Cornucopia of Collectibles | October 2018 Auction Catalog

DAY 3 Saturday, October 20th Mining Lot#3041 , Arizona 1864 Mowry Lot#3043 , Arizona 1882 Picacho Solver Mining Company Bond Silver Mining Company Stock Very signed by Mowry This is an early number 14 for 5,333 shares to extremely rare item from a rather Jacob Hilschler. Date line Camden July famous (or infamous) Arizona 15, 1882, Incorporated July 8th, 1882. miner! # 202 for $1,000 in 1864. (Stock was issued one week after Signed by president Sylvestrer incorporation.) Signed by secretary Mowry, secretary Mather and WIlliam Grahame(?) and president JB Baker. One vertical fold which is trustee Samuel Barlow. Mowry starting to seperate at edges. Bottom right corner torn off. Some foxing. was quite a controversial figure Not cancelled. Prag Collection Est. $200-500 HWAC# 81639 in Arizona and Confederate politics. (See short bio below.) Lot#3044 , Arizona ARIZONA: In August 1855 Mowry Mini Seven Arizona was stationed at Fort Yuma with Mining Stock the United States Army. It was a Certificates 1) Ferre remote outpost on the California Mining Company. # side of the Colorado River. While 38. San Pedro District, at Fort Yuma, Mowry became Pinal. 1881. 2) Copper interested in the potential mining opportunities in the land acquired Emperor. 1883. # from Mexico as part of the Gadsden Purchase. In 1856 a convention was 92. 3) Phoenix Gold. held in Tucson to draft a petition asking Congress to separate Arizona 1898. 4) Copper King from the New Mexico to create a new territory. In 1856, Mowry was of Arizona. 1899. elected as a delegate to advocate before Congress for the creation of Nice underprint of the Arizona Territory. He was granted leave by the Army but when he the company named. arrived in Washington in May 1857, Congress refused to recognize him. 5) Phoenix Mining Nevertheless Mowry worked unofficially with members of Congress Company. 1888. and also appealed to the public, writing articles for publication and Issued to purchase making speeches in support of creating an Arizona Territory. In 1857 property. 6) Arizona Construction Company. # 51. 1893. 7) Dakota the citizens of the potential new Arizona Territory elected Mowry again Mining Company. Tuscon. # 68. 1897. Est. $200-400 HWAC# 81635 to petition Congress. That year he printed a pamphlet titled Memoir on the Proposed Territory of Arizona; it was the first publication Lot#3045 Melbourne, Australia Oct. dealing solely with Arizona. CONFEDERACY: In early 1861 Mowry 4, 1909 North Broken Hill Mining was crisscrossing the Territory, holding meetings to promote the Company 3 North Broken Hill Confederate cause. He was a supporter of both secession and slavery Mining Company stock certificates. (despite being born in Rhode Island). In July 1861, soon after the start Very good condition. 8 Broken Hill of the Civil War, American forts in southern Arizona were evacuated as South Limited stock certificates. Very Union troops redeployed to fight the Confederates. Without protection good condition. Est. $50-80 HWAC# from hostile Indians in the region, many miners abandoned their mines 79032 and fled for their safety. Mowry remained however, erecting a stockade in hopes of protecting his mine. Meanwhile, a secessionist convention was held in Arizona to establish the Confederate Arizona Territory. Lot#3046 Alta, Placer Mowry was a firm supporter of the new territory, as were many others County, California in Arizona. After several battles between Union and Confederate forces, Compagnie de la the California Column began their advance across Confederate Arizona Riviere Yuba stock, in 1862 from Fort Yuma. Led by General James H. Carleton the Union Alta, Placer County #’s captured Tucson on May 20, 1862, effectively putting the territory back 18896 to 18900. French. in Union hands. In an effort to maintain control, Carleton ordered the “For Gold Washing in arrest of several Confederate sympathizers who had remained after the Alta California.” Corner Confederate retreat. On June 13, 1862 Lieutenant Edward Banker Willis issues. Three vertical proceeded to arrest Mowry at his mine. He was accused of treason for folds. Pin holes. Still nice selling ammunition to rebel forces and sharing military information looking. French financed. in letters to various Confederate officials including Jefferson Davis. Very Rare. no dates. Est. [Sacks, “Sylvestry Mowry: Artilleryman, Libertine, Entrepreneur” $200-300 HWAC# 79705 / Fireman, “”What Comprises Treason?” Testimony of Proceedings Against Sylvester Mowry” / wikipedia] Own this rather amazing piece of Arizona, mining, and Civil War history! Prag Collection Est. $2000- Lot#3047 Auburn, California 4000 HWAC# 79202 Hydraulic Miners Cause Broadside Hydraulic Miners’ Assoc Of California, Lot#3042 , Arizona 1889 Old Jesuit Auburn small broadside for Mining Company Stock # 394 for contributions. Approx 6 x 9.5” . Ink 300 shares to Henry Richman. Signed stains on both sides, vertical fold. Est. by CC Harris and president James H $100-150 HWAC# 80174 Wangtu(?). Dateline East St. Louis, Ill. 1889. Incorporated June 1888. Underground mining vignette. Gold seal. Not cancelled. Folds are tearing and the center horizontal fold has large rips. Tear upper border. etc. We have not seen this certificate before. Very RARE! Prag Collection Est. $200-500 HWAC# 81646 Bid online at FHWAC.com or call 775-851-1859 149

DAY 3 Saturday, October 20th Mining Lot#3048 Auburn, Placer County, California 1880 Auburn and Rock Creek Mining Company Stock, Placer County # 87 for 500 shares to John Bermingham. Datelined New York 1880. Signed by secretary Charles Puwhaw(?) and president PM Bowen. Uncancelled. Printed by Litho. & Eng. Co. Dog eared corners. No folds, edge issues or color issues (one tan smudge bleeds over from revesere near the ‘Y’ in company). We paid a hurried visit this week to the mine and works of the Auburn and Rock Creek mining company, located on Rock Creek, about three miles north of Auburn. Since our Lot#3051 Bodie, California 1879 Acme Mining Company Stock Single last visit, some two months ago, this company has done a great deal digit Number 7 for 25 shares to AB Phillips.Datelined San Francisco of work, and of a kind which indicates unmistakably that they mean 1879. Signed by secretary Daniel Brick and president NR Waters. business. Where men were then engaged in grading down the bank, a Incorporated mar. 24, 1879. Location of mine, “Bodie Mining District, new 12-Stamp mill now stands all ready, barring a few minor details, Mono County, California.” Crocker & Company printers. Not cancelled. for operation. [“Mining and Scientific Press (Jan.-June 1881)] Prag Collection Est. $120-250 HWAC# 79213 Staining bottom and right. No corner or edge issues. No rips or tears. LeCount brothers printing. Original directors included William R Lot#3049 Badger Hill Mining Waters, Daniel Brick, Willis Milliken, BW Mudge, and FM Richardson. District, Nevada County, California Est. $300-700 HWAC# 79762 1888 Seneca Mining Company Stock, Badger Hill Mining District, Nevada County Early # 42 for 2,000 shares to Charles Hegarty. Datelined Cherokee, Nevada County, Cal. 1888. This is a very rare (unique?) dateline. Signed by secretary JA Hustier and president J Hustler. Incorporated August 12, 1887. Printed by The Bancroft Company. “Location of mine, Badger Hill, Badger Hill District.”. Faded. One vertical fold and two pin holes. “This mine is located on the mountain side just south of the Middle Yuba River and directly north of Badger Hill, being about two miles down the river in a direct line from the now famous Delhi. When the ledge was first discovered some of the loose croppings were crushed and yielded $2.50 per ton. A tunnel was then run in the hillside to strike the ledge at a depth of 100 feet and a crushing was taken out which yielded $10 per ton in free gold. Lot#3052 Bodie, California 1879 Addenda Gold & Silver Mining The company then descended the mountain side and ran in a prospect Company Stock #204 for 100 shares to Greenbaum Helbing trustee. tunnel 150 feet lower down or at a depth sufficient to give 250 feet of Dateline San Francisco 1879. Signed by secretary TH Dixon and backs to stope out if found to pay. The lower tunnel reached the ledge president John Dixon. Location at “Bodie Mining Dist. Mono Co. Cal.” a few days ago and is being run on the line of the ledge to determine its Printer Bunker and Hiester. Incorporated on August 31, 1878. The extent. The ledge thus far in the lower tunnel is over three feet thick and original directors were MC McGlennon, Sam Dixon, John Dixon, and TH the rock shows some free gold. The quartz being taken out in running Dixon. Volume 28 of the Engineering and Mining Journal (July-Dec. 1879, the drift ahead is being hauled to J Hustler’s one stamp prospect mill to pg. 28) states, “This mine is looking well….” And the California Journal be crushed ascertain its richness.” [Mining and Scientific Press, Volume of Mining and Geology, 3rd Annual Report of the State Mineralogist 57, 1888] Prag collection Est. $120-250 HWAC# 79224 (June 1883, pg. 92) notes that the Addenda Mine is at the 500’ level. Prag Collection Est. $300-700 HWAC# 79761 Lot#3050 Bodi, California 1878 Black Hawk Gold Mining Company Stock #649 for 5 shares to George B Lot#3053 Bodie, California 1787 Hill, trustee and cashier. (One often Ajax Gold & Silver Mining Company finds stocks for trustees, but rarely Stock #122 for 1000 shares to for a cashier.) Datelined San Francisco trustee AF Main. Datelined San 1878. Signed by secretary BS Kellogg Francisco 1878. Signed by secretary and president PJ White(?). Incorporation date not listed, but was on Main and president Robert Barton. October 3, 1877. Eight assessment stamps on back. Location at “Bodie Incorporated on September 2, 1878. Mg. Dist. Mono Co. Cal.” Printer was AJ Leary. Leary’s connection with This stock was issued on September 3d. There must have been a lot the printing trade dates far back He early left the employ of HS Crocker of hype to sell 122 certificates in one day! Printer LeCount. Location & Co to start in business for himself and at the time of his death in “Bodie Mining District, Mono County, Cal.” Left corners are torn. Other 1891 had a large printing, stationery and bookbinding establishment than that minor issues only to this fine looking stock certificate. This in profitable operation. [Inland printer, 1891] Not cancelled. Staining company never produced much, but has all the making of a ‘Jack the throughout. Only one week before this stock was issued a man named Ripper’ story. It seems a bloody rag was found on top of the shaft in Jack O’Hara was shot and killed while he and others tried to jump the the winter of 1882. A witness said he saw two men unloading a box Black Hawk claim. By March of 1878 the shaft on this claim was 110 from a sled and tossing it into the Ajax shaft. A reporter was told the feet. The original trustees were Coll Dean, CW Kellogg, PJ White, TR story and immediately began an investigation. He and a companion Hayes, and Wm. Lent. Lent was a famous Comstock financier and later a were lowered into the 120 shaft to find grisly remains - as in pieces Bodie Financier. Prag Collection Est. $300-700 HWAC# 79772 of - a young woman buried in the snow. It seems the young woman had died and the local doctor, in need of surgery practice, dug her up and practiced his trade. When caught, the doctor fled town and was never heard from again [Bodie Bonanza by Loose]. Prag collection Est. $300- 700 HWAC# 79763 150 October 2018

DAY 3 Saturday, October 20th Mining Lot#3054 Bodie, California 1879 Aurora Tunnel and Mining Company Lot#3056 Bodie, California 1878 Bodie and Esmeralda By Jos. Stock #915 for 10 shares to trustee NG Grandall. Datelined San Francisco Wasson Original 1878 copy.”An account of the revival of affairs in 1879. Signed by secretary Hubbard and vice president AJ Ralston. two singularly Ralston was the brother of William Ralston. Incorporated January 22, interesting and 1878. Location important mining of mines “Bodie districts, including District, Mono something of their Co. California.” pasts.” With 2 Al l egorical folding maps. Rare woman on pamphlet about left. Printed the early history of by Britton, these two California Rey, & Co. Not mining districts at the height of their boom. Profitable deposits of Ca ncel l ed. gold-bearing ore were discovered in Bodie in 1876, and the population Two oval soared. This once small town bustled with activity, boasting over 60 as s e s s me nt saloons spread along a one mile strip. Details on more than twenty stamps on reverse. Another extremely fine cert. From the Pacific Coast mines, as well as tunnels, railroad routes, and other information useful Annual Mining Review and Stock Ledger 1878, p.171-2 , “They have for the prospective investor or settler. 60pp. Est. $1200-2000 HWAC# +pushed it forward nearly a thousand feet towards its objective point. 81412 In the construction of this tunnel they had a double purpose - having in view the opening of a passage-way for draining and working the tier of Lot#3057 Bodie, California Bodie veins already taken up in the ridge between Bodie Bluff and Silver Hill, and Hawthorne Telephone and and the discovery and locating of any blind lodes that the tunnel might Telegraph Co. Stock Certificate intersect in its course. The surface claim taken up is 3,000 feet in length, issued to Bodie Mines I/C #8 Buliver extending clear across the mineral-bearing belt that here traverses the Consolidated Mining 125 shares 1892. country. The tunnel enters the hill from the east, passing through the I/U #118 Standard Consolidated “Goodshaw,” “South Standard,” and such other parallel claims as lie in Mining 575 shares, overprinted 1906, its path. For aiding ventilation, an air-shaft has been opened from the signed by JS Cain and David Cain. Est. surface to the tunnel level, and 500 feet in from its mouth a prospecting $200-500 HWAC# 79963 winze has been sunk to a depth of 100 feet. Several blind veins have already been intersected by the tunnel, all of which have been duly secured by the Company, who will in good time proceed to explore such other favorable mineral implications as this work has partially laid Lot#3058 Bodie, California 1863 open. Among the lodes cut by the tunnel is one situated 765 feet from Bodie Bluff Consolidated Mining its entrance.” The Aurora Tunnel is also mentioned in Jos. Wasson’s Company Stock with Leland 1878 “Bodie & Esmeralda: “This is now an important enterprise, Stanford’s Signature # 401 for 25 more of the nature of an extensive cross-cut under the surface, for shares to WP Coleman. Datelined the purpose of discovering and locating blind lodes pertaining to the Aurora, Mono County 1863. Signed backbone between Bodie Bluff and Silver Hill. The claim is 3,000 feet by secretary FK Bechtel and Governor in length, and extends across the entire series of lodes in the district. Leland Stanford. Incorporated January It has entered the ridge from the east side near 1,000 feet; an air shaft 26, 1863. Unique vignette shows the 11 mines under this company’s is cut through from above, and at 500 feet from the mouth a winze 100 umbrella: Cumberland, Bunker Hill, North America, St. Charles, New feet deep is sunk. Several locations of vein matter have been made, Mexico, Main Top, Osceola, Mizzen Top, Fore Top, Oneida, and Isabella and some very auspicious indications noted for further exploration. (with a backwards ‘S’). Yellow background with white box. Black print At 765 feet from the mouth, 15 feet of vein matter-a solid character, with red underprint of two allegorical women and $1,110,000. Agnew and of sufficient richness to justify a thorough system of development- & Deffebach printers. 25c Entry of Goods Revenue Stamp. The Bodie is located. Enough is already demonstrated to characterize the Aurora Bluff was the forerunner of the famous standard mine. Standard was tunnel as a leading and permanent enterprise. Prag Collection Est. located under the name of The Bunker Hill Mine, the original locators $300-700 HWAC# 79770 selling out their interests for twenty thousand dollars to an actor named James Stark and a jeweler named John W. Tucker. They soon Lot#3055 Bodie, California 1881 ran out of money and were forced to sell their “Opera House Mill” as Bechtel Consolidated Mining it was called. A geologist Professor J.D. Whitney gave a good report on Company Stock # 5436 for 100 the property, and new capital was brought in. A new consolidation of shares to trustee ER Grant. Datelined claims took place. Leland Stanford, then Governor of California, was San Francisco 1881. Signed by elected President, and Judge F. T. Bechtel, Secretary. The new company secretary William H Lent and was called “The Bodie Bluff Consolidated Mining Company”, and was acting president William Herrin. incorporated for over a million dollars. Governor Stanford brought a Incorporated December 22, 1878. Location at “Bodie Mining Dist. mining expert up with him to Bodie. The “expert”, in looking over the Mono Co. Cal.” African American G. T. Brown lithographer. (Very early property advised Stanford to get out, saying he himself would not give African American lithographer out of San Francisco. Much has been five hundred dollars for the whole district. (The fact was that there written about him. See “San Francisco Lithographer: African American were millions just beneath the place where they were then standing). Artist Grafton Tyler Brown” by Chandler). Two assessment stamps on The Governor took his advice and decided to abandon this seemingly back. A total of eight were levied. Not cancelled. Top right corner dog worthless mining ground. The so-called “expert” lived to regret the day eared. A dozen pin type holes. Otherwise in nice condition. William Lent he gave this advice. Prag collection Est. $4000-6000 HWAC# 80347 was a Comstock financier. It is said that at one time or other he had invested in nearly all major Comstock Mines. Many of them were early Lot#3059 Bodie, California 1900 investments to help the company get started. He eventually moved on Bodie, CA and Surrounding Area to Bodie where he had investments in the Bechtel, Big, Pittsburgh, Bull- Topo Map 5 panel topo map, Coast Domingo, Black Hawk Gold, J and K, Bodie, etc stocks. Prag Collection and Geodetic Survey Report, 1900 Est. $300-700 HWAC# 79771 appendix 3, section 2, map A. Features Bodie, Aurora, Dora and more. 10 x 33”. Est. $400-800 HWAC# 81402 Bid online at FHWAC.com or call 775-851-1859 151

DAY 3 Saturday, October 20th Mining Lot#3060 Bodie, California 2258 Lot#3065 Bodie, California 1893 Booker Consolidated Gold Mining Mono Gold Mining Company Stock Company Stock # 2258 for 5/100ths This is a later issued 1893 stock for an of a share! (This small amount of a 1878 mining company. Number 9615 stock is very rare!) Issued to George for 50 shares to trustees Rehfish & Co. B Hill cashier. Datelined San Francisco Signed by LD Walker and president 1879. Signed by secretary William (?). Located “Bodie mining Dist. Mono H. Lent and president (?). (Lent was a prolific Comstock and Bodie Co. Cal.” Incorporated August 17th 1878.Printed by Galloway Litho Co. investor.) Incorporated September 9, 1878. Located at “Bodie Mining S. F. Cancelled. Two assessment stamps on reverse. Folds at corners, pin District, Mono Co. California.” Two assessment stamps on reverse. Not holes, some discoloration . The Mono Gold Mining Company is just over cancelled. Lithographer was the famous African American G. T. Brown. Convict Pass on the left-hand side of the highway (where the gravel pit On August 3, 1879 the Daily Alta California reported that the Booker’s is now). This would be close to the old town of Monoville - which was new pumping machinery was performing admirable and the production originally placed in Nevada (the Utah Territory) by the United States should begin soon. Perhaps that production was beginning a few weeks Post Office. The company was still going strong in 1893! Prag Collection later and that is why Hill is receiving this certificate. Prag Collection Est. $200-500 HWAC# 79777 Est. $300-700 HWAC# 79773 Lot#3066 Bodie, California 1881 Lot#3061 Bodie, California 1880 North Noonday Mining Company Glynn-Dale Consolidated Gold Stock # 1609 for 300 shares to William Mining Company Stock # 857 for G Cooper. Datelined San Francisco 500 shares to Jno. W Doherty trustee. 1881. Signed by secretary Taylor and datelined San Francisco 1880. Signed president William F Herrin. Herrin by secretary BW Mudge and vice was a lawyer, banker, businessman, president (?). Two paid assessment and real estate developer. He represented William Sharon in his divorce stamps on reverse. Location at “Bodie Dist. Mono Co. Cal.” Not cancelled. and became the chief council for the Sharon estate. He later served as Britton & Rey printers. Incorporated October 17, 1880. Smudge on right. chief counsel for the Southern Pacific railroad. Incorporated November Three vertical folds. The original directors were FB Taylor, GB Hibbard, 5, 1878. Location at “Bodie District, Mono County, Cala.” Printed WT Irving M Scott, F Horner, and John Neale. The April 8, 1880 Daily Alta Galloway. On the date this certificate was issued (November 2, 1881) California had some unking words for Mr. GLynn. It seems the that stock North Noonday stock was selling for 20c a share. At the time this stock was being sold at $1.00 illegally and had gone down to 5 cents. The was written the Mining & Scientific Press reported that the Noonday paper was ‘calling the company out!’ The 1882 Engineering & Mining and North Noonday had found a shoot a distance of about 500 ft, all Journal characterized the Glynn-Dale as a non-dividend paying mine. this to near the surface, ready to be stoped out. On the 300 level, drifts Prag collection Est. $300-700 HWAC# 79759 are being run on the vein north and south preparatory to excavating the ore. The main shaft has been sunk to the 112 level, and timbers Lot#3062 Bodie, California 1879 J are being put in for a station. The mill is progressing finely and will and K Gold Mining Company Stock be ready to run about December 1st. Prag Collection Est. $300-700 # 264 for 100 shares. Datelined San HWAC# 79778 Francisco. Incorporated on June 18, 1879. Signed by secretary William Lot#3067 Bodie, California 1879 Rustler Gold Mining Company Stock Lent and president (?). Lent signs the reverse. Writing in red on top (issue do, date faded away. Stock has seen its share of wear - please see photo online. Not cancelled. Located at “Bodie Mining District, Mono Co. Cal.” Lithographer was the famous African American G. T. Brown. The ‘J and K’ show Brown’s flair! Prag collection Est. $200-500 HWAC# 79774 Lot#3063 Bodie, California 1879 Jupiter Mining Company Stock # 1162 for 10 shares to WJ Muller. datelined San Francisco 1879. Signed secretary Masteu(?) and president AJ Ralston. Ralston was William Ralston’s brother. Not cancelled. Many folds and some fading. Tear upper right. Smudges throughout. Etc. Est. #376 for 50 shares to trustee WJ Muller. Datelined San Francisco 1879. $300-700 HWAC# 79764 Signed by secretary AJ Main and president WP Willard. Incorporated Lot#3064 Bodie, California 1881 September 3d, 11878. Located at “Bodie Mining District, Mono County, King Bee Mining & Milling Company Cal.” Not Cancelled. One assessment stamp on reverse. Two holes on top left. dog ears and one vertical fold, wrinkles. Good condition. The # A58 for 1000 shares to AT Beach Rustler Gold Mining Company, which lies squarely on the main ore belt trustee. Datelined New York 1881. that traverses the Bodie District, was developed by means of a vertical Signed by secretary AT Beach and shaft. Investors expected the mine to produce rich ore. The investors president WW Horton. Located in in this mine also invested in the Ajax Gold & Silver Mining Company “Bodie Mining District, Mono County, including A. F. Main and was incorporated in September 1878. This California.” Issued for the purpose of certificate is moderately decorated along the border and includes an paying on property. Browne border illustration of a mill with a horse-drawn cart hauling ore to the mill. and name plate. The King Bee Mine was located about halfway down Two assessment stamps are on the reverse of the certificate, one from Queen Bee Hill and was established in 1878. William W. Horton, stock Aug 1 1879 and the other from Nov 22, 1879 in the Carson City Bank. broker and president of the Union Trust Company New York financier [Information about this company from United States Annual Mining company, was born in 1822 in New York and died in 1898. Little is Review and Stock Ledger: Containing Detailed Official Reports of the known about this mine. We only know of 3 of these certificates and Principal Gold and Silver Mines; A History and Description of Mining this is the first appearance at auction. Printed by American Bank Note. and Stock Dealing, with Biographical Sketches of the Principal Men Vignette of two large beehives. Prag collection Est. $300-700 HWAC# 79765 152 October 2018

DAY 3 Saturday, October 20th Mining Lot#3068 Bodie, California 1880 Lot#3072 Buchanan Hill, Butte Sonora Consolidate Mining County, California 1879 Old River Company Stock #233 for 10 shares to Red Gold Mining Company Stock # James F Crumbie. Datelined New York A9 for 50,000 shares. That is 20% of 1880. Signed by secretary HK Adams all shares. To Edward B Dorsey trustee and OS Dawson. Printed by the Mining (There wa an Edward B Dorsey who Record. vignette of underground was a member of the 1863 Nevada miner on left. Located at “Bodie District California”. Not cancelled. No Constitutional Convention and edge, corner, pin hole or discoloration issues. Excellent! Prag Collection superintendent of the Silver State Est. $300-700 HWAC# 79768 Mill below Empire City on the Carson River?) Datelined 1879 New York. Location on Buchanan Hill, Butte Lot#3069 Bodie, County, California. Signed by president Jenkins and secretary De Kay. California 1880 South Underground mining vignette. Printed by American Bank Note. Not Bodie Gold Mining cancelled. Excellent condition (minus the pin holes). Concow township Company Stock with has always been an important mining region. The places that have existed Bodie Vignette # 1719 within this region are Frenchtown, Spanishtown, Blairtown, Rich gulch, for 100 shares to trustee Stone house, Chub gulch, Spring gulch, Jordan hill, Hermitage, Dark GB Bayley. Datelined San canon, Island bar, Berry creek bar, Huff’s bar, Yankee bar, Shore’s bar, Francisco 1880. Signed Bartee’s bar. Nelson bar, Kanaka bar, Ohio bar, Big and Little Kimshew, by secretary H Deas and Big and Little Rock creek, Last Chance, Brown’s ravine, Lindsay’s bar, vice president MP Minor (or Minot). Incorporated August 19, 1878. Crane valley, Flea, valley, East branch, Jordan creek and Buchanan hill. Located at “Bodie Mining District, Mono County, Cal.” Two assessment All these were at one time nourishing mining-camps, but now extinct. stamps on reverse. Vignette of early Bodie. Printer is LeCount. Not [History Of Butte County, Concow township] Prag Collection Est. $120- cancelled. Pin holes and dog ears. Two stains upper right. The property 250 HWAC# 80418 of this company consists of the “Hancock” claim, 1,500 feet long, located in June, 1877. It lies to the south of the celebrated Bodie mine, Lot#3073 Butte County, California and indications lend a strong support to the theory that the rich veins 1882 Grand View Consolidated struck by the Bodie Company will be found in the South Bodie ground Gold Mining Company Stock , Butte when sufficient depth is attained. The surface ground on this claim was County # 213 for 1000 shares to worked with great success as a placer claim in the early days of Bodie Peter Barclay. Datelined San Francisco Bluff, and the richest float quartz ever struck in the district was found 1882. Signed by secretary Penfield near the point where sinking is now in progress on this mine. A shaft and president Charles Sinclair. has been sunk on this claim to a depth of 120 feet, over which a fine Incorporated July 30, 1881. uncancelled. Lady Liberty Vignette. Printed engine has been erected for hoisting ore, and satisfactory progress is by B. Dore & Company of Sacramento. Outside of a few pin holes, in being made at all points. It is proposed to sink the shaft to a depth of amazing condition. There was a Grand View Mine in Butte County near 200 feet, when crosscutting will commence and be prosecuted until the Forbestown. Prag Collection Est. $120-250 HWAC# 79210 vein is struck. The bottom of the shaft is now in ledge matter. Within 60 days important developments are looked for. [bodie.com from “United Lot#3074 Carson Hill, Calaveras States Annual Mining Review and Stock Ledger] Prag collection Est. County, California 1877 Melones $300-700 HWAC# 79776 Consolidated Mining Company Stock # 214 for 50 shares to A. Lot#3070 Bodie, California 1880 Noel. Signed by secretary A Noel and South Bulwer Gold Mining president G. K. Stevenot. Datelined San Francisco 1877. Incorporated Company Stock # 112 for 100 shares Feb. 27th, 1875. Printer Bacon & Company. Small vignette of eagle on to FW Eaton trustee. Datelined New pedestal. Location of mine at Calaveras County. After the rich shallow York 1880. Signed by asst. secretary ores were exhausted, ore grade and gold production declined. In the WH Miller and vice president William late 1850s, G.K. Stevenot took possession of the Morgan Mine and H (?). Incorporated Aug. 31th, 1878. erected a 3-stamp mill, the first quartz mill in the area (destroyed by Vignette of eagle. Mines at “Bodie fire in 1862). The Melones and Stanislaus Mining Company was then Mining Dist. Mono Co. Cal.” Two paid assessment stamps on back. organized (with G. K. Stevenot as manager) to work the Melones and Not cancelled. This stock has no major issues, but does show its age. Stanislaus claims. During the late 1860s and early 1870s, the mines We found no information on the South Bulwer Gold in our historical references. Est. $300-700 HWAC# 79767 were mostly idle, due largely to litigation over the Morgan Mine claims and milling difficulties. Prag Collection Est. $120-250 HWAC# 80423 Lot#3071 Bodie, California 1880 South Standard Mining Company Lot#3076 Chalk Bluff Mining District, California 188- Chalk Bluffs Gold Stock #1706 for 100 shares to trustee & Silver Mining Company, Chalk Bayley. Datelined San Francisco 1880. Bluff Mining District, Placer Signed by secretary CA Sankey and County Unissued. Datelined Reno1 president Wales Palmer. Incorporated 88-. Incorporated in Nevada on July Sep. 13th 1877. Not cancelled. Britton 9, 1880. “Location of works, Chalk & Rey printer. Great condition with Bluff Mining District, Placer County, only minor issues. Printed by Britton & Rey, SF. Allegorical woman next California.” Chalk BLuff was a placer to fancy company logo. one assessment stamp on reverse. This company mining area that was worked during the Gold Rush. It is located near is a take off of the well known Standard Mining Company. According to Alta. Prag Collection Est. $50-80 HWAC# 79215 Burchard, it was this mine was shut down by 1882! However in 1878 things were different. The mine was said to have ‘great value’ being only 300’ from the main workings [Pacific Coast Mining Review and Stock Ledger, 1878] Wales Palmer was president of the Golden State and Miners Iron Works. Sanky was a professional mining secretary. Prag Collection Est. $300-700 HWAC# 79769 Bid online at FHWAC.com or call 775-851-1859 153

DAY 3 Saturday, October 20th Mining Lot#3077 Channel Bend, California Lot#3084 Downieville, Sierra Coutny, c 1900 Channel Bend, CA American California 1857 Sierra Nevada Lake River Mining Photos 2 approx 5 x Water & Mining Company Stock, 7” b/w photos of Channel Bend Mine Sierra County # 1410 issued to area on Middle Fork of American River James W Denver. English style stock in El Dorado County. One is waterfall, certificate. Signed by Joseph Bates and ogter is miners wading in the River. Est. $60-100 HWAC# 81541 R. H. Walters. Denver was an American politician and lawyer. He served in Lot#3078 Chinatown Mining District, the California State Government, was Shasta County, California 1886 Texas an officer in the United States Army, and Georgia Consolidated Mining served in the United States Senate, and Company Stock, Chinatown Mining was Governor of the Kansas Territory District, Shasta County Early during the struggle over whether or number 17 (14?) for 50 shares to John not Kansas would be open to slavery. The town of Denver, Colorado is M Milliken. Datelined Sacramento named for him. Not cancelled. Cut unevenly. Excellent condition. Prag 1886. Signed by president James T Day and secretary A Leonard. Collection Est. $400-800 HWAC# 79706 Incorporated March 9, 1886. “Location of Mines, Old Diggings and Old Chinatown Mining District, Shasta County, Cal.”Printed by Lewis Lot#3085 Dunderburg Lode, Mono & Johnson of Sacramento. A half dozen vertical folds, one smudge left County, California 187- Muckton border and some staining at bottom left folds. Very nice cert! Not in Gold & Silver Mining Company Filer. We found nothing on the mine or mining district. Prag Collection Stock Unissued. This would have Est. $120-250 HWAC# 79219 been number 73. It is signed by the secretary TJ Edwards. Court house Lot#3079 Cinnabar District, Sonoma vignette. Incorporated July 29th 1870. County, California 1874 Geyser Location: Dunderburg Lode, Mono Quicksilver and Mining Company County. Datelined Carson City, Nev. 187-. (The mining camp was most Stock # 35 for 1000 shares to Ford. active in 1871 and 1872.) Fancy shield and scroll work on bottom left. H Rogers trustee. Signed by secretary Although inissued, this is truly one of the most striking certificates. Rogers and president George W Munckton was a Carson City druggist and heavy investor in the early Gilbert. Dateline San Francisco 1874. Aurora strike. The mining camp of Munckton is probably one of the Incorporated August 1872. Eagle most obscure in Mono County. Est. $100-200 HWAC# 79278 flying past mills and ocean going vessel vignette. Printed by Bancroft & Co. Not Cancelled. One assessment stamp on rear. No edge, corner Lot#3086 Eho District, Calaveras County, pin hole or discoloration issues. Quite nice with its red border! The California 1878 Cataract & Wide West company patent was for 2,400 linear feet of the Geyser Lode, Vein or Gravel Mining Company Stocks Lot Deposit, bearing cinnabar of other metals. Embracing 66.1 acres in the of two. One issued and cancelled. One Cinnabar Mining District. Prag Collection Est. $120-250 HWAC# 80428 unissued. 1) # 672 for 100 shares to Herbert E Winslow. Signed by secretary Lot#3080 Colusa County, California 1865 Monument Petroleum John Howard Carey and president John Company Stock # 8 - Charles Duvoy(?). Datelined San Francisco VERY EARLY. 20 shares to 1878. Incorporated October 10, 1876. William Keith. Datelined San Fantastic grave placer mining vignette. Francisco July 11, 1865 (one This is a G. T. Brown (San Francisco’s early week after incorporation) African American lithographer) certificate. . Signed by secretary WL Heavy glue remnant on left. Pen cancelled. Kirby and president Sam small rips and wrinkles. 2) Unissued and a great way to enjoy the G. T. Little. Incorporated July 6, Brown vignette! Eho placer, Stanislaus area, Collierville District, East 1865. Original trustees were Belt, was in Calaveras County. It was a placer hydraulic Gold Mining Samuel Little and William area. Prag Collection Est. $100-200 HWAC# 80430 McPherson, John W Schimp, George C King and JD Ramsey. William Kirby seems to be a San Francisco Lot#3087 El Dorado County, physician. Prag Collection Est. $300-600 HWAC# 81028 California 1903 True Consolidated Mining & Milling Company Stock, Lot#3081 Colusa County, El Dorado County Incorporated July Commonwealth District, 30th, 1886. Dated with 188- crossed California 1864 North out and 1903 handwritten. # 80 for Star # 43 for 300 shares 1,999 shares to JC Bates trustee. to MJ Hudson. Datelined Datelined San Francisco. “Location: Ashton, Colusa, Co. 1864. El Dorado Co.” Signed by secretary JC Bates and president Gould. Pen Signed by Harry Peyton Cancelled. Dog Ear upper left and pin holes where seal was applied. and president S Harris. Excellent condition! The work done by the ATrue Consolidated in the Incorporated January 1880’s and 90’s lead to a shaft 560 ft. At the 115 ft. a prospect was 1864. One foot per share. Location: Commonwealth District Colusa claimed. The mine produced considerable gold (some estimates being County, Cal. Not cancelled. Buswell & Co. printer. Very nice condition. as high as $250,000) during early operations. It was worked between Only pin holes mar this cert. The Commonwealth district was formed 1870 and 1890. About 1895 these claims passed into the hands of November 4 1863 and the by-laws were adopted December 4. and Placerville Gold Mining Company. [Mother Lode Gold Belt of California amended December 31. This was copper country! Prag Collection Est. By Logan] Prag Collection Est. $50-100 HWAC# 79217 $300-600 HWAC# 81027 154 October 2018

DAY 3 Saturday, October 20th Mining Lot#3088 Eureka, Humboldt Lot#3092 Folsom, California 1863 Folsom Coal and Copper Mining County, California 1865 Blue Slide Company Stock # (unreadable) for 5 shares to NA Bruner. Signed by Oil Company, Eureka, Humboldt County early # 27 for 50 shares to JE Wyman. Uniquely datelined Eureka, Humboldt Bay 1865. Signed by secretary John Watson and president HH Buhne(?). Incorporated June 26th, 1866. Uncancelled. Location “Blue Slide, Mad River, Humboldt County, Cal.” 25c Power of Atty” Revenue Stamp. Oil field vignette. Printed by Towne & Bacon. Slight folds upper border, pin holes at stamp, slight color issues on right. Over all very nice. On November 11, 1865 the Sacramento Daily Union reported that a large oil spring was discovered int the Big Bend of the Mad River. The property belongs to Little Lord [our words] Fauntleroy. The Blue Slide and Humboldt Butte are located in the vicinity and are both preparing to sink shafts. Prag collection Est. secretary Bruner and president Burgess. The number of shares is a $400-600 HWAC# 79711 word and not a number. It is written in the secretary’s hand and must mean something, but we could not figure it out. Datelined Folsom Lot#3089 Eureka, Humboldt County, 1863. Incorporated May 5, 1863. 25c Warehouse Revenue Stamp. California 186- Oil Creek Petroleum Uncancelled. Printed by HS Crocker. Vertical and horizontal folds. Pin Company, Eureka, Humboldt holes. Over all, very clean and nice. The lead was on the American River County Bear River District! Unissued. about six miles above Folsom. In a very brave statement, “Mr Long, one Incorporated may 30, 1865. Near of the proprietors, said he would not exchange it for any of the silver perfect. Oil field vignette. Smaller mines in Washoe.” [Marysville Daily Appeal, January 16, 1863] Any native American vignette on side. more reliable information seems to disappear by 1864. Prag Collection Listed in Humboldt County, Cala. Est. $400-600 HWAC# 79719 Printed by Agnew and Deffebach. “We learn from a gentleman lately from the Oil Creek Petroleum Company’s Lot#3093 Fresno, California 1884 well, that their operations arc progressing satisfactorily, and that each Sterling Mining Company of Fresno day’s work affords additional encouragement and greater promise of # 49 for a large 20,000 shares to trustee ultimate success They have now Hunk their well to the depth of 185 WH Allen. Datelined Sacramento feet,” and are passing through a strata of shale, in which oil is plainly 1884. Signed by secretary and trustee and continually perceptible. The volume of gas coming from the well is Allan and president WF Myers. large and increasing. The greatest confidence is entertained, not only Uncancelled. Printed by Britton. by those interested in the company, but by others whose opinions are Incorporated on February 11, 1880. “Location of Works, Fresno, Cal.” of value, that success will soon attend the operations of this company. [Sacramento Daily Union, October 9, 1865] Prag Collection. Est. $60- Excellent except for one pin hole. The officers of the Sterling were the 80 HWAC# 79709 same as those for the North Fresno. That means they should have been close together. That would probably put this mine on Potter’s Ridge in the Sierra Nevada Mountains. Although first developed in 1849, there Lot#3090 Eureka, Humboldt County, California 1865 Philadelphia was much activity here in the 1880’s. The area was also known as Grub Petroleum Oil Company Stock, Gulch. [Gold districts of California by Clark] There was, however, also a Sterling Mine in Mono County six miles from Lundy. Prag Collection Eureka, Humboldt County # 135 Est. $120-250 HWAC# 79220 for 300 shares to George Wallace. Datelined San Francisco 1865. Signed Lot#3094 Georgetown, California by secretary James Ganiss(?) and 1872 Pilot Creek Water Company president JP Dyer(?). Incorporated Very early # 13 for 1 share to EH April 28th 1865. Printed by Towne & Bacon. Oil field vignette. “1440 Watson. Signed by secretary Watson acres of land in Humboldt County.” This is on the Tilden & Fowler and president WA Stone. Datelined Petroleum stock. And like the former we could not find any reference to the Philadelphia Petroleum Company. Prag Collection. Est. $400-600 Georgetown 1872. Incorporated HWAC# 79713 January 3d, 1861. 25c Certificate Revenue stamp. Green print on white paper. Small rip left hand side. Lot#3091 Eureka, Humboldt Otherwise in very fine condition. The company’s canal only seemed to County, California 1865 Tilden & run from Pilot Creek to Mount Gregory Ridge a distance of thirteen Fowler Petroleum Oil Company miles with a fall of about 11 feet per mile. It was 6 feet wide at the top Stock, Eureka Humboldt County 4 at the bottom and 3 feet deep. [Statistics of Mines and Mining in the States and Territories West by Raymond] Prag Collection Est. $120- # 50 for 50 shares! How cute! To (?). 250 HWAC# 80412 Datelined San Francisco 1865. Signed by secretary John (?) and president Lot#3095 Gold Lake, Sierra County, McCullough. Incorporated April 20th, California 1887 Parker Mining & 1865. Uncancelled. Oil field vignette. “On 1440 acres land in Humboldt Milling Company Stock, Gold Lake, County.” 25c certificate Revenue Stamp. The location of the lands was Sierra County # 228 for 200 shares not mentioned on incorporation and we could not find it 150 years later. Prag collection. Est. $400-600 HWAC# 79712 to Gustavos Schultsom. Datelined Loyalton (San Francisco has been crossed out) 1887. Signed by secretary TF Battelle(?) and president DB (?). Incorporated on March 25, 1887. “Location of works, Gold Lake, Sierra Co., California”. Printed by Le Count Bros. Overall in very nice condition. Stains at vertical folds. Not in Filer. Prag Collection Est. $120-250 HWAC# 79226 Bid online at FHWAC.com or call 775-851-1859 155

DAY 3 Saturday, October 20th Mining Lot#3096 Golden Gate Ledge, San Lot#3101 Grass Valley, California Bernardino, California 1863 San 1876 Washington Mining Company Francisco Gold & Silver Mining Stock # 30 for 100 shares to Herman Company stock, Golden Gate Ledge, Yokoff. Signed by secretary Paynter and San Bernardino # 44 for 31 shares to president Samuel H Dille(?). datelined BF Mauldin. Datelined San Francisco Grass Valley 1876. Incorporated Mar. 1863. Signed by secretary Elmore and 31, 1873. Pen cancelled. Mill vignette. president Hof. Incorporated March Location of mines at Grass Valley, Nevada County, California. Slight 13, 1863, Location “Golden Gate Ledge, City of San Francsico.” Two discoloration on right. No edge,or corner issues. Very nice! Original allegorical vignettes. Uncancelled. Printed by Agnew and Deffebach. Cut trustees were Charles Leech, Scott H Simmons, Alexander Haven, Elisha unevenly, wrinkled, some staining. Still very good! September 18, 1863 Haven and PH Paynter. This mine was active through the 1870’s at least. article in the Daily Alta lists the location as Silver Hill in San Bernardino. He Morning Union from Grass Valley reported on February 11, 1879 Prag Collection Est. $600-1000 HWAC# 79708 that the Washington had determined to sing a new shaft 100 feet north of the old shaft. Prag Collection Est. $120-250 HWAC# 80413 Lot#3097 Gopher District, Calaveras County, California 1868 Golden Lot#3102 Grass Valley Mining Gate Gold, Silver & Copper District, Nevada County, California Mining Company, Gopher District, 1870 Schuylkill Mining Company Calaveras County #245 for 50 shares Stock, Grass Valley Mining District, to William Thomas. Datelined San Nevada County # 47 for 50 shares Francisco 1868. Signed by secretary to Peter Brunstetter. Datelined Grass Sidney Bragg and president Granry(?). Valley 1870. Signed by secretary WE Incorporated Oct. 24th, 1863. Printed by Robbins & Co. Mill vignette. Reed and president Samuel T Worthy. Incorporated March 9th, 1870. Location of mine at “Gopher District, Calaveras Co., Cal.” Pinhole where United States Certificate Revenue stamp. “Grass Valley Mining Dist., horizontal and vertical folds meet. Slight dogear upper right. Otherwise Nevada County, California.” Printed by the Grass Valley Union Print. One in great condition. There was a Gopher Hill Mine (Gopher Ridge) larger tear on right border. Top corners have been cut poorly. Very nice located at Telegraph City on the divide between Buckham Gulch and condition overall. Prag Collection Est. $300-500 HWAC# 79234 Copper Gulch in Calaveras County that operated in the 1920s and 1930s. Gopher Ridge near Copperopolis was the site of a copper discovery in 1860 by Hiram Hughes. Isaac Swain is listed as a stock broker in the Langley 1864 & 1865 Directories. This was likely the Copperopolis claim. More research is needed. Est. $300-500 HWAC# 79233 Lot#3098 Grass Valley, California 188- Grass Valley Mining Company Stock Unissued. Datelined New York 188-. One large hole punch, otherwise near perfect. Pink background. We found no definitive information on exactly which company this was. There was a Grass Valley Mining Lot#3103 Great Eastern Lode, Amador County, California 1864 Summit Company that was active as early as Gold & Silver Mining Company, Great Eastern Lode, Alpine County 1852. Not in Filer. Prag Collection Est. $50-100 HWAC# 79211 # 159 for 10 shares to PA Owens. Datelined San Francisco 1864. Signed by secretary Thomas j Owens (brother of PA Owens?) and president J Lot#3099 Grass Valley, California (?). Incorporated Sept. 21st, 1863. Mountain mining vignette. Printed 1877 Grass Valley New Mining by Waters Bros. & Co. Located in “Great Eastern Lode, Raymond District, Company Stock # 134 for 25 shares Amador County, Cal.” No tcancelled. Some light foxing throughout. One to Charles Sane. Signed by secretary nick bottom left corner. The Summit Ledge was in the Raymond Mining George Fletcher and president District. (Turrentine Jackson, p. 21). A Notice of Assessment was William Drew. Datelined Grass Valley published in Oct. 1878, indicating that a 10-cents-a-share assessment 1877. Incorporated Oct. 21, 1872. Mill was being levied, and describing the Summit as located in the “Silver vignette. Discoloration in center and right from ?. “We recommend the Era District, Alpine County”. (1878 Oct. 16 Signal). Thomas J Owens was Grass Valley new Mining Company stock as one which should take the secretary to other local mining companies. Not all of his companies attention of all Grass Valley men.” [Morning Union, December 3, 1872] turned out to be profitable as he was listed as a delinquent shareholder This was a co-operative mining venture. The miners are the major stock in the IXL G&SM Co. in 1868 (1868 Jan 25 Mining & Scientific Press). He holders. The company has already shown that it is liable to be one good did acquire a half-lot adjoining Betchmann’s stables Dec 2, 1863 from mine. [Morning Union, December 17, 1872] Prag Collection Est. $120- 250 HWAC# 80426 “P.A. Owens” and then conveyed it to Mary Frances Owens (N ½ of Lot 4, Block 3)(per Book B, page 16 of Deeds, Alpine County ). [Thank you to Karen Dustman, local historian and author of the book “Silver Mountain Lot#3100 Grass Valley, California 1870 Pacific Mining Company City (Clairitage Press) for background information on the mine and signatures.] Prag Collection Est. $400-900 HWAC# 79725 Limited Stock #’s 4761 to 4765 for this English stock. Issued to Louis Florsheim. Signed by secretary Lavingtove and two directors. Hole below the ‘Five’ in Five Shares. Very Nice condition! Shares are 7 pounds each. In 1870 the London based Pacific Mining Company purchased the Buckeye mine in Nevada County. Prag Collection Est. $100-200 HWAC# 80467 156 October 2018

DAY 3 Saturday, October 20th Mining Lot#3107 Greenville, Plumas County, California 1886 Taylor Plumas Mill & Mining Company Stock, Taylor, Plumas County #1142 for 100 shares to JR Kennedy trustee. Datelined New York 1886. Signed by secretary SL Sivey(?) and president WG Robinson. Printed by Teho. Dollard. Uncancelled. Mountain mining vignette. Excellent except for uneven cut, one pin hole and large dog ear bottom right. The name had been changed to the Taylor mine from the Crescent mine in 1882. The original mine was discovered in 1864 and worked through 1894 as a producing mine. In 1888 they Lot#3104 Great Mogul District, El Dorado County, California 1863 instituted a mandatory assessment. They had tried twice before with Superior Gold and Silver Mining Co., Great Mogul District, El a voluntary assessment, but received little financial interest. [HWAC, Dorado County # 346 for 7 shares to Mrs. ML Robinson. Signed by Filer Collection] Prag Collection Est. $120-250 HWAC# 79218 secretary John Gould and president HC Dobb. dateline San Francisco Lot#3109 Hite’s Cove, California 1881 Hite Gold Quartz Company 1863. Incorporated on October 29, 1863. Located at the Great Mogul Stock, Hite’s Cove, Mariposa County #693 for 100 shares to Augustus District, El Dorado County. Pink background. Not cancelled. Small Thomas. Datelanined ‘Eureka’ vignette. Alta Job Print. Wrinkled with slight corner and New York 1881. Signed edge issues at the top. The Superior was in the Great Mogul District. by secretary John (?) In June of 1864 they gave notice of an assessment of 50 cents/share; and president William John W. Gould was Secretary, with office at 406 Montgomery St, San Clark. Uncancelled. Francisco (1864 June 25 MG). The newspaper called it “the original Vignette of ‘El Capitan’. location of the Mogul lode” and reported there were 5,800 shares, No edge, corner or capital stock of $586,000 They had a tunnel 705 feet in length, to discoloration issues. which they were busy adding ventilation pipe. “They are now in hard Only a few small blue quartz, which is believed to be the eastern casing rock, and the pin holes. This is a best judges are of the opinion that thirty or forty feet more of tunnel great stock for our will open the Mogul lode, which is undoubtedly the best defined and Western collectors largest in California....This monster lode was first discovered by a as it features that Frenchman, in the fall of 1860, by the name of Cadwalder, and in the vignette of El Capitan spring of 1861 he took some fine specimens of the croppings to San in Yosemite. Inc. in Francisco, and being under the impression that it would require five New York. Printed by ABN. The Hite Mine (and Hite’s Cove) was located years to open the mine, disposed of his entire interest and sailed for his 16 miles from Mariposa on the northerly bank of the South Fork of the native land. His partner became insane on the strength of the old ledge, Merced River. Burchard (1883) reports it as one of the richest and most and, when last heard from was rusticating in the vicinity of the town of productive mines in the county, and the company had installed one of Stockton.” (1864 June 25 Monitor Gazette). By September, their tunnel the largest compressors in the state. A shaft was sunk 300 feet below was in 725 feet and they were 300 feet beneath the croppings, with the 900 ft. level, 20 stamps were added to the mill, the dam and flumes three shifts, “prosecuting their work night and day”; this was described were repaired, and roads were built. Unfortunately, all of these costs as the “monster ledge of this district”; M. Scott was Superintendent. caused the mine to suspend operation but Burchard has no doubt it (1864 Sept 10 MG). [Thank you to Karen Dustman, local historian will resume again [pg. 63]. Prag Collection Est. $120-250 HWAC# 79205 and author of the book “Silver Mountain City (Clairitage Press) for background information on the mine and signatures.] Prag Collection Est. $400-900 HWAC# 79724 Lot#3110 Howland Flat, California 1882 Gibraltar Cons. Gold Mining Lot#3105 Greenville, Plumas County, California 1883 Gold Stripe Mining Stock Certificates, Howland Flat, Company of California, Greenville, Sierra County, Cal. Howland Flat is a ghost town located about 12 miles Plumas County # 2162 for 100 north of Downieville. The camp dates shares to OF Haight. Datelined New to 1850. The Blue Lead was struck in York 1883. Signed by president R 1854. The town prospered in 1856 upon the completion of the great Reusten(?) and secretary Jay Pardee. Yuba River Canal. By 1867, the population was still 1,200 and the Mines at Greenville, Plumas County. output at Howland Flat was $3.5 million (Gudde). This is cert. #19, Dennison and Brown printers. No folds, but several holes (largest is 2x3 issued at Howland Flat for 100 shares in 1882. Small red pen cancel. mm) on left side (which become very visible with light.) Prag Collection Est. $100-200 HWAC# 79209 The Excelsior Drift Gold Mining Company also operated in the same vicinity. Est. $100-200 HWAC# 79057 Lot#3106 Greenville, Plumas County, California 1881 Southern Eureka Lot#3111 Howland Flat, California Mining Company Stock, Greenville, 1884 Pacific Gold Mining Company, Wahoo Mining District, Sierra Plumas County # 382 for 250 shares County # 14 (very early), for 8 shares to JB Scott trustee.Datelined New to Adam Walker. Datelined Howland York 1881. Signed by secretary (?) Flat, 1884. Signed by secretary JH and president and trustee JB Scott. Thorp and president John Littick. Uncancelled. Incorporated March 18th, 1880. “Location of mines Business in Howland Flat, mine in the Wahooo Mining District. Fluiming Plumas County, California.” Full name given seems to be “Southern vignette, Uncancelled. No edge or corner issues. No discoloration or Eureka Mining Co. / Southern Eureka, Atlantic & Pacific Consolidated.” pinholes. The Pacific Gold Mining Company was said to have valuable Located at Greenville, Plumas County, California. The property consists property in Sierra County. Prag Collection Est. $120-250 HWAC# 79204 of 12 claims on 450 acres. Located a half a mile of the Crescent Indian Valley and other lodes near Greenville. [Mines Register, Volume 12] Prag collection Est. $120-250 HWAC# 79221 Bid online at FHWAC.com or call 775-851-1859 157

DAY 3 Saturday, October 20th Mining Lot#3112 Hungarian Hill, Plumas Lot#3116 Lost Camp Mining District, County, California 1879 Hungarian Placer County, California 1867 Hill Gravel Company Stock Early Redstone Quartz Mining Company number 23 for 100 shares to Charles Stock, Lost Camp Mining District, P Orr. Signed by G Fried and Peter Orr Placer County # 8(?) for 25 shares as president. Datelined San Francisco to Josiah C Huch(?). Datelined Dutch 1879. Incorporated September 9, Flat 1867. Signed by secretary Charles 1874. VIgnette of California seal. F (?) and president (?). Incorporated Bancroft & Co. printers. This was a placer operation. Original directors June 26, 1867. Printed by the Enquirer fo Dutch Flat. United States were JD Goodwin, LF Cate, Fred W Hadley, NB Stone and Clinton Gurnee. Warehouse Revenue Stamp. “Lost Camp District, Placer County, Cal.” In 1878 the company shows life. By 1879 Hungarian Hill showed Eagle and flag vignette. Some staining. Tears along corners. Hole at the prominently in the California papers, but not this company. Prag juncture of horizontal and vertical folds. Faded. Good Condition. Not in Collection Est. $120-250 HWAC# 80422 Filer. Lost Camp was in Central Placer and Nevada counties. It Was in the vicinity of the towns of Emigrant Gap and Blue Canyon. It was both Lot#3113 Kern, California Broadway a lode and placer mining area. Although no great production, there was Oil Co. Stock, Kern River, Signed work done here throughout the 1800’s and 1900’s. [Gold Districts of by W.E. Knowles, Noted Oakland California by Clark] Prag Collection Est. $300-500 HWAC# 79232 Businessman Cert. #61, issued to W.E. Knowles for 5,000 shares. Knowles Lot#3117 Marysville, California was a prolific Oakland businessman 1850’s Four Scarce California Gold whose interests included purchasing Rush Documents Nice group of four. a mine in the Klondyke in the 1890’s 1)Letter datelined Long Bar, April for $250,000 and the oil business. 26, 1859 addressed to the Board of Later was president of this oil Supervisors of Yuba County. Content company, which operated in the Kern regards a petition to locate a county River District in California (printed on the masthead). This certificate road through Smith’s Valley and was issued in 1909. Knowles was later listed in the city directory as appoint the letter writer as road part of a real estate business in Oakland in 1912. Certificate is issued to overseer. J.M. Crowell withdraws his and signed by Knowles as president. Uncanceled. Est. $50-100 HWAC# petition as overseer, and hopes the road will open at the earliest day 79048 possible. Signed, Humble Servant, J.M. Crowell. The first gold found on the Yuba River was in 1848. The post office was transferred from Dry Lot#3114 Lake County, California Creek in 1859, and the diggins gave out in 1864 (Gudde). 2) Business 1874 Atlantic & Pacific Quicksilver licence to sell general goods dated Marysville, Nov. 8, 1854. E. Brooks Mining Company Stock Very early was to sell goods, wares and merchandise in Camptonville. License number 4 for 50 shares to William was from The Auditor of Yuba County. 3) Sept. 1, 1857 Application for Leffingwell. Signed by secretary membership in the Stockton, Cal. I.O.O.F., Charity Lodge #6. Signed by Dwight Klupp and president George Frederick Moebus, the applicant, proposed by Brother, Jacob Meyer. S Field. Datelined San Francisco 1874. 4) Sacramento City Bank Check, datelined Shasta, June 18, 1852. Nice Incorporated November 20, 1874. group in fine condition. Est. $300-500 HWAC# 78115 California seal vignette. AL Bancroft printers. Not cancelled. Small nick bottom right and two small stains top right (very hard to find), Lot#3118 Mattole District, Humboldt otherwise in excellent condition. Prag Collection Est. $120-250 HWAC# County, California 1865 Buckeye 80414 Petroleum Mining Company, Mattole District, Humboldt County Lot#3115 Lake County, California Very early number 20 for 10 shares 1874 Lake County Quicksilver to S Whipple. datelined Eureka, MIning Company Stock # 54 for Humboldt Co. 1865. Signed by 1100 shares to Tiburcio(?) Parrott. secretary S Whipple and president Signed by RE (?) and president JE Wyman(?). Incorporated July 1865. Uncancelled. 25c Power of Atty Parrott. Datelined San Francisco revenue stamp. Printers Towne & Bacon. Oil well vignette. “640 acres 1874. Incorporated Oct. 2d, 1873. Pen land, Mattole District, Humboldt Co., Cal.” Light stains extreme left and and punch cancelled. Tiburcio Parrott bottom border. We could find no information on this mine. A Buckeye was an active member of the Lake oil field was still in use in 1901. Prag Collection Est. $400-800 HWAC# County quicksilver mining community. “One of the laws passed under 79710 this provision prohibited corporations holding state charters from employing “any Chinese or Mongolian,” and established heavy penalties Lot#3119 Mattole District, Humboldt for violation of the law. The legislation had an immediate and paralyzing County, California 1866 Fonner Farm effect on the quicksilver mines, which depended almost wholly on Chinese Oil Company, Mattole District, for their underground labor. The president of the Sulphur Bank Mine, Humboldt County # 88 for 5 Tiburcio Parrott, deliberately defied the law so he would be arrested and shares to H Heeser. Datelined a rare tried. In the test case against him, the Circuit Court on March 22, 1880, Mattole 1866. Signed by secretary A handed down a strong opinion that held the law to be in contravention Heeser and president F Stansbury. of both the Burlingame Treaty and the Fourteenth Amendment to Incorporated October 1865. Printed the Constitution.” [A History of Chinese Americans in California: by Geo. H Baker. Uncancelled. Located Historic Sites by the NPS online] Prag Collection Est. $100-200 HWAC# “160 Acres, Humboldt Co., Cal. At the Fonner Farm Well they keep their 80415 drill in motion; and were down, on Thursday, 256 feet. For the present this is the well showing superior indications of oil [Mining and Scientific Press, 1866] Prag Collection Est. $300-600 HWAC# 79717 158 October 2018

DAY 3 Saturday, October 20th Mining Lot#3120 Mattole District, Humboldt Lot#3124 Monitor District, Alpine County, California 1871 Monitor County, California 1865 Lyon and Northwestern Silver Mining Company of Milwaukee Spectacular Petroleum Company Stock, Mattole District, Humboldt County # 24 for 5 shares to HC Howard. Datelined San Francisco 1865. Signed by secretary James Monroe and president HC Howard. 25c Power of Atty Revenue stamp. Allegorical vignette on right and portrait of ? on left. Uncancelled. Location listed as “Mattole District, Humboldt County, Cal.” Original trustees were Minor Martin, HC Howard and Joshua Lyon (hence the name of the company). This stock has seen the wear of 150 + years. left side has been completely torn off. Prag collection Est. $300-600 HWAC# 79716 Lot#3121 Mattole District, Humboldt County, California 1865 VERY EARLY, VERY RARE Ocean View PETROLEUM Company Stock # 16 fr 100 shares to FW Clack. Datelined San Francisco 1865. Signed by president (?) and secretary Steinbach. stock certificate! Eye catching T. Davenport vignette of Monitor Incorporated Nov.. 1, 1865. Striking Mountain, Monitor Mining District, Alpine County, California. Number black print on greed. Center is red 569 for 5 shares to Sarah Mattison. Datelined Milwaukee 1871. Signed print on white. 25c Power of Att’y Stock. Location Mattole, Humboldt by secretary B Lingley and president Edwin Hyde. Located at “Monitor County, Cal Vignette of barrels (oil?0 on loading dock. Agnew and District, Alpine County, California.” Not cancelled. Printed by Seifert. Deffebach printer. We could find no other information on this company. 25c Entry of Goods Revenue Stamp. Chartered by the Legislature of However, “There is no doubt but that the richest oil fields in the world Wisconsin. Smudge right border and upper right corner is slightly are in the Mattole country.” (Humboldt Times, 9 August, 1900) Within torn. Impressive stock certificate! Raymond (1874, p55) says that the one year of discovery, 54 oil companies were formed here. This stock company, “... consists of a tunnel location starting at a point on the river comes to us from a major petroleum stock collector. To his knowledge and running thence nearly east to a point under the center of Monitor this is the only certificate extant. Est. $300-500 HWAC# 81015 Mountain This tunnel is designed to open up the entire belt of ledges on the north side of Monitor Creek, between the river and the town Lot#3122 Mohave Mining District, of Monitor. It penetrates under Red Mountain to a depth of 1,300 feet California 1883 Sanchez and Soledad and under Monitor Mountain 1,600 feet. In its course it is expected to Gold & Silver Mining Company open up as many as fifteen or twenty lodes, and among that number the Stock, Mohave Mining District # Mountain lode, from which assays have been had ranging all the way 701 for 100 shares to WW Sprague. from $20 to $3,000.” Ore was sampled at the mint in Carson City at $18 Datelined Los Angeles 1883. Signed a ton. Unfortunately when large quantities of ore were crushed at their by secretary JH Felt and president mill they did not reach above $9 or $10. Prag Collection. Est. $3000- James Noel. Stamped, “Development Stock, October 17, 1883, Gold.” Excellent condition. “The company Lot#3125 Monitor District, Amador was chartered in the Mojave Mining District, headquartered in San County, California 1864 People’s Bernardino County, although it likely was one of several small mining Gold & Silver Mining Company, concerns that hunted various metals in an number of locales known as Monitor District, Amador County “Soledad City” — the name used for small mining camps that moved Number 72(?) for 1 share to Effie from place to place in the 1860s in the area generally between Canyon Titlow. Datelined San Francisco Country and Acton.” [Santa Clarita Valley Public Television online] “The 1864. Signed by secretary Samuel Sanchez and Soledad Gold and Silver Mining Company is developing its Newell and president William Haffley, property. The ore is said to assay from $20 to $1,000 per ton.” [Report Incorporated in December of 1863. of the Director of the Mint Upon the Production of the Precious Metals, Not cancelled. 25c Power of Atty Revenue Stamp. Crude vignette of 1885] Not the rarest of stocks, but certainly one of the most attractive!!! very early steam engine. Location at “Monitor District, Amador Co., Prag Collection Est. $120-250 HWAC# 79227 California.” No printer. Fair condition. Tars and heavy folds. Large rips have been taped. Some have old tape and some that looks like Lot#3123 Monitor District, Alpine new museum quality tape. I guess the best way to describe this mine County, California 1866 American is through Mark Twain’s December 30, 1863 Territorial Enterprise. Tunnel & Silver Mining Company Excerpts include, “The certificate of stock is a curiosity in the way of Number 185 for 5 shares to George P unblushing rascality. It does not state how many shares there are in the Rose. Datelined new York 1866. Signed company, or what a share is represented by.” “The company is “to be” by secretary JH (?) and president incorporated “for the purpose of purchasing machinery” - they only Lincoln. Incorporated in New York. organize a company in order to purchase machinery - the inference Not cancelled. 25c Certificate Revenue is, that they calculate to steal the mine.” “Who is “Wm. Heffly, Esq., of stamp. Located at “Monitor District, San Francisco,” who knows it all, and who has calmly waited for three Alpine County, California.” Very slight years without once swerving from his purpose of “starting a mining staining from the back. Printed by company” as soon as he could become satisfied that quartz-mining Major & Knapp. Exciting outdoor mining vignette. Prag Collection Est. was a permanent thing? Cautious scoundrel! You couldn’t fool him into $500-1000 HWAC# 79737 going into a highway robbery like the “People’s Gold and Silver Mining Company,” until he was certain he could make the thing look plausible.” Enough said! [Thank you to Karen Dustman, local historian and author of the book “Silver Mountain City (Clairitage Press) for background information on the mine and signatures.] Prag Collection Est. $400- 900 HWAC# 79731 Bid online at FHWAC.com or call 775-851-1859 159

DAY 3 Saturday, October 20th Mining Lot#3126 Monitor Lot#3129 Mono County, Lake Mining Mining District, Alpine District, California 1879 Don Quixote County, California Gold & Silver Mining Company 1864 Assurance Stock Early number 29 for 500 shares Mining Company to trustee A Richardson. Datelined San Stock, Monitor Francisco 1879. Signed by secretary Mining District, (?) and president JP Byer. Mines Alpine County # located at Lake District, Mono County, California. HS Crocker printer. Not 154 for 5 shares to cancelled. Dog ear and tear upper left corner. Some discoloration lower Henry Huntington. middle. Pencil mark upper right. Mr. SC Farnham was superintendent. Datelined Jackson Prag Collection Est. $300-500 HWAC# 79267 1864. Signed by JA Romison as secretary and ES Hall as president. Incorporated march of 1864. Not cancelled. Printed by Crocker & Lot#3130 Mono County, Lake Mining Company. ‘Eureka’ vignette. Located at “Monitor Mining District.” Top District, California 1879 Foulk Gold & right dog ear. Otherwise an excellent example. Not in Filer. Rare! Unusual Silver Mining Company Stock # 97 dateline, Jackson, for a Silver Mountain company. “On Wednesday for 1000 shares to AW Rose trustee. [workmen] struck through into a porphyritic formation... the prospects Datelined San Francisco 1879. Signed of this company have been from the start bright and flattering” and by secretary Rose and vice president the Morning Star (the “crack ledge of Mogul” crosses their tunnel 5 GW Grayson. Incorporated May 2nd, or 600 feet from its mouth; “Among the stockholders are many of our 1879. WT Galloway printer. Location at Lake Mining District, Mono old friends on the eastern slope of Amador, and they richly deserve Co. Cal. Pencil marks near top. Left bottom corner has been torn. Cut all that may be in store for them deep down in the bowels of Mount roughly at right. Original trustees were George W Grayonson, CI Hobbs, America.” [Mount America was the hill at the foot of Monitor Canyon, H Rutherford, Thomas Bell and OA Burgess. Offices located at 302 bordering the creek.] (1864 July 2 Monitor Gazette ). The Assurance Montgomery with Andrew W Rose as secretary per 1881 San Francisco was apparently south of the town Monitor and about 400 feet west of Directory. Prag collection Est. $300-500 HWAC# 79266 F.A.S . Jones’s Constitution lode. The Constitution Lode was about ¾ of Lot#3131 Mono County, White a mile below the town of Monitor on Monitor Creek, commencing at the Mountain District, California 1864 south bank and then going SW 1,000 feet; it was about 400 feet east (1863) Mineral Hill Tunnel and of the Assurance Company’s tunnel (1864 Dec 24 Monitor Gazette). Mining Company Stock Number [Thank you to Karen Dustman, local historian and author of the book 270 for 35 shares to George Keys? “Silver Mountain City (Clairitage Press) for background information on the mine and signatures.] Prag Collection Est. $400-900 HWAC# 79723 Datelined San Francisco 1864. Signed by secretary Francis O’Ferrall and president John McHugh. Incorporated Sept. 7th, 1863. Mines located a White Mountain District, Mono County, Lot#3127 Monitor, Alpine County, Cal. The Daily Alta reports the mine is on the Owens River. This makes California 187- Colorado No. 2 Gold and Silver Mining Company this a rare Mono County 1864 stock certificate locate in California. Two eagle and shield vignettes and one small miner emerging from a tunnel Unissued. Number 239. Incorporated pusing an ore cart. Towne & Bacon printer. Not cancelled. red underprint December 31, 1878. Underground ‘White Mountain.’ Discoloration in three spots. By September 14, 1863 miner with ore cart vignette. Location a 10c assessment had already been levied. Although the stock lists this at “Monitor Mining District, Alpine company in Mono County, California, the White Mountain District lies County, Cal.” Datelined Monitor, in Esmeralda County, Nevada. At the time this stock was incorporated, Alpine Co., Cal. The Hercules Company owns claims situated wholly in there was still controversy whether Aurora was in Nevada or California. the Monitor district. Their mines are the Colorado No 2 and the Advance This district was located in the northern White Mountains in the vicinity both of which have their adit tunnels near the bottom of the Monitor of Montgomery Pass. Although this district is not often referred to as Creek Cañon. The mines are in the Colorado Hill on its south side and the the White Mountain District, the White Mountain district of DeGroot ore extracted has been largely silver ore. The old Colorado No 2 was the (1863) included the present Buena Vista district in Esmeralda County, best mine of this district and statistics show that it was a good producer. Nevada, as well as a large, adjacent area in California. Considering There are two tunnels to this mine connected by a winze. The upper or this district embraces California and that the mine was on the Owens Tarsus tunnel is 500 feet long and the lower tunnel the Colorado No 2 River, this would lead us to suspect this is indeed a rare Mono, County, is 1400 feet in length and lies 325 feet below the upper and 600 feet California 1864 mining stock. Prag Collection Est. $800-1500 HWAC# below the surface of the hill. It is said that $625,000 was taken from 79264 this mine in a comparatively short time the ore averaging $12 per ton. (Mines and Mineral Resources of Alpine County, Inyo County, Mono Lot#3132 Monterey, California County by Eakle, et al) Prag Collection Est. $40-60 HWAC# 79735 1890 Stereoview- 1st Hotel Built Lot#3128 Mono County, Lake in California, “Washington Hotel.” District, California 1879 Monte “Scarce stereoview by G.F. Dare, Cristo Consolidated Mining photographer, Melrose, Wis. Pictured is the Hotel Washington (sign clearly Company Stock # 44 for 1000 shares legible), the first hotel built in to trustee Butler Burris. Signed by California. The hotel was built before secretary Burris and president JW California statehood in 1832. For some reason, Dare titled this view, Thompson. Satelined San Francisco “”First Frame House in California, Montery, Cal.”” Note that this eastern 1879. Incorporated March 25th, 1879. photographer didn’t even know how to spell Monterey correctly. Zoom Not cancelled. Printed by HS Crocker. Location of mines at Lake District, in on the hotel’s sign clearly reads Washington Hotel. The hotel no Mono County, California. Three assessment stamps on reverse. Top longer exists, but lasted until the early 1900’s. Photos and mount in left corner is torn, pin holes. Original trustees were JD THomson, JM good condition. Est. $200-400 HWAC# 79044 McDonald, Clinton Gurnee, L Shores and BF Bivens. Mammoth City was organized in 1879 to support the mining. Prag Collection Est. $300- 500 HWAC# 79265 160 October 2018

DAY 3 Saturday, October 20th Mining Lot#3133 Motherlode, El Dorado Lot#3138 Nevda County, California County, California 1905 Ledger of 1878 Pittsburg Gold Mining Mine Production Engineering & Company Stock # 98 for 100 shares Mining Journal “Short Handle Quartz to Durbin Van Vleck. (Keep your Mine” in Spanish Dry Diggings, A eye out for Van Vleck lithographed former lode Au mine located NW of stocks we have from this collection!) Spanish Dry Diggings, 0.5 mile E of Signe by RW Yenes(?) and president Summit Hill, on private land. Operated (?). Datlined San Francisco 1878. during the periods 1852 to 1867, 1919 Incorporated Sept. 22d, 1877. Vignette of miner with pick. Six to 1922, and 1945 to 1952. Condition assessment stamps on reverse. Good condition - no major rips, tears or issues with spine, please inspect. pp. discoloration. Discovered in 1861. Located between the Sierra Nevada 100, 8.5” x 14.25”. Est. $300-500 HWAC# 78358 and the old Sacramento and Meredith. Originally explored by a 540 ft. tunnel into Cedar Hill, which did provide some results. They decided to Lot#3134 Napa, California El sink a shaft which, in 1878, was 300 feet below the tunnel. A drift from Madre Quicksilver Mining Co. this tunnel struck ore that assayed at $7 gold per ton. They have erected Stock Certificate, Napa, Cal. 1875 more machinery to continue exploring (as of Sept. 1878.). [Ref: United Rare Napa Valley quicksilver mining States Annual Mining Review, 1879, pg 232-33] Prag Collection Est. company stock issued in 1875. $120-250 HWAC# 80420 Location: Napa Valley, Cal. printed on the certificate. Cert. #199, issued for Lot#3139 New Almaden, California 100 shares to L.D. Brown, Trustee. Alta 1865 Santa Clara Mining Company Printing House. From 1864 to 1903, Stock Very early number 12 for 90- Napa County was one of California’s leading quicksilver producers. By shares to Edward M Clyner. Signed by the end of WWI, over $15 million was produced (Yerger, Napa Valley GM Birdsall and president R Lugar. Register.com). VF. Uncanceled. Est. $200-400 HWAC# 78110 Datelined New York 1865. Mountain mining vignette. Two 25c Power of Lot#3135 Nevada City, Nevada Att’y Revenue stamps. No edge, corner County, California 1887 Spanish pin hole of discoloration issues. Not Gold Mining Company, Nevada cancelled, although there is a long City, Nevada County # 32 for 1,000 rectangular stamp in the middle of shares to JH Freeman. Datelined San the stock about Dividends. The location is difficult to determine. We did Francisco 1887. Signed by secretary find one history (local school history online) that talked about a Santa M Soefler(?) and president TH Clara Mine. “Back in the early mission days, Father Junipero Serra and Henderson. Incorporated December 4, 1885. Uncancelled. Faded with the other Padres at the Mission Santa Clara, visited the three tribes of light print. “The property owned by the Spanish Gold Mining Company, Indians that lived in the area. Gradually the area and the creek became incorporated ten years ago, is situated one and one half miles west of known as Guadalupe by the Padres. There is also a quicksilver mine the City of Nevada. The vein supposed to be the same as the Providence near the creek, called Guadalupe Mines. In 1846 it was mined by the strikes north and south dips easterly at an angle of 45 degrees and has an Indians until 1856. From 1856-1875, it was mined by the Santa Clara average thickness of four feet. The length of the pay shoot is not known. Mining Company. Then for the next ten years, the Guadalupe Mining A tunnel two hundred feet long cuts the vein at a depth of one hundred Company mined it. This is the only reference to a Santa Clara Mine in feet at which point an inclined shaft follows it downward fifty six feet 1865 that we found. Prag collection Est. $200-400 HWAC# 80466 giving a total vertical depth of about one hundred and twenty feet. This seems to be the most reasonable Spanish Gold Mining Company we Lo t #3 1 4 0 could find.” [California Journal of Mines and Geology, Volume 8] Prag Pike City, collection Est. $120-250 HWAC# 79222 California 1884 Alaska Mining Lot#3136 Nevada County, California C o mpan y 1877 Bear River Iron Mining Stock, Pike City, Company Stock # 343 for 100 shares Sierra County to Theodore Maass. Signed by A Mink This mine is and William Kleinsorge. Datelined often referred Sacramento 1877. Incorporated June to as the Sierra 24, 1875. Location: Nevada and Yuba Alaska Mining County. Mill and a bear vignettes. Written in penon back “Assessment Company, Stock # 1638 for 10 shares to PL Horn. Datelined San Francisco No. 2 paid.” Not cancelled. No pin hoe, edge, corner or discoloration 1884. Signed by secretary (?) and president S Spencer. Native American issues. The mines are a few miles from Sheridan on the Oregon mining vignette. Slight tear and nick bottom right, otherwise in Railroad and about 50 miles from Sacramento. It was the intention excellent condition. The Sierra Alaska property embraces the following have having a lot of it worked into pig iron in San Francisco. By October claims: The Bates 11 acres, Spencer (like in the president’s name) 11 they were exhibiting some small bars at the state fair. “The metal was acres, Phillips, 9 acres, Grizzly 17.18 acres. All patented. Also the Hog of remarkable Tenacious quality” said the Pacific Rural Press. Prag Eye 20.65 acres, New Alaska Extension 20 acres, Parasite 20 acres, and Collection Est. $120-250 HWAC# 80429 Lonesome Cub 20 acres which are unpatented. Includes two patented Lot#3137 Nevada Cty., California homesteads making a total of 480 acres. The Alaska lode is covered for a length of 4600 and the Grizzly for 2600. There is some timber on the Malkoff Diggins Photo Card Photo- property. [California Journal of Mines and Geology, Volume 16, Part 1] lithograph card. Hydraulic mining Prag Collection Est. $120-250 HWAC# 79203 scene. 3.25 x 4.75”, 2 creases. Est. $150-300 HWAC# 80104 Bid online at FHWAC.com or call 775-851-1859 161

DAY 3 Saturday, October 20th Mining Lot#3141 Placer County, California Lot#3146 Raymond District, Amador County, California 1864 Twin 1887 Orient Gold Placer Mining Lodes Gold and Silver Mining Company Stock, Raymond District, Company Stock, North San Juan, Amador County # 65 for 5 shares to JE White. Dateline Sacramento Nevada County Early # 20 for 75 1864. Signed by secretary WM Estee and president Paschal Coggins. 25c shares to Harry Zuhring(?). Signed Power of Atty revenue by secretary Peter (?) and president stamp. printed by HS Zuhring(?) Datelined North San Crocker. Located in Juan, Nevada County 1887. “Placer “Raymond District, mining in the county of Sierra, Cal.” Amador Co, Cal.” Not Uncancelled. Incorporated May 3d, 1879. Cut close to border on left. No cancelled. Not in Filer. edge, corner, discoloration or pinhole issues! However. left side of stock Some light foxing top, has been cut off. Printed by HS Crocker. Prag Collection Est. $50-80 otherwise in fantastic HWAC# 79214 condition. Twin Lodes was part of Lot#3142 Placer County, California the Grafton Company 1863 Sacramento Mining Company, (1863 Incorporation) Placer County Early number 43 for in the Great Mogul District. Mentioned also in a Mining Deed, Book 25 shares to DB Moore. Datelined “A” of Deeds (Alpine County), p. 21-22, dated August 27,1867 (“Twin Sacramento 1863. Signed by secretary No. 1 [&] No. 2 Mining Company”). A claim identified as being in the Josiah Lowell and president SM Hey. Raymond Mining District and another identified as in Silver Mountain Incorporated April 17, 1863. Mines Mining District in 1864 (per Calif. Division of Mines & Geology listing in located in Place County. Printed by “Mines and Mineral Resources of Alpine County” by William B. Clark). HS Crocker. Small 20c and 5c Internal Revenue Agreement stamps. No James E White filed a Possessory Claim dated 2 Nov 1863 for 160 acres edge, corner, discoloration or pin hole issues. Excellent!!! Hard to Find! in Silver Mountain Mining District, east of the Occidental Mining Co. Prag Collection Est. $300-600 HWAC# 79702 Tunnel. He also located the Norfolk claim (with H.H. Dake) in June, 1865 and relocated the Pony claim in August, 1865 (per Lewis Chalmers’ Lot#3143 Plumas, California 1900’s 1871-2 “Private” correspondence , p. 70 and 72). He also acquired an (early) Photo of Engel Mine 1 photo interest in the “Extenuate” claim in Sept, 1865 (per 1871-2 “Private” p. of Engel Mine in Ca., No. 10 Tunnel 71). Morris M Estee spent his young adult life in Sacramento. He was with large group of miners posing elected in 1862 to the California State Assembly, one of five members for photo. Sign reading “No going representing the 16th District. From 1863 to 1866 he was District between cars/Do not jump off mining Attorney for Sacramento County. Estee was nominated and ran twice as train”. 8.5”x 6.5”. Salvatore Falcone a Republican for Governor of California. He also had two failed elections Collection. Est. $50-100 HWAC# 79158 to the U.S. Senate. On June 2, 1900 he was appointed the first US Federal District Court judge for the Territory of Hawaii. [wikipedia] [Thank you to Karen Dustman, local historian and author of the book “Silver Lot#3144 Poverty Hill Mining Mountain City (Clairitage Press) for background information on the District, Plumas County, California mine and signatures.] Prag Collection Est. $400-900 HWAC# 79726 186- Gold Valley Main Tunnel & Mining Company Stock, Poverty Hill Mining District, Plumas County Lot#3147 Rock Creek, Sierra County, Unissued. Located at Poverty Hill California 1867 Adella Gold Mining Mining District, Plumas County. Company Stock, Rock Creek, Sierra Incorporated on June 18, 1867. County # 26 (early) for 10 shares Printed by Marysville Appeal. Datelined Poverty Hill (that is unique) to Herman Schwarts. Datelined San 18--. Poverty Hill was the scene of placer mining. Poverty Hill is in Francisco 1867. Signed by secretary A Sierra County, though the certificate says Plumas County. Poverty Hill (?) and president W (?). Incorporated was along the extreme western border of Sierra County. It was about June of 1866. Printed by Mining & Scientific Press Print. “Location of 12 west of Downieville. It was on a ridge between Canyon Creek on Mine, Rock Creek, Sierra County.” Minor tears top and bottom border. the north and the North Fork of the Yuba River on the south. Worked Two dog eared corners. Vertical folds. Nice condition! Rock Creek was a major tributary of the Yuba River. Channel gravels were mined here. Not extensively from the 1850’s to the 1890’s. [Gold Districts of California by Clark] Prag Collection Est. $60-100 HWAC# 79229 in Filer. Prag Collection Est. $300-500 HWAC# 79231 Lot#3145 Randsburg, California Lot#3148 Saginaw District, 1902 Oshkosh Gold Mining Co. Stock Sacramento County, California 1863 Certificate Cert. #290, signed by Spread Eagle Copper Mining president G.P. Drew, issued for 20,000 Company Stock, Saginaw District, shares to J.T. Armitage. R.E. Doan was Sacramento County # 55 for 20 the superintendant at the mine. The shares to Richard Ireland. Datelined company was erecting a 4-stamp mill, Sacramento 1863. Signed by secretary new Standard concentrator, overshot Chambers and president FA Park. water wheel, etc. Development work was being prosectuted by 8 men Incorporated July 17, 1863. Uncancelled, Printed by HS Crocker. 25c (E.M.J. Volume 73, 1902). VF with the usual fold lines. Uncancelled. Est. Power of Atty Revenue stamp. Not in Filer. Eagle vignette with wings $80-150 HWAC# 78114 spread! Located in Saginaw Mining District, Sacramento County. The object of the mine was to work certain mining grounds on the Spanish lead in the Saginaw Mining District. [Sacramento Daily Union, July 18, 1863] Prag Collection Est. $400-600 HWAC# 79720 162 October 2018

DAY 3 Saturday, October 20th Mining Lot#3149 San Francisco, California Lot#3153 San Francisco Mining 1800’s Giant Powder Company District, California 1863 Suburban Document Group (3) 3 Paper Mining Company Stock, San documents related to the Giant Powder Francisco Mining District # 51 for Company. 1)Unissued stock certificate 3 shares to F Morrill. Datelined San from the company, incorporated Francisco 1863. Signed by John B in 1892. Datelined Giant Station, Feltis(?) as president and secretary California. 2) Billhead datelined San (?). incorporated July of 1863. Towne Francisco, 1871, “Bought of The Giant & Bacon printer. United States 25c Powder Company, Bandmann, Nielson Insurance Revenue Stamp. Two inch rip bottom center could use & Co., General Agents”, for 10 boxes 500 Giant Powder #2. 3) Fancy museum quality tape. By December 2 of 1863 the Sacramento Daily letterhead from The Giant Powder Company, Consolidated datelined Union noted, “Enterprise is a failure.” Prag Collection Est. $400-600 San Francisco, 1915. Regards a transaction with Mr. Chas. Socrocco of HWAC# 79701 Sutter Creek, Cal. Top right corner missing. Signed by the company’s cashier, Gilmore. Est. $100-200 HWAC# 78118 Lot#3154 San Luis Obispo, California 1880 Josephine Quicksilver Mining Lot#3150 San Francisco, California Company Stock, Salinas Mining S. Molitor Assay Receipt, San District, San Luis Obispo County Francisco- 1863, CTH Palmer, #403 for 55 shares to Isaac F Block. Wells Fargo Agt. Folsom Deposit Signed by secretary G Stacke(?) and from CTH Palmer, Wells Fargo agent president Thomas (?). Datelined San in Folsom. He is depositing Folsom- Francisco (San Luis Obispo crossed area gold. This 1863 deposit is 35.46 out) 1880. Printed by Towne & Bacon. Incorporated on January 4, ounces worth $649.64. Charles T.H. Palmer was a California Gold Rush 1864. Mill, sunrise, wagon vignette. One dogear, one corner fold, edge pioneer who established many businesses (banking, assay, etc.) in the nicks, slight discoloration near top. Otherwise very, very nice! In Folsom area, as well as served as Sacramento’s first school teacher. January 1864, 40 Californios (descendants of the Spanish and Mexican- Molitor previously worked with Wass as a private coin firm during the era settlers in California) and American hopefuls had incorporated to California Gold Rush. Here, Palmer (Wells Fargo) is taking in a gold bar form the Josephine Quicksilver Mining District. Many acquired a share for payment, having Molitor melt it (which is why the weight before and of this promising mine, among them, partners C. B. Rutherford and after melting is essentially the same), and then Molitor will pay Palmer. Walter Murray. Within a few years it became clear that little progress Est. $150-300 HWAC# 79071 was being made and Rutherford and Murray decided to take action. Rutherford went to San Francisco to raise money by selling shares, Lot#3151 San Francisco, California many of which neither he nor Murray owned. He was successful and 1877 Steven’s Pacific Mining and sold a majority of the Josephine Quicksilver Mining District shares for Smelting Company Stock # 587 for $25,000, also negotiating an additional bonus of $20,000 for himself 9000 shares to Stephen G Worden and Murray. Before that illegal deal could be completed, word leaked trustee. Datelined San Francisco 1879. out, and the large San Francisco-based Bolton, Barron, & Company cut Signed by secretary Henry Hayes and them out by purchasing a controlling interest. When Bolton, Barron, & president S. G. Worden (namesake of Company acquired ownership of the Josephine Mine in 1867, things the company). If you collect unusual began to happen, and, in the next three years, the company shipped and unique vignettes this one is for you. It is a smelting, almost $280,000 worth of quicksilver out of San Simeon. In the midst of the mathematical, vignette. Spaulding and Barto were the printers. Not boom, while prices were still high, the Josephine began to experience cancelled. Fosing issues. Edges and corners are in good condition. This hard times and, by 1874, production had dwindled. [Harbor Town company was incorporated to operate in California, Nevada, Oregon Histories online] Prag collection Est. $150-300 HWAC# 79206 and Arizona. original directors were L Irelan, RM Shackleford, James Waters, CS Abbott and A Crag. Principal place of business San Francisco. Lot#3155 Santa Rosa, Sonoma Prag Collection Est. $120-250 HWAC# 80409 County, California 1883 Sonoma Pacific Coal Company Stock, Santa Lot#3152 San Francisco County, Rosa, Sonoma County # 88 for 20 California 1863 Higgins Hope shares to AC Hammond trustee. Gold Silver and Copper Mining Signed by secretary and trustee Company, San Francisco County Hammond and vice president OW RARE Early number 52 for sixty Faust(?). Datelined San Francisco 1883. Incorporated on December 9, shares to H Benson. Datelined San 1881. “Location: Santa Rosa, Sonoma County, California.” Interesting Francisco 1863, Signed by secretary light blue paper with blue concentric circles. Unfortunately no printer Hugo Dreschfeld (also secretary to is mentioned! Three vertical folds. Top right corner has a small tear. Comstock mining companies) and president H B...(?). Incorporated Striking stock in excellent condition. Prag Collection Est. $120-250 May 22d 1863. Miner with pick vignette. United States 25c Insurance HWAC# 79225 Revenue Stamp. “Location, San Francisco County, State of California.” Valentine & Co. of San Francisco printer. Very rare! One of few mines Lot#3156 Shasta County, California from this location and a reminder of the early mining efforts attempted 1866 Washington Gold Mining near San Francisco. No reference to the district is made in J Ross Browne Company Stock # 154 for 100 shares 1865. Irelan 1888 describes the county as follows: “...little can be said to JL Lombard. Signed by secretary ER about her mineral resources...A number of small auriferous veins have Wiggins and president (?). Datedlined been found in the county, the most of them located in the vicinity of the 1866. Incorporated in Massachusetts city. The ore thus far obtained from these veins has been scanty and of in June of 1864. Hillside mine and low grade. None of them has been developed to a paying point...On the mill vignette. Printed by Cutter, Tower ocean beach gold-bearing black sand occurs in considerable quantity. & Company of New York. 25c Power of Attempts have also been made to work these deposits; but these efforts Att’y Revenue stamp. Not cancelled. A proved so remunerative that they were soon given up.” Dreschfeld is few very small pinholes is all that mars this cert. We could not find an listed in the 1863 and 1864 San Francisco directories as “secretary exact location to fit this stock. The closest was a mine in Shasta County, mining companies office 24 & 26 Naglee’s building.” No company is but we could find no date to confirm this location. Prag Collection Est. listed. [HWAC] Prag Collection Est. $400-600 HWAC# 79700 $200-400 HWAC# 80477 Bid online at FHWAC.com or call 775-851-1859 163

DAY 3 Saturday, October 20th Mining Lot#3157 Sierra County, California 1864 Twenty-One Gold Quartz Lot#3160 Silver Mountain, California Mining Company Stock, Sierra County Early # 56 for 50 shares to 1869 Mountain Gold and Silver C Wheeler. Mining Company Number 1 Stock D at eli ne d # 992 for 4 shares to James SS Sacramento Robinson. Datelined SIlver Mountain City 1864. 1869. Signed by secretary JN Signed by Barber and president Charles Fisk. secretary (?) Incorporated June 4, 1863. Location and president at Silver Mountain Mining District. Mountain and sun vignette. Bacon & FW Clute. Company printer. 25c Certificate Revenue Stamp. Not cancelled. Small Incorporated tears upper right and left center. Nice looking certificate. THe Mountain Sept. 7, 1863. GOld & Silver Mining Company was the talk of the town in 1863. # 25c Power of 1 is either a takeoff on the original or an additional mine within the Atty Revenue larger company. It is probably the latter since we know Charles Fisk St a mp . was actively involved in the Mountain Mining Company. Fisk arrived Union Job at Silver Mountain in 1863 and built the three story Fisk Hotel - with Print. Semi- all the amenities of a first class hotel. He was a major figure in Silver nude allegorical woman with scales and an eagle with a flag. Vertical Mountain life. Robinson was part of the mercantile store of Robinson & folds. One tear top left. Otherwise excellent condition. $120,00 Pearson. By 1869 Person had left the area and Robinson ws on his own. red underprint. The Twenty-One Union was incorporated to work Est. $300-700 HWAC# 80346 grounds on Kanaka Creek. FW Clute, JH Carroll and JW Spaulding serve as trustees. [Sacramento Daily Union, Volume 25, Number 3888, Lot#3161 Silver Mountain, California 7 September 1863]. Kanaka Creek is a stream and is nearby to Bope 1863 Susanah Gold & Silver Mining Ravine, Holley Ravine and Trestle Ravine. Kanaka Creek is also close Company Stock #72 for 25 shares to to Footes Crossing Bridge. It is north of North Bloomfield and south of O Cromwell. Datelined Carson CIty Plum Valley. Prag Collection Est. $400-800 HWAC# 79707 1863. Signed by secretary Van Winkle and president -ovey. Incorporated June 24, 1863. Steamship vignette. No Lot#3158 Sierra Nevada Lode, Silver printer - probably printed locally. 25c Mountain District, California 1863 Certificate Revenue stamp. Not cancelled. Located at Savanah Ledge, Sierra Nevada Gold and Silver Alpine Mining District, Supposed to be in Douglas County, N. T. This Mining Co.,Sierra Nevada Lode, must be a reference to the fact that it is on the California/Nevada border. Silver Mountain District EARLY No Nevada Alpine District fits this description, Therefore, it must refer # 2 for 5 shares to Frank Cooper. to a mine at Silver Mountain! Several Carson City datelines have passed Datelined San Francisco 1863. Signed through this company for Silver Mountain mines. Silver Mountain was by secretary J Warren Clark and president SA Hawkins. Incorporated an eternity away from Placerville in the winter and spring and less than in June of 1863. 25c Protest Revenue stamp. Not cancelled. Towne & 10 miles to Genoa, Nevada and a little further to Carson City. Very nice Bacon printers. Vignette by Loomis of house in valley. Location at “Sierra condition. According to the 1873/4 V&T Directory Eli Barclay and Oliver Nevada Lode, Silver Mountain District.” Excellent condition. Staining Cromwell sold fruits, nuts, etc. The store was at 34 North Carson Street. on bottom right. Frank Cooper was one of the original Commissioners Van Winkle was used by many local mining companies as a secretary. charged with designating the election precincts in newly-formed Alpine Prag Collection Est. $400-700 HWAC# 79262 Co. (1864 “Alpine County Bill”; see 1864 Aug 11; see also Board of Supervisors Minutes, Book “A”, page 1; and see text of “Alpine County Lot#3162 Silver Mountain District, Amador County, California 1863 Bill” printed in 1864 July 30 MG). J. Warren Clark was also secretary Silver Prize, No. 2, Gold & Silver Mining Co., Silver Mountain District, of the El Dorado Gold & Silver, Silver Prize G&S, Mammoth G&S, Tip Amador County Very early number 12 for 25 shares to Frank Cooper. Top G&S, Napa G&S, George Washington G&S, Sierra Nevada G&S, etc. Dat el ined [Thank you to Karen Dustman, local historian and author of the book San Francisco “Silver Mountain City (Clairitage Press) for background information on 1863. Signed the mine and signatures.] Prag Collection Est. $400-900 HWAC# 79734 by secretary J Warren Clark Lot#3159 Silver Mountain, California and president 1880 Globe Gold and Silver Frank Cooper. Mining Company Stock # 461 for Incor porated 25 shares to Bernard Vaservogel. August 3d, 1863. Signed by Vaservogel and president 25c Protest Heineman. Dateline New York 1880. Revenue Stamp. Incorporated in New York in 1879. Not cancelled. Eagle, glove, allegorical female, Location, “Silver Mountain District, Amador County, Cal.” Towne & underground mining vignettes. Day Bacon printers. The Silver Prize was located on range with Mountain & Batchelar printers. Not cancelled. Bright red seal with blue ribbons and Silver Creek Companies. Frank Cooper was one of the original (quite unique!) Edge issues. Ink eating away paper in a few places. “... Commissioners charged with designating the election precincts in proceeding up Monitor Creek toward the town of Monitor (a mining newly-formed Alpine Co. (1864 “Alpine County Bill”; see 1864 Aug 11; with a present population of about 200), we reach the Globe Gold Silver see also Board of Supervisors Minutes, Book “A”, page 1; and see text Mining Company’s mine and mill on the right or eastern side the creek. of “Alpine County Bill” printed in 1864 July 30 MG). J. Warren Clark This company, under the superintendence of General Winchester, has was also secretary of the El Dorado Gold & Silver, Silver Prize G&S, done a considerable amount of work, About 300 feet from the mouth of Mammoth G&S, Napa G&S, George Washington G&S, etc. [Thank you to its tunnel was struck gray sulphide of copper - some of which assayed Karen Dustman, local historian and author of the book “Silver Mountain as high as 37 per cent copper and $26 in silver with a trace of gold. On City (Clairitage Press) for background information on the mine and this the company sinking but had got down only 30 or 40 feet when signatures.] Prag Collection Est. $400-900 HWAC# 79729 the water proved much to for the machinery. The company is driving the main tunnel to ledge which is on the same belt as the Imperial and which is to be struck in 60 or 70 feet The mill has been run only experimentally. Prag Collection Est. $100-300 HWAC# 81615 164 October 2018

DAY 3 Saturday, October 20th Mining Lot#3163 Silver Mountain, Alpine County, California 1864 NUMBER 1 Lot#3165 Silver Mountain, Amador Silver Mountain Hydraulic Company Stock Silver Mountain, Alpine County, California 1864 Centaur Gold County # 1 for 250 shares to JSS Robinson. Datelined Silver Mountain & Silver Mining Company Stock 1864. Signed # 15 for 20 shares to Frank Cooper. by secretary R Datelined San Francisco 1864. Signed Thompson and by Sam P Howes and James B Williams. president JLSS Incorporated Oct. 28, 1863. Centaur Robinson. Small vignette. Bosqui & Co. printers. size - actual Not Cancelled. Excellent condition. stock is 2.5 x 7”. Rounded corner top left. Original trustees were Cooper, EH Heacock, Inco r porat ed PH Owens, JH Turney, JB Williams, and F Brisac. A claim identified as April 30, 1864. being in the Silver Mountain Mining District in 1864 (per Calif. Division Not Cancelled. of Mines & Geology listing in “Mines and Mineral Resources of Alpine A few pin holes County” by William B. Clark; book is at Museum; ). Frank Cooper on left side, was one of the original Commissioners charged with designating the otherwise in excellent condition. One vertical fold. Using all of our election precincts in newly-formed Alpine Co. (1864 “Alpine County resources, we found no information on this mine. JSS Robinson was Bill”; see 1864 Aug 11; see also Board of Supervisors Minutes, Book “A”, around for quite a bit in Silver Mountain City. He was an initial Trustee page 1; and see text of “Alpine County Bill” printed in 1864 July 30 MG). and incorporator for the Silver Mtn Hydraulic Co in October, 1863. He [Thank you to Karen Dustman, local historian and author of the book may have been staying in the Fisk Hotel in July, 1864, or at least was “Silver Mountain City (Clairitage Press) for background information on well acquainted with Charles Fisk; a case of goods was shipped from the mine and signatures.] Est. $400-600 HWAC# 81014 San Francisco for him, by Royal Fisk (letter 1864 July 9). In May, 1868, he bought the interest of William Pearson in the firm of Robinson & Lot#3166 Silver Mountain, Amador County, California 1864 IXL Gold Pearson (1868 May 30 Chronicle). He was still living in Silver Mountain and Silver Mining Company Stock, Silver Mountain, Alpine County as of the 1870 Census; he was age 56; occupation “Miner”; born in Number 307 for 50 shares (50225 to 50275) of this English stock. Datelined Nova Scotia; and owned $1300 of real property and $300 of personal London 1874. property; his wife’s name was Augusta D., and she was born in Maine. In WC Chalmers 1873, he sold his mill site (south of the town) with 40 acres “and the old s e c r e tar y . Toll House” (Alpine Book “D” p. 510). Thompson was born September Incorporated on 20, 1822 in Montville, Maine. At 6’4” tall he was a tall California Pioneer, July 3, 1864 per He settled on Whit’s Bar on the Mokelumne, with a house on Prospect the Daily Alta Hill, and won two terms as a justice of the peace (without being a California. Not lawyer originally) and so was known as “Judge” Thompson moved cancelled. One his family moved to Alpine County in June, 1864 and his investments small hole upper included an interest in the Blue Goose mine.He also had an vestment left. Otherwise in in “a quarry which provided stone for building the town jail”. He built great condition. a house; practiced law; served as a notary; and acted as secretary for The IXL was one several mining companies. Thompson commented that none other of the earliest than Snowshoe Thompson gave him snowshoeing (skiing) lessons. A and richest unique looking stock certificate, singed by important residents of Silver claims made in Mountain, and number 1! [Thank you to Karen Dustman, local historian Alpine County. and author of the book “Silver Mountain City (Clairitage Press) for The IXL was background information on the mine and signatures.] Prag Collection discovered in summer, July 1, 1861 (the same day as the Buckeye No. Est. $400-900 HWAC# 79728 One was taken up); describing the location of the lower IXL tunnel, just 537 feet from the higher-up Accacia (per Chalmers’ Exchequer Officials, Lot#3164 Silver 1871-2, May 22, 2871, p. 48-49; 54; 56; 67). IXL was located 1,700 feet lower down the Canyon than Exchequer, which was higher up (1871- Mountain, Alpine 2 Private p. 535, March 21, 1873). A later report indicates that the County, California 1864 Orinella discoverers of this mine “are said to have taken out over $50,000 from Consolidated Gold a space 40 feet long and 22 feet high, within 50 feet of the surface” in & Silver Mining 1861, and that 1,000 tons milled in 1863 averaged $250 a ton by assay (but milled at $125 a ton). (Jan. 1922, Report of State Mineralogist). Company Stock # The IXL was mentioned in the Letters of Henry Eno, “In 1867, the IXL five (written out - Superintendent [probably Slaven ] was telling Henry Eno that the lode very intriguing) for – which had produced $18,000 to $20,000 until the lode pinched out a 55 shares to Thomas year and a half before, was now back into a “well-defined lode of 8 feet Dillon. Datelined wide of the very richest kind of ore” and he wished he had money to San Francisco 1864. buy stock (Letters of Henry Eno, p. 160). In May he noted, “At Silver Mt. Signed by William Smith and Stephan Otis. Printed by Boswell. 20 and there is a mine called the IXL (I excel) which has also struck a very rich 5c small revenue stamps. Location: Silver Mountain District, Amador lode, but they try to keep it secret. But have got so many to help keep County, Cal. Not Cancelled. Crease bottom right and two vertical it that it has leaked out.” (p. 163, May 15, 1867). Chalmers, the famous folds. Some staining on left. The Orinella was a prospect in the Silver (well, here in Alpine) mining capitalist who represented a London Mountain Mining District, but never produced any ore that we were consortium of investors and siphoned British investor money into the able to ascertain. It has the same issue and officers as the Granite State mines here in Alpine over a twenty-year period, who became interested and Saginaw. [Thank you to Karen Dustman, local historian and author in the I.X.L. in 1871. Chalmers says it is to the IXL that Alpine Co. was of the book “Silver Mountain City (Clairitage Press) for background information on the mine and signatures.] Est. $400-600 HWAC# 81012 indebted for its very existence, saying the IXL “in 1862-3 created no small excitement in mining circles and gave birth to the town of Silver Mountain” (1871-2 “Private” p. 49 and p. 535). [Thank you to Karen Dustman, local historian and author of the book “Silver Mountain City (Clairitage Press) for background information on the mine and signatures.] Prag Collection Est. $400-900 HWAC# 79722 Bid online at FHWAC.com or call 775-851-1859 165

DAY 3 Saturday, October 20th Mining Lot#3167 Silver Mountain, Amador County, California 1863 Paris Gold Lot#3169 Silver Mountain, Amador County, California 1863 Uncle Sam & Silver Mining Company Stock # 151 for 10 shares issued to JY (?). Gold & Silver Mining Datelined Markleville Co., Silver Mountain, 1863. Incorporated Amador County # 81 Sept 14th, 1863. for 10 shares issued to Signed by JN Barber Alexander McCormick. and president Datelined San Francisco Paris Kilburn. Not 1863. Signed by secretary cancelled.Mountain Thomas J Owen and mill vignette. printed president Alfred A by ML Haas of San Penquist(?). Printed Francisco. Location by Painter & Co. 25c of mine in Alpine and Warehouse Receipt Amador County California. Thin paper shows waves, but intact with Revenue stamp. Not cancelled. Incorporated March 16, 1863. Located strong edges and corners. By 1880 Kilburn was representing Monterrey at, “Silver Mountain, Amador County, Cal.” Heavy edge and corner County in the state legislature. By August of 1864 Sam Howes would wear. Please insect online. Original trustees included Thomas Brown, O become secretary. Make sure you check out the name of the president Christin, John Heagersen, EH Ericsson,Thomas Ogden. Thomas J Owens and probable founder. And you thought this company was named for a was secretary to other local mining companies. Not all of his companies city in France! [Thank you to Karen Dustman, local historian and author turned out to be profitable as he was listed as a delinquent shareholder of the book “Silver Mountain City (Clairitage Press) for background in the IXL G&SM Co. in 1868 (1868 Jan 25 Mining & Scientific Press). He information on the mine and signatures.] Est. $400-600 HWAC# 81016 did acquire a half-lot adjoining Betchmann’s stables Dec 2, 1863 from “P.A. Owens” and then conveyed it to Mary Frances Owens (N ½ of Lot 4, Block 3)(per Book B, page 16 of Deeds, Alpine County ). [Thank you to Karen Dustman, local historian and author of the book “Silver Mountain City (Clairitage Press) for background information on the mine and signatures.] Prag Collection Est. $400-900 HWAC# 79733 Lot#3170 Silver Mountain, Webster District, California 1863 Glengarry Gold & Silver Mining Company Stock # 36 for 5 shares to B. Jay Antrim. Datelined Markleeville 1863. Signed by secretary Bormy(?) and president Thomas Kinsmill. Incorporated August 20, 1863. European looking Lot#3168 Silver Mountain, Amador County, California 1863 Treat prospector vignette. HS Crocker & Co. printer. Small 5c and 20c revenue Gold & Silver Mining Company Stock, Silver Mountain, Amador stamps. Not cancelled. Mine at Webster District, Amador County, Cal. County # 69 for 5 shares to EG Treat. Signed by RH Ford and JD Dodge. Some staining bottom of cert and cut roughly top. Nice condition. Datelined Silver Mountain 1863. Incorporated September 5, 1863. Not Original trustees were T. Kinsmill, T, Lockwood, L. Van Alstine, J. D. Brien and F. Curtis. Antrim was involved another Silver Mountain cancelled. 20c and 5c small exchange stamps. Cut roughly on left. Folds mining claims. For example he purchased 10 shares of the Grafton Co. on edges and one very large tear on bottom. We believe the printer ($5,000 each!) in Great Mogul District on 1863 Oct 24. That is the same was HS Crocker. Location was the “Fifty years, IXL Lode.” The Treat Gold & Silver Mining Company (or “Treat and Dodge Ground”) was a day he purchased this stock certificate. [Thank you to Karen Dustman, claim identified as being in the Silver Mountain Mining District in 1864 local historian and author of the book “Silver Mountain City (Clairitage (per Calif. Division of Mines & Geology listing in “Mines and Mineral Press) for background information on the mine and signatures.] Est. Resources of Alpine County” by William B. Clark). This claim was later $400-600 HWAC# 81021 re-located May 1, 1868 as the “Haight” claim, but it was on land already Lot#3171 Silver Mountain, Webster covered by the Buckeye No. 1 claim ( Lewis Chalmers, Exchequer District, California 1864 Northern Officials, 1871-2, p. 57). In 1871, Peter Peterson owned the “Segregated Lights G&S MC Stock - from rare O.K., also known as Treat and Dodge Ground” in Scandinavian Canon, Webster District at Silver Mountain and sold it to D.N. McBeth for $100 (June 20, 1871 deed). Interestingly # 70 for 40 shares to PVN Young. enough, E.G. Treat was Eleanor - a female. Assuredly the wife of D.W. Datelined San Francisco 1864. Signed Treat. She owned “separate property” (including quilts) per the Alpine by secretary E Pfeifferz and president Co. Archives, book of Separate Property of Married Women. There was CR Stetson(?). Incorporated Oct. also a “Treat’s Hotel” in Silver Mountain City (briefly), which was theirs. 17th, 1863. Small 5c and 20c revenue stamps. mountain mill vignette. It was also known as The Oriental. Reverend RH Ford is something of Striking blue paper with white ‘Northern Light’ motive. Printer Buswell a Silver Mountain icon. Reverend Ford was an early settler from New & co. Not cancelled. Mines locate in Webster District, Amador County, Hampshire. The Ford Hotel (aka Silver Mountain Hotel or Alpine House) Cal. Top of cert has staining and has been broken away. Does not was a landmark. This hotel was also a restaurant boarding house, stage interfere with the main part of the cert. We found plenty of reference stop and post office. Ford was a Justice of the Peace, and superintendent to the Southern Light Gold & Silver in Reese River, but no reference to of schools. Ford had no problem dabbling in mining stocks. When his the Northern Light Company. If you turn north out of Markleville on the hotel burned down in 1882 he finally left. [Thank you to Karen Dustman, old toll road, you are immediately in the Webster District. The 1864 local historian and author of the book “Silver Mountain City (Clairitage Theron Reed map shows ow populated the district was. There was a hot Press) for background information on the mine and signatures.] Prag Collection Est. $400-900 HWAC# 79721 springs, a saw mill, another saw mill and the Hawkins Ranch. [Thank you to Karen Dustman, local historian and author of the book “Silver Mountain City (Clairitage Press) for background information on the mine and signatures.] Est. $400-600 HWAC# 81019 166 October 2018

DAY 3 Saturday, October 20th Mining Lot#3172 Silver Prize Lode, Silver Mountain District, California 1863 Lot#3175 Sonoma County, California Silver Prize Gold & Silver Mining Company, Silver Prize Lode, Silver 1874 Mercury Quicksilver Mountain District NUMBER 3 for 11 shares to Frank Cooper. Datelined Mining Company Stock # 37 for San Francisco 1000 shares to FH Rogers trustee. 1863. Signed Signed by secretary Rogers and by secretary E president George Gilbert. Datelined Warren Clark San Francisco 1874. Incorporated and president in August of 1874. Not cancelled. WC Albert. California Seal vignette. Printed by Bancroft. Pin holes at seal. Very nice Incorporated condition! Prag Collection Est. $120-250 HWAC# 80411 in July of 1863. 25c Protest Lot#3176 Stanislaus, California R e v enu e 1895 Stanislaus Gold & Hydraulic stamp. Town Company, Limited Stock #’s 6323 & Bacon to 6422 (Number 24) for 100 shares Printers. Located at, “Silver Prize Lode, Silver Mining District.”50 Years to William Davies Esq. 1895. English printed on stock probably stands for the length of time the company company! Signed by secretary RE had been incorporated for. Not cancelled. One small tear on right Bickerdike Junior and directors MW (?) border. Excellent condition. On May 28, 1864 the Sacramento Daily and RS Sheffield.Uncancelled. Smudge Union report that the major lodes in Alpine Valley were the Galena, Iron upper right, hole by the number ‘24’ City, Silver Prize, Galena Chief and Bay State. A May 30, 1864 article in and dog ears. Nice condition. All the the Daily Alta California lists the best mines. The IXL leads the pack. gold mined in Stanislaus County has Other major producers are the Buckeye, Fremont and Lady Franklin. come from placers which would make But also showing great promise is the Silver Prize, George Washington, the ‘Hydraulic’ a most appropriate Murphy, Nob, St. Charles, Uncle Sam, Mountain, Pennsylvania and term. Prag collection Est. $80-150 HWAC# 79223 Sierra Nevada. (By the way, anyone interesting in Silver Mountain and Lot#3177 Table Mountain, California it city should read this article.) Frank Cooper was one of the original 1876 Palisade Gold Mining Commissioners charged with designating the election precincts in Company Stock # 189 for 100 newly-formed Alpine Co. (1864 “Alpine County Bill”; see 1864 Aug 11; shares to CL McCoy trustee. Signed see also Board of Supervisors Minutes, Book “A”, page 1; and see text by secretary McCoy and president JR of “Alpine County Bill” printed in 1864 July 30 MG). J. Warren Clark Kendall. Located at Table Mountain was also secretary of the El Dorado Gold & Silver, Silver Prize G&S, Mining District, Tuolumne County. Mammoth G&S, Tip Top G&S, Napa G&S, George Washington G&S, etc. Datelined San Francisco 1876. Not cancelled. Incorporated Aug. 17th, [Thank you to Karen Dustman, local historian and author of the book 1876. Bottom right corner is torn. Otherwise in excellent condition. “Silver Mountain City (Clairitage Press) for background information on the mine and signatures.] Prag Collection Est. $400-900 HWAC# 79732 Rare! We could not find anything about this company. Prag Collection Est. $120-250 HWAC# 80416 Lot#3178 Tip Top Ledge, Silver Mountain District, California 1863 Lot#3173 Slug Gulch Mining District, Tip Top Gold & Silver Mining Co., Tip Top Ledge, Silver Mountain El Dorado County, California 186- District Very Volcano Copper, Gold & Silver early number 7 Mining Company Stock, Slug for 20 shares to Gulch Mining District, El Dorado Frank Cooper. CountySlug Gulch Mining District, Dat el ined El Dorado County, Slug Gulch San Francisco Mining District, El Dorado County 1863. Signed Unissued stock. Incorporated May 13, 1863. Mines located at Slug Gulch by president Mining District in El Dorado County. HS Crocker Printer. Vignette of Cooper and mining near a volcano. The Slug Gulch MD is in Fairplay in south central secretary J El Dorado County. Primarily a placer gold location, but some copper Warren Clark. was also produced. Prag Collection Est. $60-100 HWAC# 79228 Incorporated July 1863. Printed by Towne & Bacon. Located in “Tip Top Ledge, Silver Lot#3174 Smartsville, Yuba County, California 1878 Nevada Reservoir Mountain District.” 25c Insurance Revenue Stamp. Stock also says Ditch Company, Smartsville, Yuba “50 years.” Probably means the company is registered for 50 years. One very small nick top. One crease upper right. Excellent example! County # 278 for 13 shares to Charles Incorporated on July 21, 1863. Original trustees were Cooper, Ford, SA E Jones. Datelined San Francisco 1878. Bartlett, T Wadsworth, and Coon (Daily Alta California), Frank Cooper Signed by secretary Samuel Baker was one of the original Commissioners charged with designating the and TL Barker. Incorporated in 1862 election precincts in newly-formed Alpine Co. (1864 “Alpine County with a stock increase in 1867. Location “Smartsville, Yuba Co., Cal.” Bill”; see 1864 Aug 11; see also Board of Supervisors Minutes, Book “A”, Crocker’s Print, Sac. No edge, corner, discoloration or pinhole issues. page 1; and see text of “Alpine County Bill” printed in 1864 July 30 MG). Not Cancelled.Not in Filer. “The Nevada Reservoir Ditch Company takes J. Warren Clark was also secretary of the El Dorado Gold & Silver, Silver 1,000 inches of water from Wolf creek, and supplies Sucker Flat and Prize G&S, Mammoth G&S, Tip Top G&S, Napa G&S, George Washington Mooney Flat. The main ditch is 28 miles long, and in that distance there G&S, etc. [Thank you to Karen Dustman, local historian and author are not more than 600 feet of flume, the highest 12 feet. The ditch was of the book “Silver Mountain City (Clairitage Press) for background commenced in 1857, and finished in 1860, at a cost of $116,000. The information on the mine and signatures.] Prag Collection Est. $400- company does not sell any water, but uses it all on Sucker Flat, in its 900 HWAC# 79730 own claims. There has been no washing at Mooney Flat for two years. “ [Resources of the Pacific Slope by Browne] Prag Collection Est. $200- 500 HWAC# 79235 Bid online at FHWAC.com or call 775-851-1859 167

DAY 3 Saturday, October 20th Mining Lot#3179 Trinity County, California 1880 Lot#3183 West Point, California Sykes Placer Mining Company Stock 1873 Yellow Jacket and Carey Gold # 1250 for 100 shares in 1880 to AV and Silver Mining Company Stock Richards. Signed by D Hall and GD Munson. Calaveras County. No. 515 datelined Datelined New York 1880. Although no Stockton, California, December 10, location is given, this seems to belong to 1873 for 50 shares to J. W. Rover. a Trinity County, California company. In Incorporated October 16th, 1873. 1904 it was reported that they owned the Signed by Secretary Joseph M. McCarty BLoss & McClary mines which had been (on Pioneer Register) and President a producer for more than a generation. A James S. Gouttel. Location West Point Mining District, Calaveras County. report in 1911 said stock for this company Vignette of a dog and a strong box top center. By Berdine, Printer, was useless. Prag Collection Est. $100- Stockton. Fine condition. (Ref. MB 5-12-10-13 P171) Prfag Collection 200 HWAC# 80472 Est. $120-250 HWAC# 80410 Lot#3180 Tuolumne County, Lot#3184 Whitton Lode, Silver California 1880 Atlas Gold Mining Mountain Mining District, California Company of California Stock, 1863 Whiton Gold and Silver Mining Tuolumne County # 131 for a large Co., Whitton Lode, Silver Mountain 10,000 shares to Henry Rogers Mining District Number 41 for 10 trustee. Datelined New York 1880, shares to Frank Cooper. Datelined San Signed by secretary HN Homy(?) and Francisco 1863, Signed by secretary president EP Burgess. Uncancelled. J Warren Clark and president RJ Dennison & Brown printers. Vignette Whitton. Incorporated Sept. 26, 1863. 5c and 20c small exchange of Atlas holding up the world. Bottom is cut close. No edge, corner or revenue stamps. Not Cnacelled. Cook & Co. printers.location, “Whitton discoloration issues. Not in Filer. Prag Collection Est. $120-250 HWAC# Lode, Silver Mining Mountain District, Cal.” Primitive mining vignette. 79212 Whitton was also a trustee of the Napa G&S MC and the Baltimore G&S MC of Silver Mountain. Both were incorporated July 21, 1863 (Daily Lot#3181 Virginia, Placer County, Alta California). That said, we could find no information the Whitton California 1863 Fifty-One Union Lode (other than an ad in the Daily Alta California on December 30, Mining Company Stock, Virginia, 1863 saying anyone interested in investing in the Whitton Lode could Placer County # 121 for 25 shares to gain some valuable information by contacting G. W. through Wells Fargo George D Aldrick. datelined Virginia, in San Francisco) or the Whitton G&S MC. Whitton didn’t seem to stay California 1863. Signed by secretary around the area as he was delinquent in paying assessments by October William H Hunt and president Geo. 22, 1864 (Monitor Gazette). Whitton was listed as a farmer in Napa Glass. Incorporated March 13, 1863. in the 1860 census. Frank Cooper was a popular guy back in the early Printer HS Crocker. 25c US Certificate days... he is mentioned in connection with lots of other mines and also Revenue Stamp. Uncancelled. No edge, corner, discoloration or pin had a hand in early Alpine County’s initial organization. Frank Cooper hole issues. Vignette, showing a miner with a pick axe, in front of a was one of the original Commissioners charged with designating the mine entrance. And another of a woman at left. A red brown 25 cent election precincts in newly-formed Alpine Co. (1864 “Alpine County “Protest” Internal Revenue stamp is affixed. Printed by H.S. Crocker & Bill”; see 1864 Aug 11; see also Board of Supervisors Minutes, Book Co., Sacramento. Virginia (or Virginia town) was founded in June 1851. “A”, page 1; and see text of “Alpine County Bill” printed in 1864 July 30 The want of water during the dry season retarded the work of miners MG). J. Warren Clark was also secretary of the El Dorado Gold & Silver for two or three years subsequent, which was finally remedied by the Mining Co., Mammoth G&SM, Napa G&SM Co., George Washington G&S introduction of water by the same canal which conveyed water into the M Co., etc. [Thank you to Karen Dustman, local historian and author Gold Hill district. In 1853, a company of miners built a railroad track of the book “Silver Mountain City (Clairitage Press) for background from Virginia Hill to the Auburn ‘ravine, for the transportation of ore. information on the mine and signatures.] Prag Collection Est. $400- This road was certainly the pioneer railroad of Placer, if not the first 900 HWAC# 79727 laid down in the State for any purpose. The work was finally abandoned by the company, and its labor was redirected towards the introduction Lot#3185 Willow Valley, California of water, through canals, direct to the tops of the various hills lying in 1877 Deadwood Gold Mining Co. and composing the Virginia district. [Ref: Bancroft] Prag Collection Est. Stock Certificate Incorporated $300-600 HWAC# 79704 February 1877. Stock Certificate #251 dated June 19, 1878 for 400 shares to Lot#3182 Virginia, Placer County, California 1863 Rock=Creek A.D. Sutton. Signed by the President, Mining Company, Virginia, Placer County Number 54 for 100 shares R. B. Symington and Wm. H. Suuth (?) to DZ Moore. as Secretary. The property included Datelined a rare 95 patented acres, 2 miles E. of Nevada City. Ore occurred in a vein Virginia, Cal. in up to 18” wide, carrying pyrite, galena, sphalerite and arsenopyrite. 1863. Signed Development was by incline shaft and 400’ of drifts. The pay chute was by president lost in 1879 between the 320 and 420 foot levels but rediscovered in Josiah Howell 1881 leading to paying ore (Burchard 1880, p. 55 and also 1881, p. 72). and secretary Small pen cancel. Tiny hole left edge. Est. $100-200 HWAC# 79056 E v er ts (?). Incorporated Lot#3186 Yosemite, California 1884 March 16, Rare Yosemite Quartz Mining Stock 1863. Printed Unusual hand written yet reproduced by HS Crocker type on cert. #19 issued to John of Sacramento. Hasbrook 500 shares 1884 signed by “400 feet, 4,000 President. Est. $80-120 HWAC# 79313 shares, $100 per share.” 25c certificate US Revenue Stamp. Virginia is not to be confused with Virginia City, Nevada. Prag Collection Est. $300-600 HWAC# 79703 168 October 2018

DAY 3 Saturday, October 20th Mining Lot#3187 , California California Gold Diggers Lithograph Ballou’s Lot#3190 Balfour, Colorado 1895 Black Joe Gold Mining, Milling and Land Company # 68 for 6,000 shares to CE Henry Stengel. Datelined Colorado Springs 1895. Signed by secretary EC Fletcher and president A Lawton. Incorporated in 1894. “Mines located at Balfour, Colo.” Not cancelled. 6,000 shares written in red ink on left side. Denver Litho. printers. Full page vignette in shades of brown: lake, mountains, massive clouds and a RARE rainbow! One inch rips at fold edges. Corners dog eared. Balfour is 10 miles south of Harstell. Balfour was a “flash in the pan”mining boom town. The town was founded in 1893 and by 1898 it was basically gone. But during that time it had 110 log and wood buildings including 200 houses, a forth class post office, saw mill, three hotels, a Newspaper (the Balfour News), and a few stores. Two stages stopped there daily. This area was also known for Cattlemen and Sheepmen disagreements. [ghosttowns.com Pictorial Drawing Room Companion. handcolored print entitled by James Montoya] The’ Balfour Mines’ is a producing site in Colorado “California Gold Diggers - A Scene From Actual Life at the mines. 22 in the Rocky Mountains. It is a small deposit, located in the Elevenmile x 15 inches. Gleason’s Pictorial Drawing-Room Companion, later Canyon Area mining district and was never considered to be of world- called Ballou’s Pictorial Drawing-Room Companion, was a 19th- class significance. Prag collection. Est. $200-500 HWAC# 79754 century illustrated periodical published in Boston, Massachusetts. The magazine was founded by Frederick Gleason in 1851 as Gleason’s Lot#3191 Black Hawk, Colorado Pictorial, changing its name to Ballou’s Pictorial in 1855, after managing 1866 Federal Union Gold Mining editor Maturin Murray Ballou bought out the interest of Gleason. The Company By-Laws (Colorado magazine absorbed the Illustrated News of New York in 1853. The Territory) Franklin Job Printing Pictorial featured artists such as Winslow Homer. Est. $150-300 Office,, Greenfield [MA]:, 1866. HWAC# 81325 Original printed deep blue wrappers, with title, ‘The Federal Union Gold Lot#3188 , California California Mining Company,’ lettered in gilt. Near Fine. The property was located “on both sides of South Clear Creek, at Gold Rush Stock Collection (7) 2 Colona Bar, in the Territory of Colorado.” The Federal Union Mining Tuolumne County Water Co # 3163 Company was organized by a group of Eastern investors including 273 shares and #3166 276 shares A.W. Hoyt, a civil engineer, Elisha Wells, a Massachusetts businessman, to John Sirre? 1857, both have and General Napoleon Bonaparte Buford, at the end of the Civil War. center cuts. 2 Anglo Californian Gold In 1865, Hoyt sent Buford, a Union general who had been prominent Mining(According to Filer (Holabird), in the Tennessee Campaigns, to visit the mining property of Jeb and this was the largest foreign issue Erskine McClellan in Clear Creek County, Colorado, seven miles from of a California Gold Rush venture Black Hawk. Hoyt instructed Buford to check out the mines “working that we know of. The company literally sold thousands of shares. The value” and get the McClellan brothers to sell their claims. Buford visited company began as the Anglo California Gold Mining & Dredging Co. in Colorado and returned East in late 1865 with bond to pay for the claim. 1849., owned by Luke Williams. It was the last of Williams “gold bubble In 1866 the company was formally organized. Est. $100-200 HWAC# company promotions.” Williams sent Henry Vere Huntley to Calaveras 79072 River in 1849. Huntely was unsuccessful, so he hired miners of the Quartz Rock Mariposa Gold Co. and arranged a deal with them. While Lot#3192 Black Hawk, Colorado 1867 he was in America, the name of the company had changed. The lack Reliance Gold & Silver Mining Bond of progress and name changing made the directors of the company Certificates Bond cert. #79, issued very suspicious, and they forced Williams out in April 1851. The new in 1867 for $100. Seventeen coupons directors decided to crush and process ore mined by others, and sent attached at the bottom. Fold lines. VF. two steam engines and crushing mills on the Augusta that year)” I/U Very nice Colorado Territorial piece. #99679 and 99680 Frederick Ball 1 share each 1853. Ave Maria Gold Uncanceled. Est. $200-350 HWAC# Quartz mine on blue onion skin. I/U 5 shares, undated. Le Nouveau 79039 Monde I/U approx 1851. Philadelphia and California Mining(“ Signed by Pearson Servill (president) and L. Alter (secretary). Great mining vignette at top: miners working a placer claim with a cabin and bear in the background. Printer: Gratlan. Part of John C. Freemont’s Mariposa Lot#3193 Boulder County, Colorado Estate and one of the first Fremont leases to Americans. This appears 1890 Atlas Mining Company Stock # to be the first of a series of mining investments by Philadelphia parties 32 for 1000 shares to Charles Bower. in Western mines (see: Philadelphia & Arizona, Philadelphia & Nevada, Datelined Denver 1890. Signed by Philadelphia & Montana, etc.). This is one of only three mining ventures of the 1850s that was “hands on” for Fremont.” I/U #1477 Bette Paul Secretary DB Gaffney and president 100 shares 1852. Est. $600-1000 HWAC# 79962 ED Bronson. Gold Seal. Printer not mentioned. Not cancelled. Overall Lot#3189 Aspen, Colorado 1892 in very nice condition (corner folds, Little Rule Mining Stock I/U #3417 slight edge rips at folds). “Mines: Albion Little 500 shares, 1892. Nice Boulder County Colorado.” Atlas underground miner vignette and holding up the world vignette. Gold ruler under #. Rare Aspen stock. Est. seal. In 1894 Bronson, et al, incorporated the Bronson Patent Placer $100-200 HWAC# 80111 Mining Machinery Company in Denver, Colorado. Prag Collection Est. $200-500 HWAC# 79747 Bid online at FHWAC.com or call 775-851-1859 169

DAY 3 Saturday, October 20th Mining Lot#3194 Central City, Colorado 1873 Lot#3198 Criple Creek, Colorado Colorado Territory Mining Laws 1899 Mountain View Gold Mining Certificates “Mining Laws Enacted Company # 1773 for 100 shares by the Legislature of Colorado and to W Burmeister of bearer (haven’t the Laws of the United States”, 1873, seen that before). Signed by George B 4th Edition. Published by Collier and Dening(?) and J Clark vice president. Hall. Laws regarding claims, rights of Dateline 1899. Mining vignette with miners, Occupancy & Abandonment, six more around border. Mount & and liens. Second section involves U.S. Mining Laws. Excellent condition. Company of Cleveland printer. Gold 100 pages in wraps. A scarce volume. Est. $100-200 HWAC# 79073 Seal. Not Cancelled. Rips at folds, dog eared corner, discoloration. 2c Lot#3195 Clear Creek, Colorado 1865 South Clear Creek Gold & document stamp is torn. A 1904 question to “United States Investor” Silver Mining Company Stock #is not listed??? 200 shares to Damon brought this answer, “This company has given up Its New York offices Wells. Datelined Canastota and is said to be doing nothing at the present time. It was Incorporated 1865. (Canastota is a small in 189 6 to operate several claims at Cripple Creek, Colo. the plan of village that was incorporated the promoters being to sell the property when the development of in 1835. It is located along that section resulted In enhanced values. It is stated that two of the the banks of the Erie Canal.) claims were worked to some extent but general results fell far short Signed by secretary D Hasbach of expectations. As a result the company failed to find a purchaser and and president OB Thomas. Not the property we understand has been lying idle since 1897 the outlook cancelled. Large vignette of for the company being far from encouraging.” Prag Collection Est. $50- an allegorical woman looking 100 HWAC# 81633 over miners in the field. Small vignette of miners working Lot#3199 Cripple Creek, Colorado in the field. Printed by Major Anaconda Gold Mining Stocks (3) I/C & Knapp. Location of mining all signed by President Moffat. #2406 works is Clear Creek Co. Pin holes especially at fold intersections. Some J Estill 500 shares, 1892 at the start of corners are dog eared. Heavy folds with very small issues at edges. the Cripple Creek Gold Rush. #5084 According to Hollister (1867), the company’s works were located H Barrett 200 shares, 1896. #7349 E above Spanish Bar on the north side of the creek where the Lincoln Morton 1000 shares, 1898. Est. $100- Ledge crosses to become the Oro. They have an adit at creek level 200 HWAC# 80122 that has been run in 135 feet to intersect a shaft 65 feet deep. The ore vein is 8-10 inches in width, with 50-60 tins of ore being taken out. A substantial dam is giving them 900 feet of water power with a 550 ft.long flume race, 15 feet of fall, and a 100 horse centervent turbine wheel. Their stone mill has 20 stamps, two Freiberg pans, and a Crosby Lot#3200 Cripple Creek, Colorado & Thompson desulphurizer. D.B. Myres serves as agent for the company. 1897 Antlers Gold Mining Company It is a “promising mine” [pg.235-36]. Prag Collection Est. $1000-2000 Stock #160 for 2000 shares to Fred HWAC# 79739 F. Horn. Datelined Colorado Springs 1897. Signed by secretary RB Taylor Lot#3196 Clear Creek, Colorado 1864 and president BB Grover. Large and Star Gold Mining Company stock small vignettes of bucks with antlers. #250 for 50 shares to Julia Wadsworth. Faded gold seal. Elgan Bank Note Datelined New York 1864. Signed by Company printers. Not cancelled. secretary John N Power and president “Mines at Cripple Creek.” No edge, Nathaniel Comsten(?). 25c Life corner or color issues. Two small pin holes. This company had four Insurance Revenue Stamp. Allegorical claims in the heart of Cripple Creek. The Rufus Lode is located on the vignette. Howe & Ferry printers. Not south side if Rhyolite Mountain. It has a 40’ tunnel and a 100’ shaft. The cancelled. No edge, corner, color or Rock Island group is near Cripple Creek situated on Iron Mountain. Not pin hole issues!!! Hollister [Mines of yet developed. The Leonard lode is a valuable piece of property on Gold Colorado, 1867] writes “”The Star Gold Mining Company” own 1200 Hill and joins the Ellen McGregor and Midget Mine. A strong contact feet on the Crystal, west of Virginia Kanyon, from which they have run vein has been developed by a shaft and other veins of considerable an adit west 200 feet, intersecting a shaft 153 feet deep, showing, said value are known to pass through it. The Whats Left Lode is also on Gold the agent to us* a fair crevice. Three hundred feet west is another shaft Hill. Prag collection Est. $200-500 HWAC# 79748 123 feet deep, in cap; and 300 feet further is another 65 feet deep, also Lot#3201 Cripple Creek, Colorado in cap. They have a water power 1500 feet long, 18 feet head, upper 1898 Apothecaries Gold Mining end of Payne’s Bar, wooden mill building 55 by 100 feet, raised, and Company Stock #1070 for 1000 enclosed, machinery for forty stamps on the Missouri River. They have shares to WH McIntyre. Datelined besides a great deal of lode property from Idaho to Empire, and other valuable water powers.” Prag Collection Est. $500-1000 HWAC# 79741 Colorado Springs 1898. Signed by president S Ben Smith and secretary Lot#3197 Clear Creek County, Frank Heron. Incorporated in Colorado 1879 Dunderberg Mining Colorado in 1895. Blue print on white Company Stock # 989 for 100 background. Unique-to-site vignette shares to Charles Hughes. Signed by of apothecary balance with beacon HL Bradford and president Charles sitting on top of scales. Printer was Denison(?). Dateline New York 1879. Telegraph Printing Co. Mines include Mining winze vignette. Green print the Chicago, Red Mountain, as well as several others. This is one of the on green paper. Not Cancelled. Dog classic Cripple Creek stocks. Prag Collection Est. $200-500 HWAC# ear lower left. Very nice looking cert. 79750 Location of mine was at Georgetown, Colorado. Prag Collection Est. $100-200 HWAC# 81605 170 October 2018

DAY 3 Saturday, October 20th Mining Lot#3202 Cripple Creek, Colorado Lot#3205 Cripple Creek, Colorado 1896 Arcadia Mining Company 1896 Catherine H Gold Mining Stock #1044 for 500 shares to Evelyn Company Stock # 94 for 5000 shares McCowas. Datelined Colorado Springs to EL Beckwith. Datelined Colorado 1896. Signed by secretary NW Salmon Springs 1896. Signed by secretary JD and president JC Plumb. Telegraph Kuntlman (assistant) and president Printing Com[any of Colorado William Banning. Underground Springs. Fabulous large left hand mining vignette. The Denver Lith. vignette works its way into the stock Co. Location of Mines “Cripple Creek, certificate. Shows a late and towering colo.” Not cancelled. Owns the Great mountain. Very nice! Not Cancelled. Pin holes and two vertical folds. Wonder. 2 acres on Raven Hill. Also 8 Very nice certificate. This company only owned 5 acres. In 1900 it was 1 2 acres on Galena Hill. And the Dakota Girl 7 acres. Development was bought out by W Stratton and became the Arcadia Consolidated Mining as follows: one shaft 50 feet deep on the Great Wonder, one 50 feet deep Company (ref. Hills] Prag Collection Est. $200-500 HWAC# 79752 on Old Abe and one 60 feet deep with drifts and levels on the Catherine H. [The Official Manual of the Cripple Creek District, Colorado, U. S. A] Lot#3203 Cripple Prag Collection Est. $200-500 HWAC# 79756 Creek, Colorado 1893 Bennett Lot#3206 Cripple Creek, Colorado Amalgamato r Criple Creek, CO Mining Stocks Company of Approx 25 Cripple Creek Mining Colorado On Stocks. Orphan Gold Mining, December 4, 1895 Anaconda Gold Mining, Cripple the “Electrical Creek Gold Rock Mining, Findley Engineer” printed Gold Mining, Free Coinage Gold an article on Mining, Broker’s Gold Mining Est. this company. $300-500 HWAC# 80124 It starts, “A somewhat unique application of electricity and one of interest to the mining industry has recently been made in the adaptation of electric motors to the operation of a Bennett amalgamator. The amalgamator consists essentially of the following parts; a truck and frame for supporting the larger part of the machine arranged to be run forward on a track as the work progresses a turn table supporting a boom and dipper the boom and dipper for excavating the dirt and a revolving cylinder or screen with a hopper Into this the earth is thrown from the revolving screen the finer material passing through into the amalgamator the coarse material being discharged at the end of the drum into the tailings carrier.” Don’t believe it is true? Just look at the vignette on this stock certificate! It is # 301 for 20 shares to Mrs. Jennie A Bowser. Datelined Denver 1893. Signed by Julius Brown and president JH Beals. One of the most beautiful and interesting stock certificates we have ever seen. Vignette: heavy duty mining equipment at the end of a railroad line. Light blue paper with black print. “Designed and engraved on steel by G.. W. VanNortwick of The Stone & Lodge Eng. Co., Denver.” Gold Seal. Not cancelled. Prag Collection Est. $500-1000 HWAC# 79753 Lot#3204 Cripple Creek, Colorado 1896 Bull Hill Gold Tunnel Company Stock # 1015 for 500 shares to [unseen]. Datelined Cripple Cree 1896. Signed by secretary and president - both names difficult to read. Great vignette of Bull Hill (the Lot#3207 Gilpin & Clear Creek, Colorado 1865 Dauphin & Colorado same lithograph as seen in “Official Gold Mining Company Stock, rare! Stunning! Quite early. Low number Cripple Creek District Up to Date” by 34. 200 shares to William M Wiley. Datelined Philadelphia 1865. Hall. Location in large gold letters, Signed by president JB Anderson and secretary D Southworth. Great “Cripple Creek Gold Mining District.” printer: Chas. Desilver map publisher. Amazing full height vignette of Not cancelled. Incorporated in 1894. “As to the rights of the Bull Hill mining in the high Colorado Rockies! 25c Certificate Revenue stamp. Gold Tunnel Company’s tunnel site location there seems to be a conflict Not cancelled. Located at, “Gilpin & Clear Creek Counties.” Excellent of opinion That of this company is no exception though it has a good condition (a few small holes, small rips at fold edges). According to the promise of proving a paying proposition. The line of the tunnel is 3000 “Obsolete American securities and corporations, 1904” the last report feet long under Bull Hill starting from the west slope and ending under from this company was filed in 1864. The Pennsylvania Charter void Altman. Dr JB McFatrich is president and George B Mechem secretary.” 1883, when three years’ taxes were unpaid. Dauphin was a county in [The Story of Cripple Creek Up to Date] The company owned the Great Pennsylvania. Prag collection Est. $1500-3000 HWAC# 79738 West, the Shakespeare, the M.E., the Coxey, and the Saddle Mountain Tunnel Site. [Ref: Official Manual of Cripple Creek, 1900] Prag Collection Est. $200-500 HWAC# 79758 Bid online at FHWAC.com or call 775-851-1859 171

DAY 3 Saturday, October 20th Mining Lot#3208 Cripple Creek, Colorado Lot#3212 Gilpin, Colorado 1864 Cook Gold Mining Company of 1901 Defender Gold Mineral Colorado Stock We Company Stock (Written in Rope have never seen this one! Script) RARE and quite striking Number 27 for 50 shares Colorado stock! # 2304 for 1000 t RP Smith. Datelined shares to FA Muller. Signed b y Boston 1864. Signed secretary Charles A Brooke and by treasurer Joseph Edwin Arkell. Dateline Colorado Hayden and president Springs 1901. Sailing theme vignettes: Bay. Not cancelled. 25c sailing ship and America’s Cup with Life Insurance Revenue streaming rays coming from behind. stamp. Organized in Incorporation info, title, ships wheel, Cup and ‘Cripple Creek District’ Massachusetts in 1864. written in rope of gold. Printer Gowdy-Simmons of Colorado Springs. Compared to other Not cancelled. Two vertical folds and two pinholes. Otherwise no edge, Colorado stocks from corner or discoloration issues. In 1895, the sailboat Defender of the this era, this is very plain, but quite striking. Printed by Mudge & Son. USA defeated Valkyrie II of England to win the Cup. This Gold Mine in “The Cook Gold Mining Company own 66 feet on the Gunnell ; have Cripple Creek was named after this famous boat. By 1906 this company a shaft 250 feet deep, and sinking — in cap at present. The surface had been succeeded by another. Arkell’s mining and stock brokerage has been worked out to a depth of 150 feet. The shaft is doubtless on business is one of the most extensive in Colorado Springs. Among the a pinch in the vein, as well as in cap. There is on the mine an engine various mining companies of which he is an organizer and promoter house, with engine and hoisting machinery — no mill. Charles Crosby was the Defender Gold Mining Company. [Official Cripple Creek District is the agent. The Company have some other slightly developed mining Up to Date by Hall] Prag Collection Est. $300-500 HWAC# 81667 property.’ [Mines of Colorado by Hollister] Prag Collection Est. $500- 1000 HWAC# 79742 Lot#3209 Cripple Creek, Colorado Parah Gold Mining Stock Rare I/C, Lot#3213 Gilpin, Colorado 1866 Nye Gold Mining Company Stock #27 1898. W Joor. Est. $80-100 HWAC# 80819 We have seen this stock certificate once before and were unsure of its place in history. That has not changed! #178 for 500 shares to CC Allen. Datelined Lot#3210 Georgetown, Colorado 1876 New York 1866. Signed by Benton Gold & Silver Mining Company president John Nye and secretary H eddy Jr. 25c Bond Certificates Bond cert. #122, issued in Certificate Revenue stamp. 1876 for $1000. The company incorporated 5c and 20c small stamps in Illinois. First Mortgage Bond. This on back. Vignette of miners underground hoisting up ore by bucket. 1876 bond is number 122. Nine coupons Organized September 13, 1866. “Mines in Gilpin County, Colorado.” (of original ten) still attached. Signed by Bowne & Co. printer. Not Cancelled. Pin holes and light staining. Nye secretary LG Calkins and AL Eraus. Silver Gold Mining Company is not listed in Wallihan (1871), nor in Corbett foil seal. Underground mining vignette. 19 x 15.5”. Excellent condition. No rips, tears, dog (1879), nor in Hollister (1867). Nye has an advertisement in Hollister ears or pin holes. Uncanceled. Est. $150- opposite the fold-out map. John A. Nye ran the Nye Forwarding agency 300 HWAC# 79077 in New York and Loyal S. Nye ran it is Denver. Goes to all points in Colorado Montana, Idaho, Utah and New Mexico. Prag Collection. Est. $500-1000 HWAC# 79743 Lot#3214 Gilpin, Colorado 1867 Reynolds Gold Mining Company of the city of New York Stock # 159 for 500 shares to Charles Hill. Signed by secretary Charles Hill and president AZ Huggins. Datelined New York 1867. “Property located in Gilpin County, Colorado.” Printer Bowne & Co. 25c Insurance Revenue stamp on reverse. Not cancelled. Bottom right corner torn. Pin holes and two small nicks on edges. Slight staining on right. Still very nice. We did not find any information on this mine. Prag Collection Est. $500-1000 HWAC# 79746 Lot#3215 Hinsdale Countyl, Colorado 1891 American Queen Mining Company Stock # 20 (very early) Lot#3211 Gilpin, Colorado 1865 Austin Gold Mining Company for 1000 shares to Louis Shebrino(?). Stock Very early # 12 for 875 shares to Isaac D Guyen. Datelined New Datelined Indianapolis 1891. Signed York 1865. Signed by secretary WE Parish and president Laman(?). by secretary Lewis Walker and George Organized June 7, 1865. “Mining Property in Gilpin County, Colorado” Beck. Vignette of three underground in red. 25c Entry of Goods Revenue stamp. Not cancelled. Printed by miners looking over their latest find. Brower Brothers. Two rather interesting vignettes. We have not seen “Mines located in Hinsdale County, this stock before an did not find any information on it. Prag Collection. Colorado.” Gold seal. Not cancelled. Est. $500-1000 HWAC# 79744 Gold underprint ‘$10’. Uncancelled. We found no information in our library. Prag Collection Est. $200-500 HWAC# 79751 172 October 2018

DAY 3 Saturday, October 20th Mining Lot#3216 Irwin (Cripple Creek), Colorado 1883, 1892 Bunker Hill Lot#3219 Summitville District, Gold and Silver Mining Company Stock Lot of two. One certainly Colorado 1881 Gold Placer Mining looks like silver and the Company Stock Inc. in Connecticut. other looks like gold. No. 3734, issued for 100 shares to 1) Number 612 for 10 UH Brokaw in 1881. Signed by the shares to Sloan. 1883. president (?) and secretary, D. Hall. Incorporated 1883. Great hydraulic mining vignette. Signed by president NH Excellent condition minus left border McClain and secretary tear and discoloration. Printed by (cut cancelled). Branch Globe Stationery & Printing Co., office in Crawfordsville, NY. Rare!! Probably was located in Ind. Vignette of Bunker Summitville area. At the time of issuance, the largest operation was the Hill and Irwin. Torn Little Annie (Eberhart). There is a discrepancy of where this company gold seal leaves large was. The Little Amie was the biggest mine in the district. San Juan holes. Seriously cut Consol. Was also located at Summitville. [Ref: Eberhart]. The Gold cancelled. Rips and Placer Mining Company was in Pitkin County, Colorado in the Alma tears on borders. 2) Mining District. Claims in this area included the Alma, Pease and Sidell Same as above except Placers. (Ref: Fred Holabird) Prag Collection Est. $120-250 HWAC# # 1064 for 10 shares 80424 to G Brown. Signed by secretary Smith. 1892. This cert. has a brownish gold feel to it. Vignette Lot#3220 Victor, is different and identified. Not cancelled and it fine condition. Dog Colorado 1897 Chicago ears, but no edge or discoloration issues. According to the “The Official and Victor Gold Manual of the Cripple Creek District, Colorado, U. S. A.” by Hills in 1900 Mining Company Stock this mine was held in location only. No work was being done. Irwin is The premier part of this located at the top of Kebler Pass. Est. $200-500 HWAC# 79757 stock is the underprint, orange overview of Lot#3217 Rosita, Colorado 1880 Victor, Battle Mr. and Bassick Mining Company Stock # Mines. Identified are 252 for 100 shares to LE Hawkins. Yankee Jim and cuckoo Signed by H Cummings (?) and Anna Lee?y Yankee Jim. president Frank Groure(?). Dateline Only a couple of Cripple New York 1879. Incorporated July Creek stocks have this 15, 1879. Not cancelled. Mountain underprint. Quite nice mill vignette. Printer was American and quite rare. # 203 Bank Note. One small light stain top for 10,000 shares to HR Blanding. Signed by Secretary Blanding. That middle. Excellent looking cert. One of a lot of shares for a secretary? President William A Moore, a prominent Colorado’s richest, deepest, and most advanced gold mines for its time lawyer. Datelined Victor 1897. “Mines on Staub Mt. at Victor, El Paso, (1877-1885), the Bassick was so large that it directly supported the Colo.” Staub Mountain was to the south of Victor. “Located in the Cripple adjacent town of Querida. The Bassick Mining Company built a mill to Creek Mining District.” Printed by the WH Histler Stat. Co. Nice scroll treat gold ore, fluming the tailings into an adjacent creek for disposal. work around name. Not Cancelled. Rips and tears at fold edges. Prag Querida, also known as Bassick City after its founder E. C. Bassick, was Collection. Est. $200-500 HWAC# 79749 founded to serve the surrounding mines. The most popular of which was Bassick Mine. In its heyday in the 1880s it had more than 500 Lot#3221 , Colorado 1890 Colorado residents, but by 1906 the town was abandoned. Prag Collection Est. and Illinois Milling and Mining $150-250 HWAC# 81608 Stock I/U to John Deammann? #277 100 shares. Underground miner Lot#3218 South Park, Colorado 1866 Colorado Gold Mining vignette. Est. $100-150 HWAC# 79358 Company of Philadelphia Stock # 178 for 420 shares to William S Grant. Datelined Philadelphia 1866. Signed by treasurer (?) and president Haseltine. JF Pinkeldey printed. Eagle vignette and one of miners mining Lot#3222 , Colorado 1870 Crescent underground and Silver Co. of Cincinnati Stock I/C using a bucket to get #134 4 shares. Green seal. Mine up and down. 25c located in Colorado. Est. $100-150 Certificate Revenue HWAC# 79357 stamp. Shares are$3. This is stamped preferred stock and is $5 per stamp. Not cancelled. Small hole above the first ‘l’ in Philadelphia. Corners and edges have no issues. Hollister (mines of Colorado, 1867) states that this is one of two mines working in the Buckskin area (the South Park Gold Mining and Exploring Company being the other). The Colorado Company is the only one of the two that has “gone on their nerve and built a large mill.” They were currently working the Excelsior Lode which they owned 1000 feet. They were only working 200 feet. Silver and lead. Est. $500-1000 HWAC# 79745 Bid online at FHWAC.com or call 775-851-1859 173

DAY 3 Saturday, October 20th Mining Lot#3223 , Colorado 1867 Crozier Gold Mining Company of Colorado Stock # 76 for 500 shares to Daniels Crozier & Com[any. Signed by president HP Crozier. Yes, stock, business, and person all identified! Also signed by secretary William B Daniels. Datelined New York 1867. Stock issued for the purchase of mining property. Large red seal. 25c Insurance revenue stamp cancelled with very strong Crozier Gold Mining Co. stamp.A second uncancelled 25c Insurance revenue stamp on back. Carlies & Macy printers. Very busy scene of miners with picks. The Crozier Gold Mining Company are mining in Quartz Valley, on the Mitchell, of which they have 400 feet. They have also 275 feet on the Des Moines, in Russell District, property on the Perrin, in Eureka, and much other undeveloped property, including 200 feet on the Freeland and 300 on the Vanderbilt, in Trail Run District, Clear Creek County. They have no mill nor machinery. H. M. Orahood, of Black Hawk, is their agent. [The Mines of Colorado by Hollister] Prag Collection Est. $500- 1000 HWAC# 79740 Lot#3228 Auraria, Georgia 1868 Etowah & Battle Branch Hydraulic Lot#3224 , Colorado 1864 Invincible Hose Mining Company Stock Certificate EXTRA RARE! Number 57 Gold Mining Company The two for 500 shares to AJ Mills in 1868. Signed by secretary and treasurer Invincible mines we found that make Silas L Loomis, president DE Soms(?). Vignette of placer miners. Hatch sense to us were in Summit and Teller & Co. printer. Pen cancelled. Tears top, stain top right, small rips bottom. County in Colorado. Unfortunately Large 25c US Certificate Revenue Stamp. This is one of the best of all of the date of the stock is not easily the Georgia gold specimen mines! Placer work began at this mine in readable, so the exact mine is difficult 1831. It was located at the original site of the Georgia gold discovery. to determine. # 177 for 25 shares to It is on the Battle Branch; so called because a group of Tennessee and Smith. Signed by treasurer (?) and Georgia miners engaged in a bloody battle for rights to this land. With president FB Ray. Datelined December 31, 18-- in Boston. Printed by the gold strike in California, this mine was abandoned by the miners. Mudge & Son. Minor discoloration near bottom. Otherwise very fine. But by 1871 the mine was up and running again. Yeats reported that Prag Collection Est. $200-500 HWAC# 80458 the mine had just closed. Mine has placer works, and shafts! (Prag Lot#3225 , Colorado 1880 Lucerne Collection) Est. $700-1000 HWAC# 81670 Mining Co. Stock #1234 I/U to Chas Lot#3229 Dahlonega, Georgia 1878 Roper 100 shares in 1880. Signed A Green Dahlonega Gold Mining by secretary Roper and President Company Stock This certificate is Albertus. “The company produced rare in green! # 196 for 100 shares gold and silver from properties in issued to AL Faris in 1878. Signed Clear Creek and Gilpin Counties. by president Henry Altman and Property included the Lucerne claim secretary Charles A Trowbridge. A few in Robinson Gulch, Idaho Springs, pinholes and warping. Dog ear lower Clear Creek Count; the Schiller Lode left and color issues upper right. Nice! on Mammoth Hill at Gregory, near Dateline New York 1878. Small flag vignette. Not cancelled. Gold Seal. Black Hawk; and claims in Elk Horn Gulch, Pleasant Valley, 3 miles from “The property of the Dahlonega Gold Mining Company, formerly known Central City.” (Corregan & Lingane, 1883). Est. $120-200 HWAC# 79337 as the Battle Branch Gold Company, consists of 80 acres of mineral Lot#3226 , Colorado 1881 Union land situated on the Etowah river about one mile from the village of Pacific Consolidated Mining Co. of Aurora, Georgia; water rights and power, including a dam across the Etowah, a race 750 feet m length and 21 miles of ditches for supplying Colorado Certificate Rare, I/U. #27 B their own and adjacent mines with water at all seasons; a splendid 10 Cau? 100 shares, 1881. Train vignette, dog ear corner. Est. $150-300 HWAC# stamp mill capable of crushing fifteen to twenty tons of ore per day; 80133 the Little Giant Hydraulic works which do the work of fifty men; and a tramway for transporting the ore from the mine to the mill. By the aid of their splendid water power the company is enabled to wash all the top dirt, and thoroughly expose the ledge cutting, a channel 100 feet Lot#3227 Delaware, Delaware 12- wide by from 100 to 150 feet in depth, and saving every particle of gold 04-1918 00:00:00 Lampazos Silver in the sluice boxes.” [United States Annual Mining Review and Stock Mines Company Two Stock Certificates Ledger, 1879] Loring L Lombard with Richard G Berford operated Lampazos Silver Mines Company, issued the Berford & Co. letter-carrying business beginning in 1851. Berford uncancelled. Signed by George Graham & Co.’s Express primarily served the West Coast of North, Central and Rice on reverse. Rice was convicted South America. He was an early investor in the Croton mine on the of stock fraud for over-promotion on Hudson River in 1863. In 1876 he was working his farm in Dover. [Prag Nevada mines, and is famous for his book Collection] Est. $300-500 HWAC# 81900 “My Adventures With Your Money”. Est. $80-100 HWAC# 79035 174 October 2018

DAY 3 Saturday, October 20th Mining Lot#3230 Dahlonega, Georgia 1880 Lot#3234 Pend Oreille, Idaho Dahlonega Mining Company Stock 1889 Silver King Mining & Milling #3220 for 100 shares to Henry Leeds. Company Stock # 125 for 1000 shares Signed by secretary Trowbridge and to SH Wilson. Signed by secretary (?) president LL Lombard. Dateline New and president ND Edward. datelined York 1880. Please inspect the cert for Chico 1887. Incorporated in Illinois. edge and corner issues. Spear printer. Gold Seal. Three mining vignettes. “The property of the Dahlonega Gold Printed by Childs of Chicago. Not Mining Company, formerly known Cancelled. Multiple issues, please as the Battle Branch Gold Company, inspect. Fair-Poor condition. This may consists of 80 acres of mineral land situated on the Etowah river about be unique! The Heritage Resource one mile from the village of Aurora, Georgia; water rights and power, Center, Mining Index puts this mine in Idaho. Prag Collection Est. $60- including a dam across the Etowah, a race 750 feet m length and 21 100 HWAC# 80475 miles of ditches for supplying their own and adjacent mines with water at all seasons; a splendid 10 stamp mill capable of crushing fifteen to Lot#3235 , Idaho Idaho Mining twenty tons of ore per day; the Little Giant Hydraulic works which do Stocks and a Bond 3 stocks-Columbia the work of fifty men; and a tramway for transporting the ore from the and Beaver Silver Mining, Shoshone mine to the mill. By the aid of their splendid water power the company Gold Mining, Lucky Boy Gold and is enabled to wash all the top dirt, and thoroughly expose the ledge Silver Mining. Bond-Large Boise Land cutting, a channel 100 feet wide by from 100 to 150 feet in depth, and Water $500 #33, nice train and and saving every particle of gold in the sluice boxes.” [United States land vignettes. Est. $180-300 HWAC# Annual Mining Review and Stock Ledger, 1879] Loring L Lombard with 79976 Richard G Berford operated the Berford & Co. letter-carrying business beginning in 1851. Berford & Co.’s Express primarily served the West Lot#3236 Lenapah, Indian Territory Coast of North, Central and South America. He was an early investor in 1904 Lenapah Gas, Oil, and the Croton mine on the Hudson River in 1863. In 1876 he was working Mining Com[any Stock, Lenapah, his farm in Dover. Prag Collection Est. $200-400 HWAC# 81901 Indian Territory The only Indian Lot#3231 Dahlonega, Georgia Large Scale Rail Section Territory stock certificate from the Prag Collection. #242 for 6 shares An 18 inch piece of large scale rail. The rail is from the Dry Hollow Goldmine in Dahlonega, GA. Est. $100-200 to JH Douglas. Datelined Lenapah, HWAC# 61153 I. T. 1904. Signed by secretary and president. Uncancelled. Incorporated in Arkansas. Eagle Vignette. Shares $25 Each underprint in gold. Company located at Lenapah. Rips at fold edges. Two heavy vertical folds. Dog ear top left. Lenapah is a town in north central Nowata County, Oklahoma. It lies sixty two miles northeast of Tulsa. Its name is an adaptation of Lenape, the name of a Delaware Tribe of Indians tribe. The town is primarily an agricultural community. Oil and natural gas Lot#3232 , Georgia Gold Deposits were discovered nearby after the start of the 20th Century. Although this activity did not contribute much to the town’s growth, it resulted of Georgia, 2 Volumes The first of in piping gas to Lenapah’s homes and businesses. Est. $50-100 HWAC# these two books is Yeates, W. S., et al. A 79714 Preliminary Report on a Part of the Gold Deposits of Georgia originally published in 1896 by the Geological Survey of Georgia and reproduced Lot#3237 , Iowa 1878, 1903 Iowa Coal Company in this volume by the Department of Natural Resources Environmental Stocks (3) 1) Iowa Coal, Land and Mineral Prospecting Protection Division of the Georgia Geological Survey in 2000. It is bound Company. Early number 22 for $25.00 (not shares?) with a large plastic coil binding. The second book is S. P. Jones. Bulletin Signed by ER Mason secretary. Dateline Oskaloosa No. 19, Second Report on the Gold Deposits of Georgia. Geological Vignette of three people talking by a coal cart. Entitled, Survey of Georgia, 1909. This book has a small, irregular piece cut out ‘Secretary’s Office.’ Not cancelled. 2) Excelsior Coal of the title page but it is in otherwise good condition. These are the Company of Oskaloosa, Iowa. #48 for 5 shares. two classic references on gold deposits in Georgia and are being sold Signed by EW Adams and president Hanson. Dateline together as one lot. Est. $100-200 HWAC# 80241 Oskaloosa 1878. Underground coal mining vignette. Lot#3233 Elmore County, Idaho 1892 Cancelled; stamped ‘Surrendered.’ 3) Unissued Excelsior Coal Company of Oskaloosa, Iowa. Condition Ida Gold Company, Limited Stock In of all three stocks is nice. Prag Collection Est. $100- liquidation by 1895. Numbers 93710 150 HWAC# 81668 to 93889. English corporation of United States mining stocks. Purple Lot#3238 Henderson, Kentucky stamp “Sales are now paid in full.” Not 1884 Cumberland Telephone & cancelled. Number 382. Shares are 5 Telegraph Stock Certificates Cert. shillings each. Folds, one dog ear and #676, issued at Henderson, Kentucky one pinhole. Prag Collection Est. $60- in 1884. Vignettes in green under 120 HWAC# 81659 print of telephone poles and a antique wall mount telephone at bottom right. Pen cxls thru signatures. Slight glue residue at left where stub had been. Beautiful certificate. Est. $100-300 HWAC# 79070 Bid online at FHWAC.com or call 775-851-1859 175

DAY 3 Saturday, October 20th Mining Lot#3239 New Orleans, Louisiana Lot#3243 Montgomery County, 1864 Adams Express Company Maryland 1865 Maryland Gold Freight Receipt Check sized freight Mining Company of Montgomery receipt from the New Orleans Adams County Stock # 52 for 500 shares to Express office datelined New Orleans Thomas Sieger. Signed by Enoth Gray in 1864. $22.50 freight charge for and president AE Griffith. Dateline delivery of burial case from New York. Philadelphia 1865. 25c Power of Small steam engine vignette at top left. VF. Est. $60-120 HWAC# 79043 Att’y Revenue stamp. Two mining vignettes. Printed by John C Clark & Lot#3240 Blue Hill, Maine 1883 so. Not cancelled. Slight dog ears on bottom. Vertical folds. Nice looking Mammoth Copper Mining Company cert! This is a remnant of the Maryland Gold Rush. A significant gold - One Of Maine’s best Sctock pressance was found in Montgomery County around Great Falls, which Certificates Company name in spurred several small gold rushes. Prag Collection. Est. $200-400 dramatic srip. Vignette of Douglas HWAC# 81609 Pond. Fancy scroll work border. Near pristine condition (a few pinholes). This stock has it all. # 685 for 500 shares to BA Whiteman. Signed by Edward Wast--- and president Hersey. Dateline Blue Hill, Maine 1883. Not Cancelled. The Maine mining boom occurred in 1880 and as many as 30 mining companies worked this area. Prag Collection Est. $200- 400 HWAC# 81679 Lot#3241 , Maine 1895 Pendleton Gold Mining Company Stock Number 44 for 1 share to C Arthur Peabody. Signed by treasurer Carson(?) and president WT Searls. Incorporated by WB Pendleton (namesake), Haverhill, Mass; LA Pendleton, Pittston, Me; WT Searles, Chelsea Me; WE Brown, Pittston, Me; HL Hurlburt and FE Ellis, Amesbury Mass and WF Studley, Gardiner Me, for the purpose of mining gold silver and all precious metals and stones. Incorporated in 1894 in Maine. Est. $60-120 HWAC# 81657 Lot#3244 , Maryland 1849 Early and Important Maryland Mining Company Stock # 36 for 4 shares to James V Freeman trustee. Shares Lot#3242 Eckhart, Maryland 1838 Maryland Mining Company # worth $500 each. Signed by secretary HH Casey and president Horatio 358 for 1 share to D Thomas Sewell. Signed by president Matthew St. Allen. Six vignettes. One railroad. Five allegorical with semi-nude ladies. Clair Clarke Printed by Rawdon, Wright & Hatch of new York. Datelined Cumberland (see below). 1849. The Maryland Mining Company is a historic coal mining, iron D at e li ne producer and railroad company operating in Allegheny County, Washington Maryland. The Company was based as the Eckhart Mines at Braddock 1838. Run. It was among the first bituminous coal mines in the Georges creek Cut very Valley. In 1846 they completed a railroad from Eckhart to WIlls Creek. une venly. In 1850 it extended to the Potomac Wharf Branch into Cumberland. Rips center More background information is included. Est. $400-600 HWAC# 81020 left and lo w er Lot#3245 , Maryland 1864 Maryland left. Fair condition, Copper Company Stock #1238 but very for 500 shares to Charles Hinkley. ear l y Signed by JW Winchester and Adam and very Demmead. Underground mining important vignette. 25c Certificate Revenue stamp hides the Native American historically. vignette. American Bank Note printer. Not cancelled. The Maryland Mining Company was incorporated in dateline Baltimore 1864. “There was a 1828 to mine coal in the Eckhart area. The prototype of all future coal relative lull in copper mining in Maryland in 1859, during which only companies in the Georges Creek region, Maryland Mining was eventually permitted by the Legislature to hold up to five thousand acres of land the Sykesville mines seem to have had significant production. The and to build a railroad from its mine to Cumberland. A stock issue of Springfield mine was producing and the Mineral Hill mine was open $200,000 was authorized, later increased to one million dollars in if not producing. The following year, however, saw renewed interest 1853. The land was acquired by Matthew St. Clair Clarke, president of in several of the other mines. Between 1860 and 1865 the Maryland the Maryland Mining Company; he did not deed it to the company unitil Copper Company of Baltimore worked one or both of the Patapsco 1837, after which time Maryland Mining began to acquire property on mines.” [Maryland Historical Magazine Spring 1964] Prag Collection its own. Mine No. 4, one of the few extant deep mine openings in the Est. $200-400 HWAC# 81660 Georges Creek Valley, was opened by the Maryland Mining Company shortly after 1835. It and other mines in the immediate area operated more or less continuously for more than a century. The town of Eckhart originated as a company town for the Maryland Mining Company when it opened the Eckhart mine in 1835. Prag Collection Est. $400-800 HWAC# 81607 176 October 2018

DAY 3 Saturday, October 20th Mining Lot#3246 , Maryland 1864 Mineral Lot#3249 Lake Superior, Michigan Hill Mining Company Stock # 174 1853 Manitou Mining Company for 200 shares to James Lownds. Stock - NUMBER 1 # 1 for 500 shares Signed by Edward Post and James to FP Herrington. Signed by C Cole and Tyson (son of the legendary Ian Tyson president JE Smith. Datelined Detroit his father). Dateline Baltimore 1864. 1853. Note says part of 3,000 shares Incorporated in Maryland. Pen note issued to Herrington. Heavy staining. that a call of 35c per share has been The Manitou Mining Company was declared. Small two cent stamp and incorporated in the state of New York. large 25c Insurance Revenue stamp. Not cancelled. Small stain very It was a Michigan mining company located at the Lake Superior copper top right corner. No edge, corner, pinhole or discoloration issues. Very range. “The Manitou Mining Company commenced operations in 1852. nice indeed. “There was a relative lull in copper mining in Maryland They have two veins neither of them large nor very productive “ [ The in 1859, during which only the Sykesville mines seem to have had Mining and Statistic Magazine: Devoted to Mines, Mining ..., Volume 10, significant production. The Springfield mine was producing and the 1858] Prag Collection Est. $200-400 HWAC# 80470 Mineral Hill mine was open if not producing. The Bare Hills mine and Maryland Copper Company reopened in 1860 after a period of idleness, Lot#3250 Mohawk, Michigan 1911 but the owners spent the next few years in extensive development Mohawk Mining Company Stock work, producing only enough ore to fulfill their expenses. The New Certificates Much nicer that usual London mine was briefly reopened and examined late in 1860 and was example of this great Michigan mining prepared for production, but it closed when the Civil War started in stock. Cert. #21422, issued in 1911 1861. Isaac Tyson died in 1861. In 1864 the Mineral Hill property was for five shares. Their mine office transferred to the Mineral Hill Mining Company of Baltimore, which was at Mohawk, Keweenaw County, was managed by Tyson’s sons, but after 1877 the company was able Michigan. Incorporated in Michigan to continue operations intermittently only.” The Liberty Mine was the in 1898. This copper miner was largest copper producer in Maryland and the Mineral Hill mine was hugely profitable paying out massive the second largest. [Maryland Historical Magazine Spring 1964] Prag dividends to shareholders. The Collection Est. $200-400 HWAC# 80479 dividend was $17 per share in 1916 and $20.50 in 1917! The Mines Handbook in 1918 estimated 250,000,000 lbs. of copper remained Lot#3247 Calumet, Michigan Red with a mine life of over 20 years more. Indian chief and feathers on the Jacket Michigan Drug Bottle I just vignette. Hole and stamp cxls. Est. $100-200 HWAC# 79079 had to put this with the Michigan collection, it was too neat! 5.25” tall, 1.5” square, whittled, clear glass Lot#3251 , Michigan 2 Houghton Copper drug bottle, acorn on base, M. Printz/ Red Jacket/ Michigan. Red Jacket Stocks 2 I/U not in de Good. Orange Houghton was the early name for Calumet, right in the middle of copper country. Copper Co. 1910. Black Houghton Development This bottle was dug in the Montana copper country, obviously taken 1904. Prag Collection. Est. $100-200 HWAC# there by a Michigan copper miner! Mint. Thought to be rare. Est. $50- 82550 100 HWAC# 57752 Lot#3248 Isle Roayale, Michigan 1851 Siskowit Mining Company # 499 for 2 shares to Thomas S Standbridge. Signed by James G Clark and president L ALter. Dateline Philadelphia 1851. Incorporated March 12, 1849. Not canclled. Four Vignettes: alegorial, Lot#3252 , Michigan 1899-1909 Adventure governement building, Con. Copper Stocks (5) 5 different. I/C green. George Washington. I/C blue. 2 I/U brown. I/U brown. Page 10 in Cut roughly. Foxing, de Good-4 shafts and struggled from day 1, Nice Condition. produced 10 million lbs. Prag Collection. Est. Holes along folds. $100-200 HWAC# 82521 Nine handwritten assessment payments are noted!”This [copper] company went through a series of early changes, beginning as the Isle Royale Union Company in 1844, reorganizing as Lot#3253 , Michigan 1883 the Siskowit Mining Association in 1847, and becoming the Siskowit Alexandria Mining and Smelting Mining Company in 1849. For our purposes we can consider these Stock I/U #209 T Douglas 50 companies as the same. In its final form it was incorporated in Michigan, shares 1883.Signed by President Wheeler. Not listed in de Good. Prag with directors from Washington, D.C., Wisconsin, and Philadelphia, Collection. Est. $200-400 HWAC# 82545 and had Charles Whittlesey, an eminent geologist and business man, as agent...By 1850 work centered in the Rock Harbor location across Lot#3254 , Michigan 1913-1916 Algomah from Mott Island...A steam stamp mill was set up in 1850 with water Mining Stocks (2) 2 I/U. Brown #2453 Bruce obtained from the lake by means of a large Cornish pump...” [Isle Royale McPherson 1000 shares 1913. Purple #5848 National Park website] Prag Collection Est. $300-500 HWAC# 81604 Pettigrew Bright and Co 20 shares 1916. 4 miner vignette. Page 23 in de Good-never found much ore. Prag Collection. Est. $100- 250 HWAC# 82544 Bid online at FHWAC.com or call 775-851-1859 177

DAY 3 Saturday, October 20th Mining Lot#3255 , Michigan 1902 American Lot#3262 , Michigan 1863 Black Mining Co. Stock Very rare, 2 known. River Mining Company # 385 for #285 RH Rickard 29 shares 1902. R7, 1,000 shares to Thomas C Smart. 2 known. Page 31 in de Good-a failed Signed by president John G Webster venture. Prag Collection. Est. $400- and clerk JE Gilley. Incorporated in 800 HWAC# 82552 Massachusetts in 1863. Datelined 1863. 25c Certificate Revenue Stamp. Not cancelled. Holes where a name has been crossed out on the back. Nice!Most likely Michigan? Prag Collection Est. $200-400 HWAC# 80461 Lot#3256 , Michigan 1920 Arcadian Lot#3263 , Michigan 1861 Carp Lake Mining Stock I/U #390 Ephrain Consolidated Mining Stock Orange Brown 100 shares 1861, signed by I/U #1005 Henry Sakari 100 shares President Sanford. Page 77 in de 1920. Could be the 5th stock issued. Good. R6. Mined 1859-1862. Nice lake Signed by President Shields. Page vignette. Prag Collection. Est. $300- 38 in de Good-not very profitable, 600 HWAC# 82147 became a tourist attraction. R5. Prag Collection. Est. $100-200 HWAC# 82518 Lot#3264 , Michigan 1894 Centennial Mining Co. Stock I/U Lot#3257 , Michigan 1920-1922 Arcadian #4438 Winslow Russell 10 shares 1894. Signed by President Hinsdale. Consolidated Mining Stocks (2) 2 I/U, Page 79 in de good. R6. Worked different share prices. #1215 Walter Tene 1880-1883 due to lack of funds. Prag 25 shares 1920. #3520 Elroy Carter 5 shares Collection. Est. $100-300 HWAC# 1922. Page 38 in de Good-an unprofitable mine that became a tourist attraction. Prag 82145 Collection. Est. $100-200 HWAC# 82152 Lot#3265 , Michigan 1908 Chartiers Mining and Manufacturing Stock I/U #14 Richard Schell 14 shares 1908, signed by President Jones? Not in de good. Probably an iron mine. Lot#3258 , Michigan 1908 Arizona Creases and ink mark. Prag Collection. Est. $100-200 HWAC# 82148 and Michigan Mining Stock I/U #153 Thomas Smith 20 shares 1908. Not listed in de Good. Prag Collection. Lot#3266 , Michigan 1854 Chicago Est. $50-80 HWAC# 82164 Mining Co of Lake Superior Stock Rare. I/U #61 J Sanards 100 shares 1854. 4 vignettes of men and Native Americans. Not listed in de Good or Whitney. Small holes and tears, folds, fragile condition, but hey it is 164 Lot#3259 , Michigan 1936 Arnold years old! Prag Collection. Est. $500- Mining Co Stock I/U #529 Louis 1000 HWAC# 82554 Berger 25 shares 1936. Pager 42 in de Good-never a prosperous venture. Lot#3267 , Michigan 1912 Contact Prag Collection. Est. $100-150 Copper Co. Stock I/U #828 Bond & HWAC# 82542 Goodwin 100 shares 1912. Signed by President Fay. R6. Page 93 in de Good-a few bores were done. not of great value was ever found. Prag Lot#3260 , Michigan 1907 Ash Bed Collection. Est. $50-100 HWAC# 82153 Mining Stock I/U #1837 John Hill 50 shares 1907. Signed by President Weston. R6. Page 45 in de Good- Lot#3268 , Michigan 1882 Coulter struggled from the beginning as they Cooper Co. of Michigan Stock I/U lacked a lot. Prag Collection. Est. $80- #394 Samuel Henry 1100 shares. Page 150 HWAC# 82546 107 in de Good, 2 known. No known mining reports. R7. Prag Collection. Est. $200-400 HWAC# 82135 Lot#3261 , Michigan 1886 Bay City Mining Stock I/U #4 Clarence McDermott 1000 shares 1886. Signed by President Lawford? Ore cart vignette. Unlisted in de Good. Prag Collection. Est. $100-200 HWAC# 82149 178 October 2018

DAY 3 Saturday, October 20th Mining Lot#3269 , Michigan 1875 Cove Lot#3276 , Michigan Hancock Consolidated Land and Mining Co. Stock I/C #72 Mining Stocks, 4 Different 4 unlisted variants in Charles King 5 shares 1875, signed by de Good. I/U green #7343 Irene Fraser 100 shares President Wight. Front map with Lake 1918. I/U grey #17395 Irene Fraser 1918. 2 I/C Superior. An early Keweenaw County mauve 2690 Paine Webber 100 shares 1909, #2003 Michigan copper mine which operated Logan Bryan 100 shares 1909. “An underground 1874-1877. R5. Prag Collection. Est. copper mine consisting of three shafts and located $100-150 HWAC# 82134 in the city of Hancock. The Hancock Mining Co. was organized in 1859 and worked the Sumner Lot#3270 , Michigan 1862 Cuyahoga (Pewabic) Lode through three shafts; Shaft #1 Mining Co. Stock Very rare. I/U #248 was approx. 1,000 ft. The other two shafts, the Mary Brown 25 shares 1862. Signed Dupuis and the Hill, were about 200 ft. deep. by President Skeels. R7. Page 110 in Mining continued until 1872 when the original deGood. No mining reports, probably lease ran out and the mine was sold. In 1873, the Sumner Mining Co. a failed venture. Sailor vignette. Prag was organized and worked the mine until 1880, when it was sold to Collection. Est. $400-800 HWAC# the Hancock Copper Mining Co. In 1906, the company was reorganized 82129 into the Hancock Consolidated Mining Co. and work resumed in the #1 shaft. Work was also started on a new, larger shaft that would intersect the Pewabic Lode at depth. This shaft bottomed out at 4,100 ft and a Lot#3271 , Michigan 1866 Delaware crosscut was driven at this depth that intersected with the #7 Quincy Mining Co. of Michigan Stock shaft. All work ceased in 1919. The Hancock Mine produced approx. I/U #348 William Spalding 700 17.5 million lbs. of refined copper. Other than the shaft openings (which shares 1866. Signed by President have been covered), nothing remains of this mine. “ from mindat.com Henszey. Page 115 in de Good-some Prag Collection. Est. $200-400 HWAC# 82128 exploratory work was done here for 2 years and then idle until 1876. R3. Lot#3277 , Michigan 1888 Hancock Liberty and Independence vignette. Iron Mining Co. Stock I/U #21 John Prag Collection. Est. $200-400 Slockett 1000 shares 1888, signed HWAC# 82137 by President Crawford. Red and blue. Prag Collection. Creases. Est. $100- Lot#3272 , Michigan 1906 Elm 200 HWAC# 82130 River Copper Stock Rare I/U #75 25 shares 1906. Signed by President Fay. Page 125 in de Good-green unlisted variety. 10 year exploration but was Lot#3278 , Michigan 1864 Hartford not successful. Prag Collection. Est. Mining Co. Stock I/U #25 EW Bond $200-300 HWAC# 82154 50 shares 1864. 25c revenue stamp. Signed by President Church. 2 miner vignettes. Not listed in de Good. Prag Collection. Est. $400-800 HWAC# Lot#3273 , Michigan Erie-Ontario 82136 Development Stock I/U #101 Joseph Druneau 25 shares 1906. Signed Lot#3279 c1860’s by President Frost. Not listed in de , Michigan Good. Prag Collection. Est. $100-200 Henwood Mines Stock UI and scarce. HWAC# 82122 Page 162 in de Good-mine was sold for back taxes. Site vignette. Prag Collection. Est. $50-80 HWAC# 82551 Lot#3274 , Michigan 1901 Franklin Mining Co. Stock I/C bold red #1848 Lot#3280 , Michigan 1912 Houghton Copper John Stephens 10 shares 1901 signed Co Stocks, 2 Different I/U Paine Webber. by President Raymond. Ben Franklin Brown and Green. Page 165 in de Good-540000 vignette. R7 2 known. Page 136 in lbs of copper in 3 years. Prag Collection. Est. de Good-started in 1857 but not too $100-200 HWAC# 82548 profitable. In 1867 they sold too much stock and 2 people were arrested. Prag Collection. Est. $100-200 HWAC# 82527 Lot#3275 , Michigan 1919-1924 Franklin Mining Co. Stocks (3) 3 different I/U. 2 different $17.20/share, 1 $20.20/share. Prag Collection. Est. $150-250 HWAC# 82526 Lot#3281 , Michigan 1873 Humbolt Copper Co Stock I/U #563 Loomis White 500 shares 1873. Signed by President Fisk. Page 169 in de Good. R7. Prag Collection. Est. $200-400 HWAC# 82549 Bid online at FHWAC.com or call 775-851-1859 179

DAY 3 Saturday, October 20th Mining Lot#3282 , Michigan 1886 Huron Lot#3289 , Michigan 1907-1917 Keweenaw Copper Mining Stock I/U #1768 Copper Co. Stocks (2) 2 I/U. Green and red. Tower Giddings 100 shares 1886 R5 in de good page 190-a fairly successful signed by President Watson. Page venture with some dividends paid. Prag 172 in de Good-initially though to be Collection. Est. $200-300 HWAC# 82155 a worthless mine it produced over 17 million lbs of copper between 1880- 1893. R6. Creases. Prag Collection. Est. $200-400 HWAC# 82539 Lot#3283 , Michigan 1923 Huron Copper Mining Stock I/U #1506 Lot#3290 , Michigan 1873 Lake Schmidt 334 shares 1923. Not listed Superior Coal and Fire Clay Co. in de Good. Prag Collection. Est. $60-100 HWAC# 82540 Stock I/U #15 Wallace Clark 500 Lot#3284 , Michigan 1867 Huron shares 1873. Signed by President Mining Co Stock I/U #1469 Warren Richards. We could not find any info Taylor 10 shares 1867. Allegorical on this company in Whitney or our woman and interesting Native reference library. 3 small crease tears. Prag Collection. Est. $100-200 American and man with an ear of corn vignettes. Page 173 in de Good- HWAC# 82103 extensively worked but a failure. R7 Lot#3291 , Michigan 1859 Lone Rock 4 known. 2 small seam tears. Prag Collection. Est. $200-400 HWAC# Mining Stock I/U #72 Fayette Brown 82541 100 shares 1859. Bald eagle, man and flag vignette. Page 209 in de Good- no known mining records, probably Lot#3285 , Michigan 1890 Imperial a failed venture. R7 5 known. 3 ink Iron Mine Stock I/U #68 RH stains. Prag Collection. Est. $300- Stevenson 250 shares 1890. Prag 600 HWAC# 82151 Collection. Est. $60-100 HWAC# 82543 Lot#3292 , Michigan 1907 Marquette Copper Mining Co. of Marquette and Delta County MI Stock I/U #101 Lot#3286 , Michigan 1925-1929 Indiana RM Kinney 5000 shares 1907 signed Mining Co Stocks (2) 2 I/U with Native by Vice President Kinney. Possibly American vignettes. Green #3553 Estabrook the first cert issued. Creases, toning, Co 100 shares 1925. Mauve #3326 Frank 2” back tape, please inspect. Prag Bayrd 50 shares 1929. Page 174 in de Good-a Collection. Est. $200-400 HWAC# struggling non profitable mine. Prag Collection. 82139 Est. $100-150 HWAC# 82525 Lot#3293 , Michigan 1907 Marquette Copper Mining Stocks (2) Rare 2 known, both R7 I/U and signed by Vice President Kenney. Orange #110 John Washing 5000 shares 1908-1 crease chip. Black #84 HC Raymond 6000 shares 1907- Lot#3287 , Michigan 1886 Iron 3 small crease tears. Mine was dead in 1910 King Mining Stock Large I/U #27 Copper Handbook. Marquette County is not Cammerly 15 shares 1886. Large head known for copper deposits. Prag Collection. Est. vignette. Not listed in de Good. Creases $200-500 HWAC# 82138 and light foxing. Prag Collection. Est. $300-500 HWAC# 82531 Lot#3294 , Michigan 1921 Mass Consolidated Mining Stock I/U Lot#3288 , Michigan 1938 Isle Royale #20351 Harris Copper Stocks (2) 2 different rare. I/U Pearlman 10 shares green #254 Laura Chaput 100 shares 1938. 1921 signed by I/U blue William Chappell 20 shares 1938. President Linnell. Page 180 in de good-successful 1910- R7 2 known. Page 1932 with 196 million lbs of copper. Prag 220 in de Good. Collection. Est. $100-300 HWAC# 82537 A successful operation for 17 years. Prag Collection. Est. $200-400 HWAC# 180 October 2018

DAY 3 Saturday, October 20th Mining Lot#3295 , Michigan 1905 Lot#3301 , Michigan 1907-1922 Michigan Mayflower Mining Co. Stock I/U Copper Mining Co. Stocks (5) 2 I/C, 3 I/U. Page #2332 John Wadden 20 shares 1905. 234 in de Good-an 18 ton mass of copper was Signed by President Fay. R7 2 known. discovered here but no more! These 5 varieties are Page 223 in de Good. They spent 17 not discussed. $16/share, $18/share, $20/share, years looking for profitable ore and $21/share, $24/share. Prag Collection. Est. $200- never found it! Prag Collection. Est. 400 HWAC# 82514 $200-400 HWAC# 82141 Lot#3296 , Michigan 1918-1929 Mayflower Old Colony Copper Stocks (3) 3 different I/U signed by President Fay. 2 green, 1 orange. R5. Lot#3302 , Michigan Michigan Page 225 in de Good. Mine still exploring in Gold and Copper Stocks (8) 8 I/U. 1925, probably never produced. Prag Collection. Calumet Corbin Mines 1915-1917- Est. $150-300 HWAC# 82140 3 green, 2 orange. 3 blue Champion Copper 1916-1918. Salvatore Falcone Collection. Est. $60-100 HWAC# 80638 Lot#3297 , Michigan 1899 Meadow Mining Co. Stock I/Y #759 William Lot#3303 , Michigan 1881 Michigan Moyle 50 shares 1899 signed by Land and Iron Co. Stock I/U #8 Caleb President Fitzgerald. Page 227 in Curtis 8 shares 1881. Not listed in de de Good-not much happened here. R6. Prag Collection. Est. $200-300 Good. Prag Collection. Est. $150-300 HWAC# 82156 HWAC# 82512 Lot#3298 , Michigan 1864 Merrimack Mining Co. Stock I/U #87 RH Rickard 100 shares 1864. 25c revenue stamp. Not listed in de Good or Whitney. Rear adhesive residue, Lot#3304 , Michigan 1894 Michigan toning. Prag Collecton. Est. $400-800 HWAC# 82511 Stone and Supply Stock I/U #5 Gustavo Smith #5 500 shares 1894. Nice advertising train vignette. Prag Lot#3299 , Michigan 1872 Michigan Central Collecton. Est. $100-200 HWAC# Iron Co. Stock I/U 82555 #71 Charlie Marvin 22 shares 1872. 25c revenue stamp. Not listed in Whitney. Prag Lot#3305 , Michigan 1926 Mohawk Collection. Est. $200- 400 HWAC# 82513 Mining Co. Stock I/U # 20328 Adeline Ascher 4 shares 1926. R3. Page 245 in de Good-successful copper mine 1902-1932. Nice Native American vignette. Prag Collection. Est. $100- 200 HWAC# 82150 Lot#3300 , Michigan Michigan Coal Stocks (2) I/U Eureka Coal Mining #2 Lot#3306 , Michigan 1875 National J H??? who is secretary 1 share 1906. Mining Co. Stock I/U #1206 Edward Peoples Coal Mining #164 HA Adronice Tick 100 shares 1875. Page 247 10 shares 1922, signed by President in de Good-fairly successful and Schneider-rough condition. Prag Collection. Est. $60-100 HWAC# 82121 paid dividends. R7, 2 known. Prag Collection. Est. $300-500 HWAC# 82530 Bid online at FHWAC.com or call 775-851-1859 181

DAY 3 Saturday, October 20th Mining Lot#3307 , Michigan 1905 Native Lot#3314 , Michigan 1911-1922 Copper Co. Stock I/U #382 William Ojibway Mining Stocks, 2 Different Banks 100 shares 1905. Page 250 in 2 I/U. Green #6375 Elroy Carter 5 de Good-no known mining reports shares 1922. Copper #581 Paine from this failed venture. R7, 5 known. Webber 100 shares 1911. Prag Est. $60-100 HWAC# 82529 Collection. Est. $100-200 HWAC# 82158 Lot#3308 , Michigan 1914 Naumkeag Copper Co. Stock I/U #399 Wrenn Bros 100 shares 1914. Page 251 in de Good-not much produced here. R6. Prag Collection. Est. $50-100 HWAC# 82538 Lot#3315 , Michigan 1909-1919 Oneco Copper Mining Stocks (2) Lot#3309 , Michigan 1912 New 2 different I/U. Green #906 John Hill 100 shares 1909. Purple/black Baltic Copper Stock I/U #1989 Paine #5267 Michale 50 shares 1919. Page Webber 50 shares 1912. Page 254 in 276 in de Good-Exploratory work de Good-no ore shipments, a failure. was suspended in 1900, reopened R6. Prag Collection. Est. $50-100 in 1910, closed in 1914. Prag HWAC# 82532 Collection. Est. $200-300 HWAC# 82159 Lot#3310 , Michigan 1875 Nonesuch Mining Co. Stock I/U #38 WW Spalding 50 shares 1875, signed by President Dickens. 2 allegorical and waterfront vignettes. R6. Page 261 in de Good. A none too successful Lot#3316 , Michigan Onondaga operation from 1867-1885. Prag Copper Stocks, 2 Different 2 I/U. Collection. Est. $300-500 HWAC# Brown #929 R Pryor 100 shares 82143 1913. Green #117 Harlow Bowe Lot#3311 , Michigan 1915 North 50 shares 1912-rough condition. Page 275 in de Good. No known Lake Mining Co. Stock I/U #1060 ore shipments, likely a failure. Prag John Aris 5 shares 1915 signed by Collection. Est. $100-150 HWAC# President Edwards. Page 263 in de 82161 Good. R4. Exploratory mine with no ore shipped. Prag Collection. Est. $50-100 HWAC# 82536 Lot#3312 , Michigan 1893 Northern Mining and Smelting Stock I/S #1 Roswell Miller 3996 shares 1893. Signed by President Miller. No listed in de Good. Prag Collection. Est. $200-400 HWAC# 82547 Zoom in and see Lot#3313 , Michigan 1908 Ojibway Mining Stock I/U #1708 Paine close up detail Webber 100 shares 1908. Signed by First Vice President Duncan. R5. High Resolution Page 271 in de Good-only produced 49662 lbs of copper over 10 years. Images of ALL LOTS Still selling stock in the 1930’s. Native American Vignette. Fair condition. available online at Prag Collection. Est. $100-200 FHWAC.com HWAC# 82160 182 October 2018

DAY 3 Saturday, October 20th Mining Lot#3317 , Michigan 1870 Ossipee Lot#3322 , Michigan 1907 Portage Mining Co. Stock I/C #133 AS Holmes Lake and Bisbee Mining Stock 2000 shares 1870 signed by President I/U #1649 Cara Slowan 100 shares Loring. Page 285 in de Good-likely an 1907, signed by President. Not in de unsuccessful venture. 25c revenue good. Prag Collection. Est. $100-200 stamp. Prag Collection. Est. $200- HWAC# 82146 400 HWAC# 82162 Lot#3318 , Michigan 1947 Peninsula Copper Co. Stock I/U #345 12/1000 share 947. Not listed in de Good. Lot#3323 , Michigan 1859 Quincy Bottom ink smear. Prag Collection. Mining Co. Stock I/U #44 BB Buff? Est. $50-100 HWAC# 82125 250 shares 1859. Arm and hammer vignette. Page 308 in de Good-3rd most productive min in MI, 1848- 1967. Stains and top fold. Prag Collection. Est. $100-150 HWAC# 82163 Lot#3319 , Michigan Pennsylvania Mining Co. of Michigan Stock I/C #529 Samuel Hart 90 shares 1865. Early copper mine that only existed 2 Lot#3324 , Michigan 1851 Quincy years before becoming the Delaware Mining Co. Stock I/C #25 J Hicks 25 Mining Company of Michigan. Located shares 1851. Prag Collection. Est. in Keweenaw County, Michigan. $100-200 HWAC# 82524 Signed by Joseph G. Henszey as president and S. M. Day as secretary. 25c revenue stamp. Creases. Prag Collection. Est. $20-400 HWAC# 82126 Lot#3320 , Michigan 1885 Lot#3325 , Michigan 1897-193I Quincy Pewabic Mining Co of Mining Co. Stocks (3) I/C #611 Elizabeth Michigan Stock I/U #1651 Abbott 2 shares 1897. I/C #26856 Nirena Jacob Pierce 34 shares Palmer 50 shares 1911. I/U #L Adams 8 1885. R5. “An underground shares 1932. Page 308 in de Good-third most copper mine located north of productive mine in MI 1848-1967, 921 million Hancock, MI, and just north of lbs of copper. Prag Collection. Est. $100-200 the Quincy Mine. The Pewabic HWAC# 82528 Mining Co. was organized in 1853. For the first two years, work concentrated on opening prehistoric mining pits that traced an apparent amygdaloid bed. The first, and only, shaft Pewabic drove was driven on Lot#3326 , Michigan 1899 Rhode Island Copper Stock Scarce purple an incline following this bed. The shaft was located approx. 1,900 ft. I/U #534 Hornblower and Weeks north of the Quincy #2 shaft. The mineralization on the “Pewabic Lode” 5 shares 1899. Unusual anchor and at the Pewabic Mine was not as rich as it was on Quincy’s property. hope vignette. Page 321 in de Good- However, the company did manage to pay dividends amounting to $1 unsuccessful for 25 years, only million. In 1884, management allowed the mining charter to lapse 31000 lbs shipped 1903-1906. Prag without renewal, and the company was forced to close. In 1891, Quincy Collection. Est. $80-150 HWAC# 82553 Mining Co. purchased the property and renamed the shaft Quincy #6, which became famous for its fabulous shafthouse. A total of approx. 27 million lbs. of refined copper was produced between 1855 and 1884. Lot#3327 , Michigan 1880 Ridge Some pieces of copper can still be found today around the foundation of Copper Co Stocks (2) NI #1371. the old shafthouse, however, the shaft is privately owned.” from mindat. I/C #1307 D Richardson 100 com Creases. Prag Collection. Est. $100-300 HWAC# 82127 shares 1880. Page 323 in de Good- small but mighty, 5 million lbs of copper shipped. Some toning. Prag Collecton. Est. $100-200 HWAC# Lot#3321 , Michigan Phoenix Consolidated 82507 Copper Stocks (4), 3 Different 2 brown I/U-#260 Louis Case 100 shares, 1899 and #1821 Painne Weber 100 shares 1907. I/U rust #821 Fletcher Whitney 50 shares 1904. I/U green #665 Phil Himmelein 20 shares 1901. Prag Collection. Est. $200-400 HWAC# 82123 Bid online at FHWAC.com or call 775-851-1859 183

DAY 3 Saturday, October 20th Mining Lot#3328 , Michigan 1859 Rockland Lot#3334 , Michigan 1917-1922 South Lake Mining Co. Stock I/U #1864 William Mining Stocks (2) 2 different I/U. Orange #64 Cary 100 shares 1859 signed by Matthew Van Orden 100 shares 1917. Brown President ? Page 324 in de Good- #2383 Henry Tollman 1 share 1922. Signed by produced 5.8 million lbs of copper but President Edwards. Prag Collection. Est. $60- never paid dividends. R7. 2 known. 100 HWAC# 82533 3 hammering miner vignette. Prag Collection. Est. $400-800 HWAC# 82165 Lot#3329 , Michigan 1906 Sampo Mining & Development Stock I/U #177 CJ Tolonen 5 sahres 1906, Lot#3335 , Michigan 1913-1915 South Lake signed by President Jarlberg. Finland Mining Stocks (2) I/U. Orange #1352 John Europe noted on cert, this area has Stephen 100 shares 1913. Green #5138 John a Scandinavian tie. Not listed in de Stephens 14 shares 1915. Page 347 in de Good- good. Prag Collection. Est. $100-200 HWAC# 82131 1915-1918 produced 1 million lbs of copper and then called it quits. R5. Prag Collection. Est. $100-150 HWAC# 82534 Lot#3330 , Michigan 1928 Scheiwe Coal and Ice Co. Stock I/U #559 EJ Buckel 1 share 1928. Signed by President . Fire and ice stock. Est. $50-70 HWAC# 82133 Lot#3336 , Michigan 1916 Tamarack Mining Co. Stock I/U #44360 Hallgarten & Co. 2 shares 1916. Signed by President McKean. Unlisted green color in de Good. Very Rare! Prag Lot#3331 , Michigan Collection. Est. $200-400 HWAC# Seneca Copper Corp 82144 Bonds (2) 2 very rare and different bonds, Lot#3337 , Michigan 1893 Union Brown $100, orange Copper Land and Mining Stock I/U $1000. Prag Collection. Est. $200-400 HWAC# #503 Donald Davis 20 shares. Page 363 82515 in de Good-a land holding company with 7000 acres. Rare unlisted green variation. Prag Collection. Est. $100- 200 HWAC# 82157 Lot#3338 , Michigan 1916-1921 Victoria Lot#3332 , Michigan Seneca Copper Corp Stocks Copper Mining Stocks (2) 2 different I/U. (2) UI Brown. I/U #807 1920. Prag Collection. Est. Brown #8056 John Jacobs 20 shares 1921. $80-150 HWAC# 82516 Green #2051 Hornblower & weeks 100 shares 1916. Both signed by President Williams. Page 369 in de Good-produced 20 million lbs 1850- 1921. Prag Collection. Est. $120-200 HWAC# 82535 Lot#3339 , Michigan Lot#3333 , Michigan 1925-1929 Seneca 1898 Washington Copper Mining Stocks (2) 2 different I/U. Copper Mining Stock Orange #1855 1925. Green #13892 1929. Scarce I/U #1150 Prag Collection. Est. $60-100 HWAC# 82517 Frank Le Page 50 shares 1898. Signed by President Fay. Page 375 in de Good-no record of ore shipments, a failed venture. Prag Collecton. Est. $100-200 HWAC# 82510 184 October 2018

DAY 3 Saturday, October 20th Mining Lot#3340 , Michigan 1884 Wheeling Lot#3347 , Minnesota 1916 Barrows Mining Co. Stock Blue I/U #43 James Mining Stock I/U #182 CE Hanson Jarvis 500 shares 1884. Signed by 100 shares 1916. Signed by President President McGary. Mining vignette. Nomb. Prag Collection. Est. $50-80 Not listed in de Good. Prag Collection. HWAC# 82175 Est. $200-400 HWAC# 82520 Lot#3348 , Minnesota 1917 Cuyuna Lot#3341 , Michigan 1909-1918 Winona Central Iron Stock I/U #216 W Johnston 80 shares 1917. Prag Copper Co. Stocks (2) 2 different I/U. Green Collection. Est. $60-100 HWAC# 82169 #7773 Paine Webber 25 shares 1909-fair condition. Brown #5691 Charles Perkins 100 shares 1918. Page 381 in de Good-produced 17 million lbs of copper 1902-1920. Prag Collection. Est. $100-200 HWAC# 82522 Lot#3349 , Minnesota 1910 Duluth Moctezuma Mining Stock I/U #316 100 shares 1910 signed by President Lot#3342 , Michigan 1906-1914 Wolverine Mance. Prag Collection. Est. $60-100 and Arizona Mining Co. Stocks (2) 2 different HWAC# 82171 shades of orange I/U. #3698 Felix LeDue 50 shares 1906-fair condition. #6836 Felix LeDue 50 shares 1914. Prag Collection. Est. $100-150 HWAC# 82523 Lot#3350 , Minnesota Ellsworth Con. Mining Stocks (2) I/C #10 WN Mills 1000 shares 1882. #26 U/I. Prag Collection. Est. $80-150 HWAC# 82170 Lot#3343 , Michigan 1918 Wolverine Copper Mining Co I/U #21271 Mary Earys 43 shares 1918. Prag Collecton. Est. $60-150 HWAC# 82508 Lot#3351 , Minnesota 1907 Finnish Lot#3344 , Michigan 1899-1916 American Mining Co. Stock I/U #86 Wyandot Copper Co. Stocks, 6 Karisa Onlalo 20 shares 1907. Foxing. Prag Collection. Est. $50-100 HWAC# Different I/U 6 different. Brown 82177 1916, green 1913, green 1899, blue $9/share 1910, blue $11/share, blue $12/share. Prag Collecton. Est. $200- 400 HWAC# 82509 Lot#3345 , Michigan 1865 Wyoming Lot#3352 , Minnesota 1907 Finnish Mining Co. of Michigan Stock I/C #10 American Mining Co. Stock I/U #985 Francis McMutrie 1000 shares 1865. John Piterson 25 shares 1907. Signed 3 vignettes-miner, 2 bucks, trains. 25c by President Daniel. Prag Collection. revenue stamp. Page 393 in de Good- Est. $50-100 HWAC# 82178 no mining reports or ore shipments known, a failed venture. Toning from glue reside on rear. Prag Collection. Est. $300-600 HWAC# 82519 Lot#3346 , Minnesota 3M Stocks including Lot#3353 , Minnesota Great Lakes Coal Bond Specimen Unissued specimen and I/U SPC Brown $1000 40 year 5% bond. Prag Collection. 204824 Coll & Co. 100 shares 1965. Allegorical Est. $60-150 HWAC# 82179 vignettes. Prag Collection. Est. $50-100 HWAC# 82114 Bid online at FHWAC.com or call 775-851-1859 185

DAY 3 Saturday, October 20th Mining Lot#3354 , Minnesota 1898 Johnson Lot#3360 , Minnesota Minnesota Iron Mine Nickel Mining Stock Rare I/U #1925 Stocks (3) I/U Minnesota Mines #38 Edward PM Sohlberg 50 shares 1898. Signed Rompf 11 shares 1916, signed by President Bell. by President Johnson. 3 miner Minnesota Iron Mining & Development #92 vignettes. Not listed in Whitney or our Chris Tracey 5 shares, 1914, signed by President reference library. Prag Collection. Est. Hoffman-tears, rough condition. Unissued $100-150 HWAC# 82119 Rouchleau Iron Land c 1890’s. Prag Collection. Est. $100-200 HWAC# 82117 Lot#3355 , Minnesota 1892 McCaskill Mining Co Stock I/U #242 Lot#3361 , Minnesota Minnesota Metal Mine S Hartz 100 shares 1892. Signed by President Hale. Prag Collecton. Est. Stocks (2) I/U Cuyana Mille Lags Iron #466 $50-100 HWAC# 82505 Chris Tracey 100 shares 1912, has toning. I/U Summit Copper Co. #1904 NE Ligoff 300 shares 1911. Nice large lettering and mill vignette. Creases. Prag Collection. Est. $100-150 HWAC# 82112 Lot#3356 , Minnesota 1901 Milwaukee Gold Extraction Co. Stock I/U #267 Frank Levy 100 shares 1901. Corner missing. Prag Collecton. Est. $50-100 HWAC# 82500 Lot#3362 , Minnesota 1864 Minnesota Mining Company Stock I/U #4161 Thomas Sturges 250 shares 1864, signed by President illegible. Page 293 in Whitney-2035 acres of land. The vein has been very Lot#3357 , Minnesota Minnesota productive. Brought public attention to Ontomagon district which was Bessemer Mining Stocks (2) I/U almost abandoned. 3 miner vignettes. Bessemer Con. Iron #4 ND Evans 1 25c revenue stamp. Prag Collection. share 1887. I/U Bessemer Iron Mining Est. $300-500 HWAC# 82124 #73 Fred B? 50 shares 1915-rough condition. Prag Collection. Est. $100- Lot#3363 , Minnesota Minnesota Mining 300 HWAC# 82173 Stocks (2) I/U Engineer Development Co #36 Richard Schell 1918, signed by President Harrison. I/U Mining Investment Contract issued by the American Mining Investment Co of Minnesota #900 C Newbury 1900-3 creases. Prag Collection. Est. $80-100 HWAC# 82115 Lot#3358 , Minnesota 1908-1918 Minnesota Copper Stocks (2) 2 I/U. Great Northern Copper Lot#3364 , Minnesota Minnesota Mining #1505 E Crossland 100 shares 1918. Mascota Stocks (2) I/U Cayuna Range Iron and Land #24 Copper #316 Charles Brown 100 shares 1908-4 ? Lynch 100 shares 1909-poor condition. I/U St. seam tears. Prag Collecton. Est. $50-100 HWAC# Paul and Dunn County Mining #18 PJ Schmitz 100 82506 shares 1887 signed by President Schmidtz. Prag Collection. Est. $100-200 HWAC# 82168 Lot#3359 , Minnesota Minnesota Financial Mines Stocks (2) I/U happy Thought and Lot#3365 , Minnesota Minnesota Mining Fairview Mining 1905-nice orange print and seal. Stocks (2) 2 I/U. Gold Bar Mining #361 LW I/U Marion Creek Gold Mining 1905-3 mining Jarfield? 400 shares 1907. American Eagle vignettes. Prag Collection. Est. $50-80 HWAC# Mining & Milling #954 James Smith 500 82111 shares 1906. Prag Collection. Est. $60-100 HWAC# 82172 186 October 2018

DAY 3 Saturday, October 20th Mining Lot#3366 , Minnesota Minnesota Mining Lot#3372 , Minnesota Stocks (2) I/U #41 Richard Schell 1000 shares 1890 North Shore 1918. B-B Mining #1977 Edith Hill 30 shares Mining Co. Stock Rare 1925. Prag Collection. Est. $70-120 HWAC# I/U #53 Findley R P??? 82174 20 shares 1890. Signed by President Payne. Eagle and 2 miner vignettes. Hole and rear tape, poor condition, please inspect. Not listed in Whitney. Prag Collection. Est. $100- Lot#3367 , Minnesota Minnesota Mining 300 HWAC# 82118 Stocks (2) UI Ellsworth Consolidated Mining. I/U Cannon Mining #271 Fred Risburg 20 Lot#3373 , Minnesota 1892 Oneota shares 1911. Prag Collection. Est. $60-100 Iron Mining Stock I/U #16 EF Clarke HWAC# 82176 100 shares 1892. Poor condition. Prag Collection. Est. $100-200 HWAC# 82167 Lot#3374 , Minnesota 1885 Silver Lot#3368 , Minnesota 1892 Nebewa Iron City Mining Co. Stock I/U #203 Benjamin Spalding 100 shares, 1885. Mining Stock I/U #1 HH Appel? 10 shares 1892, Inside of mine hill vignette. Not listed in Whitney. Prag Collection. Est. signed by President HH Appel?. Steamship and $100-200 HWAC# 82116 miner vignettes. Mines near Tower, MN on Vermillion Range. Prag Collection. Est. $100-200 HWAC# 82113 Lot#3375 , Minnesota Temperance River Silver and Copper Mining Stock I/U #9 Joseph Mau? 200 shares. Lot#3369 , Minnesota 1911 Nebewa Gold seal. Prag Collecton. Est. $70- Iron Mining Stock I/U #1 Herman 200 HWAC# 82504 Oppel 19442 shares 1911, signed by President Oppel. Prag Collection. Est. $60-100 HWAC# 82120 Lot#3376 , Minnesota 1892 Thunder Bay Gold & Silver Mining Stock I/U #191 J Jones 100 shares 1892. Toning, creases, small fold tears. Prag Lot#3370 , Minnesota 1892 New Collecton. Est. $80-150 HWAC# 82501 England Iron Co. Stock I/U #1 John McKinley 8125 shares 1892 signed by President Swift. Rough condition. Prag Collection. Est. $100-300 HWAC# 82166 Lot#3377 , Minnesota 1889 War Eagle Gold and Silver Mining and Milling Stock I/U GW Bell #548 100 shares 1889. Small fold rears, toning. Lot#3371 , Minnesota 1887 Nicolet Prag Collecton. Est. $80-150 HWAC# Mining Co Stock I/U #7 JV Nyr 16667 82502 shares 1887. Signed by President Davenport. Prag Collecton. Est. $70- 150 HWAC# 82503 Lot#3378 , Missouri World’s Greatest Zinc and Lead District, As Seen Through the Camera Booklet Very rare bound softcover about the Missouri, Kansas, Oklahoma and Arkansas zinc and lead mining districts. Approx 60pp of b/w photos with multiples on many pages. First 14pp have dog ear folds. 9.75 x 12”. Est. $300-500 HWAC# 80855 Bid online at FHWAC.com or call 775-851-1859 187

DAY 3 Saturday, October 20th Mining Lot#3379 , Montana 1912 Corbin Lot#3384 Aurora, Nevada 1863 Copper Co. Stock I/U #2009 Carrie (1861) Fairy Queen Mining Whitney 30 shares 1912. Nice Company Stock Although not listed as motorized ore carts vignette exiting being in California, in 1861 this would mine. Creases. Prag Collection. Est. have been considered a California $100-200 HWAC# 82132 mine. VERY EARLY # 6 for 9 shares to ZB Ginkum(?). Datelined Aurora 1863. Signed by William Feast and president Henry Sawith. Incorporated August Lot#3380 , Montana 5th 1861. In 1860 and 1861 far fewer stock certificates were issued Penn Yan Mining Stocks for nevada mining companies. Location: Esmeralda for the La Reine del (11) U/I and crisp. #805- Monte and Fairy Queen Quartz Lodes. Two allegorical vignettes with on 869 mix. Nice gold and partial nude. Britton & Co. printers. Stocks are numbered from 61 to 69. silver coin vignettes, will Fragile. Major rips along folds. Foxing. We didn’t find any information frame nicely. Est. $200- on this company after it was incorporated. Feast owned a cabin on 300 HWAC# 79964 the corner of Silver & Del Monte. He was a county treasurer, secretary of several mines including the Gibraltar, and died in Aurora in 1864. [Aurora by Shaw] Prag Collection Est. $800-1500 HWAC# 79277 Lot#3385 Aurora, Nevada 1863 Gov. Stanford Gold and Silver Mining Comp’y Stock signed by Stanford as President #24 for 50 shares to Sylvester Byron. Datelined Sacramento 1863. Signed by secretary Lot#3381 Antelope Mining District, Newton Booth and president Leland Nevada 1872 Batavia Gold & Silver Stanford. HS Crocker & Co. printer. 20c Mining Company Stock # 658 for and 5c small INL Exchange revenue 214 shares to Coppenstedt. Signed stamps. Located in the Esmeralda District. Does not actually commit to by HM Warren and vice president B Nevada or California; perhaps because the exact location had not yet Bliss. Datelined Batavia, New York, been determined. Incorporated April 10, 1863. Not cancelled. Three 1872. 25c blue large Internal Revenue vertical folds. Small tear at bottom left fold. Dog ear top right. 1mm hole stamp. Allegorical female vignette. where Booth’s signature has bled through the paper. Almost impossible No printer. Some staining upper left to fine. Altogether a nice example of this company and Stanford’s from paper clip. Edge and corners signature. The April 17, 1863 Daily Alta California put the location as are strong. Nice! The exact location of this mine is difficult to find. Storey County. Original trustees were AP Stanford, WW Wiggins, and We believe the best possibility is in the Antelope Mining District in Otis V Sawyer. One would think with the company’s namesake that Pershing County, Nevada. It would be a reincorporation of the Relief much would have been written about this mine. We found precious Canyon mine in Pershing County, Nevada. There was a Batavia Gold & little! Prag Collection Est. $600-1200 HWAC# 80342 Silver that incorporated in Nevada on October 17, 1863. It may have also been a Californian mine with the word ‘Pacific’ in it and the date of Lot#3386 Aurora, Nevada 1864 (1862) Middle Hill Tunnel & Mining the cert. Prag Collection Est. $150-300 HWAC# 80464 Company Stock Two interesting issues with this stock certificate. 1) Although Lot#3382 Aurora, Nevada 1863 Dalls da t el ined Mining Company Stock Very early 1864, it was number 11 for 25 shres to RG Lundam. incorporated Datelined Aurora 1863. Incorporated in 1862. In April 1863. Signed by secretary PR 1862 there Robinson and president Howard were far fewer Crittenden. Towne & Bacon printers. c o mpani e s Location at Esmeralda District, Mono incorporating County.” Term of existence 50 years. Not cancelled. Vignette of miners than in 1864. with a winze. 25c Entry of Goods revenue stamp. There was a short lived 2) Cert says mill on the Comstock called Dalls Mill. One might assume this mine and d at eline that mill are connected. Prag collection Est. $600-1200 HWAC# 80344 Aurora, Mono Lot#3383 Aurora, Nevada 1864 Co. Cal. The 1863 boundary showed Aurora to indeed be inside the Dayton Gold & Silver Mining Nevada border. # 185 for 5 shares to R Johnson. Dateliend Aurora, Mono County, California 1864. Signed by secretary FK Bechtel and president Company Stock # 193 for 10 shares James S Mooney. The San Francisco Evening Bulletin reported “The to James Whitehead. Datelined San Middle Hill Tunnel Co., on the east side, will drive a tunnel about 1,000 Francisco 1864, Signed by secretary feet. The tunnel already extends 200 feet. It will strike the Atlantic James M Dill and president J Hess. lode, about 300 feet deep.” The Daily Alta California of May 26, 1863 Incorporated April 1963. American reported that the tunnel had reached 600’. They have already bisected flag and allegorical woman vignettes. four blind lodes. Terh Daily Alta on May 6, 1864 reported the Middle 25c Bond Revenue Stamp. Location at “Last Chance Hill, Esmeralda Hill TUnnel was in a fair way proving a paying institution when they District Mono Co., Cal.” Not cancelled. Few issues, small nick bottom can obtain a mill to crush rock. Bechtel was in Aurora as early as 1861. right, edge staining top right, etc. Oringal trustees included J Hess. JM By 1863 he had been a conveyancer, justice of the peace, owner of the Dill, and W Haskin. The Esmeralda County Tax Assessment completed Bee Hive Saloon on the NE Corner of Pine and Antelope and member in November of 1863 lists a James Whitehead as a miner. Prag Collection of the Constitutional Convention of 1863. He participated in America’s Est. $400-700 HWAC# 80350 Centennial Celebration in Aurora. He was a long time resident. [Aurora by Shaw] Prag Collection Est. $500-1000 HWAC# 79276 188 October 2018

DAY 3 Saturday, October 20th Mining Lot#3387 Aurora, Nevada 1863 San Lot#3391 Aurora, Esmeralda, Nevada Francisco Gold and Silver Mining Rare Aurora Mining Maps (Reprints Company Stock # 22 for 36 shares from the Nevada State Archives), (2) to Charles Hozmer(?). Datelined San 1) 23 x 19”. Quartz Lodes pointed at Last Francisco 1863. Signed by secretary Chance Spur to Tuttle. 2) 55 x 19”. Find Blood and president Van Reed. Real Del Monte, Aurora Cropping, Ural, Incorporated December 10, 1862. Lexington. These were found lying in a Beehive vignette. “Esmeralda District” pile in a pile of maps an larger materials in red underprint. There was a Van Reed living in Aurora in 1861 in the Nevada State Archives. Not easily and 1862. He was the Mono County Recorder. [Aurora by Shaw] Prag found again. Laminated on the map side. Collection Est. $600-1200 HWAC# 80349 Immaculate! Est. $50-100 HWAC# 99680 Lot#3388 aurora, Nevada 1863 Territorial Lot#3392 Beatty, Nevada 1906 Deed Deed between George Minshall and L. Bullfrog Redbird Mining Company Levy for April 16th 1863 for claims in the Stock Certificates Very rare Bullfrog Esmeralda Mining District: 125 feet in the certificate we have not seen before. Truckee Quartz Lode situated on Silver This is likely one of the few Bullfrog Hill. Printed by Wm B. Cooke & Co. 624 miners not listed in the extensive list Montgomery St. San Francisco. 8 1/2 x 13 1/2 inches, light blue paper. Est. $150-250 of 353 Bullfrog companies compiled HWAC# 81416 by yours truly in the Filer Auction catalog in 2000. Issued at Beatty, Nevada. Signed by C.P. Topliff as president. Topliff was mentioned in the Beatty Bullfrog Miner on May 20, 1905 thanking the citizenry of Beatty on behalf of the widow and friends of Capt. E.G. Keogh-Dwyer Lot#3389 Aurora, Nevada 1863 Utah Mining Company Stock #358 during his illness, death and burial. Dwyer was the first death in Beatty for 2 shares ti William ( David A. Wright, “Historical Ghost Towns and Abandoned Places”). Feast. Datelined Aurora, The certificate #132 is in nice condition and is uncanceled. Issued to Mono Co., Cal. 1863. Sim Mack, Trustee. Est. $80-150 HWAC# 79051 Signed by William Feast (secretary and Lot#3393 Beatty, Nevada 1908 county treasurer) and Diamond Queen Mining Stock president RB Sanchez. Certificates Cert. #106, issued to Incorporated Aug. G.A. Webster for 1000 shares in 1908. 20, 1861. Agnew & Mines in Bullfrog District, Nevada Deffebach printers. printed top left. The Diamond Queen’s Blue type on white location was at Bare Mountain, eastern paper. Allegorical slope, 10 miles east of Beatty. The vignettes. Located in the Esmeralda Mining District. Utah’s claim to company was a producer (Rhyolite fame happened when a new president and superintendent took over Herald, 1909). Listed in Filer II Bullfrog mine list. The certificate is VF. the company in 1864. They robbed the company blind, drawing out Ink spot right border. Uncanceled. Est. $80-150 HWAC# 78117 money for 40 workers when there were only 20, charging twice as much of supplies than they paid, etc. [Sacramento Daily Union, October Lot#3394 Brown & Murphy District, Lyon County, Nevada 1863 31, 1864] As soon as the question of location of Aurora was confirmed Lyon County Gold and Silver Mining Company Stock # 73 for 10 to be in Nevada, county treasurer William Feast loaded all the records shares to Mrs. AE Irwin. upon a wagon and took them across the line to the then little town of Datelined Carson City Bodie, and the next spring, when Bridgeport was declared the county 1863. Signed by secretary seat of Mono, took them to that place. An Act approved February 9, Van Winkle and president 1864, to have these records transcribed, was repealed January 10, Joel Bell. Incorporated 1865, because of opposition by citizens of Esmeralda, who were not Fab’y 2nd, 11863. Sunset willing to pay $10,000 for that purpose. The officers for Mono County vignette. Towne & Bacon elected in 1863, nearly all remained in Aurora, and their places were printer. Location at Ball’s filled by appointment by the Governor of California; R. M. Wilson, the Lode in Brown & Murphy County Clerk, removed to Bridgeport, and William Feast continued to District, Lyon County, N. T. discharge the duties of Treasurer, although residing in Aurora, until his Fair condition: large hole death in the summer of 1864. (History of Nevada by Thompson & West] below ‘Lion’. Bottom has major rips and tears. The Brown & Murphy Prag collection Est. $600-1200 HWAC# 80348 was probably near Silver City of Dayton. Lion G&SMC was listed as a speculator in the 1864 Langley directory. From Twain’s letter from Carson to the Enterprise in Virginia City: “Three new mining companies Lot#3390 Aurora, Nevada 1863 West filed their certificates of incorporation in the County Clerk’s and Wind Mining Company Stock Very Territorial Secretary’s offices last Saturday. Their ledges are located in early # 6 for 50 shares to CC Stombs. the new Brown & Murphy District, in Lyon county. The names, etc., of the Datelined Aurora, Mono Co., Cal 1863. new companies are as follows: Jennie V. Thompson G. & S. M. Company, Signed by secretary William Feast(?) capital stock $220,000, in 2,200 shares of $100 each; Byron G. & S. M. and president L (?). Incorporated Company, same number of shares, etc.; Lion G. & S. Company, capital March 5, 1863. Printed by Agnew stock $230,000, in 2,300 shares of $100 each. The following gentlemen and Deffebach. 25c Warehouse Recp’t Revenue Stamp. Not cancelled. are Trustees of all three companies: C. L. Newton, J. D. Thompson, J. Ball, Vignette of eagle feeding young. Staining and one hole bottom center. G. C. Haswell and Wm. Millikin. The principal offices of the companies Feast was the Mono County tresuerer at this time. Prag Collection Est. are in Carson City.” [Ref:Nevada Place Names; The Works of Mark $500-1000 HWAC# 80343 Twain: Early Tales & Sketches, Vol. 1 1851-1864, (Univ. of California Press, 1979) Prag Collection Est. $300-500 HWAC# 81023 Bid online at FHWAC.com or call 775-851-1859 189

DAY 3 Saturday, October 20th Mining Lot#3395 Bullfrog, Nevada 1907 Lot#3399 Carson City, Nevada 1881 Amethyst Bullfrog Mining Company Voltaire Silver Mining Company Stock Certificates Inc. in Arizona. Stock Another new Comstock area Cert. #1976 Issued for 1000 shares in 1880’s stock we have not seen before. # 157 for 10 shares to T. Coffin. 1907. Issued to B. Ohlsson and signed Trenmor Coffin was a well known Carsonite. He came from Indiana to by Malcolm Macdonald as president. teach school in 1871. After losing re-election in 1878, he went on to the Printed by ABN. The Amethyst state Legislature and served as Speaker of the Assembly in 1889. He Bullfrog is on the divide just north of also served two terms as Ormsby County treasurer, a stint as Nevada the Montgomery Shoshone. It was an Attorney General, and was U.S. Attorney for Nevada for four years. signed interesting prospect with no mineable orebody, but was an important by JY Cahoe and AH Frank. datelined Carson City 1881. Underground piece of property for the Montgomery Shoshone in later years. Tiny mining vignette. Incorporated July 7, 1880. No edge, corner, pin hole or stains at folds. Miners underground. Uncanceled. Est. $100-200 discoloration issues. Prag Collection. Est. $200-400 HWAC# 81606 HWAC# 79052 Lot#3400 Churchill County, Nevada Lot#3396 Bullfrog, Nevada 1908 1866 Silver Lode Mining Company of Bullfrog Gold Center Water & Nevada Stock # 304 for 400 shares to Mills Stock Certificate Very rare William L Corwin. Datelined New York Bullfrog piece. Inc. in Arizona. No. 1866. Signed by secretary Robinson 138, issued for 500 shares on Dec. 1st, and president J Tumball Smith. Three 1908. Signed by the president (W.D. mining vignettes including on one Lawton) and secretary (M.K. Barrett). left side showing underground and Not cancelled. Three mining vignettes above ground workings. Printed by and gold seal. Horizontal and vertical Ferd. Meyer. The most active district folds. According to the Mines Directory Vol. 1 (1910), the company had in Churchill at the time was La Plata, with a population of 150, which their main office in Gold Center, Nevada. Their claims consisted of 20 also served as the county seat from 1864-1868. This successful camp quartz and 4 placer. They had a 6x8 tunnel that was 250 feet in length, attracted enough capital to build a $125,000 mill by the Silver Wave and owned the water rights to over a million gallons daily capacity. Co., but lacked sufficient ore to make money. Another company is cited That year, they intended to erect a mill and smelter in Golden Center. as having erected another mine and mill at Averill at the same time, Uncanceled. Est. $100-200 HWAC# 79075 suspected to be this company. [HWAC] Prag Collection Est. $300-500 HWAC# 80378 Lot#3397 Bullfrog, Nevada 1906 Gibraltar Mines Syndicate Stock Lot#3401 Columbus Mining District, Certificate Inc. in South Dakota in Nevada 1877 Slavonian Gold & 1906. Cert. #2513, issued for 500 Silver Mining Company Stock # 78 shares to J.F. Eastwood and signed by for 1000 shares to FN Adams. Signed vice president Shockly. The Gibraltar by secretary Adams and president is on the south slope of Bonanza ER Ferris. Original directors included Mountain facing Rhyolite from the E. B. Hendrick, E. R. Ferris, Geo. A. west. It was a small producer, but Davis, F. H. Adams and H. E. Ashley. there are poor records of the district. Datelined San Francisco 1877. Incorporated Sept. 14th 1876. Mines in Four hole punches in the left border, the Columbus Mining District, Esmeralda County, Nevada. Columbus, otherwise fine. Est. $80-150 HWAC# 79055 Esmeralda County was the first evidence of concentrated efforts by Slavonians to “get in on the ground floor” with mining claims and Lot#3398 Carrara, Nevada 1920 American Carrara Marble Company strikes. [History of Nevada by Davis] Underground / above ground Stock Certificates Cert. #2147, issued to Florence Windhurst for 18 vignette. AL Bancroft printer. Not Cancelled. Very nice condition. Only shares. Signed by G.C. rounded corners mare the look. The Columbus district was the first Toplin as president and the serious attempt by Slovenians (Croatians) to get in on the ground floor company secretary. The of a mining boom. The Columbus district was organized in August 1864, company operated a marble by Mexican miners, who were soon replaced by Americans, Germans, mine at Carrera, Nevada, and Slavonians (Croatians), both in ownership of the claims and control just south of Beatty. The of the affairs of the district. The Mineral district was merged with that company was comparing of Columbus because of their nearness and the more desolate character it’s marble to the famous of its location. Prag Collection Est. $200-400 HWAC# 80455 carrara marble from Italy. Marble mining began in Lot#3402 Dayton, Nevada 1877 the hills south of Beatty Dayton Gold & Silver Mining in 1904. These original Company Stock Incorporated in samples were too fractured; 1872. Cert. #4759, issued to HH however, about seven Scott trustee for 50 shares. Signed by years later, better quality pres. HKR. Harmon and sec. WE Jean. deposits were located and the town was soon laid out. Serviced by the Small vignette at bottom of dog and Las Vegas and Tonopah Railroad, by May 1913 the town was officially safe. Black border and print. AJ Leary printer. Datelined San Francisco. dedicated. The company built a spur railway enabling marble to be Printer: A.J. Leary, S.F. 4 ½ x 9 ¼.” U/C. One Assessment Paid stamp on efficiently brought to the main line. Today, nothing remains at the site of reverse. Fine. Pin holes and heavy vertical folds. The company mined Carrera except the old foundations, the road and an abandoned quarry tailings on the Carson River. In 1874 they processed 1200 tons that (Myrick). VF condition. Uncanceled. Est. $100-300 HWAC# 79065 yielded $20,599.83 [Raymond, 1875]. Prag Collection Est. $100-200 HWAC# 80441 190 October 2018

DAY 3 Saturday, October 20th Mining Lot#3403 Desert District, Churchill, Nevada 1864 Mogul Gold and Lot#3407 Devil’s Gate, Nevada 1863 Delmas Company Stock # 101 Silver mining Company Stock # 34 for 10 shares to HW Vesey. for 20 shares to James Datelined Gold Kennedy. Datelined Hill, N. T. Virginia 1863. Signed 1864. Signed by secretary Victor by secretary Repagne(?) and GW Pease president Michael and president Burns. Incorporated Monison(?). March 12th, 1863. Not Incorporated Cancelled. Location at Feb. 17, 1864. Marshal Ney Ledge, Not cancelled. Devil’s Gate District, Native American Lyon County, N. T. vignette. Gold Mountain mining vignette. 25c Protest Revenue stamp. Rips at fold Hill News intersections, nicks at fold edges, edges are a little rough. Still, a rare print. Location: Mogul Ledge, desert District, Churchill County. Holds stock in nice condition. We found no information on this company in our at fold intersections an small rips at fold edges. Some discoloration. resources, the CDNC or Nevada Historical Society Comstock newspaper. Fair condition. Located on the northeast flank of Desert Peak in the Prag Collection Est. $500-1000 HWAC# 80375 Hot Springs Mountains, about 7 miles west-southwest of White Plains (Huxley) station on the Southern Pacific Railroad. Vanderburg (1940) Lot#3408 Devil’s Gate, Nevada 1864 Partolus Gold and Silver Mining mentioned that the Desert Queen Mine in this district may have been Company Stock # discovered by emigrants in 1849; if so, this district would be the site of 56 for 25 shares to the earliest mining activity in the state. This is a significant signature McKee. Datelined piece. Horace M. Vesey acquired the hotel in late 1862 and added a San Francisco 1864. wooden structure to the south of the original stone building, as seen Signed by secretary (?) and president Lot#3404 Desert District, Churchill, George B Reeve. Nevada 1865 Susan and William Incorporated April Gold and Silver Mining Company 23, 1863. Above Stock #101 for 5 shares to Miss May ground / below M Coffin. Datelined San Francisco ground mining 1865. Signed by secretary MG Elmore vignette. Towne & and president George S Gouel(?). 25c Bacon printers. Not Power of Att’y Revenue stamp. Wm. P Harrison printer. Not cancelled. cancelled, Location at Devil’s Gate District, Nevada Territory [Lyon Location: Susan & William Ledge. Desert District, Churchill Co., N. T. In County]. Black print on green wavy paper. Small 20c and 5c revenue early 1864 they posted notice in newspaper not to buy Mark Anthony stamps. Dog ear lower left. Excellent condition. Prag Collection Est. Company or Cleopatra Mining Company stock as those two companies $500-1000 HWAC# 80376 had intruded upon their land. Prag Collection Est. $400-700 HWAC# 81026 Lot#3405 Devil’s Gate, Nevada Alhambra Mining Company Stock - Datelined 1860 Carson County, Utah Territory # 39 for 45 shares to John Vignot. Datelined Virginia City, U. T. 1860. Signed by secretary Thomas D Johns and president Cipriano Thurn(?) Entire claim of company is 2,000 feet. Location at Devil’s Gate Mining District, Carson County, Utah Territory. Plenty of articles appear in the California papers on assessments (through 1864), but no articles appear on the progress of the mine. This seems to be more of a money pit than a money maker! A search of Carson County Records [The Records of Carson County, Utah & Nevada Territories by Ellison] show us that John Vignot was an early prospector in this area. On May 11, 1861 he, Patrick McClaughlin (credited with being one of the men to find the Comstock Lode) and others applied for water rights at Gold Hill. On July 8, 1861 Vignot with others bought 500 feet of a recently discovered lode from McLaughlin, Peter O’Reilly (the Lot#3406 Devil’s Gate, Nevada 1863 other discoverer of the Comstock lode), et al. Prag Comstock Continuation Company collection Est. $2000-3000 HWAC# 80377 Stock # 64 for 509 shares to Jacob Fis(?). Datelined Virginia 1863. Signed by secretary JC Caldwell and president James Rishman(?). Incorporated March 30th, 1863. Location Devil’s Gate District. Not Cancelled. Mountain mining vignette. Towne & Bacon printer. Spotting lower right. Cut roughly top right. Pin holes and very small hole upper left. Still quite nice. Not listed in Collins. We could find no information on this company! Prag Collection Est. $400-700 HWAC# 79268 Bid online at FHWAC.com or call 775-851-1859 191

DAY 3 Saturday, October 20th Mining Lot#3409 Devil’s Gate, Nevada 1877 Lot#3413 Eagle Valley & Washoe Silver Central Consolidated Mining District, Nevada 1863 Norcross Company Stock # 611 for 5000 Gold & Silver Mining Company shares to Lucian Hermmon trustee. Stock with RARE dateline You Signed by secretary Hermonn and don’t find a dateline like this again: president George Atkinson. Datelined Central Mill 1863. # 86 for 10 shares San Francisco 1877. Incorporated to William B Summer. Signed by January 1875. Fancy cert. Nevada state seal upper right corner. Gilt secretary H Coltrin and president border. AL Bancroft printer. Not cancelled. No corner, edge, pin hole or WB Summer. Incorporated Nov. 7, 1863. Two allegorical ginettes. Gold discoloration issues. Look for yourself!!! The Object of this mine was to Hill News Print. Located at Washoe & Eagle Valley Mining District. The mine for precious metals in the Devil’s Gate and Chinatown [Dayton] Norcross Mine may be connected to the famed Hale & Norcross mine Mining Districts in Lyon County. Original directors were Atkinson, AB on the Comstock proper. According to King (1885), the Eagle and Forbes, James Duffy, Oliver Eldridge and Adolphus Waitz. This company Washoe Valley district was organized covering this area in 1861. More was incorporated on January 8 and by February 2 its stock was trading recently known as the Voltaire district it is located near the base of the in San Francisco. However we lose the trail of this company’s stock mountains, on the east slope of the Carson Range 3 miles west of Carson endeavor on May 21, 1876. Prag Collection Est. $100-200 HWAC# 80446 City. Most of the district is in the drainage basins of Kings and Voltaire Canyons. The Territorial Enterprise (1861) used the name Pine Forest Lot#3410 Devil’s Gate, Nevada for this area. [Mining Districts of Nevada by Tingley] Prag Collection 1876 Trenton Mining Company Est. $400-1000 HWAC# 79259 Stock # 25 for 1000 shares to Harry J Norton trustee. Signed by secretary JM Buffington and president WH Lot#3414 Ely-McGill, Nevada Photographic Record of the Bayley. Satelined San Francisco 1876. Nevada Consolidated Operation Twelve large original photo Incorporated April 25, 1876. AL albums comprised Bancroft printer. Pin holes and dog ears. Good Condition. Location at of approximately Devil’s Gate. Original directors were Julius Hirschfield, Buffington, John 1,076 8x10-inch W McCormick, FJ Bryon and John Pretrand. Object was to mine and mill photographs made at Devil’s Gate. Prag Collection Est. $100-200 HWAC# 80442 expressly for Nevada Consolidated Copper Lot#3411 Devil’s Gate District, Co., circa 1907- Nevada 1881 Regent Mining 1933. This incredible Company Stock # 400 for 50 shares photographic record to HS Stone(?) trustee. Signed by is not complete, but is president CS Weller and secretary all that was retained, Elliot. 1881. Incorporated November thus is undeniably 10, 1881. Location Devil’s Gate the most important District, Silver City, Lyon County. Britton & Rey printers. Very nice (pin photographic record holes). Offices were in Virginia City. This is one of the more rare 1880’s of the company. Most Comstock certificates. The mines in Lyon County were in branches of the photos are the classic blue sepia-tones. The photos from which the great Comstock ledge sent off to the east and south. By 1881, the thirties are black and white. There are a few panorama folded the mines of Dayton and Silver City had been extensively worked. A few photos. The content is the entire gamut of the business - interiors mines at Silver City were still producing in 1881 according to Burchard. and exteriors of the mills, smelter and mine buildings; exteriors of Prag Collection Est. $60-120 HWAC# 81038 the same; spectacular shots of the mines, both in birds-eye views and close-ups; town views, mining camps, etc. Many of the albums Lot#3412 Dual Mining Districts, are labeled and organized by a specific photo number sequence, Nevada 1865 (1864) Shaw Gold & which is why we think the collection is not complete in its entirety. Silver Mining Company Stock This The quality is as good as it gets for this time period, though company is listed as being in the no specific photographer’s name was found. Some photos are Harmony & Sonoma Mining Districts labeled and dated.The Nevada Consolidated Copper Co. was born in Humboldt County. Number 15 for of the need to electrify Nevada and the rest of the United States, 10 shares to John B Henry. Datelined which created a major copper boom in America, with revenues Santa Rosa 1865. Incorporated in surpassing most of the major gold mines. Mark Requa, son of a the Nevada Territory on March 5, 1864, Signed by secretary William major Comstock mining engineer, was president of the Eureka L Anderson and president Z Middleton. The stock lists twenty ledges and Palisade RR. He saw the opportunity in the Robinson Mining and notes two locations for mill sites. This is a great stock just to collect District at Ely, and proceeded to acquire properties, forming the these historic ledges. Printed by the Sonoma County Democrat. 25c White Pine Co. in 1903. The New York and Nevada Copper Co. had Power of Att’y stamp upper left (with ripped corner). Heavy folds. Dog also been formed in 1902, funded by New York investors. Montana ears. Original trustees were FA Shaw, Z Middleton, L Carter, TJ Drennon copper magnate William Andrews Clark also entered the fray by and WL Anderson. The Harmony mining district was located in the investing in the Pilot Knob and West End group. In 1904, the group northern end of Sonoma Range, 5 miles southeast of Winnemucca. It merged, which by then included the Boston & Nevada Copper Co., was also known as the Sonoma and Sonoma Mountain district. The into the Nevada Consolidated Copper Co.Developing in a parallel Harmony includes the drainage areas of Thomas Creek, Harmony Creek, manner, the Guggenheims created ASARCO in 1901 and several and Water Canyon. The original district name was Harmony. Sonoma subsidiaries, including Utah Copper Co. Their group controlled the was used on the 1880 map, and Lincoln (1923) used Sonoma Mountain massive Bingham Utah copper deposits, which later became the as the name for the district. Prag collection Est. $400-800 HWAC# 79258 largest open pit mine in America (for awhile). In 1906 Guggenheim took out an option on 400,000 shares of NCCCo. and converted the option only two months later. It was the beginning of the end for Requa, as Utah Copper (Kennecott) ultimately took over control. This group of twelve original photo albums is the quintessential record of the Ely-McGill large-scale copper mining operation and is a major discovery. Est. $20,000-30,000 HWAC# 79649 192 October 2018

DAY 3 Saturday, October 20th Mining Lot#3415 Esmeralda, Nevada 1863 (1861) Bullion Gold & Silver Lot#3418 Eureka, Nevada 1879 Mining Company Stock # 69 for 2 shares to E Arnold. Datelined Omega Mining Company Early San Francisco 1863. number 25 for 10o shares to TJ Hay Signed by secretary trustee. Signed by secretary TJ Hay Bibbins and president and president George O McMullen(?). GWB McDonald. Datelined San Francisco 1879. Incorporated August Incorporated March 10, 1879. AJ 24, 1861. Vignette of Leary printer. Location at Eureka District, Nevada. Some staining on mill on lake shore with borders, otherwise in very nice condition. Original directors were resting miners. Britton George O McMullen, AP Moore, TJ Hay, Thomas Findlay and A Strong. printer. 25c Insurance In 1890 the Omega Mining Company was fined $3,000 for contempt of Revenue stamp. Mine court in a lawsuit. Prag Collection Est. $100-200 HWAC# 80439 located in the Van Horn District, Mono County, Lot#3419 Eureka, Nevada 1896 Ruby Cal. Staining left. Small Hill Tunnel and Milling Company holes (one where staining is). No rips or tears. Original trustees were Stock # 467 for 8700 shares in 1896 SB Farnham, FM Clark, WS Hughes, W Holt, TL Bibbins with Holt as to A Laird. Laird was a miner in president and Bibbins as secretary. The Marin Journal of June 28, 1862 Prospect Mountain in the 1880 census. reported the William Hughes had just returned from the Van Horn Signed by future governor Reinhold district and brought with him 10 pounds of rock from the Bullion Gold Sadler as president. and BF McEwen. & Silver lead. It assayed at $11.31 silver and $60.20 gold. The Esmeralda ‘Euerka’vignette. AL Bancroft printer. Incorporated September 25, Miner reported that the Bullion Gold & Silver had the six best leads. 1882. Cancelled. Minor holes at folds. Nice. Prag Collection Est. $60- The company had done little work on them yet, but they are rich in 200 HWAC# 81037 gold and silver and will yield an abundant harvest. The Gold Hill News Lot#3420 Eureka District, Nevada reported that the Bullion would commence hoisting ore this week. For 1877 Orange Consolidated Mining some time the tunnel had been closed to all visitors including the press. Company Stock # 164 for 50 shares Some say it was to excite investment for this ledge that at one time was to JA Nesbitt. Signed by secretary EH considered fabulously rich. Others confidently it is a sham just to fleece Roxford and president James Nesbitt. money from would be investors. [newspaper articles from CDNC] The Datelined San Francisco 1877. mining district in the Aurora area was originally named Esmeralda. The Incorporated Dec 30, 1872. Location: New Esmeralda was located to the east, between the Esmeralda district Eureka Dist., Lander Co., Nev. Not and the historic Van Horn district to the east. The historic Van Horn Cancelled. No printer mentioned. District of DeGroot (1863) was southeast of Aurora in the Excelsior Fancy script. Vignette of prospector on horse looking for his pot of gold. range of mountains east of Dexter’s Station and nearly due north of Excellent condition other than dog eared corners. Original trustees the Montgomery District. [Mining Districts of Nevada by Tingley] Both were Nesbitt, James Williams, NP COpp, John Chamberlain and EH California and the Nevada Territory claimed the Van Horn District Roxford. The Daily Alta California reported on June 10, 1873 that the outside of Aurora. In 1863 an exact survey put this area in Nevada. Prag Collection Est. $600-1000 HWAC# 79249 Orange Consolidated had found a ledge at the 350’ level. The vein was white quartz with blusih silver ore. It will assay for about $100. The Eureka Mining District was located on September of 1864. The curious Lot#3416 Esmeralda, Nevada 1862 prospectors took some the specimens and ran a test in their fire. The Crescent Gold & Silver Mining result caused them the shout the Greek word “eureka!” and the name of Company Stock # 228 for 10 shares the area stuck [Ref: Carlson, Nevada Place Names, 1974, p. 110]. Prag to Arnold & Brother. Datelined San Collection Est. $100-200 HWAC# 80450 Francisco 1862. Signed by secretary Lot#3421 Eureka, Antelope District, Bibbins and president Warren Holt. Nevada 188- Whalen Consolidated Incorporated May 8th, 1862. Located Copper Mining Company # 464 for in Van Horn District, Mono County, 20 shares to Daniel A Talcott. Signed Cal. Allegorical vignettes. Agnew & Deffeback printer. Not cancelled. by George Pulluvant (?) secretary and 1/4” rip left. Staining right. The mining district in the Aurora area William Whalen president.Datelined was originally named Esmeralda. The New Esmeralda was located to Chicago. Final year of date is difficult the east, between the Esmeralda district and the historic Van Horn to read, but there. Mines situated in district to the east. The historic Van Horn District of DeGroot (1863) Antelope District, Eureka County, was southeast of Aurora in the Excelsior range of mountains east of Nevada. Not cancelled. Mountain Dexter’s Station and nearly due north of the Montgomery District. valley vignette. Large dog ear bottom left and one tear top left. Nice [Mining Districts of Nevada by Tingley] Both California and the Nevada condition. We have not seen this stock certificate before. We have seen Territory claimed the Van Horn District outside of Aurora. In 1863 an exact survey put this area in Nevada. Prag collection Est. $600-1000 Whalen’s name as president on several other Eureka mining company HWAC# 80345 stocks. The district is located on the western slope of the Roberts Mountains north of Lot#3417 Eureka, Nevada Golden Rule Color Map Map of properties that constitute the Golden Rule Eureka, near Roberts Creek Station on the old overland road. The Consolidated Mine in the Eureka original name of the district,Leopold, was changed to Antelope by 1881. District. Drawn by T. J. Read, Prag Collection Est. $60-200 HWAC# 81602 Superintendent of the Eureka Consolidated and Deputy U. S. Surveyor. Est. $100-200 HWAC# 99498 Bid online at FHWAC.com or call 775-851-1859 193

DAY 3 Saturday, October 20th Mining Lot#3422 Eureka, Eureka, Nevada Lot#3426 Gold Hill, Nevada 1863 Three Assay Reports from the Assay Buena Ventura Gold & Silver Mining Office of the Richmond Mining Company Stock Early number 12 for Company 1) December 22, 1883 assay 100 shares to HH Flagg. Datelined report. Includes assays for Oriental & Virginia 1863. Signed by secretary Belmont ($58.56) and the Dunderberg Clement and president Corson ($95.90) 2) August 21, 1885 assay (acting). Incorporated May 5, 1863. report. Includes assays for the Silver Vignette of miner holding American flag. Towne & Bacon printers. Lick ($28.05), Silver Conner ($34.66) Not cancelled. Location at Gold Hill Mining District, Nevada Territory. and the Dunderberg ($85.70). 3) Black print on green background with green underprint “Gold Hill”. August 31, 1883 assay report. LS Riddle Very pleasing. Not listed in Collins. Flagg was one of the first trustees ($23.26). HG Henderson ($$53.12). of the Virginia Virginia City Water Company. He was also a Territorial Many of the mines listed were Senator from Storey County. Flagg ran the Maynard & Flood Bank when important smaller mines in the area and used the Richmond facilities Mayasrd retired to Massachusetts a rich man. Prag collection Est. for assays. Est. $50-100 HWAC# 99352 $400-800 HWAC# 80374 Lot#3427 Gold Hill, Nevada 1864 Cincinnati Gold and Silver mIning Company Stock #45 for 25 shares to JD Fry. Datelined Gold Hill Lot#3423 Fairview, Nevada, Nevada 1864. Signed by William Treasure Hill Map, Fairview, Nevada Hunt secretary and WB Blueprint map “Plan of Fairview Treasure Scott president. Mountain Hill Group, Fifteen Lode Mining Claims.” mining vignette. Printed Churchill County, Nevada. January 1909. by the Gold Hill News. Drawn by E. P. Osgood, Dep. Min Sur. 1 Incorporated on December inch=600 feet. 21” x 14” Est. $50-100 11, 1863. Located at HWAC# 99686 American Flat, Gold Hill District, Storey County N. T. Lot#3424 Gold Creek, Nevada 1897 Not cancelled. Torn slightly Gold Creek, Nevada Consolidated bottom left, dog ear top left. Lodes Mining Stock Certificate few pinholes left. On November 2, 1863 the Gold Hill News announced (NV. Ghost Town) Inc. in Colorado. taht the Gilmore company, which is in the middle of the Cincinnati Located in Gold Creek, Elko County, claims have struck a ledge at a depth of 40 feet. The Cincinnati Nevada. No. 333, issued for 250 Company expect to strike it at 175 to 200 feet. The 1864 San Francisco shares to Frances Tichener on April Directory has JD Fry and William Sharon as partners in Fry & Sharon 6, 1897. Signed by the president, Real Estate. Their offices were on 603 Washington. Fry’s dwelling was Dunbar Kennet (?), and the secretary at 324 Fremont. Hunt was the secretary of the Cincinnati. In the 1864 Thos. Crean. Not cancelled. Vignette Collins directory of Nevada, William Hunt is listed as a stock broker of miners working underground. ABN. Gold Creek was the name of an and mining secretary living in American Flat. He was also secretary of area close to Bruno City that was the center of a number placer mining the Jim McClellan, Orion, Hunt, Braden, West Gold Hill, and Washington. operations. In 1869, the first discoveries were made at a site called [Collins, 1864 Directory] Prag Collection Est. $400-800 HWAC# 80372 Island Mountain. This certificate dates to the second mining boom of 1896/97 for Gold Creek. Two newspapers, the Gold Creek News and Lot#3428 Gold Hill, Nevada 1863 Mountain City News, sprung up and promoted the community. The Coppers Gold & Silver Mining town experienced a surge of activity that lasted until 1900. It is now Company Stock # 77 for 5 shares to A a ghost town with little left but a sidewalk. [Ref: In Pursuit of Gold, Dubois. Datelined Gold Hill N. T. 1863. Chung] Est. $100-300 HWAC# 79068 Signed by secretary OH Platt and Lot#3425 Gold Creek, Nevada 1897 president WH Howard. Incorporated Gold Creek, Nevada Townsite March 1863. Location at Gold Hill Company Stock (NV. Ghost Town) Mining District, Storey County, N. T. 25c Entry of Goods Revenue stamp covers up a mining vignette. Not Cancelled. “Coppers’ in red underprint. Certificates Inc. in Colorado. Located Pencil writing in right border. Cut roughly on right. No edge, corner or in Gold Creek, Elko County, Nevada. No. color issues. A few pinholes. Paul W. Coppers was living in the area in 329, issued for 50 shares to Frances 1863. Perhaps (probably) who the mine was named for. Prag collection Tichener on April 6, 1897. Signed by Est. $400-800 HWAC# 80368 the president, Dunbar Kennet (?), and the secretary Wm. P. Godfrey. Lot#3429 Gold Hill, Nevada 1863 Not cancelled. Vignette of surveyors Forcade & Rickard Gold and Silver overlooking a mining camp. Printed by ABN. Folds, very fine. Gold Mining Company Stock # 51 for 25 Creek was the name of an area close to Bruno City that was the center shares to A Dubois. Datelined Gold Hill of a number placer mining operations. In 1869, the first discoveries 1863. Signed by A Lukin and president were made at a site called Island Mountain. This certificate dates to the Jacob Forcade. Underground mining, second mining boom of 1896/97 for Gold Creek. Two newspapers, the ore cart vignette and small train Gold Creek News and Mountain City News, sprung up and promoted vignette. Towne & Bacon printer. Not the community. The Gold Creek Townsite Co. was formed in Denver. cancelled. Location at Gold Hill Mining District. Incorporated March The town experienced a surge of activity that lasted until 1900. It is 1863. Not cancelled. Nicks on borders, paper clip discoloration, a now a ghost town with little left but a sidewalk. [Ref: In Pursuit of Gold, little yellowing, pin holes. 25c Warehouse Revenue stamp. Collins lists Chung] Est. $100-300 HWAC# 79067 Forcade and Brickard [sic] in Gold Hill District at 1,200 feet. A Lukin is secretary. In 1865 Jacob Forcade with wife and two children left on the steamship Golden City heading back east. Prag Collection Est. $400- 700 HWAC# 79270 194 October 2018

DAY 3 Saturday, October 20th Mining Lot#3430 Gold Hill, Nevada 1863 Lot#3434 Gold Hill, Nevada 1878 Golden Wedge Silver Mining New York Mining Company Stock Company Stock Cert NUMBER # 10038 for 50 shares to HH Noble 1 First stock certificate issued by & Co. trustees. Signed by secretary this company. For 250 shares to CS DL Thomas and president C Weller. Camp. Signed by Joseph P Nourse as Dateline San francisco 1878. secretary and AF Scott as president. Incorporated June 4, 1875. Not Incorporated April 18, 1863. Located cancelled. Britton, Rey & Co. printers. Crude vignette of a harbor with on the Vanderbilt Ledge of the Gold sailing ships. Folds, wrinkles etc. This stock shows its age, but there Hill District. Faded 25c Certificate Revenue Stamp. For 1/4 of the are no major ripping, tearing or color issues! We have sold several shares. At $500 each 250 shares equals a hefty $125,000. Allegorical Consolidated New York certs in the last decade, but not any original vignette. printed by Britton. Not Cancelled. No edge, color pinhole or New York Mining Company certs. At least 10 assessment stamps on discoloration issues. Luckily for Mr. Camp a $1.00 a share assessment reverse. Prag Collection Est. $200-400 HWAC# 80451 had just been made earlier in the month! The Collins 1863/64 shows a new secretary N Shiverick, office at 605 Clay Street, San Francisco. Prag Lot#3435 Gold Hill, Nevada 1875 Collection Est. $400-800 HWAC# 80369 North Goodman G & S Mining Company Stock # 1971 for 50 shares Lot#3431 Gold Hill, Nevada 1864 to CN Taylor. Datelined Gold Hill 1875. GonGo Soco Gold and Silver Mining Signed by secretary William Henry Company Stock - NUMBER 1 Number and president William Havenor. Rare 1! For 10 shares to Richard Peters. printer - Brown & Mahanny of Gold Datelined Gold Hill, N. T. 1864. Signed Hill. Mountainous mining vignette. by Charles Quinn(?) and president Not cancelled. Mountainous mining Thomas Floyd. Incorporated February vignette. Incorporated July 16, 1874. Upper left corner has some minor 6, 1864. Issued two weeks after incorporation. Located at American Flat, issues. Not listed in Ansari! We could find no information on this RARE Gold Hill Mining District, Storey County, N. T. Not cancelled. Allegorical mine which was most probably named for the Enterprise Editor C. C. vignette. HS Crocker printers. Named for the Gongo Soco was a gold Goodman. Est. $200-400 HWAC# 79240 mine in the state of Minas Gerais, Brazil, to the east of Belo Horizonte in the mid-19th century. It was worked by skilled miners from Cornwall Lot#3436 Gold Hill, Nevada 1864 and by less skilled Brazilian labourers and slaves. Prag collection Est. Pilot Mining Company Stock # $400-800 HWAC# 80370 45 for 10 shares to NO Arrington. Datelined Virginia N. T. 1864. Signed Lot#3432 Gold Hill, Nevada 1864 by secretary WK Cutter and president Jenny Lind Gold & Silver Mining James Wilson. Incorporation date Company Stock #114 for 10 shares not given. Sailing ship vignette. to HH Flagole. Datelined Virginia Enterprise Book and Job Printing 1864. Signed by MJ Power and WT (?). House, C. St. One share to the foot. 25c Power of Att’y Revenue stamp. Incorporated Jan. 16, 1864. Mountain Not cancelled.Small holes and rips on folds (seeable when holding to mining vignette. Printed by the Gold light).Small nick, small stain and one dog ear. Striking with the sailing Hill News. Located on the Arizona ship vignette. Collins reports WK Cutter as secretary. We could find no Ledge, Gold Hill Mining District. 2200 other information about this mine. Arrington was one of the original shares at $250 per share. Not cancelled. Revenue stamp is missing. Two members of the Democratic Party in Nevada. He was also a territorial small holes to right of vignette. Otherwise in excellent condition. Collins banker - Stateler & Arrington. Prag Collection Est. $40-700 HWAC# lists the secretary as Power and his office was located at the Wells Fargo 79269 Building. The Jenny Lind was trading actively in the first months of 1864. But we found no information on the company after Arli of 1864. Lot#3437 Gold Hill, Nevada 1878 Prag collection Est. $400-800 HWAC# 80371 Sherwood Consolidated Mining Company Stock RARE and EARLY #54 Lot#3433 Gold Hill, Nevada 1863 Mechanics Gold, Silver and Copper for 50 shares to HS Stones trustee. Signed by secretary Van Bokkelen and Mining Company Stock president Robert Sherman. Datelined San Francisco 1878. Incorporated #176 for 15 shares to CH Sep. 1878. Location of mine Gold Hill Dist. Storey Co. Nev. Not Cancelled. Foster. Datelined Virginia, N. Two vertical folds and cut unevenly. Still no edge, corner, pin hole or T. 1863. Signed by president discoloration issues. Prag Collection Est. $100-200 HWAC# 800449 A (?) and secretary CS Chaffee. Incorporated Lot#3438 Gold Hill, Nevada 1863 State of Maine Gold & Silver AUg. 5, 1863. Eagle and Mining Company Stock Shield vignette. Valentine # 39 for 30 shares to J & Company, San Francisco Gallatore(?). Datelined printers. 25c Power of Att’y Gold Hill 1863. Signed Revenue stamp. Location at by secretary Broyhill Gold Hill Mining District. Collins in his 1864 Nevada Directory puts the and president E Cushing. location as the American Flat Mining District. He also lists CC Warner Incorporated April 2nd, as secretary. Business is located at 7 South ‘C’ Street. The San Francisco 1863. Three vignettes: office was located at 322 Front Street.Not cancelled. Rip at bottom of Maine seal, Native vertical fold. Pin holes. Assessment notices and past due payments are American on horseback all we could find in the newspapers. Prag Collection Est. $400-700 (plains), and eagle with HWAC# 79279 shield. Towne & Bacon printers. Not Cancelled. Location Gold Hill, Nevada Territory. Pinholes and top right corner bends. Stain bottom left. Nice looking stock certificate. Collins 864 Directory of Nevada lists the State of Maine at 1,800 feet. GW Turney was the secretary at that time. Prag collection Est. $500-1000 HWAC# 80373 Bid online at FHWAC.com or call 775-851-1859 195

DAY 3 Saturday, October 20th Mining Lot#3439 Gold Hill, Nevada 1875 Lot#3445 Goldfield, Nevada 1907 Sullivan Silver Mining Company Goldfield Simmerone Mining Stock Stock # 107 for 10 shares to Charles Certificates Signed by Malcolm Kelsey trustee. Signed by secretary O Macdonald Cert. 1021, issued at Bogart and president A Naudou(?). Tonopah in 1907 to R.P. Dunlop. Dog and safe small vignette. Fancy Signed by Malcolm D. Macdonald scroll work on left of cert. GT as president. Macdonald was one of Brown printer. GT Brown was San Francisco’s early African American the greats of early Nevada. Trained lithographer and printer. Prag Collection Est. $100-200 HWAC# 80445 in mining engineering, Macdonald returned to Nevada after a prolific Lot#3440 Gold Hill, Nevada 1876 record in Montana. He supervised Tyler Mining Company Stock # the building of the Big Horn dam system which supplied Butte with 1904 for 50 shares to trustees Hunch water and power. In Nevada, Macdonald supervised the building of & Coats. Signed by secretary A Coffin the telephone and telegraph systems to connect all the mining camps and president Cerrick. Datelined San as president of the So. Nevada Telephone & Telegraph Co. Also was Francisco 1876. Incorporated April consulting engineer for the Tonopah Extension Mining Company with 8, 1872.Geometric design. No printer. Charles M. Schwab as one of the largest investors. Macdonald then took Aged! Good Condition. Prag Collection Est. $100-200 HWAC# 80444 the reins of the great Montgomery Shoshone mine and developed it’s Lot#3441 Gold Hill, Nevada 1865 Uncle Sam millions. To top this all off, Macdonald was also president of the First Senior & Gold Canon Silver Lodes in Nevada National Bank of Goldfield (Bessie Beatty, Who’s Who in Nevada, 1907). Some wear and staining at folds. Tape repair on the back. Uncancelled. Statement & Reports concerning the Uncle Sam Nice signature piece from this great man. Est. $80-150 HWAC# 79054 Senior and Gold Canon Silver Lodes in Nevada. Printed by Alfred Mudge & Son, Boston, 1865. The Lot#3446 Goldfield, Nevada 1906, 1909 New mines were surveyed in 1865. A good copy sans Jersey and New York related Nevada Stocks the map. Est. $100-200 HWAC# 79063 1) New Jersey - Goldfield Mines Corporation. Number 105 for 1000 shares. to EW Alexander in 1906. Signed by treasurer Alexander S Proskey and president LM Codington. Good condition with some rips at borders. 2) New York Nevada Gold Copper Mining Company. Number 697 for Lot#3442 Gold Hill, Nevada 1898 3000 shares to HE Harvey in 1909. Signed by Yellow Jacket Mining Certificates secretary George (?) and president James Rice. Lot of two different and yet the same Two vertical folds. No edge, corner, pin hole or stock certificates. One is white and discoloration issues. These are not cancelled. one is yellow, One is to gold & silver Est. $50-100 HWAC# 81033 and one is for silver. Yet both have the Lot#3447 Goldfield, Nevada 1908 same format, vignette, and signatures. Northern Nevada Copper Company 1) 1898 white Silver Mining Company. Stock - NUMBER 1 Goldfield! Copper? Number 44962. for 100 shares. Signed That is what it says. Number 1 for 50 by James Newlands and (?). Printed by shares to Bert E Stevens. Signed by HS Crocker. 2) 1899. Number 1619. Williams and president CA Terwilliger. Yet is references number 44416. 1908. Principal office - Goldfield, The company seems to have re-incorporated in the past year and old number 44416 is now new number 1619. One is star punch cancelled - Nevada. Resident agent MC Williams. the 1898. Nice condition. Nice pairing. Prag Collection Est. $100-200 Three small mining vignettes. Gold seal. Not cancelled. No corner, edge, HWAC# 81036 pin hole or discoloration issues! Prag Collection Est. $40-60 HWAC# 81029 Lot#3443 Goldfield, Nevada 1907 Goldfield Consolidated Mines Lot#3448 Hamilton, White Pine, Nevada 1869 White Pine Mill and Mining Company of Nevada stock # 354 for 25 shares to Mrs Signed by Geo. Wingfield Rare Geo. Susan Rheem. Datelined Wingfield signature. #1154 i/c to Chas Strong 10 shares 1907. Est. Philadelphia 1869. Signed $100-200 HWAC# 79318 by president Joseph H Black and secretary Stephen Miller. Great above ground mining scene for a Lot#3444 Goldfield, Nevada 1907 vignette! Printed by John Goldfield Dominion Mining Stock Alexander of Philadelphia. 25c Certificate Revenue Certificate, Signed by Sol Camp Nice Stamp. Light purple on signature piece signed by Sol Camp white give this certificate as president. Cert. #3151, issued for an unusual, yet inviting, 1000 shares. Sol Camp was a mining look. Not cancelled. A engineer from Colorado and he couple of noticeable small teamed with L.L. Patrick to promote tears on the borders. A few (without holding cert to the light) holes mining ventures. Patrick had made his name as one of the owners of where the ink has eaten through the paper. On November 30, 1868 the the great Combination mine at Goldfield. The mine was sold to the Reese River Reveille reported that Mr. Greely, the assayer for the White Goldfield Consolidated for $4 million. The firm of Patrick, Elliot & Camp Pine Mill and Mining Company, cast four silver ingots weighing 1,236 made their first $150,000 from their first three Manhattan promotions ounces each. These were the first bars ever produced in Hamilton. Prag including the Manhattan Combination and the Manhattan Buffalo. Collection Est. $250-500 HWAC# 80407 The company’s office was in the Nixon Block in Goldfield. Nice clear signature from Camp. Uncanceled. Est. $50-100 HWAC# 79049 196 October 2018

DAY 3 Saturday, October 20th Mining Lot#3449 Hardin District, Nevada 1867 Emerald Gold & Silver Lot#3452 Keystone, Nevada 1867 Old Mining Company # 19 for 10 shares issued to George Allen. Datelined Dominion Mining Company of Nevada Chico, Butte County, Bond The Old Dominion Mining Company Cal. 1867. Signed by was located outside of Keystone, Nye County, secretary James C Martin Nevada in Tybo (Hot Creek) Mining District. and president J. Bidwell. The town of Keystone was established as a Mines located on the company town for the mining company and Emerald Lead, Hardin never truly established itself as anything District Humboldt more than a mining camp. The population County, Nevada. stayed low, never reaching any higher than Incorporated Sept. 24, 50, but that was enough to support two 1867. 25c Power of saloons. After the initial mining rush of Att’y Revenue Stamp. 1867, the camp was mostly silent until the Crude mill vignette. No discovery of a rich silver deposit made in 1910. The Old Dominion Mining printer. Not cancelled. One color issue at the ‘a’ in Company. Otherwise Company was incorporated in 1867 under the laws of Pennsylvania. extremely nice. This is the sister certificate to the Chico Gold & Silver The company offices were located in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. This is Mining Company. The Chico is far easier to find and this would make a a rare certificate because it has been financed by an eastern company in nice matching pair. The Hardin District is located at Black Rock. Hardin a time when it was nearly impossible for eastern financier companies City was the center of the district, but did not last a year of more. Bidwell to enter into business in the western mining interests. (Information on was part of the Bidwell-Bartleson party which is often credited with Keystone from http://www.ghosttowns.com/states/nv/keystone.htm). being the fist wagon train to cross the continent. Although they had to The bond has a decorative border and the terms of the bond, is Number abandon their wagons of the Sierra Nevada Mountains. Bidwell would 60 and is for the amount of $500. There is a vignette of 4 miners in the go to work for John Sutter and fight with him during the Mexican War. top center of the certificate. A company seal and the signatures of the He would find gold on the Feather River, was a friend to the Indians, and treasurer, Chas. Williams, and the president, A. O. Hiester, are present was a political presence in Butte County. Est. $300-400 HWAC# 81013 on the bottom. The second part of this document includes six coupons at $15 each. One has the date of 1868, two 1869, two 1870, and one 1871. Very nice condition. Prag Collection Est. $200-400 HWAC# 79242 Lot#3450 Humboldt County, Nevada 1883 Humboldt Nickel & Copper Lot#3453 Keystone, Nevada 1867 Mining Company Stock VERY RARE. Old Dominion Mining Company Number 45 for 40 shares to Albert of Nevada Stock # 42 for 100 Larrabee. Signed by N Whitman and shares to Dr. Charles H Hunter. president Joseph Schroeder. Dateline Datelined Philadelphia 1867. Signed Chicago 1883. Incorporated in Illinois. by secretary Stephen Miller and Very strong gold seal. Not cancelled. president AO Hiester. Chartered in Underground mining vignette. The Pennsylvania in 1867. East Coast Milwaukee Litho & Engr. Co. printer. looking farm vignette. 25c Certificate Nicks at fold edges. Nice condition. In Revenue stamp. Large red seal. Not 1883 Benjamin Goodhue advertised cancelled. N edge, corner color or pin hole issues with the exception mining properties with a Chicago Connection. The Humboldt Nickel of a slight dog ear upper right. The Old Dominion Mining Company was and Copper Company had 12 properties in Churchill & Humboldt located outside of Keystone, Nye County, Nevada in Tybo (Hot Creek) counties in Nevada. The Monarch and British Queen mines are the most Mining District. The town of Keystone was established as a company remarkable known to have been discovered! They average from 39% town for the mining company and never truly established itself as to 65% nickel. [Chicago’s First Half Century, 1833-1883 by Inter Ocean anything more than a mining camp. The population stayed low, never Publishing]. Prag Collection Est. $150-300 HWAC# 81614 reaching any higher than 50, but that was enough to support two Lot#3451 Ione, Nevada 1867 Storm King Mountain Gold Mining saloons. After the initial mining rush of 1867, the camp was mostly silent until the discovery of a rich silver deposit made in 1910. The Old Company Stock # 19 (early) for 20 shares to HR Treadwell. Datlined Dominion Mining Company was incorporated in 1867 under the laws New York 1867. of Pennsylvania. The company offices were located in Philadelphia, Signed by GV Cooper Pennsylvania. This is a rare certificate because it has been financed by president and an eastern company in a time when it was nearly impossible for eastern secretary (?). Issued financier companies to enter into business in the western mining for the purchase of interests. (Information on Keystone from http://www.ghosttowns. mining property. 25c com/states/nv/keystone.htm). Prag Collection Est. $200-400 HWAC# Warehouse Revenue 79241 stamp. Underground mining vignette. Ferd. Lot#3454 Lander Hill, Reese River Mayer & co. printers. District, Nevada 1867 Midas Silver Not cancelled. The Mining Company Stock Number 28 Reese River Reveille for 500 shares issued to JC Littell in has given us the hint 1867. Signed by Secretary Shay and where this mine President Trask. Three vignettes: was located. On allegorical woman (top right), September 3, 1868 they report that the Storm King Ledge at Ione has miners with headlamps (top center), been worked regularly since last fall yielding an average of 15 tons of and miners with ore bucket (left). ore per week. The value has been $150 per ton. The Storm King has Datelined New York 1867. Orange seal. Two tears: bottom left and reached a depth of 250 feet. Prag Collection Est. $300-500 HWAC# centre left. Rip at center vertical fold top. Staining (two) near number 80406 of shares. Thompson and West states the mine was originally in the Amador District, incorporated in 1863, which was a few miles north of Austin Est. $300-500 HWAC# 79247 Bid online at FHWAC.com or call 775-851-1859 197

DAY 3 Saturday, October 20th Mining Lot#3455 Las Vegas, Nevada Lot#3458 Osceola, Nevada 1892 1999-2000 Mirage Resorts Stock Osceola Gravel Mining Company Certificate- Steven H. Wynn as - Nevada Placer Mining Company Chairman of the Board The Mirage Number 381 for 645 shares to HW Resorts Company was acquired Lawrence trustee. Signed by Henry by MGM in 2000. It is rare to see a Kunbary(?) and WB Lunhands(?). certificate not tendered and free Datelined Salt Lake City, Utah Ter., floating. Steve Wynn’s facsimile 1892. Not cancelled. Location: signature as Chairman of the Board. Hydraulic Placer Mines, Osceola, Cert. #125199 issued for one share in White Pine County, Nevada. Not 1999. Classic western vignette of an old miner at left. VF. Uncanceled. cancelled. Two dog ears, but no other issues. Very nice! In 1877, placer Est. $80-150 HWAC# 78111 gold was discovered by John Versan. 1884 to 1885, the Osceola Gravel Mining Company constructed a 16 mile ditch, known as the West Ditch, Lot#3456 Montgomery to carry the water from six creeks on the west side of the Snake Range to District, Mono County, their placer operations. It did not meet the company’s needs, however, Nevada 1864 Webster Gold and on September 12, 1885, the White Pine News reported that the & Silver Mining Company hydraulic mines were “running very slow at present on account of the Stock # 145 for 10 scarcity of water, only averaging about 2 hours a day”. The Osceola shares to William H Hyde. Gravel Mining Company began surveys in 1885 for a second waterway Datelined San Francisco on the east side to be called the East Ditch. In September 1889, 1864. Signed by secretary construction began on this 18 mile ditch to collect water from Lehman Shilaz(?) and president IB Creek and its tributaries on the east side of the range. Water rights Lamb(?). This company was were purchased from Absalom Lehman, who had recently discovered incorporated around May of Lehman Cave. Several hundred men, using hand tools, wagons, horses, 1863. Allegorical vignette. and mules, worked for ten months to complete the ditch. Local sawmills Towne & Bacon printer. Location Montgomery District, Mono County, produced lumber for 2.2 miles of wooden flumes and the support California. Severely trimmed at right. Some aging at edges, otherwise beams for the 633 foot long tunnel, which was blasted through a ridge quite fine. Although listed in Mono County, this stock certificate is part near Strawberry Creek. The Osceola Ditch was completed on July 4, of Montgomery district in Esmeralda County, Nevada. This district was 1890 at a cost of $108,223, an expensive gamble in a business where located in the northern White Mountains in the vicinity of Montgomery profitable yields were not guaranteed. In 1891, both ditches were being Pass. The principal part of the district is located at the head of Queen used in operations, and by June 17, the mine was running 24 hours a Canyon in Esmeralda County. Organized as Montgomery district in day. The early success of the ditches did not last long, however, and gold 1864, but shown as the White Mountains district on the 1866 General production did not meet expectations. The gross yield of the Osceola Land Office map. [Nevada Mining Districts by Tingley] Praq Collection Mining Company in 1890 was only $16,191, and in 1891 only $20,223. Est. $300-700 HWAC# 79263 Prag Collection Est. $40-60 HWAC# 81030 RETURN POLICY All items are guaranteed to be authentic unless otherwise noted. If authenticity is challenged, please call our office for assistance. ALL SALES ARE FINAL. You may only return any piece that was significantly inaccurately described by calling our office within 10 days of receipt of item(s) Lot#3457 Nevada Mining District (Comstock), Nevada 1863 Johnson and notifying us of the error and reason for return. We do not refund postage or Gold and Silver Mining Company Stock - NUMBER 1 NUMBER 1 for 50 shares to TI Keys. Datelined Stockton, Cal. 1863. Signed by LE insurance. PLEASE CALL US IF YOU REQUIRE Lyons and Timothy Paige. Incorporated August 1863. Located in the Nevada District, Storey County, N. T. This Comstock certificate has a A MORE SPECIFIC CONDITION REPORT OR ADDITIONAL PHOTOS. Any items that are 25c Certificate Revenue stamp. Eagle and shield vignette. Stockton Independent printers. Not cancelled. Some staining, otherwise in very returned must be returned in the exact, nice condition. The Nevada district was located in the eastern Flowery Range along the Lyon-Storey county line. The district extends into unaltered condition. When we receive your bids we will assume you have read the Storey County to include the Gooseberry Mine area. The central part of the district is at Ramsey on the southeastern flank of the Flowery description in the catalog, viewed the image Range in Lyon County. Stretch(1867) described a Nevada district, east of the Red Mountain and Castle districts, in this area. [Mining Districts of the item, have contacted us regarding any of Nevada by Tingley] Prag Collection Est. $500-1000 HWAC# 79251 questions you may have on any lot and/or have previewed the lot in person. 198 October 2018