the Mining Company. Inc. in Arizona. No 149, issued for 5,000 shares to Anna Hudson and Silver Bell Mines at White Pine, Gunnison County, J.E.A. Hair on August 26th, 1904 in San Francisco. Signed by president Colorado. 2) $500 bond for the Routt County Development Company. A. Cane and secretary Reddin. Not cancelled. Gilt border with mining Issued 1908, not cancelled, nine coupons attached. Vignette of the seal vignettes integrated, plus vignette of four prospectors working at of Colorado. according the United States Investor, the company had a the surface. Pinhole, deep folds, some toning. 2) The Great Arkansas contract with the state to build the Little Snake River Canal System and Mining Co. of Baltimore City. Mines in Freemont County, Colorado. “colonization of lands thereof.” Est. $50-80 HWAC# 67002 Inc. in Maryland, 1885. No. 35, issued for 116 shares to Adelaide L. Lot# 2433 , Colorado Mineral Levering on Oct. 22nd, 1912 (written over preprinted 1880s dateline). Resources of Colorado by Signed by the president and secretary. Punch cancelled on left border. Interesting border with underground mining vignette. Pinholes, folds, Vanderwilt 1947 hardcover, 547pp some staining. Est. $100-150 HWAC# 67000 with index, loaded with foldout maps and tables. Est. $60-90 HWAC# 65028 124 June 2018 - Treasures From Pacific Shores Auction

DAY 2 Saturday, June 23 Mining Lot# 2438 Hartford, Connecticut Lot# 2444 Bangor, Maine c.1880 1867 Eagle Gold & Silver Mining By-Laws & List of Officers of the Co. Stock Certificate Issued in Oshkosh Cons. Mining Company 12 1867 in Hartford, CT, though we pages. Offices at Bangor, Penobscot cannot locate the mine. Not in any County, Maine. Organized in Maine. of our sales indexes or references. No date. Printed by Commercial There are also many “Eagle” mining Print, Bangor. As these are by-laws, companies in the U.S. No. 186, issued there is no discussion of the actual for 52 shares to company secretary E. mining property or location. On the Wadsworth on Dec. 2nd, 1867. Also signed by president. S. Woodruff. first page, someone crossed out the Not cancelled. Attractive certificate with two patriotic eagle vignettes “Oshkosh Consolidated” and wrote and a mine hoisting vignette. Printed by Hatch & Co., NY. One 25 cent “Great Eastern Silver.” Both look like they were incorporated in 1880. IR adhesive stamp attached at right. Horizontal and vertical folds. Silver mine in Maine? There was also an Oshkosh mine in Colorado. Cut unevenly on left border. 6.5 x 10.5” More research is needed. Est. Blue covers with soiling, toning to pages. Stapled binding. 5.75” x 3.5” $100-200 HWAC# 62838 Est. $120-250 HWAC# 34819 Lot# 2439 Dahlonega, Georgia Lot# 2445 Ellsworth, Maine 1880 Findley Gold Mining Co. of GA Stock Ellsworth Silver Mining Co. Stock Certificate From a famous Dalonega Certificate Inc. in Connecticut. No. gold mine. I/U Geo Codington 1881 77, issued for 100 shares to Emery #3618 100 shares. Right dog ear. Est. N. Moore of Boston on June 28, $150-250 HWAC# 64060 1880. Signed by president Samuel Krugman and treasurer Harrington. Not cancelled. Deep folds. State seal Lot# 2440 Dahlonega, Georgia vignette and small circular vignette. 7.75 x 12.5” Ellsworth was located near the Blue Hill copper district. Georgia Gold Books(4) 4 books; 1) Maine’s Silver Rush that took place 1878-1882. Silver (in galena) Confederate Gold by Anne & Winifred was first discovered in Sullivan, Maine in 1877. Speculation about Fluker; 2)Silver in the Unaka by the richness of the claims was fueled by the publication of the Maine Buddy Johnson with James W. Mintz; Mining Journal in 1880. Est. $100-200 HWAC# 62772 3)Ghost Trains & Depots of Georgia, 1833-1933 by Les R. Winn, beautiful Lot# 2446 , Maine Maine Mining photos. 4) The Neighborhood Mint Letters, Covers and Reports Dahlonega in the Age of Jackson. Est. $100-120 HWAC# 64261 Reports from: 2 reports from Tapley Copper Mine, 1880; 3 reports from Lot# 2441 Dahlonega, Georgia 1900’s Manhattan-Tapley Copper Mines, Rail Track from Dry Hollow Mine; 1883; Small drawings of Tapley Replica of Cannon; 2 framed info’s of and Manhattan mines; Letter from L. Taylor, manager of the Portland Dry Hollow Mine Rail Track from Dry- Smelting Works with advertising Hollow Gold Mine-Dahlonega, GA Early cover, 1883; and 2 more letters from 1900’s 6.5” x 14”; Cannon replica made Taylor. Est. $200-700 HWAC# 37421 of brass 10.5” x 3”; 2 frames of info. of Dry Hollow Mine, & a map.9.5” x 12”. Lot# 2447 Est. $80-100 HWAC# 64249 Montgomery County, Maryland 1865 Maryland Lot# 2442 Hailey, Idaho G.V. B Gold Mining Mining Company Stock Certificate Company Stock G. V. Bryan founded this company. Certificate Issued in 1897, underground Attractive, early miner vignette, signed by president certificate. Bounton, # 59, issued to Nancy Inc. August Thurber. 7.5” x 11”. Operated the Red 11th, 1865. Elephant Group of mines near Hailey, No. 51, issued Idaho. 10 shares. Est. $70-120 for 500 shares HWAC# 52353 to Thomas Sieger on November 4th, 1865 in Philadelphia. Signed Lot# 2443 Wallace, Idaho Mostly by president A.E. Griffiths and treasurer E. Gray. Not cancelled. Two vignettes: underground mining scene (left) and surface facilities (top Wallace Idaho Check Collection center). One 25 cent IT adhesive stamp attached on the right side. Checks for 1907-1947 from Tamarack Printed by John C. Clark & Son, Philadelphia. Folds, tape attached in & Custer Consolidated Mining (2), two places on the top, though it doesn’t appear to be for any repair. King Mining, 2 Wallace National 7.25 x 12” Located above Great Falls in Montgomery Co., Maryland, the Bank(1 pictorial), State Bank of mine was formed by Union soldiers in 1865, allegedly after a Union Commerce 1907 and Oct. 8, Success soldier noticed gold in the dishes he was washing in a stream. Reports Mining (2), Marsh Mines, Wallace of gold in the area go back to 1827 and noted mineralogist Professor Bank & Trust, First National Bank, Ducatelle. The mine is now located within a national park. Est. $150- Strattons Mines. Est. $80-100 HWAC# 300 HWAC# 62929 56175 Bid online at FHWAC.com or call 775-851-1859 125

DAY 2 Saturday, June 23 Mining Lot# 2448 , Maryland 1864 & 1870 Lot# 2452 Ontonagon Maryland Mining Stock Certificate County, Michigan 1862 & Bond Lot of two different. 1) New Rare Green Mountain London Copper Mining Company of Frederick County, Maryland. Mining Certificate Stock certificate No. 49, issued for 500 shares to Mayer on May 3rd, Rare onion skin, issued 1864 in Philadelphia. Signed by president Henry Leach and secretary in 1862 to Oliver Miller. Not cancelled. Printed on very thin paper. Pinholes, folds, Severance for 25 shares. creases, piece ripped off. One 25 cent IR adhesive stamp attached. 2) Signed by president J.W. $500 bond for the Maryland Freestone Mining and Manufacturing Stewart and secretary Company. Issued in 1870. Not cancelled. Signed by president Kidwell Douglas Stewart. Inc. in and treasurer Hayden. 27 coupons attached. Vignette of wagon with Michigan in 1861. Claims quarry/mine in the background. Folds, overall very nice condition. located in Ontonagon Est. $150-300 HWAC# 67005 County on the same range containing the Cuyahoga, Carp Lake, Miscowaubik, Lone Lot# 2449 Boston, Rock, and others. (Ref: Their Articles of Incorporation are Massachusetts available to read free online at: https://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/ 1864 Beacon Gold pt?id=mdp.35112103330900;view=1up;seq=32) Est. $300-600 Mining Co. Stock HWAC# 56160 Certificate Inc. in Massachusetts. Low No. 7, issued Lot# 2453 Salt Lake County, for 500 shares to Michigan 1920 Michigan-Utah Joseph H. Bragon Consolidated Mine Stock I/U, rare. on Sept. 29th, 1864 #4688 Lucian Kahn 1920 5000 in Boston. Signed shares. Note 4 border creases and by president F.W. multiple small tears. Est. $50-100 Pelton and treasurer HWAC# 64530 Edward Lucas. Not cancelled. Purple and red print, no vignette. 25 cent IR adhesive stamp. Folds. 9.5 x 6” Not in any of our sale indexes, references, nor any previous sales. We could not locate this mine. It is possibly Lot# 2454 , Michigan 1906-1924 Georgia, based on another online listing that pairs assessment receipts Five Michigan Mining Stock for this company with a Georgia mining plat map. We cannot confirm Certificates Includes: Mohican this at time of print. F.W. Pelton was also president of the Portland & Copper Company, issued 1923, Oxford Central Railroad at this time, so it is possible the mine was in not cancelled; Indiana Mining Maine. There was a F.W. Pelton that was mayor of Cleveland in 1871, Company, issued 1924, punch and though we aren’t positive it is the same Pelton as our stock. More research is needed! Est. $100-200 HWAC# 62842 stamp cancelled, Native American vignette; Ahmeek Mining Company of Michigan, issued 1921, stamp Lot# 2450 Mohawk, Michigan cancelled, beaver vignette; Naumkeag Seneca Mining Company Stock Copper Company, issued 1914, not cancelled; and Keweenaw Copper Certificate, 1880 Highly pictorial Company, 1906, elk vignette. Good condition. (Prag Collection) Est. Underground vignette at left. $150-250 HWAC# 55656 Allegorical and mining vignettes at Lot# 2455 , Michigan Michigan top center. Inc. in Michigan 1853 & Mining Stocks (4) 1) Ahmeek Mining 1855. Issued for 50 shares to R.R. with 2 beaver vignette issued 1919 2) Goodell on March 31st, 1880. Punch Copper Range issued 1966 3) Quincy cancelled. Heavy soiling. 6.5” x 9.25” (Prag Collection) Est. $80-160 Mining i/c 1929 4) Seneca Mining HWAC# 55424 issued 1910 Est. $60-100 HWAC# 56162 Lot# 2451 Mohawk, Michigan 1880s-1923 Seneca Mining Stock Certificate & Bond Collection Lot# 2456 , Michigan 1877-1923 Lot of 5 different for this Mohawk, Six Different Michigan Mining Michigan copper mining company Stock Certificates 1) Ahmeek that started back in the 1860s. Two Mining Company of Michigan, 1922, stock certificates: 1888 issued (1860s stamp and punch cancelled, beaver form), highly illustrated, but punch vignette. 2) Naumkeag Copper cancelled and with heavy soiling; and Company. Issued 1914. Not cancelled. different style stock issued for 100 3) Seneca Copper Corporation $100 shares in 1909, two mining vignettes, Bond. Issued 1923. Pen cancelled. not cancelled. Three different bonds: $100, $500, and $1,000 bonds Six coupons attached. Underground issued 1923, all with same underground mining vignette. Each has 6 mining vignette. 4) Seneca Mining Company of Michigan stock issued coupons still attached. (Prag Collection) Est. $150-300 HWAC# 55423 1915. Not cancelled. Mining and allegorical vignettes. 5) Early Seneca Mining Company stock issued 1877. Pen cancelled. Great mining vignettes. Heavily soiled/water damage. 6) Quincy Mining Company stock issued 1916. Punch and stamp cancelled. Please inspect. (Prag Collection) Est. $150-250 HWAC# 55675 126 June 2018 - Treasures From Pacific Shores Auction

DAY 2 Saturday, June 23 Mining Lot# 2457 , Michigan 1914-1923 Lot# 2461 Butte, Montana c. 1950 Three Different Michigan Copper Anaconda Mine Company Items Several Mining Stock Certificates 1) items from The Anaconda Company in Butte, Naumkeag Copper Company. Issued Montana, including an aluminum covered 1914 for 100 shares to Wrenn Bros. clipboard embossed with “ANACONDA & Co. Not cancelled. Purple border MINING. CO. SALVAGE DEPT”, and a copper and background. 2) St. Lawrence inkwell cover embossed with an image Mining Corporation. Issued 1920 for on the hinged lid of a gallows headframe 100 shares. Not cancelled. Orange surrounded by the words “GALLOWS background and border. 3) Mohican HEADFRAME ANACONDA MINE” and Copper Company. Issued in 1923 for 100 shares. Not cancelled. Green “BUTTE, MONTANA” at the bottom. Also in border and background. General good condition for group with folds, this lot is an un-issued membership card wrinkles and some soiling. (Prag Collection) Est. $100-200 HWAC# for The Anaconda Company Employees 55426 Club, approximately 3.75x2.125 inches printed with black and green ink. The lot also includes eleven un-issued Entitlement Cards Lot# 2458 Duluth, Minnesota approximately 3.75x2.125 inches in size that entitle the assignee “to 1886 The Great Western Mining apply for employment at THE ANACONDA CO. MINES IN BUTTE during Co. Stock Certificate Inc. in the month of....” There are two cards for February, 19___ trimmed in Pennsylvania. No. 75, issued for magenta ink, one card for February, 195___ trimmed in purple ink, 500 shares to Walter Hinchman on seven cards for May, 195___ trimmed in yellow ink, and one card for March 31st, 1886. Signed by Robert September, 19___ trimmed in brown ink. Est. $80-120 HWAC# 64401 H. Lamborn as president and Geo. A. Krause as pro term secretary. Not Lot# 2462 Butte, Montana 1903 2 Butte cancelled. Gorgeous certificate with Annual Mine Reports 2 Annual mine Native American vignette at left and vignette of quarry operation at reports for the Mountain View and East top center. Pinholes, folds. 6.5 x 10.5” The company mined slate beds Colusa mines in Silver Bow County Montana. near Duluth, Minnesota in large quarries. Proximity to the Great Lakes Pertains to the United States Census Office and Mississippi provided an ideal transport route. Claimed to be “the for Gold, Silver, Lead, and Copper Mines. only known and developed fine slate west of the Alleghany Mountains.” Includes the information for employment, Robert Lamborn is a fascinating 19th century character. He studied at wages expenses and more. Provides depth the Royal Saxon Mining Academy of Freiberg and the Ecole des Mines, to the scale of the mine and its impact. Est. Paris. He served with the Anderson Cavalry in the Civil War with $70-150 HWAC# 40800 his friend Capt. William J. Palmer, who was the first president of the Denver & Rio Grande Railway. Lamborn was also closely associated with this railroad, as well as lines in Pennsylvania and Texas. He was Lot# 2463 Butte, Montana 1913 Letter also a prolific collector of art and artifacts in the 19th century from to Heilbronner Co, Butte, Montana This around the world and he donated his large collections to eastern is a letter from Nat. Boas of San Francisco, museums. He was the US Commissioner for Colorado at the Paris California, dated October 14th, 1913, Expo of 1878. He was also heavily involved with the National Land & addressed to Heilbronner Company, Butte, Improvement Co. which helped found Colorado Springs and Manitou. Montana, regarding a sale of stock in the [Ref:Handbook for Immigrants to the United States, 1871, pg.94; and Greenwater Copper Mines and Smelting The Genealogy of the Lamborn Family, Marion, 1894] Est. $100-300 Company, a.k.a. Greenwater and Death Valley HWAC# 62803 Mining Company. Est. $40-50 HWAC# 64226 Lot# 2459 Lake Vermillion, Minnesota 1866 Minnesota Gold Mining Co. Stock Certificate No. 143, issued for 10 shares to Walter Lot# 2464 Butte, Montana Metal Butte, MT Copper Webb on Marc 19th, 1866 in St. Paul, Folding Shoehorn Unusual hinged copper or copper Minnesota. Signed by president Sibley finished folding shoehorn. Front Badge, Richest Hill in and treasurer Prince. Not cancelled. the World / Butte, Montana. 6.5” Est. $40-80 HWAC# 25 cent IR adhesive stamp attached 64503 at bottom right with pen cancel. Two vignettes: prospector with his dog (upper left) and placer mining scene (top center). Very attractive! Printed by Hatch & Co., NY. Folds, clean. 6.5 x 11” Mine was discovered in 1865 . Geologist Henry Ames had travelled to Lake Vermillion earlier that summer and returned to St. Paul in October with a small gold sample and reports of finding gold. This began what was known as the Vermillion Gold Rush. Little gold was found, but iron was discovered, causing the development Lot# 2465 Pioneer District, Montana of the Vermillion Iron Range. Lake Vermilion is located in Saint Louis 1892 Patent for Placer Gold Claim County. Est. $200-400 HWAC# 62806 in Pioneer District, Montana Land patent from 1892 for a placer gold Lot# 2460 Anaconda, Montana claim in the Pioneer District near Anaconda Copper Mining Metal Deer Lodge MT. 4pp 15” x 10”. Est. Tags (4) 3 metal equipment and 1 $100-200 HWAC# 54303 souvenir item. Brass oval 66mm, figure 8ish 40mm x2, copper arrowhead 52mm Est. $100-150 HWAC# 64514 Bid online at FHWAC.com or call 775-851-1859 127

DAY 2 Saturday, June 23 Mining Lot# 2466 Powell County, Lot# 2471 , Montana Montana Montana Ophir Creek Mining Postcards Lot of 29 color Mine Documents A 1942 illustration postcards. These transcription of an 1887 map of postcards are showing various Carpenters bar Montana. Silver mining locations around Montana City first discovery of silver including Butte and Anaconda. 12 are letter. 1912 Ophir Creek letter postmarked between the years 1906- book. 2 Large fold out maps 1963. Est. $150-200 HWAC# 63834 in color showing Ophir Creek property. Large rips along folds Lot# 2472 , Montana 1905 Photo . 21.25” x 35”. Est. $100-300 of Cable Mill in Montana Photo of HWAC# 50341 inside of Cable Mill Montana (1905). Most likely a gold coin mill. Photo of man standing in mill. Slight staining and slight warp.10” x 8.5”. Est. $100- 200 HWAC# 57523 Lot# 2467 Red Lodge, Montana Red Lodge Miners Union Pin-Back Button Orange pin-back button labeled “Red Lodge Miners Union” around the circumference surrounding a large Lot# 2473 Austin, Nevada numeral 1 in the center. Diameter is approximately 0.875 inch. Est. $60-150 Washington Silver HWAC# 64229 Mining Co. Bond, Austin, 1867 First Mortgage Bond. $500. No. 538, issued to L.G. Bingham on June 1st, 1867. Blue 50 Lot# 2468 , Montana Montana cent Conveyance Revenue stamp and 5 cent Internal Gold Mining Company Map Map Revenue Inl. Exchange of several mines including January, stamp w/ cancel. Ten bond Dewey, Last Chance, Mabel Beal, coupons attached. Signed Alma, Siberia Placer. Clare Jergens by Richard Amerman and more. Est. $100-200 HWAC# 51501 as president and W.J. Bingham as secretary. Vignette of a mining facility. Measures 16” x 13 1/2”. Fold lines, light toning on reverse. Excellent condition. The Washington Silver Mining Company is described by Browne (1868) as having an excellent yield (pg. 405) and lists quarterly yields for Sept, Dec, 1866 and March, June Lot# 2469 , Montana Montana 1867. Est. $200-400 HWAC# 62856 Mining Letters with Famous Montana Folks Lot of two. 1) 1886 letter from Omaha & Grant Smelting Lot# 2474 Beatty, Nevada 1909 Beatty & Refining Co. to Henry Knippenberg, Bullfrog Miner Subscription Receipt who was the general manager of Beatty Bullfrog Miner issued to Geo. A the Hecla Mining Co. in Glendale, Bartlett 1909. “George Arthur Bartlett Montana. The letter is about assaying: (November 30, 1869 – June 1, 1951) “I do not know where you can get an was a United States Representative from assayer...There are generally a good Nevada. He moved with his parents to many idle around Denver and Leadville.” “Our assays of your bullion Eureka, Eureka County and attended the have been running lower than yours for several months, in many cases common schools. Bartlett received a law as much as five ounces per ton. I have attributed this to sampling...” degree from Georgetown University in 2) Interesting reproduction letter from Mrs. Granville Stuart that 1894 and was accepted to the Nevada serves as a promotional piece for the Silver Hills Mine company in bar. He served district attorney of Eureka Butte. Granville Stuart, known as “Mr. Montana,” was a pioneer, gold County in 1889 and 1890. He was elected prospector, businessman, civic leader, vigilante, author, cattleman and as a Democrat to the Sixtieth and Sixty- diplomat who played an important ole in the early history of Montana first Congresses (March 4, 1907 - March Territory and the state of Montana. Est. $60-100 HWAC# 55556 3, 1911) and did not seek re-election in 1910. After serving in Congress, he Lot# 2470 , Montana 1907-1913 resumed the practice of law in Reno. Montana Mining Postcards Lot of He was appointed United States assistant district attorney for the 4 early postcards. 1) Birds eye view District of Nevada on March 3, 1915, and served until March 30, 1918. of Virginia City. Postmarked 1907. Between 1918 and 1931 Bartlett served as a judge in the Nevada state 2) Boston and Montana Smelter, court system, after which he resumed the private practice of law. He Great Falls. Produced by B.W. Porter authored several books and was interred in Mountain View Cemetery and Co. Postmarked 1907. 3) Part in Reno upon his death.” from wikipedia. Approx 7” x 4” with upper of the B.&M. Smelter, Great Falls. toning and missing corner. Est. $100-200 HWAC# 65002 postmarked 1913. 4) B.& M. Copper Smelter, Great Falls. Postmark 1908. Est. $50-80 HWAC# 63832 128 June 2018 - Treasures From Pacific Shores Auction

DAY 2 Saturday, June 23 Mining Lot# 2475 Belmont, Nevada Lot# 2479 Bullfrog, Nevada 1906- Philadelphia Mining District 1909 Three Different Nevada Recorder’s Book, Belmont NV Mining Stocks (Goldfield, Bullfrog) District Recorder’s book for the Lot of 3 different. 1) The Lige Harris Bullfrog Gold Mining Company. Philadelphia Mining District Inc. in AZ. No. 1885, issued for 1,000 shares to L. Johnson on Jan. 23rd, at Belmont, Nevada. 1907-8. 1906 in Goldfield. Signed by president VF Hoggatt and the secretary. Binding missing, new professional Not cancelled. Eagle vignette. Pinholes, folds. 2) The Precious Metals replacement binding present. pp259-478. The first pages have been Mining and Milling Company. Goldfield. No 879, issued for 100 converted to an active index (period). The Philadelphia District was shares to Emeline Ryan on Dec. 29th, 1909. Signed by the president one of the most important districts in central Nevada, so much so, and secretary. Not cancelled. Green border and beautiful vignette of that the county court house of Nye was established there in the early mill in the mountains. Folds, wear to corners. 3) The Desert Venture days, with a beautiful brick courthouse built in 1876 that still stands Corporation. Mines were in the Whipple Mountain region near today. The silver from Belmont began to fade away in the 1890’s along Needles on the California/Nevada border (according to E&MJ, Vol. 83). with much mining throughout Nevada. But the Tonopah-Goldfield No. 221, issued for 500 shares to Carlos Abrams on Feb. 19th, 1907. discoveries of the first three years of 1900 caused the county to Signed by the president and asst. secretary. Not cancelled. Gilt border move their seat to Tonopah, which saw huge gold-silver production. and underground mining vignette. Deep folds, some toning and ink As a result, all the county recording went to Tonopah, and the local stains. Est. $120-200 HWAC# 67006 Belmont miners had to establish a satellite system of recording mining claims until someone or official could make the approximate 50 mile Lot# 2480 Bullfrog, Nevada 1907 trip to Tonopah, which would have taken about 2 days by horse. Yankee Girl Gold Mining Co. of District recorder records are very rare, each unique. Est. $500-1500 Bullfrog Stock Certificate Inc. in HWAC# 63511 Arizona, March 1905. Principal office at Goldfield, Nevada. No. 1381, issued Lot# 2476 Belmont, Nevada New for 1,000 shares to A.L. Hudgens on Philadelphia Silver Mining Co. Jan. 20, 1907. Signed by president Stock Certificate, Belmont, NV, L.L. Patrick and secretary E.T. Patrick. 1879 No. 1024, issued for 50 shares Not cancelled. Three small mining vignettes. Green title, red and to Jose Margati on Dec. 12th, 1879. black print. Folds, torn lower right corner. 5.5 x 10” The company Signed by C. Liebold (vice-president) had property on Ladd Mountain just north of the National Bank [Rhy and Alfred Kimber (secretary). Herald, 1909]. Est. $80-120 HWAC# 62752 Not cancelled. Small underground mining illustration with three Lot# 2481 miners. “Issued in Payment of Mining Cornucopia, Nevada Property in Nevada” Folds, creases. Very nice. Sticker on reverse. 7 1876 Cornucopia x10” Not in Filer. This company was located in the Hot Creek Mining Consolidated Stock District in Rattlesnake Canyon and was created just after Belmont Certificate Number 490 became a town. It was noted in the Engineering and Mining Journal, for 50 shares to trustee Volume 25, 1878, that it was not worth buying stock for the price it William McClintock was offered due to a lack of “sufficient development.” Est. $200-300 in 1876. Endorsed on HWAC# 62826 back. Signed by Lyman Mowry and Frank (?). Located in Elko County. Nice vignette of woman Lot# 2477 Bullfrog, Nevada 1906 with a “Horn of Plenty”. The mine did not last long as an article in the Bullfrog National Bank Gold Engineering & Mining Journal in 1878 reported, “It is rumored that Mining Co. Stock Certificate Rare. work on the Cornucopia Consolidated mine will soon be started up.” Inc. in South Dakota, January 1906. Condition is good. Stock is wrinkled and names are faded. Edges and No. 1990, issued for 100 shares to corners are weak. Est. $200-300 HWAC# 60234 E.A. Huth on Aug. 9, 1906 in Goldfield. Signed by LL Patrick as president Lot# 2482 Ely, Nevada Five Ely, and the asst. secretary (illegible). NV Mining Stock Certificates Alta Not cancelled. Black, green and red Gold (lower corner cut), Ely Gibraltar print, three mining vignettes. Printed by John Partridge, SF. Pinholes, Mining, Ely Consolidated Copper, folds. 5.5 x 10” L.L. Patrick was a mine promoter who was the head of Boston and Ely Con. Mining, Raymond a brokerage firm in Goldfield. Eventually he held mines in the Bullfrog Ely West Mining. Copper and Gold district near Rhyolite including the January Mine, the Keane Wonder Mines Est. $100-120 HWAC# 64522 Mine and others. The 1910 Mines Directory says the company has 3 unpatented claims, a 400 foot shaft, and about 600 feet of drifts. Est. $100-200 HWAC# 62746 Lot# 2478 Bullfrog, Nevada 1905 Bullfrog North Star Mining Lot# 2483 Eureka, Nevada 1884 Company Stock Certificate Issued Eureka Tunnel Consolidated 1905 to H. Phillips #379 5000 shares. Mining Co. Stock Certificate signed Signed by president Willis. 6.5” x by Governor Sadler Stock Cert dated 10”. This mine was located on the July 22, 1884, No. 52 for 50 shares, south end of Ladd Mountain. Possibly Prospect Mountain, Eureka, Nevada. named after the famous North Star Signed by Governor of Nevada, Mine in Grass Valley. No production Reinhold Sadler. Est. $80-100 HWAC# 63965 details available. Est. $80-100 HWAC# 52259 Bid online at FHWAC.com or call 775-851-1859 129

DAY 2 Saturday, June 23 Mining Lot# 2484 Eureka, Nevada 1880 Lot# 2488 Goldfield, Nevada 3 Nevada Check Signed by Mine Goldfield Mining Prospectuses 12 Supt. Shot in Saloon Fight Paxton pp Forward Mining Development Co., & Co. Bankers, Eureka, Nevada, Goldfield and Bullfrog 9” x 4”. 12pp August 31, 1880. RN-G revenue Goldfield Mascot Mining Co. 9” x 4”. imprint. Signed by James Adams. 19pp Goldfield Black Butte Mining Adams was the superintendent of the Silver Lick Consolidated Mining Co. in green cover. 9 b/w photos of Company in Eureka, as well as an assemblyman for Nevada. In March mining areas. 11” x 8.5”. Est. $100- of 1881, Adams met two other people connected to the mine (Adolph 200 HWAC# 54312 Schandler and James Oliver) at Collin & Barry’s Saloon in Eureka. Oliver and Schandler wanted Adams to step away from the company. Lot# 2489 Goldfield, Nevada 1914 After heated discussion, Adams got up to leave and was fatally shot C.O.D. Consolidated Mining Co. by Schandler. The newspaper accounts (see March 15, 1881, Oakland Stock Certificate I/U to Edward Tribune) convey his ante-mortem statement as the surgeon told him Jones 1914 #2118 100 shares, he would not survive the wounds. A jury later ruled the incident as pink diamond vignette, 6” x 9.5”. justifiable homicide. The Silver Lick Consolidated Mining Company Incorporated in 1908. This company operated the Silver Lick, Vera Cruz, California, Body Burns, and Black was a merger of the Goldfield Chariot mines. Est. $50-80 HWAC# 60403 C.O.D. and the Gold Bar Mining Co. Properties included the C.O.D., Golden Lot# 2485 Eureka County, Nevada Eagle, and Zoe from the C.O.D. Co., the Gold Bar from that company, 1879 Silver Peak Tunnel & Mining and the Victor and Victor Fraction from the Goldfield Consolidated. Co. Stock Certificate Location: The company was tightly held and controlled by the famous Goldfield Eureka County, Nevada (printed Consolidated Mining Company. The claims formed a compact group, bottom center). Inc. May 5th, 1879. 90 acres at Goldfield. Property had a 350’ shaft and several thousand No. 34, issued for 100 shares to feet of workings by 1916 (Mines Handbook, 1916). “MINES AT AR Chisoln (?) on June 20th, 1879. GOLDFIELD, NEVADA” printed in red diagonally across the certificate. Signed by the president W.W. Bishop and the secretary Frank Doutrick. Large red ruby eminating rays up through the body of the certificate. Not cancelled. Black print on yellow paper. Allegorical vignette on Est. $50-100 HWAC# 53671 the left side, vignette at center of miner working alone underground. Printed by The Mining Record Lith., NY. Folds, bent corners. 5 x 10.5” Lot# 2490 Goldfield, Nevada Daisy Not in Filer. In 1881, it was reported to be 500 feet in. Est. $100-200 Mining Area Stock Certificates All HWAC# 62774 are related to mines in this area near McMahon Ridge in Goldfield, NV. Lot# 2486 Eureka Goldfield Daisy Mining Syndicate I/U District, Nevada to Seligman & Meyer 1907 #3603100 1890 Map of Eureka shares and I/U to Cartier & Co 1909 Mining District #24013 100 shares, Goldfield daisy Drawn by T.J. Read, Lease Co. I/U to Fred Jones 1909 Supt. Eureka Con. & #194 500 shares. All approx 9” x 11”. Deputy U.S. Surveyer. Est. $100-200 HWAC# 53676 This map is called Map of the Golden Lot# 2491 Goldfield, Nevada 1906- Rule. This mining 1909 Goldfield & Tonopah Mining district shows “Side Stock Certificate Group Lot of Track” “Hard Cash” 4. Three Goldfield, one Tonopah. “Cornucopia” & many Included: Golden Anchor Mining more. Mounted on mat board. If mats are shipped then additional Company (Tonopah, 1906, not shipping may apply. Good condition. 15” x 8”. Est. $200-300 HWAC# cancelled, allegorical vignette); 72002 MOhawk Extension MC (Goldfield, 1907, not cancelled); Jumbo Consolidated Mining Company Lot# 2487 Gold Mountain Mining District, Nevada c1910 Gold (Goldfield, 1909, not cancelled, mining vignettes); and Goldfield Somerset MC (1907, not cancelled, Mountain Mining District Maps 24 by 34 inches. One blueprint and one mining vignette). Usual folds. Est. $80-120 HWAC# 66010 blue line print. Undated. Olmstead Lot# 2492 Goldfield, Nevada Great and Olmstead were U. S. mineral Bend Mining Stock Certificates surveyors. Scale 1 inch to 1000 Located in the gut of Goldfield, NV. feet. The map shows the outlines Great Bend Annex Mines Co. I/U to of surveyed claims in the district. Winthorp Smith & Co. 1907 #791, The map was probably made for the 792 and 798,100 shares each. 8” x company that owned the Alberto mining group which consisted of the 11”. North Great Bend Mining Co. I/U Silver King, Gold Queen, Prize and other mining claims in the center to JM Aiken 1906 #180 1000 shares of the district. Both maps are in relatively excellent condition for 5.5” x 10”. Est. $100-200 HWAC# their age. Appears to be c1910. A rare map from an often overlooked 53679 mining district. More commonly called the Tokop Mining District or the Bonnie Clare District. Couch and Carpenter report no production except a small amount in the year 1940. Olmstead also did the ‘Map of the Goldfield Mining District, Goldfield, Nevada, 1907’ and ‘The Map of U.S. patent and location surveys in the Goldfield Mining District, Esmeralda and Nye Counties, Nevada, 1907.’ Among others! Est. $200-400 HWAC# 60822 130 June 2018 - Treasures From Pacific Shores Auction

DAY 2 Saturday, June 23 Mining Lot# 2493 Goldfield, Nevada 1908 Lot# 2498 La Plata, Nevada-Goldfield Lease Company Churchill County, Nevada Stock Certificate signed by George 1865 Warren Silver Nixon I/U to Kate Mullis #3567 Mining Company Stock 425 shares. Signed by president G. Certificate Issued one Nixon, partner to Wingfield and a US year after statehood. Senator. Extra rare. 5.5” x 10.25”. Est. Number 150 for 50 $100-200 HWAC# 53663 shares in 1865 to Francis N Gove. Signed by Samuel Lot# 2494 Goldfield, Nevada Silver Pick W Pingree and Emmet Mines Stock Certificates Silver Pick Blair. Silver Mining Co. Consolidated Mines Co I/U to WP Anderson was incorporated in New 1912 #1587 100 shares 5.5” x 9.75”. Rare York. Vignette of a miners working a strip mining operation. Vignette Silver Pick Extension Mining Co. I/U to The at left of a woman with shield. Black border with pink seal. 6.5 x College of Physicians of Philadelphia 1600 11.25”. Excellent condition. No edge issues, discoloration, pinholes. shares 1916. 8.25” x 10.5”. Est. $60-100 Very minor corner tears. This was issued during the two years La HWAC# 53673 Plata was the county seat of Churchill County. La Plata never reached a population of more than a couple of hundred. On top of that it was, like most Nevada mining camps, in a remote mountain area. La Plata was given the county seat, because the current county seat was Buckland Station. That’s right a wagon station in an area with a few ranches Lot# 2495 Goldfield, - and, oh yes, Fort Churchill - was the first county seat. In 1867 the Nevada 1904 National county seat was moved to Stillwater, a small town with a lot of ranches. Bank Gold Mining The ore was surface, ran out quickly, and by 1867 there was little Company Stock population left and no real mining! Est. $200-300 HWAC# 60238 Certificate Issued 1904 to Thomas St. John #423 750 shares and signed by Lot# 2499 Lincoln County, Vice President Ostrander. Nevada 1907 Tem Piute Mining Adams and Grace printers. & Milling Co. Stock Certificate 8.25” x 12”. Est. $100- and Prospectus Lot of 2. 1) Stock 200 HWAC# 52260 certificate No. A123, issued for 3,000 shares to Robert G. White on October 2nd, 1907. Signed by Robert Lot# 2496 Grantsville, Nevada 1881 F. Whitmer, president, and Robert M. McMahon & Irvine Consolidated Catts, treasurer. Not cancelled. Brown Mining & Milling Stock Certificate border, black print, ornate logo and Native American bust vignette. Folds, Number 172 for 50 shares to Simon toning, portion missing on upper Bowman in 1881. Signed by secretary edge, small tear. 8.5 x 11.5” 2) c.1907 prospectus for the company. John Irvine ( of the company Four pages. Wrappers partially detached. Toning, some separation. name) and president JW Heunter. Describes the district (dating back to the 1870s) and highlights new Frank McMahon is the McMahon. accessibility due to railroads (incl. one from Ely to Goldfield being Grantsville (town is misspelled on constructed) and the benefits of the town and mill sites (including the certificate) is located a couple of water availability). Mine properties listed on map on back cover: miles south of Berlin, Nevada (Home of the Ichthyosaur State Park - Jamestown, Jamestown Extension, Legal Tender, Sterling, Standard, Nevada’s State Dinosaur). Gold was discovered here as early as 1863, Colchis, Utica, Chatagua, Terminus, Old Abraham and South End. Est. but things didn’t really get going until the 1870s. The town reached its peak in the early 1880s, with a population of up to 800 people. At this $100-300 HWAC# 62817 time the Alexander and McMahon mines were producing. There were Lot# 2500 Lyon County, Nevada several small-scale revivals beginning in 1907. Cut close on let and one 1896 Carson River Placer Mining horizontal fold. All-in-all excellent condition. [Nevada Place Names by & Dredging Co. Stock Certificate Carlson] Est. $120-200 HWAC# 60230 Rare! Inc. in West Virginia, 1890. No. 3445, issued for 74 shares to W.L. Lot# 2497 Kawich Mining District, Nevada 1905 Nevada Kawich Lisdale on July 6, 1896. Signed by Mining and Milling Company Peter Forrester as president and P. Halstead as treasurer. Not cancelled. Stock Certificate The Nevada- Blue border and font with fancy logo. Kawich Mining and Milling Co. Pinholes, folds. 7 x 11.5” The company operated near Dayton, mining Inc. in Arizona. No 575, issued for the placer claims on the Carson River. The company incorporated in 1,000 shares to Mrs. J. J. Walsh on 1890, acquiring the rights to the placer claims assayed at about $1 May 13th, 1905. Signed by Burke million. The company was involved in legal action as the founders (president) and Cooper (secretary). were able to acquire these claims from the prior consolidated Vignette of patriotic woman with company for little or no value by scheduling shareholder meetings eagle. The Kawich Mining District is 5 miles N of Quartzite Mountain. with little notice. The Carson River was the site of many of the mills Kawich refers to a chief and whose name is supposed to have meant processing ore from the Comstock Lode. However, the process was not “mountain” in Shoshone. [Ref: Nevada Place Names] Large stain perfect and some mined/processed the tailings. Est. $120-200 HWAC# bottom left and deep folds. Est. $80-150 HWAC# 46931 62744 Bid online at FHWAC.com or call 775-851-1859 131

DAY 2 Saturday, June 23 Mining Lot# 2501 Lyon County, Nevada Lot# 2505 Nye County, Nevada 1877 Goodman Gold & Silver Twin River Silver Mining Co. Stock Mining Co. Stock Certificate, Devil’s Certificate, Ophir Canon, Nye Co., Gate District Devil’s Gate Mining 1866 Nye County, State of Nevada District, Nevada (printed on top). printed beneath mining vignette. Inc. No. 162, issued for 500 shares J.H. in New York. No. 184, issued for 10 Kittell in Virginia City, NV on Oct. shares to JA Pelton on Nov. 6th, 1866. 17th, 1877. Signed by the president, John de Mills (?) and secretary Signed by president A.W. Canfield and L.B. Hastings. Pen cancelled. Two mining vignettes of prospectors. secretary Hart Smith. Not cancelled. Folds, clean. 4 x 9” The Goodman held two patented claims just west of Vignette at top showing tow miners Silver City next to South End. The Goodman is named after the editor working underground. Also, New and publisher of the Territorial Enterprise while Sam Clemens was a York state seal at the bottom. Printed writer. (Prag Collection) Est. $120-200 HWAC# 60492 by JJ Bloomfield, New York. Not in Filer. 25 cent revenue stamp attached at the bottom left. Folds and toning. Our company sold an Lot# 2502 archive of letters from this mining company in May 2016. The Twin McGill, Nevada River Mining Company was located in Ophir in Nye County. Silver was Interesting McGill. discovered in 1863 and by 1867 almost 400 people were living in the NV Collectibles/ canyon. Buildings included a church, a few stores, a school, a fraternal Mementos Desk lodge, and a few saloons. A post office also opened in 1867. Trouble mementos from a began because of the extremely tough rock in which the silver was McGill, NV mining imbedded. Extracting costs were so high the mining company declared supervisor. Copper bankruptcy in late 1868. When the mining company left in 1868 the finished panner, 3 town was practically abandoned. Then operations began again with a copper wrist chains, new mining company in 1869 but it ceased operations in 1870 due to seated miner paper labor problems. The mine reopened in 1872 when a rich new ore body clip holder, white was discovered. The Twin River Mining Company began operating in metal panner, Ely, earnest in 1874 and produced steadily into the 1890s. Est. $200-400 NV Centennial belt buckle, 1938 metal cactus in copper bowl, 8” x 10” HWAC# 62831 color photos, wood wall plaques with copper nugget and more Est. $100-150 HWAC# 69071 Lot# 2506 Pioche, Nevada Combined Metals Reduction Co. Lot# 2503 McGill/Ely, Nevada Equipment Tags 4 brass equipment tags. Est. $30-50 HWAC# 64507 Nevada Consolidated Copper Co. Tags and More 8 large large unmarked tags. 1 small marked Lot# 2507 tag. The Bud /Elko token. HE Rhodes, Swayer/ McGill token. Stock Exchange Bar / Ely token Est. Nevada c. $80-120 HWAC# 64533 1906 Rare Rhodes Salt Bag Rare and likely only known example of this salt bag from Rhode’s Table and Dairy in Rhodes, NV. Bag is cloth Lot# 2504 Nye County, Nevada c.1906 Ophir and 14” x 6”, Canyon Mines Co. of Nevada Prospectus black frame 16” x 12”. “Salt pools were discovered here in 1862. Long camel trains Mines in Ophir Canyon, Nye County, Nevada. were used to transport the salt to the Comstock Lode in Virginia City. Inc. in Arizona. This 23 page prospectus It was considered cheaper than shipping in salt from San Francisco. is fabulous. It has a six panel fold out map After only one year, salt discoveries at Sand Springs in Churchill (14 x 17”) of Nevada showing the Ophirs in County, caused the loss of Rhodes largest customer Virginia City. the middle of the state. Seven photographs Rhodes continued to supply salt to Aurora, Belmont, and Belleville. and 4 maps. Not only promotes this mine, Borax was also mined here in 1881, and shipped to Alameda CA. but the history of the area - which is a great In 1881 a railroad station on the Carson & Colorado Railroad was reference! They are trying to restart mining constructed here, and a post office was established in 1893. By 1911 in the area after it has been idle since the Rhodes was abandoned.” from silverstateghosttowns.com. Est. $400- late 1880s. Has original (very beat up) 800 HWAC# 53763 envelope. Prospectus is 6 x 9” and in very nice condition. Map is nearly perfect! Est. $150- 300 HWAC# 66091 132 June 2018 - Treasures From Pacific Shores Auction

DAY 2 Saturday, June 23 Mining Lot# 2508 Lot# 2511 Rhyolite, Tonopah, Nevada Nevada 1906 1913 Tonopah Rhyolite Cash Boy Townsite Consolidated & Mining Mining Co. Stock Co. Stock Certificate Rare Certificate variety. Inc. Inc. in Arizona. in Nevada. No. Principal 514, issued for Office, Rhyolite, 1,000 shares Nye County, for Nat Boas on Nevada. Nov. 22nd, 1913 Number 135 issued to H.R. Shellenberger for 500 shares on Feb. in Tonopah. Signed by president A.S. Ross and secretary E.H. Mead. 8,1906 in Rhyolite. Signed by secretary C.H. Elliot and vice president Not cancelled. Folds with minor separation, numerous pinholes. 5.25 Sol Camp. Not cancelled. Brown border and background, black print. x 9” The company reorganized a few months later. Their 30 acres of Pinholes, folds. 5.5 x 10” The Goldfield Business Directory of 1907-8 property adjoined the Tonopah Merger (on the west), the Tonopah notes the company had a headquarters on Main Street in Rhyolite. Sol Victor (on the south), and the Tonopah Extension (on the north). Camp was one of the best known mining engineers of the southern Assays in 1917 were said to be $25 per ton. {Mines Register, 1918, pg. Nevada mining camps having operated in most of them during and 1157] Est. $50-80 HWAC# 62813 after the mining boom. He was one of the earliest to reach Goldfield, having come from Colorado where he was also successful. He was a member of the brokerage firm Patrick, Elliott & Camp and carried on Lot# 2512 successful leasing operations. He would leave Nevada around 1922 in Treasure Hill, favor of Utah where he would die in 1942 [Reno Evening Gazette, June Nevada 1878 13, 1942] . Est. $100-200 HWAC# 62858 Baldy Sour Mining Company Stock Certificate Inc. in New York. Low No. 4 issued to Eugene Robinson, company president, on May 28th, 1878 in New York. Also signed by the secretary, O.S. Dawson. Not cancelled. Ornate border and logo featuring an eagle vignette. Mining vignettes in green on the reverse.Folds, ink stain. 8.5 x 11” There is no record of this company in Raymond, Burchard, Jackson, or Hose et al. Lot# 2509 Ruth, Nevada Nevada Consolidated Co. Equipment Tags It was issued ten years after the initial rush to White Pine and after the 6 brass and 1 copper equipment tags, 5 different. Ruth is west of Ely, boom had subsided. It was likely trying to ride the coattails of ventures NV. From a McGill collection. Est. $100-200 HWAC# 64518 such as the Eberhardt and Eberhardt & Aurora, which were British financed mining companies producing at Treasure Hill. Est. $120-200 HWAC# 62844 Zoom in and see close up detail High Resolution Images of ALL LOTS available online at Lot# 2510 Ruth, Nevada Kennecott Copper Corp. Brass Equipment FHWAC.com tags (15) 15 brass items, 2 different styles. Round 38mm, octagonal 38mm, Est. $150-250 HWAC# 64515 Bid online at FHWAC.com or call 775-851-1859 133

DAY 2 Saturday, June 23 Mining Grosch Consolidated MC by Fred. Holabird Introduction which resulted in getting into a This stock certificate, number fight with California politician Fitch 429, issued 12/31/1864 to Benja- in 1862. min Nickerson, is one of two known. The original incorporation was It represents a difficult period just for 5,000 shares at $1000 each. On after the discovery of the Comstock, Feb. 24, 1864 they filed notice of an when highly skilled and educat- annual meeting with 3900 voting ed men conned the father of two shares. They intended to raise the deceased miners, who history has capital to $10 million, declared they granted the rights of discovery for had received $20,000 to date and the Comstock Lode, Hosea and Allen had no debt. Grosch. These two skilled profes- sionals were Benjamin Nickerson The Corporate Fight and Sam Hastings, later founder of the Hastings School of Law In 1863, Nickerson published a pamphlet “A Statement of the in San Francisco. Grounds of the Claim of the Grosch Consolidated G&S MC to the The Grosch Consolidated Gold & Silver Mining Co. was no Comstock Mine in Nevada Territory Together With Their Reply to more than a powerful scam. They sold stock – not to fund a Attacks of the Press”, printed by Towne & Bacon. The Grosch Co. mine – but to pay for litigation against the core of the Comstock, claimed rights on 3750 feet of the “Comstock Lead”. In the pam- attacking the exceptionally highly producing and profitable phlet it was stated, not insignificantly, that the same group also Gould & Curry in their 1863 suit after their 1860 attempts incorporated the Washoe Silver Mining Co. on March 1, 1860. under another company name that perpetrated the same scam, The Nickerson pamphlet claimed that the Grosch brothers the Washoe Silver Mining Co. ”tested the croppings of the ledge where the Gould & Curry The entire story itself has never been written. I stumbled claim is now located, in what the Grosch brothers then styled upon it while doing deep research on the Grosch Brothers, their Hill or Mountain District. Further north, a few hundred finding several sets of unpublished letters, rare documents in yards, they sunk a shaft on the identical ground now occupied various western archives, and finally discovering the original by the works of the Ophir Company”. Nickerson goes on to Grosch Brothers letters themselves with the family 130 years claim that Hosea struck his foot with a pick while working on later. This is the single most important archive regarding the be- the Ophir shaft. Nickerson claimed they posted the claim and ginning of Nevada in existence. These now reside at the Nevada made a diagram of it, entrusting all, including the cabin, to HTP Historical Society in Reno. My friend Rich Lingenfelter contin- Comstock. A hole in the timeline in the report seems to skip ued the path, culminating in a massive volume on mining scams. between December, 1857 and December, 1858 and confuse the two dates. The pamphlet reports that H.T.P. Comstock claimed The Short Version of “The Story” in the spring of 1858 to have sold part of the Grosch claims for $10,000 in cash and $10,000 in merchandise, and give him a Background 1/11 royalty. The report discusses the Walsh assays in Grass th In July, 1863, a group of four people appeared before a Valley, which occurred in the late spring – early summer of notary in San Francisco, then filed incorporation papers at the 1859, clearly skipping a year. The Last Chance and Placerville California Secretary of State’s Office for the Grosch Gold and parties who helped the stricken Grosch in 1857 felt they had Silver Mining Company. They were following up on papers they a claim to some of the wealth of the Comstock, along with the had filed in 1860, under a different name, the Washoe Silver senior Grosch who had lost his sons. The group formed the Mining Co. Washoe Silver Mining Co. – and in 1863 moved the business of The Members of the original company were a group of San the Washoe SMC into the Grosch Consolidated G&SMC. Francisco businessmen: S.C. Hastings, Ira Rankin, CM Hitchcock, The claim was utterly outrageous. The locals knew the I.P. Dyer, W.H. Pratt, U.S. Martin, G. Griswold, B. R. Nickerson, Grosch discovery was near Silver City, not high up on the Com- John L. Samuels. stock. Further, in a series of letters between Maurice Bucke and Hastings was an attorney and founded the Hastings Law Aaron Grosch, it was apparent that Nickerson had conned the School. Rankin was a revenue collector at the Customs House. elder Grosch into Power of Attorney such that he then held the Hitchcock was a physician. Dyer was co-proprietor of the Russ deed to any Grosch interest with the promise of money from House. Prat was a SF lawyer, but in 1862 was a millwright at the a lawsuit. (Hastings and Nickerson sued the G&C and others.) Gould & Curry mill. Martin was a stockbroker, turned salesman While the money ($10,000) did end up in Nickerson’s hands, for Purdy & Co. Griswold ran a drug store. John L. Samuels, we he never paid the promised money to Grosch! The outrageous don’t know (yet), but was not found in San Francisco. claims were even parodied by none other than Sam Clemens, Benjamin R. Nickerson was born in 1820 in New York. He whose poem about the Grosch Consolidated claims was pub- came to California in 1849-50. He was a clerk for the failed lished in the Territorial Enterprise and later in A. E. Hutcheson’s Bank of Barton Lee. Nickerson lived in Placerville 12 years, and Before the Comstock then later recited in my friend Richard may have met the dieing Grosh at nearby Last Chance. Nicker- Lingenfelter’s Book, Gold Lust and Silver Sharks (2012, p96). son was quite a character, having promoted two bear and bull During the course of my journey of discovery to the Grosch fights, and the Placerville fire of 1856 started in his house. A Brothers papers, I found much ancillary material. A key group year before the Grosh Consolidated was formed, he was passed of letters led me to the federal Court in San Francisco, where over for an officer position at the Union Party convention, the original maps and papers of the Grosch boys, which had 134 June 2018 - Treasures From Pacific Shores Auction

DAY 2 Saturday, June 23 Mining been sent to their father in Pennsylvania, had in turn been sent Lot# 2514 Virginia City, Nevada 1862-1871 Five Different Gould to Nickerson, and used as evidence in the 1863 suit. On a roll, & Curry Mining Checks incl. Two I naively thought I was about to uncover an historical bonanza Territorial This is a great set. Five in a Federal warehouse, as I looked for the evidence presented different superintendents for this at the trial. What I found took the wind from my sail: not unlike iconic Virginia City mine. It includes many other legal jurisdictions, the San Francisco Federal Court two territorial Stateler & Arrington had been destroying the equivalent of excess paperwork from checks: 1862 signed by Charles trials and appeals within a few years of their completion. The Strong and 1864 signed by Charles papers and maps were gone. No more. These were the last and Bonner. Next is an 1867 Bank of California signed by Louis Janin (w/ only copies of the Grosch brothers maps and papers. NV revenue stamp); an 1869 signed by Isaac Requa w/ RN-B and green NV revenue; and finally an 1871 signed by C.C. Batterman with Summary RN-C and orange NV adhesive revenue. This collection shows the progression of superintendents at the mine over almost a decade and The timing of the incorporation of the both the Washoe Silver right before Fair, Mackay and the Bonanza firm would take over. Est. Mining Co. in 1860, and the Grosch Consolidated in 1863, was a $150-200 HWAC# 63997 perfect ploy by an adversarial group to try to pry, by deception, money out of the two biggest producers and money makers Lot# 2515 Virginia City, Nevada on the Comstock (and in the western USA). In 1860, the bog 1863-64 Five Territorial Checks company was the Ophir Silver Mining Co.. By 1863, the Gould issued to Identified Gould & & Curry was building the largest mill ever built in America and Curry Mill Workers These five Stateler & Arrington checks were mining and processing millions of dollars in gold and silver. The issued to different workers of the clear aim of the Nickerson band was to attack this cash flow, and Gould & Curry Mill. Three checks try to extort a piece of it for themselves. It worked to a small are signed by Charles Strong as degree, but the Grosch family never saw the money collected by supt. and two are signed by Charles Nickerson and his group. Bonner. All were identified using the 1864 Collins Comstock directory. About a decade ago, the direct descendant of the Grosch Workers include: Owen Kelly (laborer), W.F. Alexander (watchman), Brothers, Charles Wegman, came to Reno to help present the A.J. Lamb (amalgamator), Ulric Fizette (teamster), and James Cahill Papers to the Historical Society. Charles and I visited Allen and (laborer). The story of the Gould & Curry Mill is the story of the risk Hosea’s graves in Silver City and Last Chance, the first relative to and extravagance of the early rich days on the Comstock. Strong was in charge of the Gould & Curry Mine and oversaw the development make it west after the famous discovery. of a grand 40 stamp mill at the intersection of Six Mile and Seven At present, there are only two of these certificates known, Mile Canyons for close to a $1 million dollars in 1863! The mill used this one, and the original one illustrated in Lingenfelter’s mar- the Freiberg process to treat the ores which lost out to the Washoe velous book. Since both are issued to Nickerson, it is assumed process being developed at the other Comstock mills. As a result, the Nickerson family still had at least these two passed down in much of the G&C ore was not processed by their new mill and instead the family. Perhaps they have other papers as well – wouldn’t sent out. The mill was essentially torn down and rebuilt in 1864 to that be a bonanza! use the Washoe process. Strong resigned his post, or was fired for his extravagant spending and miscalculation with the mill. Bonner succeeded him. These checks are issued in 1863 and 1864, and thus could represent workers at both mills. Strong left the Comstock and eventually took his own life in 1883. Comstock historian Elliot Lord had harsh words about the first mill, calling it “the most conspicuous monument of inexperience and extravagance ever erected in a mining district.” Est. $150-200 HWAC# 63993 Lot# 2516 Virginia City, Nevada 1863- 1864 Three Territorial Virginia City Checks signed by Different Superintendents Three Stateler & Arrington checks with Virginia, N.T. datelines. Signatures of three different early superintendents for the Gould & Curry mine: 1863 signed by Charles Strong; 1863 signed by John Earl (for Charles Strong); and 1864 signed by Charles Bonner. Each has a 2 cent blue IR adhesive stamp and are cut cancelled. Earl Lot# 2513 Virginia City, Nevada Grosch Consolidated G & S Mining is the rarest of the signatures as he was Company Stock Certificate, 1863 The extremely rare Grosch the president of the company. Strong was the first supt. of the Gould Consolidated Gold & Silver Mining Co. stock certificate, issued to & Curry, followed by Bonner. Bonner also was the supt. for the Savage. Benjamin Nickerson for one share, Dec. 31, 1864, signed by S.C. Est. $90-120 HWAC# 63991 Hastings as president. Provenance: Nickerson family until now.Est. $1000-2500 HWAC# 75261 Bid online at FHWAC.com or call 775-851-1859 135

DAY 2 Saturday, June 23 Mining Lot# 2517 Virginia City, Nevada Lot# 2522 Virginia City, Nevada 1866-1871 Virginia City, Nevada 1923 Map of the Comstock & Mining Checks w/ Nevada Revenue Brunswick Lodes Showing the Stamps Lot of 9 in very good Virginia, Gold Hill, Silver City, Silver condition. All are Gould & Curry Star and Six Mile Canyon Mining related checks. 1) Five Gould & Curry Districts, Storey and Lyon Counties. SMC checks issued in 1871, signed Published by Rand McNally & Co. by C.C. Batterman as superintendent. Compiled by W.T. Moran CE. 27 x 32” All have RN-C revenue imprint plus Folds, some separation along fold Nevada adhesive revenue stamp with lines. Detached from cover. Shows tied cancel. 2) Two 1866 Gould & hundreds of mining claims. This is a great resource for any Comstock Curry checks signed by Louis Janin mining collector! Est. $150-300 HWAC# 66067 Jr. Both have IR and Nevada adhesive revenue stamps. 3) Two Bank of California 1867 checks also signed by Janin as supt. for G&C (based Lot# 2523 Virginia City, Nevada on cancel). Both have IR and Nevada adhesive revenue stamps. Est. 1876 Store-House Keeper’s Daily $150-250 HWAC# 63990 Reports - Savage Mining Company Lot of ten daily reports in September Lot# 2518 Virginia City, Nevada of 1876. What will you find? How 1864 Four Territorial Virginia City, many cords of wood and bushels Nevada Checks signed by Mining of charcoal are on hand. Loads of President John Earl Four Stateler car oil that have arrived. Also rope, & Arrington checks issued March 30, kerosens, pass books, screws, rivets, 1864. Signed by John Earl for Charles white lead, etc. Lots more like 120 pounds of candles! Est. $300-500 Strong as supt. of the Gould & Curry Mine. The vast majority of these HWAC# 60659 territorial Gould & Curry checks are signed by Strong or Bonner. Earl’s signature is not common! John O. Earl was the first president of the Lot# 2524 Virginia City, Nevada 1866 Whitney Gould & Curry Mining Company. Strong left as supt. this year for his & Company Ephemera (to Savage Mine in role in the financially disastrous Gould & Curry Mill. Earl may have Virginia City) Lot of two. 1) 134 packages of been signing for him as he was stepping down. Est. $160-200 HWAC# merchandise bound for the Savage Mine of 63895 Virginia City. From Colfax (crossed out and Alta written in). 2) Alta receipt for 334 boxes Lot# 2519 Virginia City, Nevada of candles for the Savage Mine. Half sheet. Est. Flood Sells Mining Interests $100-200 HWAC# 54077 to Mackay, 1880 The Argonaut, 3.6.1880, San Francisco. One of the lead articles is on Flood selling his interests to Mackay, except for real estate holdings and his share of the Nevada Bank. This is an historic issue for Comstock collectors. Est. $100-150 HWAC# 69308 Lot# 2525 Virginia City, Nevada 1869 Surveys Lot# 2520 Virginia City, Nevada National of Key Comstock Claims, 1869 The claims which these surveys represent are the Chollar- Report of the Great Virginia City fire “The Potosi Mine, Bacon Mill, Central Silver Mining Burning of Virginia City” in the New York Company, Savage Mining Company. Then there tribune, October 29, 1875. “10,000 people is a patent for 771 feet on the Comstock. THe homeless”. Nearly a full page on the tragic fire. Savage declines to accept this patent. This was the effects were felt worldwide. an ancillary signed by Alpheus Ball, president. In this the article “A Blow to Gold Mining” discusses the Bullion Silver Mining Company also refutes a ramifications on the global metal markets as patent by the Julia Mining Company. These were the mines quit producing . Great content. This all drawn up by Willis Dourmand, Commissioner is probably the most important reporting fo of the General Land Office, in 1874. Why were teh fire to America, other than the west coast. these requested? Is this part of a lawsuit? THese Est. $100-200 HWAC# 63915 need to be read carefully for there is certainly a story here. Front page (with seal and ribbon) is in poor condition. Other pages are in good Lot# 2521 Virginia City, Nevada 1887 Indenture between the condition. Est. $200-500 HWAC# 60656 Pacific Mill and the Consolidated Lot# 2526 Virginia City, Nevada California and Virginia Mine - With rare full signature of John Sutro Tunnel 1872 Book A prime source of information on the Sutro Mackay Interesting Comstock Tunnel based upon the report of a US Document. But the prize here is government committee. 988 gilt edge the signature of Mackay. He almost pages with index. Published 1872. always signs his name J. W. Mackay. We rarely have seen his full name Inscription next to title page states as a signature. The Con California & Virginia is selling approximately “Received from Mr. Sutro 1874” and 40 blocks of land to the Pacific Mill. The Consolidated Virginia and is signed M. H. Grey, a professor. Edge wear on top and bottom spine. the California Mines together took out over $125,000,000 in ore. 9.25” x 6”. Est. $300-500 HWAC# 53759 [Couch & Carpenter] But in 1887 the ore was depleted and the mines were merged. This is the sale of the land of the Pacific Mill & Mining Lot# 2527 Virginia City, Nevada Company (which must have owned the two original mines) and sold to 1887 Sutro Tunnel Company Stock the new Con California and Virginia. Price $10,000. Mackey signature Certificate Issued to John Landers is on the indenture as the president of the Pacific Mill & Mining for 100 shares in the Sutro Tunnel Company, April of 1887. Two Company. All except a certain house (Mackay Mansion???), blacksmith vignettes, green ink, 12 x 8 inch certificate. Est. $200-400 HWAC# shop, retort, etc. Includes seal of Notary Holland Smith. Heavily folded, 75132 but easy to read and the paper is in very good condition. Great original Comstock piece! Est. $300-1000 HWAC# 60658 136 June 2018 - Treasures From Pacific Shores Auction

DAY 2 Saturday, June 23 Mining Lot# 2528 Virginia City, Nevada Comstock Lot# 2534 , Nevada Nevada Family Tunnel Company Bond $1000 Green Bond, Mining Scene Probably Tonopah, State of New York Est. $100-150 HWAC# 50007 NV c. 1900. Family with dog near headframe. 5” x 7”. Est. $60-120 HWAC# 65032 Lot# 2535 , Nevada Nevada Mining Postcards Lot of 7. 1) Real Photo Postcard. Lot# 2529 Virginia CIty, Nevada late Ward Shaft, Virginia City. No postmark. 1800’s Four Virginia City Mining Produced by the Nevada Photo Company. Stock Certificates Stock Certs. 1) In famous condition. 2) Buckeye Mines Co. Curtis Consolidated, No. 734, 100 Tonopah. No postmark. 3) ‘Bloody Butch” shares;2) Comstock Tunnel Co. No. the miner of Painted Rock. No postmark. 4) 21174, 100 shares; 3) Consolidated Virginia City, no postmark. 5) Merger Mine Virginia & Andes Corp. No. 4343, 2 Mill. No postmark. 6) V&T Comstock Ore shares; 4) Virginia Mining District Train. No postmark. 7) C&C Shaft. Virginia Alta Silver Mining Co., No. 11086, 1000 shares. Cut Cancel. Est. $100- City. No postmark. Est. $150-250 HWAC# 150 HWAC# 63970 63845 Lot# 2530 , Nevada 1860s-1912 Lot# 2536 , Nevada Nevada Mining Five Different Nevada Mining Stocks (8) 8 Nevada mining stocks. Stock Certificates Lot of 5. 1) North Yerington Consolidated Copper, Commonwealth Mining Co., Tuscarora Oscela Gravel Mining, Miner;s Hope Mining District, Elko County. Issued Tunnel Gold and Silver Mining, 1890 for 100 shares. Not cancelled. Willow Creek Gold Mining, Fort 2) Sheet of 2 unissued Mills, Post & Schellbourne Mining & Milling, White Cons. Silver Mining Co., Austin, 2 Silver King Mines(cut corner), Nevada Territory. 3) Yucca Cyanide Reorganized Cracker Jack Mining Est. Mining & Milling Co. Issued 1906, $100-200 HWAC# 64523 not cancelled. Mining vignettes. 4) The Atlanta Mines Company. Issued Lot# 2537 , Nevada Nice Nevada in Goldfield 1905, punch cancelled. Mining Stocks (4) Tuscarora, Lewis 5) Calumet & Nevada Consolidated Mines Company. Issued 1912, not and Groom. Belle Isle Mining i/u cancelled, eagle vignette. (Prag Collection) Est. $140-200 HWAC# 1883, Groom Southend Mining i/u 55629 1916, Eagle Silver Mining i/c 1881, Tonopah North Star Tunnel and Lot# 2531 , Nevada Goldmountain Development i/t 1922 Est. $140- Company Stock Certificates-- 190 HWAC# 63969 Graham Hardy Fantasy Pieces A fabulous suite of four certificates sold Lot# 2538 , Nevada Silver Mines by Graham Hardy in Virginia City in - Nevada Printers Plate Original the early 1960s to stimulate the new engraved printers plate with vignette collecting field of stock certificates. of “Silver Mines - Nevada”. Used He “issued” them to Julia Bullete, for stock certificates, the plate is 5 Eilley Orrum (Mrs. Sandy Bowers), and Mark Twain. Est. $100-150 3/8 x 3 1/4 inches and has a scene HWAC# 53827 with ore wagons and stamp mills in operation under the mountains of Lot# 2532 , Nevada Great Republic Nevada. Original envelope included. Gold & Silver Mining Co. Of Virginia American Bank Note inventory Bond Rare certificate. Operated gold number V44685. Ex: Stack’s February 2008 Rich Uhrich Collection and silver mines in Nevada. #1766 auction, lot 4155. Est. $200-500 HWAC# 63620 50 pound Bond, includes vignette of Lincoln and a Queen. 15.5” x 13”. Est. Lot# 2539 , New Hampshire $200-400 HWAC# 54352 Amusing Granite Dust Broadside A granite dust broadside probably from Lot# 2533 , Nevada 1885-1889 New Hampshire. Stop and think!, you Nevada & California Mining should bid now. 10.75” x 13.75” on heavy paper. Est. $100-200 HWAC# Explosives Ephemera Lot of two. 56156 1) Rare billhead for R. Sadler & Co., Agents for the Vulcan & Giant Powder, Eureka, Nevada, 1885. Billed for coal oil to Cassidy & Skillinau. 2) Giant Powder Co., Randmann, Melsen & Co. letterhead, San Francisco, 1889, to the Keystone Cons. Mining Company. Est. $80-100 HWAC# 572023 Bid online at FHWAC.com or call 775-851-1859 137

DAY 2 Saturday, June 23 Mining Lot# 2540 Newark, New Jersey 1912 Newark Lot# 2544 , New York 1841 Tioga Industrial Exposition Medal 3/4 x 1 3/4 inches. Coal, Iron, Mining & Manufacturing Newark Industrial Exposition / First Regiment Loan Certificate, 1841 You don’t Armory / May 13th to 25th 1912. Est. $50-100 find many mining certificates dating HWAC# 45033 back as far as the 1840s. Inc. 1833. No. 202, issued for $1,000 payable at 6 percent per annum. Signed by Bowen Whitney, president, and HW Bostwick, treasurer. 8.25” x 10.5” Some staining on top border. Very thin paper. According to the 1843 New York State Register, this company, along with the Tioga Lot# 2541 Lake Valley, New Mexico 1884 Sierra Grande Mining Navigation Co., merged to form the Blossburg & Corning Railroad. The coal and iron mines were located in Blossburg, PA. The railroad went Company Stock Certificate Inc. in 40 miles from the mines to Corning. Estimated production of coal in New Mexico. No. 13559, issued for 1,000 shares to R. Ellis & Co. on Sept. 1841 was 40,000 tons. (Prag Collection) Est. $200-400 HWAC# 54881 8th, 1884 in Philadelphia. Signed by Lot# 2545 Davidson County, North president E.H. Yarnall and secretary Carolina 1893 Silver Valley Mining Francis Bacon. Not cancelled. Company Stock Certificate Pair Gorgeous certificate with brown Located 5 miles northeast of the Silver Hill mine, 13 miles from border, ornate logo and vignette of Thomasville, Davidson County, North Carolina. Chartered 1861 by snow-capped mountains. Printed the State of North Carolina. Two certificates: No. 271, issued for 300 by Kendall Bank Note Co., New York. Pinholes, folds, creases, very shares to Hannah Bolgiano and No. 275, issued for 300 shares to Chas. fine. 8.5 x 11.5” Mines located at Lake Valley, New Mexico. Due to the Taylor on July 18th, 1893. Signed by the president and secretary. Not company’s low grade ore and problems with their milling process, the cancelled. Light brown border and print. Folds, creases, bent corners. company was in crisis by 1886. The company was merging with the 8 x 10.5” The mine was last operated in 1893. They sent their ores Sierra Bella Mining Company and funds were tight. In debt, with the to Thomasville for smelting, though they had a 20 stamp mill on the mill operating at a loss, the company was appealing to noteholders property. The lode is 5-12 feet in width and has alternate bands of to essentially roll over their debt of about $20,000, and for current slate, quartz, and sulphurets. The ore is described as complex: zinc- shareholders to pony up more money. It wasn’t looking good for the company (E.M.J. 42, 1886). Est. $100-200 HWAC# 62801 blende, galena, iron sulphides, together with little copper, gold, and silver. [Ref:Transactions of the American Institute of Mining Engineers, 1896, pg.698-99] Est. $100-200 HWAC# 67003 Lot# 2542 Santa Fe, New Mexico 1881 Mammoth Cons. Mining, Milling, & Smelting Co. Stock Lot# 2546 Rapid City, North Dakota Two Rapid City, North Dakota Certificate Inc. in the Territory of Spoons Two Rapid City spoons with New Mexico. No. 2202, issued for 25 buildings engraved on the bowls, die shares to Geo. R. Wilburn on Oct. 4th, struck handles, one ornate floral. Est. 1881 in Santa Fe. Signed by president $80-200.22 HWAC# 37800 Juan Delgado and secretary Thomas Johnson. Not cancelled. Blue print, Lot# 2547 Cornplanter, Pennsylvania vignette of four miners working next 1865 Clark & Sumner Tarr Farm Oil to ore buckets. Printed by Samuel Stock Oil field of 198 acres located Rhodes, Kansas City. 8.25 x 10.75” Folds, creases, knick to left border. in Cornplanter, PA. An early oil stock The Delgado Mine was located in the New Placers District, near with vignette of an actual scene on Golden. Est. $100-200 HWAC# 62814 the Tarr Farm with 2 derricks. I/U Lot# 2543 Rutland, New York geo. Codington 1865, $83 121 shares. Scarce Rutland Marble Company Signed by president Wainwright. Right corner crease. Est. $300-500 Stock Certificate Number 8 for 100 HWAC# 64056 shares to Alfred Schormenhorn(?) in 1863 for 100 shares. Nice and very Lot# 2548 Lackawanna County, early. Signed by president Elisha Pennsylvania 1881 Central Land & Riggs. Hand cancelled. The Rutland Mining Company Stock Certificate Marble Company was originally a Coal mining company. Mines included quarry in West Rutland operated the Pancoast, Sharp, Diamond, and by William Barnes. The business W. Reynolds. The Pancoast Mine was was incorporated in New York City the site of a horrific mine fire on April and became known as the Rutland 7, 1911 that left 72 dead. This stock Marble Company. It included the Barnes/Baxter quarry and the quarry is No. 31, issued for 1,505 shares of (Charles) Clement and Sons. By 1880 they had quarries in West to trustees of the estate of John Rutland, Center Rutland, and Salem, New York. Elisha Riggs. Riggs Edgar Thompson, deceased, on July 14th, 1881. Signed by president was a New York banker who was also a major investor in this ground- Albert Pancoast and secretary R.D. Bailey. Not cancelled. Black border, breaking marble operation! [Rutland Historical Society Quarterly, vignette of the Pennsylvania state seal. Printed by Thos. Sinclair & Son, Volume 40, Number 2] Est. $100-200 HWAC# 54557 Phila. Pinholes, folds, one small tear at bottom right. 6.5 x 9.5” Est. $50-75 HWAC# 62853 138 June 2018 - Treasures From Pacific Shores Auction

DAY 2 Saturday, June 23 Mining Lot# 2549 , Pennsylvania Lackawanna Lot# 2554 Lawrence County, & Wilkes Barre Coal Co. Metal Tag Brass South Dakota 1881 Father coal co. tag. Est. $30-50 HWAC# 64508 De Smet Consolidated Gold Mining Company Stock Issued to C.C. Seamon, October 20, 1881, 100 shares of Father De Smet Consolidated Gold Mining Company stock. 10 1/2 x 7 inches. Located in the Black Hills of Lawrence County Dakota.Signed by Haggin. Est. $100- 200 HWAC# 74078 Lot# 2550 , Pennsylvania 1902 Statement Lot# 2555 Grundy from Climax Powder Manufacturing Co. County, Tennessee 1855 Sewanee Rare Climax Powder Manufacturing Co. Mining Company Statement, c.1902, from Emporium, PA 6” x 7” Stock Certificate Est. $40-60 HWAC# 64354 Incorporated in 1852—Rail Road Privileges 1854. Cert. #244, issued to Robert M. Stratton of New York for 500 shares. Signed Lot# 2551 , Pennsylvania Glen by Samuel Tracy, Alden Coal Co. Brass Equipment president, and H. Tags (8) 8 brass 44mm tags. Est. Ward Barnes, secretary. Not cancelled. Vignette at left of cross-section $100-200 HWAC# 64517 of a mining scene, with miners on the surface hoisting up buckets from below. “State of Tennessee” is printed above and below this vignette. Another vignette is at the center showing a coal train steaming beside a mountain lake. Black border on crème paper with an embossed seal that has a locomotive at its center. Printer: E.B. Clayton’s Sons, Lot# 2552 Charleston, South N.Y. Datelined New York. 7 ½ x 9 ½.” Folds, light wear. In 1850, when Carolina 1883 Marine & River railroads were still in their infancy, an engineer by the name of A.E. Phosphate Co. Stock Certificate Barney promoted the idea that steam locomotive equipment of the issued to L.D. Mowry Rare! No. 105, 1850s would be capable to ascending the Cumberland Mountains. issued for 40 shares to L.D. Mowry Samuel Tracy and some other investors gave Barney the go-ahead to on Feb. 7, 1883 in Charleston. Signed build a railroad from the town of Cowan to Sewanee, Tennessee—a by the president and treasurer. feat many thought impossible. At about the same time, Mr. Leslie Endorsed by Mowry on reverse. Not Kennedy , a Pennsylvanian and former coal miner, found traces of coal cancelled. Vignette of clipper ship. while exploring the Cumberland Plateau near Sewanee. While he tried Printed by Walker, Evans & Cogswell, to find investors to develop these coal deposits few were interested, Charleston. 8 x 11.75” Folds. Organized in 1869 to mine phosphate until he became acquainted with Samuel Tracy and A.E. Barney. After deposits in South Carolina’s rivers and streams. Lewis D Mowry was a visit to the mountain, the three decided to incorporate the Sewanee a Civil War blockade runner. He was a cotton factor (distributer) Mining Company, build a railroad to the plateau and mine the coal before the war. He would go on to become the president of the Union there. This was the steepest grade of any railroad in the country at that Bank of South Carolina, chairman of the Board of Commission for time. Within 2 years of the first coal delivery in 1856, the rail line was the Charleston Orphan Home and director of the Macon and Western extended to Tracy City and the stage was set for one of the longest- Railroad among other achievements. [New Men, New Cities, New running enterprises in the nation. It continued for 127 years until South by Doyle] (Prag Collection) 1985; the name was changed to the Tennessee Coal, Iron and Railroad Company after the Civil War, when the tracks had to be rebuilt due Est. $80-120 HWAC# 60497 to the devastation of the War. [Ref:www.mountaingoattrail.org/ mountain-goat-trail-history.htm]. Est. $300-600 HWAC# 62930 Lot# 2553 Lawrence County, South Dakota 1880 Columbus Gold Mining Co. of the Black Hills Stock Lot# 2556 , Certificate Inc. in New York. No. Tennessee Paydirt 240, issued for 50 shares to R.W. at Coker Creek Hamilton on Aug. 3rd, 1880. Signed Print Framed by the president, Henry F. Herkner, print of lithograph and secretary Jas. Richards. Not #139/1000 of a cancelled. Black border, two different man panning at underground mining vignettes. Printed by Henry Seibert & Co., NY. Coker Creek, TN. Folds, clean. 7 x 11.75” Located at Central City (Lead), Lawrence There is a cabin in County. The mine was a good gold producer and the company owned the background of the Portland Mill which processed about $12,000 per month. A 1000 this mostly green ton per day mill was planned in 1902. The company may have been themed litho. purchased by the Homestake. [Ref:Poole, Sanford] (Prag Collection) Signed by Joan Reed Est. $100-200 HWAC# 60489 Champion. Nicely matted and framed, 22.5” x 28”, print 14.5” x 20”. Est. $100-200 HWAC# 56139 Bid online at FHWAC.com or call 775-851-1859 139

DAY 2 Saturday, June 23 Mining Lot# 2557 , Texas 1885 & 1911 Lot# 2561 Bingham, Utah Boston Con. Texas Copper Mining Stock Mining Co. Brass Equipment Tag Figure Certificate Plus a Texas Bond 8ish brass equipment tag, Porphyry Mine. 1) Grand Belt Copper Company stock certificate. Inc. in New York. Est. $40-80 HWAC# 64510 No. 802, issued for 100 shares to Yates Ferguson on Dec. 21, 1885. Signed by president E.A. Farmington and the secretary. Not cancelled. Maroon border and large, attractive vignette with pastoral, mining, and allegorical themes. Pinholes, folds. 7 x 10.5” Started by famous General George McClellen. The company bought acres of copper rich mineral lands in Archer and adjoining counties in Texas. They had a 10 ton smelter and 20-ton stamp in Hardeman County, but also sent ore East to be processed. Remoteness along with water availability were problems. The company closed in 1887. 2) A bond for the San Antonio Lot# 2562 Bingham, Utah Boston Land & Irrigation Company, Ltd. Issued in 1911. Foreign revenue Con. Mining Co. Brass Steam Shovel stamps. Attractive, but condition issues including coupons being taped Tag Round brass 38mm. Steam Shovel. back on. Est. $150-250 HWAC# 67008 Est. $40-60 HWAC# 64506 Lot# 2558 Baylor County, Texas South Tillman Oil Company Stock and Ephemera Lot of 14. Certificates for both the South Tillman Oil Company and the W.A. Patterson Developing Company with several letters concerning the companies. Two 1924 state of Texas sale of percentage to investors. Billheads for Fairlamb & Fairlamb attorneys in Delta Colorado, Republic Trust Lot# 2563 Bingham, Utah Company of Fort Worth, DH Moore of Fort Worth, color Petroleum Kennecott Mines Promo Items Producers Association from Fort Worth. Three envelopes to go with and More 3 Kennecott baseball hats, three of the papers. Circa 1920s. Est. $60-120 HWAC# 45045 unworn. Black logo ashtray with emblem. 2 Kennecott Powderman’s Lot# 2559 , Texas World Oil Daily Reports, 1943 stock certificate, Company Stock Certificate tie bar, 1959 convention copper and Ephemera Lot of 36. Stock medal on chain. Est. $50-80 HWAC# certificates and ephemera about 64502 the World Oil Company circa 1928- Lot# 2564 Frisco, Utah 1881 North 1936. Two stock certificates, 1925 Horn Silver Mining Co. Stock and 1926. One article from Kamp & Company Mining and Oil Digest. Certificate Mines located at Frisco, 16 covers with corner advertising. Utah (printed below logo). Inc. in 17 pieces of ephemera that match New York. No. 911, issued for 100 the covers. Two different oil great shares to F.M. Shattuck on Oct. 8th, 1881. Signed by the president pictorial letterheads from Terry Morgan. Lots of propaganda! BUT the (illegible) and secretary Shattuck. most interesting piece of ephemera is from the Securities Commission Not cancelled. Black border and print, of Texas. It starts, “We are receiving many inquires from various ornate logo, vignette of underground parties about the activity of a man named Terry Morgan, who has mining scene. Printed by ABN, Philadelphia. Pinholes, folds, other recently been arrested in Houston, Texas, and place in jail in that city for violation of the Texas Securities act.” Entire collection comes from light wear. 7.5 x 10.5” Property located on the Horn-Silver Ledge near A. C. Haugsted of Delta, Colorado. Est. $100-200 HWAC# 45462 Frisco, Utah and included the Great Republic, Spanish, Wolcott, Ross, Comstock, and Vanderbilt Mines. Workings include four tunnels and Lot# 2560 , 1931 World Oil two shafts, all “in mineral.” [Ref: E&MJ, Vol. 32, 1881] Est. $100-200 Company Ephemera Lot of 17. Eight HWAC# 62818 envelopes used to mail some of the ephemera. Stockholders Protective Lot# 2565 Garfield, Committee correspondence Utah Aluminum Clock Case with concerning the World Oil Company, Garfield, Utah Mining 1931. When a shady publisher Tag An aluminum decided to become a wildcatter clock case with the seeking oil riches, the end of his story brass equipment tag might have been predicted. Ft. Worth publisher Chester R. Bunker, head of the World Company, began by on the front for the seeking to expand subscriptions to his trade journal, which ostensibly Garfield Smelting offered readers insights into the booming Texas oil business. The 1917 Company at Garfield, “Roaring Ranger” discovery well between Ft. Worth and Abilene had Utah. The brass plaque brought oilfield discoveries close to home. Bunker’s Texas Oil World is approximately three fourths of an inch by (formerly Western World) was in fact a tip sheet largely for promoting 3 1/2 inches. A choice his own business interests. On June 29, 1925, Bunker chartered the Utah collectible. Est. World Oil Company using capital from other sources. According to Oil $100-200 HWAC# in Texas: The Gusher Age, 1845-1945 by Roger M. Olien and Diana Davids Hinton, the company was bankrupted by Bunker’s inability 42556 to manage the businesses he created; he “drowned them in red ink.” The authors add that he was convicted of mail fraud a few years later. [American Oil and Gas Historical Society online] Est. $60-120 HWAC# 45040 140 June 2018 - Treasures From Pacific Shores Auction

DAY 2 Saturday, June 23 Mining Lot# 2566 Park City, Utah Silkscreen Print Lot# 2570 Tooele, Utah International of Silver King Building Screen print of the Smelting Brass Employee Tags (2) 35mm Silver King Coalition Mines Co. building. x 62mm. 1 has bottom ripple. Est. $50-100 Unsigned,16” x 12”. Framed 21” x 17”. Print HWAC# 64516 has small damage on left side sky. Est. $100- 200 HWAC# 61568 Lot# 2567 , Lot# 2571 , Utah US Smelting & Utah Silver King Refining Brass Equipment Tag Round Coalition Mines brass 38mm tag, top slightly bent. Est. Printers Plate $40-80 HWAC# 64513 Engraved printers plate for stock certificates from the Silver King Coalition Mines of the Uintah District of Utah. Plate is 9 3/4 x 5 inches, and was lot 4063 in Stack’s February 2008 Rich Uhrich Collection auction. Lot# 2572 , Utah Utah Copper Co. Brass The Silver King mine resulted from the consolidation of claims in the Equipement Tag Squarish 44 mm brass Treasure Hill area in the early 1880s, and formation of the Silver King equipment tag. Est. $40-60 HWAC# 64512 Mining Company in 1892. Further consolidation of claims around the Silver King mine led to formation of the Silver King Coalition Mines Company in 1907. The Daly, Daly West, and Judge mines were merged to form the Park City Mining and Smelting Company, which was merged with the Ontario and Park Utah mines to form the Park Utah Consolidated Mines Company. Silver King Coalition Mines Company was incorporated in Nevada on June 19, 1907; merged with Park Utah Consolidated Mines Company to form United Park City Mines Company on May 13, 1953. Est. $400-800 HWAC# 63624 Lot# 2573 , Utah 1954 Homestead Lot# 2568 Salt Lake City, Utah Alice Uranium Corporation Ledger Gold & Silver Mining Company Folio Ledger folio with 20 stock Printers Plate Original engraved certificates issued and cancelled from printers plate from the American Bank the Homestead Uranium Corporation. Note Company for the Alice Gold and Signed by president Fred H. Moore. Silver Mining Company of Salt Lake City This company may have been part Utah. Beautiful vignette of working mill of the 1950s uranium mining boom, with three wagons and horses in the needs more research. Est. $100-200 scene. The plate would have been used HWAC# 63258 for stock certificates or a letterhead. Plate is 5 1/4 x 3 inches. Includes the Lot# 2574 Broad Run, Virginia 1898 Two Broad Run, Virginia Mining original envelope and the envelope from Stock Certificates Identical stock its sale as lot 4037 in the Stack’s Rich Uhrich Collection of February, 2008. Est. $240-400 HWAC# 63651 design and corporate signatures. Both have office in Broad Run, Lot# 2569 Sandy, Utah Virginia. 1) The Broad Run Mining 1872 Mountain Chief Company. No. 29, issued for 30 shares Mining Co. Of Utah in 1898. Punch cancelled. 2) The Delaplane Mining Company, No. 44, Warrant Warrant issued for 10 shares in 1898. Punch cancelled. Production information for 10 Pound Share, could not be located. Est. $50-80 HWAC# 62832 #1086, signed by President John Elliot. Lot# 2575 Logan County, Virginia 1860 Smelter at Sandy. Logan County Mining and Manufacturing Dissovled in 1874. of Virginia Bond Rare $500 bond 6%, Est. $100-200 HWAC# 1860, 15 coupons. 2.5” and 2x 1” seam 64035 tears. Upper toning. Coal property located near Logan Court House, Logan County, VA, on the Guyandotte River. Read an 1860s report of the company here: https://archive.org/details/ reportsofminespr00loga Est. $200-400 HWAC# 64319 Bid online at FHWAC.com or call 775-851-1859 141

DAY 2 Saturday, June 23 Mining Lot# 2576 Louisa County, Virginia Lot# 2579 Eureka Gulch, 1851 Walnut Grove Gold Mining Co. Washington c1910 Luxor Gold Stock Certificate Very early Virginia Mining Company Stocks and mining stock! The Walnut Grove Mine Mining Deeds The Luxor Gold was located on the Gold-Pyrite Belt in Mining Company was located Louisa County, Virginia. Inc. in Virginia, in the Eureka District in the March 14, 1850. No. 40, issued for 5 state of Washington. It was shares to Joseph Mather on Feb. 6th, incorporated in New Jersey. 1851. Signed by president William New Jersey records mention Budd and treasurer W. Couper. Not the Luxor in 1911, 1912, 1914, cancelled. Plain design with ornate 1915, and 1916 that we could border. Wavy cut on left border. Folds, easily find. (Eureka Gulch is a toning, as would be expected for a 170 gorgeous route that climbs up to year old stock! 7.5 x 7.75” This mine deposit was discovered in 1845 the location of one of the most by George Fisher. Gold ming began in Virginia in the early 1800s with disastrous mining accidents placer mining followed by lode mining. Production diminished after to ever happen in the mining the start of the California Gold Rush and then the Civil War. Union industry; the collapse and total soldiers even damaged Southern mines to hurt the economic base of drainage of Lake Emma. The the South. The Virginia Gold-Pyrite belt is a line that runs northeast Sunnyside Mine had tunneled to southwest through the counties of Fairfax, Prince William, Stafford, directly under Lake Emma, 70 feet above to reach a rich gold vein Fauquier, Culpeper, Spotsylvania, Orange, Louisa, Fluvanna, Goochland, located there. On Sunday June 4, 1978, on the only day of the week Cumberland, and Buckingham. Est. $200-400 HWAC# 62807 that the mine was completely shut down, the lake burst through into the empty mine shafts. This incident completely drained Lake Emma Lot# 2577 and left the empty basin that still can be seen.) Six mining deeds all Shenandoah, Virginia revolving around Martha Adele Mallory. Also two mining stocks. Stocks 1859 Stony Man are for the British American Feldspar Limited: Numbers 2 and 7. These Mining Company deeds are for the Luxor, Quilp Faction and Alice Fraction. Date of last Stock Certificate ore shipment was 1940. One patented claim. Developments consisted Number 109 for 20 of one 400-foot shaft with several drifts and stopes. A winze was sunk shares to Martha from the 400-foot to 500-foot level. The claim was originally located as Barker on May 16th, the San Poil. Total reported production value was: $720,938 to the end 1859. Signed by of 1920. Reported production was 22,402 tons in 1937; 9,828 tons in secretary WIlliam 1938; and no total in 1939-1940 (Huntting 1956). One complete book Danforth and president of stock certificates: numbers 101 to 200. Vignette of two allegorical Josiah Barker. 1859. women, liberty and prosperity, holding a shield. Excellent condition. Unusual underground Unused. Est. $500-750 HWAC# 57435 mining vignette! Two vertical folds. Nicked upper left corner. Very nice condition. 6 x 10.25” “In 1854 Samuel and Maria Williams of Brooklyn, New York purchased 21,371 acres of land in the Blue Ridge Lot# 2580 Okanogan County, Mountains of Virginia for $4,750. One year later the land was passed Washington 1901 Milwaukee on to the Virginia Cliff Copper Company for $1,000,000, although only Palmer Mountain Gold & Copper $7,000 was ever actually tendered. Soon 5,371 acres of the tract were Tunnel Co. Stock Certificate Mines sold to the newly incorporated (January 1858) Stony Man Mining Located in Wannicut Lake Mining Company for $550,000 of stockholder funds. In 1866 the Miners District (printed under logo). Inc. Lode Copper Company (incorporated in NYC in 1865) purchased the in Washington. No. 413, issued for property.” [nps.gov] Today this is all part of the Shenandoah National 500 shares to C.H. Isham on April 11, Park and Skyland. Est. $400-800 HWAC# 62816 1901. Signed by president Swain and the secretary (illegible). Stamped “Incorporated into the Blue Lake Lot# 2578 , Virginia 1884 Gold & Copper Mining, Smelting and Power Co.” Black border, orange Metropolitan Mining & seal and background, eagle vignette. Also a picture vignette in the Manufacturing Co. Stock Certificate background showing miners posing at a tunnel. Deep folds with some Inc. by Act of Congress, July 23, 1866. separation starting. 8.5 x 10.5” Est. $40-60 HWAC# 62776 Reorganized 1882. No. 189, issued for 5 shares to IM Gazzam on Jan. Lot# 2581 Bald Mountain City, 11th, 1884. Signed by the president Wyoming Fortunatus Mining & and secretary Sanders. Not cancelled. Milling Co. Stock Certificate, 1895, Attractive design with picturesque Bald Mtn., Wyoming Incorporated outdoor mining scene. 8.5 x 11.75” in 1891 in Colorado by New York Folds, some toning. According to the 1866 Act to Incorporate, the investors. No. 1828, issued for 100 company will mine iron ores and other native minerals on lands in the shares to Samuel Wardwell on Nov District of Columbia and the state of Virginia. The earlier name of the 19th, 1895. Signed by the president company appears to be the Metropolitan Mining Company of Virginia, and treasurer. Not cancelled. Folds, which mined coal and other minerals in the counties of Prince Edward, pinholes. Located in the Wyoming ghost town of Bald Mountain City. A Amelia, Cumberland, Powhatan and Chesterfield (according to their group of claims on the head of the Little Big Horn River and Porcupine 1854 incorporation). Est. $100-300 HWAC# 62859 Creek. (Prag Collection) Est. $60-90 HWAC# 63066 142 June 2018 - Treasures From Pacific Shores Auction

DAY 2 Saturday, June 23 Mining Lot# 2582 South Pass, Wyoming Lot# 2586 British Columbia, 1871 Chicago & Wyoming Gold Canada British American Dredging Mining Co. Stock Certificate Company Stock Certificate Upper Number 212 for 10 shares to D. C. Pine Creek, Atlin Gold Fields, British Buckland, company president on Columbia. A giant, 36 ounce “Atlin April 26th, 1871. Also signed by Nugget” is just one vignette that secretary AR Hardin. Not cancelled. graces this beautiful 1902 stock Printer: Charles Shober of Chicago. certificate. Also depicted are “the old Stunning piece with two bold way” and “the new way” of dredging vignettes, gold seal, and green featuring the “Switcana” dredge. and white background. Deep folds with toning along folds. From its Issued to Wm. D. Sinclair for 250 discovery in 1842 up until 1869 the rich placer mines in the South shares and signed by president Harris. Est. $150-300 HWAC# 63606 Pass region were worked with great success. Some of the properties in the area were the Miners Delight at Peabody Hill and the Burr at Lot# 2587 British Lewiston, along with others; eventually, however, the mines were Columbia, Canada 1929- abandoned due to water levels when the base ores were reached. We 1947 British Columbia believe this company was formed by Chicago investors to locate and / Alaska Border Mining mine gold properties at South Pass. An Ohio group owned what was Stock Certificates Lot of 4 called The Young American. Most of the mines were financed by mid- stocks for mines in BC near western or British companies. At the end of the 1869 fiscal year it the Alaska border. 1) Two was estimated that $155,000 is gold was produced. That was enough different for Silbak Premier to cause a small rush. The Carissa Lode was first discovered by H.S. Mines, Limited. Both issued Redall in 1867, and paid large returns. He and his partners were killed in 1947, not cancelled. by Indians. “Indians murdered some of the best young men and miners Office in Stewart, BC. 2) within the very center of this eight miles of mines, and killed several Bayview Mining Company, other citizens in the valley...miners cannot work and at the same time Ltd. Issued in 1929, not cancelled. Green border. Deep folds, some watch and fight Indians.” [pg. 375, Raymond, 1872]. Est. $150-250 repairs. Silver, lead, zinc. Mt. Dolly, BC. At Ketchikan on the border. HWAC# 62802 3) United Empire Gold & Silver Mining Co., Ltd. Issued in 1937, not cancelled. Skeena Mining District, BC. Folds, rips, tape repairs. (Prag Lot# 2583 Alberta, Canada 1936- Collection) Est. $150-200 HWAC# 60481 1969 Four Different Alberta Mining Stock Certificates 1) McLeod River Lot# 2588 British Columbia, Canada Mining Corporation, Ltd. Issued 1901-1928 British Columbia Coast 1936 for 3,000 shares. Not cancelled. Islands Mining Stock Certificates Pinholes, folds. 2) New Far North Lot of 3 different. 1) Sunloch Mines Exploration Limited. Issued in 1964 Limited. Issued 1928 for 100 shares. for 1,000 shares. Pinholes, folds, Not cancelled. Many folds and tape repairs. 3) Kamalta Exploration some tape repaired separations. Ltd. Issued in 1969 for 400 shares. The Sunloch group was on the east “Bankrupt” written on it. Folds, pinholes. 4) Green Bay Mining & bank of the Jordan River, Vancouver Exploration Ltd. Issued in 1956 for 100 shares. Pinholes, folds. (Prag Collection) Est. $40-80 HWAC# 60473 Island. 2) The Quatsino Mining & Reduction Company, Limited. Issued in 1901 for 100 shares. Not cancelled. Folds, tape repairs and some Lot# 2584 British Columbia, Canada 1935-59 Bralorne Mines Limited stains. The Quatsino District was located on Vancouver Island. 3) Surf Inlet Gold Mines, Ltd. Issued in 1917 for 4,500 shares. Not cancelled. Stock Certificates, BC Lot of 8. Inc. in British Columbia. Issued 1935- Pinholes, folds, tape repairs. Located on Princess Royal Island, BC. Sold to Tonopah Belmont Mining Co. in 1917. (Prag Collection) Est. $100- 1959. Five of them feature a photo vignette of a miner operating a drill 200 HWAC# 63069 underground. Multiple styles and Lot# 2589 British Columbia, Canada colors. All have pinholes and folds 1898-1982 British Columbia Mining and have been cancelled by a pen Stock Certificate Collection Lot of mark. Bralorne is in the Bridge River 18. Included: Goldside Mining Co. Ltd. District. Its mining history goes back to 1858-1860 during the Fraser River Gold Rush.(Prag Collection) Est. (Victoria, Lillooet Mining District, $100-150 HWAC# 63019 1935); Wakeko Mines Ltd. (1955); Trust Mining Co. (1898); Nor-West Kim Resources Ltd. (2x1971); Lion Mines Lot# 2585 British Columbia, Canada 1899 & 1904 Bridge River & Lillooet Gold Mining Ltd. (3, 1981-82); Reno Gold Mines Co. Stock & Debenture Lot of 2. Mines at Ltd. (1936, 1937, 1943); Holland Gold Mines Ltd. (1933);Forty Nine Mining Bridge River, Lillooet, British Columbia. Co. Ltd. (1925 & 1938); Columbia Bridge River is a tributary the Fraser River, River Mined Ltd. (1972); Pacific Coast a major gold region discovered in the 1850s. Collieries Ltd. (1912); and B.C. Gold Mines Ltd. (2x1926). Please 1) Stock no. 254, issued for 38 shares to William Armstrong on May 30, 1899 in inspect. (Prag Collection) Est. $90-120 HWAC# 60476 Hamilton, Ontario. Signed by the vice- president and secretary. Not cancelled. Black border and logo, red seal. Pinholes, bent corners and small repair on right border. 2) $15 Mortgage debenture issued in 1904. No. 7. Signed by the president and secretary. Folds, some toning. (Prag Collection) Est. $80-100 HWAC# 63063 Bid online at FHWAC.com or call 775-851-1859 143

DAY 2 Saturday, June 23 Mining Lot# 2590 British Columbia, Lot# 2594 British Columbia, Canada Canada 1899-1932 Cariboo Mining 1901 Double Eagle Mining & District Stock Certificates, British Development Co. Stock Certificate, Columbia Lot of 6 pieces. The Kaslo, B.C. The name clearly Cariboo Mining District was the site references the $20 US gold coin. Inc. of a gold rush in the late 1850s and in British Columbia. Handwritten 1860s. 1) The Shannon-Dolphin Gold “No 36. Promoter’s Stock” Issued Mining Co. Stock issued 1899. Mine for 25,000 shares to Alfred O. Kirby at Camp McKinney, B.C. Green mining on Feb. 28th, 1901 in Revelstoke. vignette. Folds. 2) c.1931 prospectus Signed by president John Young and for the Cedar Creek Placer Gold Limited. Three pages with a map of the secretary. Not cancelled. Ornate claims. Also two stocks for the company, one issued 1932, the other border, royal Canadian imagery, plus what looks like a large gold unissued, but No. 1. 3) Great Cariboo Gold Company. Gold Production nugget vignette in the background at the bottom. Printed by Calgary Bond. 1908. $200. 4) Keremeos-Pontiac Mines, Limited. Stock issued Herald. Pinholes, folds. 8.25 x 10” The Canadian Mining Manual (1899) 1907, folds with tape repaired separations. (Prag Collection) Est. says that it was inc. in 1897 with an office in Kaslo, British Columbia. $90-150 HWAC# 63022 No production information is given. (Prag Collection) Est. $50-100 HWAC# 63008 Lot# 2591 British Columbia, Canada 1898-1934 Central British Lot# 2595 British Columbia, Canada Columbia Mining Stock Certificates 1894-1936 Four Different Kootenay Lot of 9. 1) Two different for Pioneer Mining Stock Certificates The Gold Mines of BC. Issued 1933 and Kootenay region is the southeast 1934. Pencil and punch cancelled. portion of British Columbia. There Cadwallader Creek, BC interior. was a silver mining rush in the region 2) S.V. 329 Mining Co. Ltd. Issued in the 1890s. 1) New York-Kootenay 1913 at Walkerville, not cancelled. Mining Company, Ltd. Issued 1897 House vignette. Folds, tape repairs. to the vice-president, not cancelled. 3) Two Friends Mine. Issued 1899, Multiple mining vignettes. Folds. 2) not cancelled. A galena property on Springer Creek near Slocan City. The Kootenai Hydraulic Mining Company. Maneta, British Columbia Folds, heavy toning, some staining. 4) Smuggler Hill Dev. Co. Issued (printed under logo). Issued in 1894. Not cancelled. Green border and 1926, not cancelled. Allegorical vignette. Manganese property in the vignette of prospectors. Folds. 3) Koontenay-London Mining Company. Karnloops Mine District. Heavy folds, spindle hole. 5) Bald Mountain Issued in 1896 at Rossland. Not cancelled. Folds and creases. Multiple Mining & Dev. Co. Issued 1898 in Golden, BC. Mining vignette. Folds, mining vignettes. 4) Kootenay Ore Hill Gold Mines Limited. Issued in tape repair. 6) Two different for Hedley Gold Mining Company. Both 1936, not cancelled. Deep folds and portion missing on top border. issued in 1930. Mine drilling vignette. Folds, pinholes. Dead by 1931. (Prag Collection) Est. $150-250 HWAC# 60470 Nickel Plate Mtn. Area, Similkameen Valley. 7) Babine Bonanza Mining & Milling Co. Unissued. Mining vignette. Located on the northeast Lot# 2596 British Columbia, Canada slopes of the Babine Mountains near Smithers. (Prag Collection) Est. 1898-1926 Kootenay District $100-180 HWAC# 63072 Mining Stock Certificates, BC Lot of 7. 1) Cascade Creek Gold Mining & Lot# 2592 British Columbia, Canada Milling Co. Two stocks, issued in 1912 1934 Cons. Gold Alluvials of British and 1913, neither cancelled. Folds, Columbia, Ltd. Stock Certificates wear at folds. Trail Creek Mining Lot of 2. Lightning Creek. Inc. in Division of West Kootenay District B.C. No. 857 and 934, both issued on Grenville Mountain. 2) The British in 1934. Not cancelled. Identical Columbia Gold Trust. Issued 1899 design with green border and seal, in Vancouver. Not cancelled. Folds, vignette of mill site next to a river in the mountains. Folds, minor wear. tape repairs, holes. 3) Whitewater 8.5 x 11” This company is the 1930 reincorporation of the Lightning Mines, Limited. Issued in 1926, not cancelled. Folds, wear to right Creek Gold Mines Ltd. [See: http://minfile.gov.bc.ca/Summary. edge. Issued in Kaslo, BC. 4) Mohawk Creek Mining Company, Ltd. aspx?minfilno=093H++012] (Prag Collection) Est. $50-70 HWAC# Camborne, BC. Issued in 1909, not cancelled. Mining vignettes. Deep 60479 folds. A galena mine. 5) True Fissure Mining & Milling Co. Trout Lake, BC. (Selkirk Mtns.). Issued 1908, not cancelled. Deep folds. 6) Salmo Lot# 2593 British Columbia, Cons. Gold Mining & Development Co. Issued in 1898 in Rossland. Canada 1902 Consolidated Green Heart of the Kootenay District. Not cancelled. Mining vignette. Folds. Mountain St. Louis Mines, Ltd. (Prag Collection) Est. $80-120 HWAC# 63071 Stock Certificate Issued under the Companies’ Act, 1897 , and Amending Lot# 2597 British Columbia, Canada Acts of the Province of British 1896 Hattie Brown Gold Mining Co. Columbia. No. 482, issued for 1,400 Stock Certificate, Trail Creek, B.C. shares to J. Dudley Richards on May Location of Mine, Trail Creek, B.C. 3rd, 1902. Signed by president Lawry (printed under title). West Kootenay and secretary Lawry. Not cancelled. Mining District. Inc. in Washington. Unusual, attractive design. Blue No. 307, issued for 500 shares to floral border, blue and green print. Folds, pinholes, small tape repairs. Edward McBride on Oct. 8th, 1896 According to Canadian Mining Manual (1903), the Green Mountain in Spokane. Signed by the president, Group were copper and gold claims located at the Fish Lake camp in J. Brinkley and secretary Wm. the Osoyoos District. (Prag Collection) Est. $60-90 HWAC# 60478 Atchinson. Not cancelled. Maroon border and seal. Vignette of many miners working underground and smaller vignette of miners at the surface. Deep folds. 8.25 x 10.25” The 1898 Canadian Mining Manual adds that they have an agent in Rossland. (Prag Collection) Est. $60-100 HWAC# 63020 144 June 2018 - Treasures From Pacific Shores Auction

DAY 2 Saturday, June 23 Mining Lot# 2598 British Columbia, Canada Lot# 2602 British Columbia, Canada La Regina Gold Mining Company The Gold & Silver Mines Dev. Co. Stock Certificate, 1896 Inc. 1890. Ltd. Stock Certificate, Rossland, Head office in Rossland, British 1897 Issued right at the peak of the Columbia. No. 198, issued for 400 mining rush to Rossland! Offices of shares to secretary J.S. Clair Blackett the company in Toronto, Rossland, on November 26th, 1896. Also and Chicago. No. 280, issued for 50 signed by president William Taylor. shares to A. McDougald on August Not cancelled. Black print on pink 30th, 1897. Signed by the president paper. Floral themed logo. 6.75 x 11.5” Excellent condition with a few and secretary/treasurer. Not creases. The company was formed to acquire mineral claims (known cancelled. Brown border, black print, gold seal. Printed by Western as the “La Regina”) in the Trail Creek Mining Division of the District of Bank Note Co. Deep folds, some soiling and creases. 7.75 x 11.75” Not West Kootenay, British Columbia. [Ref: Canadian Mining Manual, 1897] listed in the 1898 Canadian Mining Manual. Rossland’s story began in (Prag Collection) Est. $50-100 HWAC# 60458 1890 with the discovery of the Le Roi mine. The development of this mine in turn developed the town. In 1898, the Le Roi mine was sold to Lot# 2599 British Columbia, Canada the British American Corporation for over $3 million. Once the mine 1910-1937 Quesnelle Mining Stock came into production, Le Roi stock jumped from fifty cents a share to Certificates, British Columbia Lot of $40 almost overnight. The population of Rossland exploded. It became 4. Cariboo District, British Columbia. one of the largest cities in Western Canada and a major business Now spelled “Quesnel.” Located center in North America. (Prag Collection) Est. $80-120 HWAC# 63007 along the gold mining trail known as the Cariboo Wagon Road. Was the Lot# 2603 Eastern commercial center for the Cariboo Quebec Township, Gold Rush. 1) Quesnelle Hydraulic Canada Early Gold Mining Company: 1911 $100 Letters from the bond, not cancelled; and two different stock certificates issued in Crown (Eustis) 1910, not cancelled. hydraulic mining vignette. 2) Quesnelle Quartz Mine, 1867 Four Mining Company. Stock No. 2054 issued for 400 shares in 1937. Not hand written letters cancelled. Good condition on the group with expected folds and other regarding the Crown light wear. (Prag Collection) Est. $70-120 HWAC# 63064 Mine in Quebec, just across the river from Lot# 2600 British Columbia, Canada Maine. Some of the 1895-1901 Rossland, British letters are datelined Columbia Mining Stock Certificates Portland, which Lot of 7 different. Rossland became was the nearest one of Canada’s largest cities during city of substance. the 1897 British Columbia Gold The Crown was Rush. 1) The Good Hope Mining and probably a small Milling Company. Trail Creek Mining outlier to the Lower District, Rossland, British Columbia. Canada and Hartford mines, discovered in 1865, which became the Issued 1895 for 2500 shares. Not central figures years later when the group and surrounding mines cancelled. Eagle vignette. Folds. 2) (including the Crown) and prospects were sold to the Eustis family, Fourteen Gold Mines Consolidated who retained ownership past 1900. The Mine was well documented Company. Issued 1897 in Rossland for 100 shares. Not cancelled. in a PhD thesis from MIT by John S. Stevenson, who performed the Lion head vignette. Pinholes, folds, creases. 3) The Rossland Star work on the recommendation of Waldemar Lindgren, unarguably one Gold Mining Company. Issued 1897 in Rossland for 200 shares. Not of the greatest mining geologists of the c1900 period. The author of cancelled. Multiple mining vignettes. Folds. 4) The Silver Bear Mining some of the letters is Thomas Sheridan. The mine went on to primarily and Concentrating Company. Issued in 1898 in Rossland. Allegorical produce pyrite, and was one of the first providers to the US of pyrite vignette. Many old tape repairs. 5) Cannon Ball Gold Mines, Ltd. for sulfuric acid. Est. $120-200 HWAC# 62143 Issued 1900 for 25,000 shares. Not cancelled. Folds and toning. 6) The London & Richelieu Mining and Smelting Company. Issued in 1901 in Rossland. Not cancelled. Lion head vignette. Folds and pinholes. 7) Lot# 2604 The Active Gold Mining Company. Issued 1901 for 1,00 shares. Not Manitoba, Canada cancelled. Mining vignette. Folds, staining, and large repairs using 1919-1973 other pieces of stock certificates. (Prag Collection) Est. $100-200 Manitoba Mining HWAC# 60472 Stock Certificate Group Lot of 5 Lot# 2601 British Columbia, Canada different. Included: 1918-1938 Six Lightning Creek two different for Gold Mining Stock Certificates, Gold Pan Mines, British Columbia Six certificates, Ltd. (1919, not three different mining companies. 1) cancelled, and 1946, Lightning Creek Gold Mines Limited. not cancelled with Issued in 1938 for 1,220 shares. Not buffalo vignette); cancelled. 2) Four certificates, three Abaco Gold Mines, different, for the Lightning Creek Gold Ltd. (1947, not Gravels and Drainage Company. Issued cancelled); Pascar 1918, 1920, 1930, and partially issued. Development Corporation (1973, cancelled); and Central Manitoba All are pictorial. 3) Lightning River Mines, Ltd. (1930). Good to very good condition. Please inspect. (Prag Gold Mines, Limited. Located in the Collection) Est. $50-100 HWAC# 63056 Larder Lake District, Ontario (the other Lightning Creeks are in British Columbia). Issued 1923, not cancelled. Condition on the group is fair to good. Please inspect. (Prag Collection) Est. $80-120 HWAC# 60468 Bid online at FHWAC.com or call 775-851-1859 145

DAY 2 Saturday, June 23 Mining Lot# 2605 New Brunswick, Canada Lot# 2609 Northwest Territories, 1851 Report of The Albert Coal Canada 1944-1968 Yellowknife Mining Co. (Pumpelly’s Copy) w/ Mining Stock Certificate Collection, map 48 pages w/ large map (25” NWT Lot of 20 “Yellowknife” mining x 19”) of claims. Personal copy of company stocks. Yellowknife is the famous geologist Raphael Pumpelly capital and only city in the Northwest (based on handwriting comparison Territories. Mining began there in with other signed copy). “Report the 1930s. This lot includes: Beaulieu on the Albert Coal Mine, Containing Yellowknife Mines Limited (three an Account of the Situation and Geological Relations of the Rocks, issued in 1946); Cardinal Yellowknife including and accompanying the coal; with Lithographic Drawings Mines Limited (3 issued in 1944, of the fossil fishes and plants found in the mine, together with poor condition); Tonto Yellowknife descriptions of the specimens, chemical researches on the coal, and Mines Ltd. (1946 stock and letter that came with the certificate); tables of comparison with different varieties of asphaltum. By Charles Wynn Yellowknife Gold Mines, Ltd (1947); West Bay Yellowknife Mines T. Jackson.” The lithographs of the fossil fishes and plants are NOT Ltd. (two different, both 1945); Deep Rock Yellowknife Prospecting present in this copy and must have been previously removed. There Syndicate (1946); Gotham Yellowknife Mines Ltd. (1945); Fleetwood are small cross-section illustrations of the formations. Printed by Yellowknife Mines Ltd. (1962); Miracle Yellowknife Mines Ltd. (1945); George F. Nesbitt & Co., New York, 1851. Disbound. Map is fragile with California Yellowknife Gold Mines Ltd. (1946); Carshaw Porcupine separation. Toning to pages and rough edges. 9” x 5.5” Est. $200-400 Gold Mines Ltd. (1945 stock plus letter from company); Rodstron HWAC# 34839 Yellowknife Mines Ltd. (1968); Schreber-Yellowknife Prospecting Syndicate; Tiffany Yellowknife Mines Ltd. (1944); and Zolota Lot# 2606 New Brunswick, Canada Yellowknife Mines Ltd. (1948). (Prag Collection)i Est. $200-300 1852 Report of The Albert Coal HWAC# 63027 Mining Company (C.T. Jackson) w/ fold-out map 40 pages with Lot# 2610 Nova Scotia, Canada Hall fold-out map. “Review of Reports Anderson Gold Mining Co. Stock on the Geological Relations, Certificate, Nova Scotia, 1885 Chemical Analysis and Microscopic Location: Fifteen Mile Stream, Nova Examination of the Coal of the Albert Scotia (printed at top). Inc. in New Coal Mining Company, Situated in York. No. 564, issued for 100 shares Hillsboro, Albert County, New Brunswick. As Written and Compiled to Fletcher Whitney on Jan. 31, by Charles T. Jackson, M.D., of Boston, By a Fellow of the Geological 1885. Signed by the president, E.D. Society of London.” Detailed map is 19.5” x 13”, a “Reconnaissance Davidson, and secretary (illegible). Map and Diagrams of the Asphaltum N/NE of Frederick’s Lode Brook” Not cancelled. Very ornate border and two vignettes: eagle feeding (Richard C. Taylor and James Robb, 1851). Printed on very delicate babies in nest (top center) and miners working underground (bottom tissue paper with a large tear that needs to be repaired. Very detailed center). Folds. 6.5 x 10.5” Gold was discovered at Fifteen Mile Stream geological and chemical analysis. Please inspect. Printed by C. Vinten, in 1867. Located in Halifax County. District produced 20,000 oz. of New York, 1852. String binding. Brown front cover, missing back cover. gold between 1888 and 1898. Not listed in the Canadian Mining Rough edges, but pages fairly clean. Vertical fold. 9” x 5.5” Est. $150- Manual (1890). (Prag Collection) Est. $80-150 HWAC# 60460 300 HWAC# 34842 Lot# 2611 Nova Scotia, Canada Lot# 2607 New Brunswick, Canada Nova Scotia Land & Gold Crushing Brunswick Antimony Company & Amalgamating Co. Stock, 1863 Stock Certificate, 1885 Organized Early! Offices at No. 4, New Broad in New Brunswick. No. 161, issued Street in London. No. 20021, issued for 40 shares to Elizabeth A. Waters for one share on Feb. 2nd, 1863. on Oct. 15th, 1885. Signed by the vice Signed by two directors (Arthur Weir president, Walter Frost, and treasurer and J.N. Daniell) and the secretary James Townsend. Pen and stamp (Robert Smith). Printed on thin paper cancelled. Pinholes, folds, writing cut tight on the left. Punch cancelled. related to assessments. 6.5 x 9” 7.5 x 8.5” According to Herapath’s Antimony was discovered in New Brunswick in 1880. (Prag Collection) Railway Journal (Dec. 19th, 1863), Est. $70-110 HWAC# 63013 the company had properties at Oldham and Sherbrooke, as well as crushing machinery at Wine Harbour. 112 ounces of gold had been Lot# 2608 New Brunswick, Canada processed at the former. (Prag Collection) Est. $160-250 HWAC# 63015 Hibbard Antimony Company Stock Certificate, New Brunswick, 1880 Lot# 2612 Nova Scotia, Canada Organized under the laws of the 1899-1964 Nova Scotia Mining province of New Brunswick. No. 18, Stock Certificate & Bond Group issued for 500 shares to Charles Read Lot of 7 different. Includes: Bradford of Boston on Sept. 22, 1880. Signed Mines Ltd. (1915, moose and maple by the president, William B. Fowle, leaf vignettes, not cancelled); and treasurer Kimball. Not cancelled. Canadian Oil & Coal Co. Ltd. (Cape Black border and print, orange seal, and vignette of miners working Breton Island, 1899, mining vignette, underground. 6.5 x 11.25” Folds, uneven left border. E&MJ Vol. 31 not cancelled); Beaver Dam Gold (1881) reports that John E. Hardman is superintendent, 36 men are Mining Co. (unissued, 1800s, employed, and the concentrating works are nearly finished. It appears beaver vignette); Crueger Gold this was an antimony and manganese mine. (Prag Collection) Est. Run Consolidated share warrant $80-150 HWAC# 60463 (1905, hydraulic mining vignette, coupons attached, not cancelled); Cumberland Mining Co. Ltd. (1964, not cancelled); Baltimore-Nova Scotia Mining Co. $1,000 bond (1901, three coupons attached); and Canso Mining Corp. Ltd. (1956, tape repaired). (Prag Collection) Est. $150-300 HWAC# 63058 146 June 2018 - Treasures From Pacific Shores Auction

DAY 2 Saturday, June 23 Mining Lot# 2613 Ontario, Canada 1907 Lot# 2617 Algoma Custom Smelting & Ontario, Refining Co., Ltd. Stock Certificate, Canada Thessalon, Ontario Registered in 1901-1936 Calumet, Michigan. Inc. in Ontario. Earlier No. 557, issued for 5 shares to James Ontario W. Ward on November 16th. 1907. Mining Signed by president Joseph Hermann Stock and the secretary. Not cancelled. Certificate Ornate border and allegorical Collection vignette. Pinholes, folds with tape Lot of 16 repairs. 8.5 x 10.5” According to the 1908 Report of the Ontario different. Department of Mines, the company’s main interest was the Hermina Issued Mining Company. They had erected a copper smelter at Thessalon. 1901-1936. They were considering ore contracts from mines such as the Superior Included: Mine. (Prag Collection) Est. $40-80 HWAC# 63010 Twentieth Century Mining Co. (1901, pictorial); Great Golconda Mines (1911); Sunocca Exploration Co. (1933, pictorial); Sovereign Lot# 2614 Ontario, Canada 1898 Gold Mining & Dev. Corp $500 Bond (1903); Saratoga-Syracuse MC American-Canadian Gold Mining (1919, pictorial); Silbert Cons. MC (1908); Vulcan Gold Mines (1909, Co. Stock Certificate, Ontario Office pictorial); Moose Horn Mines (1910, pictorial); Montague Gold Mines in West Superior, Wisconsin. Owned (1936); Otisse MC (1909, pictorial); two different Baldwin GMC (1923 the Alice A. Mine in the Seine River and 1924, pictorial); LaReine Mine Ltd. (1929); Lorrain Cons. Mines District, 9 miles from Mine Centre, (1924, pictorial); Hughes-McElroy GM (1920); and Foley-O’brien Ltd. Ontario. No. 788, issued for 500 (1917, pictorial). Condition varies. Please inspect. (Prag Collection) shares to R.H. Rathborne on Sept. Est. $160-300 HWAC# 63070 3rd, 1898. Signed by the president J.S. Hillyer and secretary Gray. Not Lot# 2618 Ontario, Canada Hawk cancelled. Ornate border and vignette of woman. 25 ent documentary stamp attached in the upper left Bay Gold Mining Co. Stock corner. Folds. (Prag Collection) Est. $40-60 HWAC# 63012 Certificate, 1897 Mines at Hawk Bay on the Seine River. Head office in Lot# 2615 Hamilton, Ontario. Inc. in Ontario. No. Ontario, Canada 265, issued for 100 shares to William Canada Mining Armstrong on April 2, 1897. Signed Company Stock by the president and treasurer. Certificate, 1869, Small vignette of mine tramway. Not Lake Huron No. cancelled.Brown border, red seal, 49, issued for black print. Pinholes, folds. 6.5 x 10” According to the Canadian Mining 350 shares to E. Manual (1897), the company owed 53 acres of properties in the Rainy Smith on Feb. River District with assays of $17 gold per ton. (Prag Collection) Est. 3rd, 1869 in New $50-100 HWAC# 60457 York. Signed by Lot# 2619 Ontario, Canada Hudson the president, Bay Mining Stock Certificates Lot Richard Kimball of 4 from two different Hudson Bay and secretary mining companies. 1) Three different J. Carrier. Not cancelled. Green print and locomotive vignette. 25 cent adhesive revenue stamp attached at left. Folds, some staining, certificates for the Hudson Bay especially around the stamp. 5.25 x 8.5” According to 1861 Canadian Mining and Smelting Co. Ltd. Issued Parliament papers, it appears the company worked properties at a 1929, 1945, and 1960. All punch location known as “South Echo” (likely referring to the Echo River) and cancelled. Two have vignette of dog at other locations near Lake Huron in Ontario. (Prag Collection) Est. sled team leaving a snow-covered $160-300 HWAC# 63017 town. 2) Hudson Bay Mines Co. Ltd. bond for one share. Text in English Lot# 2616 Ontario, Canada Cobalt and French. Issued 1911. 32 dividend Silver Queen, Ltd. Stock Certificate, coupons attached. Green border with Ontario, 1907 No. 17035, issued three mining vignettes. (Prag Collection) Est. $60-90 HWAC# 60469 for 50 shares to Stella C. Megrue Lot# 2620 Ontario, Canada on June 28th, 1907. Signed by International Silver Mining Co. of the president, F.L. Culon, and the Ontario Stock Certificate, 1883 One secretary (illegible). Not cancelled. of the world’s best silver deposits Green and silver gilt border, silver (according to FH). Inc. in Ontario. seal, and vignette of miner operating No. 66, issued for 250 shares to drill. Head office in Toronto. Folds Colin Campbell on March 16th, 1883. with tape repaired separations. Signed by the president, William D. 8.25 x 10.75” According to the 1914 Canadian Mining Manual, the Bowman, and secretary Clayton. Not company owned the Silver Queen Mine at Cobalt, was inc. in 1906, and shutdown after extracting all known ore. (Prag Collection) Est. $50- cancelled. Deep folds (with a repair along the fold on the reverse), 100 HWAC# 60466 a few creases, and toning. Six stock transfer stamps attached on the reverse. 7 x 10.5” (Prag Collection) Est. $80-150 HWAC# 60461 Bid online at FHWAC.com or call 775-851-1859 147

DAY 2 Saturday, June 23 Mining Lot# 2621 Ontario, Lot# 2624 Ontario, Canada 1901- Canada Kingston 1904 Lichen Island Gold Mining & Pembroke Iron Co. Prospectus & Stock Certificate, Mining Co. Stock Ontario Lot of 2. Mines located in the Certificate, Ontario, Rainy Lake Region of Ontario. Claims 1887 Province of include: Reef Point, Metallic Iron, and Ontario (printed Lichen Island Gold Mines. 1) Stock in left border).No. is No. 15, issued for 1,250 shares 1614, issued for to John Drawe of Marine City, Michigan on Jan. 24th, 1901. Signed by 100 shares to R.P. president Murphy and secretary Higgins. Not cancelled. Ornate border Flower & Co. on May with red seal. Three documentary stamps attached on the top. Folds. 27, 1887. Signed 2) Prospectus is gray softcover. c.1904. Includes one page map, photo by the president, of a mine entrance, and mine cross section. Also includes assay results Henry Seibert, and report from the superintendent. The company’s head office is in and treasurer Gibbons. Not cancelled. Black border and print, green Sarnia, Ontario. Work on the Lichen Island property includes a shaft background, and two mining vignettes: one showing ten miners posing sunk to 50 feet, 25 feet below water level and “perfectly dry.” This is for a portrait underground (never seen by us) and the other of the a gold claim. The properties on Reef Point are iron claims. 14 pages. mine at the surface. Bent corners, rough left edge and some toning 7.5 x 5” Some wear to spine. (Prag Collection) Est. $100-200 HWAC# around edges. Eight stock transfer adhesive stamps attached on the 63014 reverse. 7.75 x 12” According to the Canadian Mining Manual [1890- 91], the company had the Freehold and Leasehold mines, comprised Lot# 2625 Ontario, Canada Lucky of mining claims from several other mining companies including Boys Gold Mines, Ltd. Stock Glendower, Zanesville, Roberts, Mississippi, Levant, and Calbogie. Certificate, 1907 Attractive and (Prag Collection) Est. $80-150 HWAC# 60459 unusual certificate. Inc. under the Ontario Mining Companies’ Incorporation Act. No. 2398, issued Lot# 2622 Ontario, Canada 1928- for 1,000 shares to Emily J. Randall 1956 Kirkland Lake Mining Stock on Sept. 18th, 1907. Signed by the Certificate Collection, Ontario Lot president (illegible) and secretary of 7 different. Included: two different R.B. Herron. Not cancelled. Green and Toburn Gold Mines, Ltd. (both 1947, gilt border, gold seal, and vignette not cancelled); Pawnee-Kirkland Gold of a miner operating a drill. Folds, toning, and some foxing. 8 x10.5” Mines, Ltd. (1936, not cancelled); According to the Canadian Mines Register, the company had a gold Kirkland Cons. Mines, Ltd. (1934, claim in the Larder Lake area, Northern Ontario. (Prag Collection) Est. not cancelled); Kirkland Minerals $50-80 HWAC# 60462 Corp. Ltd. (1956, not cancelled); Continental Kirkland Mines Ltd. Lot# 2626 Ontario, Canada 1905 Montreal (1938, not cancelled); and Columbus Kirkland GMC (1928, not & Boston Cons. Mining & Smelting Co. cancelled). Group has folds, creases some pinholes. Good condition Stock Certificate Pair Two nice, different overall. Kirkland Lake is in northeastern Ontario. Mining began stocks. Both were issued in 1905 and feature in 1911 but peaked in the 1930s. The town’s big producing mines the same vignette of a smelting factory. included the Macassa, Tough-Oaks, Kirkland Lake Gold, Lakeshore, Both signed by president Warren Miller Wright-Hargreaves, Teck-Hughes and Sylvanite. (Prag Collection) Est. and secretary Leopold Herman. Neither $70-140 HWAC# 63057 cancelled. Brown and green borders. Folds. 6.5 x 10.75” Facility located at Boundary Lot# 2623 Falls. They bought out the Standard Pyritic Ontario, Canada Smelter facility but ultimately failed and 1908-77 Large closed in 1907. (Prag Collection) Est. $60-90 Ontario Mining HWAC# 63026 Stock Certificate Collection Lot Lot# 2627 Ontario, Canada of 70+ different. Neepigon Mining Company Issued 1908- Stock Certificate, 1850, 1977. Kerrigan, Ontario Earliest in the St. Anthony, St. collection! Incorporated by Act Paul Silveradium, of the Canadian Parliament, Salmita Cons., Approved March 1849. Low Vanacor, Jaylac, Big No. 9, issued for 100 shares Dan, White-Karry, to James Clark on March 14th, West-Side Long 1850. Signed by the president, Lar, Wettlaufer John W. Gilford (?) and secretary Lorrain Silver, Hedges. Not cancelled. Printed Victory, Victoria Algoma Mineral, Tyon, Two-in-One, Uchi, Tresdor on very thin paper. Blue print. Larder, Tormont, Tough-Oakes Burnside, Tecumseh, Thompson-Krist, Native American vignette. Folds, toning, and areas where the paper Tiara, Sunburst, Patrice-Destor, Roeanor, Regal, Roberta, Quemartic, has worn away. This is almost 170 years old! 7 x 9” Lake Nipigon Preston East Dome, and many more. Please inspect. (Prag Collection) (notice modern spelling) is located in Ontario. (Prag Collection) Est. Est. $400-800 HWAC# 63098 $300-500 HWAC# 63016 148 June 2018 - Treasures From Pacific Shores Auction