May 2019 Auction Catalog

Lot# 2327 Alturas County, Idaho 1885 DAY 2 Fri, May 17 Mining Bellevue Idaho Mining Company Stock Certificate Location of Works: Lot# 2332 Alturas County, Idaho Wood River, Alturas County, Idaho 1885 Silver Crescent Mining Co. Territory (printed at top). Inc. in Utah, of Indianapolis Stock Certificate Oct. 17th, 1881. No. 1713, issued for Location: Alturas County, Idaho 1,000 shares to Harriet K. Pane on July (printed at bottom left). Inc. in Indiana. 17th, 1885. Signed by president John A. No. 40, issued for 100 shares in 1885. Hunter and secretary F.A. Horn. Not cancelled. Red border and print. Signed by president WP Johnson Many pinholes, folds. 7 x 12” Not in Filer or Holabird indexes. Ken Prag and secretary Jno. Richardson. Not Collection Est. $100-150 HWAC# 100951 cancelled. “Silver” is crossed out in the title. Black border and print. Nice mining vignette. Staple holes, large pinhole, deep folds, bent Lot# 2328 Alturas County, Idaho 1881 corner. 5.5 x 9.5” Not in Filer or Holabird indexes. Ken Prag Collection Bellevue Mining Company Stock Est. $120-200 HWAC# 100946 Certificate Alturas Co., Idaho (printed under title). Inc. in New York. No. 62, Lot# 2333 Alturas County, Idaho 1882 & issued for 500 shares to Steve James, 1884 Two Alturas County, Idaho Mining trustee, on Dec. 6th, 1881. Signed by Stock Certificates Lot of 2 different. 1) The president William H. Clarkson and Lucky Boy Gold and Silver Mining Company secretary Walter Casper. Not cancelled. Black border and print, ornate of Idaho. Saw Tooth District, Alturas border. Printed by Hosford & Sons, NY. Pinholes, deep folds with some County (printed under title). No. 1066, soiling. 5 x 10” Not in Filer or Holabird indexes. Located at Wood River issued for 100 shares to CW Cortright on in Alturas County (according to a different stock for this company). Dec. 12, 1882. Signed by the president and Ken Prag Collection Est. $100-150 HWAC# 100950 secretary. Not cancelled. Black border and print. Folds, very fine. 2) Little Wood River Lot# 2329 Alturas County, Idaho 1882 Mining and Smelting Company. Location: Columbia & Beaver Silver Mining Co. Alturas County (printed under vignette of Stock Certificate Location of Mines: woman). Low number 3, issued for 500 Sawtooth District, Alturas County, shares to SB Thomas in 1884. Signed by the president and treasurer. Idaho (printed at bottom center). Inc. Not cancelled. Black border and print on pink paper. Folds, some in New York. No. 2106, issued for 100 toning. Ken Prag Collection Est. $120-200 HWAC# 101572 shares to C. Kuehnemundt on June 30th, 1882. Signed by vice-president Cortright and secretary Pardee. Not Cancelled. Brown border, black Lot# 2334 Alturas County, Idaho 1888 & print. Many pinholes, folds, some soiling. 4 x 9.25” According to E&MJ 1892 Two Different Alturas County, Idaho Vol. 34, the company owned the Columbia, Beaver, Little Frankie, and Mining Stock Certificates Lot of 2 different. Lucky Boy mines. The Columbia has 4 tunnels; the Beaver has one 1) Pine Grove Gold Mining Company. Property tunnel and 8 men; and the Lucky Boy is very promising (1882, pg. 74). located in Alturas County, Idaho (printed on Ken Prag Collection Est. $100-150 HWAC# 100948 certificate). No. 98, issued for five shares to JB Cooper on April 28th, 1888 in St. Louis. Signed Lot# 2330 Alturas County, Idaho 1881 by vice-president Johnson and secretary Columbia Gold & Silver Mining Co. Howard Marter. Not cancelled. Black border of Idaho Stock Certificate Saw Tooth and print, fancy logo. Deep folds. 8.5 x 10.75” District, Alturas County (printed under 2) King of the West Mining Company. Location title). Inc. in NY. No. 147, issued for of Works: Little Smoky Mining District, Alturas 100 shares to Norman on March 10th, County, Idaho (printed above title). No. 173, 1881. Signed by the vice-president issued in 1892 in Salt Lake City to MH Walker. Signed by president and secretary, both with the last name John Packard and secretary Moylan Fox. Punch cancelled. Gilt border Cortright. Not cancelled. Black border and print, grey background. and title, black print. Folds. 6 x 9.75” Ken Prag Collection Est. $150- Pinholes, folds, nice. 6 x 10” Printed by Dennison & Brown, NY. No 200 HWAC# 101566 additional information located. Ken Prag Collection Est. $100-150 HWAC# 100947 Lot# 2335 Alturas County, Wood River, Idaho 1881-1882 Guy Silver Mining Lot# 2331 Alturas County, Idaho Co. Stock Certificate & Ephemera Lot 1875 Monarch Gold & Silver Mining of 6 documents for the Guy Silver Mine. Company Bond Rare. County of Location of mine printed on stock: Rock Alturas, Territory of Idaho (printed Creek, Wood River, Idaho Territory. 1) under title). $1,000 bond No. 19 issued Stock certificate. No. 66, issued for 10 to Daniel Yandes Dr. on March 15th, shares to Susan Johnston on April 13th, 1875. Signed by president William C. 1882 in Toledo. Signed by president Smack and secretary H. Knippenberg. Frank J. Scott and the secretary. Not Not cancelled. Black border and print. cancelled. Black border and print. Underground mining vignette. Small patriotic vignette of eagle and Printed by The BF Wade Co., Toledo. Horizontal and vertical folds, another of a Native American. “One borders trimmed tight. 7 x 8.5” 2) 1882 memorandum of ore sold at Thousand Dollars” printed in green. Eight coupons attached. Folds the Philadelphia Smelter in Ketchum. Assays show mostly silver with with some separation, other light wear. 17 x 13” The Monarch was a trace lead and gold. 3) Four documents from company president Frank successful mine at the head of Quartz Gulch at Atlanta, Idaho. Ken Prag J. Scott. One discusses the proposed subscription model for ownership Collection Est. $200-400 HWAC# 100954 in the mine. Two letters, both written by Scott in 1881. One discusses the various costs of the mining operation. Folds with separation. Ken Prag Collection Est. $150-200 HWAC# 100968 Bid online at FHWAC.com or call 775-851-1859 149

DAY 2 Fri, May 17 Mining Lot# 2340 Lemhi County, Idaho 1886 Beaver Head Hydraulic Mining Co. Lot# 2336 Cassia County, Idaho 1883 Stock Certificate Properties located in Juniper Gold Mining Company Stock Lemhi County, Idaho (printed at top). Certificate Cassia County, Territory Great hydraulic mining vignette! Inc. of Idaho (printed on either side of in New York. No. 124, issued for 50 vignette). Inc. in New York. No. 351, shares to Livingston D. Smith on August issued for 1,000 shares to J.H. Crombie 3rd, 1886. Signed by president Dudley on Oct. 1st, 1883. Signed by president Tailin and secretary Cyrus M. Ward. Not cancelled. Black border and R.W. Gorham and secretary John print, red seal. Hydraulic mining vignette. Printed by AC Goodwin, Murphy Jr. Not cancelled. Black border and print. Gold underprint. NY. 6.75 x 12” Horizontal and vertical folds, bent corners. Ken Prag Nice hydraulic mining vignette. Pinholes, folds with separation. 6.25 x Collection Est. $150-200 HWAC# 100952 10.5” Adjoined the Holyoke on the Snake River at Bonanza Bar. Gravel beds 40-100 feet thick. [Ref: Idaho: Facts and Statistics Concerning Its Lot# 2341 Lemhi County, Idaho Mining, Farming...1885, pg. 41-42] Ken Prag Collection Est. $110-150 1880 Consolidated Yankee Fork HWAC# 101573 Gravel Mining Co. Stock Certificate Rare. Located in Lemhi County, Idaho Lot# 2337 Custer County, Idaho 1889 Territory (printed under title). No. 94, Dickens Custer Mines Limited Stock issued for 500 shares to Israel Hall on Certificate Inc. under the Companies May 28th, 1880 in New York. Signed Acts 1862 to 1886. No. 408, issued to by president EB Hinsdale and the Henry Forbs for 100 shares on May secretary. Not cancelled. Green border, 20th, 1889. Signed by two directors black print. Two different allegorical vignettes. Printed by ABN. 7 x and one secretary. Not cancelled. Black 10.5” Pinholes, heavy folds with some soiling on reverse. According to print and ornate border. Pinholes, heavy Burchard (1882), the company had 600 acres of gravel, average depth folds, bends, soiling. 8.5 x 10” This was 60 ft. They were using a Little Giant or Monitor Chief with a 6-inch a reconstruction of the Charles Dickens nozzle, 600 ft. of iron pipe, 2,000 cubic yards per day. They also have Mining Company, Limited. The Charles 1.5 miles of ditch and flume for water (pg. 191). Ken Prag Collection Dickens Mine situated on Norton Hill, Custer County, the Custer Mill Est. $120-160 HWAC# 100944 and Mine and 11 other claims (Mining Manual Vol. 2, 1882). Ken Prag Collection Est. $80-120 HWAC# 100945 Lot# 2342 Owyhee County, Idaho 1875 South Mountain Cons. Mining Lot# 2338 Idaho County, Idaho c1901 Co. Stock Certificate (GT Brown Lith) Map of Mining Claims on Mammoth Extra rare and a GT Brown lith. Location Mountain, Idaho 17” x 22” “Map of of Works: South Mountain District, Mammoth Mountain. Showing the Owyhee County, Idaho Territory Banner, Little Giant, Rescue, Mammoth (printed to the right of the vignette). and Charity Mines; also the direction Inc. 1874. No. 190, issued for 500 shares to company secretary William and length of tunnel which is being Willis on April 8, 1875 in San Francisco. Also signed by the president constructed by the Consolidated Junior (illegible). Not cancelled. Black border and print. Fancy company Tunnel Company, and the points at logo and vignette of mine hoisting scene. Printed by noted African- which it will cut the ledges of these five American lithographer G.T. Brown. Many folds, some creases. 4 x 9.25” old mines.” No scale given. No date, though the company looks to have According to Raymond (1877), the failure of this company “brought formed c.1901. Completed by Hathaway & Co., 19 and 21 Park Row, operations in that camp to a dead stand-still” (pg. 203). He reports New York. Folds. Some soiling and toning, as well as tears along the the whole South Mountain is a “dead camp”, having not escaped “the edges. Est. $300-600 HWAC# 34831 financial crisis which so seriously crippled mining activities in Silver City...” “With the company, the whole camp went down...” (pg. 227). It’s Lot# 2339 Idaho County, Idaho 1876 failure was tied to many things: the failure of the Bank of California Rescue Mining Company Stock and the resulting panic that had on stockholders; the company’s large Certificate Washington, Idaho County, expenditures; and the miners going on strike until they were paid. The Idaho Territory (printed under camp had 800 people at its peak. Located 26 miles south of Silver City. company name). No. 365, issued for [See Raymond, 1877, pgs. 227-229] Ken Prag Collection Est. $200- 1,000 shares to J.M. Baker on July 5th, 400 HWAC# 100956 1876. Signed by president Leland and the secretary. Not cancelled. Black Lot# 2343 Owyhee County & Ada border and print on thin paper. Ornate border and company logo. Folds, County, Idaho 1882 Castle Creek Gold rough left and bottom edges. 5.5 x10” The Washington Mining District Mining Company Stock Certificate was in Northern Idaho in the Salmon River Mountains, about 15 miles Property in Owyhee and Ada Counties south of the main mouth of the Salmon River. The nearest large town in the Territory of Idaho (printed on was Lewiston, 160 miles away. Worked beginning in 1862. Also known either side of the vignette). Inc.in New as “Warren’s Camp.” The area was visited by George Hearst in August York. No. 21, issued for 100 shares 1866, who confirmed the area’s richness but lamented at its remote to Isaac Lewis on May 25th, 1882. Signed by president AP Stanford location. In 1877, the Rescue had milled 3,500 tons. Noah Davey was and secretary John R. Murphy Jr. Not cancelled. Black border and supt. for the company. [Ref: Raymond, 1877, pgs. 218-221] Ken Prag print, green underprint. Hydraulic mining vignette. Printed by Collins Collection Est. $120-200 HWAC# 100955 & Sesnen, NY. Folds, one bent corner. Nice. 6 x 11” The facilities of the Castle Creek Gold Mining Company were destroyed prior to 1903 (According to US Geological Survey 1903, Chapter One: Gold and Silver) Ken Prag Collection Est. $150-200 HWAC# 100949 150 May 2019

DAY 2 Fri, May 17 Mining Lot# 2344 Shoshone County, Idaho Lot# 2349 , Idaho 1881 & 1888 1885 Margaret Gold & Silver Mining & Two Different Idaho Mining Stock Milling Co. Stock Certificate Shoshone Certificates Lot of 2 different. 1) County, Idaho Territory (printed to left Philadelphia Mining and Smelting of vignette). Inc. Nov. 1884. No. 37, Company. Location: Alturas County, Idaho issued for 40 shares to Philo Hoolbrook (printed under title). No. 49, issued for on Apr. 14th, 1885 in Portland, Oregon. 1,000 shares to F. Murphy on July 4th, Signed by president DC McKeichem 1881. Not cancelled. Black border and (?) and secretary to Chapman. Not cancelled. Black border and print. print, fancy logo. Pinholes, folds. 5 x Two vignettes: allegorical woman (left) and birds-eye of mine. Printed 9.5” 2) Shoshone Gold Mining Company. by Swope & Taylor, Portland. 5.5 x 10.5” Deep folds. Not in Filer or Location of Mine: Cassia County, Idaho Holabird indexes. Ken Prag Collection Est. $120-150 HWAC# 101571 (printed under vignette). No. 513, issued for 100 shares to Hotchkiss on Feb. 8, Lot# 2345 Silver City, Idaho 1875 1888. Signed by president Close and Hotchkiss. Not cancelled. Black Poorman Gold & Silver Mining Co. border and print, green background. Great western vignette showing Stock Certificate FH says this stock is gold panners and a locomotive. 5.5 x 9” Tiny pinholes and folds. Ken a must for ingot collectors, as several Prag Collection Est. $150-200 HWAC# 101569 ingots are known from the Poorman. Lot# 2350 , Idaho 1889 Two Idaho Mining Major Silver City mine. Owyhee Co., Stock Certificates Lot of 2 different. 1) Idaho Territory (printed at top). Proustite Mining Company. No. 526, issued Inc. 1873. No. 650, issued for five for 100 shares to AH Allen on June 14th, shares to Hall & Charles on May 5th, 1875 in San Francisco. Signed 1889 in New York. Signed by the president by president Geo. Dodge and secretary Willis. Not cancelled. Ornate and secretary. Not cancelled. Green border, black border and print. Vignette of three prospectors. Lith. Britton & black print, allegorical vignette. Pinholes, Rey, SF. Pinholes, folds. 5.25 x 9.5” Raymond (1877) reported that the folds. 7 x 11” Mill at Wagontown (according Poorman and other Owyhee mines suffered because of the failure of to Financial and Mining Record). 2) The the Bank of California. However, the mine had a good body of ore (pg. Idaho Mining Company of Louisville, 226). Ken Prag Collection Est. $400-600 HWAC# 100957 Kentucky. No. 588, issued for 219 shares in 1889. Not cancelled. Black border and Lot# 2346 Soldier, Idaho 1882 Idaho print, gold seal. Pinhole, folds, some toning. Consolidated Gold & Silver Mining 5.75 x 9” Ken Prag Collection Est. $150-200 HWAC# 101567 Company Stock Certificate Located at Soldier, Idaho, according to The Mining Lot# 2351 Huntington County, Indiana World, Vol. 22. Inc. in New York. No. 1868 Huntington Mining Company 909, issued for 100 shares to treasurer Stock Certificate No. 57, issued John O. Hayt on March 31st, 1882 in for 371 shares to Williamson Wright on Dec. 28th, 1868. Signed by New York. Signed by Hayt and the vice- president Coffette(?) and secretary Roche. Not cancelled. Green president. Not cancelled. Green border border and print, allegorical vignettes. Printed by Herald Print. and background, underground mining vignette. Printed by Kendall Heavy folds, missing lower right corner, other wear. 6.5 x 10” From Bank Note Co., NY. Folds, light wear. Very clean. 8 x 11” Ken Prag the History of Huntington County, 1887: Organized in 1866,”for the Collection Est. $120-150 HWAC# 101574 purpose of prospecting for gold in the limestone quarries west of the city. The company was organized by several citizens of the town, and Lot# 2347 South Boise, Idaho 1881 large tracts of land leased. Experts examined the limestone formations New York & Idaho Gold & Silver for traces of the precious metal, and several barrels were shipped Mining Co. Stock Certificate Inc. to eastern assayists to discover the percentage of gold in the rocks, in New York. No. 42, issued for 100 a number of speculators from abroad were induced to take stock, shares to James T. Richards on May machinery was purchased, and work begun under the supervision of 24th, 1881 in NY. Signed by president one of the aforesaid experts. But the dividends were on the wrong side Edward J. Curtis and secretary Samuel of the ledger account and the scheme was finally abandoned, after an Pickey. Not cancelled. Black border and ineffectual attempt to strike oil, the gold having failed to “pan out,” by print, gold seal, underground mining boring on the farm of Thomas Moore, west of the city. And this oil hole vignette. Printed by E. Wells, Sackett, & Rankin. 7 x 11” Pinholes, folds. that flows with pure water is all that remains of the gold excitement, According to An Illustrated History of the State of Idaho, 1899, the except the recollections of the stockholders, whose only dividends company shipped a 30-stamp mill to South Boise in 1863. Formed by were assessments to pay expenses.” Houghton Estate Collection Est. RB Farnham. Ken Prag Collection Est. $120-180 HWAC# 101570 $200-400 HWAC# 102228 Lot# 2348 , Idaho 1882 Two Different Lot# 2352 , Maine Copper mining Stocks (2) I/U Queen Princess no Idaho Mining Stock Certificates Lot of #, 100 shares EM Walker, 1909-seam toning. I/U Olalla Copper mining 2 different. 1) Little Wood River Mining #675 EM Walker 1903-seam toning. Both framed and matted Est. and Smelting Company. Location: Alturas $80-100 HWAC# 91534 County, Idaho (under vignette). No. 812, issued in 1882 for 50 shares to Howard Reeves. Signed by president JL Ilrom and treasurer HL Bales. Punch cancelled. Black border and print on pink paper. Small allegorical vignette. Folds, toning. 5.75 x 9.75” 2) Varkuff Mining, Smelting & Milling Company. Location of Works: South Mountain, Owyhee County, Idaho (printed under title). No. 499, issued for 100 shares in 1882. Signed by president Joseph Hayes and secretary Philip Kobbe. Not cancelled. Black border and print. Folds, light wear. 6.75 x 11” Ken Prag Collection Est. $150-200 HWAC# 101568 Bid online at FHWAC.com or call 775-851-1859 151

DAY 2 Fri, May 17 Mining Lot# 2357 Sonora, Mexico 1886 San Ricardo Mining Company Stock Lot# 2353 , Maine 1880, 1884 Two Maine Certificate ”of Tucson, Arizona Silver Mining Stocks: Sullivan and Stover Territory.” Inc. in AT, Oct. 1883. No. 101, Hill 1) Stover Hill of Blue Hill, Maine. # issued for 200 shares to Mrs. Elizabeth 330 for 37 1/2 shares. Green on white. 2) Schnauffer on Oct. 1st, 1886. Signed Sullivan. # 1552 for 100 shares. Stamps for by secretary Louis Hoffman and the six assessment shares on front. Both have president (illegible). Not cancelled. underground mining vignettes. Both are in Maroon border and title, black print. fine condition. Two of several Maine silver Deep folds. 8 x 10” Not listed in mining stock certificates offered this auction. Sonnichsen’s “Tucson.” While we are unsure if they had property in Ken Prag Collection Est. $150-300 HWAC# Arizona, they had claims in the Ures district of Sonora, including the 81955 San Ricardo Mine. [Ref: Engineering and Mining Journal, Volume 48, 1889, pg.168] Ken Prag Collection Est. $120-150 HWAC# 100892 Lot# 2354 Eckhart, Maryland 1838 Maryland Mining Company # 358 for Lot# 2358 Sonora, Mexico 1886 San 1 share to D Thomas Ricardo Mining Company Stock Sewell. Signed by Certificate Different variety than president Matthew St. other. Inc. in AT, Oct. 1883. No. 734, Clair Clarke (see below). issued for 100 shares to Elizabeth Dateline Washington Seelbach on Dec. 28th, 1886. Signed 1838. Cut very unevenly. by secretary Louis Hoffman and the Rips center left and president (illegible). Not cancelled. lower left. Fair condition, Black border and print. Red title. Small but very early and very important historically. Not cancelled. The vignette of Lady Justice. Deep folds, pinholes. 6.5 x 10.25” Not listed Maryland Mining Company was incorporated in 1828 to mine coal in Sonnichsen’s “Tucson.” While we are unsure if they had property in in the Eckhart area. The prototype of all future coal companies in the Arizona, they had claims in the Ures district of Sonora, including the Georges Creek region, Maryland Mining was eventually permitted by San Ricardo Mine. [Ref: Engineering and Mining Journal, Volume 48, the Legislature to hold up to five thousand acres of land and to build a 1889, pg.168] Ken Prag Collection Est. $150-200 HWAC# 100894 railroad from its mine to Cumberland. A stock issue of $200,000 was authorized, later increased to one million dollars in 1853. The land Lot# 2359 Sonora, Mexico 1887 was acquired by Matthew St. Clair Clarke, president of the Maryland Sonora Silver Mining Co., Ltd. Bonds Mining Company; he did not deed it to the company unitil 1837, after Lot of 3 ten pound bonds issued in 1887 which time Maryland Mining began to acquire property on its own. in London. Not cancelled. All have coupons remaining. Incorporated Mine No. 4, one of the few extant deep mine openings in the Georges under the Companies’ Acts, 1862-1883. 17.25 x 10” Folds, creases. The Creek Valley, was opened by the Maryland Mining Company shortly company’s mining properties were the Huruapa (in Chihuahua) and after 1835. It and other mines in the immediate area operated more the Almada (near Almos), located in the 1860s. [Ref: The Standard, 07 or less continuously for more than a century. The town of Eckhart Dec 1867] Houghton Estate Collection Est. $120-200 HWAC# 102226 originated as a company town for the Maryland Mining Company when it opened the Eckhart mine in 1835. Ken Prag Collection Est. Lot# 2360 , Mexico 1857 Mexican Pacific $400-800 HWAC# 81607 Coal & Iron, Mining & Lot# 2355 Garrett County, Maryland Land Company Stock 1891 Silver Bell Mining Company of WOW! Early American Garrett County Stock Rare Maryland incorporated mining Silver MIning Certificate. # 7494 for 1 company on the Pacific share to Henry M Broadwater. Signed Coast of Mexico. # 178 for by RR Matheny and auto signed by 10 shares to William R president RM Boyd. Dateline 1891. Hanson. Signed by Samuel Incorporated in 1891. Printed by The Brah(?) and president John Review of Lonaconing Missouri. Incorporated in West Virginia. Ken F Allen. Dateline New York 1857. Pen Cancelled. Spanish writing on Prag Collection Est. $100-200 HWAC# 81976 bottom of certificate. Three vignettes: underground mining, steam ship and barge. Printed by Baldwin, Bald & Couslaud. Rips at fold Lot# 2356 Guanajuato, Mexico 1901- edges. Some discoloration. Good Condition. American mining and 1938 Five Different Guanajuato land company exploration in the states of Guerraro and Michoacan. Mining Stocks 1) Guanajuato Launched by Edward Lee Plumb in 1855 in New York. We could find Consolidated Mining & Milling. Blue. no mention of this company in the 1860’s. Ken Prag Collection Est. # B2347. Cancelled. 1901. Eagle and Mexican Eagle vignettes. 2) Same $500-1000 HWAC# 81945 as one. Reddish brown. # C2169. Uncancelled. 1902. 3) Guanajuato Mines Syndicate. Green # B382. Three mining vignettes. Signed by Rich and Donley. 1914. 4) Guanajuato Reduction and Mines Company. #58. 1938. Fancy tan and brown border. 5) Guanajuato Reduction and Mines Company. 500$ gold bond. 1904. #B191. The mines that made Guanajuato rich are inside and just outside the city proper. Mining was done here as early as the 16th century! Ken Prag Collection Est. $80-150 HWAC# 101404 152 May 2019

Lot# 2361 Calumet, Michigan 1960’s or DAY 2 Fri, May 17 Mining later. Copper Trinkets / 7 Items Item # 1 of 7: Metal pin embossed : Attend The Big ( Lot# 2364 Houghton County, Michigan au) /Calumet / Labor Day/ Weekend ( ad 1950s Calumet & Hecla Mining ).// Red lettering on white back ground, 1 Archive Lot of about 50 pieces including 3/4” in size. Item # 2 of 7: Copper ladies two stock certificates, photos, a check, and many invoices. Stocks were shoe embossed : Red Jacket Shaft ( au )/ issued in 1935 and 1937, both punch cancelled. Photos: 8 x 10” B&W Calumet / Mich. / Motif: Mine buildings birds-eye view of the mine, labelled 1935 on reverse; 8 x 10” print and Shaft // Item # 3 of 7: Copper napkin of miner having face injury wrapped underground. Invoices are from ring holder embossed within a shield the 1950s, most relating to foundry orders of mine equipment with : Michigan College / Of Mines / Motif : invoices attached together. The Calumet and Hecla Mining Company College Building. / Houghton , Mich // was a major copper-mining company based within Michigan’s Copper Item # 4 of 7: Copper napkin ring holder Country. In 1864, Edwin J. Hulbert discovered a copper-bearing with a bulldog rest , embossed within a shield : Gallows, Frame, & section of the Calumet Conglomerate of Precambrian age in Houghton Hoist/ Motif : Mine Structure / Anaconda Mine/ Butte , Montana // County, Michigan, between the rich Cliff mine to the northeast, and the Item # 5 of 7: Copper spoon with Motif :Indian Chief / Also embossed copper mines of Portage Lake to the southwest. Hulbert formed the on the stem : Copper Country Mich. 4 1/4” long . Item # 6 of 7: Copper Calumet Company in 1865, with Boston investors. The company spun spoon , fancy with bear and ribbons . Also says Calumet/ Mich inside, off the Hecla Company the following year. Houghton Estate Collection 4 1/4” long. Item # 7 of 7 : Christmas pin with tree.All items in fine Est. $100-150 HWAC# 102487 condition. Overall nice collection of items, mostly copper , and mining related. ( RH). Houghton Estate Collection Est. $70-100 HWAC# Lot# 2365 Keweenaw County, 102114 Michigan 1864 Pennsylvania Mining Company Stock Certificate Inc. in Lot# 2362 Copper Country, Michigan Michigan. No. 450, issued in 40 shares to Hansell on Feb. 17th, 1864. 1935-1974 Copper Range Company Signed by president Joseph Henzey and secretary S. Day. Pen cancelled. Archive Lot of 60+ incl. stocks, checks, Black border and print, allegorical vignette. One 25 cent adhesive and documents. Includes: 18 issued stock certificates (1970-74); stamp at bottom left. 7 x 10.5” Stub attached. Damage mostly to stub. and a group of 40 invoices, 1935-1957, many with company checks Folds. An underground copper mine consisting of three shafts located attached. Please inspect. The Copper Range Company was a major near Delaware. The Pennsylvania Mining Company was organized copper-mining company in the Copper Country of Michigan. It in 1861 after splitting off from the Northwest Mining Company. The began as the Copper Range Company in the late 19th century as a company began work on the Pennsylvania Fissure which consisted holding company specializing in shares in the copper mines south of three separate veins crossing their property. Shafts were sunk on of Houghton, Michigan. The company was bought by Louisiana Land each vein after rich copper deposits were discovered. The mine had and Exploration in 1977. Houghton Estate Collection Est. $200-400 a relatively short life, partly because company management spent HWAC# 102488 their entire capital on surface improvements instead of mining, and the mine closed in 1866. [Ref:mindat.org] Houghton Estate Collection Lot# 2363 Eagle River, Lake Superior, Est. $150-300 HWAC# 102234 Michigan 1853 Phoenix Mining Company Stock Certificate Rare and Lot# 2366 Portage Lake, Michigan early! No. 379, issued for 10 shares to Jos. T. Rowand on February 1855 Portage Lake Mining Company 11th, 1853 in New York. Signed by president Jos. Lord and secretary Stock Certificate Early! Incorporated Henry Mixer. Not cancelled. Black border and print on thin paper. Six in Michigan. No. 165, issued for 175 shares to Henry Whitman & vignettes, including two portraits and three allegorical. Printed by Co. on April 19th, 1855. Signed by president Lyman A. Cook and Danforth, Bald & Co., NY. 6.75 x 10.5” Pinholes, heavy folds. Not in secretary S. Ballon. Not cancelled. Black border and print. Vignette Filer or other Holabird indexes. Originally the Lake Superior Copper of three prospectors. Printed by Snyder, Black & Sturn, NY. 6.25 x Company in 1843. Changed to Phoenix Mining Company in 1848. The 10.5” Folds, light wear. Portage Lake (now called The Keweenaw company platted the village of Eagle River in 1855 at the area where Waterway) is a partly natural, partly artificial waterway which cuts the river emptied into Lake Superior. According to the 1853 Mining across the Keweenaw Peninsula of Michigan near Lake Superior. In Magazine, the company “recently discovered a new vein on their October of 1848, the Quincy became the first operating mine in the location, which is large and promising.” The First Annual Report of Portage Lake district. The Portage Lake MC was located on the quarter the Commissioner of Mineral Statistics of the State of Michigan, 1877, section immediately north of the Isle Royal, working the Middle and gives the following description of the mine: “Working in a true fissure East Sheldon veins. [Ref: The Mining Magazine and Journal of Geology, vein, is one of the prominent mines of this district, and is producing Mineralogy, Metallurgy ..., Volume 1, 1853] Houghton Estate Collection much mass copper; of late the annual product of mineral has averaged Est. $400-800 HWAC# 102210 700 tons. The Bay State Mine, absorbed by the Phoenix, adds greatly to its productive territory. The mine is well situated, about two miles Lot# 2367 , Michigan 1928-1972 from Lake Superior, on Eagle River, just south of the Greenstone. It has Eleven Different Michigan Mining a small stamp mill, good machinery, and comfortable habitations for Stock Certificates Lot of 11 different. its people. The surrounding country is cleared and cultivated, and the Included: Mohawk Mining Company (1928, cut and punch cxl, roads are excellent.” Houghton Estate Collection Est. $1500-2000 Native American vignette); Calumet and Hecla Consolidated Copper HWAC# 102211 Company (three different, issued 1935, 1936, and 1950, all punch cxl, Native American vignette); Calumet & Hecla, Inc. (1957, punch cxl, Native American vignette); and Copper Range Company (six different (4 temporary), issued 1950-1972, all cxl). Please inspect. Houghton Estate Collection Est. $100-150 HWAC# 102216 View High Resolution Images, Register, Place Bids, See Current Opening Bids Visit the online catalog at FHWAC.com Bid online at FHWAC.com or call 775-851-1859 153

DAY 2 Fri, May 17 Mining Lot# 2368 , Michigan 1899-1923 Five Lot# 2374 , Montana 5 Montana Different Michigan Mining Stock stock certificates 5 stock certificates Certificates Lot of 5 different. 1) from Montana: 1) 50 shares of Adventure Consolidated Copper Company. Issued in 1899, stamp and Triangle Mining and Development punch cancelled. Green border and elk vignette. Folds, pinholes. 2) Co. @ $1 each, cert. # 276 issued to Mohawk Mining Company. Issued in 1920, stamp and punch cancelled. Sam Redmond, signed March 1, 1912. Green border and Native American vignette. Pinholes, some toning. 3) Inc. Missoula, MT. In business 1906- Wolverine Copper Mining Company. Issued in 1921, stamp and punch 1923. Signed Frank Robb, pres and cancelled. Brown border and mine drilling vignette. Pinholes, folds. 4) Hy Gephart, secy. Assigned. Orange Ahmeek Mining Company. Issued in 1923, stamp and punch cancelled. border and company seal. Mine near Green border and beaver vignette. 5) Seneca Mining Company of Clinton, MT in Wallace Mining District. Michigan. Unissued. Two mining vignettes and one allegorical. Stains. Vignette with 3 allegorical figures with Houghton Estate Collection Est. $120-250 HWAC# 102209 a torch, flag and staff and eagle. 2) Unissued and uncancelled stock of Montana Fire-Clay Co cert. # 221. Blue and red border. Box with Lot# 2369 , Michigan 1917-1971 Five eagle on mountain. Office at Butte City, MT Printed: Inter Mountain Michigan Mining Stock Certificates Print. 3) 100 shares of Parrot Silver and Copper Co. Cancelled Nov Lot of 5 different. 1) Copper Range 4, 1899, cert. # 6912 issued to Albert C. Burage. Gray border, yellow Company. Two different, issued in 1964 and 1971. Punch cancelled, background and raised company seal. 2 vignettes of a parrot and an allegorical vignette. 2) Mohawk Mining Company. Issued in 1928, arm and hammer. 3 adhesive RN stamps. Printed: Western Bank punch cancelled. Native American vignette. 3) South Lake Mining Note Co. Chicago. 4) 1,000 shares of Algonquin Co in MT Territory Company. Issued in 1926, not cancelled. Vignette of mine on hillside. @ $10 each issued to David C. Spooner on Nov 7, 1881. Red border 4) North Lake Mining Company. Issued in 1917, not cancelled. Mine with raised company seal. Signed by F. Williams, secy and H. A. Stiles, drilling vignette. Please inspect. Houghton Estate Collection Est. pres. Vignette of working miners. 5) Unissued and uncancelled stock $100-120 HWAC# 102212 certificate from St. Helena Gold and Silver Mining Co. @ $10 each. Inc. MT. Mines located 3 miles from Helena. 2 vignettes of working Lot# 2370 , Michigan 1865-1963 miners. Est. $160-200 HWAC# 100418 Michigan Mining Check Collection Lot# 2375 , Montana 1912 Corbin (Plus 1 Billhead) Lot of 8. Checks: Copper Co. Stock I/U #2009 Carrie Pennsylvania Mine (1865, cut cxl); Michigan Smelting Co. (Houghton, Whitney 30 shares 1912. Nice 1912); Champion Copper Co. (Painesdale, 1906); Trimountain Mining motorized ore carts vignette exiting Co. (1899, Houghton, RN-X); Iron Cliffs Company (Negaunee, 1872, mine. Creases. . Ken Prag Collection pictorial); Calumet Division (1963); National Metals Bank of Hancock Est. $100-200 HWAC# 82132 checkbook (11 unissued checks). 2) Unused billhead for Superior and Montana Mining Company, Calumet, 1908. Houghton Estate Collection Est. $100-120 HWAC# 102235 Lot# 2371 , Michigan Michigan Lot# 2376 , Montana Montana Mining Photographs Lot of 9 from a major Michigan collection. Includes: Labor Important Political Collection stereoview of ingot molds at Calumet-Hecla smelter; 8 x 10” mounted Includes 10 postal receipts/ photo of White Pine Mine, c.1915; print of 1892 birds-eye view of working cards. Approx 100 letters Laurium?; 8 x 10” mounted photo of miners in front of shaft house from State of Montana Attorney at Mass Mine, c.1914; unidentified 8 x 10” print of miners posing; 8 x General, State Forester, House of 10” aerial view of Calumet station, c.1960s; 5.5 x 7.5” c.1900 photo of Representatives, gubernatorial men in the 1st National Bank at Lake Linden; 8 x 10” mounted photo candidates, labor unions and various of mine, possibly Houghton, c.1899; 3.5 x 3.54” snapshot, unidentified. trade organizations.1938-1948. These Houghton Estate Collection Est. $150-180 HWAC# 102238 documents are written by the state officials in the aftermath of major labor troubles before 1920. A great collection of labor and progress for Lot# 2372 , Michigan 1906-1924 the state of Montana. Est. $200-500 HWAC# 50277 Michigan Mining Stock Certificates for Foreign & US Financed Mines Lot# 2377 , Montana Montana Labor Lot of 9, three different mining companies. 1) The Hermina Mining Union Documents Collection Approx Company, Limited. Organized under the laws of the Province of 30 Montana Labor News cancelled Ontario. Three stocks, issued 1906-07. Multiple mining vignettes. check c. 1940, Approx 30 receipts from Dateline Calumet. 2) The Algoma Custom Smelting and Refining Co., Bessette Printing Company to Montana Ltd. Also organized in Ontario. Three stocks issued in 1907. Allegorical Labor News c. 1940. Approx 30 varied vignette. Dateline Calumet. 3) Mohawk Mining Company. Three stocks receipts for items sold to Montana issued in 1924, punch cancelled. Native American vignette. Please Labor News c. 1940. Receipt book c. inspect. Houghton Estate Collection Est. $160-250 HWAC# 102480 1930’s with some detached receipts with the head of an Indian and many blank receipts. 2 small Montana Lot# 2373 , Minnesota Minnesota Mining Labor News receipt books from 1939-1940. 2 different copies of The Stocks (2) I/U Engineer Development Co Joint Council of Women’s Auxiliares, c. 1937. Est. $180-360 HWAC# #36 Richard Schell 1918, signed by President 50346 Harrison. I/U Mining Investment Contract issued by the American Mining Investment Lot# 2378 , Montana Montana Co of Minnesota #900 C Newbury 1900-3 Souvenir Spoons group of five Lot creases. . Ken Prag Collection Est. $80-100 of five different. Includes: copper, HWAC# 82115 5.75”, mining scene on bowl and handle, patriotic handle and (gold- plated?); small Montana seal, 6”; gold wash bowl, mining scene handle w/ “Montana”, approx 5.25”; Bath House, White Sulphur Springs, engraved bowl, floral handle, 5.25”; and small with Judith Gap, Mont. engraved bowl, 4.5”. Est. $120-200 HWAC# 50415 154 May 2019

DAY 2 Fri, May 17 Mining Lot# 2379 Aurora, Nevada 1863 Lot# 2383 Belmont, Nevada 1879 Benson Gold & Silver Mining Co. Stock Barcelona Consolidated Mining Certificate Nevada territorial signed Company Stock Certificate Spanish by Leland Stanford’s brother. Emmet Belt, Philadelphia District, Nye County, Lode, Esmeralda (printed upper left). Nev. (printed at bottom center). Inc. “Claim 600 Feet” (printed under title). April 1874. No. 814, issued for 50 Inc. March 1863. No. 40, issued for 10 shares to company secretary Warren shares to F.O. Spring on April 14th, 1863 in San Francisco. Signed by Craig on May 20th, 1879 in SF. Signed by Craig and president Benjamin president Josiah Stanford and secretary Gilbert Palache. Not cancelled. Flint. Not cancelled. Black border and print, fancy logo. Printed by Black border and print. Vignette of patriotic eagle (upper right). Britton, Rey & Co., SF. Folds, clean. 4 x 9” The side of the stock lists Printed by Valentine & Co., SF. Folds, some separation, toning, some the company’s two claims: the Barcelona No. 1 and No. 2. Located in staining, portion missing along top border, other wear. Please inspect. the Tecoma Range. Developments included a shaft 175 ft. deep and 4 x 8.75” Not listed on Stretch’s 1865 list of 400 Esmeralda Mines. two levels at the 85 and 175 foot stations. 17 men are employed. They Probably named after George Benson, an elected official in Aurora are driving a tunnel to strike the ledge at a depth of 675 ft. below the and investor in many mines. Josiah Stanford was the older brother surface. [Ref: Annual Mining Review and Stock Ledger, 1876, pg. 38] of Leland Stanford. Leland had interests in Bodie and Esmeralda Ken Prag Collection Est. $120-160 HWAC# 100931 mines, being president of the Bodie Bluff Consolidated. He was elected Lot# 2384 Belmont, Nevada 1902-1937 California governor during his tenure as president, and likely had his Seven Belmont, Nevada Mining Stock brother look over his Bodie/Aurora interests (like the Benson). Josiah Certificates Lot of 7 different. Included: was a California pioneer who came to California in 1849 and became Philadelphia-Nevada MC (1908, mining a merchant at Mormon Island before running a hardware company vignettes, not cxl); Belmont Uncle Sam in Sacramento. He died in 1890. [Ref: Filer 3, pg. 44 where Josiah is MC (1933, eagle vignette, not cxl); misidentified as Leland’s father; Daily Alta California, May 15th, 1890] Belmont-Osborn MC (1929, allegorical Ken Prag Collection Est. $300-500 HWAC# 100927 vignettes, not cxl); Belmont Mining & Dev. Co. (1902, eagle vignette, not cxl); Lot# 2380 Aurora, Nevada 1866 Belmont Metals Corp. (1937, not cxl.); Enterprise Gold & Silver Mining Co. Monitor Belmont MC (1916, not cxl); and Stock Certificate Inc. March 21, 1865 in Pennsylvania. No. 164, issued for 15 Nevada Belmont Copper MC (unissued, shares to James M. Martin on March mining vignettes). Fair to good condition. 8th, 1866 in Philadelphia. Signed by Please inspect. Ken Prag Collection Est. $110-150 HWAC# 101576 president H.G. Sickel and treasurer Lot# 2385 Bovard, Nevada 1909- 1910 Bovard, Nevada Mining Stock John L. Thackeray. Not cancelled. Blue Group Lot of 6. Bovard was a tent camp town in Mineral County formed seal, red print and two mining vignettes by miners from Rawhide. It boomed in (surface and underground). Printed by John Alexander, Philadelphia.7 x 11” Twenty-five cent IR stamp attached at right and bottom left. 1908 and lasted until the early 1920s. Deep folds, pinholes, tape repair. The Enterprise owned a claim of the same name on Last Chance Hill in Aurora, Esmeralda County 1) Bovard-Swastika Mining Company. No. 1041, issued for 300 shares to Charles L. Dinsmore on June 1st, during 1865-66. Not surprising to see the company incorporated in 1909. Signed by president John W. Swatek and secretary W.M. Swatek. Pennsylvania, as this was an active period of investment in Nevada Not cancelled. Orange border and black print. Five gold swastikas mines by Pennsylvanians. [Ref: Stretch, Angel] () Ken Prag Collection Est. $300-400 HWAC# 91549 printed along the top. Folds. 8.5 x 11” 2) Bovard Consolidated Mines Lot# 2381 Austin, Nevada D. Company. Five stocks, four color varieties, all issued in 1910. Same Lundbom Assay Office Receipt, design with drilling vignette. Fair to good condition. “Mines at Bovard, Austin, Nevada, 1867 No. 2856. Esmeralda Co., Nevada” printed at top. ( Mineral County was carved Dateline Austin, Nevada, July 22nd, out of Esmeralda County in 1911). Ken Prag Collection Est. $120-150 1867. For one specimen of pulp HWAC# 102165 deposited by Thomas Cox, 4.29 grains Lot# 2386 Broken Hills, of silver. Signed by David Lundbom. Two vignettes: prospector at right, Nevada 1921-1952 bare breasted woman holding a scale at left. Five cent green Nevada revenue stamp with hand cancel. Reveille Print. 4.5” x 8.5” Staining on Broken Hills Mining right side, 1” tear bottom right corner. Est. $300-500 HWAC# 50908 Stock Certificate Collection Lot of 5 different. Broken Hills is Lot# 2382 Austin, Nevada 1860s a ghost town in Mineral Keystone Silver Mining Co. Specimen County near the border Stock Certificate Rare specimen of Churchill County. stock for the Keystone Silver Mining Peaked 1915-1920. 1) Co. Location printed on stock: Reese Reorganized Broken Hills Silver Corporation. Three different, issued River Mining District at Austin, Nevada. 1930-1934. Mining vignettes. 2) Broken Hills Mining and Milling “Specimen” written on president line Company. Issued in 1952, not cancelled. 3) Broken Hills Silver and “Engraving” written on secretary Corporation. Issued in 1921, not cancelled. Mining vignette. Good line. Vignette of three prospectors. Printed by Continental Bank Note condition. Please inspect. Ken Prag Collection Est. $70-100 HWAC# Co. of New York. 6 x 13.5” with stud attached. Besides pen notations, 101578 excellent condition. Browne (1868) notes that the Keystone Mill “may be taken as a sample of its class, from its arrangement, construction, and class” (pg. 402). He also lists production for the quarter ending Dec. 31, 1866 as 2 tons, 350 pounds, averaging $194.66 per ton (pg. 404). Our company has previously sold both an issued stock and a prospectus for this company. The issued stock was from 1867 and matches this design exactly. () Ken Prag Collection Est. $120-200 HWAC# 91540 Bid online at FHWAC.com or call 775-851-1859 155

DAY 2 Fri, May 17 Mining Lot# 2387 Buckskin, Nevada 1925- Lot# 2391 Bullfrog, Nevada 1905 Bull 1935 Buckskin, Nevada Mining Frog Annex Mining Company Stock Stock Certificates Lot of 5 different. Certificate Rare! Inc. in AZ. No. 422, Buckskin is a ghost town located in issued for 1,000 shares to HL Grinshaw Humboldt County, Nevada. 1) Albany on Feb. 13, 1905 in Goldfield. Signed by Copper Company. Unissued. Dateline president John A. Hassell and secretary Buckskin, Nevada. Heavy toning. 2) Sunbeam Buckskin Mining Company. Wheeler. Not cancelled. Brown border, Issued in 1932, not cancelled. Poor black print. Underprint vignette of two condition: folds, rips, tape repairs. bullfrogs in green. Pinholes, folds, soiling. 5.25 x 10” Captain John A. 3) Buckskin National Gold Mining Hassell was active in Goldfield and Humboldt County mines. The Bull Company. Issued in 1925, not cancelled. Frog Annex was one of over 200 mines that incorporated “bullfrog” Mining vignettes. Folds, toning. 4) Two different for Ambassador Gold Mines, Ltd. Both issued in 1935. Pinholes, folds. Ken Prag Collection in its name. There is no information on production from this mine Est. $100-200 HWAC# 101581 [Ref: [Southern Nevada: The Boomtown Years. http://digital.library. unlv.edu/u?/snv,4652]. Not in Filer or Holabird indexes. Ken Prag Collection Est. $200-400 HWAC# 101585 Lot# 2388 Bullfrog, Nevada 1906-1909 Lot# 2392 Bullfrog, “Gold Center” Bullfrog Mining Stock Certificates Lot of 3. 1) Bullfrog Gold Nevada 1905 Bull Center Water and Mills, Ltd. Inc. in AZ. No. 595, issued for 5,000 shares to RB Respers on April 14th, 1909. Signed by president Lawton and Frog Nugget Mining secretary Barrett. Not cancelled. Black border and print, three mining vignettes. Staple holes, heavy folds. 2) The Gold Center Mining and Company Stock Development Company. Two issued in 1906. Neither cancelled. Gold border and mountain vignette. Heavy folds with some separation. Ken Certificate Fantastic! Prag Collection Est. $120-200 HWAC# 101634 Inc. in Arizona. No. Lot# 2389 Bullfrog, Nevada 1906- 1923 “Mayflower” Bullfrog Mining 29, issued for 1,000 Stock Collection Lot of 7. Included: The Mayflower Mines Consolidated (1923, shares to James R. pen cancelled, mining vignettes, deep fold); Mayflower Bullfrog Consolidated Hara on March 6th, Mining Company (1911, not cxl); Bullfrog- Mayflower Extension Gold Mining 1905 in Colorado Company (1907, not cxl, mining vignette); Consolidated Mayflower Mines Company Springs. Signed by (two issued in 1919, one unissued); and president Doubt Nevada Black Swan Gold Mining Company (?) and secretary (1906, not cxl, mining vignettes, deep Dunnington. Not cancelled. Green border, black print, gold seal. folds). Ken Prag Collection Est. $150-300 HWAC# 101629 Vignette of bullfrog sitting on top of gilt gold nugget! Pinholes, folds. 7 x Lot# 2390 Bullfrog, Nevada 1903- 11.25” According to a 1906 Nevada State Journal advertisement: “THE 1906 “National Bank” Bullfrog, BULLFROG NUGGET MINING CO. owns THE LAST CHANCE claim, 19% Nevada Mining Stock Certificate acres joining the famous RUSH MINE, and within a few hundred feet Trio Lot of 3 different. 1) Shoshone of the DENVER TRAMP, CONSOLIDATED, and GIBRALTER MINES, also National Bank Mining Company. owns the SUNRISE joined by the VICTOR, receivers receipt obtained Issued in 1906 for 500 shares to this claim 1900 acres. These two claims cover all the rich veins to D. Davis Wilkins in Goldfield. from above-mentioned mines on BONANZA MOUNTAIN, BULLFROG Signed by president Marks and DISTRICT, for a distance of 2850 feet long by 600 feet wide. This stock secretary Champion. Not cancelled. is listed in San Francisco, Goldfield and Reno Exchanges...The Company Black border and print, fancy logo. Folds, toning, bent corners. also owns six claims near Beatty, Nevada.” Ken Prag Collection Est. 2) Bullfrog National Bank Gold Mining Company. Issued in 1906 to $300-500 HWAC# 101587 Goldfield Investment Co. Signed by the president and asst. secretary. Not Lot# 2393 Bullfrog, cancelled. Black border, black and green and red print. Three mining Nevada 1909 Bull vignettes. Pinholes, folds. 3) National Bank Gold Mining Company. Issued Frog Nugget Mining in 1903 for 500 shares to Thomas St. John. Signed by treasurer Henry Company Stock Brendenburg and president William Morrow. Not cancelled. Green border, black print, and vignette of capitol building. Folds. Ken Prag Certificate Wow! Inc. Collection Est. $180-350 HWAC# 101633 in Arizona. No. 1543, issued for 2,500 shares to George A. Clark on Nov. 29th, 1909 in Colorado Springs. Signed by vice-president Arkell and secretary Dunnington. Not cancelled. Unusual and fantastic design with floral photo border and vignette of frog sitting on gilt gold nugget. Pinholes, folds, toning, tape repairs. Please inspect. 8.5 x 11.25” According to a 1906 Nevada State Journal advertisement: “THE BULLFROG NUGGET MINING CO. owns THE LAST CHANCE claim, 19% acres joining the famous RUSH MINE, and within a few hundred feet of the DENVER TRAMP, CONSOLIDATED, and GIBRALTER MINES, also owns the SUNRISE joined by the VICTOR, receivers receipt obtained to this claim 1900 acres. These two claims cover all the rich veins from above-mentioned mines on BONANZA MOUNTAIN, BULLFROG DISTRICT, for a distance of 2850 feet long by 600 feet wide. This stock is listed in San Francisco, Goldfield and Reno Exchanges... The Company also owns six claims near Beatty, Nevada.” Ken Prag Collection Est. $400-600 HWAC# 101588 156 May 2019

DAY 2 Fri, May 17 Mining Lot# 2394 Bullfrog, Nevada 1907- Lot# 2397 Bullfrog, Nevada 1906 1939 Bullfrog / Pioneer Mining Bullfrog Gold Reef Mining Company Stock Certificates Lot of 8. 1) Pioneer Stock Certificate Inc. in Colorado. Bi-Metallic Leasing Company. Issued in No. 287, issued for 2,000 shares to 1909 in Rhyolite. Stamp ink stains. Deep Dr. Thomas Stark on Dec. 22nd, 1906 folds with some separation. 2) Bullfrog in Colorado Springs. Signed by the Indian Springs Mines Company. Issued vice president, A. Mackey, and the in 1907 in Beatty. Not cancelled. Orange secretary. Not cancelled. Brown border, border and Native American vignette. black print, gold seal, and fancy logo. Folds, clean. 3) Pioneer Mining, Milling & Leasing Company. Issued in “Bullfrog Mining District, Nevada” printed in the background. Printed 1907, not cancelled. Green border and three mining vignettes. Deep by Franklin Press Co., Pueblo. Folds, toning. 7.25 x 11” A. P. Mackey folds with toning. 4) Indiana Nevada Mining Company. Issued in 1911, was active in Colorado mining as well as Bullfrog. The Pacific Reporter, not cancelled. Green border and mining vignette. Folds. 5) Bullfrog Vol.54, 1898, pp. 907-9 contain the judgment of the Court of Appeals Pioneer Extension Mines Co. Issued in 1909, not cxl. Orange border of Colorado on the outcome of a lawsuit between MacKey and one of and mining vignette. Folds, toning. 6) Pioneer Conservative Mining his partners. Mackey also owned one-quarter interest in the Four Aces & Leasing Company. Unissued. Stains. 7) Reorganized Pioneer Mines Mine. Ken Prag Collection Est. $100-200 HWAC# 101628 Company. Two issued, 1918 and 1939. One is punch cancelled. Green border and background, mining vignette. Folds, some separation. Ken Lot# 2398 Bullfrog, Nevada 1907 Prag Collection Est. $240-500 HWAC# 101631 Bullfrog Golden Sceptre Mining Company Certificate Rare but with Lot# 2395 Bullfrog, condition issues. Incorporated under Nevada 1905 Bullfrog the laws of the Territory of Arizona. No. Apex Mining and 1638, issued for one thousand shares Milling Co. Stock to Water Pratt, on July 15th, 1907. Certificate Rare Bullfrog Signed by J.C. McCormack (president) stock! Low number 5, and G.K. Vaughn (asst. secretary). Not issued in 1905 for one cancelled. Orange border and seal with shares to Clay Tallman. black printing. Top vignette of frog holding sceptre. According to The Signed by Fagan as Mining Investor 1907, “work is being continued in the new Golden secretary and Chas. A. Sceptre tunnel with three shift of miners steadily driving into the hill.” Liddell as president. 8.25” x 10.75” Toning, deep folds with some separation. Bottom left Not cancelled! Green corner missing. Please inspect. Ken Prag Collection Est. $150-250 frog vignette and ornate gold border. Folds, some other light wear. HWAC# 101590 Incorporated on July 1905 in the state of South Dakota by a group of promoters headed by J.J. Fagan and E.L. Andrews, the company Lot# 2399 Bullfrog, Nevada 1905-1907 promoted itself as the owner of 15 claims, only one of which was ever Bullfrog Mining Stock Certificates: worked -- the North Bullfrog. There was a problem with the North Daisy, Gold Bar, Homestake Lot of Bullfrog claim as it intruded into the boundaries of the Delaware claim 5 different. 1) Bullfrog Daisy Mining of the West Extension Company. Though the Apex Company knew Company. Issued 1906, not cancelled. about these conflicting boundaries when the North Bullfrog claim was Folds. 2) The Gold Bar Annex Mining filed, they forged ahead anyway. Work on the Apex ground started Company. Issued in 1906, not cancelled. in the fall of 1905. In a race for other nearby companies, the Apex Allegorical vignette. Folds. 3) Bullfrog encountered encouraging ore values and stock sales were adequate. Gold Bar Mining Company. Issued in Confident in their claims, the promoters decided to apply for a patent, 1906, not cancelled. Eagle vignette. which resulted in the West Extension Company to file a lawsuit against Pinholes, folds. 4) The Homestake King Apex. Though the dispute was tied up the courts, both companies Consolidated Bullfrog Mining & Milling Company. Issued in 1907, continued to develop shafts and tunnels. But, when the Apex Company not cancelled. Allegorical vignette. Pinholes, folds. 5) Homestake uncovered a vein of gold assaying $251 to the ton, the question was Extension Mining Company. Issued in 1905, not cancelled. Three settled, and the legal battle intensified. With all the news of the legal mining vignettes. Folds, pinholes. Ken Prag Collection Est. $200-400 battles, Apex suffered in the stock market and by May,1906, its stock HWAC# 102196 had fallen completely off the trading board. In the end, the Apex company lost their contest for the disputed ground and soon went out Lot# 2400 Bullfrog, Nevada 1906- of business. Ken Prag Collection Est. $200-400 HWAC# 101586 1910 Bullfrog Mining Stock Group: Gibraltar, Tramp, Bonanza Mountain Lot# 2396 Bullfrog, Nevada 1907 Lot of 8. 1) Gibraltar Mines Syndicate. Bullfrog Central Mining Company Issued in 1906 for 500 shares. Punch Stock Signed by Wingfield Inc. in cancelled. Red border and Native South Dakota, April 1906. No. 395, issued for 1,000 shares to NP American vignette. Pinholes, folds. Reinhard on Feb. 4th, 1907. Signed by Nevada mining and banking 2) The Bonanza Mountain Mining & magnate George Wingfield as president and the secretary. Punch Milling Company. Issued for 2,000 cancels through signatures. Green border and seal, background shares in 1907. Not cancelled. Black border and print, allegorical vignette of frog. Gold title and black print. Three different mining vignette. Pinholes, folds, light wear. 3) Philadelphia Bonanza Mining vignettes. Printed by B. Rotholtz. 8.25 x 11” Folds, some toning. Listed Company. Issued in 1906 for 25,000 shares to the company president. in the Goldfield Business Directory (1907-1908) as having offices Multiple mining vignettes. Poor condition with rips and huge repairs located at 9 Nixon Block. Very rare! Ken Prag Collection Est. $200- to back. As is. 4) Tramp Consolidated Mining Company. Four different, 400 HWAC# 101584 issued 1906, 1907 (x2), and 1910. Pinholes and folds. Three have a mining vignette. 5) Tramps Consolidated Extension Mining Company. Issued in 1907 for 1,00 shares. Not cancelled. Folds with separation. Ken Prag Collection Est. $300-500 HWAC# 102186 Bid online at FHWAC.com or call 775-851-1859 157

DAY 2 Fri, May 17 Mining Lot# 2401 Bullfrog, Nevada 1905 Bullfrog Lot# 2405 Bullfrog, Nevada 1905 Gold Center Steinway Mining Company Stock Mining Stock and 3 Related Docs I/U #343 DE Certificate Inc. in Arizona. Low number 12, Clarke 125 shares 1905. 1909 and 1911 mine issued for 10,000 shares to James Collins on letters. 1909 mine bulletin Est. $120-200 HWAC# Feb. 20th, 1905. Signed by president Albert 101771 Watson and secretary Fred W. Dulfer. Not cancelled. Black border and print, gold seal. Lot# 2406 Bullfrog, Nevada 1925 Fantastic vignette of frog with a mining scene Golden Bullfrog Mines Company hidden in his belly. No printer listed. Folds, Stock Certificate Rare. Inc. in Arizona, two creased corners. 8.5 x 10.5” According to the Mines Directory, 1905. No. 31, issued for 250 shares to 1910, the company had two unpatented claims. Named by G.G. Rice as Elmer H. Howe on June 26th, 1925. one of the Bullfrog claims where “the public lost vast sums of money.” Signed by president F.W. Beecher and Located 2,300 feet west of the Montgomery Shoshone. When visited in secretary A.J. Beecher. Not cancelled. 1906, had a prospect shaft 200 ft. deep. [Ref: Geology and ore deposits Black border and print. Gold title and of the Bullfrog district, Nevada, 1910] Ken Prag Collection Est. $200- golden vignette of bullfrog! Condition 400 HWAC# 102185 issues incl. heavy folds with tape repairs, foxing and staining. 8.25 x 11” “Mines in the Bull-frog District Lot# 2402 Bullfrog, Nevada 1906 Denver of Nevada” printed in the upper right. Not in Filer or Holabird indexes. Rush Extension Mining Co. Stock According to 1905 Los Angeles Times ads, the company had 5 claims Certificate Ultra rare but with serious in the heart of the Bullfrog District. No additional information located. condition issues. As is. “Mines at Bullfrog” Ken Prag Collection Est. $200-400 HWAC# 102183 printed in gold lettering. Inc. in Arizona, 1906. No. 405, issued for 1,000 shares to Lot# 2407 Bullfrog, Nevada 1906 Los Otto Shaeth on March 14th, 1906. Signed by Angeles Bullfrog Mining & Milling vice-president King and secretary Whitmore. Co. Stock Certificate Great vignette Cut cancelled. Green border, black print, and great bullfrog vignette. of a bullfrog! Inc. in Arizona Territory. Heavy folds with huge tape repaired separations, soiling, pieces cut No. 139, issued for 1,000 shares to E.S. out. Please inspect. 8.25 x 11.25” According to the Goldfield Gossip Adkins on June 1st, 1906 in Los Angeles. magazine, 1907, the company had one fractional claim, a tunnel, and Signed by president J.J. Kinshaw and five men employed. A 1908 NYT article discusses a lawsuit between secretary Dietze. Not cancelled. Black brokers and the company for $15,000 in company stock which they border and print, gold seal. Vignette claim was worthless. No production info located. Likely a swindle! Ken of bullfrog at upper left. Printed by Prag Collection Est. $300-500 HWAC# 101596 Out West Co. Print, LA. 8.25 x 11” Folds, one bent corner. Very clean. Owned several claims in the Pioneer section on Quartzite Mountain Lot# 2403 Bullfrog, Nevada 1905- (according to The Mining Investor, Volumes 54-55). Not in Filer or 1911 Five Different Bullfrog, Nevada Holabird indexes. Ken Prag Collection Est. $200-400 HWAC# 101583 Mining Stock Certificates Lot of 5. These companies were related Lot# 2408 Bullfrog, to the Original Bullfrog. Included: Bullfrog Mining Co. of Nevada (1907, Nevada 1905-1911 drilling vignette, not cxl, deep folds); Amethyst Bullfrog Mining Company Montgomery / (1911, mining vignette, deep folds); Original Bullfrog Extension Mining Co. Shoshone Bullfrog (1905, not cxl, three mining vignettes, heavy folds, toning); Crystal Bullfrog Mining Company (specimen Mining Stock stock, punch cancelled, mining vignette); and Original Bullfrog Mines Syndicate (clean). Please inspect. Ken Prag Collection Est. $120-200 Collection Lot of 8 stock HWAC# 101627 certificates plus 4 pieces Lot# 2404 Bullfrog, Nevada 1905 of ephemera. Stocks Four Aces Mining Company Stock Certificate, Bullfrog, NV 1905 One include: Montgomery of the best and most sought-after Bullfrog stock certificates! Mines Mountain Mining located at Bullfrog Mining District, Nevada (printed along the top border). Company of Bullfrog Inc. in Arizona. No. 430, issued for 100 shares to William Belcher on Oct. 20th, (1905, not cxl, pinholes, 1905. Signed by the vice-president E.W. folds); The Montgomery Griffith and G.W. Murray, secretary. Not cancelled. Maroon border and Mountain Mines fantastic vignette of a hand showing four aces. Folds, very light wear. 8 x 11” FH argues that this company was purely an exploration play. Corporation (1910, not The vignette was meant to sell the stock by creating a sense in the cxl, mining vignette, folds); Montgomery Shoshone Consolidated buyer that the company was a winner. What actually happened on the Mining Company (three issued 1910-11, drilling vignette, folds, property? It is now a prospect pit near Pioneer that is 6ft. deep and pinholes); Montgomery-Shoshone Extension Mining Company (two 10 feet in diameter. According to a Sept. 16, 1905 issue of the United different, both issued in 1906, mining vignettes, folds, separation, States Investor, the company owned two full claims on Montgomery toning); and The Montgomery-Annex Mining Company (1909, not Mountain adjoining the Schwab-McKane property and near the cxl, mining vignette, folds, toning). Ephemera: Montgomery Mountain famous Montgomery-Shoshone. Ken Prag Collection Est. $300-500 Mines Corp. two 1910 letterheads and two pages of official documents. HWAC# 101630 Ken Prag Collection Est. $300-500 HWAC# 101635 158 May 2019

DAY 2 Fri, May 17 Mining Lot# 2409 Bullfrog, Nevada 1906 Lot# 2412 Bullfrog, Nevada Original Bullfrog Mines Syndicate 1905 Wolverine-Bull Frog Stock Certificate, 1906 Usually not Mining Company Stock in this good of condition. Certificate Certificate Very rare. Inc. No. 6309. issued in 1906 to RM Brine in Arizona, March 1905. No. for 500 shares in Goldfield. Signed by 188, issued for 1,000 shares P. Carney as vice-president and the to Bruce Glidden on March secretary. Not cancelled. Ornate green 28th, 1905 in San Francisco. border with large green bullfrog under printed at center. Pinholes, Signed by president Frank folds. Paperclip indents/stains. 5.5 x 9.5” This was the first mine M. Ish and asst. secretary discovered at Bullfrog by Shorty Harris in August, 1904. Shorty sold F.Ladleir. Not cancelled. Black his share in the mine for a measly $100 while blindly drunk. Two print with green underprint vignette of frog and reeds. Printed by years later, this mine and the Montgomery Shoshone were the only Britton & Rey, SF. 5.5 x 9.25” Pinholes, folds, some staining. According two to have reported shipping ore, but the company died by mid 1907, to an April 26th, 1905 Los Angeles Times ad for the company, their according to Richard Lingenfelter in Death Valley and the Amargosa. properties were seven claims located two miles west of the Original In fact, the ore occurred in a relatively thin zone directly related to a Bullfrog. President Frank Ish, “one of the best and shrewdest operators nearly horizontal fault separating some young rocks that hosted the in Goldfield,” also owns the Black Butte. Harry Ramsey, president of deposit, from very old Cambrian sediments. The ore only occurred in the Blue Bull Mine, is the other purchaser of the claims with Ish. Ken the younger rocks, so exploration had to occur laterally. Shorty and his Prag Collection Est. $300-600 HWAC# 102181 partner hadn’t staked enough ground. Years later, Pete Galli pulled the dumps and mined a shallow test open pit for a heap leach operation. Lot# 2413 Cactus Springs, Nevada The dumps were not crushed, and most of the values stayed in the pile 1908-1919 Cactus Springs, Nevada as a result. By the time we got around to the deposit, a number of drill Mining Stock Certificates Lot of 4. holes had pretty well defined the deposit, indicating that there were Cactus Springs is a ghost town in Nye only about 50,000 ounces of gold remaining. This is the most popular County. Activity began in 1901 with by far of the Bullfrog stock certificates. Ken Prag Collection Est. $300- the discovery of turquoise on Cactus 500 HWAC# 101589 Peak. Silver was discovered nearby in 1904. Activity in the Cactus Range Lot# 2410 Bullfrog, Nevada 1905-1907 Three ended by 1935. 1) Cactus Nevada Silver Different Lige Harris Bullfrog Mining Stock Mines Company. Stock number A1 and A2, issued in 1919. One is Certificates Lot of 3. Inc. in Arizona. 1) Lige Harris issued to the president Joseph Nenzel; the other to JC Peebles. Neither Bullfrog Extension Gold Mines Company. Issued in cancelled. Green border and eagle vignette. Owned the Bailey claims 1905, not cancelled. Mining vignette. Folds with some and spent $280,000 to further develop them, never seeing a return separation. 2) The Lige Harris Bullfrog Gold Mining on investment. 2) a)One Hundred Mining Company. Issued 1908, Company. Issued in 1907 at Rhyolite. Punch cancelled. not cancelled. Brown border and mining vignette. Pinholes, folds. b) Eagle vignette. Deep folds with some separation. One Hundred Mining Company of Cactus Range. Issued in 1909, not 3) The Lige Harris Bullfrog Gold Mining Company. cancelled. Brown border and eagle vignette. Heavy folds with some Issued in 1905, not cancelled. Eagle vignette. Heavy separation and soiling. Ken Prag Collection Est. $100-150 HWAC# folds, bent corner. Ken Prag Collection Est. $100-150 102164 HWAC# 101582 Lot# 2414 Candelaria, Nevada Lot# 2411 Bullfrog, Nevada 1905 Holmes Silver Mine Watercolor by and 1907 Two Different Shoshone Mathis Nice original watercolor of Bullfrog Mining Stock Certificates Holmes Silver Min in Candelaria, NV. Lot of 2 rare stocks. 1) 1) The Ore cars in a row and smelter, signed by Shoshone-Bull Frog Gold Mining George Mathis. 9.25x10.25” plus mat. Company. Incorporated under the Est. $100-150 HWAC# 101777 laws of the State of Wyoming, 1905. No. 63,.issued for 1000 shares to J.W. Lot# 2415 Carson City, Nevada 1877 & Taylor on Sept. 18th, 1907. Signed by 1885 Two Carson City Stock Certificates: T.F. Bonneau (vice president) and E.H. Mining & Banking Lot of 2. 1) Bassette Sanford (secretary). Not cancelled. Gold & Silver Mining Company. Location Reverse is endorsed. Green border of Works: Ormsby County, Nevada with top vignette of deer with antlers (printed under left). Inc. Nov. 1876. No. and bottom vignette of hut. Printed 71, issued for 100 shares to A.H. Peppin by Out West Co. Print, LA. Folds, light on Sept. 24th, 1877. Signed by president wear, 8.25 x 10” 2) Shoshone Bullfrog Kennedy and secretary BL McLain(?). Not Mining Company. Inc. in Arizona. cancelled. Black border and print, fancy No. 159, issued for 1,000 shares to logo and border. No vignette. No printer. JH Walton on April 10th, 1905. Signed by president W. Booth and Horizontal and vertical folds. 5.5 x 9” No secretary G.P. Helfrich. Not cancelled. Gold border. Three mining additional information located. 2) Bullion vignettes. Deep folds with minor separation, toning. 8.25 x 10.75” Ken & Exchange Bank stock number 7 issued to president Jacob Klein in Prag Collection Est. $200-400 HWAC# 102182 1885. Also signed by Hofer. Pen cancelled. Folds. Ken Prag Collection Est. $150-200 HWAC# 100825 Bid online at FHWAC.com or call 775-851-1859 159

DAY 2 Fri, May 17 Mining Lot# 2416 Cherry Creek, Lot# 2420 Churchill County, Nevada Nevada 1908-1931 Six 1874 White Cloud Cons. Gold & Silver Different Cherry Creek, Mining Co. Stock Certificate Churchill Nevada Mining Stock County, Nevada (printed under title). Certificates Lot of 6. Inc. 1872. No. 95, issued for 25 shares Included: United Imperial to A.C. Farno on Feb. 4th, 1874 in San Mines Company (1923, Jose, California. Signed by president not cxl, mining vignettes); John H. Moore and secretary C.E. Allen. Cherry Creek Gold Mining Not cancelled. Black border and print. Vignette of mine/mill. Fancy Company (No. 6, 1931, border design. No printer listed. Folds with old tape repairs, heavy not cxl, mining vignette); Cherry Star Mining Company (unissued toning. 5.25 x 9.75” The White Cloud Mining District is 20 miles south but signed, mining vignette); Liberty Mines Corporation (1930, not of the Relief District on the northeast side of the Carson Sink. 2 miles cxl, three mining vignettes); Exchequer Leasing & Mining Corp. (No. east of the stage route from Unionville to Stillwater. Discovered in the 4, 1919, not cxl, three mining vignettes, heavy wear); and Nevada 1860’s, and new work began by this company. Tiny info in Raymond, Mother Lode Mining Company (1908, not cxl, 3 mining vignettes). Fair 1877, p187. Rare! Ken Prag Collection Est. $130-200 HWAC# 100964 to good condition. Please inspect. Ken Prag Collection Est. $120-150 HWAC# 102163 Lot# 2421 Lot# 2417 Cherry Creek, Nevada 1909-1931 Churchill County, Three Good Cherry Creek, Nevada Mining Desert Mining Stocks Lot of 3 different incl. a No. 1. Cherry District, Nevada Creek, White Pine County. 1) Cherry Creek Gold 1867 Almaden Mining Company. Stock number 1, issued for 200,000 shares to president LG Hardy on Aug. Gold & Silver 11th, 1931 in SLC. Signed by Hardy and also BG Hardy as secretary. Pen cancelled. Black Mining Co. border and print, gold seal, mining vignette. Pinholes, folds. 2) The Hartford-Nevada Gold Stock Certificate Mining Company. No. 1178, issued for 5,100 Enterprise, Desert shares to Harold Bristol on Sept. 1st, 1909 Pride, Independent, and Frankford Lodes, Desert District, N.T. (printed in Hartford. Signed by president Rankin and at top). Inc. Dec. 1863. This is a Nevada Territory stock form issued in treasurer Liverman. Not cancelled. Gold border 1867. No. 133, issued for 10 shares to John Allman on Aug. 28th, 1867 and mining vignette. Heavy folds. 3) United Imperial Mines Company. Location printed in Virginia City. Signed by president A.K. Grim and secretary King. Pen upper right. No. 1142, issued in 1923 for 100 shares to Hayman & Hayman. Not cancelled. cancelled. Black border and print. Small eagle vignette. Commercial Multiple mining vignettes. Folds, tape repair. Ken Prag Collection Est. $70-100 HWAC# 102162 Print, Virginia City. One red 25 cent Nevada state adhesive revenue Lot# 2418 Chloride, Nevada 1906 stamp and one 25 cent IR stamp attached at upper left. Heavy folds, Mountain Cedar Mining & Milling Co. Stock Certificate Chloride is a some soiling. 3.75 x 9.5” John Allman is listed as a street commissioner forgotten mining area in Churchill in the 1864 Collins Comstock Directory. AK Grim is listed as working County. A February 6, 1907 article in the Reno Evening Gazette says, “…the at BF Hastings & Co. The mining company is listed with Coryell as Mountain Cedar Company has opened secretary and office at 45 S. C Street. The Desert District was also up its property and is now working known as the White Plains District. A 5 stamp mill was built there three shifts of five men each. The company has a large deposit of ore and is not only doing development work, but is extracting ore about 1863, but was unsuccessful, perhaps because of the isolation for shipment. Some of the ore is high grade and worth hundreds of and lack of water. Most of the White Plains companies were financed dollars per ton.” Number 120, issued for 2,500 shares to H.W. Huskey by the East Coast. This stock is not listed in Filer or other Holabird on Sept. 8th, 1906. Signed by president Bell and secretary Curler. Not cancelled. Black border, gold seal, red and black print. Three mining indexes. Ken Prag Collection Est. $300-500 HWAC# 100982 vignettes. Deep folds. 5.5 x 9.75” Ken Prag Collection Est. $100-200 HWAC# 102180 Lot# 2422 Churchill County, Desert Mining District, Nevada 1864 Lake Lot# 2419 Churchill County, Nevada 1906- View Gold & Silver Mining Company 1940 Churchill County, Nevada Mining Stock Certificate Location: Desert Stock Collection Lot of 7 different. 1) Mining District, Churchill County, N.T. Dan Tucker Extension Mining Company. (printed below logo). Incorporated Sand Springs. Issued in 1940, not cxl, December 1863. Place of Business: three mining vignettes. 2) Desert View Virginia (City). Dateline Virginia, N.T., Development Company. Eastgate. Issued in Jan. 27th, 1864. No.43, issued for 10 shares to J.V.B. Perry. Perry was 1926, pen cxl, mining vignette. 3) Ad Astra a U.S. Marshal and then constable in Virginia City. He is also later Gold Mining Company. Eastgate. Issued in listed as a saloon owner in Eureka, NV in the 1884 Polk. Signed by 1906, not cxl, three mining vignettes. 4) president G.A. King and secretary W.E.F. Deal. King is listed in 1864 Vesta Gold Mining Co. Dixie Valley. Issued Collins as a clerk with the district court in Virginia City. Deal is listed in 1913, not cxl, three mining vignettes. as a mining secretary working at 45 South C Street. Not cancelled. 5) Three different for Western Ore Milling Unusual vignette of hunting dogs overtaking a buck. Small vignette at Company. Westgate. All issued in 1934. Good to very good condition. the bottom of a dog next to a safe. Commercial Print, Virginia. 25 cent Please inspect. Ken Prag Collection Est. $120-180 HWAC# 101604 Power of Attorney stamp at left. Folds, other light wear. The Desert District was also known as the White Plains District. A 5 stamp mill was built there about 1863, but was unsuccessful, perhaps because of the isolation and lack of water. Most of the White Plains companies were financed by the East Coast. The Lake View was on the more promising City Ledge in the Desert Mining District. This District was most easily reached by Ragtown (Fallon). The Lake View Mine was not listed by Stretch, but was listed in Collins. Ken Prag Collection Est. $400-800 HWAC# 100980 160 May 2019

DAY 2 Fri, May 17 Mining Lot# 2423 Churchill County, Desert Lot# 2427 Comstock, Nevada 1910- Mining District, Nevada 1864 Virginia 1961 Belcher Related Mining Gold & Silver Mining Co. Stock Stocks & Ephemera: Comstock and Certificate--Number 1 Certificate Randsburg Lot of 12: six stocks and Number One! Location: Desert District, six pieces of ephemera. 1) Comstock. Churchill County, N.T. (printed under The Belcher Mine was located in Gold logo). Incorporated January 12th, Hill. The Best & Belcher was located 1864. Dateline Virginia, N.T. Issued for 25 shares to J.V.B. Perry on in Virginia City. Four different stocks. January 29th, 1864. Perry was a U.S. Marshall and constable in Virginia Three are Best & Belcher, issued 1930 City and later owned a saloon in Eureka (1864 Collins, 1884 Polk). and 1961 (x2). One is a Segregated Signed by president C.P. Johnson and secretary W.W. Coryell. Johnson Belcher and Mides Consolidated was the city engineer and surveyor in Virginia City. Coryell is listed Mining Company, issued in 1910. 2) Randsburg Mining District. a mining secretary living at 45 C Street. Vignette of an eagle with Belcher Extension Cons. Mines Company. Two different stocks: Belcher its wings spread on top of an American flag. Black border on creme Extension Annex MC (1928, not cxl, eagle vignette) and Belcher paper. Commercial Print, Virginia. 25 cent IR stamp attached sideways Extension Cons. Mines Co. (1926, not cxl). Plus six pieces of ephemera at top right. Folds, creases, some soiling and other wear. The Desert for the Belcher Extension, incl. assessment notices and a flyer with District was also known as the White Plains District. A 5 stamp mill map. Ken Prag Collection Est. $200-250 HWAC# 102193 was built there about 1863, but was unsuccessful, perhaps because of the isolation and lack of water. Most of the White Plains companies Lot# 2428 Comstock, Nevada 1879 were financed by the East Coast. The Virginia Mine was not listed by Blunder Gold & Silver Mining Co. Stretch. Ken Prag Collection Est. $500-1000 HWAC# 100981 Stock Certificate Unique. Location of Works: Storey County, Nev. (printed Lot# 2424 Clark County, Nevada 1908-1911 at left). Inc. Dec. 1878. No. 19, issued Clark County, Nevada Mining Stock Group for 100 shares to H. Burdett on Jan. Lot of 9. 1) The Nevada-Eldorado Mines Company. Nelson. Issued in 1908, not cxl. 10th, 1879. Signed by president RP Johnson and the secretary (ink Gold border and unique mining vignette. Folds, ink stain. 2) El Dorado Gold Mining faded). Not cancelled. Black border and print, no vignette. No printer Company. El Dorado. Issued in 1911 for 25,000 shares to the company president. listed. Pinholes, creases, some soiling. 4 x 9.5” Not in Filer or other Not cxl. Eagle vignette. Folds. 3) Eldorado- Holabird indexes. Not in Balch. Not in the 1879 SF directory. A Daily Enterprise Gold Mining Company. Unissued. Alta California article from Dec. 28, 1878 mentions the incorporation 4) Eldorado Campbird Mining Company. and that the directors are R.P. Johnson, Geo. L. Tucker, W.C. Walker, T.A. Two unissued incl. No. 1. 5) Eldorado Empire Talbert, and C.S. Drew. We can find no additional information about Mining Company. Four stocks, three issued this company. Ken Prag Collection Est. $120-200 HWAC# 100882 1907, 1911, and 1912. One unissued. Three mining vignettes. Ken Prag Collection Est. $120-200 HWAC# 101594 Lot# 2429 Comstock, Nevada 1906- 1933 Comstock Tunnel & Drainage Lot# 2425 Comstock, Nevada 1905-1909 Co. Stock & Bond Collection Lot of 6. “Brunswick” Comstock Mining Stock Three stocks and three bonds. This was Certificates Lot of 3 different. The Brunswick the later renaming and reorganization Lode (previously called the Occidental or Monte of the Sutro Tunnel Company. 1) Three Cristo Lode) was 1.25 miles east of Virginia City stocks, two different varieties. One is and Gold Hill, parallel to the Comstock Lode. 1) issued in 1906, not cancelled, eagle Brunswick-Savage Mining Company. Inc. 1904. vignette. The other two are issued in Issued in 1905 for 100 shares. Not cancelled. 1932 and 1933, one punch cancelled, Black border and print on yellow paper. both with eagle vignettes. 2) Three bonds. One is issued in 1920 Pinholes, folds, missing lower left corner. 2) for $250 of the First Mortgage 30-Year Gold Income Bonds; stamp Brunswick-Potosi Mining Company. Inc. 1904. cancelled. The other two bonds are of the same design (drilling Issued in 1905 for 500 shares. Not cancelled. vignette) but different denominations ($500 and $1,000) and border Black border and print on yellow paper. colors. Both issued in 1919, full page of coupons, stamp cancelled. Ken Pinholes, folds, creases, some soiling. 3) The Brunswick Consolidated Prag Collection Est. $150-200 HWAC# 102197 Mining Company. Delaware Mining District, Ormsby County, NV. Issued in 1909. Not cancelled. Signed by two Yeringtons (not Henry). Very Lot# 2430 Comstock, poor condition with panel detached but present. Ken Prag Collection Est. $120-150 HWAC# 102188 Nevada 1907-1948 Lot# 2426 Comstock, Nevada 1905- Four Different 1949 “Gut of the Comstock” Mining Stock Suite Lot of 11. Included: Comstock Mining Exchequer Mining Company (Gold Hill, 1912); Bullion G&S MC (Gold Hill, Stock Certificates Lot unissued); Chollar G&SMC (Virginia City, 1931); Savage G&S MC (Virginia of 4. Post-1900. 1) South City, 1913); Gould & Curry MC (Virginia City, two different unissued); Ophir Silver MC (Virginia City, 1905); Comstocks Consolidated Mexican G&S MC (Virginia City, 1927); Sierra Nevada MC (Virginia City, 1913); Union Consolidated (Virginia City, 1918); and Cons. Chollar Mines Company. Issued Gould & Savage Mining Co. (Virginia City, 1949). Please inspect. Ken Prag Collection Est. $100-150 HWAC# 101618 1907, not cancelled. Green border and mining vignette. Folds, some toning. 2) West Comstock Mining and Leasing Company. Issued in 1913, not cancelled. Black border and multiple mining vignettes. Folds with some separation, water stains. 3) West Consolidated Virginia & California Gold & Silver Mining & Milling Company. Issued in 1917, not cancelled. Black border. Folds, clean. 4) Dayton Consolidated Mines Company. Issued in 1948, not cancelled. Brown border. Folds. Ken Prag Collection Est. $80-100 HWAC# 101609 Bid online at FHWAC.com or call 775-851-1859 161

DAY 2 Fri, May 17 Mining Lot# 2431 Comstock, Nevada 1909- Lot# 2433 Comstock, 1968 Group of Comstock Mining Nevada 1883-1959 Major Stock Certificates Lot of 7. 1) Comstock Mining Stock The Comstock Golden Gate Mining Certificate Collection Company. Two different: one issued Lot of 23. These stocks in 1909, stamp cancelled, mining represent the “gut” of the vignettes; and one unissued. Inc. 1905. Comstock, running from 2) Comstock-Keystone Mining Company. Four different, issued 1941, Virginia City to Gold Hill, 1943, 1945, and 1968. All cancelled. Inc. 1933. 3) United Comstock north to south. 1) Savage Mines Company. Issued in 1922, not cancelled. Folds, toning, tears Gold & Silver Mining along edges. Inc. 1920. Fair condition overall. Please inspect. Ken Prag Company. Three different. Collection Est. $70-120 HWAC# 101614 One unissued. Two issued in 1919 and 1927. 2) Gould Lot# 2432 Comstock, Nevada 1882 Indian Spring Drift Mining Co. & Curry Mining Company. Stock Issued & Signed by Almarin B. Paul--Key Comstock Figure Three different, issued This is a California mining stock issued to an important figure in 1922, 1927, and 1933. 3) California and Nevada mining history. Location: Nimshew, Butte Ophir. Three different. Two County, California (printed at top). No. 19, issued for 500 shares to Ophir Mining Company, A.B. Paul, trustee, on April 28th, 1882 in San Francisco. Signed by A.B. issued 1908 and 1926. One Ophir Extension Cons. Gold & Silver Mining Paul as secretary and N.T. Sheldon as vice-president. Also signed by Company, unissued, c.190-. 4) Union Consolidated Mining Company. Paul on reverse. Punch cancelled. Black print on yellow paper, Native Two different. One issued in 1883 and one in 1932. 5) Exchequer American vignette. Folds, stamp and pen writing at upper right. Mining Company. Two, one unissued and one issued in 1907. 6) Potosi A(lmarin) B. Paul was an early important figure on the Comstock. Paul Mining Company. One issued in 1917. 7) Bullion Gold & Silver Mining arrived in California in 1849 having travelled through Panama. He Co. One issued in 1921. 8) Chollar. One issued in 1905. 8) Chollar briefly operated a hardware business in Sacramento before heading to Extension Mining Company. Two different, issued in 1938 and 1939. Nevada City in 1850 to pursue mining. There, he built one of the first 10) Hale & Norcross Mining Company. One issued in 1913. 11) Sierra quartz mills in Nevada County, and became associated with George Nevada Mining Co. One issued in 1928. 12) Mexican G&SMC. One Hearst. In the mid 1850s, he made his way back to San Francisco issued in 1908. 13) Cons. Chollar Gould & Savage Mining Company. and was an important figure in its development. He also supported Two different, issued in 1945 and 1959. Please inspect. Instant the Vigilance Committee, coming together with others to form the collection with many key mines. Ken Prag Collection Est. $500-1000 paper the True Californian. In 1857, he made his way back to Nevada HWAC# 101617 County and built the Oriental Quartz Mill. But news of an exciting find in Nevada reached Paul, especially in a letter to him from George Lot# 2434 Comstock, Nevada 1903- Hearst that said: “You will soon know of tons of gold and silver leaving 1957 Post-1900 Comstock Mining here every month.” In 1860, Paul joined the rush to the Comstock and Stock Group Lot of 6 different, all with headed to Nevada, where he erected the first mill (twenty-four stamp) “Comstock” in their name. Included: on the Comstock to process ore. It was called the Pioneer Mill and was Comstock Mines Co. (1903, not cxl, located at Gold Canon, just below Devil’s Gate. There, he developed mining vignette, folds with tape the Washoe pan process first made famous on the Comstock. It was repairs); Comstock, Ltd. (1931, punch so successful that in 1865, he sold his mining interests and formed a cxl, folds); Comstock Merger Mines, banking business in Gold Hill. He also was the organizer of the Imperial Inc. (1925, not cxl, staple holes, folds, Cons. MC. In 1867, he sold his Gold Hill banking business to the Bank creases); Comstock, Limited (1957, not of California and headed to Inyo County to resume mining and milling. cxl, folds and staple holes); Comstock In 1868, he secured patents on new processes for amalgamating the Gold Mines Inc. (1937, not cxl, three precious metals. By 1882, Paul is living in San Francisco where this mining vignettes, folds and creases); stock was issued. [Ref: History of the New California Its Resources and and Comstock Silver Mining Co. (1929, not cxl, multiple mining People, Volume II, Irvine; History of the Comstock Lode, Smith] Ken vignettes, heavy folds). Ken Prag Collection Est. $80-100 HWAC# Prag Collection Est. $300-600 HWAC# 100915 101613 Lot# 2435 Comstock, Nevada 1870 Senator Silver Mining Company Stock Certificate Location: Storey County, Nev. (printed at bottom center). Inc. May 1868. No. 912, issued for 20 shares to L.P. Dexter & Co., trustee, on Jan. 12th, 1870. Signed by president J.E. de la Montagnie and secretary Henry Boyle. Not cancelled. Black border and print. Vignette at upper right of a well-dressed man who looks like Senator James Nye. Nye was a Nevada senator during this period (1868-70). It doesn’t look like pictures of William Ralston, William Stewart, William Sharon, James Fair, etc. As one of the first two senators from Nevada, we would expect it be either Nye or Stewart. Printed by Britton & Rey, SF. 4 x 9.5” Pinholes, folds, clean. Not in Filer. Joseph E. de la Montagnie is listed as a contractor in the 1871 SF directory. Henry Boyle is listed as a mining secretary. L.P.Drexler & Co. were stock brokers in Virginia City and San Francisco. The exact location of this mine on the Comstock could not be determined. There is a “Senator Mining Company” listed in the Pacific Coast Annual Mining Review, 1878, pg. 241: located next to the Julia and east of the Chollar-Potosi, dating back to 1862. () Ken Prag Collection Est. $120- 200 HWAC# 100730 162 May 2019

DAY 2 Fri, May 17 Mining Lot# 2436 Comstock, Nevada 1905- Lot# 2439 Comstock - Blue Sulphur 1950 Six Comstock Mining Stock District, Nevada 1864 Robinson Certificates Lot of 6 different, post- Mining Company Stock # 23 for 25 1900. Included: Pacific Mining & shares to Rich Ross, Signed by William Developing Company (1905, not cxl, Rice and president G Tilforn(?). mining vignette, folds and toning); Location: Blue Sulphur Spring District, Comstock Silver Mining Company Lyon Co., N.T. Datelined Virginia, N.T. (1926, mining vignettes, punch cxl, Uncancelled. Issued for twenty-five pinholes and folds); Comstock-Dexter shares to Rich Ross on Feb. 8, 1864. Signed by G. Tilforn (?) (president) Mines, Inc. (1935, not cxl, mining and Wm. Rice (secretary). Incorporated January 5, 1864. Revenue vignette, folds and toning); Concordia stamp attached at left. Printed by Commercial Print, Virginia. Blue Virginia Mining Co. (1924, not cxl, Sulphur Spring District was another name for the Silver City Mining mining vignettes, folds); Comstock Extension Mining and Milling Co. District. By 1868, this area was one of only a few districts in Lyon (unissued); and Dayton Cons. Mines Co. (1950, not cxl folds, staple). County that continued to maintain an organization but active mining Ken Prag Collection Est. $80-100 HWAC# 101610 had not been carried on for the past three years (Browne, pg. 328, 1868). Scarce. Ken Prag Collection Est. $400-600 HWAC# 91891 Lot# 2437 Comstock, Nevada 1879 & 1896 Lot# 2440 Comstock - Palmyra, Nevada Two Mining Stocks for 1863 Buckeye Gold and Silver MIning Comstock Mines Run Company Stock # 39 for 25 shares to JL by John Mackay Lot of Holland. Signed by Henry Sweetapple 2 different. 1) California and president GP Griffin. Dateline Mining Company. Virginia Dayton 1863. Incorporated March 23, Mining District, Storey 1863. Horse and rider vignette. Towne County, Nevada (printed & Bacon printer. Location: Palmyra under title). No. 96517, Mining District, Lyon County, N. T. Not cancelled. small 5c and 20c issued for 5 shares to revenue stamps. One vertical fold with small tear at bottom border. E.A. Richardson. on Dec. Otherwise very nice. Listed in Collins with Sweetapple as secretary. 23, 1879 in SF. Signed by The Buckeye on Devil’s Gate demanded much attention - assessment president Chas. Wallace and attention that is. This company flew under the radar in San Francisco secretary. CP. Gordon. Not cancelled. Black border and print on yellow papers. The larger Como district was located at the north end of the paper. Britton & Rey. Pinholes, deep folds. 4.25 x 9” The California Pine Nut Mountains, extending generally from Lyon Peak on the south Mining Company was split from the major Consolidated Virginia to the Carson River on the north. The Palmyra district, which included Mining Company in January of 1874 to speed up exploration. The the towns of Palmyra and Como, was organized in 1862 in the Pine Nut gamble paid off with the discovery of the ‘Big Bonanza.’ The California Mountains 8 miles southeast of Dayton between the Sullivan (to the Mine was the 2nd largest producer on the Comstock. Mackay (and southwest) and Indian Springs (to the northeast) districts. [Nevada Fair, Flood, O’Brien) owned the Con. Virginia and California Mines. Mining Districts by Tingley] Ken Prag Collection Est. $400-600 2) Bullion Mining Company. Located in Gold Hill Dist. (printed above HWAC# 91898 title). No. 34216, issued for 100 shares to McDonell & Ryan on July 9th, 1896. Signed by president Thomas Cole and secretary William Lot# 2441 Comstock - Palmyra, Nevada 1864 Comet Gold and Silver Bowers. Not cancelled. Black border and print. Pinholes, folds, soiling. Mining Company Stock # 57 for 10 shares to Pauline E Gray. Signed Mackay was superintendent of this mine early in his Comstock career. by WG Lee and JD Cross. Dateline Lyon Co. N. T. 1864. Incorporated Mackay was first a trustee of the mine in 1863, then superintendent November 10, 1863. Not cancelled. Location: Oriental Ledge, Como, in the late 1860s. As a trustee, Mackay teamed up with J.M. Walker, Palmyra District. Vignette of a comet (star). Town & Bacon printer. Not who took on the role of supt. Unfortunately, even Walker and Mackay in Kelly. The larger Como district was located at the north end of the could not make it profitable. Before giving up, Mackay had the mine Pine Nut Mountains, extending generally from Lyon Peak on the south explored to a depth of 1,400 feet. The Bullion Mine, staked in 1859, to the Carson River on the north. The Palmyra district, which included was located 1/2 mile north of Gold Hill on the north side of Bullion the towns of Palmyra and Como, was organized in 1862 in the Pine Nut Ravine. It was promising property because it had rich Comstock mines Mountains 8 miles southeast of Dayton between the Sullivan (to the on either side: the Chollar-Potosi and Consolidated Imperial. The southwest) and Indian Springs (to the northeast) districts. [Nevada Bullion absorbed the Corser, Eastern Slope, Wellington, and Fairview Mining Districts by Tingley] Ken Prag Collection Est. $400-600 claims; 944 ft. total. No recorded production, even though the mine HWAC# 91894 was operated from 1862 to the early 1900s. [Ref: Ansari] Ken Prag Collection Est. $200-300 HWAC# 100941 Lot# 2438 Comstock - Blue Sulphur District, Nevada 1864 Bright and Colorful Capitol Gold and Silver MIning Company Stock Fabulous use of colors: Doop purple, red, green and black on white. # 22 for 10 shares to George Cobb. Signed by Albert Garner and SP Ritchford president. Cramer was a mining secretary at 7 South ‘S’ Street. Not cancelled. Daily Union Print (Virginia Daily Union newspaper). Minor edge and corner issues. Overall very nice. The Blue Sulphur [Spring] Mining District area was to the southwest of Silver City. Became part of the Silver City Mining District. Ken Prag Collection Est. $400-600 HWAC# 91892 Bid online at FHWAC.com or call 775-851-1859 163

DAY 2 Fri, May 17 Mining Lot# 2442 Comstock - Palmyra, Lot# 2445 Comstock - Palmyra, Nevada 1864 Martha Gold and Silver Nevada 1863 Shiloh Gold and Silver Mining Company Stock # 60 for 25 Mining Company Stock # 85 for 10 shares to George Hall. Signed by JS shares to GW Swain. Signed by CA Brien Crossman president and D Edward and president Swain. Dateline Como Jones. Not mentioned in Kelly or 1863(5). Incorporated June 1863. Collins. Dateline Como, Lyon County, Not cancelled. Two Civil War soldier N. T. Location: Sonora Ledge, First Southern Extension. Incorporated vignettes. Towne & Bacon printer. Red discoloration on right and small November 21, 1863 in “Como, Lyon County, N. T.” 25c Power of Att’y fold rip bottom right. Very nice. The larger Como district was located revenue stamp. Not cancelled. Heavy staining throughout. WB Cooke at the north end of the Pine Nut Mountains, extending generally printer. This stock certificate is in Mahler. [Stamp Taxes on Nevada from Lyon Peak on the south to the Carson River on the north. The Stock Certificates 1863–1873,a Geographical Analysis] The larger Palmyra district, which included the towns of Palmyra and Como, was Como district was located at the north end of the Pine Nut Mountains, organized in 1862 in the Pine Nut Mountains 8 miles southeast of extending generally from Lyon Peak on the south to the Carson River Dayton between the Sullivan (to the southwest) and Indian Springs on the north. The Palmyra district, which included the towns of (to the northeast) districts. [Nevada Mining Districts by Tingley] Mine Palmyra and Como, was organized in 1862 in the Pine Nut Mountains 8 not mentioned in Collins or Kelly. Ken Prag Collection Est. $200-400 miles southeast of Dayton between the Sullivan (to the southwest) and HWAC# 91895 Indian Springs (to the northeast) districts. [Nevada Mining Districts by Tingley] Ken Prag Collection Est. $400-600 HWAC# 91896 Lot# 2446 Comstock, American Flat, Nevada 1877 Baltic Consolidated Lot# 2443 Comstock - Palmyra, Mining Company Stock Certificate Nevada 1864 Odd Fellow Gold and American Flat, Gold Hill District Silver Mining Company Stock # 87 for (printed at top). American Flat mines 10 shares to Emmett Grey. Signed by W. are not common. Inc. May 1873. No. Lee and president HS Braffat. Dateline 371, issued for 9 shares to A. H. Todd Lyon County, N. T. 1864. Incorporated & Co. on Feb. 16th, 1877 in San Francisco. Signed by president James November 28, 1863. Not cancelled. All Green and secretary Joseph Maguire. Not cancelled. Black border and seeing Odd Fellow eye vignette. Towne & Bacon printer. ‘Odd Fellow’ print. Crocker & So., Sacramento. Pinholes, folds, some toning. 4 x in brown underprint. Location: Crittenden and Banks’ Ledges, Como, 9” Located in the vicinity of the Globe Consolidated and west of the Palmyra District. (Uses Como and not Palmyra.) Large hole in center Baltimore Consolidated. “The claim is made on the line of cropping of mars this very nice looking stock certificate. The Como district was the west ledge, which was reached by the old tunnel from American located at the north end of the Pine Nut Mountains, extending generally Flat, and through which large quantities of ore were stoped and from Lyon Peak on the south to the Carson River on the north. The milled.” [Ref: Annual Mining Review and Stock Ledger, 1876, pg. 37] Palmyra district, which included the towns of Palmyra and Como, was Ken Prag Collection Est. $120-150 HWAC# 100920 organized in 1862 in the Pine Nut Mountains 8 miles southeast of Dayton between the Sullivan (to the southwest) and Indian Springs Lot# 2447 Comstock, American Flat, (to the northeast) districts. Ken Prag Collection Est. $400-600 HWAC# Nevada 1877 Baltimore Consolidated 91893 Mining Company Stock Certificate Rare American Flat mining company. Lot# 2444 Comstock - Palmyra, Location: Storey County, Nev. (printed Nevada 1863 Rey del Monte Mining at top center). Inc. July 1872. No. 5448, Company Stock Early number 12 for issued for 25 shares to Hunt & Crates, 25 shares to Charles Hosmer. Signed by trustees, on Jan. 20th, 1877 in San Francisco. Signed by president RN Van Brunt (mining secretary, 706 A.K. Grim and secretary C.A. Sankey. Not cancelled. Black border and Montgomery) and president JD Fry(?). print, fancy title scroll work. Lith. Britton, Rey & Co., SF. Deep folds, Hosmer was a mining stock broker. one pinhole. 4 x 9” The “pioneer of American Flat mines, so far as However, on September 29, 1860: deep mining is concerned.” They are sinking below the 1,250 ft. level, With two partners purchased 20 feet of the Copperas Tunnel claim. “cutting a lower formation than any other mine in the section has Used a promissory note dated April 1, 1861 to secure it. This shows a reached.” Very fine milling ore has occurred as close to the surface as definite Nevada connections The area was still in the Utah Territory at the 250ft. level, and the company has an ore house full of ore waiting this time. [Records of Carson County, Utah and Nevada Territories by to be milled. “The hoisting works of the company are ample, the Ellison]. Dateline San Francisco 1863. Incorporated March 18, 1863. machinery powerful and in excellent order, and everything ready to Not cancelled. 25c Protest revenue stamp. Location: Palmyra District, develop the mine and stope out the ore to the depth of 2,500 feet.” Lyon County, N. T. Towne & Bacon printer. Nicks along borders. Dog ear [Ref: Annual Mining Review and Stock Ledger, 1876, pg. 37] Ken Prag upper left. Overall very nice. The Sacramento Daily Union reported on Collection Est. $120-150 HWAC# 100922 December 12, 1862 (four months before incorporation) that the Rey del Monte of Palmyra is “yileding rock of extraordinary richness.” The Lot# 2448 Comstock, Devil’s Gate, ore shows plenty of free standing gold and silver. And the “owners are Nevada 1863 Fusiyama Gold & Silver industriously engaged in raising ore from their mine for crushing next Mining Company Stock # 81 for 10 spring.” The larger Como district was located at the north end of the shares to George haskell. Signed by D. Pine Nut Mountains, extending generally from Lyon Peak on the south Van Vleck and John H Bodin(?). Dateline to the Carson River on the north. The Palmyra district, which included San Francisco 1863. Incorporated July the towns of Palmyra and Como, was organized in 1862 in the Pine Nut 2, 1863. 25c Certificate revenue stamp. Mountains 8 miles southeast of Dayton between the Sullivan (to the Not cancelled. Allegorical vignette on southwest) and Indian Springs (to the northeast) districts. [Nevada left. “One foot to one share”. Location: Devil’s Gate District, N. T. Nahl Mining Districts by Tingley] Ken Prag Collection Est. $400-600 Brothers printer. We have processed a lot of early stocks this past year HWAC# 91897 and this is the first time we have seen this printer. Durbin Van Vleck was an early San Francisco wood block engraver. At the University of California, Berkeley there is a copy of “Scrap-book of the engravings of Durbin Van Vleck, many of them from drawings made by Charles and Arthur Nahl.” The Fusiyama is not in Collins (1864). Ken Prag Collection Est. $400-600 HWAC# 91929 164 May 2019

Lot# 2449 Comstock, Devil’s Gate, DAY 2 Fri, May 17 Mining Nevada 1863 Hemmingford French Canadian Gold and Silver Mining Lot# 2453 Comstock, Devil’s Gate Company Stock This is a rather unique District, Nevada 1876 Trenton Mining name! # 78 for 30 shares to John Company Stock Certificate ”Lyon Vignot. Signed by L Lanszweet(?) and County, Nevada” printed at top center. president (?). Dateline Gold Hill 1863. Inc. April 1876. No. 18, issued for 2,500 Incorporated June 1863. Not cancelled. No stamp. Female allegorial shares to T.P. Riordan on July 26, 1876 Native American bow wielding stock vignette. Enterprise print. Small in SF. Signed by president W.H. Baxter rip upper left, small dog ea lower left etc. Very nice! Listed in Collins and secretary JM Buffington. Not cancelled. Black border and print, with Carrie as secretary. Louis Lanszweet was was the superintendent ornate logo. Printed by AL Bancroft & Co., SF. Pinholes, folds, soiling. 4 of the Bertola MIll on the Flowery Toll Road according to the 1863 Kelly x 9” Located in the Devil’s Gate District, Lyon County. Claim located a Directory. This is the certificate used by Mahler. Ken Prag Collection few hundred feet from Dayton and on the same ledge as the Justice and Est. $400-600 HWAC# 91928 Kossuth. Developed by a double-compartment shaft sunk to 120 feet. Assays at $48. This stock was being sold to raise money to sink the Lot# 2450 Comstock, Devil’s Gate, shaft down deeper as valuable ore had been discovered on the same Nevada 1863 Kossuth Gold and Silver ledge at the 450 and 800 ft. levels in the Justice. [Ref: Annual Mining MIning Company Stock # 88 for 25 Review and Stock Ledger, 1876, pg. 70] Ken Prag Collection Est. $120- shares to John Vignot. Signed by WH 150 HWAC# 102173 Howard and president O Evans. 25c Insurance revenue stamp (R48c or Lot# 2454 Comstock, Flowery R44b). Not cancelled. Dateline Virginia, N. T. 1863. Incorporated March Lode, Nevada 1924 Flowery Mines 1863. Listed in Collins. This company can be found in J Ross Browne’s Company Stock Certificate--Number 1874 map of Silver City, Nevada. As late ar 1876, this stock was still 1 Inc. in Delaware. Stock certificate being sought by investors. This is the stock certificate used by Mahler. number one, issued for 500 shares to It seems to have been cut in two, taped on reverse. Other edge issues. company president R.A. Hardy on June Underprint ‘Kossuth.’ [Sacramento Daily Union] Ken Prag Collection 18th, 1924. Also signed by treasurer Est. $400-600 HWAC# 91930 Alex Wise. Pen cancelled. Green border, black print, and eagle vignette. Folds, Lot# 2451 Comstock, Devil’s Gate staining, a few small tears. 8.25 x 11” District, Nevada 1872 Cook & Geyer The company operated the Lady Bryan and Berry Mines. The Flowery Mining Company Stock Certificate District is located in Six Mile Canyon 3.5 miles E/NE of the Comstock Devil’s Gate Mining District, Storey Lode. From 1862-1932, the Flowery Mine/ Lady Bryan pit produced County, Nevada (printed under title). 6,275 tons of ore valued at $91,538; from 1988-89, and from 1992- Inc. April 22, 1872. No. 165, issued 97 the Flowery Mine/Lady Bryan pit produced 23,785 ounces of gold for 10 shares to W. E. Dunbar on May and 274,674 ounces of silver. Fred Holabird worked in the Flowery 11th, 1872 in San Francisco. Signed by president M.J. McDonald District. He has taken employees and friends on tours of the mine site, and the secretary (illegible). Not cancelled. Black border and print, now an open pit. Ken Prag Collection Est. $100-150 HWAC# 102166 ornate company logo with California state seal vignette. Blue 25 cent IR adhesive stamp attached at left. Printed by Smyth & Shoaff, Lot# 2455 Comstock, Flowery Lode, Sacramento. 4.25 x 9.25” Folds, clean. The mine was producing 40 Nevada 1877 Lady Bryan Mining tons of ore/day, averaging $18-20 in gold per ton. Operating two mills. Company Bond Printed by G.T. Brown [Coast Review, 1872, pg. 124] () Ken Prag Collection Est. $100-150 Bonds for this company have not seen by HWAC# 100734 us before! The Lady Bryan was a mine located on the Flowery District, Six Mile Lot# 2452 Comstock, Devil’s Gate Canyon, Storey County. This 4100 bond, District, Nevada 1875 Cosmopolitan No. 169, is issued to Wheeler Hall & Co. Mining Company Stock Certificate on July 9th, 1877. Signed by president Rare. “Devils Gate Dist. Storey Co. Nev.” Martin Jones and secretary John Crockett. printed at top. Inc. 1874. No. 1412, Not cancelled. Printed by G.T. Brown & issued for 100 shares to Butler Burris Co., S.F. Two bond coupons attached. G.T. on July 12th, 1875 in SF. Signed by the Brown was a noted African-American president, Geo. S. Dodge, and secretary, M. Landers (signatures very lithographer in San Francisco. This bond is not listed in Chandler. Bond faded). Not cancelled. Fancy logo with mining vignette incorporated states that it will be repaid from 1/10th of funds from assessments and into the letter “C.” Printed by Britton & Rey. 4 x 9” Folds, pinholes, bullion. 13 x 12.5” Horizontal and vertical folds. () Ken Prag Collection heavy soiling. Ansari describes a Cosmopolitan Mine on the Brunswick Est. $200-300 HWAC# 91548 Lode, near the Gould & Curry Mill, between the forks of Sixmile and Sevenmile Canyons, but not one in the Devil’s Gate District. According Lot# 2456 Comstock, Gold Hill, Nevada to Pacific Coast Annual Mining Review and Stock Ledger, 1878, the 1863 Alexander and Catherine company owned 1,000 ft. near the Occidental. $8,000 bullion yielded. Consolidated Mining Company Stock John F. Egan is listed as superintendent. Located in 1870. They have # 45 for 10 shares to A Griswold. Signed completed a tunnel 2,000 ft. in length. (pg. 190-191). () Ken Prag by WG Alban and president (?). Dateline Collection Est. $150-250 HWAC# 91840 Virginia, N. T. 1863. Location of works, Gold Hill. Incorporated September 1863. Not cancelled. One foot to the share. Democratic Standard Print. This was a short-lived Virginia City newspaper. Known issues are from August 10, 1863 to October 17, 1863 - right inside our incorporation time frame. According to Lingenfelter and Gash no copies are known to exist. Not listed in Collins. WG Alban was listed as a doctor in Collins. Ken Prag Collection Est. $400-600 HWAC# 91921 Bid online at FHWAC.com or call 775-851-1859 165

DAY 2 Fri, May 17 Mining Lot# 2457 Comstock, Lot# 2460 Comstock, Gold Hill, Nevada Gold Hill, Nevada 1868 Bullion Mining Company Stock 1863 Bowen Owen Certificate Signed by John Mackay Gold & Silver MIning Phenomenal. Mackay’s signature on Company Stock - a stock certificate is a great Comstock NUMBER 1 to BOWEN rarity. This stock was issued in a # 1 for 10 shares to pivotal time for Mackay, after he had NS Bowen. Signed started to make a name for himself as a competent mining investor by McGan(?) and and engineer on the Comstock, but before he and the Bonanza Firm president J Warner. Dateline Virginia 1863. Incorporated September would take control of the Comstock from William Sharon and the Bank 1863. 25c Certificate revenue stamp. Not cancelled. Light magenta of California. Located: Gold Hill Dist., State of Nevada (printed above safety paper. Enterprise Print. ‘BOWEN OWEN’ in underprint. Nich the title). Inc. in Nevada, Feb. 12th, 1863. No. 1706, issued for 5 shares upper left. Light wrinkles. Not listed in Collins. We believe J Warner is to A.E. Hill on May 16th, 1868 in Virginia City. Signed by JW Mackay as the Warner in Warner & Munckton Drug Store. Judson Warner arrived president and GW Hopkins as secretary. Pen cancelled. Black border in Nevada and opened a drug store in 1861. Munckton & Warner had and print. No vignette. Lith. Britton & Co., SF. Two revenue stamps drug stores in Virginia City, Carson City and Aurora. [“Ghost Towns attached on the left side, both with tied cancels: 25 cent US Power of and Medicines” By Holabird] He know he was interested in Nevada Attorney and 25 cent red Nevada. Condition: pinholes, folds, heavy ming upon arrival. On January 21, 1861 (while the Comstock was still staining at bottom right and top left. Reverse has many pen notations part of the Utah Territory) he purchased 50’ in the Burning Moscow about assessments. Secretary GW Hopkins would become mayor of lead. [“Records of Carson County, Utah and Nevada Territories” by Virginia City in 1873. A.E. Hill was a clerk for the Bank of California. Ellison] Ken Prag Collection Est. $400-600 HWAC# 91926 The Bullion Mine, staked in 1859, was located 1/2 mile north of Gold Hill on the north side of Bullion Ravine. It was promising property Lot# 2458 Comstock, Gold Hill, Nevada because it had rich Comstock mines on either side: the Chollar-Potosi 1879 Brilliant Mining Company and Consolidated Imperial. The Bullion absorbed the Corser, Eastern Stock Certificate Wow! Gold Hill Slope, Wellington, and Fairview claims; 944 ft. total. No recorded Mining District, Storey County, Nev. production, even though the mine was operated from 1862 to the (printed at bottom center).Inc. March early 1900s. Mackay was first a trustee of the mine in 1863, then 22, 1875. No. 720, issued for 100 shares superintendent in the late 1860s. As a trustee, Mackay teamed up with to N.S. Stone on Oct. 23rd, 1879 in San J.M. Walker, who took on the role of supt. Unfortunately, even Walker Francisco. Signed by president Robert Sherwood and JM Buffington, and Mackay could not make it profitable. Before giving up, Mackay had secretary. Not cancelled. Black border and print, birds-eye vignette of the mine explored to a depth of 1,400 feet. Mackay’s first success had mine and mill. Lith. Britton & Rey, SF. 4 x 8.75” Folds, light toning. The come with his investment in the Kentuck in 1865. Mackay had just met mine was located on the Alta Company’s Ledge north of the Boyle. A James Fair a year before in 1867 when Fair was in charge of the Hale 3 compartment shaft has been sunk and a drift has been run in at the & Norcross. After Fair was dismissed from that job, he went to Idaho 1,000 ft. level from the New York Shaft. The claim is 1,481 ft. wide. The to explore mining opportunities, before returning to the Comstock in other two claims originally incorporated under the company are the late 1868. In 1871, Mackay, Fair, Flood, & O’Brien used money made Sherwood Cons. and Curtis Cons. [Ref: United States Annual Mining from the Hale & Norcross to start acquiring multiple Comstock mines, Review and Stock Ledger, 1879, pg. 177] Ken Prag Collection Est. including the Con-Virginia. This mine would be the site of the Big $150-250 HWAC# 100916 Bonanza discovery in 1873 and cement their status as the “Bonanza Kings” of the Comstock. [Ref:Ansari; John Mackay: Silver King, Makley] Lot# 2459 Comstock, Gold Hill, Nevada () Ken Prag Collection Est. $1000-2000 HWAC# 100726 1878 Bullion Mining Company Stock Certificate (GT Brown) Lot of 2. 1) Lot# 2461 Comstock, Gold Hill, Nevada Stock no. 9113 issued for 10 shares to 1877 Cabinet Mining Company Stock Jas. Coffin on Dec. 23, 1878 in SF. Signed Certificate Virginia Mining District, by vice-president William A. Schultz and Storey County, Nevada (printed at top secretary Joseph Gruss. Not cancelled. center). Inc. April 1875. No. 479, issued Pinholes, folds. Printed by GT Brown, for 100 shares to J.L. Trench on April noted African-American lithographer. 24th, 1877 in San Francisco. Signed by 4 x 9” 2) Assessment receipt for the president A. Badlam and secretary J.F. Stirling. Not cancelled. Simple company and the certificate issued to design with black border and print. Stock Report Print. 4 x 9.25” Coffin. The Bullion Mine, staked in 1859, was located 1/2 mile north of Pinholes, stain at upper right. Balch, 1882, says that this mine is in Gold Hill on the north side of Bullion Ravine. It was promising property the Gold Hill District. No developments noted (pg. 1179-1180). () Ken because it had rich Comstock mines on either side: the Chollar-Potosi Prag Collection Est. $100-150 HWAC# 100737 and Consolidated Imperial. The Bullion absorbed the Corser, Eastern Slope, Wellington, and Fairview claims; 944 ft. total. No recorded Lot# 2462 Comstock, Gold Hill, Nevada production, even though the mine was operated from 1862 to the 1875 East Yellow Jacket Mining early 1900s. John Mackay was first a trustee of the mine in 1863, then Company Stock Purchased in the superintendent in the late 1860s. As a trustee, Mackay teamed up with heyday of the Comstock. NUMBER 2 J.M. Walker, who took on the role of supt. Unfortunately, even Walker for 1000 shares to Delong & Belknap. and Mackay could not make it profitable. Before giving up, Mackay had Signed by TC Kibbe and president the mine explored to a depth of 1,400 feet. Please also see our very Robert Sherwood. Dateline San rare Mackay signed Bullion stock in this sale. [Ref: Ansari] Ken Prag Francisco March 31, 1875. Incorporated March 1875. Not cancelled. Collection Est. $200-300 HWAC# 100824 Small oval vignette below ‘East’. Britton & Rey printer. Hole where stamp was applied. Overall - nice. Delong and Belknap where Virginia City lawyers. Ken Prag Collection Est. $150-300 HWAC# 91962 166 May 2019

DAY 2 Fri, May 17 Mining Lot# 2463 Comstock, Gold Hill, Lot# 2467 Comstock, Gold Hill, Nevada Nevada 1883 Exchequer Mining 1864 Miantonomoh Gold and Silver Company Stock Certificate Location: Mining Company Stock # 244 for 5 Gold Hill Mining District, Storey Co., shares to John Balkwill. Signed by HC Nev. (printed at top). Inc. July 1865. Brooke and EE Phillips as president. No. 29408, issued for 100 shares to Dateline Gold HIll 1864. Incorporated C. Hirshfeld on May 26th, 1883 in San January 11, 1864. 25c Power of Att’y Francisco. Signed by president C.S. Meller and secretary Chas. Elliot. revenue stamp. Not Cancelled. Native American vignette. Gold Hill Not cancelled. Black border and print. Small mining vignette at bottom News Print. Small hole lower left border. Certificate was sold in 1871 center. Printed by WT Galloway. Folds, pinholes, toning, foxing. The suggesting some longevity to this company. Listed in Collins with Exchequer was located on the “gut” of the Comstock in Gold Hill next Brooke as secretary. Miantonomoh was a chief of the Narragansett to the Yellow Jacket. From the Pacific Coast Annual Mining Review and people of New England Indians. Ken Prag Collection Est. $400-600 Stock Ledger October 1878, p.195: “The Exchequer lies next south HWAC# 91923 of the Bullion and between it and the Alpha in Gold Hill. It has been prospected through the Bullion and Imperial shafts. Explorations Lot# 2468 Comstock, Gold Hill, down to the 1700, 1800, and 2000 ft. levels crosscuts have shown only Nevada 1864 Montreal Silver low-grade ore. Number of feet is 400. Shares per foot is 250.” Ken Prag Mining Company Stock - Signed by Collection Est. $100-150 HWAC# 101619 Yerington # 94 for 25 shares to James Fraser. Signed by Jonathan Moore Lot# 2464 Comstock, Gold Hill, and president HN Yerington. Dateline Nevada 1903-1934 Gold Hill, Nevada Virginia N. T. 1864. Incorporated March Mining Stock Suite Lot of 9. Included: 1864. Location: American Flat, Gold Consolidated New York Mining Co. Hill District. Daily Union Print. Known dates for this newspaper was (1903, statue of liberty vignette, not November 4, 1862 to February 5, 1867. Brown on Brown. Rip at upper cxl, heavy staining); Lady Washington center fold edge. Nicks at lower fold edge. Not pretty to look at, but in Consolidated Company (issued in 1909 very nice condition. Listed in Collins with HJS Schell secretary. This is and 1912, both cxl); Kentuck Mining Co. of Nevada (1912, not cxl); an early Yerington signature. He did not arrive in Nevada until 1863. Andes Silver Mining Co. (1917, cxl); Alta Silver Mining Co. (unissued He quickly made his mark and became the man behind the Virginia & 190- and issued 1914, cxl); Alpha Consolidated Mining Co. (1907, Truckee Railroad a few years later. Ken Prag Collection Est. $400-600 cxl); and Woodville-Justice Mining Co. (1934, not cxl, three mining HWAC# 91924 vignettes). Please inspect. Ken Prag Collection Est. $200-350 HWAC# 101620 Lot# 2469 Comstock, Gold Hill, Nevada 1875 Monumental Mining Co. Stock Lot# 2465 Comstock, Gold Hill, Nevada Certificate Location “Gold Hill Mining 1871 (1893) Justice Mining Company Dist., Storey County, Nevada (printed Stock # 25944 for 200 shares to trustee above and below the vignette). Inc. George B Root. Signed by president June 1874. No. 394, issued for 100 Anderson and secretary (?). Location: shares to Theodore Maass on May 18th, Gold Hill Mining District, Storey C., Nev. 1875. Signed by president Perry and secretary W.R. Townsend. Not Dateline 1893. Incorporated November cancelled. Black border and print. Vignette at left of miner sitting next 15, 1871. Lady Justice vignette. Galloway printer. Assessment stamps to river and mine facility. Printed by A.L. Bancroft, SF. Pinholes, folds, 54 to 59 on back. Signed by root. No edge, corner or discoloration foxing, and heavy toning. 4 x 9” They owned 1,500 ft. E.W. Townsend issues. Pin holes. The Justice produced almost $4,000,000 between is superintendent. $45,000 assessments levied. [Pacific coast annual 1873 and 1905. [Couch & Carpenter] Ken Prag Collection Est. $100- mining review and stock ledger, 1878, pg. 220} () Ken Prag Collection 200 HWAC# 91943 Est. $120-200 HWAC# 100732 Lot# 2466 Comstock, Gold Hill, Lot# 2470 Comstock, Nevada 1864 Keystone and Arrington Gold Hill, Nevada Consolidated Gold and Silver Mining Company Stock #5 for 10 shares to 1863 Platt & King Thomas Craft. Signed by Chubback Gold and Silver and William Arrington. Dateline Gold Mining Company HIll 1864. Incorporated April 14, 1864. Stock # 23 for 20 shares to JB Low. Not cancelled. 25c Power of Att’y revenue stamp. Gold Hill News Print. Location: Gold HIll District, Justice Ledge. Nick top right. Slight Signed by OH Platt wrinkles. Otherwise fine. From the 1864 Collins Directory: William Arrington is listed as a stock broker in the Medan Building and not and president King. to be confused with N.O. Arrington, territorial banker. There is also a Namesakes for the William Arrington listed on Capt. A. McDonald’s Virginia Volunteers company. Dateline roll as being “mortally wounded” in the Pyramid Lake Indian War of Gold HIll 1863. 1860. A relative of our Arrington? S.W. Chubbuck was secretary for Incorporated April 1st, 1863 (April’s Fool?). Location, Gold Hill N. T. numerous mining companies and later ran the Post Office store in 25c Warehouse revenue stamp. Underground what looks like square Gold Hill. T.F. Craft is listed as bookkeeper for Flagg & Co. The Keystone set timbering vignette. (Nevada was where this mining technique was Mining Company is listed as having 1200 ft. in the Gold Hill District first used.) Towne & Bacon printer. Hole center of cert in vignette. Cut with Geo. Turney as secretary. The Arrington Company is listed with weird on left. Listed in Collins, George W Turney secretary. Ken Prag J.F. Linthicum as secretary and an office in Gold Hill. The Keystone joins the Justice on the northern boundary, just south of the New York Collection Est. $400-600 HWAC# 91925 in Gold Canyon, about a mile below Gold Hill (hence reference to the “Justice Ledge”). Ken Prag Collection Est. $400-600 HWAC# 91920 Bid online at FHWAC.com or call 775-851-1859 167

DAY 2 Fri, May 17 Mining Lot# 2471 Comstock, Gold Hill, Nevada Lot# 2475 Comstock, Lyon County, 1863 Sharon Mining Company Nevada 1894 Carson River Placer Stock # 55 for 5 shares to A DuBois. Mining & Dredging Co. Stock Signed by John S Davies and Henry Certificate Rare! Inc. in West Virginia, H Ahpel. Dateline San Francisco 1890. No. 2023, issued for 15 shares 1863. Incorporated April 1863. to W.W. Wardwell on May 15, 1894. 25c Certificate revenue stamp. Not Signed by Peter Forrester as president cancelled. Three vignettes including and Clarence Christi as treasurer. Not George Washington. Agnew & Deffebach printer. Top and left edge cancelled. Blue border and font with fancy logo. Pinholes, folds. 7 x wrinkling issues. Discoloration on bottom. On April 30th (days after 11.5” The company operated near Dayton, mining the placer claims incorporation) a $1.00 assessment was levied. When a delinquent on the Carson River. The company incorporated in 1890, acquiring the assessment list came out one year after the company was formed, rights to the placer claims assayed at about $1 million. The company Ahpel was delinquent on certificate #2. Tells you what he thought of was involved in legal action as the founders were able to acquire these this mine. The last we find of this mine in California newspapers was claims from the prior consolidated company for little or no value by on July 6, 1864 when a second assessment was levied. F. Chappelet scheduling shareholder meetings with little notice. The Carson River was the site of many of the mills processing ore from the Comstock of Gold Hill was the superintendent. Listed in Collins. Although this Lode. However, the process was not perfect and some mined/ processed the tailings. Ken Prag Collection Est. $100-200 HWAC# probably has nothing to do with William Sharon, it is a great publicity 101615 feature for this company. Ken Prag Collection Est. $400-600 HWAC# 91922 Lot# 2472 Comstock, Gold Hill, Nevada Lot# 2476 Comstock, Silver City, 1872 Southern Gold Hill Gold & Silver Nevada 1876 Daney Gold & Silver Mining Co. Stock Certificate Gold Hill Mining Co. Stock Certificate Dist., Nevada (printed at top center). Organized in 1861. No. 300, issued for Incorporated in 1863! Low number 5 shares to Cope Whiler & Co. on April 6, issued for 10 shares to company 5th, 1876 in SF. Signed by the president secretary B.B. Minor on May 25th, 1872 (illegible) and secretary Geo. Spinney. in San Francisco. Signed by Minor and also president Robert Harrison. Not cancelled. Black border and print. Elaborate allegorical vignette Not cancelled. Black border and print, ornate border and vignette of of man, eagle, and flag. Printed by Britton & Rey. Pinholes, folds, and burned areas along the bottom border. 4 x 8.75” Ansari calls this an miner underground. Printed by HS Crocker & Co., SF. Pinholes, folds, important Silver City mine. It was located south of Silver City in Spring creases, toning. Stamp missing. 4 x 9” Not listed in Annual Mining Valley. Staked in 1859. In the 1862 Kelly directory, it is characterized as Review and Stock Ledger, 1876. Not in Filer or Holabird indexes. a mine rivaling those of Gold Hill. Dividends paid $56,000. Operations Incorporated before Nevada was a state. A search of CDNC turned ceased in 1890. [Ansari, pg. 62] () Ken Prag Collection Est. $120-200 up only stockholder meetings and notices of incorporation. Ken Prag HWAC# 91861 Collection Est. $120-200 HWAC# 100962 Lot# 2473 Comstock, Gold Hill, Nevada Lot# 2477 Comstock, Silver City, 1880 Trojan Mining Company Stock Nevada 1863 Pride of the West Mining Certificate Location: Gold Hill Mining Company Stock # 112 for 5 shares District, Storey County, Nevada (printed issued to William P Coleman. Signed along the top). Inc. Feb. 19th, 1875. No. by LD Ingoldsby and John L Moulthrop. 10814, issued for 150 shares to W.E. president. Dateline San Francisco 1863. Norwood on April 8th, 1880. Signed by Incorporated May 5, 1863. 25c Life the vice president and secretary David Wilder. Not cancelled. Pinholes, Insurance revenue stamp. Not cancelled. Black on light purple safety folds, creases. 4 x 9.5” Crocker & Co.’s print. The Trojan was located appear. Underprint ‘$700,000.’ Sterett printer. Cut at angle. No edge, west of the Overman and south of the Belcher mine. As of August, corner, pin hole or discoloration issues. This company showed five 1878, “good ore is being taken from all three stations, and shipped to specimen croppings at the 1864 Sacramento Agriculture and Mining the Vivian Mill, on the Carson river. There is a large amount of ground Fair. Moulthrop was listed as the book-keeper for the Miner’s Foundry to prospect on the lower levels, and the vein is of a very promising inthe 1862 San Francisco Directory. Ingoldsby was associated with at character, and from present indications, will give a large yield of ore. least a dozen Nevada Territorial mines (secretary and stock holder). Since March 1, 1878, the shaft has been sunk from the third to the Ken Prag Collection Est. $400-600 HWAC# 91927 fourth station, and there will be no need to sink deeper for some time to come. There are two pumps which handle the water with ease.” Lot# 2478 Comstock, Star District, [Ref: United States Annual Mining Review and Stock Ledger - 1879] () Nevada 1867 (1870) American Mining Ken Prag Collection Est. $100-150 HWAC# 91545 Company Stock # 775 for 10 shares to BF Sherwood trustee . Signed by J. M. Lot# 2474 Comstock, Gold Hill, Nevada Buffington and president AK Harmon. 1909 and 1911 Two Gold Hill, Nevada Dateline San Francisco December 22, Mining Stock Certificates Lot of 2 1870. Incorporated June 27, 1867. 25c different, both self-identified. 1) Lady Certificate Revenue Stamp. Not Cancelled. Eagle Vignette. Britton & Washington Consolidated Company. Rey printer. Small hole bottom right. No edge, corner or discoloration Issued in 1909, pen cancelled. Folds, issues. Finding the exact location is problematic. But when this mine ink stains. 2) St. Louis Mining Company. was incorporated San Francisco held sway over many Comstock Issued in 1911, not cancelled. Fancy companies. I found reference to the American Mining Company as early script title. Very clean. Ansari places as 1867 in the Virginia Evening Chronicle. Buffington was a mining both of these mines in the Silver City secretary in San Francisco for at least two decades. B.F. Sherwood was section of the Comstock Lode. Perhaps an early important figure on the Comstock. He was one of the original they were adjacent to Gold Hill? Ken Prag Collection Est. $80-100 incorporators for the Gould & Curry Mine and a business associate HWAC# 101611 of George Hearst. He was also supt. of the Central Mine. Ken Prag Collection Est. $200-400 HWAC# 91944 168 May 2019

DAY 2 Fri, May 17 Mining Lot# 2479 Lot# 2483 Comstock, Virginia, Nevada 1863 Comstock, Virginia, Indiana Gold and Silver Nevada 1862 Mining Company Stock # 169 for 10 shares Baton Rouge to William Cruise. G & S Mining Signed by PJ Shay and Co. Stock Rarer president KG Millne(?). Dateline Virginia 1863, 1862 Comstock Incorporated May 1863. certificate. # 50 for 6 shares to Not cancelled. 25c Dubois & Company. Signed by Sutton Insurance revenue stamp. Vignette of unloading wagon with liquid(?) and president MPower. Not cancelled. “1400 shares at one foot each.” minerals. Rather unique. No printer. Tears along top and left border. Some stain on bottom. Certificate itself has discoloration top left Blue on ping, Pink underprint, ‘Baton Rouge G & S Co.’ HS Crocker & (from old tape mark?). Location Eliza Waldo Ledge, Virginia Mining Co. printer. “Location, Virginia District N. T.” Cut short on left. Vertical District. Located in Collins (BF Moses, sec’y). William Cruse is listed as a carpenter in the 1864 Collins directory. Ken Prag Collection Est. folds. Pin holes. Very nice looking cert. There is an advertisement in $400-600 HWAC# 91914 the May 19, 1863 Daily Alta California where Jerome Rice & Co. is auctioning off 100 shares of Baton Rouge Gold and Silver. Ken Prag Collection Est. $500-800 HWAC# 91915 Lot# 2480 Comstock, Virginia, Nevada Lot# 2484 Comstock, 1863 Bed Rock Gold & Silver Mining Virginia, Nevada 1863 Company No. 2 Stock # 88 for 20 shares to Fred Schwarze. Signed by Mount Ural Gold August Teitman and president Caleb and Silver Mining Hyatt. (These are the same names on Company Stock # a certificate we sold earlier for the 39 for 5 shares to ST Bed Rock No. 1) Dateline 1863 San Gage. Signed by Daniel Francisco. Incorporated August 26, 1863. “Virginia District on ribbon Cork and President on center bottom.” Not cancelled. Mining tunnel With carts and wagons unloading rock vignette. Butler’s printer. Hole left bottom. James B Morrison. Light discoloration throughout. Heavy black on white. Not listed on Dateline Virginia 1863. Bancroft 1862, Collins 1864 or mentioned in other Holabird research Incorporated April 14, materials. According to McDonald, their office was located in S.F. at 611 Clay St. and the secretary was A.C. Teitman [McDonald, pg. 17, 1863. Not cancelled. 1996]. May have been prospective company. Their name is unusual in that it refers more to Gold Rush-style mining. Where is there a river 25c Bond revenue stamp. Two vignettes: mountain mining tunnel and on the Comstock?? Ken Prag Collection Est. $400-600 HWAC# 91916 mill and eagle with shield. Towne & Bacon printer. Nicks on edges. One Lot# 2481 Comstock, Virginia, Nevada 1863 Bonanza Gold and Silver small tear. One stain on right border. We found no information on this Mining Company Stock # 18 for 10 shares to Richard Ross. Signed by WP company. Not in Flier. Not in Collins. Ken Prag Collection Est. $400- Hutchings and president W Thompson 600 HWAC# 91913 jr. Dateline Virginia 1863. Incorporated June 22, 1863. Not cancelled. 25c Lot# 2485 Certificate revenue stamp. JP LeCount printer. Discoloration bottom by president’s signature. Holes where stamp was applied. Tear top Comstock, Virginia, right. Still nice! Listed in Collins with Hutchings as secretary. The only W. Thompson in Collins was a miner at the Milton Mining Company. Nevada 1863 Siegel Richard Ross was listed as “club Rooms 9 north C.” UP Hutchings was a notary public at B Street near Taylor. Ken Prag Collection Est. $400- Gold and Silver 600 HWAC# 91917 Mining Company Lot# 2482 Comstock, Virginia, Nevada Stock # 35(?) for 1863 Eastern Company, Front Ledge 15 shares to Muller. Stock # 25 for 10 shares to WR (?). Signed by John S Davis and William Signed by Murphy Laugererwau(?). Dateline San Francisco 1863. Incorporated May 1863. and president NW Location: Front Ledge, Virginia Mining Winton. Dateline District, Storey County, N. T. Not cancelled. 25c Certificate revenue Virginia City 1863. stamp. Circular vignette of miner by tunnel in setting sun. Towne & Bacon printer. Small edge tears, folds, rips. Ken Prag Collection Est. Incorporated April $400-600 HWAC# 91919 23, 1863. Winton can be found in records as early as 1861 when this area was still part of the Utah Territory. He was on the first appointed director of Virginia City by Territorial Governor Nye. Not cancelled. 25c Power of Att’y revenue stamp. Loomis vignette of ore being transported from tunnel entrance to level ground. Also Eagle and shield vignette. Towne & Bacon printer. Cut close on left. nicks and small dog ear top border. Ken Prag Collection Est. $400-600 HWAC# 91918 Bid online at FHWAC.com or call 775-851-1859 169

DAY 2 Fri, May 17 Mining Lot# 2486 Comstock, Lot# 2488 Comstock, Virginia City, Virginia City, Nevada Nevada 1889 & 1899 Belcher and Best 1864 Bajazet & Golden & Belcher Mining Stock Certificates Era Cons. Gold & Silver Lot of two from the “Belcher” Comstock Mining Co. Stock Located mines. 1) Belcher Silver Mining Virginia N.T. (printed Company. Gold Hill Dist., Storey Co. under title). Inc. January Nev. No. 3549, issued in 1889. Not 1863. Dateline Virginia, cancelled. Green border and fancy logo. N.T. April 28th, 1864. Pinholes, folds, creases, some soiling. No. 1171, issued for five shares to HC Lewis. Signed by president Very productive Gold Hill mine; one C.J. Hutchinson and secretary F.F. Fargo. Not cancelled. Black border the biggest producers on the Comstock. and print. Fancy logo and unusual vignette of Asian warrior. Printed Staked in 1859. Site of the Crown by Britton & Co., SF. One 25 cent IR adhesive stamp attached on the Point-Belcher Bonanza. 2) Best & Belcher Mining Company. Location right side, pen cancelled. Deep folds with some toning along foldlines, Virginia District, Storey Co. Nev. (printed at center bottom). Issued in creases/bends in corners. 4 x 9.25” Hutchinson and Fargo are both 1899, stamped cancel. Folds, pinholes, soiling. Staked in 1859 between listed in the 1864 Collins Comstock directory, but no HC Lewis. The the Cons. Virginia and Gould & Curry. Never paid any dividends. Best company is listed with an office at 45 S. C Street. Not listed in Filer or & Belcher purchased the claim from Henry Comstock and sold it soon Holabird indexes. Many of the Nevada Territorial mining companies after. [Ref: Ansari] Ken Prag Collection Est. $120-200 HWAC# 100937 in the only have little blurbs or mentions of the company in historical references and newspapers. With the Bajazet & Golden Era, we found Lot# 2489 Comstock, Virginia City, a bigger story. A Daily Alta California (Aug. 30, 1864) article gives us a Nevada 1878 California Mining location for the mine when it notes that this company and the Potosi Company Stock Certificate Virginia company miners had a heated argument with violence threatened. It Mining District, Storey County, Nevada escalated to a lawsuit in 1864 between the Potosi and Bajazet & Golden (printed under title). No. 85911, issued Era, in which the Potosi was claiming that the Bajazet did not have for 25 shares to Fry, Neal & Co. on Dec. an independent lode, but were instead working a spur of the Potosi. 10, 1878 in SF. Signed by president Both mining companies were halted by injunctions while it was being Chas. Wallace and secretary. CP. Gordon. Not cancelled. Black border litigated. This goes to the heart of the single lode/multi-lode theories and print on yellow paper. Britton & Rey. Pinholes, deep folds. 4.25 x 9” argued at the beginning of the Comstock. The case was decided in the The California Mining Company was split from the major Consolidated Potosi’s favor in January 1865 and thus the Bajazet was likely absorbed Virginia Mining Company in January of 1874 to speed up exploration. by the Potosi. Eliot Lord mentions the mine in Comstock Mining & The gamble paid off with the discovery of the ‘Big Bonanza.’ The Miners when he notes early encounters and fights between mines: in California Mine was the 2nd largest producer on the Comstock. [Ref: 1863, the miners of the Grass Valley Company were “suddenly assailed Ansari] () Ken Prag Collection Est. $100-200 HWAC# 91835 through a drift cut as a counter mine by the Bajazette and Golden Era Company, and forced to fly to the surface” (Lord, pg. 136). It is also Lot# 2490 Comstock, Virginia City, mentioned by Mark Twain in a letter published in the May 31st, 1868 Nevada 1874 Central Silver Mining Chicago Republican: “But where are the old familiar “adverse” claims, Co. Stock Signed by Sherwood This that used to range all the way from ten dollars to a thousand a foot in stock has a ton of Comstock history the glorious “flush times of ‘63?” Where is the Union? The Rovers? The embedded in it. Inc. Oct, 1st, 1860. No. White and Murphy? The Shamrock? The Bajazet and Golden Era?...Ah 852, issued for all 10,800 shares of me, not one of these mighty treasuries of virgin silver is ever heard the company to the California Mining of now-a days, and many and many a moon has waxed and waned Company on Nov. 11th, 1874. Signed since they were quoted in the stock board...The “Bajazet” is absorbed, by B.F. Sherwood as president and secretary Willis. Not cancelled. the “East India” -- that astonishing mine which was found right in Black border and print. Allegorical vignette. Printed by GT Brown & the middle of C. street, and which sold at great figures, while at the Co., SF (noted African-American lithographer). Pinholes, folds, heavy same time there was a tunnel running directly under that spot which toning. Borders trimmed tight. 4.75 x 9” This stock represents the had never a sign of a quartz ledge in it!” One more fun mention of the consolidation of the Central Mine with the California Mine as part Bajazet & Golden Era appears in the Territorial Enterprise, May 18, of a project to better access the recent Big Bonanza discovery. The 1864: the company has bought the famous Austin Sanitary Flour Sack California Mining Company had just been formed earlier that year to for $500. Ken Prag Collection Est. $400-700 HWAC# 100928 explore the portion of the Bonanza ores on the California property (the Bonanza discovery had been in the adjacent Con. Virginia). Lot# 2487 Comstock, Virginia City, Therefore, after this stock was issued, the California Mine was now Nevada 1875 Beach & Paxton Gold & composed of the Central No. 1 and 2, the original California claim, and Silver Mining Co. Stock (GT Brown the Kinney claim. The Central Mine had been staked in 1859 by John Lith.) Virginia Mining District, Nevada Bishop, one of the early Comstock locators. This stock is also signed by (printed under title). Inc. June 5th, B.F. Sherwood. He was one of the original incorporators for the Gould 1872. No. 38, issued for 100 shares & Curry mine. He was one of the Comstock mining superintendents to E. Fisher on Jan. 22nd, 1875 in San who asked Senator William Stewart and Senator James Nye to defeat Francisco. Signed by president R.Bunker and secretary M. Landers. the Sutro Tunnel project in 1868. (The issue was about whether Not cancelled. Black border and print. Two vignettes: allegorical the successors of the mining companies Sutro had originally gone woman with phoenix (left) and small vignette of two birds (bottom). into contract with would be forever bound to the royalties in the Lith. G.T. Brown & Co., SF (noted African-American lithographer). contract and that Sutro had to keep to his original date of completion. Pinholes, folds, bottom right corner missing. 4 x 9” Not listed in Filer Stewart was worried that otherwise Sutro could keep extending the or other Holabird indexes. The Beach & Paxton was next to the Cons. construction and thus his royalty contracts.) Sherwood was one of the Virginia (on the west) and the Andes (on the north). It is prospected people made a millionaire by the Comstock. The California Mining Co. and worked through the same shaft. Prospected by drifts on the 150 (after absorbing the Central) become the second biggest producer. and 350ft. levels. Very promising. (Annual Mining Review and Stock [Ref: Ansari] () Ken Prag Collection Est. $240-400 HWAC# 100729 Ledger, 1876, pg. 38] Ken Prag Collection Est. $160-200 HWAC# 100919 170 May 2019

DAY 2 Fri, May 17 Mining Lot# 2491 Comstock, Virginia City, Nevada Lot# 2495 Comstock, Virginia City, 1910-1961 Con. Virginia Mining Company Nevada 1897 Occidental Consolidated Stock Collection Lot of 14. Site of the Big Mining Co. Stock Certificate Rare. Bonanza discovery in 1873. 1) Consolidated “Silver Star Mining District, Storey Co., Virginia Mining Company. Ten stocks, four Nevada” printed at lower left. Inc. Oct. varieties. Issued 1910 (x4), 1920, 1924, 1935, 1887. No. 7450, issued for 500 shares 1936, 1944, 1956, and 1961. 2) Consolidated to Otis & Co., trustees, on July 1st, 1897 in San Francisco. Signed by Virginia & Andes Corporation. Four stocks, three varieties. Two issued the acting president (illegible) and secretary Dickinson. Not cancelled. in 1933 and two in 1934. Please inspect. Ken Prag Collection Est. Black border and print. Very fancy logo, but no vignette. Britton & Rey, $100-200 HWAC# 102192 SF. 4 x 9.25” Pinholes, folds, soiling, missing bottom left corner. Known as the “Brunswick Mine” since it sat on the Brunswick Lode, the Lot# 2492 Comstock, Virginia City, Nevada Occidental was located 1.25 miles east of Gold Hill on the Occidental 1887 Montezuma Consolidated Mining Grade. Claim was staked in the 1860s to produce lime, with a kiln built. Co. Stock Certificate Location: Storey Co., In 1863, they encountered gold and silver. John P. Jones made his first Nevada (printed under title). Inc. July 7, 1887. stake here. Produced until the 1870s and then worked again in the No. 30, issued for 200 shares to C.A. Jellinek 1890s. [Ref: Ansari] Ken Prag Collection Est. $100-200 HWAC# 100881 on July 21st, 1887. Signed by president Howes and secretary Heath. Not cancelled. Black border and print, fancy logo. Printed by Dutton Lot# 2496 Comstock, Virginia City, & Patridge, SF. Many pinholes, folds, creases. 4 x 9.25” Located NE Nevada 1911 Scorpion Mining from the Hercules, NW from the La Fayette, directly east of the Con. Company Stock Certificate Location: Virginia and Best & Belcher, and near the Shanley & Dexter mines. One Storey County, Nevada (printed top of the earliest claims in Storey County. Much capital was sunk driving center). Inc. 1889. No. 596, issued for a tunnel in 1863 that encountered a belt of low grade ore. [Ref Annual 100 shares to G.A. Jewett on Oct. 2, 1911. Mining Review and Stock Ledger, 1876, pg. 57; E&MJ Vol. 44, pg. 402] Signed by the president (illegible) and Ken Prag Collection Est. $100-200 HWAC# 100925 secretary Alfred Dickory. Not cancelled. Black border and print. Fancy company logo with giant “S.” Printed by L. Levingston, S.F. 4.25 x 9.75” Lot# 2493 Comstock, Virginia City, Nevada 1878 Pinholes, folds. The Scorpion is a claim that was staked in 1859. It lay Morning Star Silver Mining Co. Stock Certificate across the junctions of Six and Seven-mile Canyons, reaching nearly to (G.T. Brown Lith.) Virginia Mining District, Storey the Union Cons. and Mexican. Near the old Catholic Cemetery. Ansari County, Nevada (printed along the bottom). notes the main activity was 1870s-80s, then in the early 1890s and Inc. April 1875. No. 880, issued for 50 shares to 1920s. In 1876, a tunnel had been driven into the ledge. [Ref: Annual R.C. Hooker, trustee, on AUg. 31st, 1878. Signed by J.F. Broadhead as Mining Review and Stock Ledger, 1876, pg. 65; Ansari] Ken Prag president and James B. Maholm as secretary. Not cancelled. Attractive Collection Est. $80-100 HWAC# 102174 design with black border and print, two mining vignettes (on opposite sides), and a white star at the bottom. Lith. by G.T. Brown & Co., SF Lot# 2497 Comstock, Virginia City, (noted African-American lithographer). Pinholes, folds, creases. 4.25 Nevada 1886 Sutro Mining Company x 9.25” Not in Filer. One of the earliest claims on Cedar Hill, dating to Stock Certificate Rare. Location: 1860. On the Red Ledge, with the Sierra Nevada Mine to the north and Virginia Mining District, Storey Co., east, and the Utah on the south. A tunnel was sunk early on to 600 ft., Nev. (printed at bottom center). Inc. intersecting the ledge at a depth of 200 ft, but the mine encountered May 8th, 1872. No. 466, issued for multiple problems with water. The ore was very high in gold (65%). 100 shares to Coleman & Wattes on The company is now resuming operations after being idle for a long Dec. 8th, 1886 in San Francisco. Signed by vice-president Hill and time. [Ref: Pacific coast annual mining review and stock ledger, 1878, secretary Browne. Not cancelled. Black border and print. Ornate logo pg. 263] () Ken Prag Collection Est. $120-200 HWAC# 100731 but no vignette. Lith. by HE Mathews & Co., SF. Pinholes, light wear. 4 x 9.25” Not listed in Filer or other Holabird indexes. Located on Cedar Lot# 2494 Comstock, Virginia City, Nevada 1885 Hill, west of the Utah and the norther portion of the Sierra Nevada. Nevada Mill & Mining Co. Stock issued to JB The claim was originally made in 1859. They sunk a 2 compartment Overton Low cert. No. 8, issued to company shaft to a depth of 120 ft. but encountered water. They then started a president J.B. Overton. Dateline Virginia, Nev., tunnel from near the Utah, which has now progressed 1,200 ft. It will April 15th, 1885. Signed by Overton as president strike the ledge at a depth of 270 ft. The company has a donkey engine and and secretary JR White. Not cancelled. Printed and small hoisting works at the shaft. “The Sutro has the west ledge on pink paper by Sutherland, Virginia, Nev. Very ornate logo. 5.25 x 9.5” unquestionably...” [Ref: Annual Mining Review and Stock Ledger, 1876, Pinhole, folds. JB Overton was an important figure on the Comstock, pg. 69] Ken Prag Collection Est. $240-300 HWAC# 100918 mostly for his work with the Virginia & Gold Hill Water Company and the Sierra Nevada Wood & Lumber Company (at Tahoe). Overton Lot# 2498 Comstock, Virginia City, came to California during the Gold Rush and was successful at mining Nevada 1887 Sutro Tunnel Company in Weaverville. He had a store at Rich Bar, before becoming Plumas Stock Certificate Green variety. Inc. County clerk in 1868. He came to Virginia City in 1871 to assist with in CA. No.C38621, issued for 100 and manage the construction of the Virginia & Gold Hill Water Works, shares to John Landers on April 27th, which pulled water from Marlette Lake above Tahoe and pumped it 1887 in San Francisco. Signed by across Carson and up the Comstock Lode. Overton collaborated with vice-president Meyers and secretary Tahoe lumber baron Hobart and became the superintendent of the Ames. Pen and stamp cancelled. Green Sierra Nevada Wood & Lumber Company, an important source of border, black print. Two vignettes: wood for the Comstock mines. Overton, Hobert, and Alvinza Hayward Native American on hilltop overlooking city (top center) and miners also worked together to form the Virginia & Gold Hill Electric Light surveying underground (bottom center). Printed by ABN. 8 x 12.5” Company. The Nevada Mill and Mining Company built a reduction Pinholes, folds, nice. This was right before the company was saved and mill at the Chollar Mine in the late 1880s. This was the first Comstock reincorporated as the Comstock Tunnel Company by Theodore Sutro. mill to use electric power. With its 60 stamps, 15 settling pans, 30 Construction began on the tunnel in 1869, completed in 1878. Adolph amalgamating pans, and 10 agitators, it worked low-grade ore from Sutro resigned in 1879. John Landers would go on to serve as the the Chollar and Hale & Norcross mines. [Ref: A History of the State of company vice-president. Ken Prag Collection Est. $100-200 HWAC# Nevada, Wren; Ansari] () Ken Prag Collection Est. $100-200 HWAC# 100879 91582 Bid online at FHWAC.com or call 775-851-1859 171

DAY 2 Fri, May 17 Mining Lot# 2499 Comstock, Virginia City, Lot# 2503 Comstock, Virginia City, Nevada 1887 Sutro Tunnel Company Nevada 1887 West Potosi Mining Stock Certificate Rare variety/ Company Stock Certificate Location: color. Inc. in CA. No. L1332, issued Virginia District, State of Nevada for 50 shares to Wm. Story on Dec. (printed bottom center). Inc. Dec. 22, 12th, 1887 in San Francisco. Signed 1886. No. 496, issued for 200 shares to by vice-president John Landers and I. Herzberg on Apr. 27th, 1887. Signed secretary Ames. Not cancelled. Orange by vice-president J. Browne and secretary R.R. Grayson. Not cancelled. border, black print. Two vignettes: Vignette at upper left of two miners inspecting a piece of ore. Printed Native American on hilltop overlooking city (top center) and miners by Bosqui & Co., SF. Pinholes, folds, nicked corner, some staining. 4.25 surveying underground (bottom center). Printed by ABN. 8 x 12.5” x 9” The Potosi Mine was located in 1860 and was located in Virginia Pinholes, folds, rough right border, some soiling. This was right before City adjacent to the Chollar and Hale & Norcross mines. Litigation in it was saved and reincorporated as the Comstock Tunnel Company by the 1860s forced the Chollar and Potosi to merge. They split apart Theodore Sutro. Construction began on the tunnel in 1869, completed again in the late 1870s. () Ken Prag Collection Est. $120-200 HWAC# in 1878. Adolph Sutro resigned in 1879. () Ken Prag Collection Est. 91583 $200-400 HWAC# 91818 Lot# 2504 Comstock, Washoe Mining Lot# 2500 Comstock, Virginia City, District, Nevada 1878 Mt. Davidson Nevada 1875 Two Different Virginia Consolidated Gold & Silver Mining Co. City Mining Stock Certificates Lot Stock Certificate Extra rare! Location of 2 different. 1) Badger Silver Mining printed on right side: Washoe Mining Company. Nevada Mining District, District, Nevada. Inc. April 1875. No. Storey County, Nev. (printed along the 368, issued for 100 shares to T. Coffin on top). Inc. April 1875. No. 218, issued March 12, 1878 in Carson City. Signed for 25 shares to president C. Goodwin by R. Kirman as president and Fred Turner as secretary. Not cancelled. on Dec. 2nd, 1875. Signed by Goodwin Very attractive design with black border and print, and title wrapping and secretary Coryell. Not cancelled. around vignette of a mine at the base of a mountain. Printed by AL Black border and print, eagle on flag Bancroft & Co., SF. Horizontal fold. Very clean! 5.5 x 9.5” T(renmor) vignette. 4 x 8.75” Folds. 2) Avalanche Coffin is a familiar name for Nevada collectors. His name appears on Gold & Silver Mining Company. Devil’s Gate District. Unissued 1870s. many Carson and Comstock banking documents. At one point, he was Locomotive vignette. Signed by president L.D. Brown. Ken Prag Speaker of the Assembly for the State of Nevada. R(ichard) Kirman Collection Est. $130-150 HWAC# 100826 was father to the future 17th Nevada governor of the same name. The Washoe Mining District was another name for the Comstock District. Lot# 2501 Comstock, Virginia City, Mt. Davidson is the mountain that Virginia City is built on. This mining Nevada 1887 Union Consolidated company is not listed by Ansari. Not in Filer. () Ken Prag Collection Silver Mining Co. Stock Certificate to Est. $200-300 HWAC# 91841 WS Hobart Virginia District, Story [sic.] County, Nev. (printed along the top). Inc. April 1872. No. 49379, issued to W.S. Hobart (Tahoe & Lot# 2505 Diamonfield, Nevada Comstock lumber baron) on July 15, 1887. Signed by Robert Sherwood 1907-1912 Diamondfield, Nevada as president and JM Buffington as secretary. Not cancelled. Vignette Mining Stock Certificates Lot of 4. of capitol building (top center) and one of soldier with sword drawn Diamondfield is a ghost town 5 miles riding a horse (left). Lith: A. L. Bancroft. Black on white. Folds, curled from Goldfield. 1) The Goldfield Bull corner, trimmed tight all around. 5 x 10.25” The Union Mine was part Dog Mines Corporation. Three nice of the North End Mines of the Comstock Lode; the Union was an 1859 looking certificates, two issued in stake of 302’ between the Mexican and Sierra Nevada Mines. Later, 1907 and one issued in 1912. Gold 270 additional feet were acquired from the North Ophir claim. Work borders and multiple mining vignettes. at the mine began in 1860. In the 1870s, it was owned by the Bonanza Signed by presidents Slevick and Keith, Firm. They installed the largest Cornish pump in the world at a cost of secretaries Pratt and Eliel. Not cancelled. Folds, one has heavy toning. over $400,000. The Union had one of the deepest works (at 3350’). It 2) Reorganized Diamondfield Triangle Mining Company. Signed by the was the most profitable of the Sevenmile Canyon mines. [Ref: Ansari] president and secretary, but not issued. Orange border with allegorical Ken Prag Collection Est. $120-200 HWAC# 100877 vignette. Heavy toning and staining, pinholes in each corner, rough edges. Ken Prag Collection Est. $100-150 HWAC# 101607 Lot# 2502 Comstock, Virginia City, Nevada 1875 Ural Cons. Lot# 2506 Elko County, Nevada 1887 Silver Mining Co. Stock Morning Star Silver Mining Co. Stock Certificate (GT Brown Lith.) Certificate Location: Kinsley Mining Ultra-rare. Location: Storey District, Elko Co., Nevada (printed at Co., Nevada (printed under top). Inc. in Utah, July 1887. No. 47, title). Inc. 1874. No. 51, issued issued for 200 shares to George W. for 25 shares to A.C. Farno Reed on Aug. 10th, 1887 in Salt Lake on Feb. 2nd, 1875 in San City. Signed by president Geo. Lowe Francisco. Signed by president and secretary Colton. Not cancelled. C.F. Brown and secretary JM Buffington. Not cancelled. Black border Blue and gilt border, gold title, blue print. Printed by Tribune Print, and print. Yellow background inside border. Fancy company logo and Salt Lake. 6 x 10” Horizontal and vertical folds, some stains. According mining vignette. Printed by noted African-American lithographer G.T. to E&MJ, Vol.43, July 1887, the company was formed to purchase Brown. Folds, many creases, some edge wear. 5 x 9.25” Not listed by the Morning Star, Ontario, Elkhorn, and Last Chance claims in the Ansari. The Ural was north of and adjoining to the Sutro Mine on the Kinsley District, as well as the Baltic Mill site. The Kinsley District was Western ledge (Cedar Hill area). “Little has been done in developments discovered in 1862, organized in 1865, and covers the southern half of except to hold the claim.” [Ref: Annual Mining Review and Stock Ledger, the Kinsley Mountains [Ref: Mining Districts of Nevada, Tingley] () Ken 1876, pg. 71] Ken Prag Collection Est. $300-500 HWAC# 100959 Prag Collection Est. $120-200 HWAC# 91819 172 May 2019

DAY 2 Fri, May 17 Mining Lot# 2507 Elko County, Nevada 1881 Lot# 2512 Ely, Nevada 1907-1919 Nevada Blue Ridge Mining Co. Stock Ely, Nevada Mining Stock Certificate Certificate Dateline Tecoma, Elko Co., Collection Lot of 10: nine different Nevada, Feb 15th, 1881. “Location mining stocks plus one letterhead. Included: Boston-Nevada Smelting of Mines: Elko Co., Nevada” (printed Co. (issued 1907, not cxl) plus 1907 letterhead from the company to the at upper left). No. 43, issued for 100 same person the stock is issued to; Willow Creek GMC of Nevada (issued shares to E.W. Higgins, company but no date, two mining vignettes); Nevada-Utah Mines and Smelters Corp. secretary. Also signed by vice-president J.F. Woodman. Not cancelled. (issued 1907, mining vignette); Success Mining Company (issued 1910, not cxl, eagle vignette); First National Black and gilt border. Gilt title. Folds. No printer listed. 5 x 9.75” Copper Co. (issued 1910, eagle vignette); Consolidated Copper Mines (issued 1914, not cxl); Ely Central Copper Co. (issued 1909, not cxl, Tecoma was known as a railroad stop for mines in other districts. Few mining vignette); Mizpah Cons. Copper & Gold MC (issued 1913, not cxl, mining vignette); and Boston and Ely Cons. MC (issued 1919, punch local mining companies were ever formed. There was also a famous cxl). Generally good condition. Please inspect. Ken Prag Collection Est. $130-200 HWAC# 101601 Blue Ridge Mine in Lander County. () Ken Prag Collection Est. $120- 200 HWAC# 91822 Lot# 2513 Ely, Nevada 1902-1953 Ely, Nevada Mining Stock Certificate Lot# 2508 Elko County, Cornucopia Collection Lot of 9 different. Included: Mining District, Nevada 1877 First National Copper Company Cornucopia Cons. Gold & Silver (1915); Consolidated Coppermines Mining Co. Stock (G.T. Brown) Company (1919); Consolidated Cornucopia Mining District, Elko Coppermines Corporation (1953); County, Nev. (printed at bottom center). Pittsburg Ely Copper Co. (1907, mining Inc. March 1875. No. 536, issued vignette); The McKinley Mining and for 1,000 shares E.C. Doran on Jun. 12th, 1877 in SF. Signed by the Smelting Company (1902, photo vignette of President McKinley); president and secretary John Pew. Not cancelled. Black border and Bowen Ely Gold Mines Company (1927, mining vignettes); Boston & print. Vignette of woman with horn of plenty. Printed by G.T. Brown, Ely Consolidated Mining Co. (1923); Willow Creek Mining Co. (1913); SF (noted African-American lithographer). Folds, creases, some soiling and Nevada-Utah Mines and Smelters Corp. (1907, mining vignette). (most evident on reverse). 4.25 x 9.5” Cornucopia had a problem with Please inspect. Ken Prag Collection Est. $130-200 HWAC# 102187 claim jumping throughout its relatively short life. The mine did not last long as an article in the Engineering & Mining Journal in 1878 Lot# 2514 Ely, Nevada 1906-1917 reported, “It is rumored that work on the Cornucopia Consolidated Ely, Nevada Mining Stock Certificate mine will soon be started up.” () Ken Prag Collection Est. $120-200 Collection Lot of 10 different. Included:Ely-National Mining, Milling HWAC# 100739 & Development Co. (1912, mining vignettes); Ely Nevada Copper Lot# 2509 Elko County, Tuscarora Company (issued but date smeared); Mining District, Nevada 1879 Ely Resurrection Copper Company (1906); Ely Sulphide Copper Mining Commonwealth Consolidated Company (1907, moose and beaver vignettes); Ely Verdi Copper Company Mining Co. Stock Certificate Mines (1909, eagle vignette); Ely-Witch Copper Co. (1906); Ely Cons. Copper Co. (two different, 1911 and 1917); Ely-Copperfield Associates and location printed around the (1917); and First National Copper Company (1910, eagle vignette). Fair to good condition. Please inspect. Ken Prag Collection Est. $150- title: “Veritas” & “All Alone” Mines, 250 HWAC# 102195 Tuscarora, Elko Co., Nev. Inc. Oct. 1877. Lot# 2515 Ely, Nevada 1904- 1941 Ely, Nevada Mining Stock No 577, issued for 100 shares to Geo. P. Certificate Collection Lot of 13, most different. Includes: Associated Mines King on Nov. 20th, 1879 in SF. Signed by president Bacon and secretary Development Co. (1913, not cxl, eagle vignette); Western Zinc Oxide Co. (1941, Chas. A. Morse. Not cancelled. Black border and print. Two vignettes: punch cxl); Ely Gibraltar Mining Co. (1929 and unissued, not cxl, 3 mining allegorical women (left) and mine tunnel (bottom center). Printed by vignettes); Ely Gold & Manganese Co. (1941, not cxl, allegorical vignette); Ely Britton & Rey. Folds, pinholes. 5 x 9” () Ken Prag Collection Est. $120- National Copper Co. (1907, not cxl); Ely Verdi Copper Co. (two in 1909, not cxl, 200 HWAC# 100725 eagle vignette); Ely-Witch Copper Co. (two different, 1909 and 1916, not cxl); Ely Cons. Copper Co. (two different, 1912 and 1923, not cxl, Lot# 2510 Elko County, Tuscarora allegorical vignette); and Nevada Cons. Mining Co. (1904, not cxl, Mining District, Nevada 1888 Del Native American vignette, large tape repairs). Please inspect. Ken Prag Monte Mining Company Stock Collection Est. $160-200 HWAC# 102190 Certificate Tuscarora Mining District, Elko Co., Nevada (printed at upper right). Inc. January 1888. No. 307, issued for 75 shares to James Rolph on March 20th, 1888 in SF. Signed by president E. Scott and the secretary JW Pew. Not cancelled. Black border and print. Printed by HS Crocker. Pinholes, folds, toning. 4 x 9.25” According to E&MJ Vol 53, “the stopes are looking well...exposing good ore all the way.” Twelve cars of first- class ore ($275 per ton) and 26 cars of second-class ore ($45 per ton) have been extracted (1892, pg. 237). () Ken Prag Collection Est. $120- 200 HWAC# 91867 Lot# 2511 Elko County, Tuscarora Mining District, Nevada 1883-1887 Three Tuscarora Mining Stock Certificates Lot of 3, from two different mining companies. Tuscarora District, Elko County, Nevada. 1) Argentina Mining Company. Issued in 1887, not cancelled. Folds, creases. 2) Two issued for the Belle Isle Mining Company, issued in 1889 and in 1883. One pencil cancelled. Folds, pinholes. All self- identified. Ken Prag Collection Est. $150-250 HWAC# 100936 Bid online at FHWAC.com or call 775-851-1859 173

DAY 2 Fri, May 17 Mining Lot# 2516 Esmeralda, Nevada 1861 Lot# 2519 Esmeralda, Nevada 1863 (1862) Bullion Gold & Silver Mining Jack Hays Gold and Silver Mining Company Stock # 62 (faded) for 5 Company Stock, NUMBER 1 # 1 for 24 shares to JR Hendrie. Datelined San shares to James D. LaRue. Signed by JH Francisco October 20, 1862. Signed Blood and James H Van Reed. Dateline by secretary TL Bibbins and president San Francisco Jan 5, 1863. Incorporated Warren Holt. Incorporated August 24, Nov. 25, 1862. Not cancelled. Three 1861. Vignette of mill on lake shore vignettes: sailing ship, Native American and hay stack. Located in with resting miners. Britton printer. Mine located in the Van Horn Esmeralda District. Miner edge issues (hard to see) and pin holes. District, Mono County, Cal. Vertical folds. Very light staining left. No Nice. The Jack Hays Mine was located on the Jack Hays and Newberger pin hole, rips or tears. Original trustees were SB Farnham, FM Clark, lodes. The original trustees were James H Van Reed, Thomas A Lane WS Hughes, W Holt, TL Bibbins with Holt as president and Bibbins as and Jesse B Sanders. [Daily Alta California, Nov. 26, 1862] Ken Prag secretary. The Marin Journal of June 28, 1862 reported the William Collection Est. $400-800 HWAC# 82030 Hughes had just returned from the Van Horn district and brought with him 10 pounds of rock from the Bullion Gold & Silver lead. It assayed Lot# 2520 Esmeralda, Nevada 1863 at $11.31 silver and $60.20 gold. The Esmeralda Miner reported that Lady Jane Gold and Silver Mining the Bullion Gold & Silver had the six best leads. The company had done Company Stock # 54 for 25 shares to little work on them yet, but they are rich in gold and silver and will yield Edward Flaherty (numbers 1046 to an abundant harvest. The Gold Hill News reported that the Bullion 1079). Signed by JB Bradford and Henry would commence hoisting ore this week. For some time the tunnel had Finley president. Dateline Aurora, been closed to all visitors including the press. Some say it was to excite Mono County 1863. Incorporated investment for this ledge that at one time was considered fabulously November 1862. 25c Protest revenue rich. Others confidently proclaimed it as a sham just to fleece money stamp. Not cancelled. HS Croker & Co. from would be investors. [newspaper articles from CDNC] The mining printer. Two lady vignettes. Blue and district in the Aurora area was originally named Esmeralda. The red on off white. Underprint red ‘Lady historic Van Horn District of DeGroot (1863) was southeast of Aurora Jane Mining Co.’ Assigned to Patrick Boyle on back. Faded with age, in the Excelsior range of mountains east of Dexter’s Station and nearly toning, some edge issues. One of the original locations on Silver Hill, due north of the Montgomery District. [Mining Districts of Nevada by according to Stretch (1866). A patented mine, and one of the richest Tingley] Both California and the Nevada Territory claimed the Van veins, according to Hill. Parallel to the Antelope. The Lady Jane is Horn District outside of Aurora. In 1863 an exact survey put this area located west of the Antelope on Silver Hill. Ken Prag Collection Est. in Nevada. Ken Prag Collection Est. $1000-2000 HWAC# 91886 $400-700 HWAC# 82023 Lot# 2517 Esmeralda, Nevada 1863 Lot# 2521 Esmeralda, Nevada 1861 General Hooker Consolidated Mayflower Gold and Silver MIning Mining Company Stock # 122 for 10 Company Stock - VERY EARLY # 106 shares to JA Gouber. Signed by AC Morse for 20 shares to Levi C Mathews. Signed and William C Meredith. Meredith was by William L Doneany(?) and president a lawyer, notary public, conveyancer Samuel H Dwindle. Dateline San and commissioner of deeds in Aurora. Francisco May 20, 1861, Incorporated ‘Captain’ often proceeds his name. Fab. 6, 1861. Not cancelled. Blue on tan. Eagle and shield vignette and Morse was also an attorney and notary public. He was located in the rose vignette. Underprint ‘$180,000.’ Agnew & Deffebach printer. Cut Wingate Building on the west side of Silver Street. Dateline Aurora roughly at left. Light corner folds. Light discoloration. etc. Still quite March 30, 1863. Incorporated Feb. 14, 1863. Not cancelled. Allegorical nice. We found no reference to this early 1861 mining company in our vignette. Very patriotic eagle vignette. Located int the Esmeralda resources, Filer, Kelly 1863 directory, newspapers.com, etc. Ken Prag District. On back one 5c agreement stamp and two 10c bill of lading Collection Est. $500-1000 HWAC# 82028 stamps (unusual on a cert.). Cut unevenly (original). No edge, corner, pin hole or discoloration issues! [Aurora, Nevada, 1860-1960 by Shaw] Lot# 2522 Esmeralda, Nevada 1863 Ken Prag Collection Est. $400-800 HWAC# 82025 Pride of Esmeralda Mining Company Stock # 28 for ten shares to George Lot# 2518 Esmeralda, Nevada 8163 N Snell. Signed by John Bailey and Heath Gold & Silver Mining Company president (?). Dateline San Francisco Stock # 110 for 1 share to William May 18, 1863. Incorporated Feb. Feast. Signed by secretary Feast and 17, 1863. Not cancelled. Location, president MR Elstner. R Elstner owned Esmeralda District, Mono County. the Bodea Stables located near the City Stamped seal has one simple word, HOPE.’ How appropriate for a Brewery on Spring Street. His name mining company. It didn’t seem to pan out, however, as we found no was on the Mono County tax register from 1862. William Feast was in information on this mine. Two vignettes: allegorical lade and Native Aurora by 1861. He owned a cabin on the northeast corner of Silver & American. Towne & Bacon printer. Nicks at fold bottom borders. Very Del Monte. He was the Mono County Treasurer and continued in this light staining at fold edges. Very nice! Ken Prag Collection Est. $400- capacity after Aurora was proven to be in Nevada. Feast was also the 800 HWAC# 82029 secretary of the West Wind, Fairy Queen, Utah and Gibraltar among others. He died in Aurora in 1864. Dateline Aurora, Esmeralda, August Lot# 2523 Esmeralda, Nevada 1863 31, 1863. Incorporated Sept. 26, 1862. Not cancelled. Allegorical Silver Eel Gold & Silver Mining vignette and steamship/wharf/phoenix/globe/etc. vignette. Towne Company Stock Numbers 66 to 75. & Bacon printer. Heavy center vertical fold with wrinkles and one Ten shares to Bermadez. Signed by E discoloration spot by eagle. Although the certificate says this company Rusten and president Levi Countryman. was incorporated on September 26, the Sacramento Daily Union, Dateline Aurora, Mono Co., February 14, going through actual incorporation papers, says it was incorporated 1863. Incorporated January 24, 1863. on October 2. We found no reference to this mine using our reference Not cancelled. Miner with pick vignette and california seal vignette. materials. [Aurora, Nevada, 1860-1960 by Shaw] Ken Prag Collection Robbins & Co. printer. Blue on off white. Cut roughly on bottom. No Est. $400-800 HWAC# 82027 other edge, corner, pin hole of discoloration issues. The Silver Eel was being traded on the Sacramento Stock and Exchange Board in March of 1863. Ken Prag Collection Est. $400-800 HWAC# 82026 174 May 2019

DAY 2 Fri, May 17 Mining Lot# 2524 Esmeralda - Silver Lot# 2527 Esmeralda Hill, Nevada 1862-1863 THREE Esmeralda Nevada Territory / County, Nevada 1882 Mono County Stocks - Unssued Here is your chance to own three White Mountain Water highly desirable Esmeralda district mining stocks at a great price. All Company of Nevada three are unissued. However, for the Golden Inlet, Ken Prag did not Stock Certificate have an issued stock. If he didn’t have one - who does? 1) Young Incredible--only one America Tunnel Gold & Silver Mining Company. # 313. Signed by we’ve ever seen. Location president William Hughes. Hughes was one of the five first Board of of Works, Columbus Alderman for Aurora, Nevada. His District, Esmeralda house was located on the east side of Winnemucca. Mine tunnel to mill County, Nevada (printed vignette. Dateline Aurora, Mono Co., Cal. Incorporated Fab. 27, 1863. Location: Esmeralda District. Alta at bottom center). Inc. Job Print. The 1864 version which we sold previously was printed by Crocker. The Sacramento Daily Union reported on March 1, 1864 that in New York. No. 648, the company had struck a rich ledge and had taken out rich ore. “It was supposed to be the Antelope ledge, but it is about 400 feet west issued for 100 shares to company secretary J.A. Pritchard on Jan. of where the Antelope Company are working...” 2) Lady Jane Gold and Silver Mining Company. Incorporated November 1862. Two lady 31st, 1882. Signed by president Gildersleene and Pritchard. Not vignettes. HS Crocker printer. Blue on reddish brown. Underprint ‘Lady Jane Mining Co.’ 3) Golden Inlet Consolidated Mining Company. cancelled.Brown border, very ornate title, and vignette of waterfall in Incorporated Feb. 23, 1863. Pinion pine covered hill with mining tunnel vignette. Quite different. Also miner swinging pick vignette. mountains. Printed by Hamilton Bank Note Co., NY. 7 x 10.5” Pinhole, Black on light red. These are generally in excellent condition with no edge, corner, pin hole or discoloration issues. Please inspect photos folds. Very clean. This company brought water a distance of 19.75 online. Ken Prag Collection Est. $200-400 HWAC# 91980 miles from the White Mountains to the mines, railroad depot, Metallic Lot# 2525 Esmeralda County, Nevada 1903-1930s Esmeralda County, City, and Candelaria. Work was completed in February 1882. The main Nevada Mining Stock Certificates Lot of 4 different. 1) Nevada-Frisbee Mining iron pipe of the works was 5 inches in diameter, with smaller pipes and Milling Company. Frisbee. Issued in 1910, not cancelled, three mining 0.5-2 inches. The White Mountains are in Inyo County. The backside vignettes. 2) Alleghany Standard Metals Corporation. Klondyke. Unissued. is in Esmeralda County. There also appears to be a 1902 court case c.1930s. 3) Nevada Esmeralda Exploration Company. Issued in 1910, not cancelled. Three mining between the Candelaria Water Works and the White Mountain Water vignettes. 4) Nevada-Vulcan Mines Company. Sodaville. Issued in 1903, Company re: stock and bond transfers. The Columbus District, also not cancelled. Multiple mining vignettes. Good to very good condition. known as the Candelaria District, was organized in 1864. [Ref: Report Please inspect. Ken Prag Collection Est. $80-120 HWAC# 101603 of the Director of the Mint, 1883, pg. 142] () Ken Prag Collection Est. $500-1000 HWAC# 91853 Lot# 2526 Esmeralda County, Nevada 1880s Two Different State Line Gold Mining Co. Lot# 2528 Esmeralda Stock Certificates Lot of 2 different unissued stock certificates. 1) State Line Gold Mining County, Belleville, Co. No. 2. Green border, black and green print. “Location of Mine: Gold Mountain Nevada 1877 District, Esmeralda Co., Nevada” printed on vignette at bottom. Vignette at top right of Consolidated Schiller two Western explorers on horseback. Punch and stamp canceled. 2) State Line Gold Mill & Mining Co. Mining Company No. 1. Different design than other. Black border and print. Vignette at left Stock Certificate of two prospectors inspecting a piece of ore. Location printed below title. Excellent condition. Both stocks printed (Belleville, NV) by ABN. () Ken Prag Collection Est. $100-150 HWAC# 91541 Location of Works: Esmeralda County, Nevada (printed at left). Dateline Belleville, Nevada, March 19th, 1877. inc. in Carson City, 1876. No. 42, issued for 50 shares to F. Shaffer. Signed by president A.A. Smith and secretary William Stone. Not cancelled. Black scrollwork border and print. Mining vignette. Folds, some toning on right edge. 5.5 x 9” No printer listed. Not in Filer or Holabird indexes. No additional information found about this company. Belleville, in Mineral County, was founded in 1872 to process ore from the Northern Belle Mine at Candelaria. The town was a wild place. When the Carson and Colorado Railroad reached the town in 1882, its population was 500, with a doctor, assay office, express office, telegraph station, livery stable, school, two hotels, restaurants, blacksmith shops, and seven saloons. By 1892, water piped to Candelaria allowed the ore to be milled nearer the mine, and Belleville was deserted. Now a ghost town. Ken Prag Collection Est. $200-400 HWAC# 100965 Lot# 2529 Esmeralda County, Candelaria, Nevada 1881 Belding Mill & Mining Co. Stock Certificate Columbus District, Esmeralda Co., Nevada (printed in company logo). Inc. Feb. 1880. No. 374, issued for 100 shares to E.G. Doane on July 11th, 1881 in San Francisco. Signed by a trustee and the secretary (Heath). Not cancelled. Fancy border and logo. Lith. Britton & Rey, SF. Pinholes, folds, some soiling. 4 x 9” Located on the extension of the Holmes Vein in Candelaria. By 1891, a new Belding Cons. company was formed. [Ref:E&MJ, Vol. 51, pg. 615] Ken Prag Collection Est. $120-150 HWAC# 100923 Bid online at FHWAC.com or call 775-851-1859 175

DAY 2 Fri, May 17 Mining Lot# 2530 Esmeralda County, Lot# 2534 Esmeralda County, Gold Candelaria, Nevada 1883 Mt. Diablo Mountain District, Nevada 1881 State Mill & Mining Co. Stock Certificate Line Gold Mining Co. Stock Collection ”Columbus District, Esmeralda Co., Lot of 5 different from the Gold Nev.” (printed under title). Inc. Dec. Mountain District in Esmeralda County, 1875. No. 3472, issued for 55 shares Nevada. 1) Four different stocks for to E.G. Reynolds on Sep. 4, 1883 in the State Line Gold Mining Company. San Francisco. Signed by president W. Norwood and secretary Heath. Included: two for No. 4 (both issued Ornate border and fancy black font. Printed by GH Baker Lith., SF. 4 in 1881, not cancelled) and two for x 9” Pinholes, folds. In an 1892 report by the company secretary, the No. 3 (one issued in 1881, the other company had 4,170 ft. of drift, crosscuts, and winzes. Total bullion unissued and punch cancelled). All shipped in 1891 was $373,000. The mill crushed 9,695 tons of ore have same corp. signatures. Three having mining vignettes. All have from the Mt. Diablo claim. “The general appearance of the mine is less pinholes, folds, creases. 2) Oriental Gold Mining Company. No. A3005, favorable” but “there is still a good deal of ore in sight.” Also mentions issued for 50 shares to DJ Lobb in 1881. Signed by the vice-president the mill had a number of “unavoidable accidents.” [Ref: Financial and and secretary. Not cancelled. Brown border, black print. Prospector Mining Record, Volume 31, pg. 13] () Ken Prag Collection Est. $200- vignette. Pinholes, folds, toning. Ken Prag Collection Est. $150-300 300 HWAC# 91858 HWAC# 100926 Lot# 2531 Esmeralda County, Lot# 2535 Esmeralda County, Gold Mountain Candelaria, Nevada 1882 Mt. Potosi District, Nevada 1882 Two Different Gold Consolidated Mining Co. Stock Mountain District Mining Stocks Lot of 2 Certificate Location: Columbus Mining Gold Mountain, Esmeralda County stocks; District, Esmeralda Co., Nevada” one issued and one unissued. 1) State Line (printed at bottom center). Inc. Sept. Gold Mining Company No. 2. Stock issued to 1878. No. 1994, issued for 20 shares to Watson & Gibson for 50 shares on January Wm. Alexander on March 10th, 1882 in SF. Signed by the president (H 25, 1882. Signed by president Shyrock and Lowden (?)) and secretary (JH Sayre). Not cancelled. Black border and secretary Verdenal. Not cancelled. Location print, very fancy logo and font. Printed by E. Bosqui & Co., SF. 4 x 9.25” printed on cert. Brown border and two Folds, creases in corners, ink stain. The Columbus Mining District is vignettes: explorers on horseback and also known as the Candelaria District. It was organized in 1864 and children next to banner (which displays covers most of the Candelaria Hills between Miller Mountain, Little the location). Pinholes, folds. 2) Miller Gold Summit, Tonopah Junction, and Columbus Marsh. [Ref:Tingley] () Ken Mining Company. Unissued but stamp and punch cancelled. Location Prag Collection Est. $200-300 HWAC# 91859 printed to the left of title. Brown border with vignette of miners with headlamps. Pinholes. () Ken Prag Collection Est. $200-300 HWAC# Lot# 2532 Esmeralda County, Gold 100724 Mountain, Nevada 1881 Miller Gold Mining Company Stocks Lot of two. 1) Lot# 2536 Eureka, Nevada 1902- Brown. Number A524. 50 shares issued to 1929 Eureka, Nevada Mining Stock FB Cohn. Signed by president DF Verdenal Collection Lot of 13. Included: and secretary AD Breed. Dateline New York Eureka Smelting & Mining Co. (1923); 1881. American Bank Note printer. Photo Eureka Silver Lick Extension Mines quality vignette. Corner folds, pin holes. 2) Co. (1920); Eureka Mining, Leasing & Green. # 1000, Hole and stamp cancelled. Manufacturing Corp. (1927); Eureka Signed by secretary. Very nice condition. Smelting Company (1929); Eureka The Gold Mountain district was discovered Climax MC (unissued); Eureka-Croesus in 1866 with the first ore shipped from MC (1919 & 1927); Eureka Holly the Oriental in 1871. Ore was originally Extension MC (1921); Eureka Hamburg processed by arresters and the district is accredited with about MC (1923): Summit Queen MC (unissued); Holly Consolidated Mines $500,000 in production. There were three main companies working Co. (1923); Ruby Copper Co. (1902); and Nevada Development and in the district in the 1880’s: Oriental, Miller Gold Mountain and State Mining Co. (1909). Overall good, though some are fair and some are Line. The Miller Gold Mountain is the scarcest of the three companies. very good. Please inspect. Ken Prag Collection Est. $200-300 HWAC# Ken Prag Collection Est. $100-200 HWAC# 91961 101605 Lot# 2533 Esmeralda County, Gold Lot# 2537 Eureka County, Nevada Mountain District, Nevada 1881 State 1878 Charter Tunnel & Mining Co. Line Gold Mining Co. No. 1 Stock Stock Certificate Number 1 Cert. Certificate This is the extra rare version No. 1! Inc. June 12th, 1878. Location: of these certificates. Location of Mine, Gold Mountain District, Esmeralda Eureka County, Nevada (printed at County, Nevada (printed on cert.). Inc. bottom). Dateline Eureka, Nev. July 30th. No. 1, issued for 400 shares to in New York. No. 1513, issued for 50 Peter Urick. Signed by president G.W.Sabin and secretary E.J. Butler. shares to secretary D.F. Verdenal on Pen cancelled. Small vignette of prospector. Printed by Crocker & Co., May 6th, 1881. Also signed by president Lee R. Shyrock. Not cancelled. Red border and print. Printed by David H. Gildersleeve, NY. 7.5 x SF. 4 x 9” The Charter Tunnel was the largest on Prospect Mountain. 10.25” Folds, creases, pinholes, small tear, two small punch outs. The The company held 38 claims. Work began in 1872, six years before the company owned claims No. 1, 2, 3, and 4. Balch (1882) discusses assay company was incorporated. [Ref: Mining Record, Vol. 4, 1878] () Ken Prag Collection Est. $120-200 HWAC# 91586 results, noting the quartz “is of peculiar structure, showing no free gold” (pg. 1146). () Ken Prag Collection Est. $200-300 HWAC# 91865 176 May 2019

DAY 2 Fri, May 17 Mining Lot# 2538 Eureka Lot# 2540 Fairview, County, Cortez District, Nevada 1906-1929 Premier Nevada 1896 Tenabo Fairview, Nevada Mining Stock Certificate Collection Mill & Mining Co. Lot of 13. This is the best Stock Certificate Fairview group we’ve offered. Signed by S. Wenban Fairview is located in Churchill County. Discovered by F.O. Extra rare! Signed Norton in 1905. Included: Dromedary Hump Mines by one of the early Company (two different, important figures for issued 1907 and 1908, both this district. Location Cortez District, Eureka with camel vignettes, owned County, Nevada the Nevada Hills Mine); Nevada Hills Mining Company (printed top center). (two different, issued in 1908 and 1913); Eagles Nest Fairview Mining Company (1906); Cyclone Mining Company (unissued, c.1906); Nevada Inc. March 4th, 1896. Hills Florence Mining Company (1906); Fairview Amalgamated Mines Company (1907); Fairview Mizpah Mining Company (1908); Fairview No. 204, issued for 50 shares to Lt. Col. Frederick William Thomas on Golden Boulder Mining Company (unissued, gold vignette of boulder); Fairview Dromedary Mining Company (1907); Consado Development June 4th, 1896. Signed by S. Wenban as president and Thos. J. Read as Company (1920); and Nevada Hills Mining Co. Reorganized (1929). Nearly all are self-identified as the Fairview Mining District. Fair to secretary. Not cancelled. Vignette of mill facility (center) and miner very good condition. Please inspect this worthy collection! Ken Prag pushing a full ore cart (bottom left). Pinholes, deep folds, creased Collection Est. $300-500 HWAC# 102184 corners, and some soiling. Overall very nice. 7.5 x 10.75” Crocker print. The Cortez Mining District was organized in 1863 and saw early investments from George Hearst. While the ore was initially sent to Austin for processing, in 1864, the miners constructed a Washoe Process pan amalgamation mill. In 1865, they installed Reese River Process equipment. Simeon Wenban was an early mining figure in the district. He bought the mill in 1869 to work ore from the Garrison Mine. He replaced his Cornish and Welsh workers with Chinese immigrants. In 1886, Wenban built a new mill with Russell leaching technology, Lot# 2541 Genesee considered state-of-the-art. This mill was closed in 1892. Wenban died Mining District, in 1901. According to the obituary in the San Francisco Call, Wenban Douglas County, came to the US at the age of 4 from England. His family travelled to the Nevada 1864 Famous California Gold Rush in 1854. He died from a heart attack while still Gold, Silver and president of this mining company. He also owned the Wenban Hotel in Copper Mining SF. In 1908, a new company reworked Wenban’s abandoned mill with Company Stock # 70 cyanide leaching technology and used it to process old mill tailings. for 12 1/2 shares to That mill burned in 1915. The Cortez Mining District is now the site of an open pit mine. () [Ref:ONE] Ken Prag Collection Est. $400-600 Theodore Cimiotte. HWAC# 91544 Signed by Bea. Foster and president SH Bennett. Dateline Virginia 1864. Incorporated September 1863. Location: Genesee Mining District, Douglas County, N. T. 25c Power of Att’y revenue stamp. Not cancelled. Allegorical Lot# 2539 Eureka vignette. Ink as run in places. Cut unevenly. Nice. Towne & Bacon County, Eureka Mining printer. The Genesee District was located 40 miles south of Virginia District, Nevada City, on the east side of Carson Valley 20 miles east of Genoa; the exact 1881 Northwestern location is unknown. [Mining Districts of Nevada by Tingley] The only Consolidated Mining SH Bennett in the 1864 Nevada directory was a carpenter for the Gould & Curry? This certificate is listed in Mahler [Stamp Taxes on Co. Stock Certificate Nevada Stock Certificates 1863–1873,a Geographical Analysis] Ken Issued to Comstock Constable Location: Prag Collection Est. $400-600 HWAC# 91889 Eureka Mining District, Eureka County, Nevada (printed under logo). Lot# 2542 Genesee Inc. April 20, 1878. Dateline Eureka, April 28th, 1881. Low No. 6, Mining District, issued for to 250 shares to J.V.B. Perry. Signed by A.L. Fitzgerald Douglas County, (president) and Campbell (secretary). Not cancelled. Folds, pinhole, Nevada 1984 ink stains. This certificate, printed by Crocker & Co., is reminiscent of Independent Gold the 1860s Nevada stock designs. 4.25 x 9.25” Vignette of mine and and Silver Mining mill facility (top center) and prospector (left border). J.V.B. Perry was Company Stock # 23 a U.S. Marshall and then constable in Virginia City, Nevada Territory in for 25 shares issued 1863/64. He is also later listed as a saloon owner in Eureka, Nevada in the 1884 Colorado, New Mexico, Utah, Nevada, Wyoming and Arizona to James Bartley. Gazetteer and Business Directory. According to E&MJ, Vol. 34, the Signed by JS McCann company had patented claims on the Western & Winchester Lode. () and president SD Fulton. Fulton Ken Prag Collection Est. $100-200 HWAC# 91546 was listed in Thompson & West as a lawyer. Dateline Virginia 1864. Incorporated Sept. 2, 1863. Not cancelled. 25c Power of Att’y revenue stamp;. Location: Douglas County, Genesee District, Nevada Territory. Mountain vignette. Gold Hill News printer. The Genesee District was located 40 miles south of Virginia City, on the east side of Carson Valley 20 miles east of Genoa; the exact location is unknown. [Mining Districts of Nevada by Tingley] One of two Independent certificates mentioned in Mahler. [Stamp Taxes on Nevada Stock Certificates 1863–1873,a Geographical Analysis by Tingley] Collection Ken Prag Collection Est. $400-600 HWAC# 91890 Bid online at FHWAC.com or call 775-851-1859 177

DAY 2 Fri, May 17 Mining Lot# 2547 Goldfield, Nevada 1907- 1911 “Red Top” Goldfield Mining Lot# 2543 Genoa Mining District, Stock Certificates Lot of 4, three Douglas County, Nevada 1865 Rio different Red Top companies from the gut of Goldfield. 1) Red Top Carson Silver Mining Company Mining & Leasing Company. Issued in 1909, not cancelled. Signed by Stock - Rare Mining District # 58 for president Johnson and secretary Cottle. Black border with multiple 100 shares to Henry Hitch. Signed by mining vignettes. Large vignette of a red top in the background. Folds, Holway and president Amos Huck(?). toning. Highly sought-after Goldfield stock! 2) Red Top Fraction Mining Dateline New York 1865. 25c Power Company. Issued in 1907, not cancelled. Black border and 3 mining of Att’y revenue stamp. Not cancelled. vignettes. Heavy folds, soiling. Three unpatented claims in Goldfield. Rather unique vignette for nevada/ A 3) Red Top Extension Mining Company. Two stocks issued in 1907 very large milling operation with a steam train. The first train would and 1911. Black border and eagle vignette. Folds, soiling. The Red Top not reach Nevada for three more years. Significant rips and tears. Top was located between the Mohawk and Laguna groups (according to center fold has been glued to paper for protection. Still Unique and mindat.org). Ken Prag Collection Est. $120-250 HWAC# 102511 rare! Located in the Genoa Mining District in the mountains west of Genoa, 1 mile north of the town. Expanded to include Kingsbury Grade Lot# 2548 Goldfield, Nevada 1907- area of Garside in 1873 [Mining Districts of Nevada by Tinglley] We 1913 C.O.D. Mining Company Stock found no information on this mine. Ken Prag Collection Est. $400- Certificates Lot of 4 different. 1) C.O.D. 600 HWAC# 91888 Mining and Leasing Company. No. 970, issued for 1,000 shares in 1907, not cancelled. Three mining vignettes. Heavy folds, toning. In the 1907 Lot# 2544 Gold Flat, Nevada 1905 Goldifeld Gossip, listed as having a power plant, a 220 ft. shaft, and Gold Flat Mining Company Stock 250 ft. of drifts and crosscuts. 2) C.O.D. Consolidated Mining Company. Certificate We have not seen this Three different: orange, green, and brown borders. Issued 1911, 1912, location (Gold Flat) before. According to Preserving the Glory Days: and 1913. All with gem vignette. Folds, toning, one with pinholes. The Ghost Towns and Mining Camps of Nye County, Nevada, Hall, Gold COD Consolidated was a merger of the Goldfield C.O.D. and the Gold Flat was located 3 miles west of Quartzite Mountain (now inside the Bar Mining Co. Properties included the C.O.D., Golden Eagle, and Zoe Nellis Air Force Base Gunnery Range). Located around Pahute Mesa, from the C.O.D. Co., the Gold Bar from that company, and the Victor Gold Flat was originally known as Nixon. Nixon, Wingfield, Oddie and and Victor Fraction from the Goldfield Consolidated. The company Davis owned 32 claims nearby but abadoned a townsite when the was tightly held and controlled by the famous Goldfield Consolidated claims proved to be worthless. It was renamed Gold Flat in February Mining Company. The claims formed a compact group, 90 acres at 1905. It never developed past a tent camp. Stock No. 109, issued for Goldfield. Property had a 350’ shaft and several thousand feet of 1,000 shares to M.V. Collins on Nov. 20th, 1905. Signed by president P.J. workings by 1916 (Mines Handbook, 1916). Ken Prag Collection Est. Carney and the secretary. Not cancelled. Maroon border, black print, $100-120 HWAC# 102537 two mining vignettes. 8.25 x 10” Folds, pinholes, paperclip indentation. Ken Prag Collection Est. $80-120 HWAC# 102508 Lot# 2549 Goldfield, Nevada 1905 Columbia Mountain Mining Co. Stock Lot# 2545 Gold Hill, Nevada Bixler Signed by Nixon Inc. in SD, May 1904. Gold & Silver Mining Co. Stock No. 390, issued for 500 shares to RP Dunlap on No.v 19, 1905. Signed Certificate, Gold Hill, Nevada by George S. Nixon as president and JM Fenwick as secretary. Not Territory, 1863 Location printed cancelled. Black border and print, red title, gold seal, multiple mining below logo: Gold Hill District, Nevada vignettes. “Mines at Goldfield, Nevada” in background. Pinholes, heavy Territory. (It is not common to see folds with a tear. 8.25 x 11” George S. Nixon was a United States Senator “Nevada Territory” spelled out. Usually from Nevada from 1905 until his death in 1912. Nixon, Nevada is just N.T.) No. 43, issued for 10 shares to named after him. Columbia was originally named Stamler (after Harry Theodore Voizin on July 23rd, 1863 in Stimler one of the founders). It lay about one mile north of Goldfield. It San Francisco. Signed by president J.C. Hollenbeck and the company boomed in 1902 when gold was discovered at the base of the Columbia secretary, I.C. Tarrington (?). Not cancelled. Large vignette of an Mountains. Within two years the town had businesses, a bank, post eagle with other patriotic imagery. Also a vignette of an allegorical office, chamber of commerce, a lodge, city hall, the Columbia Club, and woman holding an American flag. Robbins & Co., Printers, SF. 25 cent a drug store. A weekly newsletter, “The Goldfield Review,” was locally Power of Attorney stamp attached upside down. Folds, some toning printed in 1904. Its mines were known for their rich, oxidized gold ore, and writing on reverse. Not in Filer. Not listed in the Collins 1864 and by 1907, the population had reached 1,500. With the construction Comstock Directory. Hollenbeck is listed as a wholesale grocer in of the Tonopah and Goldfield Railroad Depot, transportation costs the 1864 Langley SF Directory. Theodore Voizin is listed with Voizin, plummeted, and a ten stamp Goldfield Consolidated Mill was built. Ris & Co. auctioneers and commission merchants. No listing of this However, Columbia’s growth was dependent on Goldfield, and when mining company in the 1863 or 1864 Langley SF directories. No other Goldfield began to decline in 1908, Columbia did as well. Ken Prag references could be located. Est. $400-700 HWAC# 60619 Collection Est. $80-120 HWAC# 102548 Lot# 2546 Goldfield, Nevada 1904- Lot# 2550 Goldfield, Nevada 1905- 1908 “Nevada Goldfield” Mining 1917 Diamondfield Mining Stock Stock Certificates Lot of 6 different. 1) Certificate Collection Lot of 11 The Nevada Goldfields Mining Company. No. 546, issued in 1907, not Diamondfield stocks including a January Jones autograph. Included: cancelled. Heavy folds, toning. 2) Nevada-Goldfield Lease Company. January Jones Leasing & Developing Co. (1906, signed by January Jones No. 375, issued in 1908, not cancelled. Three mining vignettes. Folds as president, stamp cxl, mining vignettes); Diamondfield Black Butte with separation. 3) Nevada Goldfield Mining Company. No. 85, issued Re-Organized MC (3 stocks issued 1910-17, allegorical vignettes); in 1904. Folds, water damage, stains. In the 1907 Goldfield Gossip, Diamondfield Black Butte Cons. MC (issued 1905 & 1907, not cxl, listed as working the Esmeralda lease. 4) Nevada Goldfield Reduction multiple mining vignettes); Diamondfield Triangle MC of Nevada Company of Nevada. Three different: 1, 5, and 10 share certificates. (1906, signed by Monnette, not cxl, 3 mining vignettes); Diamondfield Text in English and French. Not dated. All have coupons attached. Ken Extension MC (1912, not cxl); Diamondfield Daisy GMC (1911 and Prag Collection Est. $120-150 HWAC# 102536 1912, not cxl, mining vignette); and Diamondfield North Star Mines Co. (1913, not cxl, 3 mining vignettes). Nice group, please inspect. Ken Prag Collection Est. $200-350 HWAC# 102532 178 May 2019

Lot# 2551 Goldfield, Nevada 1905- DAY 2 Fri, May 17 Mining 1917 Eleven Goldfield, Nevada Mining Stock Certificates Lot of 11, Lot# 2555 Goldfield, Nevada 1907- 10 different. Good group with some interesting vignettes! Includes: 1948 Goldfield “Florence” Mining Goldfield Hibernia MC (1906, not cxl, allegorical vignette); Adams Stock Certificate Collection Lot of Goldfield MC (1905, cxl); Hazel-Goldfield Mines Co. (1908, not cxl, 12 “Florence” mines stocks, with good variety. Included: Goldfield interesting mining vignette); Grizzly Bear MC (1909, not cxl, grizzly Florence Extension MC (1907); Little-Florence MC (1907); Red Hill bear vignette!); Vernal MC of Goldfield (1913, not cxl, eagle vignette); Florence MC (1924 (x2), 1938, 1948); Florence Annex Number Two Goldfield Treasure MC (1917, not cxl, mining vignette); Goldfield Hub (1908); Florence Divide MC (1919); Florence-Goldfield MC (1908); Mining & Milling Co. (1907, not cxl, nice mining vignette); Goldfield Florence Goldfield MC (1924, 1929); and Florence Wheeler MC Rosebush Leasing & MC (1907, not cxl, allegorical vignette); Goldfield (1908). Fair to good. Please inspect. Ken Prag Collection Est. $150- Reliance MC (1909, not cxl, mining vignette); and Goldfield Rex MC 200 HWAC# 102515 (1905 and 1907, not cxl, mining vignette). Please inspect. Ken Prag Collection Est. $200-250 HWAC# 102517 Lot# 2556 Goldfield, Nevada 1905-1929 Goldfield “Gold Bar” Lot# 2552 Goldfield, Nevada 1906- and “Homestake” Mining Stock 1913 Four Famous Goldfield Mining Certificates Lot of 5 different. 1) Gold Bar Fraction Mining Co. of Stock Certificates Lot of 4 different Goldfield. No. 215, issued in 1907, not cancelled. Eagle vignette. Folds, incl. important signatures (Douglass, Wingfield, Seyler, Humphrey). toning, some separation. 2) The Nevada Homestake Mines Company. 1) Nevada Boy Goldfield Mining Company. No. 452, issued for 500 No. 409, issued in 1906, not cancelled. Three mining vignettes. Nice. shares in 1906. Signed by WJ Douglass as president and the secretary. 3) The Goldfield Homestake Mining Company. No. 211, issued in 1905. Not cancelled. Black border and print, red title, allegorical vignette. Not cancelled. Gold border, five mining vignettes including ore buckets. Folds, toning. 2) Goldfield Meda Mining Company. No. 104, issued for Folds. 4) Goldfield Gold Bar Extension Mining Company. No. 621, 1,000 shares in 1906. Signed by George Wingfield as president and the issued in 1907, not canceled. Gold border and mining vignette. Heavy secretary. Not cancelled. Black border and print, allegorical vignette. folds, toning. 5) Nevada Homestake Mining Company. No. 15, issued in Pinholes, folds. 3) Seyler-Humphrey Gold Mining Company. No. 1776, 1929, not cancelled. Mining vignette. Folds. Ken Prag Collection Est. issued in 1907 for 1,000 shares. Not cancelled. Signed by president $120-200 HWAC# 102535 EE Seyler and secretary JC Humphrey. Black border and print, three mining vignettes. Folds. Seyler and Humphrey were the discoverers Lot# 2557 Goldfield, Nevada 1907- of Manhattan. 4) Goldfield Mines Operating Company. No. 827, issued 1929 Goldfield “Great Bend” Mining for 720 shares in 1913. Cut and pencil cancelled. Folds. Ken Prag Stock Certificate Collection Lot of 8, Collection Est. $110-150 HWAC# 102545 seven different. The Great Bend was in the “gut” of Goldfield, adjacent to the Daisy. Included: Great Bend Mines Company (1929, pencil cxl, Lot# 2553 Goldfield, Nevada 1907, photo vignette); Goldfield Great Bend MC (issued 1908 and 1915, not 1917 General Washington Mining cxl, mining vignettes); Great Bend Fraction MC (two different, issued Company Stock Certificates Lot of in 1907, eagle and mining vignettes, not cxl); Great Bend Twin MC 3, two different varieties, including one signed by Webb Parkinson. (1907, not cxl, Christmas colors); Great Bend Extension MC (1907, not 1) General Washington Mining Company. No. 77, issued in 1907 cxl, mining vignettes); and Great Bend Consolidated MC (1907, not to Parkinson and signed by Parkinson as president. Not cancelled. cxl). Fair to good condition overall. Please inspect. Ken Prag Collection Black border and print, with color vignette of George Washington in Est. $200-300 HWAC# 102529 Revolutionary War uniform. Also a smaller mining vignette. Pinholes, folds, toning. 2) General Washington Development Company. One Lot# 2558 Goldfield, Nevada 1906- issued stock (1917) and one unissued but with corp. signatures. 1934 Goldfield “Jumbo” Mining Not cancelled. Green border and background. Folds, stain. This is Stock Collection Lot of 8 “Jumbo” the c.1917 reorganization of the first company. Webb Parkinson was mining company stocks, most different. Included: Jumbo Junior MC a stock broker, tall, handsome and in his twenties. When he quickly (1917); Jumbo Annex MC (1907); Jumbo Extension Leasing & MC amassed a fortune, he must have been one of Goldfield’s most eligible (1906); Jumbo Extension MC (1907); Jumbo Junior MC (1915); Jumbo bachelors. So when he fell for Bonita, she returned his love. Bonita was Extension MC (1934 and unissued); different Jumbo Extension (1912). one of the most popular dancers in the tenderloin district. She always Fair to good. Please inspect. Ken Prag Collection Est. $120-200 HWAC# drew a crowd with her “gay sways and fetching costumes.” Webb and 102516 Bonita married and had a young dark haired son. They had a house in Goldfield and one in the Bay Area. Bonita became a beautiful and Lot# 2559 Goldfield, Nevada 1906- cultivated ornament to local society. But the crash of 1907 ended their 1919 Goldfield “Mohawk” Mining lavish life style. Then their five month old son died. Back in Goldfield Stock Collection Lot of 11 different Webb tried to regain his wealth. He was suspected, properly so, of “Mohawk” stocks from the gut of Goldfield. Most pictorial. Included: cheating on his wife. He took the bullets from Bonita’s gun fearing what Mohawk Leasing Syndicate (1906); Nevada-Mohawk Gold Mining & she might do. But she had spent long enough in the tough environs of Milling Co. (1908); Frances-Mohawk Mining & Leasing Co. (1907); Goldfield to be smart enough to buy new bullets. On night when Webb Mohawk Divide Mining Co. (1919); Mohawk-Jumbo Lease Co. (1906); walked in, she unloaded the gun on Webb. All except the last bullet Mohawk Junior Mining Co. (1906); Mohawk Annex Mining Co. (1907); which she left for herself! [Goldfield by Zanjani] Ken Prag Collection Mohawk-Red Top Leasing Co. (1907); Mohawk Extension Mining Co. Est. $80-10 HWAC# 102527 (1907); Mohawk Cons. Leasing Co. (1908); and Mohawk-Columbia Mining & Leasing Co. (1907). Nice group, please inspect. Ken Prag Lot# 2554 Goldfield, Nevada 1906- Collection Est. $180-300 HWAC# 102514 1912 Goldfield “Daisy” Mining Stock Certificate Group Lot of 6, five different. The Daisy Mine is located on McMahon Ridge, Goldfield District. Included: Daisy Extension Mines Co. (1906, not cxl, allegorical vignette); Daisy Belmont Ledge MC (1912, not cxl); Daisy Annex MC (1907, not cxl); and Goldfield Daisy Mining Syndicate (3 issued 1907-08, two different varieties, mining and allegorical vignettes, Diamondfield Section). Please inspect. Ken Prag Collection Est. $100- 150 HWAC# 102531 Bid online at FHWAC.com or call 775-851-1859 179

DAY 2 Fri, May 17 Mining Lot# 2564 Goldfield, Nevada 1905- 1961 Goldfield Consolidated Mines Lot# 2560 Goldfield, Nevada 1906- Stock Collection Lot of 18 stocks and 1907 Goldfield “Montezuma” one letter with map. Stocks issued 1905-1961. One unissued Goldfield Mining Stock Certificates Lot of 4 (3 Cons. East Extension Mines Company. Nine different varieties different). 1) Montezuma-Goldfield Mining Company Number One. represented, most with mining vignettes. Fair to good condition. Two stocks issued in 1906, incl. low number 11. One punch cancelled. According to the Mines Directory, Vol. 1 (1910), the company had Green border, black print, three mining vignettes. Folds, light wear. 2) 400 acres of mineralized land and 3,000 other acres including mill Montezuma Chief Mining Company. Issued in 1907 for 10,000 shares. sites and water rights. Formed from a consolidation of the Mohawk, Not cancelled. Black border and print, gold seal, multiple mining Jumbo, Laguna, and Red Top mining companies. Properties include vignettes. Folds, punch hole. 3) Golden Dream Montezuma Mining a 100-stamp mill, 20-stamp mill, and employ 350 men. Ken Prag Company. Issued in 1907, not cancelled. Gold border and seal. black Collection Est. $150-250 HWAC# 102510 print, 3 mining vignettes. Heavy folds, small tear. Ken Prag Collection Est. $100-200 HWAC# 102534 Lot# 2565 Goldfield, Nevada 1905 Goldfield May Queen Stock to Tasker Lot# 2561 Goldfield, Nevada 1906- Oddie, Signed by George Wingfield 1907 Goldfield “Silver Pick” Mining Great Nevada history piece! No. 375, issued for 500 shares to T.L. Stock Certificates Lot of 4 different. Oddie on May 25th, 1905 in Tonopah. Signed by president George The Silver Pick was adjacent to the Mohawk and Combination Mines. 1) Wingfield and secretary Larker. Not cancelled. Black border and print, Silver Pick Extension Mining Company. Issued in 1906, not cancelled. gold seal, three mining vignettes. Pinholes, folds, small tear. 5.5 x 10” Pinholes, folds. 2) Goldfield-Silver Pick Mining and Milling Company. Tasker Oddie was the 12th governor of Nevada (1911-15) and US Rare! Issued in 1906, not cancelled. Gold vignette of crossed mining Senator from Nevada (1921-33). George Wingfield was an influential picks. Pinholes, folds. 3) Gold Crown Silver Pick Leasing and Mining banking, mining, and political figure in Nevada. Wingfield rose from Company. Issued in 1907. Mining vignette. Poor condition. As is. 4) faro-dealer to the position of richest man in Nevada in less than five Silver Pick Consolidated Mining and Leasing Company. Issued in 1907, years. Ken Prag Collection Est. $80-100 HWAC# 102203 not cancelled. Gold border and mining vignette. Folds, stains. Ken Prag Collection Est. $100-110 HWAC# 102538 Lot# 2566 Goldfield, Nevada 1905 Goldfield Sierra Mining Company Lot# 2562 Goldfield, Nevada 1912- Stock Certificate Inc. in Colorado. No. 1934 Goldfield “Yellow Tiger” and 439, issued for 500 shares to James P. Morris on May 5th, 1905. Signed “Yellow Cat” Mining Stocks Lot of 7, by president E.A. Colburn and secretary J.A. Wright. Not cancelled. two different “yellow” cat mining companies. 1) Yellow Tiger Mining Attractive design with green background, black print, gold seal, and Company. Inc. in Arizona. Issued in 1912, punch cancelled. Green great vignette of early Goldfield (as a tent camp). Printed by Denver border, fancy logo, and tiger head vignette. Folds, creases, pinholes. 2) Litho Co. Folds, light wear. 8.75 x 11” According to Goldfield Gossip, Yellow Tiger Consolidated Mining Company. Four stocks, two varieties. 1907, the company had 8 claims, 103 acres. Developed by 40 feet One has the same design as 1) except the border is orange, issued in shafts. In 1919, the Yellow Tiger absorbed this company. Ken Prag 1917, not cancelled. The other 3 are brown border with no vignette, Collection Est. $80-100 HWAC# 102525 two issued (1923) and one unissued. The Yellow Tiger mine was in the Diamondfield section of the Goldfield District. 3) Goldfield Yellow Cat Lot# 2567 Goldfield, Nevada 1915- Mining Company. Two different stocks. One is issued in 1926, multiple 1980 Goldfield Stock Collection: mining vignettes. The other was issued in 1934, eagle vignette. Both Combination, Deep Mines, Merger have folds, but in good condition. According to the Reno Gazette, Lot of 14. 1) Goldfield Combination Fraction Mining Company. Three the Yellow Cat Mine was located 3 miles east of Goldfield. Ken Prag stocks, two different types. Includes: 1932, 1959, and unissued. 2) Collection Est. $150-250 HWAC# 102528 Goldfield Development Company. Three stocks, two different types. Issued 1920, 1926, and 1956. 3) Goldfield Deep Mines Company. Five Lot# 2563 Goldfield, Nevada 1907 stocks, three different types. Issued 1923, 1956, 1978, and 1980 (x2). Goldfield Combination Fraction 4) Goldfield Merger Mines Company. Two stocks, one unissued and Mining Co. Stocks signed by AD one issued in 1915. 5) Sandstorm Extension Mining Company. Issued Meyers Lot of 2 different, both signed by AD Meyers as president. in 1905 to James Rutherford. Signed by VP PN Beringer. Not cancelled. Meyers was one of the discovers of Goldfield and became a millionaire. Brown border and background, black print. Overall, fair condition. Meyers and RC Hart discovered the rich Combination Lode in May Please inspect. Ken Prag Collection Est. $100-200 HWAC# 102549 1903, reinvigorating interest in the area. The Combination Mine’s first shipments were made in December of 1903. In 1906, Francis Bosqui Lot# 2568 Goldfield, Nevada 1906- reported that, “The Combination mine, situated about one-half mile 1929 Goldfield Stocks: Cracker northeast of the town of Goldfield, consists of ten full claims and Jack, Combination, St. Ives Lot of three fractions, aggregating 200 acres…at the very outset of its career 6 different. Included: Combination Annex Mining Co. (1907, not cxl, as a gold producer, the Combination was blessed by the happiest mining vignettes); Goldfield Combination Mining Co. (1906, not cxl, accident that can befall a mine—it passed into good hands. It has been mining vignettes); Dewey Combination-Mine Lease Company (1907, well administered; it has had the benefit of the most approved and not cxl); Reorganized Cracker Jack Mining Co. (1929, not cxl, mining practical methods in mining and metallurgy” (Rickard ed., Recent and eagle vignette); different Reorganized Cracker Jack (1916, not cxl, Cyanide Practice, 1907). 1) No. 3854, issued for 50 shares in 1907. Not allegorical vignettes); and St. Ives Gold Mining & Milling Co. (1911, cancelled. Black border and print, three mining vignettes. Folds. 2) No. not cxl). Condition is fair with folds, soiling, separation. Please inspect. E45, issued in 1907 for 100 shares. Not cancelled. Green border and Ken Prag Collection Est. $120-150 HWAC# 102513 background, mining vignette. Folds. Ken Prag Collection Est. $80-100 HWAC# 102546 Images of ALL LOTS available online Visit the online catalog at FHWAC.com 180 May 2019

DAY 2 Fri, May 17 Mining Lot# 2569 Goldfield, Nevada 1907- Lot# 2574 Goldfield, Nevada 1905- 1917 Goldfield-Oro Mining Company 1909 Ten Different Goldfield, Nevada Stock Certificate Collection Lot of 6. Mining Stock Certificates Lot of Four different varieties. 1) Two issued in 1907, one cancelled, with gold 10 different. Includes: Royal Goldfield MC (1905, not cxl, lion head highlight in title, griffin vignette. Inc. in AZ Territory, 1904. Pinholes, vignette!); Majestic MC (1906, not cxl, allegorical vignette); Columbia folds. 2) Different version issued in 1907, punch cancelled, green Mountain Extension (1906, not cxl, eagle vignette); Talisman GMC border with turtle vignettes. Folds, pinholes. 3) Two stocks issued (1908, not cxl, mining vignettes); Mayne Goldfield MC (1907); in 1914 and 1915, green border with allegorical vignette. Pinholes, Marlview MC (1907, not cxl, allegorical vignette); Desert Chief MC folds with some separation, bends. 4) Version issued in 1917 with (1907, not cxl); Nancy Donaldson MC (1909, not cxl); Erma GMC orange border and mining vignette. Heavy folds with some separation, (1906 for 400,000 shares!, 3 mining vignettes); and Florida Goldfield toning. According to the Mines Register, 1918, the Goldfield-Oro MC (1905, not cxl, multiple mining vignettes). Please inspect. Ken Mining Company had 33 acres developed to 800 feet depth. $40 assays reported in 1916. Also developing the Vulture Mine in the Wonder Prag Collection Est. $190-250 HWAC# 102519 District. Ken Prag Collection Est. $120-200 HWAC# 102540 Lot# 2575 Goldfield, Nevada 1905- Lot# 2570 Goldfield, Nevada 1906 1934 Ten Different Goldfield, Nevada Milltown Mining Co. Stock to Horton Mining Stocks Lot of 10 different. & Signed by Wingfield Great Nevada Included: Goldfield-Century MC (1905, not cxl, mining vignette); history piece! No. 51, issued for 1,000 shares to F.E. Horton on March Goldfield Comanche MC (No. 4, 1907, not cxl, Native American 22, 1906. Signed by George Wingfield as president and the secretary. vignette); Goldfield Blue Bell MC (1924, not cxl, mine drilling vignette); Signed by Horton on reverse. Not cancelled. Black border and print, Goldfield Brooklyn MC (1907, not cxl, allegorical vignette); Goldfield gold seal and title. “Mines at Goldfield, Nevada” printed in background. Emperor MC (1915, pen cxl, eagle vignette); Goldfield Majestic GMC Three mining vignettes. Pinholes, heavy folds. 5.5 x 9.75” Wingfield (1908, not cxl, mining vignette); Nevada Co-Op MC (1914, not cxl); was a very important mining and banking figure in Nevada at the West Mines Corp. (1934, not cxl, mining vignette); Nevadan MC (1907, beginning of the 20th century. Horton was a figure in Goldfield before not cxl, eagle vignette); and Codd Mines Co. (1910, not cxl, mining being connected to the gold discovery and rush to Weepah in 1927. vignette). Fair to good condition. Please inspect. Ken Prag Collection Ken Prag Collection Est. $80-120 HWAC# 102547 Est. $180-250 HWAC# 102520 Lot# 2571 Goldfield, Nevada Mostly Unissued Goldfield, Nevada Mining Lot# 2576 Goldfield, Nevada 1905, 1917 Two Stock Certificates Lot of 11 different. Goldfield ‘Big Cat’ Stock Certificates 1) Royal Three are issued: Butler GMC (1928); Willcox Gold Mining & Leasing Co. Goldfield Mining Company. 1905 Number 79 fo (1910); and Wilson Silver Mines Cons. Co. (1919). Eight are unissued: 50,000 shares (that’s a lot!) to Ingalls & Company. Occident Divide MC; Community MC; Goldfield Commonwealth MC; This might refer to the Palace Saloon where Ingalls Goldfield-Constance MC; Silver Moon Leasing Co.; Brown Bonanza MC; (William, sheriff) and Shirley were proprietors Velvet-Ledge Goldfield Mining & Leasing Co.; and Universal Mining a listed in the 1909 Nevada Directory. Lion Improvement Co. Ken Prag Collection Est. $100-150 HWAC# 102493 vinette. 2) The Yellow Tiger Consolidated Mining Company. Number 1252 for 500 shares issued Lot# 2572 Goldfield, Nevada 1907 to Fred S Martin. Signed by H Ellis and J Borlan. Talmage Gold Mines Co. Stock Orange border. Tiger vignette. 16 assessment Certificate from the Talmage Gold Mines stamps! No apparent condition issues on either Co., incorporated in 1905, incorporated certificate. (Bennett Collection) Est. $100-200 in Wyoming, located in the Goldfield, certificate number 382, issued in 1907, HWAC# 59860 issued to M.D. Shipman, signed by C. Hays, and J. R. Young, printed by Out Lot# 2577 Goldfield, Nevada 1905, West Sts & Stay Co. Colorado Springs, 1908 Two Goldfield Stock Selling Co. size 10.25 by 6.75 inches, in Average condition, issued. Cherub Stock Certificates Lot of 2 different vignette titled May Talmage Hays. The main office was at Goldfield. companies selling mining stocks. Rare. 1) The Goldfield Mining, Charles W Hays ran a brokerage in Goldfield under the name of Hays Brokerage and Investment Company, Ltd. Issued in 1905 to John T. & Young.Charles Hays and J Ralph Young also sign the certificate. They were located at 123 Columbia (1909 Nevada Directory). Charles Hays Jarris. Signed by president John G. Frankland and the secretary. Not was also a director of the Nevada-Goldfield Mining Company in 1905. [Reno Evening Gazette] Est. $200-400 HWAC# 104794 cancelled. Black border and print, green seal, mining vignette. Heavy folds, toning. 2) The Goldfield Securities Syndicate Company. Issued in Lot# 2573 Goldfield, Nevada 1905- 1908 to Zerbe. Signed by president House and secretary Palmer. Black 1909 Ten Different Goldfield Mining Stock Certificates Lot of 10. Included: print and gold seal. Heavy folds with separation, toning. Ken Prag Little Goldfield MC (1909, water damage); Lone Jack Mining Co. of Goldfield, Nevada (1906, not cxl); The February Gold MC (1905, signed Collection Est. $100-200 HWAC# 102539 by Sol Camp who was a mining engineer from Colorado and he teamed with L.L. Patrick to promote mining ventures, not cxl); Lincoln- Lot# 2578 Goldfield, Nevada 1906, Goldfield Mining & Leasing Co. (1909, not cxl); Golden Era Mining Co. 1923 Two John Sparks Goldfield of Goldfield (1907, not cxl); Goldfield Columbia MC ( 1907, not cxl)’ Stocks incl. Autograph Lot of 2 Gold Medal Mining & Leasing Co. of Goldfield (1908, not cxl); Muncie different with John Sparks connections. Sparks, known as “Honest Goldfield MC (1906, not cxl); Mushett Lease Co. (1908, not cxl); and John,” was the 10th governor of Nevada (1903-08). During this Black Rock Goldfield Mining & Milling Co. (1905, not cxl). Fair to good administration, a state railroad commission was formed; the Nevada condition. Please inspect. Ken Prag Collection Est. $200-250 HWAC# State Police was organized; an eight-hour work day bill for miners 102202 was passed; and a state engineering office was created. 1) The Nevada Amalgamated Mining, Milling and Leasing Company. No. 310, issued to TR Hofer in 1906. Hofer was an important banking figure in Carson City and also served as the superintendent of the Carson City Mint. Signed by John Sparks as president and the secretary. Not cancelled. Gold border, mining vignette. Folds. 2) Reorganized Cracker Jack Mining Company. Issued in 1923 to J.W. Sparks and Co. Not cancelled. Orange border and black print. Pinholes, folds, soiling. Ken Prag Collection Est. $80-100 HWAC# 102542 Bid online at FHWAC.com or call 775-851-1859 181

DAY 2 Fri, May 17 Mining Lot# 2579 Goldfield, Nevada 1908 Lot# 2582 Humboldt County, Nevada Cons. Nevada Mines Syndicate Stock 1863 Gov. Bigler Gold & Silver Mining Signed by Co-Discoverer of Goldfield Co. Stock Certificate Issued to Bigler Great Nevada autograph piece! Inc. in Arizona. No. 361, issued for Star District, Humboldt County, Nevada Territory (printed above title). No. 8,000 shares to F.C. Ninnis on Oct. 24th, 1908. Signed by vice-president 111, issued for 25 shares to California governor John Bigler, who was also H.C. Stimler and act. secretary E.L. Maddison. Not cancelled. Green signs as president of the company. John Bigler and his brother, former border, red and black print, 3 mining vignettes, and green seal. Heavy Pennsylvania governor William Bigler, also sign the reverse. Two governor folds, toning. H(arry) Stimler, a half Shoshone, is credited with the signatures! Not cancelled. Portrait co-discovery of gold in the Goldfield area. Stimler and William Marsh vignette of Bigler at left. Black border and print. Folds, excellent followed Shoshone prospector Tom Fisherman to the site and staked condition. 3.5 x 8.5” John Bigler was the third governor of California and the namesake of Lake Bigler (which became Lake Tahoe). He claims in late 1902. They located three claims on the north ridge of was the first to serve two consecutive terms. During his time in office (1852-1856), he moved the capitol to Sacramento and a branch mint Columbia Mountain, The Sandstorm. Kruger and May Queen, and was opened in San Francisco. Ken Prag Collection Est. $600-1000 named the new mining district “Grandpa”. The first claim was named Sandstorm because they located it during a sandstorm. The third HWAC# 100991 claim, May Queen, was named in honor of Stimler’s brother’s wife May and his own wife’s first name Queen. The Cons. Nevada Mines Syndicate, inc. in 1908, had claims in Goldfield, Tonopah, Manhattan, Bullfrog, and other areas in Southern Nevada. Ken Prag Collection Est. $80-120 HWAC# 102521 Lot# 2580 Goldfield, Nevada 1904- Lot# 2583 Humboldt County, Nevada 1909 Ten Different Goldfield, Nevada 1883 Humboldt Nickel & Copper Mining Stock Certificates Lot of 10 Mining Company Stock VERY RARE. different. Included: Goldfield Northern MC (1906, not cxl, mining Number 45 for 40 shares to Albert vignettes); Goldfield-Gladiator MC (1905, not cxl); Goldfield-Noble MC (1906, not cxl, patriotic allegorical vignette); Goldfield Argus MC Larrabee. Signed by N Whitman and (1909, not cxl, mining vignettes); Goldfield Bullion MC (1907, not cxl, president Joseph Schroeder. Dateline mining vignettes); Goldfield Simmerone MC (1905, not cxl, mining Chicago 1883. Incorporated in Illinois. vignettes); Goldfield Red King MC (1907, not cxl, mining vignettes); Goldfield-Herald MC (1905, not cxl, allegorical vignette); Goldfield Rex Very strong gold seal. Not cancelled. MC (1904, not cxl, mining vignette); and Goldfield Hibernia MC (1907, Underground mining vignette. The not cxl, eagle vignette). Generally good condition. Please inspect. Ken Milwaukee Litho & Engr. Co. printer. Prag Collection Est. $190-250 HWAC# 102518 Nicks at fold edges. Nice condition. In 1883 Benjamin Goodhue advertised mining properties with a Chicago Connection. The Humboldt Nickel and Copper Company had 12 properties in Churchill & Humboldt counties in Nevada. The Monarch and British Queen mines are the most remarkable known to have been discovered! They average from 39% to 65% nickel. [Chicago’s First Half Century, 1833-1883 by Inter Ocean Publishing]. Ken Prag Collection Est. $150-300 HWAC# 81614 Lot# 2581 Humboldt County, Nevada 1867 Chico Gold & Silver Lot# 2584 Humboldt County, Nevada Mining Co. Stock Certificate Signed by California Pioneer John 1879 Mount Rose Mining Company Bidwell Hardin District, Humboldt County, Nevada (printed at upper Stock Certificate Location: Humboldt left). No. 41, issued to J. A. Wetherbee for 20 shares in 1867. Signed Co., State of Nevada (printed along by J. Bidwell, president and Jas. C. Martin, secretary. Not cancelled. the bottom).No. 106, issued for 500 Vignette of building, ore being dumped at left from ore car, wagon and shares issued to the company secretary horses out front. Black border. John Bidwell was a California pioneer on Feb. 25th, 1879 in SF. Signed by who settled at Bidwell, now Chico. Bidwell worked for John Sutter, president BW Mudd and the secretary (illegible). Not cancelled. Black fought with him in the Mexican War in 1844 and later with Fremont. border and print. Printed by AL Bancroft & Co., SF. Pinholes, folds, He was with Sutter right after Marshalls discovery and found gold creases, missing upper right corner. 4 x 8.25” Not in Filer. Mining was on the Feather River. Bidwell was in politics, friends of the Indians, done in the Red Hills on the north side of Paradise Valley. The company and was a source of political and economic stability for the region. was formed in 1873. [Ref: Prehistory and history of the Winnemucca The Hardin District had a fair bit of prospecting in the 1860’s but it District, Smith, pg. 121] The Mount Rose Mining District of Humboldt did not continue much longer. Bidwell must have had great hope in County was discovered in 1868, organized in 1873, with Spring City Hardin but any ore that may have been present was played out early. the central mining camp. [Ref: Tingley] () Ken Prag Collection Est. Hardin District is located at Black Rock which is known by that name. $120-200 HWAC# 91868 Extremely fine. () Ken Prag Collection Est. $300-500 HWAC# 100738 Lot# 2585 Humboldt County, Nevada 1866 Nevada Star Mining Company Stock Certificate Extra rare! Star District, Humboldt County, Nevada (printed on either side of vignette). No. 132, issued for 2 shares to CH Sweetman of California on Jan. 1st, 1866 in New York. Signed by president John Travers (?) and secretary Nichols. Not cancelled. Black border and print. Two mining vignettes: hoisting scene (left) and surface works (top center). Printed by Ferd. Mayer & Co., NY. One 25 cent IR adhesive stamp attached at bottom right. Folds with some separation, areas of heavy toning. 6.75 x 11” Not in Filer or other Holabird indexes. Nothing found in CDNC. Ken Prag Collection Est. $400-800 HWAC# 100992 182 May 2019

DAY 2 Fri, May 17 Mining Lot# 2586 Humboldt County, Nevada Lot# 2590 Humboldt County, Santa 1878 Seminole Silver Mining Company Clara, Nevada 1863 Bunker Hill Stock Certificate Property situated in Gold & Silver Mining Company # 74 Buena Vista District, Humboldt County, for 20 shares to EW Pratt. Signed by Nevada (printed above vignette). Inc. William H Martin and president SW in New Jersey (New York crossed out). Hollaway. Dateline 1863 San Francisco. No. 32, issued for 14,300 shares to Incorporated March 14, 1863. Small 5c Janet Schenck on May 23, 1878. Signed and 20c revenue stamps. Not cancelled. by president George Schenck and secretary GC Shenck. Not cancelled. Eagle, Drum and flag vignette. Towne & Bacon printer. Location: Black border and print. Two allegorical vignettes. Folds, light other Clinton Quartz Lode, Santa Clara District, Humboldt County, N. T. Stain wear. 6.5 x 11” According to an archive of Seminole Silver Mining Co. left side. Rips and tears along borders. The only reference we found material at Yale, the mine was at Unionville. It appears they owned to this company doing a quick search was a 25c per share assessment the Sunset Lode. Not listed in Filer or Holabird indexes. Ken Prag in July of 1863. The Santa Clara district was to the north of the Star Collection Est. $200-300 HWAC# 100963 district in the Santa Clara Canyon drainage. Both historic districts are now included in the Star district. These districts actually lie in present Lot# 2587 Humboldt County, Nevada 1907-1962 day Mineral County. Ken Prag Collection Est. $400-600 HWAC# 91908 Three Humboldt County, Nevada Mining Stock Certificates Lot of 3 different. 1) Nevada-Superior Lot# 2591 La Plata, Churchill County, Mines Company. Jungo. Issued in 1907 in Salt Lake Nevada 1865 Warren Silver Mining City for 1,000 shares. Not cancelled. Toning, deep Company Stock # 113, issued to folds, huge tape repairs. 2) Wyoming-Nevada Francis W. Gove, 20 shares, signed Copper Company. Humboldt City. Issued in 1917 by Samuel W. Pingree, President and for 50,000 shares. Not cancelled. Folds, toning. 3) Emmet Blair, Secretary. November 14, Western Alloys Incorporated. Valmy. Issued in 1962. 1865. Warren Silver Mining Co. was Photo vignette of rock outcrop. Pinholes, folds. Ken incorporated in New York. Vignette of a Prag Collection Est. $80-120 HWAC# 101591 miners working a strip mining operation. Vignette at left of a woman with shield. Black border with pink seal. 6.5 x 11.25”. Nice condition. Lot# 2588 Humboldt County, Nevada Some edge and corner issues. Issued when the state of Nevada was 1879 & 1888 Two Humboldt County, one year and two weeks old! Uncancelled. This was issued during the Nevada Mining Stock Certificates two years La Plata was the county seat of Churchill County. La Plata Lot of 2 different. 1) Adelaide Copper never reached a population of more than a couple of hundred. On top Company. Gold Run Mining District, of that it was, like most Nevada mining camps, in a remote mountain Humboldt Co., Nev. (printed top area. La Plata was given the county seat, because the current county center). No. 26, issued for 100 shares seat was Buckland Station. That’s right a wagon station in an area with to the company president Roulstone a few ranches - and, oh yes, Fort Churchill - was the first county seat. (?) in 1888. Not cancelled. Black border In 1867 the county seat was moved to Stillwater, a small town with a and print. Mining vignette. Crocker & lot of ranches. The ore was surface, ran out quickly, and by 1867 there Co., SF. Deep folds, pinholes. 2) Arthur was little population left and no real mining! Ken Prag Collection Est. Consolidated Gold & Silver Mining Company. Location: Mount Rose $150-300 HWAC# 91887 Mining District, Nevada. Dateline Paradise, Nev. April 3, 1879. Very poor condition. Soiling, huge tape repairs. Ken Prag Collection Est. Lot# 2592 Lander County, Nevada $200-300 HWAC# 100935 1909-1961 Lander County & Austin Mining Stock Collection Lot of 14. Lot# 2589 Humboldt County, Oro Most have mining vignettes. Includes: Fino, Nevada 1863 Tilley Tunnel Austin Manhattan Cons. Mining and Mining Company Stock # 26 Company (1909, not cxl); Nevada Austin for 25 shares (150 feet) to Joseph Mines Company (1917, not cxl); Gold Knowlton. Signed by Henry Leffingwell Sun Mining Company (partially issued, and president Tilley. WJ Tilley was princ. office in Austin); Austin Copper a salesman with RG Sneath (grocer King Development & Exploration Co. importer and wholesaler). Leffingwell was a real estate broker. Dateline (two unissued); Ruby Mountain Mining San Francisco 1863. Incorporated April 1863. 25c Certificate revenue Company of Austin (two unissued); stamp. Not cancelled. Ore cart vignette. Towne & Bacon printer. 1800 Magna Gold Mines Company (1927, shares, $300 shaes, $540,000. Handwritten ‘6 feet each’ under 1800 not cxl); Central Nevada Land & Livestock Co. (Austin, 1911, punch shares. Also ‘Great Eastern Series’ under name of mine. The Oro Fino cxl); Austin Silver Mining Co. (1937, not cxl); Lander Metalics and district was to the south of the Sierra district and included the Natchez Non-Metalics Co. (unissued); Austin Hanapah Mining Co. (unissued and Yo Semite mines on east slope of range; Oro Fino was annexed to but corp. signatures); Austin Mining and Milling Co. (unissued); and the Sierra district in 1869. The town of Dun Glen served the Sierra Apex Minerals Corporation (1961, not cxl). Please inspect. Ken Prag district. Ken Prag Collection Est. $400-600 HWAC# 91907 Collection Est. $100-200 HWAC# 102194 View High Resolution Images, Register, Place Bids, See Current Opening Bids Visit the online catalog at FHWAC.com Bid online at FHWAC.com or call 775-851-1859 183

DAY 2 Fri, May 17 Mining Lot# 2593 Lander County, Nevada Lot# 2596 Lander County, Austin, Nevada 1905-1932 Lander County, Nevada 1865 & 1881 Two Nevada Mining Stocks: Mining Stock Collection Lot of Austin (w/ Governor Sig.) and Eureka 5 different. 1) Elko-Lander Mines Lot of 2. 1) Bunker Hill Silver Mining Company. Bannock. Issued in 1911, not Company of Reese River. No. 18, issued cxl, mining vignettes. Folds, missing in 1865 for 50 shares to William Bigler, corner. 2) The Bullion Hill Mining former governor of Pennsylvania and Company. Bullion Mt. near Beowawe. brother to John Bigler, third governor of Issued in 1906 for 1,00 shares. Not California. Signed by William Bigler on cxl. Folds, chip. 3) Gold Quartz Mining the reverse. Also signed by the president Co. of Lander County, Nevada. Issued (David Lasy?) and secretary A.B. Cochran. in 1905, not cxl. Mining vignette. Folds, light wear. 4) Hider Nevada Not cancelled. Black border and print, Copper Company. Issued in 1907 for 2,500 shares. Punch cancelled. mining vignette.Folds, red ink stain on Three mining vignettes. Deep folds with some separation. 5) Placer reverse. 2) Bowman Silver Mining Company. Eureka, Nevada (printed Gold Relief Corp. Issued in 1932 for 25,000 shares. Not cxl. Three under title). No. 213, issued for 200 shares in 1881 in Kittery, ME. mining vignettes. Ken Prag Collection Est. $100-120 HWAC# 101599 Signed by president Wiley and treasurer Fisk. Not cancelled. Black border and print. Pinholes, folds, some soiling and toning. Ken Prag Lot# 2594 Lander County, Nevada Collection Est. $150-300 HWAC# 100924 1865 New York Silver Mining Co. of Nevada Stock Certificate, 1865 Inc. Lot# 2597 Lander County, Lewis in New York. No. 262. Issued for 10 District, Nevada 1881 Betty O’Neal shares to D.W. Chambers on September Mining Co. Stock Certificate Location 21st, 1865. Signed by Thomas Sproull of Works: Lewis District, Lander County, as president and S.R. Hutchinson as secretary. Not cancelled. Unusual Nevada (printed at left). Inc. June 1879. vignette at top center showing three miners working a drill into the No. 559, issued for 50 shares to Edward surface. Second vignette at the bottom right showing miners lowering G. Reynolds on March 12th, 1881 in San Francisco. Signed by president a windlass to other miners working underground. Printed by Henry H.H. Allen and secretary Heath. Not cancelled. Black border and print. Siebert & Bros. 25 cent revenue stamp attached lower left. Folds, very No printer listed. Pinholes, folds, many creases, chipped corner. 4 x fine. This company is likely related to the New York & Austin SMC, 9.5” The mine was located 12 miles southwest of Battle Mountain in the Plymouth SMC, and the New York & Boston SMC; all New York the Shoshone Range. The Betty O’Neal was first mined in 1880. The financed mines in Reese River at Austin. They leased the Troy Mine on mine produced gold and silver. When gold was discovered in Lewis Lander Hill in the gut of the district. It had a 500’ deep shaft in 1869. Canyon, about 10.5 miles southeast of Battle Mountain, people in They produced 26 tons of ore with a yield of $6,500 between January and around Amherst rushed to purchase stock in the new company. and July, 1869. The mine produced $83,000 through 1877. Not listed But when the company announced the proposed construction of a in Abbe, Brown, or Ross. [Ref: Raymond 1870]. Thomas Sproull was a 12-mile narrow gauge railroad from Lewis Junction to the town of theological professor, editor of the Reformed Presbyterian, and was Lewis and the mines south of town, and dividends ceased to be paid, well respected. His business interests clearly turned to mining but it is many investors sold their shares. The line was completed in 1881. doubtful he would have made it out to Nevada. His name would have Accumulated debt, however, quickly caused the sale of the railroad helped attract money to the company. Est. $250-400 HWAC# 60643 right-of-way, and soon after the Starr-Grove mine went bankrupt, and operations ceased. [Ref: Railroads of Nevada and Eastern California, Lot# 2595 Lander Myrick] Ken Prag Collection Est. $100-150 HWAC# 100921 County, Austin, Nevada 1866 New England & Lot# 2598 Lander County, Lewis Nevada Silver Mining District, Nevada 1880 Starr-Grove Co. Stock Certificate Not Silver Mining Company Stock seen before. Organized Certificate Lewis District, Lander Co., with the secret intention Nevada (printed on certificate). Inc. of raising money to build a in New York. No. 150, issued for 150 church in Austin, Nevada! shares to M.E. Feyh on Dec. 6th, 1880. Inc. in Massachusetts. No. Signed by president William S Clark and 298, issued for 50 shares secretary John Bathwell. Not cancelled. to Charles E. Richardson Black border and print. Allegorical vignette with woman and bald on May 4th, 1866 in eagle. Also small dog head vignette at bottom. Printed by ABN. 7 x Boston. Signed by president William Sias and treasurer William J. 10.5” Pinholes, folds, creases. William Smith Clark (1826-1886) of Osborn. Not cancelled. Ornate black border and print, pink corp. Amherst, MA was also the president of the Massachusetts Agricultural seal. Two vignettes: allegorical woman (left) and miners (top center). College (now University of Massachusetts at Amherst), as well as Printed by A.R. Gay & Co., Boston. One 25 cent adhesive revenue stamp president of Sapporo Agricultural College in Japan (now Hokkaido attached on the right side, stamp cancelled. 7.5 x 10.75” Deep folds with University). When gold was discovered in Lewis Canyon, about 10.5 1.5” separation along one fold. Other light wear. The main reference to miles southeast of Battle Mountain, people in and around Amherst, this company we could find mention that one of its principal backers Clark’s home town, rushed to purchase stock in the new company. was Austin religious figure J.L. Trefren. Trefen organized the company But when the company announced the proposed construction of a to raise money to build the Austin Methodist Church (built in 1866)! 12-mile narrow gauge railroad from Lewis Junction to the town of The church was built and a fine organ was purchased (possibly the Lewis and the mines south of town, and dividends ceased to be paid, first church organ in Nevada) before the scheme collapsed. It appears many investors sold their shares. The line was completed in 1881. the company dissolved in 1872. No production information located. Accumulated debt, however, quickly caused the sale of the railroad [The Works of Hubert Howe Bancroft: History of Nevada, Colorado, right-of-way, and soon after the Starr-Grove mine went bankrupt, and and Wyoming. 1890, pg.295] () Ken Prag Collection Est. $300-600 operations ceased. [Ref: Railroads of Nevada and Eastern California, HWAC# 91857 Myrick] Ken Prag Collection Est. $100-200 HWAC# 100880 184 May 2019

DAY 2 Fri, May 17 Mining Lot# 2599 Lander County, Reese Lot# 2603 Lander River, Nevada 1905 Austin-Goldfield County, Reese River, Mining Company Stock Certificate (Wingfield Signed) We’ve never had this before! Inc. Oct. 1904. No. Nevada 1866 Reese River 72, issued for 1,000 shares to George Watt on Jan. 3rd, 1905. Signed Consolidated Company by president Robert Watt and secretary JH Thompson. Signed on the Stock Certificate Inc. back by George Wingfield! Not cancelled. Black border and print, in New York. No. 327, green background, mining vignette. No printer listed. 8.25 x 11” Deep folds with tape-repaired separations; heavy soiling; water damage. issued for 300 shares to J. Principal office in Reno. Listed in 1905 as one of the 5 producing mines in Lander County and being in the Reese River District. Listed Kennedy Smyth on August in 1909 as still operating and having “shipped screenings from the dumps.” [Ref: Mineral Resources of the US, Day, 1905; 1909] Ken Prag 30th, 1866. Signed by Collection Est. $80-120 HWAC# 102526 president Ogden and the Lot# 2600 Lander County, Reese River, Nevada 1865 Coral & Aspinwall treasurer (illegible). Not cancelled. Black border and print on thin Silver Mining Co. Stock Certificate Wow! Amador District, Lander County. paper. Allegorical vignette at center with two women and an eagle. Ledges: Coral 1,000 feet, Aspinwall 2,600 feet, Reese River, Nevada Small Nevada state seal vignette on the left border. Printed by Henry (printed in left border). Inc. in NY. No 141, issued for 50 shares to Sarah J. Pierce of Dover, NH on August Seibert & Bros., NY. One 25 cent adhesive revenue stamp at right, 1st, 1865. Signed by vice-president R. Peterson and secretary Chas. H. Dougherty. Not cancelled. Fancy black border and title. No vignette. pen cancelled. 6 x 11.5” Horizontal and vertical folds, dog ear corner. Printed covered by 25 cent adhesive revenue stamp, pen cancelled. 4 x 8.75” Pinholes, folds, light toning. Not in Filer. According to American Clean. According to Raymond, 1872, the properties of this company Mining Gazette and Geological Magazine, Volume 2, Issue 1, (1865), “Professor Silliman expresses a favorable opinion of its resources.” were purchased by the Manhattan and consisted of about forty claims The Amador Mining District was 6 miles north of Austin around New on Lander and Union hills including the Whitlatch Union, Whitlatch York Canyon and later incorporated into the Reese River district. [Ref: Yankee Blade, Savage, Wall, Isabella, and many more. The Reese Mining Districts of Nevada, Tingley] () Ken Prag Collection Est. $400- 800 HWAC# 91820 River Cons. Co. was “in some way entangled in the affairs of the First Lot# 2601 Lander County, Reese River, National Bank of Nevada, which failed, and the mines were sold by the Nevada 1868 Lane & Fuller Silver sheriff, for $60,000, to the Manhattan Company” (pg.170). () Ken Prag Mining Company Stock Certificate Collection Est. $300-500 HWAC# 100723 No. 16, issued for 35 shares to John S. Reyes on August 12th, 1868 in Boston. Lot# 2604 Lander Signed by J. Washington Warren, president, and M. Dyer, treasurer. County, Reese Not cancelled. Ornate design with black border and print, fancy logo and vignette of scenic mine in the River, Nevada mountains. Printed by T.R. Holland, Boston. 25 cent IR adhesive stamp attached on the right, pen cancelled. Vertical and horizontal folds, 1866 Revenue rough edges, minor separation along a few folds. 6.5 x 10.75” Located in the Reese River Mining District near Austin Nevada, the Lane & Extension Silver Fuller mine had a union problem in 1872. 40 union men went to the mine demanding $4 a day and the President and 28 members were Mining Co. of arrested for riot. Unionization could not be effective because much of the mining was still being done by owners of small properties who did Nevada Stock their own work. [Townley, 1982] () Ken Prag Collection Est. $200- 400 HWAC# 100736 Certificate Wow! Lot# 2602 Lander County, Reese This is one of the River, Nevada 1885 Manhattan Silver Mining Company Stock Certificate most striking Rare stock for this important Austin mining company. “Reese River Mining mining stocks Dist., Lander County, Nev.” printed at bottom center. Inc. Feb. 1875. No. 5357, we’ve ever seen. issued for 70 shares to David E. Baily on Sept. 7th, 1885. Signed by president A.K.P. Harrison and secretary John No. 20, issued for Crockwell. Not cancelled. Black border and print. Very fancy logo with allegorical imager (women, eagle, train) wrapped around the letter 10 shares to Julius “M.” Printed by Britton & Rey. 5.25 x 9.5” Folds, pinholes, creases. Ken Prag Collection Est. $100-200 HWAC# 100878 Georgii on April 7th, 1866 in Philadelphia. Signed by president Geo. P. Fisher and secretary Wm. Kite. Not cancelled. Highly illustrated brown border with mining and smelting vignettes along the bottom, an allegorical woman on the left, and a prospector on the right. Company title and text printed in black. Stein & Jones Lith, Philadelphia. One 25 cent IR adhesive stamp with tied cancel at bottom center. Deep folds, very clean. 6.5 x 9.5” All of our information for this company comes from a very detailed advertisement of theirs in the Oct. 25th, 1865 Philadelphia Age newspaper. The mining claims were in the Reese River Mining District, Lander County, Nevada, one-half mile from Austin on Lander Hill. They claim the Revenue Ledge has provided the richest ores in Nevada, and cite assay results from Theall & Co. and Orlando Jennings showing assays of up to $11,000 in silver per ton. The ad also features analysis and praise of the property by Professor CP Williams and mining engineer J.E. Clayton, who says “other mines may surpass it in quantity of ore, but none can surpass it in quality.” Company president George P. Fisher was nominated by President Lincoln on March 10, 1863, to a seat on the newly created Supreme Court of the District of Columbia. He was confirmed by the United States Senate and received his commission the next day. In 1867, Fisher presided over the trial of John Surratt, one of the Lincoln assassination conspirators. In May 1, 1870, Fisher resigned as judge to accept an appointment as United States Attorney for the District of Columbia, serving until 1875. Ken Prag Collection Est. $400-600 HWAC# 100816 Bid online at FHWAC.com or call 775-851-1859 185

DAY 2 Fri, May 17 Mining Lot# 2605 Lander County, Reese Lot# 2609 Lincoln County, Ely River, Nevada 1867 The Providential Mining District, Nevada 1873 Chief Silver Mining Co. of Nevada Stock East Extension Mining Co. Stock Certificate Not seen by us before. Inc. Certificate Ely Mining District, Lincoln in New York. No. 70, issued for 239 County, Nevada (printed upper right). shares to A.F. Gay on Jan. 9th, 1867 Inc. Sept. 1872. No. 630, issued for in NY. Signed by president H. Henry 100 shares to F.W. Clute on Aug. 2, Baxter and secretary Wm. Lemmon. 1873 in San Francisco. Signed by president Beaver and the secretary Not cancelled. Black border and print, R. Wegener. Not cancelled. Black border and print. Vignette of Native ornate company title, and small vignette of miners with headlamps. American. Printed by Wheeler, Phelan & Co., SF. 4 x 9.25” Pinholes, Printed by JO Seymour & Co., NY. One 25 cent adhesive revenue stamp folds, toning. In the 1880 SF directory, this company is listed with the attached at lower left. Horizontal and vertical folds, as well as some same officers but doing work in White Pine County. The Ely District wrinkling, but remarkably clean and bright for an 1860s stock! 6.75 x was relatively dormant between 1880 and 1906. Massive quantities 10.75” The Providential Mine is mentioned in the 1866 prospectus for of copper were found in the area decades after the initial boom of the the Hattie Silver Mining Company of Reese River. While it was initially 1870s. Nevada previously had no copper production until this time. not providing enough ore for their mill, a recent large discovery This certificate is from the early boom period just a few years after has made it be “considered one of the best mines in Nevada.” The the town of Pioche was named. () Ken Prag Collection Est. $150-250 Providential also has 40-horse power hoisting works. [Ref:Report for HWAC# 91864 the Hattie Silver Mining Company, of Nevada, 1866, pg. 6, 17] () Ken Prag Collection Est. $260-400 HWAC# 91860 Lot# 2610 Lyon County, Nevada Brooks Gold and Silver Mining Stock Lot# 2606 Lander County, White Pine, I/U #85 AH Henrick 50 shares 1875. Nevada 1869 California Silver Mining Ore car vignette. Signed by President Company Stock Certificate Not seen Carr. Folds and edge curls. Framed Est. before by FH. “White Pine Mining $120-200 HWAC# 91302 District, Lander County, Nev.” (printed under title). Inc. Jan. 1869. No. 40, Lot# 2611 Lyon County, Coleman issued for 80 shares to S.W. Glazier on District, Nevada 1872 Alaska June 23, 1869 in San Francisco. Signed Consolidated Mining Co. Stock by president A.P. Stauferd(?) and the secretary. Not cancelled. Ornate Certificate Coleman Mining District, black border and print, vignette of California state seal. Printed by Lyon County, Nev. (printed at bottom Turnbull & Smith. 25 cent adhesive revenue stamp attached on the left side, pen cancelled. Folds, clean. 5 x 10” Not listed in the 1869 or center). Inc. March 1872. No. 48, issued 1871 SF directories. No additional information located. () Ken Prag Collection Est. $200-300 HWAC# 91836 for 5 shares to Theo. Stone on April Lot# 2607 Lee, Nevada 1906 and 1907 Two 30th, 1872. Signed by president JHH Williams and secretary Geo. R. Lee, Nevada Mining Stock Certificates Lot of 2 different. Lee, Echo Mining District, Nye Spinney. Not cancelled. Ornate black border and company logo, no County. The Lee District is located 8 miles east vignette. Printed by Wheeler, Phelan & Co., SF. One 25 cent US IR stamp of Leeland (a station on old T&TRR) and west attached on the left. Pinholes, folds, border trimmed tight all the way of the Big Dune (a sand dune) in the Amargosa Desert. The district covers an area of low hills in around. 4.5 x 9.5” This district is not listed by Tingley. Not a district the Amargosa desert adjacent to the California- Nevada state line. 1) Lee Bonanza Gold Mining listed for Lyon County on mindat.org. Not in Filer or other Holabird Company. Inc. in South Dakota, 1906. “Rhyolite, Nevada” printed in the upper right corner. No. indexes. Not in Carlson. Besides mentions of the incorporation and 95, issued for 1,000 shares in 1906. Signed by assessments, we can find no other specific information about this president Ray and secretary John Beckman. Not company. Rare district! Ken Prag Collection Est. $300-500 HWAC# cancelled. Green border, gold title. Three mining vignettes and also an underprint vignette of a Native American chief. Folds, toning. 2) 100917 Hayseed Mining Company. Mines in Lee, Echo Mining District (printed under title). Inc. in SD. No. 256, issued for 100 shares to Clay Tallman Lot# 2612 McGill, Nevada Copper in 1907. Signed by Sam. Lindsay, president, and the secretary. Not Ingot Crude Skeleton Key Shape cancelled. Black border and print. Folds. Ken Prag Collection Est. Unusual skeleton key shaped copper $200-400 HWAC# 101632 ingot from Nevada Consolidated Lot# 2608 Lincoln County, Nevada Copper Co, McGill, NV. 6x11.5” Est. 1912-1929 Four Different Lincoln $300-500 HWAC# 57168 County, Nevada Mining Stocks Lot of 4. 1) Lucy Gray Gold Mining Company. Lot# 2613 Nye Lyons. Issued in 1912 for 1,000 shares. Multiple mining vignettes. Folds with County, Nevada separation. 2) Great Western Mining & Developing Company. Cave Valley 1880 Continental District. Issued for 1,000 shares in 1929. Not cxl. Eagle vignette. Folds. 3) Silver Mining Silverhorn Mining and Development Co. Silverhorn. No. 4, issued in 1921. Not cancelled. Multiple mining vignettes. Staple holes, folds, Company Stock tape repairs, toning. 4) Elgin Gold Mining Company. Fay. Issued in 1916 for 12,000 shares. Not cxl. Multiple mining vignettes. Folds. Ken Certificate Mines Prag Collection Est. $80-120 HWAC# 101598 at Reveille, Nye County (printed under title). Inc. in New York. No. 29, issued for 500 shares to W. Lees on Dec. 13th, 1880. Signed by president Benjamin R. Western and secretary William A. Hull. Not cancelled. Ornate border and company logo. Very small vignette at bottom of boy. Printed by Badeau, NY. 5 x 9.5” Pinholes, folds, very clean. Reveille (Nye County) was started in 1866. Within a year, 50 mines were being developed. A stamp mill was built in 1867. By 1880, the town was dead, but operations continued off and on until 1945. () Ken Prag Collection Est. $100-200 HWAC# 91746 186 May 2019

DAY 2 Fri, May 17 Mining Lot# 2614 Nye County, Nevada 1907- Lot# 2618 Ormsby County, Eagle & 1929 Four Rare Nye County Mining Washoe Mining District, Nevada 1880 Stock Certificates Lot of 4 different. Cowing & Zabriskie Mining Company 1) Reese River Gold Standard Mining Stock Certificate Eagle and Washoe Company. Located between Tonopah Mining District, Ormsby County, and Wonder. Inc. 1906. No. 88, issued Nevada (printed at left on either side for 1,000 shares in 1907. Not cancelled. of vignette). Inc. August 24, 1878. Dateline Carson City, Nev., March Gold border and mining vignette. 15th, 1880 (faded ink). No. (illegible) issued for 500 shares to J. Folds, creases, tears on edges. 2) The Muller. Signed by R. Kirman as president and secretary Anderson. Not Nevada Belle-helen Mines Company. cancelled. Black border and print, vignette of mine. No printer listed. Bellehelen. No. 283, issued for 2,000 shares in 1911. Not cancelled. Folds, ink has faded. 4 x 9.5” Richard Kirman was the father of a future Black border and mining vignette. Pinholes, folds. 3) Elsa Mining governor of Nevada (with the same name). No information on the Company. Jefferson. No. 1899, issued for 100 shares in 1929. Not mine could be located. Tingley describes the Eagle and Washoe Valley cancelled. Pinholes, folds, creases, paperclip stain. 4) San Rafael District, also known as the Voltaire District, as being located near the Consolidated Mines Company. Quartz Mountain. No. 537, issued in base of the mountains, on the east slope of the Carson Range and 3 1928. Not cancelled. Brown border and background. Folds, paperclip miles west of Carson City. Most of the district is in the drainage basins stain/indent. Ken Prag Collection Est. $100-120 HWAC# 101637 of Kings and Voltaire Canyons. The Territorial Enterprise (1861) used the name Pine Forest for this area. The district was organized in 1861. Lot# 2615 Nye County, Belmont, () Ken Prag Collection Est. $100-200 HWAC# 91869 Nevada 1874 El Dorado North Mining Co. Stock Certificate Philadelphia Lot# 2619 Pershing County, Nevada 1907-1955 Mining District, Belmont, Nye Co., Pershing County, Nevada Ghost Town Mining Nevada (printed above dateline). Inc. Stocks Lot of 3 different from 3 different Pershing 1872. No. 36, issued for 100 shares County ghost towns. 1) Nevada Rosebud Mining to EA Richardson on April 23rd, 1874 Company. Rosebud, NV. No. 191, issued for 1,000 in San Francisco. Signed by president McDonald and the secretary shares to Martin on Nov. 19th, 1907. Not cancelled. (illegible). Not cancelled. Black border and print. Fancy company Gold border, red title, and mining vignette. Heavy logo, no vignette. Pinholes, folds, heavy soiling. 4 x 9.25” Not in Filer folds, toning. 2) Nevada Shamrock Mining Company. or Holabird indexes. According to the Annual Mining Review & Stock Mines Located at Vernon, Nevada (printed at Ledger (1876), the claim was 2.5 miles from Belmont, and adjoined bottom). No. 45, issued for 500 shares to president the El Dorado South. No production info was given for the North mine. AA Williams on April 12th, 1911. Not cancelled. Ken Prag Collection Est. $120-150 HWAC# 100960 Green title and three mining vignettes. Folds, toning. 3) Nev-tah Oil and Mining Company. Toulon, NV. No. Lot# 2616 Nye County, Belmont, 9782, issued for 2,000 shares to Sarah Weinstein on July 1st, 1955. Not Nevada 1877 El Dorado South Cons. cancelled. Green border and eagle vignette. Staples, folds. Ken Prag Mining Co. Stock Certificate (GT Collection Est. $100-120 HWAC# 101621 Brown Lith.) Belmont, Nye County, Nev (printed at bottom center). Inc. Lot# 2620 Pioneer, Nevada 1872. No. 3174, issued for 100 shares c1930 Pioneer, Nevada to Hubbard & Co. on Oct. 24th, 1877. (Bullfrog Dist) Documents Signed by president John Gray and secretary Sankey. Not cancelled. and Photographs Nineteen Black border and print, fancy company logo. Printed by noted African- items. This group of American lithographer G.T. Brown. Pinholes, deep folds. 4 x 9” Located documents represent an 2.5 miles from Belmont, adjacent to the El Dorado North. They have attempt to reinvigorate this good hoisting works, a 20 stamp mill, and other works. Their mine mining area. It revolves and milling cost is $20 per ton. Over $300,000 has been taken out. around the Indiana Mine [Ref: Annual Mining Review & Stock Ledger, 1876, pg. 46] Ken Prag and Mill. The stock holders Collection Est. $200-300 HWAC# 100961 of the company have spent a good deal of money with Lot# 2617 Nye County, Twin River little result. Mining engineer District, Nevada 1872 Murphy Mining Fred Milliken believe that Co. Stock Certificate Signed by this mine can be a producer! There is an extensive letter from him. He Infamous Stage Operator Location printed at the top and bottom of does say the ‘K’ has mis-managed and that the stockholders have been the certificate: Twin River, Nye County, Nevada. Inc. Jan. 18, 1872. No. used as easy marks! There are 13 photographs of the inside and out of 67., issued for 100 shares to company secretary J.L. King on Sept. 7th, the mill, mine, and desert. There is a copy of the syndication papers. 1872 in SF. Signed by Hill Beachy as president and King. Cut cancelled The most interesting may be a panorama on hard paper of the are in center. Black border and print, with fancy title and small circular with hand written notes and location of vein. This piece is in very poor mining vignette. Stock Report, Print. Pinholes, folds. 4.5 x 9.5” Hill condition, but a great historical piece! Est. $200-400 HWAC# 37526 Beachy operated a stagecoach office and hotel in Lewiston, Idaho in the 1860s. Beachy’s friend, Llyod Magruder, was robbed and murdered Lot# 2621 Reese River, Nevada 1863 on his way back to Lewiston from mines in Montana in 1863. Beachey Anna Windsor Gold and Silver tracked the men — James Romaine, David Renton and Chris Lower — Mining Company Stock # 20 for 5 to San Francisco and had them hauled back to Lewiston where they shares to WH Pullen. SIgned by John Gorman and president GL Bradley. were tried and hanged; the first legally sanctioned execution in Idaho Dateline San Francisco Dec. 26, 1863. Incorporated December 8, 1863. Territory. The territorial government paid Beachy a $6,000 reward. Not cancelled. 25c Power of Attorney revenue stamp on back. Portrait [Ref: History of the State of Idaho, Brosnan] The Twin River district of lady (Windsor or stock?) Robbins & Co. printer. Three vertical folds. was located in Nye County and was so named for the two streams Corner and edge nicks. Otherwise very fine. Original incorporators flowing into Big Smoky Valley. It was located 50 miles south of Austin, were George W Thomas, AJ Bryant, EA Pulen, John C Morrison and GL Nevada. The district was the scene of a rush between 1865 and 1869. Bradley. Ken Prag Collection Est. $400-600 HWAC# 91316 The Sacramento Daily Union reported in 1875 that the Ophir Canyon area (Twin Rivers) was being revived. New laws were being formed. One mine that seems ready to produce is the old Murphy. () Ken Prag Collection Est. $120-200 HWAC# 91839 Bid online at FHWAC.com or call 775-851-1859 187

DAY 2 Fri, May 17 Mining Lot# 2622 Reese River, Nevada 1863 Lot# 2627 Reese River, Nevada 1864 Crittenden Gold & Silver Mining Company Pensylvania [sic] Gold & Silver Stock # 8 for 20 shares to AK Stearns. Signed Mining Company Stock # 26 for 25 by James Pond and president JBE Cavallier. shares to David McKee. Signed by Dateline Dec. 21, 1863. Incorporated Oct Thompson Campbell and president 29, 1863. Not cancelled. 25c Power of Att’y Thomas Ensign. Dateline San Francisco revenue stamp. Mountain mine tunnel with ore car vignette. Drouaillet 1864. Incorporated Oct. 13, 1863. printer. Wrinkled on right. Rough edges. A. K. Stearns was an original Small 5c and 20c revenue stamps. Not discoverer of the Clyde Ledge in the Amador Mining District. The cancelled. Drouaillet printer. Steam train in valley vignette. Small oldest mining district in eastern Nevada. Stearns was a trustee of the Goddess of Gold vignette. Top left corner ever so slightly rounded. Butte Gold & Silver mine. He was also a superintendent of the Stearns Otherwise no edge, corner pin hole or discoloration issues. Not listed Gold & Silver mine in this same area. Pond was a secretary of several in 1866 J Ross Browne, Collins or Mahler. Ken Prag Collection Est. Austin, Nevada mining companies. In 1876, with the help of London $400-600 HWAC# 91932 backers, he purchased a large acreage of mining land on the Feather River. He became the superintendent of the Tsabinda Mine. Ken Prag Lot# 2628 Reese River, Nevada 1864 Collection Est. $400-600 HWAC# 91940 (1865) Rough and Ready Mining Company Stock # 175 for 12 1/2 shares Lot# 2623 Reese River, Nevada 1864 to George Keys. Signed by BB (?) and Dunkirk Gold and Silver MIning president SM Gilham(?). Dateline 1865 Company Stock # (faded) for 50 shares Austin N. T. Incorporated February 9, to J Miller. Signed by PH Cumming and 1864. 25c Bond revenue stamp. Not president JB Coppin. Dateline San Francisco cancelled. Vignette advertising the 1864. Incorporated November 24, 1863. reason to buy this stock: “Gold $700 a ton / Silver $1000 a ton.” Towne 25c Power of Att’y revenue stamp. Not & Bacon printer. 1000 shares at $500 each. This certificate shows signs cancelled. Location: Dunkirk Ledge, Reese River District, Nevada of aging, a little spotting, top edge wrinkles, etc. Still very nice. We Territory. Printer Wm. P. Harrison - successor to Robbins & Co. Slight found no information on this company. This certificate should not be discoloration from signature bleed-through on back. No corner, edge, confused with the Rough and Ready Gold and Silver MIning Company or pin hole issues. An assessment was issued on April 13, 1864. This at Devil’s Gate. Ken Prag Collection Est. $400-600 HWAC# 91910 is one of three stocks with the same dateline, incorporated date, secretary, stockholder, style of stock and printer in this sale!!! Makes Lot# 2629 Reese River, Nevada for a nice trio. Ken Prag Collection Est. $400-600 HWAC# 91935 1863 Ruba Gold and Silver Mining Company Stock # 26 for 10 shares Lot# 2624 Reese River, Nevada 1863 to Claus Bonet(?). Signed by William Independent Gold & Silver Mining Knight and H Webster president. Company Stock # 77 for 6 shares to JJ Dateline San Francisco 1863. WIlliams. Signed by William T Reynolds and Incorporated Sept. 12, 1863. Waters Asaph Gray. 25c Warehouse revenue stamp. Brothers printer. $80,000 in red Not cancelled. Dateline San Francisco June underprint. Female riding stag and semi-nude Lady Liberty vignettes. 13, 1863. Incorporated May 23, 1863. Not cancelled. “800 shares, $100 each.” Edge issues: small tear, dog Location: Congress Ledge. Eagle & Shield vignette. Red underprint eared corners, wrinkling. Not mentioned in J. Ross Browne’s 1868 ‘$120,000.’ Robbins & Co. printer. Wrinkles. Light border staining. description of Reese River District. Not mentioned in Collins. Ken Prag Fine! On July 6, 1863 an 50c assessment was levied. In October a Collection Est. $400-600 HWAC# 91931 third(?) assessment of $1.00 was levied. It does mention that CT Gayle was the superintendent in Austin. Ken Prag Collection Est. $400-600 Lot# 2630 Reese River, Nevada 1865 HWAC# 91937 Silver Hill Mining Company of New York and Nevada Stock # 76 for 20 Lot# 2625 Reese River, Nevada 1863 shares to WIlliam D Sinclair. Signed by Julia Hunter Gold and Silver Mining JG Hitchcock and Thomas Stevenson Company Stock # 39 for 10 shares as president. Dateline March 10, 1865. to AK Stearns. Signed by HC Kibbe Not cancelled. 25c Warehouse revenue and president AH Titcomb. Dateline stamp. Underground mining vignette. San Francisco December 24, 1863. JO Seymour & Co. printer. One pin hole Incorporated Sept. 28, 1863. 25c Power dead center. No edge, corner or discoloration issues. This company of Att’y revenue stamp. Not cancelled. was incorporated in 1865 (in all likelihood). There is an annual Mine tunnel to mill vignette. Robbins & Co. printer. Ken Prag Collection report printed in the New York Times in 1866. The report confirms Est. $400-600 HWAC# 91938 this company was located in Austin. IT also confirms Stevenson and Hitchcock. The report says the company has just erected a stamp mill Lot# 2626 Reese River, Nevada 1863 and shares are available at $25 each. Ken Prag Collection Est. $200- Marie Muller Gold and Silver Mining 400 HWAC# 91912 Company Stock Marie Muller Ledge, Lander County, N.T. (printed under Lot# 2631 Reese River, Nevada 1863 logo). Inc. in Aug. 1863. Dateline San (1865) St. Mary’s Silver Mining Francisco, Oct. 23rd, 1863. No. 39, Company Stock # 21 for 15 shares issued for 14 shares to P. Monroe. to AK Stearns. Signed by HC Keibbe Signed by S. DeWolfe as president and and president Rumsey. Issued. Not William Stanford as secretary. Not cancelled. Vignette at top of woman cancelled. Dateline Dec. 21, 1865. sitting and dog next to safe at bottom.Printed by Kenny & Alexander. Incorporated Sept. 7, 1863. Located 5 cent IR adhesive revenue stamp attached on the left. 20c stamp Reese River D. Lander. Co. N. T. Vignette has been removed. Uneven cut. No other issues with this certificate. of locomotive in mountain valley. Lithog Not in Filer. Not listed in the 1863 Langley directory. We could find Drouaillet, New York Printers. Datelined San Francisco. Interesting no reference to this company or who Marie Muller was. Ken Prag vignette since it would be many years before a railroad actually Collection Est. $400-600 HWAC# 91941 reached Austin and the Reese RIver Valley. Ken Prag Collection Est. $400-600 HWAC# 91939 188 May 2019

DAY 2 Fri, May 17 Mining Lot# 2632 Reese River, Nevada Lot# 2636 Reese River, Smoky 1864 Troy Gold and Silver Minign Valley, Nevada 1863 Illinois Gold Company Stock # 7 for 10 shares to and Silver Mining Company Stock J Miller. Signed by PH Cumming and Rare Smoky Valley Ledge, Smoky president JB Coffin. Dateline 1864 San Valley Mining District, Lander County, Francisco. Incorporated nov. 24, 1863. N.T. Incorporated June 30th, 1863. 25c Power of Att’y revenue stamp. Dateline San Francisco, August 5th, Not cancelled. Location: Troy ledge, 1863. No. 28, issued for 5 shares to Reese River District, N. t. Shares $300 each. Native American vignette. Frederick C Waters. (interestingly Frederick C Waters was one of the Printer Wm. P. Harrison - successor to Robbins & Co. One smear right Waters Brothers printers!) Signed by the president Wm. H. Stevens, border (original?). Not in Collins or J Ross Browne’s description of and secretary, D. VanVleck. VanVleck is listed as a wood engraver at Reese River mines. Ken Prag Collection Est. $400-600 HWAC# 91934 611 Clay Street.Not cancelled. 25c Insurance revenue stamp. Three vignettes: mine with paddlewheel (top center), allegorical woman Lot# 2633 Reese River, Nevada 1865 (left) and dog head (bottom). Printed by Waters Brothers & Co., SF. Union Mining Company Stock # 262 Edges are rough and there is some staining around the edges. Not in for 50 shares to George Hammersley. Filer. Listed in the 1863 Langley SF directory with an office at 611 Clay Signed by HB Leach and president Street. A May 30th, 1863 Reese River Reveille article details a meeting Strickland Kneurs(?). Dateline about amending the laws of the district. The boundaries of the district November 30, 1865. Chartered in 1865 were set as follows: “On the west side by the dividing ridge between in Pennsylvania. Vignette of miner at the waters of Smoky Valley and Reese River Valley; on the north by leisure with axe. 25c Certificate revenue the Overland Stage road; on the east by Smoky Valley; on the south stamp. Not cancelled. “For gold and by a distance of ten miles from Birch Creek.” Ken Prag Collection Est. silver mining in the state of Nevada.” $400-600 HWAC# 91901 Although the exact location is unknown, foreign investors were mainly interested in Lander County and Humboldt County in 1865. Large rips Lot# 2637 Reese River, Smoky Valley, at fold edges. Staining. etc. The Reese River makes the most sense as it Nevada 1863 Mountain Gold & was the largest mining district outside of the Comstock in 1865. There Silver Mining Company Stock # was a Union Mining District at Ione in 1865. Another possibility? Ken 79 for 5 shares to ES Davis. Signed Prag Collection Est. $200-400 HWAC# 91952 by William Moody and president Robert Turner. Dateline San Francisco Lot# 2634 Reese River, Nevada 1863. Incorporated May 11, 1863. 1864 Vesta Gold and Silver Mining Not cancelled. Small 5c and 20c revenue stamps. Loomis vignette of Company Stock # 6 for 60 shares to miner and miner’s cabins in front of a towering mountain. Underprint H Miller. Signed by PH Cumming and ‘$140,000.’ Robbins & Co. printer. Location: Mammoth Ledge, Smoky president Robert Grant. Dateline San Valley Mining District, Lander County N. T. No edge, corner, pin hole Francisco 1864. Incorporated Nov. or discoloration issues. Wonderful! We found no information on this 24, 1863. 25c Power of Att’y revenue company. The large Smoky Valley district which took in all of the stamp. Not Cancelled. Tunnel to eastern slope of the Toiyabe Range. More commonly called the Kinston mill vignette. Printer Wm. P. Harrison - successor to Robbins & Co. District. Ken Prag Collection Est. $400-600 HWAC# 91900 Location: Vesta Ledge, Reese River District, N. T. Shares $300 each. Not in Collins or Browne’s 1868 work. Ken Prag Collection Est. $400- Lot# 2638 Reese River, Smoky Valley, 600 HWAC# 91933 Nevada 1863 Panama Consolidated Gold and Silver Mining Company Stock Very early # 6 for 25 shares to Livigue. Signed by Cheminant and president Scully. Dateline 1863 San Francisco. Incorporated July 8, 1863. Not cancelled. Towne & Bacon printer. Edge staining, wrinkles and rips. Still good. Location: Smoky Valley District, Lander County, N. T. Plain. The large Smoky Valley district which took in all of the eastern slope of the Toiyabe Range. More commonly called the Kinston District. Ken Prag Collection Est. $400- 600 HWAC# 91902 Lot# 2635 Reese River, Smoky Valley, Nevada 1863 Caucasian Silver Lot# 2639 Reese River, Summit, Mining Company Stock # 36 for 15 shares to Thompson. Signed by Nevada 1864 Croesus Mining secretary W Hughes and president Thomas Buckley. Dateline San Company NUMBER 3 for 5 shares to W Francisco 1863. Incorporated August 30, 1863. Loomis vignette of ore Cargis(?). Signed by William M Lovell wagon on road from mining tunnel to mill. Towne & Bacon printer. and president Finley. Dateline Austin Not cancelled. Small 5c revenue stamp. The 20c stamp is missing. 1864. Incorporated April 1864. Not Vertical and horizontal folds. Very minor issues - extremely nice. The cancelled. 25c revenue stamp. Miner Sacramento Daily Union reported that a (the) Caucasian Silver Mining with pick vignette. Towne & Bacon printer. Small tear bottom right. Company was recorded before August 11? The large Smoky Valley Discoloration top left bleed from back. Very nice. Location: Newton district which took in all of the eastern slope of the Toiyabe Range. Ledge, Lander County, N. T. The Summit district was organized at the More commonly called the Kinston District. Ken Prag Collection Est. foot of Bunker Hill on Kingston Creek (Smoky River or Smoky Creek) $400-600 HWAC# 91899 sometime prior to 1866. The district is sometimes divided into the Santa Fe district, on the north, and the Bunker Hill district, on the south. Ken Prag Collection Est. $400-600 HWAC# 91905 Bid online at FHWAC.com or call 775-851-1859 189

DAY 2 Fri, May 17 Mining Lot# 2640 Reese River, Summit, Lot# 2644 Tonopah, Nevada 1919- Nevada 1864 Day Gold and Silver 1950 Tonopah Divide Mining Stock Mining Company Stock # 50 for 5 Certificate Collection Lot of 71 with shares to JB Craig. Signed by HS Dalliba huge variety. Includes two signed by January Jones (both Reorganized and president (?). Same officers as the Resetta Divide Mining Company). Issued 1919-1950, with a large Northern Light. The 1863 San Francisco group clustered at 1919 and then 1920s and 1930s. Includes: Jim’s directory lists Henry S Dalliba as Divide MC; Belcher Divide MC; Calumet Divide MC; Chariot Divide working for GW Guthrie & Co. They were the publishers of the Daily MC; California Divide MC; Silver Divide Mines Co.; Pullman Divide Republic. Endorsed by Jasper Craig on back. Dateline San Francisco MC; Brougher Divide MC; Victory Divide MC; Sunbeam Divide 1864. Incorporated November 14, 1863. 25c Power of Att’y revenue MC; Reorganized Victory Divide; Reorganized Divide Annex MC; stamp. Not cancelled. Woman riding a stag vignette. Smaller coman Reorganized Marne Divide MC; Mizpah Divide; Reorganized Belcher; vignette. No printer. Edge rips. Center discoloration. The Summit Gold Wedge Divide MC; Liberty Divide MC; Lone Mountain Divide; district was organized at the foot of Bunker Hill on Kingston Creek Golden State Divide MC; Gold Zone Divide MC; Eureka Divide MC; (Smoky River or Smoky Creek) sometime prior to 1866. The district Keystone Divide MC; Kernick Divide MC; Knox Divide MC; Goldsmith is sometimes divided into the Santa Fe district, on the north, and the Divide MC; Aladdin Divide MC; Argonne Divide MC; Horseshoe Divide Bunker Hill district, on the south. Ken Prag Collection Est. $400-600 MC; Argentine Divide MC; High Divide Extension MC; Hecla Divide MC; HWAC# 91904 High Divide MC; Hennessy Divide MC; Aetna Divide MC; Allied Divide MC; Grimes Divide MC; Cresson Divide MC; Smuggler Divide MC; Silver Lot# 2641 Reese River, Summit, King Divide MC; Hasbrouck Divide MC; Pay Divide MC; Silver Divide Nevada 1864 Northern Light Gold & Mines Co; Divide City MC; Reno Divide Cons. MC; and Phoenix Divide Silver Mining Company Stock # 47 MC. Please inspect. Fantastic! Ken Prag Collection Est. $700-1000 for 10 shares to JB Craig. Signed by HS HWAC# 102541 Dalliba(?) and president (?). Dateline San Francisco 1864. Incorporated Nov. Lot# 2645 Treasure Hill, Nevada 1869-1892 Three 14, 1863. Small 5c and 20c revenue Different Treasure Hill Mining Stock Certificates stamps. Not cancelled. Miner and pick vignette and lady with flower Great group including an 1892 stock issued to HG vignette. No printer. Safety paper. Staining, rounded corners, etc. Fair Blasdel, former governor of Nevada. 1) Accidental condition. The Summit district was organized at the foot of Bunker Silver Mining Company. Chloride Flat, White Pine Hill on Kingston Creek (Smoky River or Smoky Creek) sometime prior District, Lander County, Nev. (printed under title). to 1866. The district is sometimes divided into the Santa Fe district, No. 35, issued for 83 1/3 shares on May 15th, 1869. on the north, and the Bunker Hill district, on the south. Ken Prag Not cancelled. Native American vignette. Folds, Collection Est. $400-600 HWAC# 91903 toning, creases. 2) The Baldy Sour Mining Company of Treasure Hill, Nevada. Low number 10 issued to the Lot# 2642 Reese River, Summit, company president, Eugene Robinson, in 1878. Not cancelled. Eagle Nevada 1863 Phoenix Gold & Silver vignette. Deep folds. Bent upper right corner. 3) Argyle Consolidated Mining Company Stock # 22 for Mining Company. Southern Slope of Treasury Hill White Pine Co. 30 shares to JB Chime(?). Signed by (printed at bottom left under mining vignette). No. 22, issued for 1,00 CA Hill and president GW Sawyer. shares issued to H.G. Blasdel, the first governor of the state of Nevada! Hill was an attorney in the firm (Not signed by Blasdel). Not cancelled. Black print on blue paper. Ken of Hill & Pedegast, Fulton Market Prag Collection Est. $250-400 HWAC# 100930 building. Dateline Virginia N. T. 1864. Incorporated November 1863. Not cancelled. 25c Certificate revenue Lot# 2646 Tuscarora, Nevada 1883 stamp. Location: Summit Mining District, Lander County, N. T. Steam Central Consolidated Mining Co. train vignette. Underprint pink ‘$240,000.’ Printer: Enterprise Book Stock Certificate Location of Mine, and Job, Printing House, C St. This would be the same time period Tuscarora, Elko Co., Nevada (printed Samuel Clemens was working at the Enterprise. Excellent condition. at top). Rare. Inc. in NV. No. 736, issued No edge, corner, pin hole or discoloration issues. Slightest staining for 100 shares to Horace B. Forman on upper left. The Summit district was organized at the foot of Bunker June 25th, 1883. Signed by president Hill on Kingston Creek (Smoky River or Smoky Creek) sometime prior Norton Robinson and secretary A.B. to 1866. The district is sometimes divided into the Santa Fe district, Fernald. Not cancelled. Black border on the north, and the Bunker Hill district, on the south. Ken Prag and print on yellow paper. Elaborate vignette of miners working in Collection Est. $400-600 HWAC# 91906 tunnels. Printed by LH Rogers, NY.6.75 x 10.5” Pinholes folds, tape repair. Not in Filer. Briefly mentioned in the 1883 report of the Nevada Lot# 2643 Round Mountain, Nevada Surveyor General and State Land Register: “The Central Consolidated 1906 High Grade Gold Mining has also done considerable work in developing its mine” (pg. 41). () Company Stock Certificate ”of Ken Prag Collection Est. $100-200 HWAC# 91838 Round Mountain, Nevada.” Round Mountain actually did produce high grade gold, so the name is appropriate! Inc. in Nevada. Principal Lot# 2647 , Nevada 1980’s Mini office in Goldfield. Low number 11, issued for 8,333 shares on Dec. Stamp Mill / Salesmans’s Sample 3rd, 1906 to JL Lindsay. Signed by president JV Hussey and secretary / Operational Here is a very unusual E.R. Argersinger. Not cancelled. Maroon border and title, black print, mining related item. It is a hand made floral design with eagle vignette. Printed by Nevada Press, Carson City. , mini stamp mill !! It was used by a Heavy folds, stains. 9 x 12.5” According to the Goldfield Gossip, the salesman, who wanted to insure the mine company had 170 acres and had developed shafts. Ken Prag Collection owners, would be shipping their material Est. $80-120 HWAC# 102524 to a efficient stamp mill. It is 25 1/2” tall x 23” long, which includes the front spill way. It is operational, and even has mini candles ,to light the way at night !! Plus, a big power wheel, an the left side. Exceptional, one-of-a-kind item. If you dig mining stuff, this is a bonanza fer you son !1 Great looking piece, for your Man cave. ( RH ). Est. $400-800 HWAC# 102125 190 May 2019

DAY 2 Fri, May 17 Mining Lot# 2648 Virginia City, Nevada c1880-1883 Wiegand & Company Original Sign - Iconic Comstock Assayer Est. $6000-10000 HWAC# 25301 A truly fabulous piece of Comstock and Nevada history: an original sign from a famous Virginia City assayer, Wiegand & Company. Physical Characteristics spoken nature repeatedly got him into trouble, especially during his life on the Comstock. … This impressive sign measures 75” x 18” x 2.” Chocolate brown text against brown background: “WIEGAND & CO./ ASSAYERS. S. After being forced out of the mint in 1864, Wiegand immediate- DOWLING/ MANAGER. 38 No. C St.” No identifying marks on the ly went to work at the newly constructed huge mill of the Gould & reverse. Curry Gold & Silver Mining Company located at the intersection of This sign was originally purchased from a prominent antiques Six and Seven Mile canyons about a mile below Virginia City. The dealer in Carson City. Condition: over a hundred years in the dry Gould & Curry had struck a bonanza ore deposit in 1862-3 which Nevada climate has caused the paint to be very fragile and chip. vaulted the company into becoming the leading producer of gold The winning bidder may want to apply a sealant or protectant to and silver in America. A new mill was built to handle the ore, and slow or stop this process. We have not done any restoration. Please the company was so big at the time that it employed about a third inspect. Special pick-up arrangements must be made by the buyer. of the local work force. Louis Janin, the mine and mill superinten- dent, must have been happy to have one of the key assayers from Importance the Branch Mint helping manage the company’s operations. Wie- gand had been recommended by Thomas Starr King of San Fran- This sign serves as a physical marker for an important transi- cisco, the brother of James King, of William, assassinated in 1856. tion in the mining history of the Comstock. The peak production of But Janin, a well trained mining engineer of the Freiberg School the Comstock had occurred in 1877. By 1880, the boom and excite- of Mines, was a tough taskmaster, and probably did not tolerate ment from the discovery of the Big Bonanza in 1873 was fading, Wiegand’s antics… and the mines were undergoing a “borrasca” (Spanish for a min- ing depression). Concurrently, the unexpected, suspicious suicide Wiegand’s job with the Gould & Curry lasted only a few months. of noted assayer Conrad Wiegand in 1880 allowed for the rise of With business booming on the Comstock, Wiegand went into busi- his long-time assistant Samuel Dowling. Each man’s life was not ness for himself. At that time he must have decided to open his without difficulty. own assay office on the Comstock, and began preparations to relo- cate to Gold Hill, Nevada, just south of Virginia City. Two Important Nevada Mining Figures Wiegand opened the Gold Hill Assay Office on May 14, 1865… CONRAD WIEGAND BIO He was financed by the Bank of California through his friend Wil- (excerpted from “A Western Assayer of the Mark Twain Period” by liam Chapman Ralston, whom he had befriended in San Francisco. Fred Holabird) Ralston’s agent on the Comstock was William Sharon, who had full charge of all the affairs of the Bank in the Virginia City region. Sha- Conrad Wiegand was a boisterous man who was born in Phila- ron had tight control over Comstock mines and businesses. This delphia, worked for the US Mint, and came to the California Gold control, and conflicts created by competing business interests, Rush in the early 1850’s. He went to work for the US Branch Mint would soon work against Wiegand… in San Francisco at or near its inception in 1854. Wiegand’s main concern was for the plight of the small miner Wiegand was small in stature, but big in ideas, and even stron- and businessman, many of whom were overrun by big business ger still in his opinions. He was a devoutly religious person who interests. The press, controlled in large part by the Bank of Califor- saw such injustice in the world that he undertook the publishing nia, suggested Wiegand was crazy and some of the public bought of his own newspaper—two of them, in fact. His other passion was into the idea, though those that knew him said otherwise… the metals question, particularly his political stance generally held by most miners that money should be in the form of circulating In early 1870, Wiegand began publication of the Peoples Tri- hard specie—gold and silver coinage and ingots. Wiegand’s out- bune, a newspaper he started to further moral issues with the pub- lic, including the exposure of fraud and scandalous activity on the Comstock. Bid online at FHWAC.com or call 775-851-1859 191

DAY 2 Fri, May 17 Mining Always the inventor, as were other members of his family, Wie- Lot# 2649 Virginia City, Nevada 1864 California State Telegraph gand patented a new process for slimes and tailings reduction ma- Company from William Lent to HH Day Territorial. Includes a California chinery in 1874. A few years later he was involved in a new mercu- State Telegraph envelope address to Day. Telegram is dated July 6, 1864. ry and silver separation process. “Send me more bars. Theall costs to much.” Day was the superintendent In the mid to late 1870’s Wiegand taught assaying classes in of the Mexican Mine. He would also be connected to the Ophir Mine and Virginia City that included blowpipe analyses and mineralogy. Mill. Lent is a forgotten, but extremely Wiegand hung himself on June 14, 1880 in his office. Though important investor on the Comstock. Many (perhaps most) important mines at one time or another received financial support from him. Est. there were injuries to the body and blood was found in unusual $300-500 HWAC# 102253 places in his office, his death was ruled a suicide by the Storey County Coroner. He was suffering serious debt, though his wife Lot# 2650 Virginia City, Nevada felt it was under control. He also suffered fits of what he himself Comstock Lode Repro Map Repro considered insanity, and he feared that mental condition as an ul- map of Bullion, Cholar, Potosi, Savage, Gould & Curry and more. Left edge timate fate at old age. torn. Framed 20x48” Est. $100-150 HWAC# 91506 SAMUEL DOWLING BIO Born in Maine in 1839, Sam Dowling was a long-term assayer Lot# 2651 Virginia City, Nevada 1889 Comstock Tunnel Company Bond Signed on the Comstock. Before arriving to Nevada, however, he was lucky by Theodore Sutro $500 bond No. 3135 enough to survive the fire and sinking of the S.S. Golden Gate on its issued in 1889. Punch cancelled but not way from San Francisco to Panama. By 1864, Dowling had made thru signatures. Signed by Theodore Sutro, it to the Comstock. The 1864 Collins directory lists him as a fire- president and H. H. Thayer, secretary. 55 man for the Gould & Curry Mill, at the same time Wiegand is listed coupons attached. Printed by The Homer as an assayer. This could have been the first meeting of two. In Lee Bank Note Co., New York. Orange border, 1865, Dowling was working at the Ogden Mill at the bottom of the black print and eagle vignette. 13.5 x 10” The hill below Virginia City which was owned independently by San Comstock Tunnel was the reorganization of the famous Sutro Tunnel. Theodore Sutro took Francisco banker W. C. Ralston, who incorporated it. The 1868/69 over the company which was on the brink of Nevada directory lists Dowling’s occupation as “melter,” living on collapse. Adolph Sutro had left the company in High Street in Gold Hill. By 1870, he lists his occupation as “assay- 1879. Theodore was Adolph’s brother. Ken Prag Collection Est. $100- 150 HWAC# 100933 er” on the census. In 1867, Dowling married a young lady, Sarah, and, by 1900, the Lot# 2652 Virginia City, Nevada 1861 Intriguing Letter about a “bad ugly couple had four children (Herbert, Netti, Edith and Zuma), accord- treat” of the owner of the Mexican Mine Letter is datelined In Franco, ing to census records. February 4, 1861. Cover has an address Dowling had worked for several mines before settling is as the of Feb. 4. Yet how can a Wells Fargo cover come from France. and why has key assistant to an aging Conrad Weigand; the 1878 VC directory the cover been glued on to make this a lists him as working with Wiegand and living in Gold Hill. Dowl- coverless letter? Letter is from Augustin ing took over or bought Weigand’s business shortly after Weigand Roger and addressed to Donacio Marzon. Something happened to G death in 1880. He continued the Gold Hill Assay Office for a short Maldonado (ugly bad treat) and this letter seems to be trying to get time, perhaps just a year, getting contracts with several mining to the bottom of it. Accompanying documentation shows the the companies free of the politics that bogged down Weigand. Dowling Maldonado brothers owned the Mexican mine and sold it in 1863. The sold out to Chris James late in 1880 (who eventually sold to W.S. Maldonado Brothers and their Mexican American workers used pre James). However, Dowling still operated the Virginia City office for industrial techniques to excavate on of the most profitable healthy at least a few years (as evidenced by his listing in 1883/84 McKin- Comstock Mines [James] Perhaps it is from the French consulate in ney’s Pacific Coast Directory at this address). San Francisco. Letter is in French, but is accompanied by translation. Est. $300-500 HWAC# 102254 It is uncertain how long Dowling stayed at the Wiegand office. The 1886/87 McKenney’s Pacific Coast Directory lists the Lot# 2653 Virginia City, Nevada 1876 office but not Dowling. What we can find of Dowling in newspa- Queen Mining Co. Stock Certificate pers and census lists is sparse over the next few decades. On June (G.T. Brown Lithograph) Location: Flowery District, Comstock Lode, 28, 1886, he accidentally shot through his right hand, with news- Storey County. Nevada. Inc. Dec. 6th, 1875. No. 832, issued for 400 shares papers reporting “amputation at the arm will probably be neces- to William McClintock (company secretary) on April 7, 1876. Also signed by D.L. McDonald as President. sary.” Even with this injury, the 1900 census still lists him as an Vignette of queen lower left. Lithograph by African American artist G.T. Brown. Pinholes and some ink stains. 4.25” x 9.25” () Est. $150- assayer (living in Virginia City). In 1892, he unsuccessfully ran for 250 HWAC# 28636 Republican Assemblyman. On June 2, 1896, he was thrown from his horse and off a bridge at the bottom of Six Mile Canyon, though his injuries were not severe. By 1910, he had moved to Carson City and was working as an assayer for the U.S. Mint, according to the census. (After closing its doors in 1893, the Carson City Mint had become the U.S. Assay Office for Gold & Silver in 1895.) Dowling died from stroke on July 26, 1919 in Reno and was buried in Carson City. 192 May 2019

DAY 2 Fri, May 17 Mining Lot# 2654 Washoe County, Nevada Lot# 2658 White Pine County, Nevada 1881 Monona Mining Company Stock 1874 Chance Silver Mining Company Certificate Not seen by us before! Stock Certificate Cherry Creek Location of Mine: Washoe County, District, White Pine County. Inc. Feb. Nevada (printed upper right). Inc. 1874. No. 164, issued for 100 shares to Oct. 28th, 1878. No. 165, issued for 50 H.S. Marks on May 7th, 1874. Signed by shares to secretary B.S. Coggeshall on company president George (illegible) March 2nd, 1881. Signed by president P.L. Wearn and Coggeshall as and secretary Marks. Many of these secretary. Not cancelled. Simple design with ornate border and logo, we’ve seen only have the secretary’s signature. Pen cancelled. Very printed by AL Bancroft & Co., S.F. Horizontal and vertical folds, creases unusual vignette of horse and wagon with mining scene inside and in corners, and a few small ink stains. Overall, very good condition. 4 around the “C” of Chance. Printed by Britton & Rey, SF. Folds, heavy x 9” Not found in Holabird indexes or any records of previous sales. toning. 5.25 x 9.25” Milled at the Exchequer. The company did have a Listed in the 1881 Langley SF directory with a different secretary small two stamp mill to test their ore. Considered a major producer of (Horace Parry) and office at 402 Montgomery, room 31. Benjamin the district. () Ken Prag Collection Est. $100-150 HWAC# 91585 S. Coggeshall is listed as a mining secretary at the same location. No other information could be found at the time of cataloging. () Ken Prag Lot# 2659 White Pine County, Nevada Collection Est. $100-200 HWAC# 91542 1870 Silver Wave Mining Company Stock Certificate Fantastic vignette Lot# 2655 Washoe County, Nevada of ships! Inc. March 1869. White 1907-1929 Washoe County, Nevada Pine District, White Pine Co., Nevada Mining Stock Group Lot of 4 different. (printed along the top). No. 199, issued Included: Washoe Consolidated Mining for 100 shares to M. Martin on March 11th, 1870 in San Francisco. and Milling Company (1912, Galena, Signed by president Williams and secretary Squire. Not cancelled. not cxl, green border with mining Black border and print. Ship vignette. Printed by C. Harrison, SF. One vignette, folds); Nevada Gold King 25 cent adhesive IR stamp attached on the left, pen cancelled. Pinholes, Mining Company (1907, not cxl, folds); heavy toning, many folds and creases. 4 x 9.25” Not in Filer or Holabird Washington & Nevada Development Co. indexes. According to mining patents filed in 1878, the company Gold Bond (1917, not cxl, folds); and worked the First South Extension Hidden Treasure Lode. There was Nevada Goldfields Consolidated Mines Company (Antelope District, another Silver Wave Mining Company that operated at La Plata in the 1929, not cxl, green border and eagle vignette, folds). Ken Prag mid 1860s. Ken Prag Collection Est. $200-400 HWAC# 100958 Collection Est. $80-100 HWAC# 101625 Lot# 2660 White Pine County, Diamond Lot# 2656 Washoe County, Nevada District, Nevada 1874 Champion 1900-1931 Washoe County, NV Consolidated Mining & Smelting Mining Stocks incl. Peavine & Co. Stock Certificate Rare. Diamond Wedekind Lot of 8 Washoe County District, Nevada (printed under title). mining stocks. 1) Nevada Exploration Inc. August 1872. No. 310, issued for and Development Company. Peavine. 25 shares to J.L. Blethen on March Issued to FH Norcross in 1900 in 9th, 1874 in San Francisco. Signed by J.A. Albertson, vice-president, Reno, not cxl. Signed by Norcross and and J.M. Buffington, secretary. Not cancelled. Black border and print, president Sunderland. Norcross was a United States District Judge vignette of allegorical woman holding American flag. Printed by of the United States District Court for the District of Nevada. Folds, Bacon & Co.’s, Print. 3.5 x 8.75” Pinholes, folds, some soiling, tear at tears. 2) Standard Metals Company. Peavine. Issued in 1921, not cxl. corporate seal (in vignette). According to the Sacramento Daily Union, Pinholes, folds. 3) Copperfield Mining Company. Located 4 miles Sept. 2, 1872, the company formed to develop the Champion, Patriot, NW of Reno. Four issued, two green border and two orange, issued Perseverance, and Hidden Treasure lodes, Diamond Mining District, 1928-1931. Underground mining vignette. Not cxl. Folds, toning. 4) White Pine County, Nevada. By 1878, it was reported that the company Reno Mizpah Mining Company. Issued in 1906, not cxl. Gold border owned the Champion lode and mill site. [Ref: Hand-book of Mining and three mining vignettes. Folds with separation and toning. 5) Law, 1878, pg. 156] Tingley describes a Diamond district in Eureka Combination Metals Mining Company. Wedekind. Issued in 1927, not County, discovered in 1864. Likely it was right on the border between cxl. Brown border and two mining vignettes. Folds, toning. Ken Prag the two counties. () Ken Prag Collection Est. $150-250 HWAC# 91856 Collection Est. $150-250 HWAC# 101623 Lot# 2661 , Nevada 1863 (1866) Lot# 2657 Washoe County, Peavine Atlantic & Pacific Gold & Silver Mining District, Nevada 1875 Nellie Mining Company Stock # 453 for 100 Grant Gold & Silver Mining Co. Stock shares to NH Lyon Jr. signed by J Sewell Certificate Not seen by us before. and Preston Hodges. Dateline New Dateline Reno. “Peavine Mining District, York 1866. 25c Power of Att’y revenue Nevada” printed under locomotive stamp. Not cancelled. Two mining vignette at upper right. Inc. February vignettes and one Native American 1874. No. 312, issued for 500 shares to Mrs. Lizzie Perkins on February vignette. Pinter Latimer Bros. & 11, 1875. Signed by president John Kerser and secretary John Hallahan. Seymour. Tears and discoloration along borders. This has the look of Not cancelled. Black border and print. Allegorical and train vignettes. a post-territorial stock. But an add in the Daily Alta California on June Printed by Bancroft & Co., SF. Folds, creases, heavy soiling. 4 x 8.75” 19, 1864 proves it is territorial. The trustees are mention and include Nellie Grant was the third child and only daughter of President Ulysses Preston H Hodges and list the secretary as JN Sewell. That makes this S. Grant. The Peavine Mining District was organized in 1863 in Washoe a rare New York backed Nevada Territory mining venture. We did not County. It is centered around Peavine Peak. A January 6, 1875 Truckee find the exact location, but it is assuredly Lander of Humboldt County. Republican article describes the district in detail. The biggest prospect Ken Prag Collection Est. $400-600 HWAC# 91909 is the Consolidated Poe, and a mining camp has sprung up named Poe City. Other claims include the Nellie Grant, Nevada State, Golden Fleece, Buckeye, and others. Stages leave Reno at 9am and arrive at Poe City at 5pm. 300 men are employed. Businesses include a store, livery, and three hotels. Everyone is watching closely the progress of the Cons. Poe. () Ken Prag Collection Est. $200-300 HWAC# 91866 Bid online at FHWAC.com or call 775-851-1859 193

DAY 2 Fri, May 17 Mining Lot# 2662 , Nevada 1943 Lot# 2667 , Nevada 1864 Framed Nevada Hoisting (1865) Randall Silver License Framed hoisting Mining Company (Nevada) license issued to Leo Stock # 194 for 500 shares Johnson 1943, silver seal. 10 to CH Wisswell. Signed x 12”. Est. $80-120 HWAC# by Samuel J Burrell and 80856 president William C Joy. Dateline New York 1865. 25c Lot# 2663 , Nevada Certificate revenue stamp. Framed Stocks, Checks Not cancelled. Francis Hart and Billheads UI Alta & Co. printer. Quaint mining and milling scene. Staining (mostly from Silver Mining stock, UI residue of glue on the back?). No edge or corner issues. We can not be Eureka Tunnel Con Mining sure when the official date of incorporation is, but in the 1865 annual stock, UI exchequer Mining report printed in the New York Times, it mentions that “filed in the stock, 2 Bank of California office of the Clerk of the City and County of New York, November 2, checks, 1875 P Marioni 1864.” This makes this company incorporating 2 days after statehood store billhead all in 25x29” at the latest. Original incorporators were Joy, Burrell, JT Raplee and frame Est. $120-160 CW Merritt. Although the location is not mention, most New York HWAC# 91504 companies invested in the Reese River, Humboldt County or Churchill County in that order. Ken Prag Collection Est. $200-400 HWAC# 91911 Lot# 2664 , Nevada 1971 Harry Springer Inspector of Mines Certificate Signed by Paul Lot# 2668 , Nevada 1874 & Laxalt Gov. Paul Laxalt signed Executive Dept 1892 Two Nevada Stocks: Mine Supervisor certificate. Approx 17 x11”. Est. Mining & Creamery Nice $80-100 HWAC# 81413 Nevada pair. 1) Chance Silver Mining Company. No. 142, issued Lot# 2665 , Nevada 1869 Nevada in 1874 to W. Smarks, trustee. Freehold Properties Trust Bond- Not signed by the president, -British Scam Mining scams were but signed by secretary Jos. not uncommon in Nevada, but this scam is for woodland properties Marks. Not cancelled. Ornate in Nevada by an English firm. They obviously did not visit the state logo with a mining vignette and notice all of the desert! Certificate of Two Pounds (British), no, integrated into the title letters. 23751. Attached is a Coupon of Reversion. 33 coupons attached. Folds, Britton & Rey. Diagonal fold, creases, rough edges. The company was formed in 1869 and was some toning. Cheery Creek, seeking investments for the purchase of 22 silver mining properties Nevada. 2) California-Nevada and 2 pine woodlands in Nevada. Chairman was James Tobin, with Creamery Company. Low Major-General Mason doing the survey in Nevada. Certificates were number 13, issued to secretary T.R. Hofer on Sept. 26th, 1892. Also issued at 12.5% for 17 years. By 1874, the company had gone belly-up. signed by president Williams. Hofer was an important Carson City () Ken Prag Collection Est. $100-150 HWAC# 100733 banking figure and once served as supt. for the Carson City Mint. Not cancelled. Ornate logo and farming vignette. Two bent corners. Ken Lot# 2666 , Nevada 1920’s Nevada Oil Prag Collection Est. $100-200 HWAC# 100857 Company Stock Group Lot of eight. Weaver Oil Company has an oilfield Lot# 2669 Montezuma and vignette and two oil well gushers on Elmore County, Nevada & Idaho the sides. Two Elko Oil Development 1893 White Star Cons. Mining & Improvement stocks. They have Company Stock Certificate an oilfield vignette and two oil well (Idaho and Nevada) According gushers on the sides. Two Syndicate Oil to an advertisement for the Company stocks with Nevada state seal company in Poor’s Manual Vol. vignette. Oil companies with standard 26, their mining properties oilfield vignettes include Peerless Oil were in Elmore County, Idaho and Amalgamated Oil Company of Territory and Montezuma, Nevada. Also later Sunburst Petroleum Corporation with very bright Nevada. Inc. in Arizona. orange border. Dateline 1958. Incorporated 1929. Ken Prag Collection No. 188, issued for 100 shares to Sawyer on Nov. 16th, 1893 in NY. Est. $100-150 HWAC# 103575 Signed by president JHH Williams and treasurer CH Dillingham. Not cancelled. Brown border, black print, gold seal. Floral company logo. Printed by Henry Dawson, NY. Folds, clean. 8 x 11.5” The Idaho property is two gold claims over 80 ft. in width, assaying $26.76 per ton. The Montezuma, Nevada properties include four mines, 300 tons of ore processed, $72.24 per ton. [Ref: Poor’s Vol. 26, pg. 87] Ken Prag Collection Est. $100-150 HWAC# 100899 194 May 2019

DAY 2 Fri, May 17 Mining Lot# 2670 Central City, New Mexico 1890’s Lot# 2674 Grand Co., New Mexico Bayard Smelting and Milling Company Stock 1917 Carlisle Mining Company stock and Bond 1) Stock # `93 for 100 shares to certificate Five Hundred capital stock Barclay A Warbucks. Signed by president William shares for Carlisle Mining Company, D Murray and George S (?). Dateline Central City number 252 issued to Horace H. 189-. Incorporated 1896. Dog ear upper right. Durston on July 20, 1917. Ken . Ken other nicks and small rips. 2) $500 Mortgage Gold Prag Collection Est. $100-200 HWAC# Bond. Cancelled September 2, 1903 on date it was 82344 due. Large corner folds. Some discoloration upper right. 10 coupons with 2c document stamps for Lot# 2675 Grant County, New Mexico payment made. 50c document stamp on bond. 1888 Emperor Mining & Milling 15.5x18”. “The Bayard portion of the Central Company Stock # 24 for 1000 shares Mining District includes the towns of Bayard, to Lambert Eliel. Signed by Levi A Eliel and president James W Duncan. Central, and Vanadium. The San Jose Mine produced gold, silver and Dateline July 1888. Incorporated 1888. Not cancelled. Underground copper before 1869. The adjoining Groundhog and Lucky Bill claims mining vignette of miners loading an ore cart. Western Bank Note were located in 1900. In 1928 the American Smelting and Refining printer. Black on green safety paper. a few pin holes, otherwise in extra Company (ASARCO) took over both mines and operated them as fine condition Sharp and clear! Ken Prag Collection Est. $130-200 a unit, the Groundhog Mine. After World War II, the mine operated HWAC# 99502 sporadically. In 1969 production resumed until 1978 when it was closed. The Owl Mine was a small operation that operated until 1905.” Lot# 2676 Grant County, New Mexico from mininghistoryassociation.org. Ken Prag Collection Est. $120- 1880 Shakespeare Gold & Silver 200 HWAC# 90535 Mining Company Stock - With a William Ralston Story UNIQUE book Lot# 2671 Colfax County, Moreno District, vignette with shakespeare portrait, New Mexico 1887 Moreno Valley Gold company title and location. St. Louis Gravel Mining Company Stock # 707 Bank Note printer. Not Cancelled. # 935 for 500 shares to James Bloomer. Signed for 100 shares t Mrs. AM Edwards. Signed by H Booth and president by G Thursten, president James Bloomer John Boyle. Dateline St. Louis 1880. Incorporated June 5, 1879. and George Atwood. Dateline New York Discoloration throughout. Tear upper left. “Around 1870, the area 1888. Incorporated in 1883. Not cancelled. that would eventually become Shakespeare had attracted a number Complex mill scene vignette. J Ottman of of prospectors always on the look-out for mineral deposits. When a New York printer. Pin holes upper border. couple of them found rich silver ore, they contacted San Francisco dog ear upper right, heavy folds. etc. Ken businessman and financier, William Ralston, co-founder of the Bank Of Prag Collection Est. $80-150 HWAC# 90547 California six years earlier. When the prospectors were successful in gaining Ralston’s financial support to develop the mines, the resulting Lot# 2672 Eureka District, New settlement was named Ralston in his honor...Though the New Mexico Mexico 1882 New Mexico and Illinois Mining Company found a few isolated pockets of silver ore, William Mining and Manufacturing Company Ralston’s credibility was quickly waning due to his involvement in Stock # 27 for 1000 shares to William several dicey scams, one of which was the Great Diamond Hoax of Penrose. Signed by George D Cook and 1871. His stock dropped dramatically and people began to leave the president William Borchurt(?). Dateline newly formed camp. By 1873, there were only a few people left in Albuquerque 1882. Not cancelled. the boom town...In 1879, though the town of Ralston was virtually Underground mining vignette with non-existent, another investor, Colonel Boyle of St. Louis, Missouri, miner pusing ore cart. JMW James of staked a number of claims under the name of the Shakespeare Mining Chicago printer. Pin holes. No corner, Company and renamed the settlement, Shakespeare. Mining was in edge or discoloration issues. This was a coal mining operation full force again with the principal mines being Boyle’s Shakespeare organized in November of 1881. It was announced in February of 1883 Gold and Silver Mining and Milling Company. [legendsofamerica.com] the company would begin construction on their smelter as soon as the Ken Prag Collection Est. $200-400 HWAC# 91884 weather permits. Ken Prag Collection Est. $80-120 HWAC# 90546 Lot# 2677 Grant County, New Mexico Lot# 2673 Grafton, New Mexico 1882 1884 Solid Silver Mining Company Ivanhoe Mining Company Stock Stock # 1291 for 25 shares to HV Reed. Certificate Inc. in Colorado. No. 914, Signed by Carpenter and president JH issued for 100 shares to Thos. A. Palmeter. Dateline 1884 Silver City. Howard on Feb. 7th, 1882. Signed by Incorporated 1882. Not cancelled. president H.E. Paine and the secretary, Beautiful arched vignette. Collier & S.B. Ladd. Not cancelled. Underground Cleveland printer (Denver). A few mining vignette. Printed by Columbian pinholes. No edge or corner issues. “The Bank Note. Folds, very fine. 7.25 x 10.5” Solid Silver Mining Company has eight patented claims; the principal This mining company operated the Ivanhoe Mine at Grafton in the location of the group, and the one on which the most development has Black Range. Ladd and Paine also ran the Lake Valley Mining Company. been done, is the Black Hawk. The records of the company shovy that Robert G. Ingersoll, was a director of the Ivanhoe Mining Company. the mine has produced nearly $600,000 in silver; one car load of the William G. Gillette was superintendent of the Ivanhoe mine in 1881. ore is said to have brought almost $28,000. About 750 feet of work The Ivanhoe was the subject of questionable promotion in the eastern constitute the development: the character of the formation is much stock markets and considered the Black Range’s chief claim to fame by the same as at the Alhambra. [New Mexico mines and minerals by Silliman in 1881. () Ken Prag Collection Est. $120-150 HWAC# 91626 Jones] Ken Prag Collection Est. $100-150 HWAC# 90542 Bid online at FHWAC.com or call 775-851-1859 195

DAY 2 Fri, May 17 Mining Lot# 2678 Hillsboro, New Mexico Lot# 2682 Santa Fe, New Mexico 1891 United States of America 1863 Montezuma Copper Mining Standard Gold Mining and Milling Company Stock Certificate ”of Santa Company Stock # 123 for 9 shares Fe, New Mexico.” No. 55, issued for 15 shares to G.C. Fisk on Nov. to Annie Hoffman. Signed by George 12th, 1863. Signed by president E. Marsh and secretary Daniel Dodge. Watchan and president J Stout. Not Not cancelled. Black border and print, vignette of Western explorers cancelled. Incorporated in Minnesota surveying the land. Printed by A. McLean Lith, St. Louis. 25 cent and printed in Wisconsin. Dateline 1891 Minneapolis. Underground adhesive IR stamp attached at upper left. Pinholes, folds. 7.75 x 9.5” ‘Eureka’ moment mining vignette lower right. Pin holes and vertical The Montezuma Copper Mining Company of Santa Fé, New Mexico was holes at fold intersection. Wrinkles at corners and nicks at fold edges. incorporated (1861) in the American Territory of New Mexico for the Ken Prag Collection Est. $80-120 HWAC# 90534 purpose of mining precious metals, industrial metals, and coal in the counties of Santa Ana, Santa Fé, San Miguel, and Rio Arriba. Corporate Lot# 2679 Lincoln County, Nogal, New members were: Oliver P. Hovey, Anastacio Sandoval, Hamilton G. Fant, Mexico 1896 Vanderbilt Gold Mining Tomás Cabeza de Baca, Ceran St. Vrain, Nicolas Pino, A. P. Wilbar, Company Stock - Short Lived # 34 for Francisco Lopez, S. J. Spiegelberg, José Manuel Gallegos, H. B. Sweeny, 100 shares to Edwin A Moore. Signed Mateo Sandoval, Joseph Seligman, Felipe Delgado, Levi Spiegelberg, by Levi Eldridge and president George Francisco Montoya, Richard Jenkins, José Guadalupe Gallegos, Edward W Wood. Dateline New York 1896. Wise, Andrés Sandoval, George C. Miller, Francisco Sandoval, M. Incorporated 1896. Not cancelled. Ashurst, Juan María Baca, Gabriel Rivera, William A. Street, José Pablo Underground mining vignette. Black Gallegos, James Hubbell, Felix Garcia, James L. Collins, José Leandro on red safety paper. Fancy red border. Perea, John S. Watts, Faustin Baca y Ulibarri, Miguel Sena y Romero, Stratton Printing. Pin holes where and Sidney A. Hubbell. Ken Prag Collection Est. $400-800 HWAC# stamp was applied. Otherwise no real issues. In 1896 the Las Vegas 102201 (New Mexico) Daily Optic reported that the Vanderbilt was developing rapidly and was taking out high grade ore which they treat at their 13 Lot# 2683 Santa Fe District, stamp mill. Two years later they were mired in at least two lawsuits. New Mexico 1892 Silver On August 29, 1899 the newspaper reported that wood, timbers, Sunlight Mining & Milling cables and so forth belonging to the Vanderbilt Gold Mine at Nogal Company Stock This were being sold and that was the end of the legal proceedings and the certificate shows the art mine! Ken Prag Collection Est. $100-200 HWAC# 90540 of making a simple stock certificate look good. Black Lot# 2680 San Andres Mining District, on white. But the sun (a silver New Mexico 1882 Good Fortune, dollar) spreads its rays over Grand Mogul and Alton Mining a desert mountain scene Companies Stock # 68 for 400 shares with a fence in front. # 1517 to George C Wing. Signed by L Linn for 50 shares to HH Hensly. Small and president AR Savage. Dateline Signed by WH Dinsmore and Lewiston, Maine 1882. Incorporated president (?). Not cancelled. 1881. Not cancelled. Underground Brown (faded gold) seal. Chicago Bank Note Company printer. Some mining vignette. No pin hole, edge, discoloration, corner dog ears and tears at fold edges. Ken Prag corner or discoloration issues. The Las Collection Est. $100-200 HWAC# 90539 Cruces Sun-News reported in 1883 that little development has been done in the new San Andres Mining District. The Good Fortune may Lot# 2684 Santa Rita, be the furthest along with a shaft 65 feet deep and showing a streak from 4 to 6 feet in width. They had 500 tons of ore in their dump. It is New Mexico 1895 Santa a mixture of liver and lead. Ken Prag Collection Est. $120-150 HWAC# 90551 Rita Copper and Iron Company Stock # 1573 Lot# 2681 San Pedro, New Mexico 1890 Santa Fe Copper Company Stock for 100 shares to Ashley # 1283C for 10 shares to George A Marden. Signed by AS Bigelow and Watson & Co. Signed by president HH Stevens. Dateline Santa WJ Downing and president Fe 1890. Incorporated 1888. Not cancelled. Crisp and clear underground JP Whitney. Not cancelled. mining vignette. WR Warren of Boston $1.00 green documentary printer. Folds lower left corner, original purple top right corner. stamp on reverse. Very nice. The company incorporated in 1888 under the laws of the Underground mining Territory of New Mexico and went bankrupt in 1892. Re-organized vignette. American Bank as the Santa Fe Gold and Copper Mining Company. The company Note printer. Dog ear corners, one stain center bottom. The Santa Rita operated the San Pedro mine in Santa Fe County which was part of the district was one of the oldest mining districts in the west and ranks old San Pedro land grant. The property had primarily low grade ore but immense tonnage. To be operated profitably, the ore needed to be next to the Lake Superior district of Michigan as the earliest known concentrated and a railroad connection would be necessary. Ken Prag copper district within the territories included in the United States. Collection Est. $100-200 HWAC# 90537 According to J.P. Whitney, croppings of native copper were discovered by an Apache Indian in the later 18th century. After the find was reported to Colonel Carrasco of the Spanish army, a contract was made to supply copper for the Mexican coinage (Likely about 4,000,000 lbs. annually). In 1897, the Hearst family took a lease on the properties to supply sulphide ores to its smelter in Silver City. Through 1904, the total production of the Santa Rita mines was estimated at 80 million lbs. (USGS, Prof. Paper Issue 68, Ore Deposits of New Mexico, p. 306) Ken Prag Collection Est. $100-200 HWAC# 90538 196 May 2019

DAY 2 Fri, May 17 Mining Lot# 2685 Sierra County, Lot# 2689 White Oaks, New Mexico New Mexico 1886 Ironclad 1882 Leavenworth and White Mining Company Stock # Oaks Gold and Silver Mining 16 for 100 shares to Carrie Company Stock Location of mines in B Beruch. Signed by Charles Leavenworth, Kansas and White Oaks A McNair and president SS New Mexico. # 20 for 1000 shares to Saphum. Dateline St. Louis DJ Brewer. signed by William Booth 1886. Incorporated June and DJ Brewer as president. Dateline 1885. Not cancelled. peaceful Leavenworth, Kansas 1882. Not valley vignette with steam cancelled. No edge, corner, pin hole or train running through the discoloration issues. Sharp and clean! middle. Levinson & Blythe Underground mining vignette. Milwaukee Litho printer. Includes two printers. Nicks at fold edges. photocopied pages from a book on White Oaks. The company owned Heavy folds. Otherwise no apparent issues. “At the rate work has been the Badger Boy and Silver Glance mines among others in White Oaks. going on for several months the ironclad tunnel will be completed In 1882 it was reported the Silver Glance showed fine copper ore. Ken about July 1st. It will cost about $18,000 and is purely a venture out Prag Collection Est. $100-150 HWAC# 90555 of which the owners will get nothing if mineral is not found, but on the other hand if the tunnel strikes the mineral vein the question as Lot# 2690 Whitewater to the profit of deep mining at Kingston will be set at rest. The end of Canyon, New Mexico 1896 the tunnel will be about 700 feet below the surface so that the expense Helen Mining Company Stock of hoisting will be saved on all ore taken out above the tunnel level.” # 287 for 80 shares to George [Engineering and Mining Journal, February 15, 1890] Since we found Ross-Lewin trustee. Signed by no other information on this mine, we assume it is the former! Ken Jno. Graham and president (?). Prag Collection Est. $100-200 HWAC# 90550 Not cancelled. Small circular air drill vignette. Homer Lee Lot# 2686 Silver City, New Bank Note Company printer. Mexico 1880 Montezuma Orange and black on whtie. Silver Mining Company, Incorporated in West Virginia, New Mexico Stock Very printer in New York, dateline low No. 10, issued for 200 colorado and mines at Mogolllon Mountains in New Mexico. No folds shares on March 18th, pin holes, edge, corner or discoloration issues. Helen Mining Company 1880 in Galveston, Texas operated the mines and the mill in Whitewater Canyon. The mill was top B Furman(?). . Signed powered mainly by electricity. The problem was it could not be built by the president M Quin close to the mines. The stream would dry up in the summer. The canyon and secretary Charles was very rough making building it higher in the canyon problematic. (?). Principal Office in Ken Prag Collection Est. $100-200 HWAC# 90536 Galveston, Texas. Branch Office in Silver City, New Lot# 2691 , New Mexico 1879 Massachusetts Mexico. Mine at Silver City. and New Mexico Mining Company Stock Milling vignette. Pinholes. Otherwise extremely nice. 7.75 x 10” M and Bond Lot of two. Massachusetts and Strickland of Galveston printer. Not cancelled. Ken Prag Collection New Mexico Consolidated Mining Company Est. $150-250 HWAC# 91881 Bond. This is the rarer piece. 1882. JE Abbott and president HP Tallmadge. # 2432. 13 of Lot# 2687 Silver City, New Mexico 14 coupons attached. 14.5x16”. Folds. No 1882 Silver City Mining and Milling hole, edge, corner or discoloration issues. Co. stock Five hundred shares of Silver 2) Massachusetts and New Mexico Mining City Mining and Milling Company Company Stock. We have had this stock incorp. under the laws of New York before, but this is in very nice condition. Some capital stock certificate number 54, issues upper right border is all that mars it. issued to W. T. Uersereau, trustee, dated Gold underprint ‘$25.’ Title in red. Rand, Avery February 8, 1882. Printed: Hamilton of Boston printers. # 132 to 50 shares to Sylvester Sawyer. Signed by Bank Note & Co. Litho. Ken . Ken Prag Edward Abbott and John S Abbott. Cancelled. 1879. Six per cent $100 Collection Est. $200-400 HWAC# 82350 bond. Nice pairing connected by the Abbott family. Ken Prag Collection Est. $120-150 HWAC# 91883 Lot# 2688 Silver City, New Mexico 1887 Treasure Hill Silver MIning Lot# 2692 , New Mexico 1889 New Company Stock # 80 for 1000 shares to Mexico Mica Mining Company Stock # CW Rosenthal. Signed by Gary Spencer 298 for 10 shares to JH Foster. Signed and president Isaac W Mason. Dateline by SM Allen and JT Cornforth vice St. Louis, Illinois 1887. Not cancelled. president. Dateline Denver 1889. Not Three vignettes: underground mining, cancelled. Mountain valley vignette allegorical lady and eagle and seal. in an arched window. Vertical folds. Brown on light pink. Stamp on back Otherwise no apparent issues. In 1888 reads, “This company own the Treasure Hill and the 4-11-44 Mines, the company planned to pulverize the located on Treasure Hill, at Camp Fleming, Bear Mountain Mining mica for use in wall paper and lubricants. Ken Prag Collection Est. District, nine miles west of Silver City, N. M.” Very light fold upper left - $80-100 HWAC# 90545 easily remedied. No edge, corner, discoloration or pin hole issues. Ken Prag Collection Est. $120-200 HWAC# 90541 Bid online at FHWAC.com or call 775-851-1859 197

DAY 2 Fri, May 17 Mining Lot# 2693 , New Mexico 1864, Lot# 2696 , New Mexico 1893-1905 Three New 1868 New Mexico Mining Company Mexico Stock Certificates 1) Irrigation and Stock Collection Lot of three. 1) Hydraulic Mining Company. # 130 for 1000 shares 1868 stock # 612 for 950 shares to in 1892 to Leonard Jenkins. Black on blue paper John C Lawler.Signed by F Jones and with gold border, imprinted gold seal and gold president Jonathan Bidwell. Sluicing underprint ‘1,000’. Very fancy green reverse. No vignette. Incorporated in New Mexico. edge, pin hole, corner or discoloration issues. 2) Discoloration (mostly left side). 2) Alabama Gold and Copper Mining Company. # 75 1864 stock #312 for 100 shares to for 200 shares in 1899. Issued to DM Goodrich and Edward Dodge. SIgned by Moses Kelly and president Ulysses Ward. signed by president Llewellyn. Jarilla, New Mexico. Idyllic village vignette. Discoloration mostly left. Cancelled and re- Black on green safety paper. Bright gold seal. Red issue as stock # 504. 3) Unissued 1864 stock certificate. “In 1856, a reverse. Heavy folds, but no edge, corner, pin hole rich placer deposit was discovered at Pinos Altos near Bear Creek, or discoloration issues. 3) Amazon Gold Company northwest of Silver City. It was so rich in gold that miners made $40 stock # 1783 for 50 shares to AF Buckman in 1905. Seven smaller to $50 per day just panning gold. Within three months of its discovery, mining vignettes. Green imprinted seal. Small tears at fold edges. Pin one thousand prospectors had come to live and work there. The mine holes. Still nice. 1905. Ken Prag Collection Est. $100-150 HWAC# at Bear Creek became the first corporate mining company to form 90530 in New Mexico. Miners at Bear Creek used rockers, sluice boxes, and “long toms” along with their gold pans to separate gold from the rock. Lot# 2697 , New Mexico 1883 & Gold-bearing ore was crushed in mills (arraste) and also extracted 1887 Two New Mexico Mining Stock from retorts. In retorts, mercury captures the gold, and the gold is Certificates Lot of 2 different. 1) left after the mercury is boiled to a vapor. This process was done with The Ironclad Mining Company. Inc. a minimum of expenditure, but it killed the brain cells of any miner in NM. No. 208, issued for 50 shares who breathed the mercury fumes. The mill at Bear Creek closed in 1887. Signed by the vice-president three years after it opened. Miners ventured downstream to the San and secretary. Not cancelled. Maroon Vincente Creek Arroyo, where Silver City lies today, and found a rich border and print. Vignette of training silver deposit. There, at Chloride Flat, miners found horn silver, silver passing under snow-capped mountain. chloride. They named the mine, the Legal Tender, and this silver mine Pinholes, folds. 2) The Leavenworth burrowed anywhere from 50 to 200 feet below the surface. Martin & White Oaks Gold & Silver Mining Beaman, a miner Page 3 of 3 who had a sawmill and experience using Company. Inc. in Kansas. No. 80, issued a steam engine, established the ore mill. The first miner of Silver City, in 1883 to the company president, DJ he had purchased the equipment used at Bear Creek for scrap. The Beaver. Not cancelled. Black border and Legal Tender mine produced $2 million in two years with its high print, mining vignette. Folds. () Ken grade silver ore. In 1894, the market for silver suffered a devastating Prag Collection Est. $120-180 HWAC# crash, and silver fell from one dollar per ounce to thirty-nine cents per 100763 ounce.” from Evelath et. al. Ken Prag Collection Est. $150-200 HWAC# 90531 Lot# 2698 , New Mexico 1881, 1888 Two New Mexico Mining Stocks Lot# 2694 , New Mexico 189’s New Mammoth Consolidated Mining, Mexico Mining Stock Group Lot of Milling and Smelting Company. # four. 1) Edison Silver Mining Company. 466 for 500 shares in 1881. Signed # 67 for 400 shares. Signed by FE Lutz by J Wyatt Case and WIlliam N Loker. and L Glass. 2) Manhattan Gold Mining Dateline 1881 Santa Fe. 2) Manzano and Milling Company. # 157 for 1000 Gold Mining Company. # 67 for 2 shares. Reverse ‘Paid in 8 Installments.’ shares to QM Codington. Signed by Karl Rather unique. 3) Saint Anthony Snyder and (?). 1888 Albuquerque. No Crystal Mica Mining Company. # 13 for corner, edge or discoloration issues on 25 shares. Signed by AA Doyle and WH either cert. Ken Prag Collection Est. Colburn. Gold border and imprinted seal. Tent and wagon vignette. $120-200 HWAC# 90548 4) Unissued Magdalena Mountain Gold and Silver Mining Company. # 749. Overall nice. Ken Prag Collection Est. $120-150 HWAC# 90533 Lot# 2695 , New Mexico 1881 The Old Lot# 2699 , New Mexico 1882, 1888 Thirteen Mining Company Stock # Twp New Mexico Mining Stocks 126 for 100 shares to D Middleton Jr. 1) Aracia Silver MIning Company. # Signed by Stony B Todd and president 44 for 50 shares. Location of mine, HE Paine. Dateline Washington Socorro County. Dateline 1882. DC 1881. Incorporated 1881. Not Incorporated 1882. Air drill vignette. cancelled. Eagle and flag vignette. 2) Conqueror Mining Company. # 69 Gibson Bros. printer. Brown on white for 1000 shares. Underground ore with strong brown underprint ‘non- bucket vignette. Rather different. assessable.’ Slight corner issues. Very Dateline 1888. Both have condition nice. We found no information on this mine. Ken Prag Collection Est. issues. Please inspect online. Ken Prag $100-150 HWAC# 90544 Collection Est. $80-150 HWAC# 90554 198 May 2019