2018 December Auction Catalog

DAY 4 Saturday, Dec 8th Mining Lot# 4295 Dahlonega, Georgia Lot# 4298 Nacoochee, Georgia 1879 Nacoochee Gold Mining 1881 Findley Gold Mining Company Stock # 138 for 10 shares to George A Root. Signed by Co Stock I/U #3620 Geo Wilcox and president Codington 100 shares 1881. Josiah Curtis. Dateline Mill and stream vignette. New York 1879. Miners Signed by President Brody. on break vignette. Some The Findley Mine was an foxing on top left. Very exceptionally important mine Nice Condition. Located in the Georgia Gold Rush. The near the gold discovery Findley Gold Mine was one of sites in Georgia. Dukes Dahlonega’s most famous and productive mines for almost a century. Creek (originally called Opened shortly before the Civil War and abandoned soon after the Nacoochee Creek) is the United States entered World War II. The celebrated Findley vein was creek in White County, discovered in 1858 by a man by the name of Charles Duncan, who was Georgia, on which gold employed by Col. J. J. Findley to test for gold, and while thus employed was found in 1828. Either found this rich vein. Prior to Duncan’s discovery, vein mining was Frank Logan or one of his slaves is typically given the credit for this still relatively new in the area. Gold had been discovered near the find. The discovery of gold in White County and neighboring Lumpkin Chestatee River in 1828, but the miners who flocked to north Georgia County led to the Georgia Gold Rush. Prag Collection Est. $300-500 hoping to strike it rich panned the streambeds using placer mining HWAC# 81960 tools and techniques. The Findley Gold Mining Company owned this precious piece of land from 1878 to 1885 when it was sold in a sheriff’s sale. The Findley Ridge is considered the backbone of the Lot# 4299 Tallapoosa, Georgia 1901 Consecutive Georgia Gold Belt. [Barnacles of Gold by Amerson] Dog ear. (Al Adams Pair of Tallapoosa Gold Mining Company Stock Gold Rush Memorabilia Collection Est. $200-400 HWAC# 83330 Certificates Numbers 203 and 204 issued in 1901 to SS Schurriner(?). One has a 50c document stamp on the other the stamp is missing the stamp. Signed by John R Miller president and ? secretary. This Lot# 4296 Dahlonega area, Georgia 1867 The Parks Gold Mining mine was incorporated in 1901. In 1901 Moody’s Manuel of Corporation Securities reported that this Company Stock Certificate RARE! company had purchased all of the property of the Early Georgia Gold Mining Stock Royal Gold Mining Company. On site is a 40 stamp Certificate. Number 21 for 100 shares well equipped with all the necessary machinery. to S. Henry Morse. 1867. Signed by However, the 1902 United States Investor in answer to an inquiry says secretary AKP Joy and president the company is still in existence, but the mines are not active. They are Benjamin Hamilton. Vignettes of hoping to get their mine in Reading, Pennsylvania up and running in above ground and hydraulic mining. the Spring of 1902. But their mine in Georgia is not well thought of and Stock is in rough condition: tears on edges at folds, three heavy an investment in the stock in not thought advisable. Too bad the owner vertical folds, 3/8’ rip at one of the folds, staining. Still a must-have of these stocks did not get this information. The stocks are in identical piece for any East Coast Gold Collector. President Benjamin Hamilton excellent condition. Both include a dog ear in the upper right corner was a methodist minister from North Carolina. He voted against that is barely discernable. No other edge issues, pin holes, rips, tears secession. He was well known in Georgia Mining Circles. In 1856 he or staining. Est. $120-240 HWAC# 56928 owned mines in Burke County. It was here that the Van Dyke Hydraulic Hose was tested. In 1860 he was associated with the Cavenders Lot# 4300 Tallapoosa, Georgia Creek and Ward’s Creek Hydraulic Hose Mining Company and the 1893 North Georgia Land and Chestatee River & Town Hydraulic Mining Company. In 1863 he was Manufacturing Company Stock associated with the formation of the Augusta and Dahlonega Mining Certificate This company had Company under the Confederate States of America. He gained control a furnace built in 1890 for the of the Stephenson Mine in 1866. He sold 1/3 to the Dahlonega Mining production of pig iron. It replaced Company. [Yeats, 1860 and 1863 Acts Passed by the General Assembly the defunct and mis-managed of Georgia, Thomas Lanier Clingman by Jeffrey] This company could Georgia-Alabama Investment and have been named for the Benjamin Parks credited with finding gold in Development Company. [Engineering Georgia, and the East Coast, when he found gold walking along a path on his birthday. Est. $560-1200 HWAC# 56937 and Mining Journal, Volume 56] This new company didn’t seem to fair much better. From 1893 to 1897 there didn’t seem to be any production. with these two companies, Lot# 4297 Lumpkin County, Georgia 1890 Etowah Gold Mining Company Tallapoosa’s attempts as a manufacturing center seemed to have died. [Tallapoosa Commercial Historic District application for National Stock Certificate Extra Rare! Register of Historic Places] Lot of five. 1) Number 4471 issued to Number 318 for 100 shares to John C David J Whiteford for 10 shares. Signed by secretary CN Fox, treasurer Berwind in 1890. Signed by secretary OF Sampson and president WH Kimball. Large vignette of an eagle. Fred C Exter and president TJ Cheney. 2) 4884 issued to DJ Whiteford. 3) 4862 issued to DJ Whiteford. This Mine specific vignette: Indian teepee stock has a green background. 4) 4471 issued to Whiteford. Also in village. 12.5 x 9”. Overall in very nice green. 5) 1893 letterhead. Addressed to Whiteford about stocks he condition. Several small pinholes, one has purchased and transferred. Assuredly some (or all) of the stocks miner tear at top, and some waviness in this lot. All stocks are uncancelled and in very nice condition. Two on top right. Yeats says of this mine that “...lying along the Etowah River, and along the county line between vertical folds on each. Est. $160-320 HWAC# 57318 Lumpkin and Dawson. Mining, in a small way, has been done on this property.” In 1892 Exter would sue the Etowah Mining Company for $2,66 in back salary, He received $863. “Etowah carried on extensive operations here for a while and then pulled up stakes.” [Atlanta Constitution, April 30, 1892] Est. $400-800 HWAC# 56958 Bid online at FHWAC.com or call 775-851-1859 199

DAY 4 Saturday, Dec 8th Mining Lot# 4301 Wilkes County, Georgia Lot# 4303 Rocky Bar, Idaho 1867 Waddington Gold & Silver It is 1903 Seminole Mining Company rare to find an early mining bond. Stock Certificate Number 1779 for Bond from Idaho Territory. $100 100 shares to S Wesselius. Signed Mortgage Bond #106, issued by secretary William Mitchell and at New York in 1867. Signed by president W. Wiley. Although mainly James Hobart and James Selleck. regarded as a copper mine, gold Issued to trustee John P Newkirk. was a by-product. United States Properties were located at the Geological Survey Bulletin, Issue 455 South Boise district, Bear Creek, reports’ “The chief copper mine of Alturas County, Idaho Territory. Georgia is situated on the border between Wilkes and Lincoln counties Measures 11 1/4” x 11 1/4”. in the northeastern part of the state, 12 miles from Washington which Uncancelled.The South Boise place is accessible by the Georgia Railroad from Atlanta and Augusta. district was discovered in 1863 The mine was visited by the writer in 1904 and was being worked in by placer miners from the Boise January 1906.” The 1903 Copper Handbook confirms the existence Basin. One of the early promoters of gold, “7.3% copper, 32% lead, with $4.00 gold and $8.40 silver per and property owners was H. T. P. ton.” More information on the mine is included. Hole punched “100” Comstock, who owned the Elmore for shares of stock. Not cancelled. No rips, edge issues, staining, pin claim that boasted of $325 gold per ton. Comstock played up the holes or dog ears. Est. $160-240 HWAC# 56924 Elmore as being as rich as the district given his name, the Comstock Lode of Virginia City. South Boise drew nearly 1800 men by the Lot# 4302 , Georgia summer 1863, but did not experience the expected 8000+ prospectors 1868 Lumpkin expected by the spring of 1864. The district struggled with production Chestatee Mining from lode ore for lack of milling and transportation, but had plenty of Company Stock rich ore on hand. The primary milling technique was arrastras. But Number 465 for 50 this process was exceedingly wasteful with H. T. P. Comstock was noted shares to Joseph as being “disturbed to recover $10 to the pan from tailings taken 100 K. Wing. Very nice feet below his arastra. William Waddington was on the scene early and condition. Ink is fading a recognized the milling problems. He gathered up several ore samples little. Left hand corners from his own the claim the Elmore and from selected others and them are dogeared. Smallest assayed in Portland. The results were outstanding: averaging $800 per rip at top of left fold. ton with assays as high as $7,000. A toll road was completed to South 8.25 x 10.25”. Vignette Boise by September, 1864 which allowed for Waddingham, and his with 15 miners digging partner, J. W. McBride, to haul out 7 tons of ore, transporting the load and panning. Large to Portland. Waddingham was able to erect a mill through his New 25c brown Internal York financiers, the Waddingham Gold & Silver MC. Unfortunately, by Revenue stamp. Signed by John R. French as secretary and William 1865 the district was suffering from unscrupulous promoters who Windom as president.William Windom is an interesting character. left a bad taste in the pocket books of potential South Boise investors. His parents were Quakers who abhorred lawyers. So, he became a The New York Victor Co was the notorious of the scams. Waddingham lawyer. He moved to Minnesota and was elected to the United States stuck it out within the district, but had several milling set backs, not to Representative in 1859 when it became a state. He held this position mention any transportation improvements to the district. Completion until 1869.In 1870 he was appointed to the United States Senate when of the Oregon Short Line finally in 1882-83 finally allowed for the Daniel Norton passed away. He was Senator three different times district to enjoy some prosperity. (Idaho State Historical Society). Est. from 1870 to 1883. In March of 1881 he was appointed United States $150-300 HWAC# 80585 Secretary of the Treasury by James Garfield. He held the position for nine months. In 1889 he was again appointed Secretary of the Lot# 4304 , Idaho Columbia Treasury by Benjamin Harrison. He held the position for 22 months Gold and Silver Mining Co, Idaho this time. In 1880 he sought the Republican nomination for President. Territory Stock Probably located in He only received ten votes on the first ballot, but fifty ballots later the Boise Basin, ID, we could not locate convention was looking for a compromise candidate. Windom’s name any info on this mine in our library. was mentioned, but James A. Garfield was nominated instead. With #120 i/u to John ?lon 1866, 1000 his political longevity came some important accomplishments. He shares, signed by president Chesney, co-authored the Homestead Act of 1862. He was a strong advocate for incorporated in NY. Pretty red seal. railroad regulation. He promoted gold coinage and hard money. For Some toning, small crease and his service to the United States, the U. S. Treasury issued the $2 Silver tiny chip on top, paper fracture on Certificate of 1891 bearing his portrait and name. On top of all of this, bottom. Est. $240-480 HWAC# 58906 he served as president of the Lumpkin Chestatee Mining Company from 1868 to 1874. The Lumpkin Chestatee was incorporated in Lot# 4305 , Idaho 1894 Idaho Big 1867 and lasted into the 1880’s. The mine was located roughly 10 Annie Mining Company Stock # 428 miles south of the Chestatee River. Joseph Knowles Wing was born in for 500 shares to Thomas Hardy. Wilmington, Vermont, on July 27, 1810, the son of Bani Wing and Lucy Signed by ZD Lansing and president Clary. He left Vermont for Rensselaerville, New York, around 1826 and James Felden(?). Dateline New York served as a quartermaster for the New York Militia’s 25th Infantry 1894. Not cancelled. Valley hydraulic Regiment. In 1831, he moved to Ohio, where he operated a general mining vignette. Quite spectacular! store. During the Civil War, he served as quartermaster for the 16th Globe Stationary and Printing Army Corps, seeing action at Corinth, Mississippi, in October 1862. Company. Heavy folds, small rips, (Prag Collection) Est. $300-500 HWAC# 81964 edge wear. The only information we could find on this mine was in the Prescott Weekly-Miner that articles of incorporation were filed on October 25, 1893. Prag Collection Est. $150-250 HWAC# 86014 200 December 2018

DAY 4 Saturday, Dec 8th Mining Lot# 4306 , Idaho Idaho Mining Stocks (3) 1)Idaho Lot# 4311 , Kentucky 1887, 1891 Two Consolidated Mining #450 i/u to WJ Rockwood 2500 Kentucky Mining Related Stocks 1) Victor shares, signed by president Rodgers, incorporated Mining and Milling Company. Louisville, in NY 2)Thunder Mountain Syndicate #225 i/u to Kentucky. # 61 for 500 shares. Signed by Charles Ferdinand Langbein 1902 500 shares, signed by Goldwin and president Charles Herindny(?). president Prarher, incorporated in WA 3)Columbia Small gold bright and vibrant seal. Not cancelled. Gold and SilverMining-Idaho Territory #155 i/u to A few minor edge issues, otherwise excellent John Gordon 1867, signed by president McChesney, condition. 2) Lily Mining and Manufacturing incorporated in NY Est. $240-400 HWAC# 58924 Company. Early # 25 for 15 shares. Signed by J Blanton and JA Craft president. Lily and coal mining vignette. Louisville Litho printer. Gold Lot# 4307 Lemont, Illinois 1892 seal. Fair condition (see photo online). Prag Collection Est. $100-150 Illinois Pure Aluminum Company: HWAC# 83988 Historically Significant Very early # 10 for 25 to Robert M Shearer. Signed Lot# 4312 New Orleans, Louisiana by Robert M Shearer and president 1902 Maid of Orleans Oil, Chemical, Joseph Gerhart(?). Dateline Lemont, Mine and Developing Co. Stock Ill 1892. Incorporated in 1892. # 665 for 100 shares. Signed by Cancelled in 1893. Eagle Vignette. Guillotte and president Louis Green border and underprint. Richards. Blue on white. Dateline Staining on left. Hand written note 1902. Printed on what seems to be “transfer #11.” Some staining left thick newsprint. Edge issues. Taped side and bottom center. Located at 109 Holmes Street, Lemont, Cook on back to hold the three panels County, IL. Demolished in the late 1980s, the Illinois Pure Aluminum together. Please see photo. The Company’s factory in Lemont was one of the nation’s earliest United States Investor printed that aluminum cookware producers in the nation. [Library of Congress] the company was out of business by 1905. Prag Collection Est. $50- The Illinois Pure Aluminum Company made Pure Spun Aluminum 80 HWAC# 81979 Cooking Utensils. What Sterling means to Silver, this Trade Mark means to Aluminum Cooking Utensils was their slogan. Prag Collection Lot# 4313 Blue HIll, Maine 1880 Est. $50-100 HWAC# 83959 Maine Tin Mining Company Stock # 149 for 20 shares to AC Hamlin Lot# 4308 Nemaha, Kansas 1872 Trustee. Signed by Hamlin and Nemaha Coal Mining Company president JS Banks. Dateline 1880. Stock # 47 for 8 shares to E incorporated 1880. Not cancelled. Zabriskie. Signed by Watson B seal vignette. Corlies, Macy & Co. Smith and J Naile(?) as president. printer. Office at Gangor and mines at Dateline Omaha Neb. 1872. BLue Hill (crossed out and Winslow Incorporated in Nebraska in 1871. stamped in). A definite occurrence of cassiterite was noticed in 25c Certificate Revenue stamp. Not the granite rocks in Maine in 1869 by Dr CT Jackson in the town of cancelled. Different underground Winslow. At Winslow there were at least 12 veins which according to mining vignette. WT Seaman Professor CH Hitchcock traverse a very hard and compact siliceous of Omaha printer. Red print for and micaceous schist containing pyrite and near a layer of quartzite. countersignature. No edge, corner, pin hole or discoloration issues. Other minerals such as mispickel and beryl were found In 1880 Prag Collection Est. $100-200 HWAC# 83963 after an examination by Professor Hitchcock. The Maine Tin Mining Company was organized to work these veins. A shaft was sunk to a depth of 100 feet and a crosscut made of 20 feet at the bottom. A Lot# 4309 Louisville, Kentucky 1892 Tempest Mining & Milling sample of tin from this deposit is on exhibition in the United States National Museum at Washington [Report on Mineral Industries in the Company Stock #164 for 80 shares to Dexter Belknap. Signed by James Caldwell and president George United States at the Eleventh Census, 1890] Prag Collection Est. $80- 150 HWAC# 83977 Danforth. Dateline Lexington 1892. Strong silver seal. Not cancelled. Unique vignette of a miner laying down and picking his way through Lot# 4314 Portland, Maine 1881, 1890 Two the rock. An ore cart sits next to him. Printed by Louisville Lithograph. Maine Silver Rush Stocks: Swan’s Island and Excellent condition (one small tear on left side). The location of this Standard 1) Swan’s Island Mining Company. # mine is unknown. There was a mine by this name active in Washington 184 for 50 shares to NB Boardman. Signed by in 1920. This stock is listed as Louisville, Kentucky in name, dateline, HS King and president HP Johnson. Dateline printer and seal. Prag Collection Est. $100-150 HWAC# 1924 Portland Me., 1881. Hoist vignette. John A. Lot# 4310 Newport, Kentucky 1882 Lowell & Co. printer. Although Maine had a Gold Run Mining Company Stock silver rush at this time, there was apparently one gold mine in the entire district: The Swan’s # 141 for 20 shares (8041 to 8060) Island Mining Co. on Swan’s Island. 2) Standard to George R Todd. Signed by WH Mining and Ventilating Company. # 133 for 500 Wallingford and president Robert shares to HL White. Dateline 1890 Portland, Maine. Signed by JS Haven Waring. Dateline Newport Ky. 1882. and president George A Goodyear. Incorporated 1888. Both are very Incorporated in Kentucky in 1881. nice to Excellent. Two of several Maine silver mining stock certificates Oval eye vignette of miners including offered this auction. Prag Collection Est. $150-300 HWAC# 81967 one with a mining lamp! Title in gold and gold underprint ‘Shares $50.’ No printer for this striking stock. Hole at one of the vertical folds. Otherwise extremely nice condition. Copy of letter from the City of Newport confirms that this is a Newport, Kentucky mine. Prag Collection Est. $80-150 HWAC# 83967 Bid online at FHWAC.com or call 775-851-1859 201

DAY 4 Saturday, Dec 8th Mining Lot# 4315 Winterport, Maine 1880 Lot# 4321 Fuilton, Keweenaw Waldo Gold and SIlver Mining County, Michigan 1853 Fulton Company Stock Early # 10 for 4590 Mining Company Stock Rare. Issued shares to B Bean. Signed by B Bean to John Kennedy 1853. #557 200 as secretary and president Daniel shares. Incorporated in New York. Sickels. Outdoor mining vignette. Onion skin paper. Vignette of a Curlies, Macy & Co. printers. Not woman, bald eagle, trains and ships. cancelled. Dateline New York 1880. Signed by president and secretary Incorporated in 1880. Large tear Jerome Lott. 7.25” x 9.5”. The Forsyth bottom left just touches the border. Discoloration along the right Mine worked here until 1847. It vertical fold. Winterport, Maine includes 126 nearby mining deposits. was reopened in 1853 as the Fulton. Winterport is a town in Waldo County Maine United States. The The company held 3,000 acres. In 1853 four shafts were opened and population was 3757 at the 2010 census. One of several Maine silver several tons of copper was found in small masses. It became a stop on mining stock certificates offered this auction. Prag Collection Est. the Hancock & Calumet Railroad. Silver and copper. Prag Collection $100-150 HWAC# 81951 Est. $200-500 HWAC# 81921 Lot# 4316 , Maine Constitution Lot# 4322 Keweenaw County, Consolidated Copper Mine Michigan 1864 Connecticut Mining Incorporated State of Maine, mine Company # 659 for 140 shares to located in Mora County, New Mexico just North of Las Vegas, New WS Schouse. Signed by Charles M Mexico. This 10 page report is report is dated Feb 12, 1906 with two Morris and WS Stewart. Dateline sketches of mine shaft workings and cross sections of ground. It is Philadelphia May 9, 1864. Not overall good condition. Est. $60-100 HWAC# 84632 cancelled. Four vignettes: mining, allegorial, blacksmith and portrait. Lot# 4317 , Maine 1878, 1880 Two Maine Bald Cousland & Co printer. 25c Silver Mining Stocks: Lubec and Lebanon Power of Att’y Revenue stamp on reverse. Cut unevenly on left. Holes Acton 1) Lubec Silver Mining Co. of Maine. where ink as bled through. Nicks on bottom of stock. Some light Small size bond: 13 x 9”. Pink Seal. Issued 1878. discoloration. This was an underground copper mine consisting Incorporated 1879. Discoloration on right. 2) of 3 shafts located near Delaware. The Connecticut Mine was Lebanon Acton Silver Mining Company. Dateline organized in 1853 and mining began shortly after. The mine worked and incorporated in 1880. # 682 for 500 the Connecticut Fissure, a series of 2 parallel veins approximately shares. Signed by president Hugh J Chisholm 200 feet apart. The veins were similar in nature; fine prehite and and secretary DF Emory. Above ground mining quartz set in coarse calcite. Copper was discovered in the veins and vignette. Location Lebanon , Maine. Bright red the Company drove 3 additional shafts along the veins in hopes of seal. Two of several Maine silver mining stock finding more copper; however, very little copper was found after the certificates offered this auction. Prag Collection Est. $120-200 HWAC# initial strike. Between 1853 and 1856, 116,800 pounds of copper 81957 was recovered. Beginning in 1857 the mine was worked on tribute Lot# 4318 , Maine 1880, 1884 Two Maine Silver until 1860 when the Amygdloid Copper Company took control. In 1864 the Eagle Harbor Mining Company took control and split the Mining Stocks: Sullivan and Stover Hill 1) lands up into 3 seperate strips of land to organize 3 new companies. Stover Hill of Blue Hill, Maine. # 330 for 37 1/2 Today the mine piles are known to produce datolite with translucent shares. Green on white. 2) Sullivan. # 1552 for interiors, a prized find. Also from the Connecticut are copper, prehnite, 100 shares. Stamps for six assessment shares on thomsonite and greenstone as well. Est. $200-300 HWAC# 84579 front. Both have underground mining vignettes. Both are in fine condition. Two of several Maine Lot# 4323 Ontonagon County, silver mining stock certificates offered this Michigan 1850 American Mining auction. Prag Collection Est. $150-300 HWAC# Company Stock # 4891 for share 81955 number 4891. Signed by secretary (?) and president FE Phelps. Dateline Lot# 4319 Garrett County, Maryland Windsor 1850. Incorporated 1849. 1891 Silver Bell Mining Company of One of the early groups of mines Garrett County Stock Rare Maryland working in Ontonagon County, the American Mining Company was Silver MIning Certificate. # 7494 for 1 based in Windsor, Vermont and had a variety of mines throughout share to Henry M Broadwater. Signed Michigan and the U. S. Some of their more famous mines were the by RR Matheny and auto signed by Norwich, Windsor, Derby and Sharon. Yet there is no production president RM Boyd. Dateline 1891. records. Printed by Narine & Co., N.Y. Not cancelled. Vignette of George Incorporated in 1891. Printed by Washington. Excellent condition except for two small pin holes.Prag The Review of Lonaconing Missouri. Collection Est. $120-200 HWAC# 81959 Incorporated in West Virginia. Prag Collection Est. $100-200 HWAC# 81976 Lot# 4324 , Michigan 1912 Algomah Lot# 4320 Wrentham, Massachusetts Mining Stock I/U #3765 Paine Webber 1912. Vivid purple with nice Golden Agate Mining & Milling underground miner and oil wick Co. Stock Certificate, 1906 Rare lamp vignette. Prag Collection. Est. mineral-related stock certificate. $60-120 HWAC# 82569 Inc. in 1905 in Arizona. No. 157, issued for 7,500 shares to Ellen B. Cameron on May 1st, 1906. Signed by Andrew McKenzie, president, and James Ardle, secretary. Not cancelled. Hydraulic mining vignette. Folds. The company appears to have operated in Wrentham, MA. Est. $40-80 HWAC# 59041 202 December 2018

DAY 4 Saturday, Dec 8th Mining Lot# 4325 , Michigan 1930 Arcadian Lot# 4332 , Michigan 1886-1923 Michigan Con. Mining Stock I/U #6874 Mining Stocks (3) 3 rare stocks. I/U Bay City Louis Kraemer 1930. $16.50/ share Mining #5 Clarence McDermott 1000 shares variety. R5 page 39 in de Good. Prag 1866, a coal mine most likely. Wood cut miners Collection. Est. $100-150 HWAC# and cart vignette. I/U Marquette Copper 82571 Mining #111 John Washing 2000 shares 1908. Page 218 in de Good-R7 2 known. I/U Winona Copper Co #6903 Maitland Coppell 1000 shares 1923, page 381 in de Good, creases. Prag Lot# 4326 , Michigan 1908 Ash Bed Collection. Est. $200-400 HWAC# 82577 Mining Stock I/U #1881 Darius Goff 100 shares 1908 signed by President Lot# 4333 , Michigan 1917-1919 Michigan Weston. R6, heavy crease and staple. Pictorial Mining Stocks (2) I/C Mohawk Mining Prag Collection. Est. $80-150 HWAC# #6849 1919 with Native American Vignette-dog 82568 ears. I/C Ahmeek Mining 1917 with porcupine vignette-small lower border stain, pin holes and creases. Prag Collection. Est. $100-200 HWAC# 82573 Lot# 4327 , Michigan 1891 Huron Copper Mining Stock I/U #3292 Joseph Comfrey 1891, signed by President Watson. Prag Collection. Lot# 4334 , Michigan 1899-1922 Est. $200-300 HWAC# 82570 Minnesota Mining Stocks (3) I/U Phoenix Copper #257 Louis Case 100 shares 1899, not listed in de Good, pin hole and creases. I/U Winona Copper #15406 Walford Von Zellen Lot# 4328 , Michigan 1886 Huron 16 shares 1922, fair condition. I/U Houghton Copper #1382 Charles St. Copper Mining Stock I/U #1719 Pierre 10 shares 1915, Page 165 in IC Evans 1886 signed by President de Good, small tape tear on rear. Prag Watson 1886. Page 173 in de Good- Collection. Est. $150-250 HWAC# 82576 mine was a failure. Chips at creases. Ink stain. Prag Collection. Est. $200- Lot# 4335 , Michigan 1917 North 300 HWAC# 82575 Lake Mining Co. Stock I/U #2869 Edith Cunningham 7 shares 1917. Miners with drill vignette. Prag Collection. Est. $50-100 HWAC# Lot# 4329 , Michigan 1912-1925 Indiana 82567 Mining Co Stocks (2) Green I/U #3548 Estabrook & Co. 100 shares 1925 signed by President illeg. Mauve #2322 Clement Parker & Co 10 shares 1915 signed by President Edwards. Lot# 4336 , Michigan Northern Native American vignette. Inc in MI. Prag Mining and Smelting Stock UI c. Collection. Est. $100-150 HWAC# 82564 1890’s. Prag Collection. Est. $50-70 HWAC# 82566 Lot# 4330 , Michigan 1912 Indiana Mining Co Stocks (2) 2 different, green and mauve. I/C #2640 Hornblower & Weeks 100 shares 1922 signed by President Dow. I/C #9323 Homer Lot# 4337 , Michigan 1919 Ojibway Goodwin 25 shares 1912 signed by President Mining Stock I/U # 1628 Tucker, Dow. Native American vignette. Prag Collection. Hayes & Bartholomew 100 shares Est. $100-150 HWAC# 82565 1919 signed by President Grochau. Inc in MI. Creases and pin holes. Prag Collection. Est. $50-100 HWAC# 82561 Lot# 4331 , Michigan 1881 Mass Mining Company of Pittsburgh Stock # 380 for Lot# 4338 , Michigan 1910 Oneco 120 shares to Caroline Merriam. Signed by Copper Mining Stocks I/U #1929 CH Heussey president and J Brown. Blue MW Lee 100 shares 1910 signed paper with blue imprinted stamp. Dateline by President Towle. Inc in MI. R6. Pittsburgh 1881. Incorporated in 1856 in creases, pin holes, top chip. Prag Michigan. Not cancelled. Nicks at fold edges. Collection. Est. $100-200 HWAC# Nice. Copper Mine. We believe in Michigan. Prag Collection Est. $100-200 HWAC# 82560 83962 Bid online at FHWAC.com or call 775-851-1859 203

DAY 4 Saturday, Dec 8th mining Lot# 4339 , Michigan 1867 Ossipee Lot# 4346 , Missouri De Arc Mining Co. Stock I/U #11 Wm Copper. Lead Mining and Fruce? 25 shares 1867. 25c revenue Development Co Prospectus stamp. Signed by President Loring. dated 1899, 28 pages , has several maps and section throughout the R5, multiple folds, .5” tear. Prag pamphlet. In good condition and is very small measuring 6 1/2 “ by Collection. Est. $200-400 HWAC# 3 1/2 “. There is two punch holes located in upper left, and partial 82562 purple stamp “File Unde”. Est. $60-100 HWAC# 84634 Lot# 4347 , Missouri 1840 Osage Lot# 4340 , Michigan 1889 Mining and Smelting Company of Peninsular Gold Mining Stock I/U Missouri: Certificate NUMBER 6 #25 John Rae 1889 500 shares signed Early Lead / Zinc Mine in Missouri. by President FF ?. Not listed in de # 6 for 250 shares to Union Bank of Good. Nice big miner vignette. Gold Maryland. Signed by FH Davidge and seal. Inc in MI. Creases and small left president Edward Hinkley. Dateline edge chip. Prag Collection. Est. $200- Baltimore 1840. Incorporated in 400 HWAC# 82558 1837. “...consisting of over Five Lot# 4341 , Michigan 1871 Quincy Thousand Acres of valuable mineral lands in the State of Missouri.” RARE seal with a steamboat vignette Mining Co. Stock I/C #4921 Mason in center. Hole by “250”, A few nicks at the edges, Quite nice. Woods Smith 20 shares 1871 signed by and Crane printers. This is actually an early bond. Prag Collection Est. President Mason. Inc in MI 1848. Prag $400-800 HWAC# 81971 Collection. Est. $120-250 HWAC# 82563 Lot# 4348 , Missouri 1889 Two Missouri Coal Mining Stocks: Eagle Mountain & Pennsylvania, Iowa & Missouri 1) Eagle Mountain # 80 for 465 shares. Green on white. Signed by secretary George Baker. Very nice Lot# 4342 , Michigan 1920 Seneca condition. 2) Pennsylvania, Iowa and Missouri Coal #182 for 5 shares to EP Childs. Signed by EP Copper Corp Warrant Orange Childs and president WA Maginnis. Underground unlisted variety. Hole and dog ear. Prag Collection. Est. $60-100 HWAC# vignette. Hudson Kimberly printer. Fair condition. 82572 Est. $100-200 HWAC# 83940 Lot# 4349 , Missouri 1875, 1891 Two Missouri Incorporated Mining Stocks 1) Phoenix Mining Company NUMBER 2! For ten shares to James A Jackson. Signed by Alex Davis and president Lot# 4343 , Michigan 1927 Union Paris S Pfonts(?). Dateline 1875. Underground Copper Land and Mining Stock mining vignette. Western H. N. & Eng. printer. I/U #684 Anna Kehl 50 shares 1927 Not cancelled. Underprint gray (silver) ‘Shares signed by President Fay. Inc in MI. $100.” Good Condition. 2) Missouri & Illinois Lead Very rare. Prag Collection. Est. $100- & Zinc Mining Company. # 545 for 200 shares to 200 HWAC# 82559 John Short. Signed by George M Overhiser and president H Bennett. Green border. Train at mill vignette. Underprint brown “Shares $1.00 each”. Union Bank Note printer. Nice looking and in nice condition. Prag Collection Est. $150- 300 HWAC# 83987 Lot# 4344 Duluth, Minnesota Duluth Silver and Copper Mining Lot# 4350 Butte, Montana 1881- Co Stock Early Minnesota mining 1882 Three Good Butte, Montana stock. #98 i/u to WL Jackson , Mining Stock Certificates incl. incorporated 1883 but no certificate William A. Clark signatures 1) Two different Moulton Mining Company issue date, 100 shares, signed by president Pearson Est. $160-320 stock certificates, issued in 1881 and HWAC# 58933 1882, both signed by “Copper King” William A. Clark. One of the Clark Lot# 4345 St. Louis, Missouri 1887 signatures is hole punched. Same Saint Louis Ore and Steel Company vignettes, different color border and print (green and blue). Both are Stock # 822 for 14 shares to Clara very fine despite punch cancels. 2) Original Butte Mining Company. Mellon. Signed by OL Garrison and Location of Mine: Butte, Montana (printed under logo). No. 62, issued presdient EA Whitecock. Dateline St. for 1,000 shares to Joseph Rosenthal on May 16th, 1881. Signed by Louis 1887. Incorporated in Missouri the president, treasurer, and secretary. Punch cancellations through in 1882. Almost photo quality, rare signatures. No vignette, but ornate logo and border. Very fine. Est. inside mill vignette. Sweet! Franklin $200-400 HWAC# 59089 Bank Note printer. Not cancelled. Outside of a few pinholes, no edge, corner or discoloration issues! In 1876 (year before our cert) the Saint Louis Ore and Steel Company built two 7-ton converters. Made its first blow September 1, 1876. Added to an iron rail mill. Jay Gould was a large stockholder prior to 1884. Prag Collection Est. $100-150 HWAC# 83984 204 December 2018

DAY 4 Saturday, Dec 8th mining Lot# 4351 Helena, Montana Jay Gould Lot# 4356 Amador Mining Company Stock Certificate Mining District, Nevada & Real Photo Postcard Great pairing. 1864 North Lawrence & 1) Choice unissued Jay Gould Mining Guilford Consolidated Company, Helena, M.T., stock certificate. Gold and Silver Mining Nice underground mining vignette. Company Stock #63 for 10 18--. 2) Rare real photo postcard. Title shares to AL Shaw. Signed at bottom: “The Jay Gould Family and by NA Watson as president Friends at the Red Elephant Mine, July and secretary (?). Dateline 1891, Hailey, Ida.” No photographer San Francisco 1864. Incorporated Feb. 10, 1864. Not cancelled. Small listed. 27 people present in the photo. Not 5c and 20c revenue stamps. Location: Amador District, Lander County, mailed. Jay Gould is perhaps most known for being a railroad titan, N. T. Printed by Harrison & Co. One foot to a share. Vertical folds. No also referred to as a “robber baron of the Gilded Age.” Est. $80-160 edge, corner, pinhole or discoloration issues. The Amador Mining HWAC# 58560 District was 6 miles north of Austin around New York Canyon. It was later incorporated into the Reese River District. [Mining Districts of Lot# 4352 , Montana c1894-20th Nevada by Tingley] Prag Collection Est. $400-800 HWAC# 84563 Century Anaconda Mine Ephemera Approx 35 1894 bill heads related to Lot# 4357 Arabia District, Humboldt Anaconda, approx 20 8x10” b/w photos of a dinner with men in suits County, Nevada 1876 Hurricane probably an Anaconda dinner. Anaconda termination notice slip with Mining Company Stock Cut carbons, 6 driller cards, 8 payroll cards, 1910 stock prospectus and more. Est. $200-400 HWAC# 86400 cancelled president’s name. 25c Blue Revenue Stamp. Very early # Lot# 4353 , Montana Montana & 20 issued to AM Wilder for 6,638 S. Dakota Pioneers Pin Gold color shares. (Wilder would be president 19mm pin with pick and shovel. Made of this company in 1877.) signed by RM Shankelford(?) president. and by St. Louis Button Co. Est. $80-100 HWAC# 86405 secretary AW Robinson. Incorporated in California 1876. Vignette at upper right corner of a variation of the California state seal. Lot# 4354 , Montana 1891-1906 Printer: Bancroft. Black border on cream paper. Location Trinity Three Different Montana Mining (Arabia), Humboldt Co, Nevada printed at top. The Arabia district was Stock Certificates 1) Cumberland discovered by George Lovelock in 1859 and was one of Nevada’s first Mining & Smelting Company. Castle, organized mining districts. It was originally in Humboldt Co. The first Montana. Issued in 1891, not big mine there was the Montezuma. The district produced about $1 cancelled. Mine vignette. Folds, very million according to Lincoln, but was omitted by Couch & Carpenter. fine. 2) Illinois Gold Mining & Milling Not in Burchard or Raymond. Very fine except for cut cancel. Est. Company. Issued in 1906 in Libby, $100-200 HWAC# 85266 Montana. Not cancelled. Three mining vignettes. Folds with separation. 3) Flint Creek Mining Company. Butte, Montana Territory dateline. Unissued. c.1890s. Two mining vignettes and one of an eagle. Very fine. Est. $160-200 HWAC# 59073 Lot# 4355 Amador Mining District, Nevada 1863 Delta Gold and Silver Mining Company Stock Lander County, Nevada Territory (printed below title). Incorporated Sept. 21, 1863. Dateline San Francisco, Dec. 24, 1863. No. 44, issued for 100 shares to A.K. Stearns. Signed by president FS Spring and secretary Lot# 4358 Augusta Mining District, Nevada 1863 Augusta Gold and Lawrence Owen. Not SIlver Mining Company Stock This is a mine named for a mining cancelled. Black print on green background. Two small vignettes: eagle district with a great vignette and list fo ten lodes to match the vignette. on patriotic shield (top center) and Native American portrait (bottom # 54 for 100 shares to RH Scott. Signed by HL Dodge and John Shaw. center). Printed by Franklin Office, 415 Washington St. 25 cent power Dateline San Francisco, December 18, 1863. Incorporated October of attorney adhesive revenue stamp attached on the left. Folds and 1863. Location: Augusta Mining District, Lander Co., N. T. Lodes are light toning. Not listed in Filer. Not listed in the 1863 Langley directory. listed: Euphoma, Lillie, Zora, Rosalie, Wilhelmina, Frances, Esther, FS Spring is listed as a clerk with A.B. Grogan. Owen is listed as the Willifred, Annke and Margarita. Vignette shows ten ladies (as in the Grand Secretary for the RAM Masonic Temple. Stearns is not listed. names?) mostly semi-nude. Not cancelled. Small 5c and 20c revenue Est. $400-800 HWAC# 84562 stamps. Britton & Co. printer. Two folds. No edge, corner or pinhole issues. Todd and Welton (1866) placed the historic Augusta district in this area, east of the present Bernice district. The General Land Office map (1866) shows the Augusta district to cover most of the central Clan Alpine Mountains, including Augusta Canyon and the present Tungsten Mountain district. The Tungsten Mountain district extends north into Humboldt County, covering the mountains along county line, north of the Augusta Mountains and east of Humboldt Salt Marsh. [Nevada Mining Districts by Tingley] Prag Collection Est. $700-1500 HWAC# 84555 Bid online at FHWAC.com or call 775-851-1859 205

DAY 4 Saturday, Dec 8th mining Lot# 4359 Augusta Mining District, Nevada 1863 Cataract Gold & Lot# 4361 Augusta Mining District, Nevada 1868 Philadelphia Silver Silver Mining Company Stock The most intriguing thing about this Mining Company of Nevada Stock This is a WOW cert with both certificate is the good and the the dateline: bad. The good Nevada. We is the vignette. believe it is It is entitled, an unusual “Discovery Tunnel Nevada City of the Phila. Sil. dateline for an Min. Co. of Na.’ early Nevada Spectacular. The stock! # 14 for bad is the left 25 shares to third of the cert James Monroe. has been torn off Signed by and is now held AG Pier and in place with AC Niles as tape. # 93 for 2 president. Dateline Nevada, December 17, 1863. Incorporated July 3d, shares to Thomas 1863. Is closely connected to the Pennsylvania No. 2. An assessment Staudbudge. was placed on the Pennsylvania No. 2 and Cataract in the same article Signed by Elwood Mitchell and John Verru as president. Dateline in the Reese River Reveille. 25c Bond Revenue Stamp. Location: Philadelphia April 16, 1868. Scrolled in hard to read silver underprint Augusta District, Lander County, N. T. No printer. Perhads done locally is ‘Phila. Silver Mining Co.’ 25c Certificate Revenue stamp. Not as the quality (simplicity) seems to show it was quickly done. Dog cancelled. C Reen printer. Outside of rip, nice condition. This company ear lower left. Wrinkling lower right. Overall simple, but in very was originally called the El Dorado Mining Company and was nice condition. Todd and Welton (1866) placed the historic Augusta incorporated in May of 1864. The name was changed in 1866. “Todd district in this area, east of the present Bernice district. The General and Welton (1866) placed the historic Augusta district in this area, Land Office map (1866) shows the Augusta district to cover most of east of the present Bernice district. The General Land Office map the central Clan Alpine Mountains, including Augusta Canyon and the (1866) shows the Augusta district to cover most of the central Clan present Tungsten Mountain district. The Tungsten Mountain district Alpine Mountains, including Augusta Canyon and the present Tungsten extends north into Humboldt County, covering the mountains along Mountain district. The Tungsten Mountain district extends north into county line, north of the Augusta Mountains and east of Humboldt Humboldt County, covering the mountains along county line, north Salt Marsh. [Nevada Mining Districts by Tingley] Prag Collection Est. of the Augusta Mountains and east of Humboldt Salt Marsh.” [Nevada $400-800 HWAC# 84557 Mining Districts by Tingley] Prag Collection Est. $500-1200 HWAC# 84553 Lot# 4360 Augusta Mining District, Nevada 1863 Pennsylvania No. 2, Gold & Silver Mining Company Stock The most intriguing thing Lot# 4362 Aurora, Nevada 1863 Crosley Gold and Silver Mining about this Company Stock with an Aurora certificate is Dateline #37 for 10 shares to C the dateline: Haas. Numbers 779 to 788 (very Nevada. We European). Signed by president and believe it is secretary. Dateline Aurora 1863. an unusual Incorporated April 4, 1863. Location at Silver Hill, Esmeralda District, Nevada City Mono County, California. (in fancy ribbon). 25c Bond Revenue stamp. dateline for an Not cancelled. Shovel, pick and basket vignette. Towne & Bacon early Nevada printer. Some discoloration, one rounded corner, rips at fold edges. We stock! # 21 found no information on this company. Prag Collection Est. $400-700 for 10 shares HWAC# 82010 to Frank Fisher. Signed Lot# 4363 Aurora, Nevada 1863 by AG Peer Eagle Tunnel & Mining Company and president AC Niles. AC Niles was a judge in Nevada City. Dateline Stock - Aurora Dateline # 39 for Nevada, December 28, 1863. Incorporated July 3d, 1863. Not 10 shares to C Hackle(?). Signed cancelled. 25c Power of Att’y Revenue Stamp. Location: Augusta by JH Livermore (?) and Samuel District, Lander County, N. T. Is closely connected to the Cataract. Young(?) Dateline Aurora 1863. An assessment was placed on the Pennsylvania No. 2 and Cataract Incorporated April 6, 1863. Located in the same article in the Reese River Reveille. Rounded corner in the Esmeralda District in Mono County, Cal. Not cancelled. Very and nick upper right. Otherwise no other notable issues. Todd and Rough Condition! The Eagle Tunnel & Mining Co. was located in Welton (1866) placed the historic Augusta district in this area, east Aurora, Mono County, California. It was established in the early 1860s of the present Bernice district. The General Land Office map (1866) after the discovery of gold deposits in the area. Mono County included shows the Augusta district to cover most of the central Clan Alpine the Bodie Mining District which was one of the richest deposits in the Mountains, including Augusta Canyon and the present Tungsten area. Aurora, established in 1860, was for a time simultaneously the Mountain district. The Tungsten Mountain district extends north into county seat of Mono County, California and Esmeralda County, Nevada Humboldt County, covering the mountains along county line, north before an official survey by the federal government determined of the Augusta Mountains and east of Humboldt Salt Marsh. [Nevada Mining Districts by Tingley] Prag Collection Est. $400-800 HWAC# Aurora was actually located in Nevada. A new county, Mineral, was 84554 created in 1911 that included Aurora. Little is known about the Eagle Tunnel & Mining Co. except that it was established in Mono County and incorporated in Aurora before the official survey was conducted. [ http://mineralcountynv.us/index.php/component/content/ article/46-welcome-to-mineral-county] Prag Collection Est. $200- 500 HWAC# 82012 206 December 2018

DAY 4 Saturday, Dec 8th mining Lot# 4364 Aurora, Nevada First Lot# 4368 Aurora, Nevada 1863 North Extension Esmeralda Mining Rolla Gold & Silver Mining Co. Stock One of the earliest of all Company Stock VERY EARLY # 6 Aurora stocks, issued july 15, 1861 for 5 shares to A Steiner. Signed by to Issac Kirkpatrick for 5 shares on MM Gaige and president N Steiner. cert 88 signed by Alex Gamble as Dateline Aurora, Esmeralda 1863. president. i/uc. choice. This os one Incorporated February 28, 1863. of the companies worked on by Sam Pen cancelled. Light blue underprint, Clemens. Est. $400-800 HWAC# ‘Capital &800,000.’ Allegorical women and fancy scroll work. Van 85765 Vleck vignette of a Saint Bernard. Agnew and Deffebach printer. Van Vleck was a wood block craftsman in San Francisco. Located in Lot# 4365 Aurora, Nevada 1863 the Esmeralda District. 25c Power of Att’y Revenue stamp. Dog ear Fredonia Gold & Silver Mining upper and lower right. Very Nice condition! Gaige & Steiner were also Company Stock Early number 14 partners in the Sazerac Saloon on Fine Street in Aurora, “fitted it up for 50 shares to JG Knapp. Signed by in a style unsurpassed in the Territory...” They sold wines and liquors AG French and president John H Hill. and had a billiard table. [Aurora, Nevada 1860-1960 by Shaw] Prag Endorsed on back. Dateline 1863 Collection Est. $300-600 HWAC# 82013 San Francisco. Incorporated in April of 1863. Unusual circle with ‘Last Lot# 4369 Aurora, Nevada 1862 Chance Hill, Esmeralda, California, District, County of Mono.’ Agnew (1864) Strawberry Mining and Deffebach printer. Pen cancelled. Revenue stamp has been torn Company Stock - Aurora Dateline off and is only partially seen. Good condition: heavy folds, rounded # 132 for 50 shares to William Feast. corners, discoloration, etc. Prag Collection Est. $300-600 HWAC# Signed by William Tyler and D Statz. 82009 Dateline 1864 Aurora. Incorporated December 22, 1862. Location Lot# 4366 Aurora, Nevada 1863 Esmeralda District. Not cancelled. 25c Lexington Consolidated Gold & Power of Att’y Revenue stamp. Not cancelled. Beehive vignette. Towne Silver Mining Company Stock & Bacon printer, One small stain center. No edge or corner issues. Location: Last Chance Hill, Aurora, Tyler was an original member of the Aurora Masons - incorporated in Mono County. Early certificate 1862. Bernard Statz lived on the north side of Wide West between Hall No. 21 for 6 shares, issued to R. G. and Goodman (E64). William Feast was in Aurora by 1861. He owned Surdam on April 23, 1863. Signed by a cabin on the northeast corner of Silver & Del Monte. He was the Secretary E. W. Kuster and President Mono County Treasurer and continued in this capacity after Aurora B. F. Porter. Incorporated March 2nd, was proven to be in Nevada. Feast was also the secretary of the West 1863 and capitalized at $240,000.00; 1200 shares at $200 per. In the Wind, Fairy Queen, Utah and Gibraltar. He died in Aurora in 1864. Prag early days of the Comstock, Harvey Harris, a well-known assayer in Collection Est. $400-700 HWAC# 82008 California with offices in San Francisco, Sacramento and Marysville was busy scouting new locations for expanding his assaying business Lot# 4370 Austin, Nevada 1880s-1937 in the Nevada Territory. Aurora was on the border with California Austin Area Mining Stock Certificates and was county seat to both Mono County, CA and Esmeralda County, Lot of 4. Included: 1) Hider Nevada Copper Nevada Territory. In late 1864, after the boundary survey prior to Company (Lander County). No. 61, issued Nevada statehood in October of 1864, Aurora was firmly identified as for 3,000 shares in 1907. Punch cancelled. part of Nevada. Harris opened up branch offices first in Aurora (June Three mining vignettes. Folds with 5, 1861) and then Carson City in the Nevada Territory by the late separation. 2) Nevada Birch Creek Mining summer of 1861. He hired Ernst (Edward) W. Kuster--the E.W. Kuster Company. No. 1012, issued for 60,000 that signed this stock-- to head his branch assay office in Aurora and shares! to the company president, T.H. Dalton in 1925. Not cancelled. later sold out to him. Black print on crème paper with black border; Multiple mining vignettes. Folds. 3) Austin Silver Mining Company. No. yellow underprint “240,000”. Printed by Robbins & Co. Print, 417 Clay C9014, issued for 100 shares in 1937. Not cancelled. Miner with drill St. San Francisco. Uncancelled. Measures 9 7/8” x 5 3/8”. Vignette of vignette. Some staining. 4) Sheet of two unissued Reese River Flouring woman center by Loomis and vignette at left a man with a team of Mill Company stocks circa 1880s. Est. $40-120 HWAC# 42171 oxen. Rare. Later consolidated by the Real del Monte Mining Company, which took over the highly productive “old” Aurora claims on Last Lot# 4371 Austin, Lander, Nevada D. Chance Hill in 1877. [Ref: EMJ,Vol. 27] Prag Collection Est. $400-700 Lundbom Assay Receipt On the next HWAC# 82011 page is an early 1867 assay receipt from the assay office of D. Lundbom dated July 22, 1867. This is the Lot# 4367 Aurora, Nevada 1864 assay receipt from a submitted pulp specimen which was deposited Oriole Gold and Silver Mining by Thomas Cox. It is assay certificate number 2856. The receipt has a Company Stock # 58 for 10 shares to small thin black border and two vignettes; one of a lady and a small William Morton. Signed by Thomas miner vignette. President Lundbom’s signature is on the bottom right. Letson(?) and president Zenas In addition there is a green five cent Nevada revenue stamp signed Wheeler. Dateline San Francisco by Lundbom. I am not sure where Thomas Cox got his ore, but I do 1864. Incorporated May 14, 1863. know he was intimately involved with mining. He was a lawyer, and Not cancelled. Blue on white. a lawyer in 1867 in Nevada meant litigation! He was famous as a Interesting vignette: farming house. Towne & Bacon primer. Location: Washoe County lawyer (not Lander County!). Thomas Fitch (the great Last Chance Hill, Aurora, Esmeralda Mining District. Fragile paper. Two orator) and Cox (the great counselor) were often pitted on opposite tears on bottom of cert. Small stain top. Very fine! Morton was listed sides. This is the assay receipt from a submitted pulp specimen which as a miner in Aurora in Kelly’s 1862 Nevada Directory. Prag Collection was deposited by Thomas Cox. It is assay certificate number 2856. Est. $400-700 HWAC# 82082 The receipt has a small thin black border and two vignettes; one of a lady and a small miner vignette. President Lundbom’s signature is on the bottom right. In addition there is a green five cent Nevada revenue stamp signed by Lundbom. Staining on bottom right. Est. $400-500 HWAC# 99381 Bid online at FHWAC.com or call 775-851-1859 207

DAY 4 Saturday, Dec 8th Mining Lot# 4372 Austin, Lander, Nevada Lot# 4376 Bullfrog, Nevada 1906-1909 Bullfrog, Nevada Mining First National Bank of Austin Assay Stock Certificate Collection Lot of 4 different. 1) Four Aces Mining Receipt This document illustrates Company. Mines how intertwined all of the various businesses of the period were with located at Bullfrog mining. Fairchild, the publisher of this assay receipt and the owner/ Mining District, editor of the Austin newspaper Reese River Reveille, was a California Nevada. Issued Gold Rush miner. This certificate for mill pulp was most likely in 1906 for 1,00 deposited by the Manhattan Silver Mining Co. Although this is not shares. Great stated directly, this has the Manhattan - the largest of all of the Austin vignette of hand Mines of the period - written all over it. They were known to get their holding four aces. assays done here and this is the 34th and 35th assay that was done Not cancelled. Not at the same time. Allan Curtis was their agent and he was a director common. Pinholes, of the First National Bank. Teh receipt shows J.R. Murphy, Assayer. folds, some toning. 1867. For assay of “mill pulp.” Under name of mine or company, it just 2) The Lige Harris lists No. 35 and No. 36. Two deposits valued at $296.85 and $208.91 Bullfrog Gold in silver. Signed by Murphy as assayer. Allegorical vignette on the left. Mining Company. Folds and heavy soiling. Measures 4.5” x 8.5” Est. $300-400 HWAC# Location printed on 99380 certificate. Issued in Goldfield in Lot# 4373 Belmont, Nevada 1867 1906. Eagle vignette. Not cancelled. Signed by V. Hoggatt, one of the Quinterro Mining Company Stock Bullfrog pioneers. Folds, toning, some separation, other light wear. 3) - Rare, Unique #1 This is stock Bullfrog Keystone Gold Mining Co. Issued 1906. Not cancelled. Multiple CERTIFICATE #1. Very, Very rare mining vignettes. Pinholes, folds. 4) Tramp Consolidated Mining cert. Number 1 makes it unique! For Company. Issued 1909. Not cancelled. Underground mining vignette. 1,770 shares to OP James. Signed Folds. Est. $400-800 HWAC# 58403 by George Lear and OP James as president. Dateline August 10, 1867. Lot# 4377 Bullfrog, Nevada Incorporated in Pennsylvania. One Montgomery Mountain Mining mining vignette on left. Center ahs two magnificent stallions, and Co. of Bullfrog Stock Certificate eagle vignette. Wm. F. Murphy & Sons printer. 25c Certificate Revenue Cert. #3115 issued for 100 shares stamp. One vertical fold, one pinhole and dog ears are all that mar to Harry Cram in 1906. Signed by this certificate. On January 22, 1867 Mr. James of the Pennsylvania E. Mead and D. Perry. Mines located legislature introduced a bill to incorporate the Quinterro Mining at Bullfrog, Nevada printed at Company. It was approved on February 21, 1867. [Harrisburg the top. Incorporated in Nevada. Telegraph] Est. $300-600 HWAC# 85201 Montgomery Mountain is located just Lot# 4374 Belmont?, Nevada 1867 N.E. of the Rhyolite townsite. This Pennsylvania and Nevada Mining company held claims adjoining the prolific Montgomery Shoshone mine which included the Bullfrog Red Oak, the Shoshone Extention Company Stock # 56 for 350 shares Lode, the Providence Lode and the Polaris Fraction Lode. Ultimately, to OP James. Signed by George Lear The Montgomery Shoshone Mining Company acquired all these and OP James as president. Dateline adjoining properties on Montgomery Mountain (internet search). Utah Doylestown, Bucks Co. August 10, Lithographing Co., S.L.C. printer. Uncancelled. Est. $80-200 HWAC# 1867. Vignette of underground 90590 mining and one of two magnificent stallions and an eagle. These are Lot# 4378 Bullfrog, Nevada 1906 the same certificate design, same state of origin, same names and the Shoshone National Bank Mining same date as the Quinterro stock also offered in this sale. This is our Company Stock Certificate Number only lead to where this company was located? Dog ear upper right. 419 for 1000 shares to Peter Neeson Very small staining at center fold. 25c Certificate Revenue stamp. Not in 1906. Signed by JT Holmshaw cancelled. Est. $200-300 HWAC# 85202 and Nescool(?). Two heavy folds and slight bend on bottom right corner. Lot# 4375 Big Creek Mining District, Printed by H.S. Crocker & Co., S.F.. Nevada 1863 Olympic Gold and U/C. Black ink on crème paper. No Silver MIning Company Stock # vignette. Location of mines, Bullfrog District. This company appears to 111 for 66 shares to Charles Watkins. be the same property as the Bullfrog National Bank, but we are unsure SIgned by SC Galla--- and president how they are related. They could be two different issues floated for William H Strong. Dateline San the same property, which would be unethical promoting. The other Francisco Oct. 15, 1863. Incorporated possibility is that the company was a rip-off of the real National Bank May 8th, 1863. Small 5c and 20c property. John Cook, signing as president, would go on to create his revenue stamps. Not cancelled. Underground mining vignette. Towne own bank with branches in Goldfield, Beatty, and Rhyolite. [Holabird] & Bacon printer. Location: Rogers and Wheeler Ledge, Lander Co., N. “The Shoshone National Bank Mining Co. [in 1906] owns a group of T. No edge corner, pinhole or discoloration issues. The Reese River fractions consisting of 66 acres extending from the National Bank Reveille lists this company in the Big Creek Mining District. John Gray north east through the dip on to the Montgomery and Rainbow was superintendent. A 20c assessment as being levied. [Reese River Mountains. They have a shaft 50 foot deep and 50 foot cross cut. They Reveille, October 3, 1863] Est. $400-700 HWAC# 84573 have milling ore and stringers of manganese quartz but main ore bodies have not been encountered yet. [Mysterious Scott,” the Monte Cristo of Death Valley by Merrill, 1906] (Bennett Collection) Est. $50- 130 HWAC# 60229 208 December 2018

DAY 4 Saturday, Dec 8th Mining Lot# 4379 Bullfrog, Nevada 1906 Three Bullfrog Lot# 4384 Carson City, Ormsby, Mining Stocks - Including the Leading Producer Nevada Legal Document Issued on 1) Montgomery Shoshone Consolidated. Number 946 the First Day of Nevada Statehood for 200 shares to George A Black in 1906. Signed by Executed on the first day of Nevada Statehood, November 1, 1864.. secretary (?) and 2nd vice president McDonald. Couch Stephen Haydon of Carson City was selling Charles Laird of Sonoma & Carpenter lists their gross yield at $1,388,398. This is right-of-way (or alley) from East to Fritch Street in Carson City in the the largest of any Bullfrog Mine. Underground mining area known as “Hayden’s Extension.” This may have been the first vignette. 2) Gibraltar Mines Syndicate. Number 2754 for official document ever executed in the state of Nevada! Includes two 100 shares to WB Stewart. Signed by secretary and vice large brown 25c US Revenue stamps. Long rips at some the folds. If president Shockley. Native American vignette. In 1909 this wasn’t the first official state of Nevada document , it was certainly they were shipping ore to smelets. 3) Rarer Montana one of the very first! Est. $100-200 HWAC# 99431 Bull Frog Mining Company. Number 528 for 1000 shares to Thomas F Barry in 1905. Signed by H Elliott and AG (?). Allegorical vignette. Lot# 4385 Devil’s Gate, Nevada Incorporated Under the Laws of Arizona, November 25, 1904. The 1863 Boden & Larkin Silver Mining mine was located on Ladd Mountain between North Star and Bullfrog Company Stock # 75 for 10 shares of Nevada. (Filer). These three stocks are in generally nice condition. to George S Haskell. Signed by D Van Vertical folding seems to be the only issue. (Bennett Collection) Est. Vleck and John Boden as president. $80-120 HWAC# 60227 Dateline San Francisco August 5, 1863 and incorporated July 2, 1863. Lot# 4380 Candelaria, Nevada 1890 Not cancelled. 25c Entry of Goods Mt. Diablo Mill & Mining Stock Rare Revenue stamp. Location: Devil’s Gate Candelaria key mine in Esmeralda District, N. T. One foot to one share. Allegorical female vignette. Nahl County, NV. I/U #984 S Cook 50 Brothers printer. Boden is listed as clerk with Henschel & Maurice in shares 1880. Signed by President the 1863 Langley directory. Van Vleck is listed as a wood engraver. The Allen? Est. $120-200 HWAC# 83310 mining company is not listed. The Devil’s Gate District was organized November 18, 1859. Located on the southeast slope of the Virginia Lot# 4381 Carson City, Nevada Range. The Devil’s Gate is a natural formation at the entrance to Silver 1874-1900 Carson City Revenue City. Prag Collection Est. $400-800 HWAC# 84521 Check Collection Lot of 9, most different. Includes: 1884 Wells Lot# 4386 Devil’s Gate, Nevada Fargo, RN-G (rare); 1877 Carson City 1863 Brennus Gold & Silver Mining Savings Bank, RN-F; pictorial 1877 Company Stock VERY EARLY Carson City Savings Bank, RN-F; NUMBER 7 for 5 shares to T Forcade. 1875 Savings Bank, RN-D; 1882 Savings Bank, RN-G; 1877 Savings Signed by L Vidal and president Bank RN-G; and two Bullion & Exchange Bank Certificates of Deposit, L Rowand. Dateline February 9, 1900, RN-X; and an 1899 B&E check, RN-X. Instant Carson City variety 1863. Incorporated January 19, collection! Est. $100-150 HWAC# 78656 1863. Location: Devil’s Gate Mining District.....El Dorado Ledge. Black on green. Beehive vignette. Towne Lot# 4382 Carson City, Nevada & Bacon printer. Not cancelled. Some discoloration and miner edge 1870s Very Rare Wells Fargo issues on left. A $1.00 assessment was levied as early as June of 1863. Nevada Revenue RN Check Probably Forcade’s stock was offered for sale in September of 1863 for failure to the rarest Carson City check. Books pay this assessment. (CDNC) Not listed in Collins. Prag Collection Est. at $300 in Castenholz. Wells, Fargo $400-700 HWAC# 84520 & Co. with RN-C22 revenue imprint. Unused (as is standard). Printed by Bacon & Company. Carson, Nev. Lot# 4387 187- dateline. Stub attached. Excellent condition! Est. $150-300 Devil’s Gate HWAC# 78653 Mining District, Nevada 1861 Lot# 4383 Carson City, Ormsby, Haul-Off Nevada Carson City Mint Letter and Jump- on Letterhead to the Honorable R. Up Mining P. Keating In 1865 William Garrard was appointed superintendent Company Stock of the Mint in Carson City. Two days later President Cleveland lock We can’t decide the Mint doors. Garrard and other important Democrats relentlessly what is more petitioned to have the mint open. Cleveland did allow them to unlock interesting about the back door (metaphorically speaking) and due a limited amount this certificate: of assaying. In 1889 a Republican was elected President and the Mint the name, the incredibly early date or the person who bought this produced coins for its last four years. So although the mint was not certificate! The Haul-Off and Jump-Off Mining Company was located making coins, the letterhead clearly says, “The Mint of the United on the Fine Ledge. This is cert #40 for 8 shares to John Vignot. It is States at Carson, Nevada.” So, it was a mint - sort of! This letter from signed by CS Ellis and LW Donaldson. HS Crocker printer. Location: ‘The Mint of the United States at Carson, Nevada is letting Keating, Devil’s Gate Mining District. Dateline VIrginia City April 16, 1861. superintendent of the Savage Mine, know that the Carson City Mint Not cancelled. Discoloration on edges and a few small tears. Over all has just sent three gold bars by Wells Fargo. Signed by W. Thompson, Fine! John Vignot’s cabin built in 1859 was one of the first four or Cashier. Est. $400-500 HWAC# 99766 five substantial buildings at Gold Hill. In 1861 he and three others, Including McLaughlin, surveyed the area around Gold Hill for water. L William Donaldson, WW Caperton and the Ophir Mining Company on August 12, 1861 sold land with water privileges and mill sites between Virginia City and American Flat to the Washoe Turnpike Company. In the 1861 Nevada Directory Ellis was owner of the Virginia Saloon. Donaldson, Ellis and Vignot can all be found mentioned throughout the book “Records of Carson County in the Utah and Nevada Territories” by Ellison. Prag Collection Est. $1500-2500 HWAC# 84517 Bid online at FHWAC.com or call 775-851-1859 209

DAY 4 Saturday, Dec 8th mining Lot# 4388 Eastern Slope Mining Lot# 4392 Eureka, Nevada District, Nevada 1863 (1866) Athens Eureka Consolidated Mining Co. Gold and Silver Mining Company Incorporated July 6, 1870. Cert # Stock with Five 5c Nevada Revenue 31135 for 20 shares of common Stamps This cert contains five 5c stock @ $100 per share issued Sept. green Nevada revenue stamps. 23, 1887 to Wm Fries Jr. signed Also three 5c and 1 10c US revenue Wm Fries president. Black border, stamps. # 215 for 20 shares to James Fraser. Signed by Samuel D no vignette, 15 dividend stamps on back, bi-fold crease, overall King and president Niles Reese(?). Dateline Carson City N. T. 1866. good condition. Printer: H.S. Crocker & Co S.F. By the early 1870s Incorporated July 18, 1863. One vignette of an allegorical figure on the the Eureka Consolidated Mining Company had purchased several left. Green print and border. Pink safety print. Stock is uncancelled. additional mines, built five blast furnaces for smelting ore, and Printer unspecified. 9” x 4”. Unsigned red-brown, twenty-five cent, constructed a narrow-gauge railroad from the mines to its reduction Power of Attorney Revenue stamp on right hand side. Cut unevenly works . Production of the district from 1879-1883 was enormous, left. No edge, corner discoloration of pinhole issues. The Eastern Slope second only to the Comstock as a source of precious metals in the Mining District was on the east side of the Sierra Nevada Mountains. United States. In protective plastic sleeve. Est. $150-300 HWAC# Coincidentally the newspaper for the town of Washoe City was called 84605 the ‘Eastern Slope.’ Listed in the Athens Lode of the Eagle and Washoe Valley Mining District. [Handbook of Mining Law, 1878] The Casherie Lot# 4393 Eureka, Nevada Eureka G&S MC was also in the Eastern Slope District. Fraser was the Ormsby Tunnel and Mining Co Incorporated County treasurer. King was a Carson County recorder, district judge, Jan 10, 1878 State of Nevada. Cert prosecuting attorney, and assemblyman. Prag Collection Est. $400- #189 for 100 shares @ $100 per 700 HWAC# 84547 share of common stock issued to Jos. Lewis Eckert July 15,1879 signed Lot# 4389 El Dorado Canon Mining District, Nevada 1864 Great by Wm W Bishop president, one Eastern Gold & Silver assessment stamp on the back, black border vignette on left side of Mining Company Stock three miners in tunnel :one pushing cart, on with a pick axe and one Although listed on the with a rod. “FOREVER UNASSESSABLE” printed on front. Overall stock as in the Arizona good condition, some small wrinkles. In protective plastic sleeve. Est. Territory (which it $150-200 HWAC# 84606 was at the time) this southern tip of Nevada Lot# 4394 Eureka, Nevada Omega (which includes Las Mining Co IncorporatedMarch 10, Vegas) would be moved 1879 . Cert #3 for 50 shares @ $100 to Nevada a few years per share of common stock issued later. # 25 for 25 shares in San Francisco to Thos. Findlay, to Leonard. Signed March15,1879 signed by president by (?). Dateline San (signature not readable), black Francisco July 15, 1864. Incorporated June 3d 1863. 25c Power of Att’y border, no vignette. Good condition, some small wrinkles. Printer: A.J. Revenue stamp/ Not cancelled. Mountainous vignette with dwarfed Leary Est. $120-200 HWAC# 84607 tunnel. Unusual and perhaps it represents the actual area of this mine. Lot# 4395 Eureka County, Nevada Three Different Drouaillet printer. Location: El Dorado Canon, Ariz. Ter. One foot to a Eureka County, Nevada Mining Stock Certificates share. One pin hole and one small nick bottom center. Great example of 1) Ruby Hill Tunnel & Mining Company. Eureka, this stock. “The Eldorado district is located in the vicinity of the town Nevada. Issued May 21st, 1889 for 10,350 shares. of Nelson in Eldorado Canyon west of Lake Mead. The district includes Pen cancelled. Location: Prospect Mountain. a large area bordering on the Colorado River, embracing El Dorado Pinhole, folds, very fine. 2) St. Peters Consolidated Canyon. Wheeler (1872) included the area in a larger Colorado district Gold & Silver Mining Co. Location listed below logo: which also included the present Searchlight district.” [Mining Districts of Nevada by Tingley] Prag Collection Est. $500-1000 HWAC# 84565 Antelope District, Eureka County, Nevada. No. 38, issued for 50 shares to president William Whalen on August 17th, 1887. Also signed by the secretary. Not Lot# 4390 Eureka, Nevada Boston cancelled. Gilt underprint and vignette of mining and Eureka Mining Co incorporated camp. Bent corner. Very fine. 3) Richmond Mining Company of Nevada. 1880 in Portland, Maine with the Location printed as Eureka District, Nev. Unissued. c.1870s. Mine and main office located in Boston, Mass. Native American vignette. Est. $160-240 HWAC# 58477 Certificate #37 for 150 shares of common stock @ $1 ea. issued May Lot# 4396 Eureka Dist., Nevada 25, 1881 to Perry Brigham, signed Albion Consolidated Mining Co. secretary George Taber and company Incorporated Dec 29, 1879 in the president Sein Newcomb. tri-fold creases, black border. no vignette. District of Eureka, Nev. Certificate Good Condition . Printer J.H. Bufford Sons Boston New York In #14028 issued in 1882 to F.M. Lewis, protective plastic sleeve. Est. $120-200 HWAC# 84602 Trustee for 150 shares. Signed by D.B. Chisholm, secretary, and Clinton Lot# 4391 Eureka, Nevada Bowman Gardner, vice president. Three Silver Mining Co Incorporated 1n assessment paid stamps on back! Small vignette of single underground 1881 State of Maine. Cert. # 214 for miner facing l-r. Printer L.E. Count Bros. S.F. In protective plastic 100 shares of common stock issued sleeve. Est. $120-150 HWAC# 84601 May 27, 1881 to Geo. E. Ltantial signed by Dan D, Wiley president, w/9 assessment stamps on back. Good condition appears to have evidence of folds, no tears. Black Border, no vignette. Printer: F.C. Philbrick & Co. Boston. Est. $120-200 HWAC# 84603 210 December 2018

DAY 4 Saturday, Dec 8th mining Lot# 4397 Eureka Dist., Nevada Lot# 4401 Flowery Mining District, Richmond Mining Co. of Nevada Nevada 1879 East Bonanza Gold Incorporated Feb 1873. Cert #12 & Silver Mining Company Stock for ONE shares @ $100 per share of # 51 for 25 shares to TE Teegarden common stock issued in J.H. Keogh, trustee.Signed by secretary Thomas Dec 13, 1906 signed by president Teegarden And president JH Lieman. H.C McTeriny, black border, two (Teegarden and Lieman located a vignettes: Left side of Indian seated claim under the name of Lieman in November of 1878. It was 700 on rock looking l-r and center of foundry with smoke coming from linear feet in the Virginia District between the Pioneer mine, the stack, train moving r-l in background. . Good condition. Printer: Mountain View and North Milton. Teegarden located the Teegarden Bancroft & Co San Francisco Est. $100-150 HWAC# 84608 claim in March of 1879. It was 1000 feet in the Flowery District. It was a relocation of part of the Yankee Jim. On August 1, 1879 Thomas Lot# 4398 Eureka Dist., Nevada Three Different T Teegarden filed a notice of location on the Guadalupe lode on the Eureka mining stocks Cert. 1. Eureka-Croesus east by the Rocky Bar, west by the Scorpion and formerly known as Mining Co, Incorporated State of Delaware 1917. the Silver Wedge. (This is most likely the East bonanza.) He was still Cert # 73140 for 100 shares(100 stamped in looking for the pot-of-gold at the end of the rainbow.) Incorporated purple top) @$1 per share of common stock August 2, 1879. Issued Virginia, Nev. 1879. Location Storey County, issued to Arthur O’Malley Mar 19, 1925, signed Nev. Eagle vignette. Rips at borders. Holes at stamp. Fair condition. by president G.L. Torres, green border, vignette: Est. $100-200 HWAC# 85276 Top center of Statue of Liberty with world on right and eagle on left with union shield below, steam Lot# 4402 Flowery Mining District, ship in background . On Back shares transferred Nevada 1861 Pacific Tunnel & Aug 25, 1926 with notary stamp. Good condition, Mining Company Stock This is evidence of folds but not torn. history note included. Printer: W.N. one of the early ones. # 55 for 16 Perrin N.Y.. 2. Eureka Silver lIck Extension Mines Co, incorporated Feb shares to James Aitken. Signed by 6, 1920 State of Nevada. Cert #12 for 1000 shares of common stock @ LW Ferris, Louis Feuser and TH 10 cents per share issued to W.M. Clute (also resident agent) Feb 20, Pinkerton. Dateline Virginia City 1920 signed by president John A. May, black border, gold company seal Sept. 7, 1861. Organized on April 3, left side, vignette: top left of allegorical female lookin over shoulder 1861. We found no reference to this company. The Flowery Mining l-r, star on bonnet. Reverse shares transferred signed by W.M Clute District would be incorporated into the Comstock Mining District. It Feb 20, 1920. Condition excellent, Printer: GOES 3. Eureka Tunnel was also known as Rogers or Summit Lake, and located in the Flowery Consolidated Mining Co, incorporated May 15, 1884 State of Nevada. Range, to the east.[Mining Districts of Nevada by Tingley] Virginia Location Prospect mOuntain, Eureka. Cert # 59 for 50 shares of City was incorporated in February of 1861. Louis Feuser was one common stock @ $100 per share issued to H. Miller Trustee, July 22, of the original trustees for the incorporation. The Feusier Octagon 1884. Signed president R. Gadley (smudged), black border, no vignette, House is an historic octagonal house located at 1067 Green Street, good condition, no folds or tears. Printer: W.T. Galloway S.F. Est. in the Russian Hill neighborhood of San Francisco, California. It was $100-200 HWAC# 84611 built between 1857 and 1858 by George Kenny, who sold it in 1870 to Louis Feusier. Feusier is said to have been a companion of such San Lot# 4399 Eureka Dist., Nevada Francisco notables as Leland Stanford and Mark Twain. Feusier’s many Wales Consolidated Gold & Silver business interests include wholesale produce, mining, salmon canning, winemaking, and importation of oriental goods. [noehill.com] Aitken Mining Co Incorporated Oct 30, 1878 was superintendent of the Freeborn and Sheldon Mill and Pinkerton State of Calif. Cert #1532 for 100 was a doctor. Ferris was a judge and an attorney. Prag collection Est. shares @ $100 per share of common $500-1000 HWAC# 84548 stock issued to E.R. Grant Trustee, March 21, 1883 signed by president Lot# 4403 Flowery Mining District, John Carmany, black border, number Nevada 1863 Tri Union Silver 100 is stamped in blue on line for shares and written, vignette: left Mining Company Stock # 55 for top of miner with pick and 2nd miner in background. Comes with a 25 shAres to George Lovejoy. Signed brief note on shareholder, some history of the mine. Good condition. by secretary N Shiverick (office Clay Printer: W. Galloway & Co S.F Est. $110-150 HWAC# 84610 Street in SF) and president William Brackett. Dateline San Francisco Lot# 4400 Excelsior Mining District, Mineral, Nevada Huntoon Chief February 25, 1863. Incorporated in February of 1863. Not cancelled. Eagle, drum and flag vignette. Mining Company Collection 1906. Black on light blue. Towne & Bacon printer. The Tri Union was in the The Excelsior Mining District is located right next to the Pahdet Flowery district (although not mentioned) as was confirmed by the (Whiskey Flat) Mining District on the north west side of the Huntoon February 17, 1864 Virginia Evening Bulletin. The Flowery MD would b Valley. In 1906 the mines of the area were experiencing a revival and e incorporated into the Comstock MD. The Flowerey was also known the owners of the Huntoon Chief were hoping to capitalize on this. as Rogers or Summit Lake. It was located in the Flowery Range, to the The Huntoon Chief was incorporated in 1906 in the Excelsior Mining east.Prag Collection Est. $400-800 HWAC# 84549 District and issued 1,000,000 shares of stock. The prospectus points out all of the reasons why this group of mines will be unbelievably Lot# 4404 Foley’s Hill, Eureka successful, but also points out the officers are taking no salary. Sounds Dist. Lander County, Nevada like a wish and a prayer to me. The Superintendent is clearly identified Corona Consolidated Mining Co. as the L. A. Phillips of the attached pictures. Lot of 2) Type written Incorporated April 3, 1872. Cert. prospectus on legal sized paper. Includes a blueprint plat map of the # 245 for 500 shares of common area. 2) Four pictures that were added to the prospectus to show stock @ $100 per share, issued April that the company was serious. They show a) L. A. Phillips on a pack 14, 1872 to H.A. Chiever, signed by horse, b) Phillips with his pack train ready to leave of the mine, c) president signature illegible. Small close up of the pack train in front of the Rock Springs Coal building, horizontal format, black border, vignette of a crown with leaves on and d) Phillips packing his train in the streets. These are fabulous either side, 25 cent inter revenue stamp on left side. Unknown printer. photographs and the prospectus gives us insight into a mining area Very good condition, no fold indications, tears. In protective plastic that is not very well known. Est. $100-200 HWAC# 99423 sleeve. Est. $120-200 HWAC# 84604 Bid online at FHWAC.com or call 775-851-1859 211

DAY 4 Saturday, Dec 8th Mining Lot# 4405 Gold Hill, Nevada 1876- Lot# 4409 Gold Hill Mining District, 1895 Gold Hill, NV Stocks (2) 2 rare Nevada 1864 Central Park Mining Gold Hill stocks. Alpha Con. I/U Mill and Company Stock Central Park Mining Co #7272 E Gauthier 100 1895 Mining Company, Number 16 for 20 shares signed by President illegible. Inc shares to JVP Perry in 1864. Signed 1887. Creases. I/U Twin Peaks Mining by Joseph Loryea and Captain J. H. Co. #111 50 shares JB Fleming 1876 Mallett. It was issued on February signed by President Colburn. Creases. 13, 1864 making it a territorial stock We could not find any info on these certificate. It is a very early number in 16. Not cancelled. Commercial mines in our database. Est. $200-300 Print, Virginia printer. 25cd Power of Att’y Revenue stamp. Location: HWAC# 83303 Gold Hill District, Storey Co., N. T. Rough cut on left. Pinhole. Very nice! The stock clearly states that one share equals one foot. But it also is Lot# 4406 Gold Hill, Nevada 1892 the biggest mystery. The 1864 Nevada Directory lists the mine with Justice Mining Co. Stock A choice 1000’s of feet of work completed. The Virginia Bulletin on February Gold Hill mine, inc in 1871. I/U 4, 1864 (only nine days before this stock was purchased) says that #25409 RE Kelly 50 shares 1892. 30’ of Central Pacific Mining Company sold for $22.50. Another 10’ Est. $120-200 HWAC# 83311 was offered at $21.00. (The stock clearly states that one foot equals one share! This Stock certificate shares the names of three of Virginia Lot# 4407 Gold Hill, Nevada 1878 City’s more interesting people. The first is JVB Perry. Described as a, Kentuck Mining Company Stock - G. “Big, powerful, good natured mostly; but terrible when aroused!”He T. Brown Lithographer # 12543 for was the marshall at Virginia City and also owned a saloon. Joseph Loryea was a saloon keeper turned stock broker. He wrote the first 5 shares to Lizzie A Waters. Signed by mining directory of the Comstock in 1864. J. H. Mallett was a stable J Peal and president (?). Dateline San owner, meat market proprietor and stock broker with ownership in at Francisco 1878. Incorporated August least 15 Comstock mining companies. Prag Collection Est. $300-500 22, 1865. Not cancelled. Shares $100 each. Different oval mountain mining HWAC# 84516 vignette. G. T. Brown lithographer. G. T. Brown is San Francisco’s Lot# 4410 Gold Hill Mining District, legendary Black American lithographer. The Kentuck was one of the Nevada 1863 Eliza Gold and Silver bigger Comstock producers reporting $5,763,295 production. In Gold Mining Company Stock VERY EARLY Hill only the Yellow Jacket, and Crown Point reported more. “This mine NUMBER 3. For 5 shares to PB Fox. is situated in the town of Gold Hill and constitutes a portion of the Signed by M Cooper and William (?). ground worked profitably with arrastras before the more northerly Dateline May 27, 1863. Incorporated sections of the Comstock Lode were discovered. The surface rock here May 13, 1863. Location: Gold Hill was rich in free gold and paid largely even when worked by the above Mining District, Nevada Territory. Not simple means. The ores at greater depths having also produced gold cancelled. 20c and 5c small revenue equal to almost anything opened elsewhere on the great Washoe lode. stamps. Unusual Loomis vignette of underground mining. Also lady’s The Kentuck occupies a position between the Yellow Jacket and Crown (Eliza?) image. Towne & Bacon porinter. No corner, edge, pinhole, or Point mines and is worked through the shaft of the latter.” [United discoloration issues. Very Fine! Not listed in Collins. Prag Collection. States Annual Mining Review and Stock Ledger, 1879] Prag Collection Est. $200-400 HWAC# 85260 Est. $500-800 HWAC# 84519 Lot# 4411 Gold Hill Mining District, Nevada 1863 Golden Eagle Silver Mining Company Stock VERY EARLY NUMBER 7 for 15 shares to WA Hays. Signed by Hays and president E Caldwell. Dateline Gold Hill 1863. Incorporated March of 1863. Not cancelled. Eagle on a rock in the ocean vignette. Red underprint ‘$1,000,000. Location: Gold Hill Mining District. Tape on back for a 1” tear. Slightly rounded corners. One small edge nick. Overall nice looking. Golden Eagle number 1 is listed in Collins at 1,500’ with JNV Carver as secretary. Prag Collection Est. $500-800 HWAC# 84511 Lot# 4412 Gold Hill Mining District, Lot# 4408 Gold Hill Mining District, Nevada 1860 (1864) “Lafayette Nevada 1864 Golden Horn Gold Gold and Silver Mining” Company Stock Incorporated August and Silver Mining Company 18, 1860. Although listed in ‘Nevada Territory’ in 1860 this area Stock Location: Gold Hill District, was still part of the ‘Utah Territory.’ This may seem like there is an N.T. (printed under logo). Inc. in error in printing as very few 1860 corporations are known. But Nevada Territory, June 22nd, 1863. the Sacramento Daily Union lists the Lafayette of Utah Territory Dateline Gold Hill, January 15th, incorporated in September of 1860. Number 111 to Mrs. Emma C 1864. No. 308, issued for 20 shares to Charles J. Torbut. Signed by Jno. Osmer. Signed by Ingoldsby (frequent secretary to mining companies) Runkle, president, and WW Coryell, secretary. Not cancelled. Coin- and president John (?). Dateline San Francisco February 6, 1864. filled cornucopia vignette. Printed by Towne & Bacon, SF. 25 cent Endorsed on back. Horse drawn ore cart vignette - unusual. Printed IR adhesive revenue stamp attached on the left side. Chipped upper by Britton &Co. 25c Power of Att’y Revenue stamp. Not cancelled. left corner. Nice looking certificate! According to the 1864 Collins Location: Gold Hill Mining Dist., Nevada Territory. Two small nicks directory, the company had an office at 45 S. C Street in Virginia City. upper right. Very fine! Prag Collection. Est. $600-1500 HWAC# 84512 Runkle and Torbut are not listed. Coryell is listed as living at 45 C Street. Coryell was a (the) major mining secretary in 1864. Later he was a private detective in Virginia City. Prag Collection Est. $500-800 HWAC# 84514 212 December 2018

DAY 4 Saturday, Dec 8th Mining Lot# 4413 Gold Hill Mining District, Lot# 4416 Goldfield, Nevada 1905- Nevada 1864 Jo Daviess Gold and 1907 Four Goldfield, Nevada Stock Silver Mining Company Stock This Certificates 1) Goldfield Brooklyn is a very striking certificate: blue Mining Company. Number 1376 on white, fancy scrip, gold bars to for 500 shares to HK Shaw. Signed hold numbers, etc. # 10 (70?) for by (?) and Frank Ish. Frank and 20 shares to Samuel Pryor. Signed his brother Milton ran a grocery by Samuel D Pryor and president Samuel Pryor. (A real family affair!) store in Goldfield. They made Dateline Gold Hill N. T. Incorporated Jan. 20, 1864. Location: Gold Hill money and invested some of it in Mining District, American Flat, Storey County, Nevada Territory. Not grubstaking prospectors. As a result cancelled. 25c Power of Att’y Revenue stamp. Discoloration center he (Milton Ish and ED Bowles) was part of the Ish-Sheets lease on and top left. No edge or corner issues. Nice! Named in honor of a true the Combination and Mohawk. They hit the ledge at thirty-eight Gold Rush pioneer. Listed as ‘Joe Davis’ in Collins with S. D. Pryor as feet and the first week took out two carloads of ore, which netted secretary. Samuel Pryor was listed as a miner for the Sides Mining $4000, enough to pay for all equipment. Nearly a million dollars has Company. Prag Collection Est. $500-800 HWAC# 84513 been taken out. 2) Black Ant Mines Company. 1906. Number 585 fro 1000 shares to Scott and (?). Signed by Henry Weber and Bruce Lot# 4414 Gold Hill Mining District, Nevada 1864 (1859, 1868) South Geidden. 3) Goldfield Belmont Mining Company. 1906. Number 783 Overman Mining Company Stock with RARE 25c Nevada Revenue for 100 shares to William Davidson. Signed by Heller and Brody(?). 5) Stamp! Goldfield Brooklyn Mining Company. Number 238 for 500 shares to There are two Chris Molatesta(?). Signed by Bradley and Detch(?). Good to very nice interesting condition. (Bennett Collection) Est. $80-160 HWAC# 59850 aspects of the stock Lot# 4417 Goldfield, Nevada 1905-1913 Four certificate. 1) Stocks and Checks from Mines in the Gut of The first is the Goldfield 1) John S. Cook Bank with elephant 25c Nevada vignette. From the Jumbo Mining Company in Revenue 1906. Number 41. February 1906 payroll for stamp on Martin Gorman. Signed by HL Taylor and CP Holt. a stock 2) Sandstorm Extension Mining Company Stock certificate. Certificate. Number 321 for 100 shares to James B This just Rutherford & Sons in 1905. Signed by GW Newgass isn’t seen. and PM Deringer. Excellent condition. Uncancelled. 2) The second is the three dates on the cert. Located Sept. 20, 1859. 3-4) Goldfield Consolidated Mines Company Stock Incorporated March 19, 1864. The third is the dateline: Gold Hill, Certificates. JS Henderson and HH Howe in 1913. Howe became a N. T. April 2, 1868. # 87 for ten shares to Wilson Dunlap. Signed by member of the Board of Directors in 1909 when George Wingfield Chubback and president WD Phelam. Smalle 20c and 5c United States gained control of this company. Wrinkles, Holes. Uncancelled. (Bennett revenue stamps. Not cancelled. Eagle and flag vignette. Local Gold Collection) Est. $120-240 HWAC# 59854 Hill News Print printed. Very minor edge issues (hardly noticeable). Extra fine condition. The Overman was staked at the beginning of the Lot# 4418 Goldfield, Nevada 1905 Comstock Rush in 1859 and first worked in the early 1860s. It was Goldfield May Queen Mining located next to the Segregated Belcher Mine. Operations were difficult Company Stock Certificate: in the 1870s due to flooding problems. The Overman Shaft was one of Wingfield Collection Number 641 a series of shafts used in the 1870s to try and reach the very lowest for 1000 shares to John N Ward in depths of the Comstock Lode. It became an open pit mine in the 1905. Signed by secretary Luko and 1940s. According to the 1870 Nevada census, Wilson Dunlap was a president Wingfield. Three mining bookkeeper. Even more interesting, his name pops-up in the Jan. 19, vignettes. One hole where the seal 1874 Sacramento Daily Union: “Wilson Dunlap, the absconding stock- was applied, pin holes. Nice condition. Formally organized in May broker of Gold Hill, returned to his old stamping ground on the 14th 1904 by George Wingfield and George Nixon, the Goldfield May Queen instant, involuntarily.” S.W. Chubbuck appears as a mining secretary Mining Company consisted of several mill sites throughout Goldfield. for other companies and also operated the Post Office store in Gold Through this company, Wingfield and Nixon were able to expand Hill. Prag Collection Est. $500-1000 HWAC# 84515 mining operations in the newly formed Goldfield Mining District. These proved crucial once mining operations were expanded in the Lot# 4415 Gold Park, Nevada new district. [George Wingfield: Owner and Operator of Nevada” by Gold Park Mining & Milling Co. Raymond] King George was Nevada’s Political and Financial boss in the early 1900’s. If you wanted to run for office, you needed his Broadside & Stock Certificate Rare blessing. If you were a friend and in trouble, he was known to make pairing. Gold Park, Jackson Mining District, Counties of Nye & Lander. 1) troubles disappear. “Wingfield was one of the state’s most powerful economic and political figures during the period from 1909 to 1932. Notice printed by H.N. Morse, Bank He rose from faro dealer to the position of richest man in Nevada of Austin, Trustee, April 2nd, 1909. in less than five years. While living in the central Nevada town of Giving notice that the San Francisco, Goldfield, Wingfield and his partner, George Nixon, established the Star of the West, Arctic, and Irene Goldfield Consolidating Mining Company, which ultimately produced claims, along with the mill site, water works, one ten stamp mill and more than $50 million worth of ore. In 1906, the partners established building, are all being leased to W.E. Cook of Boston , or his assigns, the the Nixon National Bank of Reno (later renamed the Reno National Gold Park Mining & Reduction Co. for two years. Claims also known Bank), and in 1908, Wingfield moved to Reno, where he became active as the Harry N. Morse Mines. Printed on cloth. Worn spots, stains. in politics, banking, ranching, and hotel-keeping. He was influential in 12x 8.75” 2) Gold Park Mining and Milling Company stock certificate issued in 1902 to G.A. Engle for 5,000 shares. Signed by Thos. H. developing Reno’s gambling and divorce-related tourism industries.” [renohistorical.org] (This is the best batch of Wingfield stock Dalton, president, and John W. Cliff, secretary. Not cancelled. Green border and seal, three mining vignettes. Folds, very fine. Est. $240- certificates we have ever offered for sale at one time. They are not the 400 HWAC# 58478 common stocks, but rare Wingfield endeavors. Bennett Collection) Est. $80-160 HWAC# 60202 Bid online at FHWAC.com or call 775-851-1859 213

DAY 4 Saturday, Dec 8th Mining Lot# 4419 Goldfield, Nevada 1905 Lot# 4421 Goldfield, Nevada 1906, 1907 M. J. Monnette Mining Goldfield Sierra Mining Company Stock Collection Lot of five mining stocks. 1) Mohawk Ledge. Number Stock Certificate Fabulous vignette 461 for 1000 of Goldfield when it was still shares to WD primarily a tent town! Number 449 McDonald in for 500 shares to James Morris in 1907. Signed 1905. Signed by secretary JA Wright by president and president CA Culture. Green on Monnette white! Small rip, small hole in middle and secretary of stock, discoloration in middle on Showmaker. right, etc. Overall nice. In 1919 the 2) Monnette Yellow Tiger absorbed this company. (Bennett Collection) Est. $80- Wonder. 1907. 160 HWAC# 59868 Number 45 to HS Bassett for Lot# 4420 Goldfield, Nevada 500 shares. 1906 Jumbo Mining Company of Signed by Goldfield Check Check number 9 president for payroll for JW Rutherford for the Monnette Jumbo Mining Company of Goldfield. and secretary This John S. Cook check has an Wheeler. 3) elephant background vignette. ALthough the ‘Red Top’ checks are Diamondfield more striking, these are rarer. Signed by CD Taylor. Check number 9 Triangle Mining Company of Nevada. 1907. Number 2503 for 100 for $132. Charles D Taylor was an important mining man in Goldfield. shares to Charles Hudson. Signed by president Monnette and secretary AD Myers located the first claim on the Grandpa Ledge or Goldfield. McFadden. 4) Goldfield Leasing and Mining. 1907. Number 216 for Taylor was second. He located the Jumbo, Florence, Red King and 500 shares to George Kirkbride. Signed by president Monnette and Firelight claims on October 19, 1903. (He would locate other claims secretary (?). 5) Mohawk-Daisy Leasing & Mining. 1906. Number 63 later.) But it was the Jumbo and Florence that would make Taylor a for 500 shares to Mrs. Nancey M Abbott. Signed by president Monnette millionaire. It started in the Fall of 1903 when a rich pocket of gold and secretary (?). This is the most spectacular of the stocks. Pink, was discovered while doing location work on the Jumbo. According to green, and brown on white. Vignettes of Indian chief, buffalo and a Church & Carpenter the Jumbo yielded $1,371, 165 between 1904 and bald eagle. Oversized. Most of these five stocks are extremely fine. This 1909 and the Florence over $6,000,000. The Florence was located in one is no exception. According to Couch and Carpenter the Mohawk MIlltown and the Jumbo in Jumbotown. These were two early suburbs Ledge was the only producer yielding $433,213 in 1907 and 1908. of Goldfield. He was later associated with the Red Top Mine which In September of 1905, a Mr. Mervin Jeremiah Monnette had just was another $1,000,000 producer. (Bennett Collection) Est. $80-160 signed an agreement with a Mr. Granville Hayes for 1/2 ownership HWAC# 60215 in a two-year lease on a not-so-well-performing mine. Mervin, who was a cattle rancher in Omaha at the time, was sent by Chicago business associates earlier that year to check out an offered lease on another mine. The associates knew that Mervin, who had previously operated in Cripple Creek, was an “honest” man who would provide an impartial report. Mervin concluded that the mine was worthless and had been “salted”. But since he had spent the time and effort to reach Goldfield, he remained in town to see if anything else might be worthwhile. He soon met Granville Hayes, who owned the previously mentioned lease, and who had been working it when he ran low on capital. Trusting Granville’s long experience in mining, along with Zoom in and see some promising assays of prior workings, Mervin decided to sign up, contributing $10,000 in capital for the 50% ownership position. He close up detail quickly saw that this would not be enough money, so he convinced two of his Chicago business partners, J.W. Smith and Harry Benedict, High Resolution to join him. Another $25,000 was expended without uncovering any ore worth shipping, when in April, 1906 they hit the “mother lode”. Images of ALL LOTS From the Goldfield News, 1906-1907: “...At this point in the sinking, Hayes had wanted to drift on the big body of low-grade ore then in evidence, believing that it would narrow down to a good-sized high- available online at grade vein, and he had cut a station at the 80-foot point with that in view, but he had been dissuaded. He now returned to demonstrate FHWAC.com his theory. Hardly had the miners fired their first round of shots, when lo! and behold, the long-expected bonanza was at hand. Here was ore that needed no assayer’s test. Sulphide ore which, by its very weight and dull yellow color in the glare of the candle light told that it was rich in gold. As the miners pushed inwards with their work the discovery became even more startling. It was one monstrous ore chamber that had apparently neither walls, tops nor bottom. Ore everywhere!” They ended up taking over $5 million in ore by January, 1907 when their lease expired. Granville and Mervin ended up in Los Angeles and went their separate ways. Mervin contacted his son Orra (1875-1936), a successful lawyer back in Ohio, who came to L.A. to manage his father’s new-found wealth. They spent a goodly sum on L.A. banks, installing Mervin as President of one purchase, American National Bank, and VP of another, Citizens National Bank. [oldhomes of los angeles.blogspot.com] (Bennett Collection) Est. $400-800 HWAC# 59876 214 December 2018

DAY 4 Saturday, Dec 8th Mining Lot# 4422 Goldfield, Nevada 1905- Lot# 4426 Goldfield, Nevada 1906, 1908 Two 1920 Nine Different Goldfield, Mining Stocks with the Name Velvet for Nevada Mining Stock Certificates Significant Shares 1) Spectacular, colorful Lot of 9 issued. Includes: Florence- Original Velvet Leasing and Mining Company. Goldfield Mining Co. (1911); United 1906. Very early number 7 for 500,000 shares to Tonopah & Goldfield Mines (1905); trustees JC McCormick and Louis Schloss. Signed Seyler-Humphrey Gold Mining Co. by Louis Schloss as secretary and JC McCormick (1908); Tonopah-Goldfield Mining Co. as president. Interesting? That is half of the (1905); Lou Dillon Goldfield Mining stocks issued. Red border and gold lettering. No Co. (1907); The Goldfield Consolidated Mines Co. (1914); Goldfield condition issues. 2) Velvet Gold Mining Company. Deep Mines Co. (1920); Goldfield Lucky Boys Mining Co. (1906); and 1907. Number 70 for 90,000 shares to the the Goldfield Oro Mining Co. (1916). Please inspect. Est. $160-320 Goldfield Merger Mines Company. The Goldfield Merger Mines would HWAC# 58467 soon own the Velvet Gold Mine. [Huntington Library Finding Aid to the Goldfield Merger Mines] Signed by A. A. Codd and John Erikson. Codd was active in mining interests in Goldfield and Rawhide. In Goldfield he was one of the first trustees of the Mary McLaughlin School (Cedar Street School) in 1906. Hydraulic vignette. One bend bottom left. Two vertical folds. No rips, tears, etc. (Bennett Collection) Est. $60-200 HWAC# 59853 Lot# 4427 Goldfield, Nevada 1906 Two Most Iconic Nevada Checks These two John S Cook bank checks are two of the most sought after checks from Nevada. The Red Lot# 4423 Goldfield, Nevada 1906 Red Top Mining check with Red Top mine has a Red Top and the Jumbo mine Top Vignette This is an iconic (and arguably the most sought after) has a green elephant. The Red Top Mine is Nevada check. The red top with the red pull string make this a bright check 133 for $25 for dividend #1 on 500 and colorful check. It is addressed to John Quinn and signed by CD shares. Issued to John S Palmer. The Jumbo Taylor as president of the Red Top Mining Company of Goldfield. It Mine is check 40 for February payroll to is for dividend number 1 on 6,000 shares of stock. Check number 25 Frank Crosby for $51.75. Signed by CD and brother HL Taylor. CD was for $300. Charles D Taylor was an important mining man in Goldfield. the president of the very successful and profitable Jumbo Mine; HL AD Myers located the first claim on the Grandpa Ledge or Goldfield. was the vice president. Charles D Taylor was an important mining Taylor was second. He located the Jumbo, Florence, Red King and man in Goldfield. AD Myers located the first claim on the Grandpa Firelight claims on October 19, 1903. (He would locate other claims Ledge or Goldfield. Taylor was second. He located the Jumbo, Florence, later.) But it was the Jumbo and Florence that would make Taylor a Red King and Firelight claims on October 19, 1903. (He would locate millionaire. It started in the Fall of 1903 when a rich pocket of gold other claims later.) But it was the Jumbo and Florence that would was discovered while doing location work on the Jumbo. According to make Taylor a millionaire. It started in the Fall of 1903 when a rich Church & Carpenter the Jumbo yielded $1,371, 165 between 1904 and pocket of gold was discovered while doing location work on the 1909 and the Florence over $6,000,000. The Florence was located in Jumbo. According to Church & Carpenter the Jumbo yielded $1,371, MIlltown and the Jumbo in Jumbotown. These were two early suburbs 165 between 1904 and 1909 and the Florence over $6,000,000. The of Goldfield. He was later associated with the Red Top Mine which Florence was located in MIlltown and the Jumbo in Jumbotown. These was another $1,000,000 producer. (Bennett Collection) Est. $80-160 were two early suburbs of Goldfield. He was later associated with HWAC# 60214 the Red Top Mine which was another $1,000,000 producer. (Bennett Collection) Est. $120-250 HWAC# 60216 Lot# 4424 Goldfield, Nevada 1905, 1917 Two Lot# 4428 Goldfield, Nevada 1907 Goldfield ‘Big Cat’ Stock Certificates 1) Royal Two Oddie Stocks that Spelled his Goldfield Mining Company. 1905 Number 79 fo demise! Tasker Oddie is a household 50,000 shares (that’s a lot!) to Ingalls & Company. name in Nevada mining and politics. This might refer to the Palace Saloon where Ingalls But in 1907 he hit rock bottom when (William, sheriff) and Shirley were proprietors a five mines he invested heavily in listed in the 1909 Nevada Directory. Lion vinette. failed without so much as a whimper 2) The Yellow Tiger Consolidated Mining Company. [“Sagebrush Statesman” by Chan] 1) Number 1252 for 500 shares issued to Fred S Martin. Monitor Mining Company. Number Signed by H Ellis and J Borlan. Orange border. 49 for 2000 shares to Jose Morris. Tiger vignette. 16 assessment stamps! N apparent in 1907. The mine was situated in condition issues on either certificate. (Bennett Collection) Est. $160- Montezuma Mining District which was 320 HWAC# 59860 about 7 miles west of Goldfield. Signed by Oddie as president. Pink on white Lot# 4425 Goldfield, Nevada 1906 Two Goldfield- is quite striking. Practically perfect! Columbia Mining Stock Certificates This is before 2) Trail Canyon Mining Company. the consolidation to the Goldfield Consolidated. Number 121 for 1000 shares to Sidney The Goldfield Consolidated would yield over Tyler. Signed by Oddie as president. Very similar appearance as first $50,000,000! 1) Goldfield-Columbia Mining certificate. Just as nice! A mining entrepreneur, Oddie was a principal Company. 1906. Number 69 for 1000 shares to player during the Tonopah-Goldfield boom of the early twentieth JM Gaiser. Signed by Lathrop and Rilly(?). One century. (Bennett Collection) Est. $120-240 HWAC# 59864 torn corner and one dog ear. Vertical folds. Not Cancelled. 2) The Goldfield -Columbia Gold MIning Company. 1906. Number 115 for 1000 shares issued to AB Hays. Signed by Charles Turner and Frank Peck. Extremely nice condition. (Bennett Collection) Est. $60- 80 HWAC# 59867 Bid online at FHWAC.com or call 775-851-1859 215

DAY 4 Saturday, Dec 8th Mining Lot# 4429 Goldfield, Nevada Lot# 4432 Lander County, Nevada Goldfield, Nevada Ephemera from 1875 Eagle Silver Mine & Mill the Key Mines Lot of 11. Included: Company Stock # 81 for 100 shares By-Laws of the Goldfield Consolidated to MS Martin trustee. Signed by HS Mines Co. 15pp, 1906; three Byrne and JM Byrne. Dateline San different issued stock certificates: Francisco 1875. Incorporated June Goldfield Madonna Mining Co., 1906, 29, 1875. Cancelled. No location Combination Extension Mines Co., identified. Prag Collection Est. $80- 1907, and Frances-Mohawk Mining & 150 HWAC# 85255 Leasing Co., 1906; Goldfield Mohawk Mining Co. paycheck, 1909; and six Lot# 4433 Lander County, Nevada postcards, including 3 real photo. Please inspect. Est. $130-200 New York Silver Mining Co. of HWAC# 58476 Nevada Stock Certificate, 1865 Inc. in New York. No. 262. Issued Lot# 4430 Hardin for 10 shares to D.W. Chambers District, Nevada on September 21st, 1865. Signed 1867 Chico Gold by Thomas Sproull as president and S.R. Hutchinson as secretary. & Silver Mining Not cancelled. Unusual vignette at top center showing three miners Stock - NUMBER working a drill into the surface. Second vignette at the bottom 1 Emerald Lead, right showing miners lowering a windlass to other miners working One Foot to the underground. Printed by Henry Siebert & Bros. 25 cent revenue Share. Hardin stamp attached lower left. Folds, very fine. This company is likely District, Humboldt related to the New York & Austin SMC, the Plymouth SMC, and the County, Nevada New York & Boston SMC; all New York financed mines in Reese River printed at top of at Austin. They leased the Troy Mine on Lander Hill in the gut of the stock. No. 1, issued district. It had a 500’ deep shaft in 1869. They produced 26 tons for 10 shares to W H Duren on Oct. 18th, 1867. Signed by J. Bidwell, of ore with a yield of $6,500 between January and July, 1869. The president and Jas. C. Martin, secretary. Vignette of building, ore being mine produced $83,000 through 1877. Not listed in Abbe, Brown, dumped at left from ore car, wagon and horses out front. Black border. or Ross. [Ref: Raymond 1870]. Thomas Sproull (1803-1892) was a Uncancelled. Very fine condition. The Bidwell-Bartelson party was the theological professor, editor of the Reformed Presbyterian, and was first wagon train party to cross from American to California blazing well respected. His business interests clearly turned to mining but it is the trail for hundreds of thousands to follow. Bidwell was a California doubtful he would have made it out to Nevada. His name would have pioneer who settled at Bidwell, now Chico. Bidwell worked for John helped attract money to the company. Est. $400-800 HWAC# 60643 Sutter, fought with him in the Mexican War in 1844 and later with Fremont. He was with Sutter right after Marshall’s discovery and Lot# 4434 Lander County, found gold on the Feather River. Bidwell was in politics, friends of the Nevada Phenix Silver Mining Co Indians, and was a source of political and economic stability for the Incorporated Jan 3, 1871. Cert #3070 region. The Hardin District had a fair bit of prospecting in the 1860’s for 100 (number is punched w/ but it did not continue much longer. Bidwell must have had great hope stars) shares @ $100 per share of in Hardin but any ore that may have been present was played out early. common stock issued to Miller & Van The Hardin District is located at Black Rock which is known by that Wyck, Trustees, Oct 14, 1878 signed name. Est. $200-400 HWAC# 85245 by president A. Forbes, black border, vignette: center of Phoenix w/wings spread coming out of fire, left side [lace for inter revenue Lot# 4431 Kawich Gold Reed Mining stamp, 7 assessments stamps on back of which 5 are to “The Carson District, Nevada 1905 Kawich Gold City Savings Bank”. Good condition. Printer: Britton Rey & Co S.F Est. Mining Company of Nevada Stock $110-150 HWAC# 84609 Certificate Located in Nye County, Lot# 4435 Lyon County, Nevada Kawich is located 70 miles south of 1896 Silver City Gold and Silver Tonopah and is now part of Nellis Air Mining Co Stock I/U #79 John Force Base. Number 532 for 1000 Landers 8300 shares 1896. Signed shares to George H Lewis in 1905. by President illegible. Nice condition. Perforated on left. Printed by H.S. Probably at location of Donovan Mill. Crocker Co. S.F. One very small stain Est. $100-200 HWAC# 83301 just above vignette of underground miners working to fill an ore cart and several vertical folds. Otherwise Lot# 4436 Lyon Mining District, fine. Signed by vice president Wj Douglass. He was a Nevada Secretary Nevada 1863 Ina Ledge Gold & fo State. “Reports of a great strike at Kawich near Goldfield Nev has Silver Mining Company Stock been brought in by George H Lewis superintendent of the Kawich Gold Early number 12 for 25 shares to Mining company. Mr Lewis states that ore assaying $3,700 per ton Henry Boulerand. Signed by Sealy has been discovered some 3,000 feet from the original strike and on as president and Cicilly(?). Dateline the trend from the Last Chance claim of the Kawich Mining company. San Francisco 1863. Incorporated A large boulder from the cropping was broken open and found to June 30, 1863. Not cancelled. 25c be thoroughly impremated with gold. A sample taken from a 30 foot Protest Revenue stamp. Location: ledge just a short distance from the rich discovery gave returns of Lyon District, Nev. Ter. Large mountainous vignette with a small tunnel $31 per ton. As a result of the discovery renewed excitement prevails. showing. Few Pine trees. Perhaps a representation of the area of the Mr Lewis spent two weeks in the district superintending operations mine? Drouaillet printer. Small nicks at vertical fold edges. Otherwise on the Kawich company’s holdings. The company is employing three in excellent condition. This mine is not listed in Kelley or Collins. shifts of men and making rapid progress in development work. The Lyon District refers to the Como / Palmyra area. Lyon Peak being a property is looking decidedly satisfactory.” [Profits, March 11, 1905] prominent feature in the area. Prag Collection Est. $500-1000 HWAC# (Bennett Collection) Est. $80-160 HWAC# 60219 84564 216 December 2018

DAY 4 Saturday, Dec 8th mining Lot# 4437 Manhattan, Nevada 1906-07 Two Different Manhattan Cowboy Mining Co. Stock Certificates Two different stocks from the Manhattan Cowboy Mining Company. Issued in 1906 and 1907. Uncanceled. Est. $50-70 HWAC# 56338 Lot# 4438 Milltown, Nevada 1907, 1916 Two Milltown Stock Certificate Milltown was the dream Lot# 4440 Palmyra Mining District, Nevada 1863 American Eagle of Taylor and Kendrick. They would lay out the townsite in November Gold & Silver Mining Company Stock # 28 for 10 shares to Crosman of 1903. This would make Milltown and incredibly early suburb of & Jones. Signed by CA Witherell and president DE Jones! Dateline Goldfield. Columbia and Jumbo would be two others. Milltown was Como, Lyon County, N. T. December 16, 1863. Location: Hillsdale just southwest of the rich Florence Hill. The Reno Evening Gazette Ledge. WB Cooke & Co. printer. Not cancelled. Upper right corner reported in October 4, 1904 that the town of Goldfield and its suburbs ever so slightly rounded. No other edge, corner, pinhole issues. Shows of Milltown, Jumbo and Columbia had all the workers it could manage. light color issues from age. Crossman & Jones were most likely a store The article pointed out the anyone else arriving would have trouble in Dayton, Silver City or most probably Como. Crosman most likely finding work and the high prices in Goldfield would soon absorb refers to John Crosman. The Crosman Mine with John Crosman as the small savings of an average laborer. “People without money president was datelined Como. He was a Lyon County delegate to the stay away!” In 1906 Milltown was not only a small, but thriving constitutional convention. He was also Nevada’s first Lt. Governor. suburb; it was an important railroad stop for both the Tonopah & This company is not listed in Kelley or Collins. The Palmyra Mining Goldfield Railroad, but also the Bullfrog Railroad. It was not only a District was located at the north end of the Pine Nut Mountains, milling site for Goldfield gold, but in the middle of some rich mines. extending generally from Lyon Peak on the south to the Carson River [collateralhistory.com] 1) MIlltown Extension Gold MIning Company. on the north. The Indian Springs district was organized in 1860. The 1916. Number 923 for 1000 shares to George W Lovejoy. Signed by C Palmyra district, which included the towns of Palmyra and Como, was Savery and Wickes(?). 2) Milltown Fraction Mining Company. 1907. organized in 1862 in the Pine Nut Mountains 8 miles southeast of Number 968 for 200 shares to Fred R Anglemier(?). Signed by Fritz Dayton between the Sullivan (to the southwest) and Indian Springs (to Eilender and Abbott. The Fraction has discoloration and the Extension the northeast) districts. Prag Collection Est. $500-800 HWAC# 84552 has pinholes. Otherwise nice examples. (Bennett Collection) Est. $80- 160 HWAC# 59877 Lot# 4441 Palmyra Mining District, Nevada 1864 Washington Lot# 4439 Palmyra Mining District, Nevada 1864 Amazon Tunnel Mining Company Stock Nice looking cert. # 130 for 20 shares to A and Mining Company Stock with Rare Como Dateline # 173 for Van Winkle. Signed by P Van Winkle and president A Van Winkle (a 10 shares to George Smart. Signed by William Virdon and Weston. family affair). Dateline Carson City, N. T. Sept 8, 1863. Not cancelled. There was a Weston who was proprietor of the Como Sentinel. Viron Vignette of the USS Constitution. Location: Constitution Ledge, was a member of the 1863 Constitutional Convention and locator of Palmyra District, Lyon County, Nevada Territory. No printer. Red the Columbus District [History of Nevada by Thompson and West] underprint ‘Capital Stock $160,000. 25c Certificate Revenue stamp. Dateline Como, N. T. March 1864. Incorporated February 6, 1864. Dog ear lower left. No pinholes, edge issues or discoloration. Very nice! Not cancelled. 25c Power of Att’y Revenue stamp. ‘Mining Company Not listed in Collins. The Palmyra Mining District was located at the in vibrant red.’ Printed by the Gold Hill News. Shows its age with a north end of the Pine Nut Mountains, extending generally from Lyon rip at left fold and small nick on bottom. Not crisp and clear, but still Peak on the south to the Carson River on the north. The Indian Springs easy to read. Not on back by Virdon states the company owes 50 cents district was organized in 1860. The Palmyra district, which included to Smart In his office in Como every month to act as secretary. The the towns of Palmyra and Como, was organized in 1862 in the Pine Palmyra Mining District was located at the north end of the Pine Nut Nut Mountains 8 miles southeast of Dayton between the Sullivan (to Mountains, extending generally from Lyon Peak on the south to the the southwest) and Indian Springs (to the northeast) districts. Prag Carson River on the north. The Indian Springs district was organized Collection Est. $300-600 HWAC# 84551 in 1860. The Palmyra district, which included the towns of Palmyra and Como, was organized in 1862 in the Pine Nut Mountains 8 miles southeast of Dayton between the Sullivan (to the southwest) and Indian Springs (to the northeast) districts. Prag Collection Est. $600- 900 HWAC# 84550 Bid online at FHWAC.com or call 775-851-1859 217

DAY 4 Saturday, Dec 8th Mining Lot# 4442 Philadelphia District, Nye Lot# 4445 Reese River, Nevada County, Nevada 1874 Monitor, Belmont, 1863 Butte Gold and Silver Mining Mining Company Stock with note to D O Company Stock Early number 17 to Mills # 777 for 50 shares to EA RIchardson. AK Stearns for 10 shares, Signed by Signed by M W Hopkins and Oliver Eldridge James L Pond and president JWE Felt. as president. Dateline San Francisco 1875. Incorporated and datelined 1863. Incorporated in May of 1872. Location of Location: Clyde Ledge, Reese River mines Philadelphia District, Nye County, Mining District, Lander Co., N. T. 25c Power of Att’y Revenue Stamp. Nevada. Gilt border. Crocker printer. The Not cancelled. Ornate logo and border, no vignette. Printed by Kenny reverse has a piece of paper glued to it. May & Alexander, SF. Pinholes left side. No edge, corner or discoloration 5, 1875, Dr, D. O. Mills, Dear Sir, Enclosed issues. A. K. Stearns was an original discoverer of the Clyde Ledge please find 1000 shares Montor Belmont Stock please sell before in the Amador Mining District. The oldest mining district in eastern 17 inst as at that state it is delinquent and oblige, (signature hard to Nevada. The Amador portion, 6 miles north of Austin around New read). Since this is 50 shares and the names do not match, we can York Canyon, joined and was later incorporated into the Reese River not be positive that they are connected. The Monitor Belmont was district. Stearns was a trustee of the Butte Gold & Silver mine. He aggressively traded throughout 1874 in the San Francisco Exchange. was also a superintendent of the Stearns Gold & Silver mine in this The first silver discoveries in the Philadelphia district (Belmont) were same area. Pond was a secretary of several Austin, Nevada mining made by an Indian in 1865. The following year brought miners from companies. In 1876, with the help of London backers, he purchased Austin, Ione, and other mining camps to the newly created Belmont a large acreage of mining land on the Feather River. He became the and a ten-stamp mill was built. Belmont had access to ample wood, superintendent of the Tsabinda Mine. Prag Collection Est. $400-700 water, rock, and clay - not common among Nevada mining camps - and HWAC# 84522 the townspeople built substantial brick and wood frame buildings. In February 1867, Belmont became the seat of Nye County. Belmont Lot# 4446 Reese River, Nevada was a bustling community, with a bank, a school, telegraph, a post 1863 Chas. Pope Gold & Silver office, a plethora of stores and shops, and competing newspapers; the Mining Company Stock SECOND Silver Bend Reporter and Mountain Champion. Belmont’s remoteness certificate issued! For 5 shares to proved to be a difficulty. Delivery and freight to and from Austin was John S Love. Signed by Thompson costly, and despite being one of Nevada’s most important towns, many Campbell and president JW Foust(?). of Belmont’s 2000 residents left for the White Pine district in 1868 Dateline San Francisco December and 1869. For four years, Belmont experienced a lull in development. 30, 1863. Incorporated November 1863. Not cancelled. 25c Power of In 1873, new rich discoveries were made and the 1860s mills were Att’y Revenue stamp. Mill on a river vignette. Red underprint scroll reopened. Belmont continued to produce until 1887, when after over work with $800,00. Buswell & Co. printer. No edgem corner or pinhole $15 million the mines were closed. Prag Collection Est. $200-400 issues. The only coloration issues seem to be authentic to 1863. Prag HWAC# 85257 Collection Est. $400-700 HWAC# 84525 Lot# 4447 Reese River, Nevada 1864 Lot# 4443 Prospect Mountain Ellemada Tunnel and Gold and Mining District, Eureka, Nevada 1880 Mining Laws of the Spring Silver Mining Company Stock VERY EARLY NUMBER 8 for 1 share to SS Valley Mining District Handwritten manuscript outlining the mining Brewster. Signed by Henry Jacobs laws set down by mine owners in the Spring Valley section of the and president G Wood. Dateline Prospect Mountain Mining District. The document states that the Austin June 15, 1864. Incorporated meeting, noticed in the Eureka Sentinel on May 24, was held 27 May May 1864. Location Reese River Mining District, Lander N. T. County. and at the cabin of E.H. Rose Esq. Some crease folds, but the writing is Number and shares inside silver bars. Fancy script text. HS Crocker sharp and clear. Nice condition for its age. Reading the mining laws it printer. Ten feet to one share. One of two stocks for this company listed states that the mine owners of the Spring Valley Mining District had in Mahler. Vertical folds. Bottom right corner mis-cut. Overall in very called for a meeting and had renamed it the Prospect Mountain Mining nice condition. 25c Power of Att’y Revenue stamp. We could find no District. But why were they writing laws in 1880? This district was information on this company. Prag Collection Est. $400-700 HWAC# indeed established by 1865. The paper explains the reason for the 84529 1880 laws. “...the [original] books having been destroyed in the great fire which occurred in the Town of Eureka on April 18th 1879.” Est. Lot# 4448 Reese River, Nevada 1863 $250-400 HWAC# 99436 Julia Hunter Gold and Silver Mining Lot# 4444 Reese River, Nevada 1863 Company Stock # 37 for 15 shares to Burchfield Gold & Silver Mining AK Stearns. Signed by HC Kibbe and president AH Titcomb. Dateline San Company Stock # 45 for 10 shares Francisco 1863. Incorporated Sept. to Monroe. Signed by William T 28, 1863. 25c Power of Att’y Revenue Stanford and S DeWolfe president. stamp. Not cancelled. Location: Dateline San Francisco October 23, Reese River Dist. Lander Co., N. T. 1863. Incorporated August 12, 1863. Ore cart pulled by single horse in front of a mining building. Robbins Bird dog vignette. Kenny & Alexander & Co. printer. Dog ears. Secretary’s name has been smudged. Orignal printers. Not cancelled. Location: trustees were Titcomb, J Laidley and HC Kibbe. Est. $400-700 HWAC# Monongahela Ledge. Left side is heavily discolored from??? Small 84578 5c and 20c revenue stamps. This company had the same secretary and board of directors as the Henrietta, Arrington, and Guttenberg. Stanford was also secretary of the Bonita and Marie Muller, TH Rolfe of Austin was the local agent. Rolfe is not listed in the 1866 Austin Directory. Prag Collection Est. $300-500 HWAC# 84528 218 December 2018

DAY 4 Saturday, Dec 8th Mining Lot# 4449 Reese River, Nevada Lot# 4453 Reese River, Nevada Keystone, Silver Mining Company 1866 New York and Lander Mining Hard Cover Prospectus and Company Stock # 80 for 20 shares Wonderful Map This is a most lavish mining prospectus imaginable. to MC Riggs. Signed by RK Dow Either the owners had incredibly high hopes for these mines or this and P(?) Dow. Dateline March 10, was a scam! One might say it was a “Wizard of Oz” fantasy! First on 1866. Incorporated in New York. the list of officers is the president Benjamin W. Baum and last on the Not cancelled. Two vignettes: list is the superintendent Addison L. Page. General Addison L. Page Underground mining and Mill scene. would bounce around from mining camp to mining camp in Nevada. Henry Seibert printer. Holes at left The prospectus tells us he was one of the first mining men to arrive in vertical fold. Cut close on left. Overall very nice. Prag Collection Est. Austin. There he was appointed as General (honorary) of the Lander $200-500 HWAC# 84532 Guards. In 1867 he would receive a presentation sword from Colonel David E. Buel (of the Sanitary Sack of Flour fame). Baum is most Lot# 4454 Reese River, Nevada probably most known as the father of L. Frank Baum, the author of 1863 Pomona Gold and Silver the “Wizard of Oz.” A digital search of OCLC tuned up ‘zero’ copies. Mining Company Stock # 31 for We are aware of three copies. This is pristine and the only one that 13 shares to J Monroe. Signed by has a map! The map measures 19.5 x 23”. The map not only shows William T Stanford and president the 2 properties owned by the Keystone, but many others including S DeWolfe. Dateline San Francisco the Oregon, North Star, Savage, Mills & White, Lander, Henry Clay, 1863. Incorporated August 12, 1863. Ethan Allen, etc. Map has heavy folding, but not rips or tears even at Small 5c and 20c revenue stamps. folds. The prospectus is 77 pages. 9 x 5.5”. This prospectus has a long Not cancelled. Location: Pomona wonderful history of Reese River Mining District as related in 1865. Ledge, Lander County N. T. Allegorical woman riding a stag. Kenny The prospectus was published within a year of Nevada statehood. Est. & Alexander printer. Right bottom corner torn. No edge or staining $1800-3000 HWAC# 99572 issues. Nice! Original trustees included DeWolfe, P Chander, Stanford, JS Wall and WS Higgins. Same trustees, date and location as the Batavia, Monita, Marie Muller, Birchfield, Arrington, Henrietta and Lot# 4450 Reese River, Nevada Guttenberg. Like the other mines no production was reported that we 1864 Kingston Junior Gold & could ascertain! Est. $400-700 HWAC# 84577 Silver Mining Company Stock Early number 18 for 20 shares to Lot# 4455 D Hogan. Signed by DM Dames(?) Reese River, and EC Dixon. Dateline Austin, N. T. Nevada 1864 1864. Incorporated November 1863. (1865) Roman Location: Marshall Canon, Reese Brothers River District, N. T. Not cancelled. 25c Power of Att’y Revenue stamp. Silver Mining Fancy scroll work and scrip. SH Wade & Co printer. No edge, corner, Company pinhole or discoloration issues. Marshall Canyon is about 1.5 miles Stock ”Lander southwest of Austin. D. Hogan worked at the Savage Mine in the Reese County, Nevada River (1866 Austin Directory). Prag Collection Est. $400-700 HWAC# Territory” 84530 printed under Lot# 4451 Reese River, Nevada 1863 logo. Inc. in 1864 Marshall Gold and Silver Mining in New York. No. 264, issued Company Stock #32 for 5 shares for 40 shares to P B Grundy. Signed by Waterman to Luther Marsh on Sept. 9th, 1865. Signed by the president, James and I J Rolfe as president. Dateline B. Taylor, and the secretary Benjamin F. Mudgett. Not cancelled. Two Austin, Lander, Co., N. T. Incorporated different underground mining vignettes plus an ornate border and July 15, 1863. 25c Protest Revenue logo. Actually has the incorporation text printed at the top, not seen stamp. Not cancelled. Unusual large before. 25 cent IR adhesive stamp attached at lower left. Printed by tunnel vignette with miners working Ferd. Mayer & Co., New York. Folds and toning. Not listed in Raymond. inside. aslo Native American. Valentine & Co. printer. Location: Reese According to an 1867 New York court case, the mining property was River District, Lander County, N. T. Small nicks at fold edges. Otherwise located near Austin. The company’s two ledges of silver ore were in excellent condition. Original incorporators were Rolfe, H A Mills. called the Romulus and the Remus (hence the company’s name). Prag Edward Muller, George May and HL Joachimsen. On February 6, Collection Est. $300-500 HWAC# 84531 1864 Waterman the Reese River Reveille printed a notice of stock holders whose stocks were going to be sold for assessments not paid. Lot# 4456 Reese River, Nevada 1864 Waterman was one! Est. $400-700 HWAC# 84572 South American Gold & Silver Mining Company Stock # 34 for 20 Lot# 4452 Reese River, Nevada 1863 National Gold and Silver shares to Ben Evans. Signed by AB Montgomery and Thomas W Triplett. Mining Company Stock VERY Dateline Austin, 1864. Incorporated EARLY NUMBER 3 for 10 shares to February 13th, 1864. Small steam H Clarkson. Signed by Sturdivant train vignette. HS Crocker printer. Not cancelled. One foot to a share. and president F(lournoy) Shockley. Location: Reese River District, Lander County, N. T. Folds and small Dateline San Francisco June 20, stain on bottom center. No edge or corner issues. No revenue stamp. 1863. No incorporation date. Small The Reese River Reveille shows ta least three assessments by May of allegorical vignettes. A Not cancelled. 25c Certificate Revenue stamp. 1864. They show no positive outcomes. The South American company Buswell & Co. printer. Heavy foxing and large tear upper right. was disincorporated on August 31, 1867. Prag Collection Est. $400- Shockley was appointed the Port Warden of the port of San Francisco in 1856. Prag Collection Est. $300-500 HWAC# 84527 700 HWAC# 84524 Bid online at FHWAC.com or call 775-851-1859 219

DAY 4 Saturday, Dec 8th mining Lot# 4457 Reese River, Nevada St. Lot# 4460 Round Mountain, Nevada Mary’s Silver Mining Company 1907 Round Mountain Hydraulic Stock Early # 22 for 100 shares to Mining Stock - for Nugget Hunters! AK Stearns. Signed by HC Keibbe Number 109 for 5,000 shares to and president Rumsey. Dateline San George W Thatcher in 1907. Signed Francisco 1863. Incorporated Sept. by CO Olive and Thomas Wilson. 7, 1863. Not cancelled. 25c Power of Incorporated in Nevada. Very fine Att’y Revenue stamp. Located Reese condition! Thomas Wilson, and River D. Lander. Co. N. T. Vignette of Alaskan Miner recognized some gold in gravel. That was the start of locomotive in mountain valley. Lithog Drouaillet, New York Printers. the Round Mountain hydraulic mining rush. He was soon cleaning up Datelined San Francisco. Interesting vignette since it would be many $80 to $1,000 a day by dry washing. He sold his clam for 10% royalty years before a railroad actually reached Austin and the Reese River on gross production. (Bennett Collection) Est. $30-60 HWAC# 59843 Valley. Est. $400-700 HWAC# 84575 Lot# 4458 Reese River, Nevada 1863 Stearns Gold and Silver Mining Company Stock Stearns Mining Company, stock issued to Stearns, Stearns was the superintendent and Stearns was the founder of the important Clyde Ledge! # 13 for 25 shares. Signed by James S Pond and president G Cushing. Datelined San Francisco 1863. Incorporated October 20, 1863. Location: Umatilla Ledge, Reese River Mining District. Pinholes left. Glue residue from stamp. Very fine condition. 25c Power of Att’y Revenue Stamp. Not cancelled. Ornate logo and border, no vignette. Printed by Kenny & Alexander, SF. Pinholes left Lot# 4461 San Antonio Mining District, Nevada 1864 Liberty Silver side. No edge, corner or discoloration issues. A. K. Stearns was an Mining Company Stock - Number 2 # 2 to JVB Perry. Signed by Lewis original discoverer of the Clyde Ledge in the Amador Mining District. Hyntman and president George Seitz. Dateline Austin June 29, 1864. The oldest mining district in eastern Nevada. The Amador portion, 6 Incorporated May 1864 (hand written). 25c Power of Att’y Revenue miles north of Austin around New York Canyon, joined and was later Stamp. Not cancelled. Location: San Antonio District, Nye County, incorporated into the Reese River district. Stearns was a trustee of the N. T. Allegorical lady with American flag vignette. WB Cooke & Co. Butte Gold & Silver mine. He was also a superintendent of the Stearns printer. Slight dog ear and small nick upper right. Overall in very nice Gold & Silver mine in this same area. Pond was a secretary of several condition. JVB Perry was a U.S. Marshall and then constable in Virginia Austin, Nevada mining companies. In 1876, with the help of London City in 1863/64. He is also later listed as a saloon owner in Eureka, backers, he purchased a large acreage of mining land on the Feather Nevada in the 1884 Colorado, New Mexico, Utah, Nevada, Wyoming River. He became the superintendent of the Tsabinda Mine. Prag Collection Est. $400-700 HWAC# 84523 and Arizona Gazetteer and Business Directory. This stock was not in Filer. On May 17th, 1864, the Liberty Silver Mining Company acquired 1400 feet in claims from A. Buehm, A.D. Recabarren, Antonio Elena, Lot# 4459 Reese Jose Maria Gonzales, Rafael Robles, A.S. Egleston, Justin A. Cook, M. River, Nevada 1863 Sultana Echandia, A. Robinson, and H.D. Fletcher (Nye County Recorder 1864b, Consolidated Gold A18). Records appear to show A.D. Recabarran, who was involved in and Silver Mining the Liberty Silver Mining Company in mid-1864, specifically shipped Company Stock ore from the Libertad Ledge in San Antonio to San Pedro Canyon. The San Antonio Mining District was organized in 1863. It was located in a Early number 10 for 10 shares to David low range of mountains that lie across the south end of Smoky Valley. R McKee. Signed by The name was derived from the name of a stage station to the north. Thompson Campbell San Antonio includes the camps of Liberty (as in our stock name), on the west side of range, and Cimmaron, at the north end of range. Jr. and Thompson [Mining Districts of Nevada by Tingley] Prag Collection Est. $400-800 Campbell president - one doesn’t see this very often! Dateline San Francisco 1863. HWAC# 84561 Incorporated October 1863. Small forest vignette and large allegorical female vignette. Buswell & Co. printer. Small 5c and 20c revenue Lot# 4462 Seven Mile Canyon, Storey, stamps. Location: Reese River District, Lander Co., N. T. Bottom not cut Nevada Copy of 1866 Location straight. Otherwise no edge, corner, pinhole or discoloration issues. Document with Hand Drawn Plat Very fine! The Sultana Consolidated was a combination of the Sultana, Map 1870 copy of an 1866 document laying out the location of a claim Oriole and North American. It was located 5 miles north of Austin and laid out by Patrick Ford and William J Dugan. It clearly states the hand a few hundred yards from San Francisco Canyon. (Reese River Reveille, drawn map done by county surveyor EL Mason begins at, “...the large Supplement, October 28, 1863). Thompson Campbell and John W pine post in Seven Mile Canon about fifteen feet east of the Mouth of Brumagim had a law firm in San Francisco in 1863 (SF Directory). Prag the Ophir Tunnel.” The Ophir was one of the largest producers and the Collection Est. $400-700 HWAC# 84526 first real strike on the Comstock.. Background notes on the Seven Mile Canyon is included. Est. $150-300 HWAC# 99425 220 December 2018

DAY 4 Saturday, Dec 8th Mining Lot# 4463 Silver City, Nevada 1861 (1871) St. Louis Gold & Silver Mining Company Stock with Big Four W. S. O’Brien Signature Est. $3000-5000 HWAC# 84518 The St. Louis Mining Co. Stock certificate signed by one of the Comstock Silver Kings By Fred N. Holabird and Joseph Elcano Introduction Flood & O’Brein’s Saloon This is one of the most dramatic of the Nevada Territorial - Utah The original saloon location was inadequate, and the pair soon Territorial stock certificates in the Prag Collection. It was incorporated moved to a spot adjacent to the largest marketplace in San Francisco, months before Nevada became a Territory. It is assigned to WS Hobart, known as the Washington Market (located on Washington Street). the Lake Tahoe Lumber baron. But most importantly, contains the They called it “Auction Lunch” (saloon). Here, the saloon took off. It signature of W. S. O’Brien as president. was a winner. They made it even better by providing free food for the William S. Obrien was one of the four “Silver Kings” of Comstock drinking patrons. Flood worked the bar, and O’Brien served meat from fame, along with his partners John Mackay, James G. Fair, and J.C. Flood. freshly cooked hams and beef, always keeping a jovial attitude which Together, the group successfully monopolized much of the Comstock the customers loved. It was called a ‘one-bit’ saloon, a term for saloons during the bonanza production period of the 1870’s and more. serving cheap liquor. The “money” saloons charged two bits- 25 cents- In over four decades of intensely looking for key Comstock auto- for a drink. As Oscar Lewis pointed out in his work Silver kings (1986), graphs, I (FH) have never before found an O’Brien signature on any- “It was O’Brien’s fashion to array himself in broadcloth and high silk thing. That includes the several Flood & O’Brien letter books, hundreds hat, and so bedecked to stand outside the saloon and do the agreeable of letters from key Comstock personalities, thousands of checks and to the passing acquaintance, a little exercise of attention that generally hundreds of original deeds – where we found other key autographs led to adjournment for a drink.” Flood dressed in a similar flamboyant from Leland Stanford, A. G. Bell, Mark Hopkins to George Hearst. Even fashion. (Lewis, p 220) the Nevada Historical Society and the University of Nevada Special It was at the saloon that the pair met John Mackay and James G. Fair. Collections Library have no O’Brien signature. Over many a drink, dreams and plans began to emerge. Soon after the saloon opened, the San Francisco Mining Exchange, O’Brien Gets His Start in California Gold Country created in 1862 to promote and trade Comstock stocks, moved next door to the market, and Flood & O’Briens’s Auction Lunch Saloon be- William Shoney O’Brien was born in Ireland and came over to came the key important place for meetings and discussions of mining American when he was a young lad. In 1849 he headed to the Califor- ventures. At one point, it was rumored that O’Brien was appointed nia gold fields. He was so poor that he was forced to help unload the president (unconfirmed as of this writing). It was from the Auction ship that brought him to California. He was so poor a stranger gave him Lunch Saloon that the “Silver Kings” began their plans. a serviceable pair of boots. He immediately headed for gold country The Comstock mines hit a hiatus in production in the first half of the only to return to San Francisco in 1851. There he went into business 1860 decade, with production from the Ophir and Gould & Curry lead- eventually selling marine supplies. In 1857, after the sinking of the SS ing the way. But as the rich near-surface ores became depleted, stocks Central America caused a financial panic, many San Francisco business- and overall production began to wane. This weak financial period es suffered and failed. O’Brien and his neighbor JC Flood decided to try represented a key opportunity for speculation in mines, and Mackay, a different operation, a saloon. Along the way, O’Brien was captain of Fair, Flood & O’Brien figured it out and struck- at first as two separate San Francisco’s California (Fire) Engine Co. No. 4. “teams” and later as a more unified single team. Bid online at FHWAC.com or call 775-851-1859 221

DAY 4 Saturday, Dec 8th Mining In 1867 Flood and O’Brien sold the saloon and started a stock This Certificate brokerage firm specializing in Comstock mines. Flood was reportedly the brains behind the operation. They also recognized other opportu- The St. Louis Mining Company was incorporated when Nevada was nities related to Comstock mines, in particular the milling side of the still part of Utah Territory. This is certificate #494 for three shares business. Here, Flood & O’Brien realized they could have some partial to W. S. Hobart, the Tahoe lumber king. Signed by W. S. O’Brien as control over the milling part of the business by controlling the mercury president and Cyrus W Jones as secretary. Dateline August 17, 1871. needed for the stamp mills. In this endeavor, they became the crucial Incorporated January 14, 1861. Valley mill scene vignette with fancy middlemen between the California mercury producers in Sonoma and scroll work on left. BF Butler printer. Not cancelled. Prag Collection. Lake counties, New Almaden and the Comstock mills. So, is this really a William Shoney O’Brien’s signature? Without one In 1869 O’Brien and John Mackay partnered and headed to Virginia to compare with, we have to rely on provenance. In 1866/7 O’Brien left City. As they approached the Comstock, O’Brien took a 50c piece, the the saloon business to devote his full attention to Comstock mining. only cash the two of them had, turned around and hurled it back down This 1871 stock certificate would fit that time period perfectly, and the canyon for good luck. That was so like O’Brien. also perfectly fits the known data. It was also during the time when the O’Brien shunned the business limelight that his partners cherished. Bonanza Kings were gobbling up mines. According to Anasari [Mines O’Brien was happy to take the back seat, and this is reflected in the and Mills of the Comstock Region Western Nevada], the St. Louis Mine, rarity of original documents bearing his name. along with the Echo, Lucerne and Waller’s Defeat, were purchased by the Big Four (Mackey, Flood, Fair, and O’Brien) in 1872/3. These were The Partnership in Mining Ventures later incorporated into the Silver Hills Mine, a major mine in Silver City that had near-continuous production through WW2. We did an 1870’s The four partners began purchasing what were thought to be un- census search for anyone in California or Nevada that might be another promising properties. Then in 1869, through shrewd trading, the four “W. S. O’Brien”. William Shoney O’Brien was the only one that fit the gained control of the Hale & Norcross. The Consolidated Virginia came bill. We searched San Francisco Directories from 1868 to 1874. The next. Within four years of selling the “one-bit saloon”, O’Brien was only W. S. O’Brien in any of the directories was William Shoney O’Brien making a half of a million dollars a month. O’Brien bought the William of Flood and O’Brien. There was a William (no ‘S”) listed as a miner Sharon residence in San Francisco. Definitely high society! But business only in 1868 and Walter (no ‘S”) listed as a miner only in 1872. There cares and social responsibilities rested lightly on his shoulders. He was were many other W. O’Brien’s with occupations ranging from butcher seen more often at McGovern’s saloon talking to his former Auction to laborer to waiter to teamster to deckhand to cashier to farmer to House acquaintances than in his office at the Bonanza firm. He was porter to dressmaker, etc. These would certainly not be the president often referred to as the ‘jolly millionaire. While his partners were inte- of a major Comstock mine in 1871. grated more and more into high San Francisco society, O’Brien held on William Shoney O’Brein died in 1878. His fortune has been reported to his roots. He constantly was looking for the stranger that gave him as anything from $15 million to $35million. He was listed as one of the those boots back in 1849 so he could thank him properly. [San Francis- 100 wealthiest Americans in 1996 by Klepper & Gunther [The Wealthy co Alta, Obituary, 5-3-1878 and Silver Kings by Lewis] 100: From Benjamin Franklin to Bill Gates—A Ranking of the Richest Americans, Past and Present]. Despite his rags to riches story, his story as a true 49er, his accumulation of vast wealth on the Comstock, today he is almost the ‘Invisible Man.’ P Lot# 4464 Silver Glance Mining Lot# 4465 Silver Lake MD, Douglas District, Nevada 1887 Minnehaha County, Nevada 1891 Two Monarch and Stevedore Consolidated Consolidated Gold and Silver Mining Mining Company Stock VERY EARLY Company Stocks 1) NUMBER 1 for 10 # 9 for 1250 shares to Trenmor shares to TR Hofer. 2) # 50 for 2,490 Coffin of Carson City fame. Signed shares to TR Hofer. Signed by James by HB Bales and SL Swift president. Judge and president TR Hofer. Location Dateline Carson City 1887. Incorporated Oct. 17, 1883. Mill vignette. Silver Lake Mining District. Issued 1891. Crocker & Co. printer. Location - Silver Glance Mining District, Douglas Incorporated August 25, 1891. Hofer County, Nevada. Not cancelled. Pin holes, small tear upper left, bottom is an important 1800’s Carson City tut unevenly. Very nice condition. The Silver Glance district is more resident. He was the postmaster, banker commonly known as the Wellington district. Located in the southern and Carson City Mint superintendent. Not cancelled.Miner and pick tip of the Pine Nut Mountains north of the town of Wellington, and in vignette. Each has small defects, but over all in nice condition. Prag the northern portion of the Wellington Hills south of Wellington. The Collection Est. $80-150 HWAC# 85253 district is along the Walker River, south of Wellington and west of the Walker River district. Prag Collection Est. $100-200 HWAC# 85277 222 December 2018

DAY 4 Saturday, Dec 8th Mining Lot# 4468 Smoky Valley Mining District, Nevada 1863 Smoky Valley Lot# 4466 Smoky Valley Mining District, Nevada 1863 Louisiana Silver Mining Company Stock # 110 for 5 shares to Minaile(?). Gold and Silver Mining Company Stock # 48 for 20 shares to T Keys. Signed by AS Gould and president Larrou(?). Dateline San Francisco Signed by CP Rieux and president F Deslander(?). Dateline Stockton 1863. Incorporated April of 1863. 25c Bond Revenue stamp. Not September 16, 1863. Incorporated September 1863. Not cancelled. cancelled. Location: Lander County, Nevada Territory. Unusual 25c Certificate Revenue stamp. Justice seagull vignette. Girl rowing a shipping vignette.Also eagle ans shield. Alta Job Print. Pin hole at one boat vignette. Not sure what they have to do with Nevada mining? PL fold intersection. Staining left. Very good condition. AS Gould would Shoaff printer. PL Shoaff seems to be a Stockton printer. In 1872 he be the superintendent of the Day Day Silver Mining Company in Royal resided in Pioche. By 1887 he was the state printing superintendent City c1880. The Smoky Valley Mining District (more commonly known of the state of California. We located no information on this mine with as the Birch Creek District) shall be bounded as follows to wit. On the a quick search. The Smoky Valley Mining District (more commonly west side by the dividing ridge between the waters of Smoky Valley known as the Birch Creek District) shall be bounded as follows to and Reese River Valley on the north by the Overland Stage road on wit. On the west side by the dividing ridge between the waters of the east by Smoky Valley on the south by a distance of ten miles from Smoky Valley and Reese River Valley on the north by the Overland Birch Creek. The officers of the district shall consist of a President, Stage road on the east by Smoky Valley on the south by a distance of Secretary and Recorder elected by those taking part in these ten miles from Birch Creek. The officers of the district shall consist of proceedings and shall hold their respective offices for six months from a President, Secretary and Recorder elected by those taking part in the date of their election. On motion of HA Barrows, a committee of these proceedings and shall hold their respective offices for six months five were appointed to revise the laws consisting of WE Harding, Wm from the date of their election. On motion of HA Barrows, a committee McBroom, CC Wallace, Win Rose, and G King. [Reese River Reveille May of five were appointed to revise the laws consisting of WE Harding, 30, 1863] Prag Collection Est. $500-1000 HWAC# 84568 Wm McBroom, CC Wallace, Win Rose, and G King. [Reese River Reveille May 30, 1863] Prag Collection Est. $500-1000 HWAC# 84570 Lot# 4469 Summit Lake Mining District, Nevada Lot# 4467 1863 Combination Smoky Valley Mining Company Mining District, Nevada 1864 Stock 42 for 2 shares to AJ Rhoads. Signed by Mount Diablo Consolidated Gold president Ferguson and and Silver Mining secretary (?). Dateline Company Stock Virginia Sep. 23, 1863. Incorporated July, 1863. Second Stockton, Mining vignette showing two miners pushing an ore cart and a California stock wheelbarrow. Blue on light brown security paper. Location: Summit certificate. #216 Lake Mining District, Washoe County, N. T. Not cancelled. 25c Power for 50 shares to of Att’y Revenue stamp. Large tear bottom left. Other minor issues William Crider. Signed by A McShane and president WIlliam Fogarty. include small rip upper left, small discoloration lower right, etc. The Dateline Stockton 1864. Incorporated July 1863. Location: Smoky Combination is not listed in Collins or Kelley. “The Flowery portion, Valley District, Reese River, Lander County, Nevada Territory. Not also known as Rogers or Summit Lake, is located in the Flowery Range, cancelled. No revenue stamp attached. Some light discoloration and to the east.” [Mining Districts of Nevada by Tingley] Prag Collection small ris on bottom border that do not reach the actual stock. Clipper Est. $500-1000 HWAC# 84559 ship and allegorical woman. Not sure exactly what this has to do with Nevada mining? PL Shoaff printer. PL Shoaff seems to be a Stockton printer. In 1872 he resided in Pioche. By 1887 he was the state Lot# 4470 Summit Lake Mining printing superintendent of the state of California. The Smoky Valley District, Nevada 1863 Henry Clay Mining District (more commonly known as the Birch Creek District) Gold and Silver Mining Company Unissued. Incorporated August shall be bounded as follows to wit. On the west side by the dividing 25th, 1863. Dateline Washoe City, ridge between the waters of Smoky Valley and Reese River Valley on N. T. Location: Summit Lake Mining the north by the Overland Stage road on the east by Smoky Valley on District, Storey County, Nevada the south by a distance of ten miles from Birch Creek. The officers Territory.Printer Democratic of the district shall consist of a President, Secretary and Recorder Standard Print. The Democratic elected by those taking part in these proceedings and shall hold their respective offices for six months from the date of their election. On Standard was a rare, short-lived Virginia City newspaper. It began motion of HA Barrows, a committee of five were appointed to revise on August 10, 1863 and lasted only two months. [Newspapers of the laws consisting of WE Harding, Wm McBroom, CC Wallace, Win Nevada by Lingenfelter]”The Flowery portion, also known as Rogers Rose, and G King. [Reese River Reveille May 30, 1863] Prag Collection or Summit Lake, is located in the Flowery Range, to the east.” [Mining Est. $500-1000 HWAC# 84571 Districts of Nevada by Tingley] Est. $60-100 HWAC# 84560 Bid online at FHWAC.com or call 775-851-1859 223

DAY 4 Saturday, Dec 8th mining Lot# 4474 Tonopah, Nevada 1906-07 Two Different Golden Anchor Mining Company Stock Certificates Two different Golden Anchor MC stock certificates, issued 1906 and 1907. These uncanceled stocks have green and brown borders with a very attractive Liberty vignette at left. Est. $50-70 HWAC# 56339 Lot# 4475 Tonopah, Goldfield, Bullfrog, Nevada Goldfield Securities Syndicate Proposition 21 x 18” proposition for investing in mines in Tonopah, NV area. Tears, stains etc, sold as is. Est. $100-200 HWAC# 85601 Lot# 4471 Sutro, Nevada 1868 Sutro Tunnel Mining Company issued to namesake of Emma Mine on the Comstock Here is a unique Nevada mining stock certificate for the discriminating collector. This Suro signed Sutro Tunnel cert is issued to Miss Emma Sutro. Emma was Adolph’s daughter and the Emma Mine on the Comstock was named for here. It is # 94 for 25 shares. Signed by Sutro, but Lot# 4476 Tuscarora, Nevada 1893 cancelled. Miner and pick vignette by Torsch. (John W Torsch was Nevada Queen Mining Stock Very a wood engraver born in Maryland.) Leave it to Sutro to spend the rare. Issued sold #4077 Stauf Casper? extra money for a unique vignette. Dateline December 7, 1868. 25c 500 shares 1893. Signed by President Certificate Revenue stamp. The Emma was a prospect named after Cole.This mine is now part of the Sutro’s daughter. It was near the Sutro Tunnel entrance, located up in Tuscarora open pit mine. Est. $100- the hills near the #1 shaft for the Tunnel. 200 HWAC# 83314 Although the plainest of the Sutro stocks, it is more important as it the earliest and the only stocks signed by Sutro himself! When money Lot# 4477 Virginia City, Nevada to build his tunnel dried up in Nevada, Sutro headed east to find a 1877 California Mining Company revenue source. This is the result of this effort. Sutro first came up Stock Certificate Virginia Mining with the idea of the tunnel in 1860, got federal and state approval in District, Storey County. Inc. Dec. 1865, and construction began in 1869. He envisioned the tunnel as 1873. No. 63453, uncancelled. Issued taking care of the water problem that Comstock mining operations for 15 shares to CC Read on Feb. 4th, were encountering at depth. As Sutro said in his proposal, “the great 1882. Signed by Follis (president) obstacle to be encountered in mines is water; this is the fatal agent, and Gordon (secretary). $54,000,000 in capital. No vignette, but which makes it only a question of time, when a mine will have to be ornate font and logo. Britton & Rey print. 4” x 9.5” Very clean. The abandoned, no matter how rich...” The tunnel was completed in 1878, California the key mining companies on the Comstock. According to too late to be of critical importance to the Comstock. Sutro sold his Couch and Carpenter they outproduced every other Comstock mine. shares and moved to San Francisco, where he eventually became (Prag Collection) Est. $80-150 HWAC# 85254 mayor. Prag Collection Est. $2000-4000 HWAC# 85252 Lot# 4478 Virginia City, Nevada 1866- Lot# 4472 Sutro, Lyon, Nevada 1889 Gould & Curry Silver Mining Sutro in London; Actual Co. Ephemera, Virginia City, Nevada Documents from his European Lot of 3. 1) Scarce 1889 Report of Operations. Details work done on the Trip to Find Funding When the Bank of California shut out Sutro with 300 and 400 ft. levels. Lists the various Eastern financiers, he went to Europe. This is a fabulous collection that types of workers, number, wage, etc. 2) highlights this part of Sutro’s life. Lot of four 1) 1) Photograph of Sutro swinging a pick at a pile of rock. Taken in a London Studio: London Two different revenue checks incl. 1866 (signed by Janin) and 1870 (signed Portrait Studio / 68 Cheapside E. C. / Conducted by F. Gilling. Photo by Requa), both with Nevada revenue is .5 x 4” and mount is 12 x 9.5”. Miner foxing on mount. 2) Unused stamps incl. the rare green printed. Est. envelope with the reverse of the photo embossed in silver foil on the flap. Great toning on silver. Inside of envelope is embossed with “Wyon $100-150 HWAC# 78645 / 287 Regent Street / London W.” 3) Unused small (8 x 5”) letter Lot# 4479 Virginia City, Nevada stationary with the same silver foil embossed Sutro swinging pick. 4) 1800’s Nevada Comstock Check Adolph Sutro large business card (2.5 x 4”). Address; Sutro Tunnel, Nevada, U. S. Four pages of background information. Est. $800-1000 Collection Approx. 25 in this HWAC# 99384 collection of checks, some have revenue stamps, some are issued. Gold Hill, Heve, Justice Silver Mining Co. U/I; No. 28694 Agency of the Lot# 4473 Tonopah, Nevada Golden Bank of California Gold Hill, in the amount of $70. revenue stamped; Anchor Mining Company Stock Mexican Gold and Silver Mining Co. No. 304, in the amount of .76 c. Certificate Issued to John W. Sparks 1908; Ophir Silver Mining Co., Virginia NV, signed by James G. Fair Superintendent “$4 per day, in full for 29 days’ work as Miner in & Company Issued for 1000 shares on December 20, 1906. Certificate month of April” & many more. Est. $150-250 HWAC# 84430 number 6645. Endorsed by the company on the reverse. The Golden Anchor was an important company at Tonopah and this certificate illustrates how John Sparks, Nevada Governor at the time, was active in Tonopah mining ventures. Uncanceled. Est. $100-150 HWAC# 56330 224 December 2018

DAY 4 Saturday, Dec 8th Mining Lot# 4480 Virginia City, Nevada Lot# 4485 Virginia City, Nevada 1863 Nevada Silver Mining 1863 Sutro Gold & Silver Mining Company Stock One of the great Company Rare. # 97 for 50 shares Comstock, Nevada Territory Stock to Francis Read. Signed by JC Certificates. Blue and Red on light Ruhling (per Collins 1864) and pink background. #93 for five shares NW Winton as president. Dateline (numbers 974 1/2 to 979 1/2) Virginia 1863. [Although the year to Samuel W -gesnstein. Dateline Virginia, NT 1863. Not cancelled. has not been entered, we have sold a January 1864 cert. with a much Incorporated March 10, 1863. Signed by William Van Bokkelen and higher number making this at least 1863.] Washington and Franklin president NO (?). Mountain ledge quartz and placer mining vignette. vignettes. Britton & Co. printer. 25c Bond Revenue stamp on reverse. HS Crocker printer. Location Mountain Ledge. Light pink underprint Bottom right corner torn. Light foxing throughout. Etc, Still rare and ‘Nevada Mining Co. 25c Certificate Revenue Stamp. Left corner is nice. JC Ruhling was working in E. Ruhling & Co assayer and bankers slightly rounded. Excellent example of this quality cert. Van Bokkelen according to the 1863 Kelly Directory. Ruhling was one of the pioneer was an oft used mining secretary in Virginia City. Prag Collection Est. assay firms on the Comstock. He quickly took control of a significant $1000-1500 HWAC# 84505 portion of the assay business after he opened his office at Virginia City in 1860. When the Bank of California opened their doors in that Lot# 4481 Virginia City, Nevada location with William Sharon at the helm in 1864, the bank required 1860s Nevada Territory Ephemera: precise information on the mining interests to which they were Virginia City & Gold Hill Lot of 4 loaning money. Ruhling was the “go-to” assayer for Sharon, keeping territorial Comstock pieces. 1) Gold him abreast of the values of the mines and production, allowing him Hill: a) 1863 Maynard & Flood check to make informed decisions on high risk ventures. Over the years, the issued by the Imperial Silver Mining two became close friends, according to several sources. Prag Collection Co.; b) unused (as is standard) draft Est. $700-1500 HWAC# 84507 for the Granite Banking House of Palmer & Day, dateline Gold Hill, N.T. 186-. 2) Virginia City: a) very Lot# 4486 Virginia City, Nevada early assessment receipt for the Adriatic Gold and Silver Mining 1886 Sutro Tunnel Co Rare Cobalt Company, dateline Virginia City, Sept. 18, 1862. The Adriatic was Stock Rare and striking cobalt located on the Josephine Ledge in the Flowery District. Issued to G. colored cert. #4027 Percey Madsen Wilson. Signed by the secretary/treasurer. 4 x 7.5” Rare! b) March 10 shares 1886 signed by President 1864 Stateler & Arrington check signed by Charles Strong as supt. for Booth. Native American and miner the Gould & Curry Silver Mining Co. Dateline Virginia City, N.T. Est. vignettes. Famous Sutro Tunnel in $150-200 HWAC# 78649 Virginia City, NV. Prag Collection. Est. $200-500 HWAC# 83475 Lot# 4482 Virginia City, Nevada Piper’s Opera House Ticket, Lot# 4487 Virginia City, Nevada Virginia City, Nevada Theater Rare 1875-1893 Three Comstock Mining paper admission ticket to this historic Reports: Utah and Savage Mines landmark in Virginia City, Nevada. Lot of 3. 1) Savage Mining Company. Edward Piper is listed as the manager Daily Report for Nov. 2nd, 1875. (son of John Piper), so this likely Lists number of men working on the dates to late 1890s to 1900. Measures day and night shifts at the various 2.25” x 1.25” Est. $100-150 HWAC# stations. 74 men. Notes that one 78644 miner absent due to sickness. Folds, a little toning. 14 x 8.5” 2) Savage Mine Lot# 4483 Virginia City, Nevada Store-House Keeper’s Daily Report for 1863 Rich Gold and Silver Mining July 5th, 1876. Monitors consumption of materials such as timber, iron, Company Stock VERY EARLY # 7 kerosene, tallow, and tar. Also notes 2 dozen Parker Lanterns bought. for 20 shares to JVB Perry. Signed Fold. 14 x 8.5” 3) Report of Operations for the Utah Consolidated by secretary and president. Dateline Mining Company for the week ending May 12th, 1893. Lists the San Francisco 1863. Incorporated various types of employees present and notes on work done at the July 1863. Location Virginia Hill, mine. At the 340 ft. level, a crosscut has been extended into a quartzite Virginia, Storey Co., N. T. Loomis and clay formation. Signed by supt. DB Lyman. Toning, deep horizontal vignette of mountainous area. Towne & Bacon printer. Light green fold with separation. 14 x 8.5” Est. $90-150 HWAC# 78655 underprint ‘Rich G&S M Co.” Not cancelled. No color, edge or corner issues. Excellent condition! We found no information on ths mining Lot# 4488 Virginia City, Nevada Van company. Perry was a U.S. Marshall and constable in Virginia City and Wyck & Co. Assay Memorandums later owned saloons in Virginia City and Eureka. Stories about him for Two Different Comstock Mills are rather legendary! (1864 Collins, 1884 Polk) Prag Collection Est. Lot of 2 assays done for the Savage $500-800 HWAC# 84506 Mining Company. 1) Territorial memorandum issued Oct. 17, 1864 Lot# 4484 Virginia City, Nevada (two weeks exactly before Nevada 1868 Summit Mill Co. (4 checks, achieved statehood). For bullion from Revenue Stamped) 4 checks, the De Land Mill. Two bars, 1,165 and revenue stamped. 1) No. 15 for $156.68, Agency of the Bank of 1,258 ounces, each over .950 fineness California Virginia City, March 12, 1806; No. 18 for $907.50 Agency of silver. 5.5 x 14” The De Lands Mill the Bank of Cal. Virginia, NV; No. 97 for $100.00 Agency of the Bank of was located midway down Sixmile Canyon and was reported as idle Cal., Virginia NV; Debit for Summit Mill Interest on overdraft for month by 1871. 2) 1866 deposit from the Santiago Mill. Four deposits, 851- of April 1864 at 21 per cent. $307.58 Est. $100-200 HWAC# 84428 1,009 ounces, all over .970 fineness silver. 5 x 13” The Santiago Mill was located along the Carson River between the Vivian and Eureka Mills. Built by famous Comstock lawyer William M. Stewart and was rumored to have the largest water wheel in Nevada Territory. [Ref: Ansari] Est. $240-320 HWAC# 57663 Bid online at FHWAC.com or call 775-851-1859 225

DAY 4 Saturday, Dec 8th Mining Lot# 4489 Virginia City, Nevada Lot# 4493 Virginia City, Storey, Van Wyck Assay Sheet, 1865 Assay Nevada 1867 Kuh Assay Sheet for sheet for Van Wyck’s Virginia City Theall Deposit / Two Comstock Assay Office, May 16, 1865 for bullion Assayers Very rare assay sheet for the Assay Office of Leopold Kuh, assayed from the Savage mine.. One located at Taylor Street, Corner of D Street. Kuh assay sheets are bar, 874 fine silver, 0.075 fine gold. some of the rarer Comstock assay pieces. What makes this one even Est. $100-150 HWAC# 84849 more special is that the deposit is from fellow Virginia City assayer Theall & Co. Why would an assayer be having a competitor handling Lot# 4490 Virginia City, Nevada his samples? This was called a “check sample.” Very likely whomever 1866-1898 Virginia City, Gold Hill, Theall’s original ore deposit was from (probably the Savage Mine), & Sutro, Nevada Mining Ephemera they wanted an outside check on his assay results. Theall was using Lot of 9. This is a nice group! 1) Gold Kuh to confirm his assaying. Four samples of crushed ore deposited Hill: a) letterhead from the Gold April 15th, 1867. Signed at the bottom by Kuh. Folds. 10” x 7.5” Est. Hill Assay Office, WS James, 1893, $450-600 HWAC# 99775 to Hofer at the Bullion & Exchange Bank. Signed by James. b) 1898 Lot# 4494 Virginia City, Storey, typed letter of recommendation for a Nevada Best & Belcher 1870’s miner. Addressed to supt. Gil Ross of Receipt Book The Best & Belcher the Pumping Association, the letter recommends Daniel O’Higgins, a was originally staked in 1859 have “competent shaftman.” Signed by H. Gorham. Gorham was at once supt. about 224 feet. It lay between the of the Savage Mine and other properties in Gold Hill. He wrote a book Consolidated Virginia and the Could about his experiences on the Comstock, titled “My Memories of the & Curry mines. In 1865 it was shut Comstock.” 2) Virginia City: a) Gould & Curry Silver Mining Co. check down. The mine reopened in 1872. It never paid a dividend and signed by CC Batterman, 1870 with rare printed green Nevada revenue showed little production despite being between two of the greatest stamp and RN-B federal imprint. b) Three receipts from the supt. office Comstock mines. 1878 book. Cover is a bright mosaic with ‘Best & of the Gould & Curry for assaying completed for the Savage Mining Belcher Mining Company’ glued to front. 10 x 11”. Eighteen stubs: most Company, 1866-67. Ore came from three different mills: Devil’s Gate, to Gillig. One to Bonner. Definitely Virginia City! Roughly 86 pages of Buckeye, and the Savage. c) Two Savage Mining Co. paychecks, 1875, receipts (258 receipts). Cover and spine have wear spots. Est. $100- F.F. Osbiston Superintendent. 3) Last, but certainly not least: Great 150 HWAC# 99640 1882 letter on Sutro Tunnel Company letterhead (from the SF office) to Henry Yerington, supt. of the Virginia & Truckee Railroad. Letter Lot# 4495 Virginia City, Storey, details conversation between the supt. of the Sutro and Yerington Nevada Rare Territorial Van Wyck regarding rates for transporting train freight from Dayton to Sutro. Assay Receipt Very early Van Wyck Signed by the company secretary. Est. $150-300 HWAC# 78650 receipt (he was still in Virginia City). Many of these are known to exist but this seems to be the earliest and perhaps the only territorial. Lot# 4491 Virginia City, Nevada This receipt is for 1,351 ounces of gold and silver bullion from the 1867-1901 Virginia City, Nevada Savage Mine via the Granite Mill. According to the Gold Hill News in Mining Check Collection Lot of 13 1863 the Granite Mill was the only mill in the Nevada Territory made different. Many have revenue stamps. of granite and considered fireproof. Almost as soon as the news of a 1) Consolidated Mill check signed strike in Esmeralda (Aurora) reached the San Francisco newspapers, by Bonanza King John Mackay, RN-G Van Wyck headed there to open an assay office. He was the principal in (damaged). 2) Three different for the firm of Van Wyck & Winchester and later Van Wyck & Sanchez. By the Gould & Curry Silver Mining Co.: the summer of 1864 he was in Virginia City. According to the Virginia 1867 signed by Janin w/ Nevada and Daily Union of June 3, 1864 he had an office in the Taylor Building. By IR adhesive stamps; 1869 signed by Requa with green Nevada printed September of 1865 Van Wyck had moved his assay office to Gold Hill. stamp and RN-B federal imprint; and 1871 signed by Batterman, More background notes on Van Wyck are included. Est. $150-250 orange Nevada adhesive stamp and RN-C federal imprint. 3) Three HWAC# 99467 different for the Savage Mining Co.: 1897, 1898, and 1901, all signed by H. Gorham as superintendent. 4) Ophir Silver Mining Co., RN-X, Lot# 4496 Virginia City, Storey, 1900, signed by GMM Ross as supt. 5) 1881 First National Bank, Reno, Nevada Sullivan vs Holcomb NV, 1881, RN-G, signed by Theo. Winters (of WInters Ranch fame). Comstock Mining Ephemera Ever 6) Hale & Norcross Silver Mining Co., unissued 1880s. 7) Unused wonder what a Comstock legal battle between two mining companies Occidental Mill check with RN-C and red Nevada imprint (damaged). looked like. This lot includes 15 pieces of paper concerning Sullivan vs. 8) 1879 Bank of California check RN-D signed by LB Frankel, mining Holcomb. The legal battle took place in 1876 which was a prime time stock broker (damaged). 9) 1889 Potosi Mining Co. paycheck for Comstock mining. 1) Original 1875 agreement between Sullivan (damaged). Est. $150-300 HWAC# 78643 and Holcomb. Sullivan was to be the foreman and sink a shaft in a ‘reasonable time.’ 2) April 29, 1876 suit brought about by Sullivan for Lot# 4492 Virginia City, Nevada $1780 or $7.00 a day as foreman. 3) Sullivan’s lawyers claim Charles Wells Fargo Check, 1861 Wells Kelsey kept him from working on this shaft - which was only 75’. Still Fargo check from November 6, Sullivan deserved the money. 4) Power of Attorney from Holcombe to 1861 signed by WH Graves, possible Charles Kelsey. 5) A letter from Holcombe to Kelsey with his thoughts, superintendent of the G&C MC. A ‘Sullivan is a drinking man and not fit to be foreman.’ 6) Holcombe’s Utah Territory piece, choice Nevada lawyers ask tte case to be dismissed. It wasn’t. 7) Holcombe’s reply to collectible Est. $100-150 HWAC# Sullivan’s accusations. Etc.!The final decision is not here, but one can 84846 get a good sense of history through this case. Est. $100-200 HWAC# 99456 226 December 2018

DAY 4 Saturday, Dec 8th mining Lot# 4497 Virginia Mining District, Lot# 4500 Virginia Mining District, Storey County, Nevada 1863 Storey County, Nevada 1864 York Gold Lady Washington Silver Mining & Silver Mining Company Stock # Company Stock VERY EARLY 73 for 25 shares to DL Healey. Signed NUMBER 3. For 25 shares to OS by AC Chapmanand president R. M. Camp. Signed by N Sluiverick(?) and Daggett. Dateline Virginia N. T. 1864. Benjamin Babcock. Dateline San Incorporated April 11, 1863. Small 20c Francisco 1863. Incorporated May of and 5c revenue stamps. Clipper ship and 1863. Not cancelled. Red underprint eagle vignette. Not cancelled. Outside of discoloration at the folds, in ‘$240,000.’ Allegorical woman holding an American flag vignette. almost perfect condition. The property is noted on Bancroft’s 1865 Robbins & Co. printer. Faded 25c Certificate Revenue stamp. Location: map, located just north of the N. Ophir and the Mexican mines and Virginia District, Nevada Territory. No real edge, corner, pinhole or the Summit Mill on the Comstock Ledge. Chapman was a partner in discoloration issues. There is a Lady Washington listed in Collins, but Armstrong and Chapman [Kelley, 1863]. R. M. Daggett is none other it is in Gold Hill with a different secretary? Prag Collection Est. $500- than Rollin Mallory Daggett. In 1862, Daggett came to Virginia City. 800 HWAC# 84508 The following year, he joined the Nevada Territorial Council. In 1864, he became an assistant to Joseph Goodman, co-owner of the Territorial Lot# 4498 Virginia Mining District, Enterprise. Daggett and Goodman co-authored Psychoscope: A Storey County, Nevada 1864 Sensational Drama in Five Acts (1871), a play foreshadowing Robert Messenger & Vanderbilt Gold & Louis Stevenson’s Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde (1886). When William Silver Mining Company Stock Rare. Sharon purchased the Enterprise in 1873, he made Daggett editor- Location: Virginia Mining District in-chief. Daggett left that position in 1878 to represent Nevada in (printed at top). The stock actually Congress where he was a critic of the Central Pacific Railroad’s unfair says “On Mt. Davidson” which we freighting costs. Prag Collection Est. $500-1000 HWAC# 84510 haven’t seen before. The dateline (“City of Virginia, N.T.”) is also Lot# 4501 Virginia, Storey, Nevada A. Block / Furth Brothers First unique. No. 620, issued for 5 shares to H Schmarge on June 16, 1864. of Exchange 1865. Early period of Comstock. Nevada had only been a Incorporated February 5, 1863. Signed by T Shea and by president state for 5 months when this was done. $5,000 was a lot of money in Joseph Atwill. Not cancelled. Blue print on creme paper, eagle vignette. those days - like $75,000 in today’s world. Just what would a General Red ‘1,000,000’ underprint. Enterprise Print. Newspaper of Samuel Merchandise Company spend $75,000 on??? A Block and the Cohn Clemens/Mark Twain. In 1861 Joseph Atwill was elected the first name were synonymous with New York and Virginia City! The Furth Justice of the Peace for Virginia City, Utah Territory. Atwill is listed brothers were found in the 1868/9 Nevada Directory as having a eight times in the Carson County Records including a survey of timber store in Genoa. Printed by Frank & Co. Stationers, 410 Sacramento St. and water rights in Steamboat valley on July 12, 1860. He was a 2 cent adhesive revenue stamp with pen cancel. Folds. 3.75” x 8.25”. true pioneer of the Comstock! “[Records of Carson County, Utah and Biographies on Fred and Jacob Furth. Est. $150-200 HWAC# 99393 Nevada Territories” by Ellison] The company is listed in Collins with 1000 shares and T. Shea as secretary. Office at 62 South ‘C’ Street. Prag Lot# 4502 Walker Lake, Mineral, Nevada Two Walker Lake Copper Collection. Est. $600-1000 HWAC# 84509 Mining Company Prospectuses This pamphlet is a description of the newly discovered copper country in the Walker Lake District, Nevada. Lot# 4499 Virginia Mining District, Prospectus for two mines: the Walker Lake Copper Mining & Smelting Storey County, Nevada 1862 (1864) United States Mining Company Company and the Thorne Copper Mining & Reduction Company. Includes description of W. W. Munds whose discovery lead to these Stock Location: Virginia District, two companies. This was on the Schurz Indian Reservation, but in Story [sic.] County, N. T. (printed October of 1906 it was opened up to all for mining. 15 pages. 8 x 5”. top center). Inc. Dec. 1862. Dateline A 1909 report on copper mining in the world, sums up both of these San Francisco, 1864. No. 96, issued properties with, “Is not regarded favorably.” Est. $100-200 HWAC# for 3 shares to Alex McAbee. Signed 99358 by president Clarence W Knox and secretary J. M. Buffington. Not cancelled. Portrait vignette of George Washington on right. 25 cent Lot# 4503 Washington Mining IR adhesive stamp attached on the right side. Lith. by Baker, SF. Folds, District (Lander County), Nevada toning, Edge tears. rounded corner. This company was part of the 1864 Ben Bolt Gold and Silver Filer Collection, but no information could be located about it using Mining Company Stock # 33 for the Holabird references. The 1863 Langley directory does not list the 15 shares to WF Johnson. Signed company. J. M. Buffington was an old honored pioneer of the Pacific by WF Johnston and president DT coast and one of the most influential of the early settlers of Stockton. Perry. Dateline San Francisco May In 1857 he moved to San Francisco, and since then, for over a third of 23, 1864. Incorporated Jan. 1864. a century, he has been actively engaged in business and prominently Location: Hungaria Ledge, Washington Mining District, Lander County, identified with commercial and mining interests. [San Francisco N. T. Small 5c and 20c revenue stamps. Not cancelled. Native american County biographies online] Prag Collection Est. $500-800 HWAC# vignette and a river scene vignette. Francis, Valentine & Co printer. 84504 Folds, toning and left side corner issues. None of which is dramatic. Original trustees of this company were A. M. Hay, W. D. Robertson, D. T. Berry, W. A. Thornburgh, and Werner Phillips. Incorporated by the same trustees in the same location as the Live Oak, Merrimac, and Badger. It was common in those days to divide a property into several different mines to raise as much money as possible. Whether this was done to further the mining or the owners pockets we are unsure. District is located in Nye County on the western slope of the Toiyabe Range about 25 miles south of Austin. Vanderburg (1939) placed this district partly in Lander County, [Mining Districts of Nevada] by Tingley] THe district is a few miles west of the Kingston District. Mining was done along Washington Creek, Cottonwood Creek, and San Juan Creek. This area was extremely active in 1863 and 1864. Prag Collection Est. $500-1000 HWAC# 84567 Bid online at FHWAC.com or call 775-851-1859 227

DAY 4 Saturday, Dec 8th mining Lot# 4504 Washington Mining Lot# 4509 , Nevada 1882 Bullion District (Lyon County), Nevada Mining Co Stock Rare early key 1864 Flora Gold and Silver Mining Nevada mine. I/U #19829 M Fox 5 Company Stock # 247 for 10 shares shares 1882 signed by President Cole. to John Vignot. Signed by AW Russell Creases. Est. $120-200 HWAC# 83312 and president DS Brittin. Dateline Dayton, Lyon Co., N. T. March 21, Lot# 4510 , Nevada D. W. Earl 1864. Incorporated July 2d, 1863. Not Archive: The CPRR’s Unofficial cancelled. 25c Power of Att’y Revenue stamp. Eagle and flag vignette. Forwarding Company D. W. Earl was No printer listed. Location: Washington Mining District, Lyon Co., N. T. a Sacramento grain and flour dealer for California Gold Rush Towns. Listed in Collins. John Vignot’s cabin built in 1859 was one of the first It wasn’t long before they became a forwarding agent for those same four or five substantial buildings at Gold Hill. In 1861 he and three towns with strings of wagons pulled by 10 to 18 mules. Earl was a others, Including McLaughlin, surveyed the area around Gold Hill very successful businessman and was an original stock holder for for water. L William Donaldson, WW Caperton and the Ophir Mining the Central Pacific Railroad in 1863. In 1868 when the CPRR crossed Company on August 12, 1861 sold land with water privileges and mill Nevada, Earl became their unofficial forwarding agent with offices sites between Virginia City and American Flat to the Washoe Turnpike inside the most important depots. Lot of four. 1) 1869 check to Earl Company.Russell was the county recorder for Lyon and Churchill signed by Henry Yerington. Check number 2. Has a 2c Nevada Revenue counties at this time. District located along the canyon of the East stamp. 2) Fancy 1871 pictorial Letterhead to the Mineral Hill Mining Walker River in the southeastern corner of Lyon County, extending Company in Eureka County. “...will be here as soon as the Powder Car from the vicinity of Wichman Canyon on the north to the Mineral arrives.” 3) Half sheet 1873 Battle Mountain letterhead. 4) Half sheet county line on the east and the south. Most of the district is in Lyon County. [MIning Districts of Nevada by Tingley] Prag Collection Est. CPRR billhead for moving an item from Battle Mountain to Reno and $500-1000 HWAC# 84566 on to Virginia City. 1876. Includes look at Earl’s satellite offices in Nevada in the 1870’s. Est. $100-160 HWAC# 99792 Lot# 4505 White Pine, Nevada 1869 Silver Lot# 4511 , Nevada Eagle Mining Company Eagle Mining Co Stock Rare I/U #45 Geo of Nevada Stock Certificate, 1865 Possibly Wallace 20 shares 1869 signed by President Churchill County. There was a Grey Eagle illegible. Inc 1869. Bald eagle vignette. We mine there at the same time that also had could not find any info on this mine in our database. Est. $200-400 HWAC# 83302 Philadelphia investors. Incorporated in Pennsylvania. No. 216, issued for 50 shares to John A Evers on May 20th, 1865. Signed by Lot# 4506 White Pine County, Nevada James Mae Nichol as treasurer and Turner G. Morehead as president. Miser’s Dream Silver Mining Company Bald eagle vignette standing on a globe. Peach-colored print and # 118 for 10 shares to H Schwarze. border. Large blue company seal. Red twenty-five cent revenue stamps Signed by WFR Schintter and president on front and back. Stains, folds. Fading. Not to be confused with the Theodore Meltz. Dateline San Francisco Eagle Gold Mining Company of Colorado, also incorporated in 1865 in 1869. Incorporated March 31, 1869. Not Pennsylvania. Est. $200-400 HWAC# 60640 cancelled. An old mid-eastern miner dreaming of gold vignette. Winterburn printer. Location: Miser’s Lot# 4512 , Nevada Four Nevada Stock Dream ledge (north) in the White Pine District. Dog ears and a few Cert. 1. Mohawk Gold And Copper Co, stains. Nice condition. Raymond reporost in 1873 that the Miser’s incorporated Nov 14, 1916 State of Nevada. Dream had processed 20 tons of ore for $350 gross yield in the fourth Cert #1105 for 2400 shares of common quarter of 1870. Prag Collection Est. $200-400 HWAC# 85259 stock @ 10 cents per share. Issued to Frank Teacher Dec 2, 1919, signed W. A. Burnister(?) president, gold leaf border, Lot# 4507 White Pine County, Nevada 1869 Silver Eagle Mining gold company seal lower left, vignette Company Stock # 44 for 20 upper left: three miners in shaft with ore cart, looking l-r, tri-fold shares to George Wallace. Signed creases with a tear in the crease on the right. Printer: GOES 2. Holly by Johnson and president David Consolidated Mines Co., incorporated April 17, 1922 State of Nevada. D Colton. Original incorporators Cert 240 for 1000 (stamped in red) shares of common stock @ $1 per share issued to F.R. Lewis Sept 22, 1923, signature illegible, included Wallace, Thompson, AE green border, no vignette, company seal embossed left side, excellent Head, GW Gordon and M THompson Jr. Dateline San Francisco 1869. condition. Printer not identified 3. C.O.D. Leasing Co, incorporated Incorporated March 9, 1869. Not cancelled. 25c Bond Revenue Stamp. 1903 State of Arizona. Cert #167 for 500 shares of treasury stock Eagle vignette. Brown & Rey printers. A stock holders meeting was (stamped in red right side) @ $1 per share issued to S. Frank Vail May announced in the San Francisco papers in 1870, but not in 1871! Prag Collection Est. $100-200 HWAC# 85256 23, 1910, signed John A Cieter president, gold corp seal left side, black border, three vignettes: Top left; three miners with lights on “looking” Lot# 4508 Yankee Blade Mining Center; foundry with smoke coming from stacks, train in foreground District, Nevada 186- Governor Low heading l-r, mountains in background with river divide. top right; five Gold and Silver Mining Comp[any miners, miner in foreground calling up, one miner with light on in Reese River! Unissued. Incorporated background, one with pick. Reverse green ornate transfer certification. January 1864. Nevada Territory. “New Mexico Pyramid Dist” handwritten on left. Excellent condition. Dateline VIrginia N. T. Location: Printer: GOES 4 The Nevada Star Mining Co, incorporated State of Yankee Blade District. Eagle and flag South Dakota. Beautifully engraved certificate # 1286 for 2500 shares vignette. No issues - excellent condition. Before it was incorporated of common stock @ $1 per shares issued to C.J. Knapp Feb25, 1907 into the Reese River Mining District, the Yanke Blade the area was signatures Company’s President F.A. Neidinger historic document has situated in a series of canyons 3 to 7 miles northwest of Austin. The an ornate gold border, gold corp seal lower left vignette upper left of Reese River Reveille narrows this down for us when talking about the a group two miners with picks and candles glowing in background. Governor Low, “This is the area recently located between Sonoma and evidence of fold marks, no tears. reverse is green with a vignette of 7 the old emigrant Road. We have seen several specimens from it, which miners in various positions in a mine shaft .Printer not identified. Est. having been burned were almost completely covered in silver.” Prag $100-120 HWAC# 84612 Collection Est. $60-100 HWAC# 84558 228 December 2018

DAY 4 Saturday, Dec 8th Mining Lot# 4683 Appalachia, 1881, 1910 Lot# 4686 , Bank Mining Three Appalachian Gold Mining Syndicate of San Francisco, CA Fifty Stocks All in very nice condition. shares of Bankers Mining Syndicate 1) North State Mining # 139 for capital stock, number 367 issued to 100 shares. 1881. North Carolina. Sol Halderwood, dated November 28, Allegorical, mill, clipper ship and 1898, signed by J. A. Sands, president. steam train vignettes. Nice red Vignette of mountains, with revenue underprint. 2) Rappahannock Gold stamp. Printed: American Lith Co. Mining # 1362 for 100 shares. 1881. Ken Prag Collection. Est. $60-150 HWAC# 81849 Virginia. Above ground mining vignette. Stafford County. 3) Relief Gold Mining # 836 for 11 shares. 1910. Incorporated in West Virginia. Lot# 4687 , Bankers Group Gold Miner vignette. Green rays underprint. Pleasing to the eye! Prag Mines stock Five hundred shares of Collection Est. $150-300 HWAC# 83941 capital stock of the Bankers Group Gold Mines - Mariposa Mining Lot# 4684 , Bear Valley Irrigation District, Mariposa County, CA, Company stock Five shares of number 26 issued to Geo. H. Stipp, on preferred stock of Bear Valley June 11, 1899. Vignette of miner with Irrigation Company of Redlands, load of gold. Ken Prag Collection. California, number 105, dated Est. $60-150 HWAC# 81850 November 16, 1891, signed James Graham, president, and Arthur Lot# 4688 , Carlisle Mining H. Daw, Transfer Agent, Vignette Company stock certificate Five of New Bear Valley Dam. Dam Hundred capital stock shares for construction started in July 1883, not Carlisle Mining Company, number completed until July, 1885. The Bear Valley Irrigation company filed 252 issued to Horace H. Durston on for bankruptcy after the 1893 financial panic. Printed: S. D. Childs & July 20, 1917. Ken Prag Collection. Co. Ken Prag Collection. Est. $60-150 HWAC# 81863 Est. $100-200 HWAC# 82344 Lot# 4685 , 16 Wyoming Mining Stock. 16 mining company capital stock. 1) One thousand shares of Lot# 4689 , Cataract & Wide West Calumet Mining, Milling and Smelting Gravel Mining Co One hundred Company, number 73 issued to Mrs. shares of Cataract & Wide West L. Vaudecbie, dated November 29, Gravel Mining Company capital stock, 1899. 2) Forty shares of Winona number 875, assigned to E.B Lake, Gold-Copper Mine and Milling dated September 13, 1892, vignette Company, number 1452, issued to of water spraying on field. Printed: F. E. Collins.March 5, 1908 signed Lith G. T. Brown & Co. Ken Prag by J. H. East, 2nd Vice President. 3) Collection. Est. $60-150 HWAC# One hundred ten shares of Winona Gold-Copper Mine and Milling 81859 Company, number 480 issued to F. E. Collins. 4) One share of Winona Pool Copper Company, number 47 issued to L. C. Collins. on April Lot# 4690 , Cold Bay Exploration 8, 1918. Printed GOES. 5) Sixty Thousands shares of Winona Rex Company Oil Royalty Certificate Copper Mining Company, number 270 issued to Z. Perrot on July Two Cold Bay Exploration Oil Royalty 4, 1908. 6) One hundred shares of Hart Mountain Gold Dredging Certificates. 1) Certificate No. B19, Company, number 24 issued to M. Thomas on October 18, 1908, signed January 21, 1927, by Howard signed by John R. Buchanancer. 7) Two Hundred Fifty shares of Elk M. Rice. 2) Certificate A30, signed Mountain Mining and Milling Company, number 440 issued to J. M. by Howard M. Rice. The Cold Bay Rausbury on March 21, 1904. 8) One hundred ten shares of Eureka district includes an area that lays Copper Mining Company, number 736 issued to S. Cornwell on July west of Cold, Portage, and Wide Bays 8, 1902. 9) One thousand shares of Evening Star Mining Company, on the northwest side of Shelikof number 63 issued to Theo Schreiber on March 1, 1905. 10) One Strait west of Kodiak Island. Printed thousand shares of Spring Valley Placer Company, number 30 issued by American Bank Note Company. Ken Prag Collection. Est. $120-200 to Jennie M. Andrew on December 19, 1898, revenue stamp. 11) Two HWAC# 83618 thousand shares of Standard Copper Mining Company, number 73 issued to C. Storz on January 25, 1904 signed by P. Waldort, president. Lot# 4691 , Corson Gold Mining Printed: The Franklin Printing & Engraving.. 12) One thousand Company Thirty shares of Corson shares of Rambler Mining Company number 583 issued to (unnamed Gold Mining Company stock, number ) dated November 21, 1901 signed by B E Burger, Vice President. 13) 556 issued to A. M. Decrow, dated April 29, 1902. Incorporated under One hundred shares of Union Copper Mining Company number 362 the laws of Arizona. Three mining vignettes one where miners are issued to H. L. Elliott, dated June 6, 1902. Printed Thayer & Jackson working with sluice. Black border. Silver coupon and revenue stamp. Stationary Co. 14) One hundred shares of Black Tiger Copper Mining Ken Prag collection. Est. $60-100 HWAC# 82374 Company, number 1664 issued to Kate E. Mullis, dated May 14, 1902. 15) One hundred shares of Bi-Metallic Copper Mining Company, Lot# 4692 , Dexter Mining Co Stock & Bond Dexter number 16 issued to M. Bowser dated March 13, 1900, signed by Mining Company capital stock and mining company 6% Lewis W. Turrant, president. Revenue stamp. Assigned December 9, Gold Bond Trustee Certificate.1) Five hundred shares 1901. Printed: The W. H. Kistler Stationery Co. 16) One thousand of Dexter Mining Company capital stock, dated February shares Beaver Copper Mining Company, issued to R. E. Lease on April 5, 1906, number 394, issued to L. G. Furman. Printed: 20, 1904. Collection of stock certificates from Encampment, WY which Rocky Mountain Bank Note Co. 2) $500 6% Gold Bond was a copper and gold company. Ken Prag Collection. Est. $300-500 Trustee Certificate principal due 1926, number 141. HWAC# 82308 Dexter Mining Company is located in Atlantic City, WY. Printed: Rocky Mountain Bank Note Co. Ken Prag Collection. Est. $100-150 HWAC# 82309 Bid online at FHWAC.com or call 775-851-1859 229

DAY 4 Saturday, Dec 8th Mining Lot# 4693 , Early Unissued Lot# 4697 , 1872-1875 Four Coal Mining Stocks - All Striking! Lot of six. 1) Stock Certificates Lawrence and Topeka Coal Riverside Iron & Coal of Scratton. Company. # 299 for $100 to John Taylor. Blue 18--. Red border and red underprint. 25c Internal Revenue stamp. Large gold seal. 2) Unity Mining Company. Maine. 1872. President Edwin Scott. Not Cancelled. 188-. Full size vignette on left hand 2) Missouri Valley Coal Mining Company. # 83 side is impressive. 3) New England for 7 shares. To Edgar Zabriskie. E Loveland Mining Company. Incorporated in president. 1873. Not cancelled. 3) Maple MA. Incorporated in 1857. Red on Grove Coal Company with hand written seal. Bond. Very interesting. white. 4) Williamsburg Coal and # 20 for 500 shares. Not signed. Seems to be done in a hurry and not Mining Company. Franklin County, very well thought out. Not cancelled. 4) Unissued Jefferson Coal & Iron Kansas. Green cert. 187-. 5) New River Mineral Company. Incorporated Company. Steubenville, Ohio dateline. Prag Collection Est. $200-300 in New York. Location of mines in Wythe County, Virginia. 188-. 6) HWAC# 83976 Rockingham Silver Mining Company. 187-. Incorporated in New Hampshire. Prag Collection Est. $100-150 HWAC# 81973 Lot# 4698 , Four Tularosa Copper Company stock certificate Four Lot# 4694 , 1879-1896 Five capital stock certificates of Tularosa Eastern Mining Certificates 1) Copper Company with eagle vignette Unadilla #296 for 100 shares. incorporated in New Mexico. 1) Striking green wavy background One hundred shares, number C428 with sold underprint “Shares 1.00 issued to A. L. Stoughtaling dated July each.” 2) Plymouth Rock # 58 for 100 22, 1910. Assigned Sept 25, 1920. shares. 1879 (year of incorporation). Printed: Steelograph New York Bank Pen Cancelled. 3) Same as two, but Note Co. 2) Fifty shares, number unissued. Signatures of JE Abbott and B160 issued to A. L. Houghtaling dated July 22, 1910. Assigned president Isaac R Rich. 4) Columbia September 25, 1920. Printed: Steelograph New York Bank Note Co. Copper Company # 125 for 1000 shares. Green border. 1882 (year of 3) Uncancelled one hundred shares, number C1719 issued to Edward incorporation). “JL Kervand, 1000 PA. AV. Washington D. C.” in green T. Roberts, dated February 10, 1914, signed by J. N. Beaty, president art bottom center of border. 5) National Nickel #784 for 25 shares. Transferred January 11, 1916. 4) Five hundred shares, number B 1267 Brown border and background with rare blue vignette! Condition issued to Logan & Bryan dated April 19, 1915. Assigned April 20, varies. Prag Collection Est. $200-300 HWAC# 83955 1915. Ken Prag Collection. Est. $130-200 HWAC# 82340 Lot# 4699 , Four Various Mining Stock Lot# 4695 , Five Oregon & Washington 1. Black Pearl Mines Corp., incorporated Mining stock certificates Four Oregon in the State of South Dakota. Cert. # 365 and One Washington Mining stock. 1) for 125 shares of common stock @$1 Fifteen Hundred shares of Oregon per share issued to Mrs. Kate E. Mullis Hydraulic Mining Company, number 70 March 1. 1910, signed E.E. Rodgers issued to Henry Atwater, dated October president, orange border, embossed corp. 31, 1906, signed J. A. Whitinaw, president, seal lower center, vignette of allegorical revenue stamps 2) One hundred fifty female top center, looking l-r while seated shares of Oregon Gold Mining Company, r-l, trifold creases, shows some wear number 399 issued to B R. Amend, dated along top border. Printer: not identified. 2.Cochise Development Co, March 25, 1908, 3) One share of Nugget incorporated 1905 Bisbee, State of Arizona. Cert. # 2151 for 25 Corporation of Oregon, number 17 issued to A. S. Grant, dated April shares of capital stock @ $10 per share issued to Obe Shrimp Jul 12, 15, 1935. Printed: GOES 133. 4) Twelve hundred shares of Nugget 1906, signed Harry Duey president, black border, corp embossed Corporation of Oregon, number 8, issued to Sidney C. Love, dated April seal left lower corner, green sunburst underprint with a green eagle 25, 1929. Signed Sidney C. Love, president. Cancelled. Printed GOES. underprint wings spread looking l-r standing on a rock. There is a red 5) Five thousand shares of Oregon Independent Hydraulic Mining stamped paragraph diagonal across the face of the stock that outline Company, number 6 issued to Mr. F. F. Evans, undated , signed by M. H special installment arrangements. The reverse has three installments Jay, president. Printed: Denny-Coryell Company. Ken Prag Collection. received stamped on the right side. There are heavy trifold creases, Est. $80-100 HWAC# 82313 non torn. Condition is fair. Printer not identified. 3. Untied States Coal Lot# 4696 , Four capital mining and Oil Co., incorporated 1895 State of Maine. Cert # C1345 for 100 shares @ $25 per share issued R. Edwin Jonas Dec 9, 1904 (stamped), stocks Four capital mining stocks. 1) signed G. Henry Whickcomb president. olive green border, “U.S.C. and One thousand shares of Irrigation and O. Co. “ green underprint, corp seal lower left, vignette top center Hydraulic Mining Company, number of oil derrick w/pump house and trees in background, “100 shares” 121 issued to Leward A. Jurkuis, in upper left and right corners, “Transferred Jun 24, 1905” stamped dated December 6, 1893 signed in purple diagonally across front, letters “NSB” is punched twice by Norman W. Kingsley, president. lower right. Transfer certification is filled out on reverse. Light fold Printed: Martin B. Brown 49, 2) Two crease, good condition. Printer” American Bank Note Co New York & hundred and fifty shares of American Boston.4. The Plymouth Rock Mining Co., incorporated Nov 7, 1879 Gold Mining Company, number 951 State of Mass. Cert # 1005 for 500 shares of common stock @ $25 per issued to John McGlashan, dated May share issued to C.R. Weston May 19, 1880, signed Isaac Rich president. 12, 1903, signed by A. J. Anderson, president. 3) One hundred shares Stock has handwritten “Cancelled “ with names and shares crossed of Tres Hermanas Gold Mining Company, number 59, dated December out, transfer certification is dated May 21, 1880. Corp seal lower left, 27, 1902, E. T. Freeman, president. 4) One hundred shares of Gold black border with “Shares $25.00 Each” in right border, vignette below and Copper Deep Tunnel Mining and Milling Co., number 990, dated company name of four miners with helmet lights working in a shaft March 16, 1914, signed by James E. Glasson, Vice-president. Ken Prag Collection. Est. $160-200 HWAC# 82327 filling a bucket, ore cart in background. Condition is good evidence of light light fold creases. Printer: C. Frank King Boston, Mass. ALL CERTIFICATES ARE IN PLASTIC SLEEVES Est. $80-120 HWAC# 84613 230 December 2018

DAY 4 Saturday, Dec 8th Mining Lot# 4700 , 1854 Gold Belt Mining Lot# 4705 , 1877 Housatonic Mining Company Gold Rush Era Stock Company Stock # 72 for 1000 shares to Oscar Certificate Number 6 issued on Earle trustee. Signed by president Holloway November 4, 1854. This is a very and treasurer George (?). Dateline New York early number and very early general 1877. Incorporated in New York. Not cancelled. date. Issued to O. MacDaniel and Heaavy folds. Pin holes at fold intersections. signed by president O. MacDaniel. Some discoloration. This is iron country at the For 2,000 shares. Also signed by tri-state area of New York, Massachusetts and secretary I. T. Gleasen(?). This is Connecticut. Prag Collection Est. $100-150 HWAC# 83973 a mystery stock certificate. We could not unquestionably place it. We found Gold Belt Mines in the west, but they were all 1900’s. We Lot# 4706 , Hubbard-Elliott Copper Company did find an early 1860’s Virginia Gold Belt Mine. But it had the word Two capital stocks from Hubbard-Elliott Copper ‘Virginia’ in the title. It comes from a major Georgia archive! The Mines Development (Copper Company).Vignette only O. MacDaniel listed in the 1860 census is Osborne MacDaniel. outside Elizabeth Mine. Printed: Western Bank He is living in New York and is a civil engineer. This would place this Note & Eng Co. Chicago. 1) One thousand mining company on the east coast. However, this certificate is EARLY uncancelled shares of Hubbard-Elliott Copper and needs someone with more time to research it and give it a proper Mines Development Company, number 12714 home. Vignette is of an allegorical lady watching over a shipping fleet. issued to JT.J. Sulllivan on May 3, 1910, signed by (Hints of San Francisco or the eastern United States.) Very nice. Two J.S. Steever, president. 2) Two hundred shares dog eared corners. Some wrinkles. One pin hole. Sharp brown on of Hubbard-Elliott Copper Company, number white contrast. Est. $800-1600 HWAC# 56952 960 issued to Wm D. Bowan on April 17, 1911, Lot# 4701 , Gold Hill Mining Company Gold signed by J.S. Steever, president. Company had 35 patented claims in Elliott Creek valley. Western Bank Note & Eng Co, Chicago. Ken Prag Bond First Mortgage Gold Hill Mining ten percent collection. Est. $50-100 HWAC# 83656 gold bond, number 86, principal due July 1, 1895 with coupons. Signed by F. W. Williams, trustee. Lot# 4707 , Hubbell Dome Exploration Printed: Henry Seibert & Bro Co. Ken Prag Collection. Est. $60-150 HWAC# 81857 Company Hubbell Dome Exploration Company Series B Oil Royalty Certificate, number B3 signed January 21, 1927 by Howard M. Rice. Vignette: Profile of a lady. Printed by American Bank Note Company. Ken Prag Collection. Est. $60-100 HWAC# 83620 Lot# 4702 , Golden Empire Mining, Toolroad & Transit Co Rare ten thousand shares of Golden Empire Mining, Tollroad & Transit Lot# 4708 , Indian River Gold Company capital stock of Gold Beach, Mining & Development Co Eight Oregon, number 75 issued to Count hundred shares of Indian River Gold George Hay du Barry on June 18, Mining and Development Company, number 310 issued to Maurice A. 1932. Three vignettes of mines and Cameron, dated September 29, 1908 signed by Frank Lowe, president mine workings. Printed: GOES. Ken Prag Collection. Est. $80-100 HWAC# and R. B. Ackerman, secretary. Certificate has under print of a dredge. 82318 Three mining vignettes. Ken Prag collection. Est. $100-200 HWAC# 82378 Lot# 4703 , Golden Gate Gold Mining Company stock Fifty shares Lot# 4709 , Island By Mining Company One hundred shares of Golden Gate Mining Company of Island Bay Mining Company shares capital stock, number 1991, of Knights Island, Alaska, number 51 issued to John Wright, dated issued to Philip Sidney, Lord de December 28, 1906.. Signed by Charles Krus, secretary, Geo L. McKarp, L’Isle, dated March 29, 1893, signed president. Gold seal, mining vignette. Incorporataed under laws of Sinclair MacLeay. The Golden Gate Mine produced the only gold in the Washington state.Ken Prag collection. Est. $60-100 HWAC# 82379 West Walker River Mining District. Lot# 4710 , Johnson & Johnson Between September 1912 and April Mine First Aid Kit Johnson’s First 1913, 6848 tons of ore were crushed. Aid Kit #10 in black tin box. Contents Ken Prag Collection. Est. $60-150 HWAC# 81856 excellent, c 1900-1920 7 x 12 x 16”. Pollock Collection. Est. $200-400 Lot# 4704 , Good Hope Mining Co HWAC# 84855 stock One hundred shares of Good Lot# 4711 , Jualpa Company Mines Hope Mining Company capital stock, and Mining Capital stock and letter number 340 issued to George F. Van to stockholders. 1)Two thousand De Mark on November 17, 1897 shares of The Jualpa Company, number 559 dated May 29, 1903, signed by E. A. Freeman, president. issued to Geo C. Higbee, incorporated in Delaware, Gold incorporation disk surrounded in red. Signed by John W. Woodside, president and Eli F. Hamsher, treasurer. Vignette of Eagle with shield. Very nice gold Was the main gold mine in the incorporation disk surrounded in red. 2) Letter to Geo H. Higbee, S.F. Pinacate Mining District in Riverside and owner of stock from secretary J. Clark Hile. advising him that his County, California. The mine produced approximately $2 million in stock shares in Last Chance Gold Mine are enclosed. Notice is also gold before 1896. The mine ceased operation approximately 1903. Ken Prag Collection. Est. $60-150 HWAC# 81854 given that he will receive stock in new company and will eligible to buy more with the mine have an excellent chance of earning good return. Ken Prag collection. Est. $60-100 HWAC# 82365 Bid online at FHWAC.com or call 775-851-1859 231

DAY 4 Saturday, Dec 8th Mining Lot# 4712 , King Jack Mining Lot# 4717 , Mining Ephemera reports 1. Company stock Five Hundred shares The Mining Trust, Limited November, 1929 of King Jack Mining Company, in Queensland. Report consisting of 15 pages Missouri, number 87 issued to W. of holdings in Mt. Isa in Australia, Lawn Hills J. Rockwood dated April 18, 1902, Concession, Queensland, New Guinea, Northern signed by John N. Dalby, President. Rhodesia, France. Back of report has maps with locations of boreholes, Seven vignettes of miners. Form summary of drilling results. Out side cover shows some wear, but from State of Missouri, office internal pages and maps are in good condition. The history can be of Secretary of State, James C. found in the book “Company Towns: Corporate Order and Community” Kirkpatrick indicating $1 fee paid by First Albany Corporation, Albany, by Neil White. 2.Bartlett Mines, LTD GOW Ganda. Booklet of pictures NY answering if company still in existence. Answer was ‘non est of property July, 1909. Booklet has 16 pictures and is in good shape. report filed December 1, 1907 by prosecuting attorney of Pettis. Peter Included is map of the GOW GANDA area. All are in Plastic sleeves for Pericon Collection. Est. $40-60 HWAC# 82353 protection. Est. $100-200 HWAC# 84628 Lot# 4713 , Kodiak Gold Mining Lot# 4718 , 1881-1899 MIssissippi Company stock Forty shares of Valley Mining Stocks Possibly Kodiak Gold Mining Company stock Mississippi Valley stocks. Lot of six. 1) number 105 issued to I. W. Taber on March 6, 1906 signed by I.W Auburn Mining Company. Chicago, Illinois. # 42. Striking seal! 2) Iron Taber, president and F. A Cornell, secretary. Incorporated in territory Duke Consolidated Mining Company. # 30. Illinois. Poor condition. 3) of Arizona. Gold seal. Stock has gold border. Vignette: Men Mining. Ken Prag collection. Est. $60-100 HWAC# 82368 Orango Mining Company. Missouri. Issued ot the ‘London Agency of the Missouri, Kansas & Texas Trust Co.’ Black Range Mining Company. Lot# 4714 , Mammoth Shirtless underground miner vignette. Illinois. 5) Carthage Mining Consolidated Mining Milling Company. Carthage, Missouri. Two nice vignettes. Shovel & pick seal, Gold and brown underprint and background. AND NUMBER 10! and Smelting Co Fifty shares of Excellent Condition. 6)The Iowa Mineral and Ochre Paint Company. Mammoth Consolidated Mining, # 73. Vignette of miners on break standing by an ore cart. Prag Milling and Smelting Company, number 492, dated March 1881, Collection Est. $150-250 HWAC# 93989 signed William N. Loker, president. Lot# 4719 , 1890 New England Gold and Printed: Rhoden & Allen. . Ken Prag Silver Mining Company Stock # 250 for Collection. 100 shares to KL Fahnestock (?). Signed by F Nichols and president Leigh R Hoyt. Dateline Est. $120-200 HWAC# 82329 New York 1890. Incorporated in New York c1883. Three vignettes: Native American on Lot# 4715 , Milwaukee Mining horse with spear and two underground mining. & Milling Company stock All are a little different than most vignettes we see. J Ottmann printer. Not cancelled. Very nice condition. We could not find the location for Three capital stock certificates this certificate. Prag Collection Est. $80-100 HWAC# 83946 for Milwaukee Mining & Milling Company, incorporated under the Lot# 4720 , 1859 New Granada laws of New Mexico. 1) Cancelled Ten thousand shares of Milwaukee Mineral Land Company Stock Mining & Milling Company, number # 863 for 52 shares to Thomas S Standbridge. Signed by James 185 issued to J. F. Hopkins on Casey and president Jenks. Dateline February 10, 1917. 2) Unissued Philadelphia 1859. Chartered April 5, stock for Milwaukee Mining & Milling 1856 in Pennsylvania. Five vignettes: Company, number 297. 3) Unissued stock for Milwaukee Mining & Milling Company, number 308. Ken Prag Collection. Est. $100-200 mining, eagle, Native American HWAC# 82349 shooting bow, lady, and lumberjack. Praper Welsh & Company printers. Not cancelled. Tear bottom right. Cut close on left. Very nice. A Pennsylvania Company hoping to exploit gold on the Isthmus of Panama (New Granada). The company did not seem to last long. Prag Collection Est. $200-400 HWAC# 81948 Lot# 4716 , Mining Companies Lot# 4721 , 1847 Ohio & Missouri Mining Company Stock # 2500 to Three mining company stock. 1) Six JR Mott. Endorsed on reverse. Signed shares of Yukon Operating Company, by Jno. Kimball and Charles Van incorporated in Arizona, number Schaiek(?). Dateline CIncinnati 1847. 16 issued to Maria Bartlett on June Three allegorical vignettes and one of 12, 1911 with eagle vignette. 2) George Washington. Printed on side Three hundred shares of Peace River is “The mineral locations of this Co. have been selected expressly for Mining and Milling Company, Ltd, copper and lead & are among the best.” Printer: Rawdon, Wright and number 570 issue to F. A. Wilkinson Hatech, Cincinnati. Not cancelled. Wrinkles upper left, blue coloring on December 22, 1923 signed by D. Barr, President. Assigned December bottom left. Very nice condition otherwise. Incorporated in 1846 in Cincinnati, Ohio, the company owned and operated copper and lead 6, 1926. with moose vignette. Printed: Gregory, Mayer & Thom mines in the nearby area. They focused on lead mining activities in Co. 3) Unissued shares of Alaska Transportation, Trading, Mining Missouri. The mine was critical to the North in the Civil War for bullet & Manufacturing Company, number 388 with eagle vignette. Peter Periconi collection. Est. $100-150 HWAC# 82355 and shot supply. Later acquired by the Picher Lead Company. The Picher Lead Company of Missouri merged with the Eagle White Lead to form Eagle-Picher Lead shortly after the Civil War. Prag Collection Est. $300-500 HWAC# 81972 232 December 2018

DAY 4 Saturday, Dec 8th mining Lot# 4722 , Pennsylvania & Alaska Gold Lot# 4727 , Seven Capital Mining Stocks Mining Co One share of uncancelled capital Mining stock Oregon (5), Arizona( 1) and stock, number 7 issued to A. G. Jackson Oklahoma (1) Mining Stock dated from 1904 on March 2, 1898 by George T. Robinson, - 1925. 1) Two hundred and forty shares of president. Stock printed in 1898 with eagle Oregon Mining Company, number 59 issued and capital vignette. Printed by J. W. Middleton. to J. W.H. Haltkauf, dated February 12. 1907 Ken Prag Collection. Est. $80-150 HWAC# signed by Hugh Longstaff, president.2) Two 83607 shares of Oklahoma and Oregon Townsite Company, number 544 issued to Dr. Asa A. Wallace, on November 8, 1904, signed by J. E. Loy, Lot# 4723 , Phoenix Mining Company president, Printed: Warden & Bright. 3) Two Thousand shares of Stock - NUMBER 1 NUMBER 1 for 10 Buffalo= Monitor Mining Company, number 430, issued with no name, shares to James A Jackson. Signed by Alex on October, 1904, Printed: Bushoke & Company. 4) Two Hundred Davis and president Paris S (?). Dateline Fifty shares of Brightenbush Mining and Milling Company, number 1875. Incorporated in Missouri. Fancy gray 152 issued to U. H. Tingley, dated August, 1905. Assigned September underprint scroll. Allegorical ‘peace’ vignette 24, 1909. Printed: Glass & Prouhumme. 5) One hundred shares of and underground mining vignette. Western B. Bunker Hill and Sullivan Mining and Concentrating Company, number N. & Eng printers. One rip upper right at fold 758, issued to The Illinois Trust & Savings Bank, dated July 28, 1904. goes to the border. Discoloration upper right. Printed: Anderson & Company. Cancelled April 13, 1908. Signed F. Although we did not have time to determine the exact location, this is W. Bradley, president. 6) Five thousand shares of Elkhorn Mining a stock certificate worthy of research and a story! Prag Collection Est. Company, number 70, issued to F. W. Hastert, signed by F. W. Hastert, $100-200 HWAC# 81975 president. Assigned February 17, 1925 to Elkhorn Mining Company. Printed: GOES 195. 7) Ten thousand shares of Esperanza Gold Dikes Lot# 4724 , Pittsburg Short Method Mining Corporation, number 23, issued to Dr. H. B. Ewbank. This is a Smelting & Refining Co. Three capital duplicate issued December 14, 1926 replacing stock dated December shares of Pittsburg Short Method Smelting 17, 1924. Ken Prag Collection. Est. $100-150 HWAC# 82312 and Refining Company stock, number 199 issued to Juo A. Mulvane on June 16, 1892. Lot# 4728 , Seven Mineral capital stock Vignette of miners smelting. Printed: certificates Seven capital mineral stock Woody, Printer. Ken Prag Collection. Est. certificates. 1) Cancelled five hundred $100-200 HWAC# 82346 thousand shares of New-Mex Minerals Corporation, number 1, dated July 1, 1957 for Lot# 4725 , Portage Bay Exploration Company John Bastanchury. Printed: GOES 509. 2) One Portage Bay Exploration Company Oil Royalty thousand shares of Jura-Trias Copper Company, Certificate Series A, Certificate A22, Series A, number 408, dated May 17, 1902 for Thomas B. Martin Printed: The signed Howard Rice, president. Vignette: Profile Blade Printing & Paper Co. 3) Three thousand shares of Independence of lady. Printed by American Bank Note Company. Mining Co., number 143, dated January 18, 1907 for N. G. Wedge, Ken Pray Collection. Est. $60-100 HWAC# 83621 signed J. B. Leasure, president. 4) One thousand shares of Eagle Mining and Improvement Co., number 3515, dated May 24, 1906 for Mrs. Gordon L. Brown, signed J. M. Rice , president. 5) One thousand shares of Golden City Mining & Milling Company, number 31, dated June 1, 1907 for Herbert C. Warren, signed Edgar L. Street, present. 6) Lot# 4726 , Promontorio Mines Company One hundred shares of Santa Fe Development Co., number 13, dated October 1, 1908 for Louis M. Peters, signed E. C. Eason, president. Two capital stock certificates for Promontorio Assigned March 6, 1909. 7) Fifty shares of Mangas Development Mines Company, incorporated in Delaware. 1) Six Company, number 61, dated November 5, 1909 for Herbert E. Stewart, hundred shares of Promontorio Mines Company, signed Norman, W. Heire, president. Assigned June 20, 1910. Ken number 425 issued to Anna C. Thoru on January Prag Collection. Est. $140-200 HWAC# 82328 2, 1920. Vignette of an eagle. 2) Four hundred shares of Promontorio Mining Company, number Lot# 4729 , Seven mining stocks 200 issued to William C. Guiluone on December 13, Arizona/New Mexico Seven capital 1900 with revenue stamps. Ken Prag Collection. Est. $80-150 HWAC# 82347 stock mining stock certificates. 1) One thousand shares of Capital Mining Company, number 45, issued to C. G. Broiby on July ,7 1914, signed by John McConaghy, president. 2) Twenty-five thousand shares of Zoom in and see Eagle Mining and Improvement Co of New Mexico, number 915 close up detail issued to Lars L. Risetter, on September 10, 1902, signed by Willow George, Vice-president. 3) One hundred shares of Erupcion Mining High Resolution Company, number4311, issued to Clark, Childs & Company on July 31, 1922, signed by Paul Stevens, Vice-president. Printed: GOES 4) Fifty Images of ALL LOTS shares of La Republica Mining Company, number 772, issue to Robert N. Chastency on March 12, 1912. Printed: F.P. Burnap Stationery & available online at Printing Co. Assigned September 19, 1912. 5) One thousand shares of Calumet-New Mexico Mining Company, number 295 issued to Frank FHWAC.com J. Tarpey on February 15, 1916, revenue stamps. Printed: Samenon, Ambero & Co., 6)Two hundred shares of Bi-Metallic Mining and Milling Co, number 14 issued to Thomas G. Aitkess on March 16, 1909 signed by AlfredStross, president. 7) One hundred shares of Silver Spot Mines Company, number 72 issed to Simon H. Casey on December 16, 1919. Ken Prag Collection. Est. $140-250 HWAC# 82330 Bid online at FHWAC.com or call 775-851-1859 233

DAY 4 Saturday, Dec 8th Mining Lot# 4730 , Sierra Consolidated Gold Mining Lot# 4734 , Three different Co Capital stock and Gold Bond mortgage for Sierra Alaska mining stocks Three Consolidated Gold Mining Company. 1) Five hundred different Alaskan mining stocks. shares of capital stock for Sierra Consolidated Gold Mining 1) Fifty shares capital stock of Company number 1167 issued to Henny J. Boemeno on Standard Copper Mines Company June 12, 1906, signed Warner Ilell,president. 2) First of Alaska, number 370, issued to J. mortgage five-year six percent gold Bond number 53 with Frederick Fradley, (Banker’s Trust coupons due January 2, 1908. Printed: The Broun-Green Co of NY) dated September 22, Co., Ken Prag Collection. Est. $120-200 HWAC# 82351 1920. Incorporated under laws of State of Delaware. Green border and company seal. Eagle Vignette Printed: American Bank Note Lot# 4731 Company, New York. 2) Four hundred fifty shares of capital stock of , Silver City Alaska-Homestake Mining Company, number 294, issued to Mrs. Lean Mining and Wulff, dated Jan 17, 1917. Incorporated under the laws of state of Milling Co. stock Washington. Grey border with gold company seal. 3) Cancelled one Five hundred hundred shares of Alaska British Columbia Metals Company, number shares of Silver 17846, issued to Callaway, Fish & Co., dated and registered July 28, City Mining and 1919. Incorporated under the laws of state of Washington. Brown Milling Company border with eagle vignette. Ken Prag collection. Est. $60-120 HWAC# incorporated 83672 under the laws of New York capital Lot# 4735 , Three Gold & Copper stock certificate Mining Co Capital Stock Three number 54, issued different capital stocks for Santa Fe to W. T. Uersereau, Gold and Copper Mining Company 1) trustee, dated Twenty-five shares of Santa Fe Gold February 8, 1882. and Copper Mining Co, number 6159, Printed: Hamilton Bank Note & Co. Litho. Ken Prag Collection. Est. issued to F. H. Prince & Co, dated $200-400 HWAC# 82350 August 16, 1907. 2) One hundred shares of Santa Fe Gold and Copper Mining Company, number A1479, Lot# 4732 , Six Capital Mining issued to Rudolph Kruger, dated February 20, 1899. 3) One hundred stocks Six capital mining stocks shares of Santa Fe Gold and Copper Mining Company, number A8471, from New Mexico ( five) and South issued Selig Roggen, dated July 24, 1917.Printed: John A. Lowell Bank Dakota (one). 1) One hundred fifty No. Co. Ken Prag Collection Est. $100-150 HWAC# 82335 shares of Mineral Mountain Mining Co (Ltd), number 216, issued to Lot# 4736 , c1887 Three Iron Mrs. Mary J. Jones, on July 2, 1902, Company Sotcks 1) Calvert Coal signed Mark R. Sherman, president. and Iron Company of Garrett 2) Five hundred shares of New Mexico Lead and Copper Company, County, Maryland. EARLY # 6 for 15 (South Dakota) number 165, issued to Elizbeth Brown Corvell on shares to RA Parrish(?). Signed by February 19, 1913, signed by William Halliday, president. 3) Thirteen president Joseph Thornton. Large shares of Real Del Monte Metals Company, number 380, issued to oval vignette of steam train crossing Mrs. A. K. Richman, on August 1, 1933, signed by Paul E. Depney, large river. Quite unusual. JC Clark president. Printed: GOES. 4) One hundred shares of Roper Group & Sons printer. Excellent condition. Mining Company, number C 3239, issued to J. J. McGann on September 2) Mutual Iron Company # 75 for 10 shares to Joseph L Cunningham. 8, 1920. Printed: Security Bank Note Co. 5) One hundred shares of Signed by Russell Low treasurer and J And--- president. Milling Sun Dial Uranium, Inc., number 22, issued to William W. M. Deale on vignette. Jones Printing. Incorporated in New Jersey in 1882. Dateline December 22, 1958. Printed: GOES 91. 6) One hundred shares of Paterson N. j. 1887. Some discoloration. Good Condition. 3) Lincoln Volcano Mines Company, number 377, issued to Edwards A. Hopkins Bessemer Company # 100 for 50 shares to John H Hooper. Signed by on February 24, 1922. Assigned March 20, 1922. Ken Prag Collection. Thomas P Marshall and president James F Bwok(?). Dateline Trenton Est. $100-200 HWAC# 82332 N. J. 1889. Incorporated 1887. Underground and above ground mining vignette. Green border and green underprint $100. Three large hole Lot# 4733 , Three Coal Mining punches for storage. Folds and wrinkles. Good Condition. Striking gold Bonds and Stock 1) New York Seal. Prag Collection Est. $200-400 HWAC# 83965 and Perry Coal and Iron Company $100 first mortgage bond. Coupons Lot# 4737 , 1881-1906 Three 16 to 80 attached. 2) Williams Nice Mining Stocks 1) Elk Creek Coal Company of Kanawha $1,000 Mining Company. VERY EARLY #9 first mortgage bond. Number 15. for 25,000 shares to George M Miller. 33 coupons attached and hole Signed by Hoffman and president punched ‘PAID’. 3) ALma Coal Mining Edward Rapallo. Dateline New Company. Stock. #72 for 10 shares to York 1881. 2) Consolidated Lead JC Lawrence. Signed by JM Berger and and Zinc Corporation. # 1015 for 2 president Timany(?). Mining vignette. Incorporated in Kansas. 1889. shares. President Charles T Tucker. Prag Collection Est. $120-200 HWAC# 83990 Three tones of green with brown seal. Incorporated in Arizona. 3) Very early # 8 of the G. V. B. Mining Company. 50 shares. Cancelled. Nice underground mining vignette. Incorporated in New York in 1891. Idaho. Prag Collection Est. $150- 300 HWAC# 83970 234 December 2018

DAY 4 Saturday, Dec 8th Mining Lot# 4738 , Turner Gold Mining Lot# 4743 , 1864, 1872 Two Pennsylvania Company Two hundred shares of Coal Mining Stocks: Green Mountain capital stock Turner Gold Mining Coal and Buck Mountain Coal 1) Green Company, no 1 issued to James A. Mountain Coal Company # 506 for 150 shares Snead on September 19, 1892, signed to Maitland. Dateline Philadelphia 1864. J. R. Young, president. Printer: A. Incorporated 1862. C. Borrie president. 25c Carlisle & Co., Ken Prag Collection. Life Insurance Revenue stamp on front and Est. $60-150 HWAC# 81845 25c Entry of Goods stamp on reverse. Location was Middle Coal Field. Pennsylvania. 2) Buck Lot# 4739 , 1876, 1889 Two Mountain Coal Company # 1159 for 50 shares. Appalachian Mining Stocks Signed by president Nathan Hiller(?). VIgnette 1) Union Consolidated Mining of two bucks fighting. Small vignettes of steam train, underground Company of Tennessee. # 1 for 100 shares to Thomas Ball. Signed by mining and canal boat. Small 20c and 5c stamps. Lucerne (Columbia) Alfred Kimbel(?) and J W Whyan Sr (?). Dateline New York 1876. Not County, Pennsylvania. Historically, the coal mining was done by the cancelled. 20c stock transfer and 20c New York transfer stamps on Buck Mountain Coal Company. Condition of both is pretty good. Both reverse. “Established under a special law of the State of Tennessee are cancelled. Prag Collection. Est. $80-100 HWAC# 83960 without personal liability.” Holes slightly larger than pinholes throughout. Some light discoloration on right. Very nice. 2) Arlington Lot# 4744 , Two stocks from Oaks Company Mining Company. # 19 (early) for 5,000 shares (large) to HL White Two capital stock certificates from Oaks Company. (secretary). Signed by HL White and president HP Ayer. Dateline 1889. 1) One thousand shares, number 503, assigned Incorporated in Virginia in 1889. Title in clouds. Underprint ‘$10.’ to William J. Weatherby, signed by William J. Hosford & Sons printer. Small nick bottom right. Excellent condition. Weatherby, president on May 2, 1910. One Prag Collection. Est. $100-150 HWAC# 93969 vignette of working miners. Printed by Wm. Mann Co., Philadelphia. 2) Five thousand shares, number Lot# 4740 , 1856, 1858 Two Coal & Iron 351, assigned to John M. Harris, signed by William Bonds Two nice early Coal and Iron Bonds. 1) J. Weatherby, president on May 10, 1920. Three Swanton Coal and Iron Company early number vignettes with two of working miners and one of 11. Steam train vignette. Signed by secretary the area outside mine. Ken Prag Collection. Est. Johns (?) and president George Lynn. All four $100-150 HWAC# 82341 coupons attached. 15 x 13”. 2) Stafford Meadow Coal Iron City Improvement Company First Lot# 4745 , Two stocks Pittsburg Ore Mortgage Bond. Signed by Treasurer Isaac P Reduction Company Two capital stocks (?) and president Remington. Eight border certificates from Pittsburg Ore Reduction Co. 1) vignettes: six allegorical, one seal and George Five hundred shares of Pittsburg Ore Reduction Washington. Printed by Sinclair. 21 x 16”. All Company, number 83 issued to Alf L. Williams on fourteen coupons attached. Both bonds are in remarkable condition. July 15, 1907. 2) Two hundred shares of Pittsburg Est. $150-300 HWAC# 83958 Ore reduction Company, number 138 issued to C. C. Conner dated August 3, 1907. Pittsburg Lot# 4741 , 1872, 1880 Two Iron Mining Ore Reduction Company was formed after the Companies: Corelia and Hamburg 1) invention of aluminum by both Charles Martin Hamburg Iron Company Bond. # 32. Hall and Paul-Louis-Toussaint Héroult of France Pennsylvania. 1872. Incorporated in 1872. about the same time. Born were born in 1863 and died in 1914. They Value $500. No Coupons ever attached. Signed discovered the electrolytic method of producing aluminum. Hall tried by president John Ralston and Secretary to get backers and eventually received support from the Mellon family. William A Shoemaker. Located in Upper Bern They formed the Pittsburgh Reduction Company. The name was later Township in Berks County. Edge wrinkles and changed to the Aluminum Company of America. Ken Prag Collection. folds due to size; 14 x 16”. 2) Cordelia Iron Est. $100-200 HWAC# 82345 Company Stock. 1880. Early number 28 for 25 shares to Henry A Muhlenberg. Signed by treasurer Isaac M Nease and president Henry Muhlenberg. Dateline Lot# 4746 , Unissued Mining Reading, Pa. 1880. Incorporated in 1880. Seal vignette. Wm. Mann Stocks: Rare - Some May be Unique printer. Not cancelled. Small pin holes where stamp was applied. No Lot of Nine. 1) Queen of the Lakes, edge, corner or discoloration issues! Prag Collection Est. $150-250 Massachusetts, 188-. # 104. 2) Juniata HWAC# 83983 Mining and Manufacturing Company, Tyrone, Blair Co., Pennsylvania. 18--. Lot# 4742 , Two Oil Companies 3) Same as number two. 4) First South ephemera Prospectus from oil companies Extension Horn Silver Mining Company, located in Calif and Colorado, both in good Illinois, underground mining vignette. condition and in protective sleeves for 18--. 5) Sterling Mining and Milling, protection. First is a booklet by Barlow Maine, underground mining vignette. and Hill dated 1910 , titled “California Oil 19--. 6) Dundee Coal Company, coal train vignette, land in Hanover Fields”, price of $1. There are 8 maps of Township, Pennsylvania. 18--. 7) Southern Mining Company, Negley fields located in Kern county, Bakersfield, Ohio, 18--. 8) Steuben Coal Company, Wilkes Barre Pennsylvania, coal Devils Triangle and others. Second: train vignette. 18--. Long diagonal fold. Valparaiso Mining Company, is newspaper style offering by Porter New York, 188-. Blue. Large hole punch. All certs are in very nice Processing Co (1920?) with photos, to condition. 9) Prag Collection Est. $120-250 HWAC# 81934 purchase shares in oil shale processing at $1 per share. In good condition , with a small crease tear . Est. $80-100 HWAC# 84629 Bid online at FHWAC.com or call 775-851-1859 235

DAY 4 Saturday, Dec 8th Mining Lot# 4513 Lot# 4517 , Nevada 1920s Nevada Mining Stock , Nevada Certificates: Seven Troughs, Wonder, Luning 1881 Gold Lot of 4 different. Included: Luning Consolidated Mountain Stock Silver Mine Co. of Nevada (1921, stamp and Collection The punch cancelled, mining vignette), Seven Troughs Gold Mountain Coalition Mining Company (unissued but signed Mining District by corporate officers), Atlas Wonder Mining was located in Company (unissued, allegorical vignette), and Premier Paymaster Esmeralda on Mines Company (1920, not cancelled). Est. $40-100 HWAC# 41145 the Nevada / California border. Lot# 4518 , Nevada 1881-1926 Nevada Town Collection of Mining It was situated Stock Certificates Lot of 11 different stocks from 11 different Nevada in the northern towns. Included: Little Joe Gold Mining Co. of Manhattan (issued slope of Gold 1906); Seal of Nevada Mining Co. (Tuscarora, unissued, c.1880s); Mountain west of Tonopah & California Gold Mining Co. (issued 1906); The Big Swede Sarcobatus Flat and south of State Ridge; including the Oriental Wash. Gold Mines Co. (Gilbert, NV, unissued but signed); Clifford Gold Mines Discovered in 1866, it wasn’t until 1871 when the rich Oriental Mine Co. (properties at Clifford and Gilbert, issued 1926); Gold Bond was found that the district gained notoriety. Several mills worked the Extension Mining Co. (Kimberly, NV, issued 1913); Gold Park Mining & ores and the concentrates were hauled to Austin or Belmont in the Milling Co. (Gold Park, NV, issued 1902); Miller Gold Mining Co. (Miller early days. Lot of four. 1) State Line Gold Mining Company No. 3, Cert. Mountain, issued 1881); Nevada Shamrock Mining Co. (Vernon, NV, #A3471, issued to LK Taylor for 50 shares. Signed by Lee Shryock, issued 1911); Oriental Gold Mining Co. (Gold Mountain, NV, issued president, and D. Yerdenal, secretary. Vignette of underground miners 1881); and Gold Coin Mines Co. of Nevada (Austin, NV, issued 1921). working. “Location of Mine, Gold Mountain District, Esmeralda Please inspect. Est. $240-480 HWAC# 58468 County, Nevada,� printed beneath masthead. 2) State Line Gold Mining Company No. 2. Cert. #A3674, issued to LK Taylor for 50 Lot# 4519 , Nevada Nice Collection of Nevada State Revenue shares. Vignette of 2 mounted prospectors and pack mule overlooking Stamps Nice collection of sets of Nevada 2c, 4c, and 5c revenue a valley. Miller Gold Mining Other information the same as above. 3) stamps. Five sets of pairs (1 x 2). They include three 2c’s from lemon Miller Gold Mining Company number A3229 issued to HK Wilson for yellow to pale orange (D20b, D20c, and D21) and two 5c’s in green to 50 shares. Signed by McCaulley, president, and D. Yerdenal, secretary. dark green (D5b and D22). Nine sets of four stamps (2 x 2). Five sets Vignette of miners underground working with various instruments of 2c stamps from orange to brown orange (D1, D1, D2. D20c, D20d). and a team of horses. 6) Oriental Gold Mining Company, Cert. One set of 4c’s (D4). Finally there are two 5c sets from dull green to #A2233, issued to FK Cohn for 50 shares. Signed by Wm. McCaulley, green (D5, D24). All togehter there are 14 sets and 46 stamps. There vice president, and D. Yerdenal, secretary. Vignette of Miner with is also a short history of Nevada state revenue stamps. A very nice pick standing and gazing at hillside. All were issued in 1881 and all set. [Colors and designations are very subjective, so please see the are uncancelled. Outside of pinholes in two, these are in very nice photograph. Est. $100-300 HWAC# 99376 condition. No dog ears, no edge issues, etc. Est. $320-480 HWAC# 58326 Lot# 4520 , Nevada One Bullfrog & Two Tonopah, Nevada Mining Stock Certificates Lot of 3. 1) The Bullfrog Lot# 4514 , Nevada 1870 Leopard Charter Mining & Milling Company. Rare. Inc. in Arizona. Mining Co Stock I/U #13902 D Bates No. 427, issued for 1,000 shares to E.T. Williamson on Feb. 100 shares 1870 signed by President 12th, 1906. Signed by Barrick (president) and Barrick Coffie 1870. Inc in NV 1874. Mine in Cornucopia mining district near (secretary). Mot cancelled. Multiple mining vignettes. Poor Jarbridge, NV. Nice leopard vignette. Est. $120-150 HWAC# 13902 condition. Heavy soiling and deep folds. 2) Two issued stock certificates for United Tonopah & Goldfield Mines. Both Lot# 4515 , Nevada 1911-1960 National and issued in 1905 to the same person. Neither is cancelled. Mountain City, Nevada Mining Stock Certificates Lot Underground mining vignette. Both have folds with some separation of 3 different. 1) National Mining & Tunnel Company. and staining. Est. $80-120 HWAC# 58475 Issued in 1911 to A.L. Baker for 215,000 shares. Signed by the president (Fisher) and secretary (Grisson). Lot# 4521 , Nevada Seven Nevada Mining Not cancelled. Folds, toning. Allegorical vignette. 2) stocks Seven Nevada capital mining stocks. 1) Mountain City Copper Company. Issued for 200 shares One hundred shares of North Commonwealth in 1944. Not cancelled. Vignette of miners using drill. Mining Company, number A18 issued to E. R. 3) Spokane National Mines, Inc. Inc. in Nevada. Issued Grant, signed September 24, 1890 by E. Scott, for 5,000 shares in 1960. Pen cancelled. Eagle and president. Printed J.J. Bloomfield Stationer. shield vignette. Tape residue. Est. $60-90 HWAC# 2) Two hundred fifty shares of Pioche Consolidated Mining and 41144 Reduction Co., number 134 issued to R. J. Baldwin, signed April 10, 1891 signed by W. Godble, Printed: Kelly & Co. 3) Two hundred share Lot# 4516 , Nevada Nevada of McMahon & Irvine Consolidated Mining and Milling Co., issued to Assay Group Lot of 4. 1) Eureka John S. Bowman on January 1, 1881, signed J. Mc Heuuter, president. Consolidated Mining Co. Assay Vignette: Miners working. Printed: Culver, Page, Hoyne & Co. 4) Office small sheet dated 1905 for One hundred shares of Emigrant Prospecting Company, number 208 ore sample from P.H. Hjul. Sample issued to S. Cooperband on December 7, 1881, signed D. J. Colion, contained 0.80 ounces silver. Signed president. Printed: Enterprise Job Print. 5) One hundred shares of by H.C. McTerney, assayer. 7.5 x 4.5” West Consolidated Virginia and California Gold and Silver Mining and 2) Certificate of Assay for the Pioche Milling Co, number 459 issued to P. H. Andross Jr., dated February Assay Office, ore deposited by Earl D. Young, 1930. Samples are a mix 18, 1890. Printed: Schmidt Label & Litho 6) One hundred shares of of gold and silver with pencil notes about them (such as “pink white North Belle Isle Mining Company, number A 325 issued to George B. quartz”). Signed by Earl T. Godbe, Assayer. 4.25 x 8.5” Some wear. 3) Wilson register June 3, 1893 countersigned on June 8, 1893. Printed: Unused assay certificate for the Buckhorn Mining Company. 4) Unused W.R.Vidal, 7) Three hundred share of The Eberhardt & Monitor unidentified assay certificate. Est. $80-160 HWAC# 57664 Company Limited, number 202 to Charles Hermann Feiling, Esq on February 17, 1886, signed Francis Jos Radon, director. Ken Prag Collection Est. $60-100 HWAC# 81831 236 December 2018

DAY 4 Saturday, Dec 8th Mining Lot# 4522 , Nevada Three Mining Lot# 4527 Morristown, New Jersey Stock Certificates (Nevada, 1866 Morris & Essex Mutual Nebraska, & Pennsylvania) 1) The Coal Company # 231 for 5 shares Goldfield Sovereign Mining Company. to Edwin Worman. Signed by No. 116, issued for 1,000 shares in secretary SW Corwin and president Denver. No date. Not cancelled. Six S Broadwell. Dateline New York claims in Goldfield, Nevada. 2) The 1866. Large allegorical and historical Co-Operative Mining & Development vignette. Not cancelled. Francis Hart Company. Inc. in Colorado but issued & Co. printer. 25c Power of Att’y in McCook, Nebraska for 500 hsares revenue stamp. Incorporated in Pennsylvania. No notable issues - on Feb. 1st, 1896. Not cancelled. Mining vignette. 3) The Codus Mining Excellent. We found no significant information on this company online Company. Inc. in New York. Issued for 17 shares on Feb. 28th, 1880. or in our resources. Prag Collection Est. $150-300 HWAC# 81965 Not cancelled. Two mining vignettes. York County, Pennsylvania. Iron mine. Est. $120-160 HWAC# 59015 Lot# 4528 Somerville, New Jersey 1886 American Copper Mining Lot# 4523 , Nevada 1906-07 Western Nevada Mining Stock Company Stock # 285 for 500 Group Lot of 4. Includes: Sayor Humphrey Gold Mining Company of shares to AN Hovery. Signed by Goldfield, 1906; Manhattan Cowboy Mining Company, 1907; Fairview HV Bodine and president William Amalgamated Mines Company, 1907; and Broncho Manhattan Mining Myers. Dateline 1886 New York. Company, 1906. All uncanceled. A nice group. Est. $100-220 HWAC# Underground mining vignette. John 56337 Polhemus printer. Not Cancelled. Minor issues. Very nice! Organized Lot# 4524 Crystal Peak City, Washoe, Nevada Territory Territorial in 1881, has 500,000 shares, par Document on the Sale of 10 Feet of the Truckee River Coal Ledge $1, non-assessable. Josiah C. Reiff, president. Principal office, 20 Yes, this is territorial. But coal on the Truckee River! Whoever heard Broad St., New York. Mine post- office, Somerville N. J. Mining lands, of such a thing? Dated on July 8 on folded, non ruled letter sheet. The about 800 acres, include the old Bridgewater mine, opened in the mine was located at the place known as the Truckee River Coal Ledge Eighteenth century. Mine is working small force. Main tunnel is 1,100 on Dog Creek, Crystal Peak City, Washoe County, N. T. It was purchased feet long, following dip of vein at about 10 degrees. Vein has been by George Wilkinson from W. Glengall Kelly. Filed for recording “at the traced several miles on surface and runs about 2 feet wide, carrying request of Wells Fargo & Co.” by Geo. C. Cabot, the County Recorder. native copper, oxide and carbonate ores. Has small concentrating mill Wilkinson bought 10 feet of the Coal Ledge for $50. But coal meant and experimental smelter. Output for 1901 was 8,OOO pounds, from cheap power, so it was very valuable. The coal, however, turned out to experimental smelting test. Development will be continued in 1902. be low grade. The ledge was re-opened in 1869 and an article from the [Copper Handbook, 1902] Prag Collection Est. $100-200 HWAC# Reno Crescent states that a locomotive ran from Verdi (the new Crystal 81923 Peak City) to Reno on the Truckee Coal. Again, the coal was low grade and never used. Affixed to the document is a red, 25 cent, R 48, R4, Lot# 4529 , New Jersey 1892 Power of Attorney, perf., revenue stamp. A small ink stain bottom Ardmore White and Bronze Metal right. Minor damage in the lower right corner, some small tears and Company Stock # 311 for 760 shares yellowing. Fair to good condition. Est. $200-400 HWAC# 99362 to Oliver Maltby. Signed by George (?) and president William Merrill. Lot# 4525 , Nevada/Utah New York Dateline Camden N. J. 1892. One & Utah Prospecting and Mining Co record we found indicated it was incorporated (re-incorporated?) Stock Rare. Inc. in New York. No. 89, in New Jersey in 1896. Nice indoor issued for 1,000 shares to William mill vignette. Theo. Leonhardt & Son H. Mailer on Oct. 10, 1867. Signed printer. Not cancelled. Three vertical folds. No edge, corner, pinhole or by the company president (Joseph discoloration issues. Prag Collection Est. $80-120 HWAC# 83947 Wilde) and secretary (A. Higgins). Not cancelled. Very attractive vignette Lot# 4530 , New Jersey 1855 of mine surface workings. 25cent Extremely rare New Jersey adhesive revenue stamp attached at left. Printed by Geo. F. Nesbitt & Franklinite Company Stock Number Co., NY. Very fine condition. According to a prospectus previously sold 365 for 100 shares to Cyrus Weeks of by FH, the company’s properties were located in Nevada and Western New York. Signed by John Brodhead Utah: the Pah Ranagat Lake Mining District of Lincoln County Nevada, and president J Curtis. Dateline Mountain Lake District, the West Mountain District, Meadow Valley District and the Iron Mountain District. 7” x 11” Est. $240-400 HWAC# Newark 1855. Two vignettes: 58914 allegorical and barge/wagon/mill. Dunforth, Bald, Co. printer. Heavy Lot# 4526 Hardwick, New Jersey 1847 Alleghany Mining Company foxing. Only very minor edge and corner issues. Franklinite is only When people think of the Alleghany Mining Company, they think found in Franklin and Ogdensburg, New Jersey. It is a minor ore of zinc, of Colorado. However, this certificate was issued in 1847 making it manganese, and iron. Collected for its contrasting beauty with rock it unmistakably Eastern. Number 96 for 20 shares to Joseph H Duckett. is associated with. Prag Collection Est. $500-1000 HWAC# 81950 Signed by register John S w Cahen and president James N Reading. Eight vignettes, mostly eagles, historical and allegorical. Issued July 7, Lot# 4531 , New Jersey 1887-1902 Two New 1847. Note that the stock was reclaimed on July 7, 1847. This company Jersey Incorporated Mining Stocks 1) Shiller had incorporated in New Jersey on February 26, 1847 in Warren Mining Company of Trenton. # 42 for 10 shares County. The mine was located on the west side of Kittatinny Mountain to EF Hooper. Peter Wilkes President. 1889 presently in Hardwick Township in Warren County. Mining activity dateline. Incorporated in 1887. 2) United States quickly dissolved in 1848 due to the lack of copper. This certificate is Mine SIgnal Manufacturing and Supply Company. pre-California Gold Rush. Slight tear on bottom left and top left where the certificate was removed from the book. Very Fine condition. Est. # 74 for 50 shares. Thomas Shaw president. $160-400 HWAC# 57311 1887. Charter declared null and void in 1897. Prag Collection Est. $50-100 HWAC# 83971 Bid online at FHWAC.com or call 775-851-1859 237

DAY 4 Saturday, Dec 8th Mining Lot# 4532 Cooney, New Mexico Lot# 4535 Lake Valley, New Mexico Sheridan Mining & Milling Co. Sierra Apache Mining Company Stock Certificate, Cooney, NM, 1886 Five hundred shares of capital stock Inc. under the laws of the territory of Sierra Apache Mining Company, of New Mexico. No. 800, issued for number 1287 issued to W. J. Martien 100 shares to NP Eager on Aug. 11th, on December 5, 1882. Mines located 1886 in St. Louis, MO. Signed by the Lake Valley, New Mexico. Assigned: president (Huse?) and secretary December 9, 1882. Printed: Kendall Clifton. Not cancelled. Gold seal and Bank Note Company. Ken Prag vignette of New Mexico seal. Stains, and unusual folds and creases. A Collection. Est. $120-200 HWAC# Feb. 15, 1887 St. Louis Post-Dispatch article describes a reorganization 82348 of the company that held property near Silver City, NM including the Four Hawks claim. The 1905 Report of the Secretary of the Territory Lot# 4536 Mineral Hill, New and Legislative Manual for New Mexico lists its principal place of Mexico Central Gold & Copper business as Cooney, which is a ghost town that was washed away by Co. Stock Certificate, Mineral flooding in 1911. Est. $80-160 HWAC# 59082 Hill, NM 1902 Claims located at Mineral Hill, Dona Ana County, New Lot# 4533 Grant COunty, New Mexico Mexico and included the Bullion, 1887 Standard Mutual Mining Durips, B&O, and Doctor. Inc in Company of Baltimore, Maryland New Mexico. No. 73, issued for 500 Stock Early number seventeen shares to E.P. Remington on March (you rarely see numbers spelled 6th, 1902. Signed by the president out) for 1000 shares to William S (Glosson?) and secretary (Parrish). Monroe. Signed by Ono M Inez(?) and Not cancelled. Green border, black print, and eagle vignette. 25 cent president Morrow. Dateline 1887. documentary stamp attached over seal. Pinholes, folds. [Ref: El Paso Incorporated 1887. Not cancelled. Herald, 12/26/1902] Est. $80-160 HWAC# 59085 Gold border writing and vignette. Vignette seems to be specific to this Lot# 4537 Mora County, New Mexico location! Printer William J C Dudany. 9.5 x 11.5”. Oversize cert has lead The Overton Mining & Tunnel Co. to corner and edge issues - especially on top. Pencil note “Odd Fellows Stock Certificate, Watrous, NM Hall, Baltimore City.” “The company was organized in 1887 with a 1888 Inc. in the Territory of New capital stock of $10.000 000 shares $10 each non assessable. It was Mexico. No. 20, issued for 1,000 incorporated under the laws of the State of Maryland. The property shares to WG Hays on Sept. 24th, consists of the Atwood, Henry Clay, Yellow Jacket, Surprise, Polar Star 1888 in Watrous, Mora County, New and Ophir claims of which the first three are patented. On the Atwood Mexico. Signed by the president (EF and Henry Clay claims 1,600 feet of development work has been done. Lamb) and secretary (Otto Lang). They are all in the camp of Shakespeare in Grant County two and a Not cancelled. Orang border, black half miles from the Southern Pacific Railroad and formerly belonged print. Vignette of mountain camp near railroad. Deep folds with some to the Atwood Mining Company from whom we purchased them. Last separation and soiling. Power of attorney transfer typed on reverse. June some Oil City people became interested in the Enterprise and 7.5 x 11” The company began operations in 1881. Est. $80-160 agreed to pay us $104,000 and to erect a 30 stamp mill complete on HWAC# 59080 the property for 800,000 shares of our capital stock. They commenced Lot# 4538 Silver City, New Mexico work on the mill two months ago. The $104,000 will pay off the 1887 Lady Franklin Mining balance due on the purchase of the mines and therefore when our Company Limited Certificate # 204 mill is completed we will not be a dollar in debt.” Reported by William for 500 shares (19731 to 20230) to S Morrow. [Engineering and Mining Journal, Volume 48, 1889] Prag Collection Est. $100-200 HWAC# 83986 James William Skelton of 29 Martins Lane. Signed by directors MM Moore Lot# 4534 Jicarilla, New Mexico and Samuel Cannintz(?). Dateline Three stock certificates - Jicarilla, 1887. English investment. Light dog N.M. Three stock certificates for ear upper left. Vertical folds. Overall capital stock in mining companies very fine! Michael Miller Moore in Jicarilla, New Mexico. 1) worked for WB Huggins & Co. of Five thousand shares of Ophir Glasgow. He was also director of the Argenta Falls, Lake City, New Development Company, number Last Chance, Rockwell and Viola mines. The Market Review of 1887 214, issued to H. C. Sheer on June printed this report from the mine manager, “The ore at shaft 7 holds 6, 1916, signed by Edward T. out remarkably well. The shaft is a vertical shaft 70 feet in depth from Grauach, president. Vignette of bottom of which cross cuts have been run to the contact. In both cross miners working in mine. 2) One cuts we have found ore on the contact have run drifts easterly and thousand shares of Enterprise Placer Milling and Mining Co., number westerly connecting the cross cuts and showing ore for a distance 309 issued to L. B. Bartlett, on November 8, 1908, signed by Tho along this contact of 135 feet The ore has varied from a few inches in Simrock, president. Three vignettes with two of working miners and width to a width of from 2 1/2 to 3 feet...” Prag Collection Est. $100- one of mining workings 3) Six thousand, six hundred fifty shares of 200 HWAC# 84500 Enterprise Mining Company, number 553, issued to A. E. Succop on July 6, 1900. Vignette of working miners. Ken Prag Collection. Est. $100-150 HWAC# 82342 238 December 2018

DAY 4 Saturday, Dec 8th mining Lot# 4541 , New Mexico 5 Various Mining Stock Cert 1. Dona Louisa Copper and Gold Mining Co. incorporated 1903 State of Delaware. Listed in the Copper Handbook Vol 8-9 Pg 635 located 24 miles from the Mexican National Railway claimed assays of 63% copper , up to 120 oz of Silver and $32 Gold per ton from oxidized ores, company viewed suspicious paying 10% dividends while selling stock. Cert #531 for 9 shares of common stock @ $5 per share issues to Charles A. Gardner signed Charles M Heath president. Green border, gold corp seal left lower side, two vignettes: Upper left corner miner using a drill, upper right corner two miners facing away one using a shovel and the other a sledge hammer, purple registered stamp right side , below right vignette “9” dot punched. Trifold crease, good condition. Printer: International Bank Note Co. N.Y 2 Champion Copper Co. incorporated 1911 State of Maine, mine located Rio Ariba County New Mexico. Cert # B2541 for 100 shares @ 10 cents per share issued to Hayden Stone & Co. Dec 7, 1915 signed Lot# 4539 Silver City, New Mexico 1883 Rare Rio Grande Copper A.M. Crippe president. Blue Border, embossed corp seal left lower Company of Camden Co., New Jersey, U. S. A. Stock # 70 for 900 corner, blue registered stamp down right side, upper center “X100X” shares to Schoenberg Signed by president Clarke (?) and treasurer. embossed. Trifold crease, lower right corner small piece missing. Dateline 1883 - before incorporation. Incorporated on December 27, Printer : Lyman B Brooks Co Boston, Mass 1883. Oversize. Two nice mining vignettes in lower corners. Breuker 3. Hercules Molybdenum Corp, incorporated May 5, 1921 State of & Kessler printers. Issued for property purchased. Dog ears, wrinkles Delaware. Mine located Taos County New Mexico. Cert #692 for 100 one fro small rip. Nice looking. Prag Collection Est. $300-600 HWAC# shares of common stock @ $1 per share issued to Edison F. Packer 81908 June 8, 1923 signed Howard H Colbourn president. Dark gray border, green embossed corp. seal lower left, green scale underprint, company name on top in center of arch with scrolled “H” and leaves. Trifold Lot# 4540 Taos, New Mexico Three crease, not tears, good condition. Printer: GOES 4. The Copper Belt Silver and Copper mine Co. located near Magdalena mining stocks Cert. 1. San Cristobal Sorrow County New Mexico, incorporated State of Colorado. Cert Copper Co. Taos New Mexico, # 1613 for 1200 shares common stock @ 5 cents per share issued incorporated Territory of Arizona. to O.M Hollingsworth Feb 23, 1922 signed Hoy Bennet president. Cert # 1315 for 200 shares @$1 per Brown border, embossed corp seal lower left, vignette upper center share issued to S, Huckle JR. Dec of three miners : foreground miner using a drill, two in background 19, 1906 signature illegible, black talking istanding on scaffold. Light trifold crease, very good condition. border, gold corp seal lower left. PrinterThe W.H. Kistler Stat’y Co Denver 80027. There are several vignettes located 5. The Eclipse Mining and Milling Co incorporated Feb 7, 1893 State of on the left and right borders , all four Arizona. Cert # 241 for 18567 shares of common stock @ $5 per share corners and upper left : The four issued to Geo A. Halan Sept 4, 1917 signed George A Kalar president. corner has a miner swinging an axe, left and right borders is a miner Green border, embossed corp seal left lower. Three vignettes: Upper standing facing each other holding an axe, top left has four miners in left three miners in shaft looking at ore, Center foundry in valley next a shaft one calling up the other three are filling an ore bucket. trifold to river with mountains in background, right - four miners one calling creases, no tears, good condition. Printer : Mount & Co Cleveland up with three working in background filling a bucket. trifold light 2. Unity Mining Co Taos New Mexico two certificates. Incorporated crease, no tears, good condition. Printer Geo. D. Barnard Co. St Louis. 1916 State of Missouri. First has black borders with gold sunburst Est. $120-200 HWAC# 84614 underprint Cert # 287 for 10 shares @ $100 per share issued to Frank Tesch April 21, 1919 signed F.S. Carter president, There are several vignettes located on the left and right borders , all four corners and Lot# 4542 , New Mexico Buffalo - upper left : The four corner has a miner swinging an axe, left and right New Mexico Mines Co. Three stock borders is a miner standing facing each other holding an axe, top left certificates for capital stock from has four miners in a shaft one calling up the other three are filling an Buffalo - New Mexico Mines Co., ore bucket. trifold creases, tears near the top of both creases, tear incorporated in state of Arizona. through left border vignette. Printer : GOES. 2nd Cert #155 for 12 Printed: David F. Williamson Co shares @ $100 per share issued to Frank Tesch Dec 14, 1916 signed . 1) Five hundred shares, number Phil Gray president. Orange border w/ orange diamond underprint. 4023 issued to Marjorie Hoffman Vignette top center of five miners in shaft, miners in foreground are on March 8, 1928, signed by C N using a drill. Trifold crease, in fair condition. Printer: Security Bank Reeves, president and Charles Albert, Note Co Phila. Est. $60-100 HWAC# 84616 treasurer. 2) One hundred seventy- four shares, number 380 issued to C. E. Habiger on October 21, 1915, signed by J. F Rooney, president, revenue stamp. 3) Two thousand shares, number 4616 issued to Caroline Keurp on March 26, 1932, signed by F. L. Grady, president. Ken Prag collection. Est. $80-100 HWAC# 82338 Bid online at FHWAC.com or call 775-851-1859 239

DAY 4 Saturday, Dec 8th mining Lot# 4543 , New Mexico Five mining Lot# 4547 , New Mexico Seven stock from New Mexico Five New Mexico New Mexico Copper Mining stock capital mining stock. 1) Twenty-five shares New Mexico Copper Mining stock of Caribel Mining & Milling Company, certificates. 1) One hundred shares number 1092, issued to Bernice O. Schweder of Austin- Amazon Cooper Company, on November 11, 1919. Printed: GOES. number 4937, issued to Daniel W. 2) Eight hundred shares of Bi-Metallic Myers, dated April 11, 1918. Printed: Mining and Milling Company, number 51, issued to Thomas G. Aitken Western Bank Note and Engraving on March 28, 1910. 3) One hundred shares of Calumet -New Mexico Co. 2) Two hundred shares of Mining Company, number 726. issued to Alfred T. Tarpey on May 24, Bonney Consolidated Copper 1920.Printed: GOES. 4) One hundred shares of Lotowana Mining Co. Company, number 530 issued to John C. Marshall, dated January 15, number 16, issued to M. E. Chamberlain on December 9, 1920, revenue 1920.Printer: GOES 3) Twenty-five hundred shares of United States stamp, signed Thos G. Rateleffe. president.Printed: GOES. 5)Fifteen Copper Company, number 5422, issued to William B. McAlpine, dated hundred share of Log Cabin Mining Company, number 8, issued to J. February 12, 1926. signed by J. W. McAlpine. Printed: American Bank A. Johnson on February 21, 1919. Printed: GOES. Assigned by J. A. Note Co. 4) Twenty-five shares of United States Copper Company, Johnson. Ken Prag Collection. Est. $100-150 HWAC# 82331 number 720, issued to Jennie E. Heilman, dated July 3, 1917, signed by J. W. McAlpine. Printed: American Bank Note Co. 5) One hundred Lot# 4544 , New Mexico Five New shares of New Mexico Copper Corporation, number J1780 issue to Mexico Mining Capital Stock Five Herbert C. Koch, dated September 24, 1953, signed by C. E. Kepner, stocks from New Mexico Mining present. 6) One hundred shares of American Consolidate Copper Companies. 1) One hundred Company, number 901, issued to Byron H. Wayne, dated April 29, 1902 shares of Santa Rita Development 7) One hundred shares of Fort Pitt Copper Company, number 516, Company, number 2757, issued to issued to Clifford G. Lane, dated December 18, 1908. Printed: Jas. H. Massey & Perrin, dated December Matthews & Co. Ken Prag Collection. Est. $140-250 HWAC# 82336 21, 1916. Printed: Western Bank Note and Engraving Co. 2) Five hundred shares of Glen-Woody Lot# 4548 , New Mexico Seven New Mexico stock certificates & One Mining and Milling Company, number 264, issued to H. Fred Ross, Letter Seven New Mexico capital dated September 6, 1902. signed William F Frunk, president. 3) stock certificates. 1) One thousand One hundred shares of Germany Mining and Development Company, shares of Emperor Mining & Milling number 1839, issued to Wallace S. Draper, dated November 16, 1909. Assigned December 1, 1926. Printed: Lyman B Brooks Co.4) Ten Co., number 22, issued to Lambert shares of Cooperative Mines, Inc,, number 71, issued to Rudolph Eliel, dated July 7, 1888, signed by L. Wilson and Anne L. Wilson, dated May 18, 1943. signed A. C Jaslo Duncan, president and Levi Bohrnstedt, president. Printed: Western Litho Co. 5) Unissued stock A. Eliel, secretary. Mines in Grant County, New Mexico. Vignette of certificate for Copper Bar Mining Company, number 200. Ken Prag Collection. Est. $100-150 HWAC# 82334 miners working underground. Printed: Broun-Green Co. 2) Five hundred shares Chino Extension Mining Co., number 774, issued to Lot# 4545 , New Mexico San Rafael Silver Albert La Huis, dated June 15, 1925, signed by C. O. Alt, vice president. Mining Mining Stocks (2) 1)Mississippi San Assigned to Mary C. Goith on September 5, 1929, signed by Sigrid Rafael Silver Mining i/u to H Macewan 1883, Lindberg, vice-president. 3) One thousand shares of Capital Mining # 155, 100 shares, signed by president Birch, Company, number 30, issued to C. G. Bracky, dated April 20, 1914, incorporated in MS. #965 i/u to Henry Macewan signed by John Mc Conaghy, president, includes a hand written letter 1877, 20 shares. Possibly a NM mine. Est. $120- assigning stock to C. G. Bracky on March 8, 1917, signed by John 200 HWAC# 58934 Mc Conaghy, president. 4) Eight shares of cancelled National Gold & Silver Mining Company, number 11808, issued to David Yost, dated August 23, 1920, signed by Mark R. Sherman, president, Printed: GOES - Chicago. 5) One Thousand shares of Texhoma Mining Company, number 48, issued to F. A. Mott, dated April 10, 1917, signed L. D. Lot# 4546 , New Mexico Seven New Bakey, president. Printed: GOES. 6) One hundred shares of Hardshell Mexico Capital stocks Seven capital Mining Company, number 1367, issued to E. H. Whiting & Co., dated stocks mining certificates from New November 23, 1921. Printed: Bround-Green Co. 7) Ten thousand Mexico. 1) One hundred shares shares of Peralta Canon Consolidated Gold Mining Co, number 360, of National Gold & Silver Mining issued to Abbie A. Easton, dated August 8, 1905. 8) Letter from Company, number 2098 issued to Douglas Lacy & Company saying that Certificate No 793 of capital Caroline E. Hitchcock, dated January stock for the Viznaga Gold Mining Company is enclosed. and to sign for 24, 1905 signed by Mark R Sherman, receipt and return. Ken Prag Collection. Est. $240-350 HWAC# 82325 president. 2) One thousand shares of Capital Mining Company, number 9 issued to G. G. Brady, dated June 20, 1912 signed by John McConaghy, president. 3) One hundred shares of Chino Extension Mining Company, number 4189 issued to Guy L. Moser, dated September 16, 1925.4) One hundred shares of Eagle Lead Company, number 153 issued to F. E. Collins, dated April 5, 1927, signed Treel H. Nye, president. 5) One hundred shares of Deep Tunnel Mining Company, number 4116 issued to John H. Caler, dated November 23, 1936, signed George E. Dachthen, president. Printed: GOES 37. 6) Ten shares Corona Queen Mining Company, number 1890 issued to Henry C. Rulght dated February 9, 1909, signed M. LA. Ohrid, president. 7) One hundred shares Ortiz Mines Corporation, number 540 issued to William Edward Cartwright dated April 1, 1936, signed Charles McKissimmis. Assigned to Ortiz Mountains Mining Corporation on February 16, 1938. Ken Prag Collection. Est. $150-250 HWAC# 82326 240 December 2018

DAY 4 Saturday, Dec 8th mining Lot# 4549 , New Mexico Three Lot# 4552 , New Mexico Tri-Bullion mining stocks Cert. 1. The Smelting And Development Co. Lost bullion Spanish Mines Three capital stock certificates Co.. incorporated 1906 State of from Tri-Bullion Smelting and Arizona. Located property on Bear Development Company , incorporated Mountain near Silver City, New in Territory of Arizona. 1) Twelve Mexico. The owners claimed the shares of stock, number 147, issued property contained huge reserves October 29, 1906 to Maude E. of high-grade gold and silver ores. Douthitt, signed by Armard Pucheal, A large number of shares were sold president with two vignettes, one to investors out east which caught the attention of the U. S. Postal inside mine and one outside. Registered October 31, 1906. Printed: Service, who sent people to investigate the property. When they Western Bank Note Co. Steelograph, 2) One hundred shares of stock, arrived, they found nothing but a cave with no gold or silver ore. This number 282 issued March 21, 1922 to Gustave W. Foeppel, signed venture brought in a good amount of money before the directors were by Justin G. Wall, president with three vignettes, one inside mine, convicted in court of mining fraud. one land around outside of mine and one smelting. Countersigned Cert # 967 for 2000 shares of common stock @ $1 per share issued to and registered March 21, 1922. Partial distribution of assets made Charles Taylor April 23, 1907 signed W.E. Wilson president, orange on February 20, 1928. 3) Eight hundred shares of stock, number border, orange corp embossed seal lower left, orange sunburst B650 issued February 20, 1928 to H. T. Carey & Co. signed by R O underprint with an underprint vignette of three miners holding some Deyer, president, registered June 21, 1928. Printed: Broun- Green Co. ore, vignette top center of eight miners working on shaft in various Printed: Ken Prag Collection. Est. $100-150 HWAC# 82339 stages of digging and filling an ore cart. Light trifold creases, no tears, in good condition. Printer: The W.H. Kistler Stat’y Co, Denver Lot# 4553 , New Mexico 1890, 1906 Two 2. Savanna Copper Co., incorporated Sept 16,1908 Territory of Early Mexico / New Mexico Stocks: Don Arizona.Mine located in near Pinos Altos, Silver City N.M., company Enrique and Donna Louisa Copper & Gold 1) was a merger of three others to include Copper Gulf Mining Co. Don Enrique Mining Company. # 1313 for 100 Comanche Mining & Smelting and Casa Grande Development Co. Cert shares. Signed by George Magoun president and # 942 for 62 shares @ $10 per share of common stock issued to Rose CG Barney. Fancy vase and flower vignette on F. Kiarney Oct 20,1908 signed David L Fairchild president. Green left. The property consisted of 300,000 acres border, embossed corp seal bottom center, no vignette. Two Stamped of land in the District of Abasolo, including 10 in purple distribution payments across front. Evidence of trifold, no silver mines, two ranches, a reduction works, tears, good condition. Printer: Christie Lithograph & Printing Duluth and 14 houses. A Mexican prospector named 3. The Wellington Copper Mining Co, incorporated Oct 21,1907 sierra Don Enrique Miller had discovered the claims county, Territory of Arizona and operated. Cert#26 for 260 shares @ and was made the manager of the company when it was organized. $1 per share of common stock issued to F.B. Aiken November 19, 1907 A fire in 1891 destroyed the works and the company had suspended signed E.S. Heul (?) president. Brown border, embossed corp seal operation and let the mines fill with water. (Holabird Western lower left, vignette top center of eagle on top of mountain looking l-r, Americana Collections) 2) Dona Louisa Copper and Gold Mining trifold crease, good condition. Printer not identified. Est. $100-200 Company. # 604 for 100 shares to William Venable. Signed by M Ward HWAC# 84615 and president WA Buckman. Two underground mining vignettes. International Bank Note printer. Both stocks in very nice condition. Lot# 4550 , New Mexico Three Est. $100-300 HWAC# 81978 mining certificates - New Mexico Lot# 4554 , New Mexico Two New Mexico Mining Three stock certificates from capital Stock 1. Eureka Mines Co incorporated 1908 State stock from New Mexico territory. 1) of Arizona. Cert 811 for 500 shares @ $1 per share One hundred shares of Amazon Gold of common stock issued to M.C. Barnard & Co June Company, Silver City, New Mexico, 25, 1908 signed Ira G. Ross vice president. Green number 1427 issued to S.M. Boarch, borders with the word”COMMON” and beams in signed by Jast Dugan. president. green underprint. Corp seal embossed on lower left, Vignettes of working miners 2) Two vignette upper left of Indian looking l-r with three hundred twenty shares of Amazon feathers and hair in braids. Trifold creases, in fair Gold Company, Silver City, New condition. Printer not identified. Mexico, number 2014 issued to Nathan W. Hartwell, signed by John C. Esaeb, president.Vignettes of working miners 3) One hundred shares of Indiana Gold Mines, Inc. Silver City, New Mexico, issued to W. B. Boardman, dated October 26, 1931. Ken Prag Collection Est. $110- 2.Mollie Gibson Mining Co. Oro Grande, New Mexico, incorporated 150 HWAC# 82343 State of Arizona Cert #317 for 100 shares @ $1 per share of preferred stock issued to Millie Gibson Mining Co. Dec 29, 1910 signed by C.B. Lot# 4551 , New Mexico Three New Stood Asst Secretary Federal Trust Co. Brown border on yellow Mexico Territory Mining Stock stock. trifold crease, one hole punch left side, no corp sea, no vignette. Handwritten note on back transferring shares to William Martin, no Three capital stock certificates from date and signed by treasurer, signature is illegible. Good condition. No New Mexico territory mines. 1) One printer identified. Est. $50-100 HWAC# 84619 hundred shares stock of the Aberdeen Copper Company, number A78, Lot# 4555 , New Mexico Two New Mexico issued to George J. Stegmaier dated Territory Mining Stock Two capital mining stocks August 6, 1901, signed by Thaddius from the New Mexico Territory. 1) One thousand L. Bradford, vice president. 2) Seven shares of Superior Mining Company stock, number hundred fifty shares of Shaw-Gibson 207 issued to H. G. Ross, signed by D. W. Reckhart, Mining Company, number 58, issued president with revenue stamp.2) Five hundred to Charles C. Stevens, dated November 14, 1902. Printed: Albert B. shares of Del Roy Copper Mining & Smelting Co King & Co., 3) Two hundred shares of Shaw-Gibson Mining Company, stock, number 39, issued to Chas Kircher on April number 19 issued to Charles C. Stevens on August 21, 1902. Ken Prag 24, 1906. Ken Prag Collection. Est. $100-120 Collection. Est. $100-150 HWAC# 82333 HWAC# 82337 Bid online at FHWAC.com or call 775-851-1859 241

DAY 4 Saturday, Dec 8th Mining Lot# 4556 , New Mexico 1899 Lot# 4559 Ellenville, Ulster County, & 1895 Two Similar Design New York 1863 Union Lead Mining 1890s New Mexico Mining Company of Ellenville Ulster Stock Certificates These two companies possibly had the same County, New York Stock # 188 underwriters or financiers. The stock design (front and back) is meant for 60 shares to William B Glover. to look like currency with a gilt border and underprint on light green Signed by C Scofield and president H paper. 1) Gold Separator and Sluicing Company. Offices at Los Cerrillos, Kelley. Dateline New York 1863. 25c New Mexico. Issued for 300 shares on March 2nd, 1895 in New York. Certificate Revenue stamp with one Signed by president HH Armstead and secretary John T. Moore. Not of the strongest and most impressive cancelled. Deep folds. 2) Industrial Gold Placer Company. Offices at ‘T. J. Lee Treas., Jun 6, 1863, Boston’ stamps. One assessment stamp Golden, New Mexico. No. 47o, issued for 1,000 shares on April 7th, receipt on right. Left ahs below and above ground vignette. Center 1899. Signed by president HA Stearns and secretary Philip Campbell. had steam train rolling past an impressive mill. Snyder, Black & Sturn Not cancelled. Folds, very fine. Both are 4 x 8.25” Est. $160-200 printer. Small rips left, wrinkles bottom right, folds. This area was first HWAC# 59081 worked in 1820. Prag Collection Est. $200-400 HWAC# 81974 Lot# 4557 Allegany County, New Lot# 4560 Gloversville, New York York 1864 American Coal Company 1883 Benson Gravel Mining of Allegany County Stock # 1068 Company Stock # 599 for 100 shares for 359 shares to O’Brien Brothers. to William B Benchley. Signed by Signed by Lloyd and president John H Howard and president CP Brauckhall(?). Dateline New York Bellows. Dateline Gloversville, N. 1864. Incorporated in Maryland. 25c Y. 1883. Incorporated in 1881. Not Certificate Revenue stamp. Steam cancelled. Three vignettes: allegorical train vignette with steamship in background. Hand cancelled. Latimer and mining. Gold seal. TL Goodwin & Bro & Seymour printer. Color and corner issues on sides of stock. In Son printer. Tears at fold edges, some doing a quick research, we found plenty of stocks, but none that would discoloration. Fair condition. The day this stock was issued (what a fit this company at this date. Prag Collection Est. $80-150 HWAC# coincidence) the Engineering and Mining Journal, Volume 35 reported; 83981 Extensive work will be begun on the Benson Gravel Company situated in Fulton County shortly. Owners of gold mining prospects in the Lot# 4558 Corning, New York Adirondacks are awaiting with considerable anxiety for the of this 1839, 1841 Tioga Coal, Iron, work as it is supposed that it will furnish an important test of the Mining & Manufacturing Co. mineral value of the Adirondack region. Prag Collection Est. $100- Stock You don’t find many 150 HWAC# 83980 mining certificates dating back as far as the 1830s. Incorporated Lot# 4561 Orange County, New April 9, 1828 and March 26, York 1866 Wallkill Lade Company 1833. Lot of two. 1) Early # 25, Stock # 1112 for 100 shares to EW issued for 220 shares to Joseph Mitchel. Signed by Samuel Pond Fellows of Geneva, Ontario and president(?). Dateline New County. Signed by WIlliam Young York 1866. Incorporated 1863. Not Jr and president B Whiting. cancelled. Black on white with pink Vignettes include horse. cow, scrolled mine name. EB Clayton train, Native American and printer. 25c Certificate Revenue two distinguished looking Stamp. Large black discoloration on bottom right which obscures gentleman. Printed by Draper, president’s name. “The mines were located about 1 mile north of Toppan Longacre & Co. 2) Guymard. Considerable money was expended. Good lead ore was Number 203 for $1,000. Signed found, but the company ceased to work after a few years. Rumors by Bowen Whitney, president, of renewed operations arise occasionally, and it is understood the and HW Bostwick, treasurer. company is still in existence.” [History of Orange County, 1683-1881, 8.25” x 10.5” Some staining on by Ruttenber and Clark] Prag Collection Est. $150-250 HWAC# 81953 top border. Very thin paper. According to the 1843 New York State Register, this company, along with the Tioga Navigation Co., merged Lot# 4562 Ticonderoga, New York to form the Blossburg & Corning Railroad. The coal and iron mines 1865 Ticonderoga Iron Company were located in Blossburg, PA. The railroad went 40 miles from the Stock # 111 for 200 shares to mines to Corning. Estimated production of coal in 1841 was 40,000 David Sloan. Signed by president tons. On May 20, 1842 a treaty was signed with the Seneca Indians. George Champion(?). Dateline New “And whereas on the day of making this treaty, and bearing even date York 1865. Incorporated 1848. A herewith, a certain indenture was made executed and concluded by large forge built in 1864. In 1865 and between the said Seneca nation of Indians and Thomas L. Ogden, authorized to build a plank road and Joseph Fellows, assignees under the State of Massachusetts.” “an from the forge of the company to indenture of that date was made and executed by and between the the township of Crown Point. Not parties to this agreement, whereby the chiefs and headmen of the Cancelled. Mining vignette and country vignette with a waterfall. Seneca nation of Indians for the consideration of two hundred and Printed by Arthur Gregory. One inch rip lower left fold. Previously two thousand dollars did grant, bargain, release and confirm unto the taped upper left. Prag Collection Est. $300-500 HWAC# 81968 said Thomas Ludlow Ogden and Joseph Fellows, all those four several tracts of land, situate within the State of New York...” Overall in nice condition. (Prag Collection) Est. $500-1000 HWAC# 81913 242 December 2018

DAY 4 Saturday, Dec 8th Mining Lot# 4563 Ashe County, North Lot# 4566 Gap Creek, North Carolina Carolina 1883 Ore Knob Copper 1880, 1881 Copper Knob Mining Company Stock - Rare # 754 for 100 Company Stocks: Lot of Three shares to Kummus & Becker. Signed Numbers 560, 4437 and 6334. by SD Smith and president John Condition varies. The Copper Knob Wil(?). Dateline 1883. Incorporated incorporated in October of 1879. in North Carolina in 1881. Brown Calvin G Cowles (merchant and major on white. Mill scene vignette. CG landowner) bought out the other Crawford printer. Not cancelled. No investors in 1880. 1880 was the only edge, corner, pinhole or discoloration year of production for this mine. issues! Two vertical folds. The Ore Knob Copper Mine in Ashe County [There’s Copper in Them Thar Hills!: Copper Mining in Watauga, Ashe was first conceived in the spring of 1854. Lillard managed the original and ... by McGuinn] Prag Collection. Est. $100-150 HWAC# 83942 opening of the Ore Knob Copper Mine in 1855, when “four shafts were sunk on the property to depths of 90, 40, 30 and 40 feet and enough Lot# 4567 Gilford County, North ore that assayed 19 percent copper was mined to make a profit of Carolina 1860 Cambridge Copper $9,400.” But the distance of 63 miles over “poor mountain roads” to Company Stock # 353 for 300 the nearest railroad prevented the mine from being profitable, and shares to JT Archer & Co. Signed by it was closed in 1856. S. S. and J. E. Clayton of Baltimore reopened Robinson and president Nicholas the mine in 1873, and that July “about 1,400 tons of ore” were Popplein. Dateline 1860. Handwritten raised, “averaging more than 25 percent of copper.” Other periods of in pen “March 1861 Howard Griffith operation included 1896, 1913, 1917-18, 1927, 1942-43, and 1953- Secretary.” Assessment receipt. Not 62, when the mine was “completely worked out” and abandoned. cancelled. Eagle vignette. Lucas [Encyclopedia of North Carolina by Powell] Prag Collection Est. $100- Brothers printer. No edge, corner or 200 HWAC# 81940 discoloration issues. Located 7 miles from Greensboro. 1/2 mile from Greensboro Railroad. Prag Collection Est. $200-400 HWAC# 81962 Lot# 4564 Charlotte, North Carolina 1878 King’s Mountain Mining Company stock Lot# 4568 McDowell County, North Carolina # 360 for 100 shares to Alfred Peckham. 1880 Granville Gold Company of New York Signed by WS Nichols and president AG Stock, Two Different Colors 1) Blue on off Curtin. Dateline New York 1878. Incorporated white. # 72 for 30 shares to William Brandreth September 1877. Seal vignette. Dennison & (vice president). Signed by Edwin H Mulford Brown printers. Not cancelled. Dog ear bottom and president FA White. Dateline new York left. Two pinholes top right. Otherwise no edge, corner of discoloration 1880. Vignette of four miners working a issues. The King’s Mountain Mining Company was organized on the claim with a mule grazing and jagged peaks in 5th day of September 1877 under the laws of the State of New York. background. Printer Maverick and Wissinger. The company owns in fee clear of all incumbrance about 580 acres Not Cancelled. 2) Black on off white with red of land. The mine was discovered in 1834 and for a period of nearly underprint ‘one hundred shares.’ Number thirty years was worked by the old Carolina method. In 1860 it fell 2514 for 100 shares. Other information same as above. Blue cert into the hands of Commodore Stockton of New Jersey who began two has a dog ear and two pin holes. Otherwise both do not have any shafts on it; the first deep shafts ever sunk on the property. Before corner, edge or discoloration issues. This mine was located two miles reaching a sufficient depth to penetrate the hanging wall into the southeast of Vein Mountain in McDowell County. [Burchard, 1882] deposit the war broke out and the property was confiscated. At the Balch [1882] reported that the mine was a placer deposit in gravels time this mine passed into the hands of the present company; five that were mine hydraulically. The company had ditches 20 miles long additional shafts were sunk by different owners and at the 110 and and a sixty foot head of water. Prag Collection Est. $100-150 HWAC# 210 foot levels of the Briggs shaft considerable ore was stoped and 81918 breasted over $150,000 having been taken out in eleven months. The Lot# 4569 Rutherford, North Dorsey shaft also raised considerable ore from the 113 foot level. Carolina 1891 Golden Valley These works were all badly planned and badly timbered and have Hydraulic Mining Company Stock been abandoned. The present company has sunk a new shaft 300 Rare North Carolina Stock. # 459 for feet. From this adrift has been driven 135 feet which cuts the vein. 2 shares, Signed by Mark Gallert and Assays run all the way from $15 to $402 per ton. The forty stamp mill president D Gallert. Dateline 1891. has been reconstructed and will work the ore to near its assay value.” Incorporated in 1889. Allegorical [United States Annual Mining Review and Stock Ledger, 1879] Prag Collection Est. $100-200 HWAC# 81917 vignette. Daily News Lithographer of Bangor, Maine printer. Capital Stock $100,000 has been crossed Lot# 4565 Concord, North Carolina out and $300,000 has been handwritten. No edge, corner pin hole 1853 Phoenix Gold Mining or discoloration issues. Location of property Golden, Rutherford Company Stock Rare and early County, N. C. Mark Gallert would be the president of the Golden King North Carolina Gold Rush stock Consolidated in Colorado in 1900. Prag Collection Est. $100-200 certificate. # 245 for 100 shares to HWAC# 81977 Angelica (?). Signed by J Jacobs and president A Douglas. Dateline 1853. Lot# 4570 , North Carolina 1857 Allegorical women and an eagle American Exchange Mining and vignettes. Toppan, Carpenter and Smelting Company Stock Rare Casilear printers. Cut unevenly, top left corner slight tear and small rip North Carolina Stock. #33 for 100 at edge at upper right fold. Very nice. The Phoenix Gold Mine is located shares to Israel Griffith. Signed by E approximately 7 miles south of Concord, North Carolina, and was Sprague and president Joseph Bang(?). discovered in about 1836, some 37 years following the first discovery Dateline Baltimore 1857. Incorporated of gold in the United States and a few years following the discovery of 1857. Griffith was apparently a gold in quartz veins by Joseph Barringer. Prag Collection Est. $500- Baltimore contractor. Rare, California 1000 HWAC# 81910 gold rush period. Prag Collection Est. $300-700 HWAC# 81929 Bid online at FHWAC.com or call 775-851-1859 243

DAY 4 Saturday, Dec 8th Mining Lot# 4571 , North Carolina 1884 Lot# 4576 Jackson County, Ohio 1887 Early and Rare Original Conrad Hill Consolidated Wellston Coal and Iron Gold and Copper Mining Company Company Bond # 301 for $1,000. Coupons Stock Early number ‘4’. For 50 shares 5 to 8 still attached. 18 x 12”. One large fold at $100 each to Theodore Cimiotti. intersection holes. Nice condition! “HThe Signed by H Irvin and president WP discovery of a presumably inexhaustible bed Conrad. Dateline Louisville 1884. of coal, once thought of as a superior quality, Incorporated in 1883. Fancy brown attracted the attention of capitalists to this scroll underprint. Main office in region. In November 1873, the town of Wellston Louisville. Branch office in Lexington, (named in honor of its founder, Harvey Wells) North Carolina. Underground mining vignette. Dog ear upper right and was laid out on a portion of farmland purchased three vertical folds. Other than that in Excellent condition. The name from H. S. Bundy....On February 2, 1874, contracts were made for the of the mine is the Conrad Hill and the president of the company is WP construction of the first iron furnace (twin stack, double blast) for the Conrad! Prag Collection Est. $200-400 HWAC# 81941 Wellston Coal and Iron Company. Other furnaces followed despite the panic which followed the Civil War....” [cityof wells.org] Prag Collection Lot# 4572 , North Carolina Franco- Est. $100-200 HWAC# 83951 EspanoalMinera and Franco-Espanole Miniere Stock Certificates Lot of two. Spanish and Lot# 4577 , Oregon Four stock French version of this stock certificate for a mine certificates from Oregon Four stock in the Carolina’s (we presume). Two different certificates for western and eastern administrators! French version with fancy cut on Oregon stock certificates 1) Sixty- top. Spanish version with all 32 coupons attached. five hundred shares of Hell Gate Fancy masthead. Nice red seal. Agents in Paris and Mining and Development Company, Madrid. French version was small rip on bottom number 48 issued to A. R. O’Leary dated November 17, 1907, signed G. left. Spanish version in top corners. Overall very nice condition! Est. $80-160 HWAC# 56819 S. Calhoun, president. Three mining vignettes of miners and mines Lot# 4573 , North Carolina 1860 workings. 2) Three hundred shares Rare Consolidated Mining of Vesuvius Mines Company, number 2654 issued to Effie Cook Smart Company of North Carolina Stock # dated February 1, 1921, signed Ed W. Miller, president. Vignette of 542 for 50 shares to J Fisher. Signed miners and Bohemia Peak. Printed: GOES. The vein of gold for this by TH Bell Jr and president Joshua mine was discovered in 1895 and was worked until 1923. 3) One Dryden. Datelined Baltimore 1860. hundred twenty-five shares of Vesuvius Gold Mining Company, number Chartered 1855 by OC Gardner and 89 issued to F. C. Hill on May 7, 1902 with revenue stamp, three EH Whorton. Mining vignette, sailor/ vignettes of miners and hills. 4) Five hundred shares of pooled stock farmer vignette and allegorical certificate of Platts Group Gold Mines of Eastern Oregon issued to L. J. women vignette. Rip where center Matthewson, certificate number 275 on August 1, 1904. Printed: The fold meets top of paper. Prag Collection Est. $500-1000 HWAC# 81911 Inland Press of Inland Printing Co. Ken Prag Collection. Est. $100- 150 HWAC# 82317 Lot# 4574 , North Carolina Stewart Gold Mining Company of North Lot# 4578 , Oregon Greenback Carolina Stock Very early # 29 for Gold Mining Company trust 20 shares to Marshall Hill. Signed by certificate Greenback Gold Mining JD Reinboth and CB Dungan. Dateline Company Trust Certificate, two Philadelphia 1860. Incorporated in shares, number 97, dated July 1, 1859. Three vignettes: miner posing, 1902 with coupons. Trust certificate underground and above ground to bearer for 2 shares $5 each. ore bucket, and steam train. Not Greenback gold mine was famous Cancelled. Schnabel & Finkeldey lithographers. Except for a few pin mine in Oregon. Ken Prag collection. holes, no apparent issues - Excellent! Almost immediately after this Est. $80-120 HWAC# 82322 stock was issued, rebels from the south confiscated the mine and sold Lot# 4579 , Oregon Seven Oregon Mines it. In 1865 Charles B Dungan would write to President Johnson about Stock Certificates Seven Oregon Mines stock how the Stewart coal and Iron mine can be reclaimed by him and the original stockholders. Prag Collection Est. $300-600 HWAC# 81966 certificates dated from 1904 - 1934. 1) One thousand shares of Amalgamated Mines Lot# 4575 , North Carolina 1880- Company , number 501 issued to James and / or 1891 Three North Carolina Gold Pearl Scrimger dated February 20, 1915, signed Stocks 1) Crowell Gold. # 25 for by William Deffren, president, revenue coupons. 100 shares. Incorporated in 1880. 2) Forty shares of Comer Mines Company, number 575 issued to John Dateline 1880. Not Cancelled. Oliver Guthrie, dated February 24, 1908. 3) Two hundred shares Hole punched for storage. 2) of Pacific States Mines, Inc. number 1337 issued to E. Wormley on Rappahannock Gold. # 3748 for 100 October 27th, 1933, signed Robert E. Stvahorne. Printed: GOES 91. 4) shares. 1889. MacPherson president. One hundred shares of Oregon Copper Company, number 1394 issued Not cancelled. Stafford County. 3) Charleston Mining Manufacturing to Everett A. Dickison on August 21, 1928. Printed: GOES 93 5) Two and Improvement Company. # 69 for 4 shares. 1891. Not cancelled. shares of Black Bear Coal Company, number 13 issued to J. Madison Incorporated 1890. Cancelled. Prag Collection Est. $100-150 HWAC# Lively, dated December 15, 1930, signed Madison Lively, president. 83974 Printed: GOES 175. 6) One hundred shares of Umpqua Coal Company, number 125 issued to Z. N. Aqu on November 3, 1904. 7) Five hundred shares of Penman Mines Corporation, number 200 issued to M. C. Cartwell on August 18, 1934, signed by Grey Loudon, president. Ken Prag Collection. Est. $100-200 HWAC# 82314 244 December 2018

DAY 4 Saturday, Dec 8th Mining Lot# 4580 , Oregon Seven Oregon Lot# 4582 , Oregon Six Oregon Mining Stock Certificates Seven Mining Stocks , one bond Six Oregon mining stock certificates from Oregon capital mining stocks and 1902-1939. 1) One thousand shares one bond 1) Twenty shares of of Twin Rocks Gold Mining and Cleveland Development Company, Milling Co., number 105, issued to R. number 133, issued to B. R. Arnend, H. Moore on May 18th, 1906, signed dated October 10, 1908, signed P. by Lewis Harlty, president. Printed: D. Boyd, president. Printed: 72838 Glass & Pruohomm & Co. 2) Six Glass & Prudhomme Co. 2) One hundred shares of Oregon Argonaut hundred shares of American Mining Gold Inc., number 188, issued to Mrs. Louise S. Halloway on November Syndicate, number 29, issued to Mrs. 27, 1939, revenue stamp, transferred to Donald D. Davis on September Niku Pratt, dated, December 20, 1906, signed C. C. Pratt, president. 3) 1, 1944 Printed: GOES J.I.3) One thousand shares of War Eagle Mining Two thousand shares of Mt. St. Helens Consolidated Mining Company, Company, number 44, issued to Ernie Nioha, Medford, One on October number 642, issued to Louis Berger, dated April 6, 1934. Printed: 18, 1920, signed by C. M. Kind, president. Printed: The Irwin Hodson GOES 93. 4) One hundred shares Bunker Hill and Sullivan Mining Co. 4) Two hundred shares of Heppner Mining Company, number and Concentrating Company, number 840, issued to Estate of Samuel 106, issued to David Hynd on June 5, 1902, Signed by D. B. Stalten, S. Beard on November 15, 1905, signed by F. W. Bradley, president. president. Printed: Gazette Print Heppner. 5) One hundred shares of Cancelled January 7, 1907.Printed: Anderson & Co. 5) One hundred Johnson Creek Placer Mining Company, number 18, issued to James two thousand five thousand shares of Rockefeller Mining Company, Fisher on April 8, 1903, signed by John M. Payne, president. 6) One number 141, issued to H. B. Compson - Personal. Printed: Anderson hundred shares of Johnson Creek Placer Mining Company, number Printing Co. 6) Five hundred shares of Vesuvius Mines Company, 131, issued to James Fisher on November 12, 1903, signed by John number 1985 issued to Myron E. Wright on February 7, 1916, revenue W. Payne, president with receipt for payment of $16 on November stamp. 7) $500 First Mortgage Gold Bond, 6% interest, Principal 22, 1903. Printed: Bushong & Company. 7) Fifty shares of Victoria due July 1, 1915, number 411 with coupons, signed by B. F. Meyers, Mining Company, number 3,issued to Adolph Oldoer on January 7, president. Printed: Breuker & Kessler Co. Ken Prag Collection. Est. 1908. Ken Prag Collection. Est. $100-150 HWAC# 82310 $100-150 HWAC# 82311 Lot# 4581 , Oregon Silver King Mining Company, Elkhart. Oregon Lot# 4583 , Oregon Six Oregon Gold Mining Stock Certificates Six stock Five stocks and one receipt Oregon gold mining capital stock from Silver King Mining Company in certificates. 1) One thousand shares Oregon. 1) Unissued shares of Silver of Flagstaff Gold Mining Company, King Mining Company, number 59, number 41 issued to A. A. Smith, signed by J Hall Connell, president. dated December 18, 1929, signed by Vignette of miners in stream. 2) W. S. Laymore, president. Printed: Five hundred shares of Silver King Mining Company, number 211 GOES 91. 2) Cancelled one thousand shares of Flagstaff Gold Mining issued to Wm S. Risling, dated July 12 1922, signed J.J Langmack, Company, number 57 issued to W. S. Laymon on December 18, 1929 president. Assigned on July 14, 1924. two vignettes of miners and one signed by W. S. Laymon, president. Printed GOES 91 3) Unissued of building. 3 ) Seven hundred and fifty shares of Silver King Mining shares of Flagstaff Gold Mining Company, number 64, signed by W. Company, number 6 issued to A .G. Porter, dated August 6, 1914, S. Laymon, president. Printed GOES91. 4) Two hundred shares of signed by J J Langmack, president,two vignettes of miners and one of Morton Island Gold Mining Company, number 10, issued to Sam Yetter building. 4) Twelve- one-half shares of Silver King Mining Company, on October 1, 1897, signed by Augustus Frank, president. 5) Five number 50 issued to A. B. Dunlap dated August 8, 1914, signed by J thousand shares of Gold Coin Mines Company number B33, issued J Langmack, president .two vignettes of miners and one of building. to Walter W. Storer on June 4, 1910, signed by J.Y Keady, president. 5) One hundred shares of Silver King Mining Company, number 7, Printed: Globe Litho Co. 6) One thousand shares of Oregon King Gold issued to A.B Dunlap, dated April 8, 1909, signed by J. H McConnell, Mining Co., number 200, issued to William M. Gordow on October 18, president. Vignette of miners working in river. 1) receipt for $5 for 1901, signed by Charles Hedgres, president. Ken Prag Collection. Est. one hundred shares of stock in Silver Kiang Mining Company, to A. B. $100-200 HWAC# 82315 Dunlap, dated November 5, 1909, signed by JH. H. McCormack. Mine produced gold, silver, lead and zinc in Marion mining district in Marion County, Oregon. Includes brochure describing the mine and prospects with photographs, assay and engineer’s reports with investment possibilities. Ken Prag collection. Est. $150-250 HWAC# 82324 Zoom in and see close up detail High Resolution Images of ALL LOTS available online at FHWAC.com Bid online at FHWAC.com or call 775-851-1859 245

DAY 4 Saturday, Dec 8th Mining Lot# 4584 , Oregon Ten Oregon Lot# 4587 , Oregon Three North Mining stock & one bond Ten Oregon Gold Stock Three capital Oregon Mining stock: 1) Fourteen stock certificates for north Oregon hundred shares of capital stock of Gold stock. 1) One hundred shares Gold Bug Mining Company,Sumpter, of Carson Hydraulic Mines, Limited, Oregon issued to Robert E. Gase, dated number 6 issued to Dora Hazel, dated February 22, 1904. signed by T. S. Van February 10, 1903 signed N.H Hazel, Vleet,president. Vignettes in all corners president, three vignettes of miners with miners. 2) One thousand shares and mine. Assigned November 29, of Highland and Gold Mines Company 1904. 2) Two thousand shares Blue capital stock issued to Daniel Graluitt River Consolidated Gold Mining Dec 5, 1905, signed by Neil J. Sorensen, president. Three vignettes of Company, number G03 issued to Dorinths Marey, dated March 5, 1906. miners, Printed: American Print, Sumpter, Oregon. 3) One hundred signed C. Ruiyard, president. Printed: Bushong & Co. Vignette with shares of Highland Gold Mines Company capital stock, issued to C. S. mountains in background, building with smoke coming out and horse Richmond, dated May 15, 1905, signed by Neil Sorensen, president. with riders in fore ground 3) Ten thousand shares of Panther Creek Three mine vignettes. Printed: American Print, Sumpter, Oregon. Mining Company, certificate number 5 issued to Louis F. Kraemer on 4) One hundred shares of Oregon Monarch Gold Mining Company, January 29, 1904m signed by Louis F. Kraemer, president. Ken Prag number 898 issued to Albert T. Snyder, dated July 17, 1902, signed Collection. Est. $80-100 HWAC# 82316 by D. L. Killeen, Vice-president. Vignette of lion. Printed: Sumpter American. 5) Ten shares of Oregon Smelting and Refining Company, Lot# 4588 , Oregon Three Oregon number 227 issued to John F. Rise on April 9, 1903. Printed: Sumpter Mining stock Three Oregon mining American. 6) Thirteen hundred fifty shares of Olive Creek Placer stocks. 1) Forty capital of shares of Mines Company, number 119 issued to Jas J. Rutherford, dated April Waldo Consolidated Gold Mining 21, 1902, signed D. L. Keller, president. Printed: Sumpter American. Company of Oregon, located in 7) Five thousand shares of Buffalo Gold Mining Company, number ghost town of Waldo in Joseph 227 issued to Robert L. Rom, dated November 6, 1902, signed Max county, number A68, issued to Rosenthal, president. Vignette with person in flag with eagle and deer. Albert Reinhardt dated May 5, 1911, 8) One hundred shares of capital stock for Cracker Jack Consolidated countersigned and registered May Gold Mines Company, number 1112 issued to Mrs. Lena Willard on 5, 1911. Vignette of winged horses March 25, 1903, signed by Joseph Sumichaels, president. Vignette framing a mining scene. 2) Unissued of building. 9) One thousand shares of capital stock for Deer Creek stock from Wolf Creek Mining and Development Company, number Placer Company issued to Roy Weenceslaw dated February 15, 1902. 251, Three mining vignettes . 3) One thousands shares of Galice Three vignettes of miners and mine workings 10) Eighty share of Blue Consolidated Mines Company, Rogue River, Josephine County, number Bird Consolidated Mines Sumpter, Oregon, number 2543 dated May 1111, issued to Henry S. Paul, dated July 16, 1904, signed by E E Cook. 29, 1905, signed O. G. Wright, president. Printed: Smith & Thompson. Vignette of Women with shield deflecting lightening. Printed: Glass & First Mortgage Gold 7%Gold Bond for Golconda Consolidated Gold Prudhomme Co. Ken Prag Collection. Est. $100-200 HWAC# 82321 Mines Company, number with coupons. Ken Prag Collection. Est. $200-300 HWAC# 82319 Lot# 4589 , Oregon Two Oregon Mining Stock Certificates: Noonday and Rainbow 1) Noonday Lot# 4585 , Oregon Three Baker Mining Company. Mines in Bohemia District Oregon Stock Certificates/ Baker Bond Three (printed under vignette). Inc. in Illinois. No 48, Baker, Oregon stock certificates: 1) One issued for 1,000 shares to Wm. H. Trump on July hundred capital shares of stock for Friday 6th, 1896. Signed by the president and secretary. Gold Mining Company, number 1589 Not cancelled. Attractive cert. with three mining signed by Neil J. Sorensen, president. vignettes. Pin holes in seal, folds. 2) Rainbow Vingettes of miners and mine building. Mining, Milling, and Smelting Co. Roseburg, Oregon. Printed: Sumpter American . 2) One Inc. in Oregon. No. 239, issued for 300 shares to thousand capital stock for Connor Creek J.W. Bartlett on April 22nd, 1902. Signed by the Mining Company, number 197 signed by president (Lamb) and secretary (Erfert). Not cancelled. Vignette of W. Lau Thompson, president. Vignette of mine/mill below mountain.Folds. Est. $120-160 HWAC# 59058 miners working. Printed: GOES 93. 3) Two thousands shares of Red Lot# 4590 Bingen, Pennsylvania 1870, 1873 Jacket Gold Mining and Milling Company, number 39 signed by James North Penn Iron Company: Stock Number 2! M. Cole, president dated December 7, 1900. Highland Gold Mines and Bond Lot of two. 1) Stock # 2 for 5 shares Company first mortgage 8% gold bond. Principal due March 1, 1913, to the Reverend John Beck. Signed by WH Mines located in Baker City Mineral Belt. Assigned December 22, Hutter and president H Dewiller. Dateline Eaton, 1900. Vignette of miners working and mine building, revenue stamps. Ken Prag Collection. Est. $110-200 HWAC# 82320 1870. Incorporated in 1862. Eagle vignette. 25c Certificate Revenue Stamp. Tears have been taped Lot# 4586 , Oregon Three mining which show on the borders. Dog ear bottom left. stocks from Oregon Three mining Large tear top left. other smaller issues. mINI2) capital stock shares from central Bond # 84 for $200. Eight per cent mortgage Oregon. 1) One hundred shares bond. Same signatures. Issued to John Beck. of Freeland Consolidated, number Reverend John Beck (born in Eaton) a native of York, Pennsylvania was 93, issued to John W. McDaniel on a long-time minister in the German Reformed Church. The bilingual January 1, 1902, signed by Ashley Beck would prove useful in the Civil War, as so many of the wounded White, president. 2) Unissued stock soldiers (particularly in the Eleventh Corps) spoke German.Prag in Golden Slipper Mining & Milling Collection Est. $150-300 HWAC# 83964 Company, number 168. 3) Four hundred shares of Bill Nye Gold Mining and Milling Company, number 906 issued to N. T. Andrews, signed by James W. Rogue, president. Ken Prag collection. Est. $100- 150 HWAC# 82323 246 December 2018

DAY 4 Saturday, Dec 8th Mining Lot# 4591 Chesnut Hill, Lot# 4596 Northampton County, Pennsylvania 1863 Chesnut Hill Pennsylvania 1878 Philadelphia Iron Ore Company Stock # 72 Slate Mining Company Stock - Rare for 268 shares to Percy R Pyne. # 137 for 10 shares to [unnamed]. Signed by George Campbell and Signed by JH Boyn(?) and president WF HHarmyn(?). Dateline 1863. Frank Paton. Dateline Philadelphia 25c Certificate Revenue stamp. 1878. Incorporated in 1867. One Excellent condition!!! Incorporated above ground mining vignette about 1851. Chesnut Hill seems to and one seal vignette. Printed by be a located in the neighborhood of J Haehulan. Two vertical folds. Philadelphia. Prag Collection Est. No edge, corner, pinhole or discoloration issues. We could find no $200-400 HWAC# 81939 information on this company. Prag Collection Est. $150-250 HWAC# 81943 Lot# 4592 Columbia County, Pennsylvania 1857 Columbia Coal Lot# 4597 Reading, Pennsylvania and Iron Company Stock # 147 for 1865 West Reading Iron Company 100 shares to JN Maynard. Signed Stock: Early Number 7 # 7 for 6 by Klahr(?) and president Fred S shares to Samuel C Mayer. Signed Huntul(?). Dateline Philadelphia by Franklin Dundore and president 1857. Located at Columbia County, Henry Fry. Dateline Reading 1865. Pennsylvania. Four vignettes: Native Incorporated January 5, A. D. 1865. American hunting, underground mining, seal and coal train by smelter. Vignette on massive arm wielding a Bald, Consland & Co. printer. Not cancelled. Three vertical folds and hammer. Owen of Reading printer. three small pinholes where ink has eaten through the paper. Very Small rips and tears at bottom of nice! The coal deposits on McCauley Mountain were discovered as certificate. Discoloration center and bottom left. Rib bottom right early as 1826. A large number of mining operations were carried out border. Still nice. Not cancelled. By 1872 the machinery of the West on the mountain during the 1800s. The McCauley Railroad Company Reading Iron Company had been removed to Berwick for a new mill. was incorporated on May 5, 1854 and was built in 1855 and 1856. The Dundore learned the iron business in Pittsburg and moved to Reading company’s railroad ran 5 miles from the Catawissa Railroad to the coal in 1862. He resigned this position in 1865 and moved to Philadelphia. fields on the mountain. The McCauley Railroad Company was merged Prag Collection Est. $120-300 HWAC# 81933 into the Columbia Iron and Coal Company on April 19, 1858. Mining began in 1858. [Brasch, Wikipedia] Prag Collection Est. $200-400 Lot# 4598 Schuylkill County, HWAC# 81944 Pennsylvania 1864 Broad Mountain Mammoth Vein Coal Company Lot# 4593 Lackawanna, Stock # 753 die 2 shares to Aaron Pennsylvania 1881 Pennsylvania Ritter. Signed by AB Jarden(?) and Anthracite Coal Company Stock president William Schmoele(?). # 763 for 100 shares to The N. Y. Dateline Philadelphia 1864. Susquehanna & Western R. R. Co. Incorporated 1864. “Coal at cost Signed by BF French and RT McCabe. directly from the mines.” Includes Dateline New York 1881. Many “Mammoth Vein, Black Heach, Daniel vignettes of this era look pixely. & Primrose veins.” “Best Quality Anthracite Coal.” 25c Certificate This almost looks like a photograph. Revenue Stamp. Vignette of citizens watching a steam train roll by. American Bank Note printer. Outside Discoloration where revenue stamp was pressed against other side of one pin hole and one small stain upper right, near perfect! Not of stock. Very nice condition! The Mammoth Vein was an impressive Cancelled. Formerly known as the Lackawanna & Susquehanna Coal & anthracite coal seam in northeastern Pennsylvania. Obsolete American Iron Company. Prag Collection Est. $80-150 HWAC# 83968 Securities and Corporations reported in 1891, “Last report filed in 1864. Pennsylvania Charter void 1883, when three years’ taxes were Lot# 4594 Lakawanna Valley, unpaid. Stock worthless.” Prag Collection Est. $200-400 HWAC# 81969 Pennsylvania 1856 New York & Lackawanna Coal Company Bond Lot# 4599 Tioga, Pennsylvania 1841 # 453. $500 bond. 1856. Coupons 3 EARLY Arbon Coal Company of to 20 still attached. Three coal train Tioga County, Pennsylvania Stock vignettes. 19 x 12”. Coupons poorly Early certificate with a very early removed, cut between coupons 13 #5! For 303 shares to unspecified??? and 14. Holes at fold intersection. Dateline Blossburg 1841. Signed by Etc. Still it is very early! We found no Franklin R Smith and president Lewis information on this company. Prag Saynisch. Seven small vignettes: coal Collection Est. $100-200 HWAC# 83943 train, Benjamin Franklin, George Washington, Allegorical lady, shield Lot# 4595 Lakawanna Valley, Pennsylvania etc. Draper Toppan, Longacre & Company printers. Onion skin paper 1857 New-York and Pennsylvania Coal with only one pin hole and cut close at left. Remarkable condition. As Company Bond # 347. Signed by president early as 1834 the Arbon Coal Company was formed, composed chiefly WW Newton and secretary John Safford Jr. of gentlemen from Philadelphia; James R. Willson of that city being 17.5 x 15” Coal train vignette. 1857. Coupons president, Dr. Lewis Saynisch of Blossburg one of the stockholders, 3 to 20 still attached. Heavy folds. One small and James H. Gulick of New Jersey agent. As soon as the railroad was edge rip. Nice condition. Prag Collection Est. completed to Corning, in 1840, the Arbon Company began shipping $100-200 HWAC# 83944 coal by rail. The company was then represented by James H. Gulick, Brown Whitney and Franklin R. Smith, and existed for three years, mining and selling within that period 49,633 tons. Another company or firm was then organized, which mined and shipped, from 1844 to 1857, 405,116 tons. [Tri-Counties Genealogy & History by Tice] Prag Collection Est. $200-500 HWAC# 81928 Bid online at FHWAC.com or call 775-851-1859 247

DAY 4 Saturday, Dec 8th mining Lot# 4600 Venango County, Pennsylvania Lot# 4605 , Pennsylvania 1856 Susquehanna 1864 Clark Oil & Mining Company Stock & Elmira Coal Company Mortgage Loan # 110 for 100 shares to Isaac H Hibberd. Due 1866. Sixteen coupons still attached. Signed by John Gould and president James Signed by Van Antwerp and Gerard M Stevens. R Webb. Dateline Philadelphia 1864. Pale green seal. Center fold has rip about half Incorporated in 1864. 25c Entry of Goods the length of the loan. Other rips and color Revenue Stamp. Very nice oil mining area issues. Fair. Eight vignettes. Latimer Bros. & with canal boats. 1 inch rip at right of Seymour printed. Prag Collection Est. $150- vignette. Two smaller miner vignettes. Brown on onion skin paper. 300 HWAC# 81947 Not cancelled. 1 inch rip bottom right. One dog ear. Very nice. Located in Sandy Creek Township (known as Victory Township in the 1900’s. Prag Collection Est. $300-500 HWAC# 81936 Lot# 4606 , Pennsylvania 1879 Two Pennsylvania Named Iron and Coal Stocks 1) Lot# 4601 Venango County, Pennsylvania Pennsylvania and Virginia Iron and Coal # 82 1864 Tionesta Oil, Lumber & Mining for 200 shares to Delaney. Signed by Dorphley Company Stock # 192 for 500 shares to and president RN Pool. Milling vignette. Dateline JH Hibberd. Signed by treasurer WIlliam 1879. 2) Pennsylvania & Ohio Coal and Iron Mining # 237 for 10 shares to Lytle. Signed by A Simpson president Levis. Dateline Milligan and president WH Foster. Dateline Philadelphia 1864. Incorporated 1861. Lost Columbus 1880. Incorporated 1880. Mines at much of its color. Ink writing and 25c Protest Columbus, Ohio. Very nice coal train mine, mill Revenue Stamps are very strong. Heavy folds, rips, tears. But rare! Prag Collection Est. $100-200 HWAC# 83952 with large round stack. Prag Collection Est. $200-400 HWAC# 83950 Lot# 4602 Wiconisco, Pennsylvania 1837, 1853 Two Lykens Valley Coal Company Stock - Lot# 4607 , Pennsylvania 1865, 1888 Two Pennsylvania Stocks: Mammoth Vein and 1837! Two Lykens Valley Stock Certificates. One Valentine Ore 1) Mammoth Vein Consolidated cancelled the other not. Lykens was located at Coal Company of Pennsylvania. # 865 for 10 Bear Gap between Coal (or Thick) Mountain and shares to Charles Williams. Signed by secretary Big Lick Mountain. Dauphin County. The tunnel George (?) and president Charles Narsio(?). datline of the Lykens Valley Coal Company, which went Boston 1865. Not canclled. eagle vignette. Top approximately 3300 feet into Coal Mountain. has been folded over. Nice condition. 2) Valentine This effort was made in order to reach the last Ore Land Association. Centre County. # 80 for 25 vein of coal. At the end of the tunnel, an air hole shares to William Massey. Signed by Charles Hart was made to the surface. This air hole became and CA Mayer president. Seal vignette. Dateline somewhat legendary in that miners and school children from Gratz Philadelphia 1888. No serious issues with this cert. Prag Collection and Lykens Township used it to access the Bear Gap Tunnel and get Est. $70-150 HWAC# 83975 to the Lykens side of the mountain. [Lykens Valley website] 1) 1837! Number 42 for 50 shares to CR Thomson & Co. Signed by Isaac Prince Lot# 4608 Chesterfield, South and president Simon Gratz (as in Gratz borough of which Simon was Carolina 1889 Brewer Mining the founder!). Dateline 1837. Blacksmith shop vignette. 2) Same as Company Stock Certificate Early number one. 1853. # 74 for 12 shares to Amos Phillips. Signed by number 60 for a large number of WIlliam Hankins and president George E Hoffman. Cancelled 1857 shares - 15,000. Issued to HB Parsons written in pen. Prag Collection Est. $300-500 HWAC# 81958 the president. Signed by Parsons Lot# 4603 , Pennsylvania 1864 Cairo and secretary Jesse Young. Extra fine with no issues. Two vertical folds. We Oil & Mining Company Stock # 163 could find no specific reference to a for 100 shares to Charles S Johnston. company by this name incorporated Signed by Edward S Goodwin and SS in 1888. Hoever, Whitney (1854, p120) reports on a Brewer’s Mine in Carpenter. Dateline Pittsburg 1864. Chesterfield, South Carolina. Balch (1882, p1139) “The Brewer Mining Allegorical vignettes. BF Schuchman Company are the owners of the Brewer Mine, located in Chesterfield printer. 25c Life Insurance Revenue County, S. C, 29 miles from Monroe.” If this is the company, it was in Stamp. Small rips at fold edges, dog existence in the 1890’s per a lawsuit in the South Carolina courts. Est. ear, two small holes where ink has $80-160 HWAC# 57326 eaten through the paper. Look nice! Cairo is north of Allentown and northeast of Harrisburg. Prag Collection Est. $300-500 HWAC# 81935 Lot# 4609 Corn Hill, South Carolina 1871 Wando Mining and Lot# 4604 , Pennsylvania 1886 Snively Manufacturing Company of South Copper Mining Company Stock: Rare Carolina Stock Certificate Number 60 for 3 shares to George Aimar Large and Decorative Located on the in 1871. Signed by president John South Mountain Copper Belt, Pennsylvania R Duke and secretary FB Hacker. and Maryland. This is quite a striking Interesting farming vignette of hay? certificate. A 15” vignette of the Western United States 25c revenue stamp. Maryland Railroad, Depot at Blue Ridge and Very fine. Vertical folds - some show wrinkling. No edge issues or the Snively Copper Mining Company in between. Four rock specimen discoloration. The Wando clays and sands were located around Corn vignettes at each corner with the name of the company. # 402 for Hill above the Acabee Flats on the Ashley. These lands were most 1000 shares to Ralph W Ngu. Signed by WS Odell and president SC extensively developed along the Foster Creek and Wando River. The Pomerny(?). Dateline Washington D. C. 1886. Incorporated 1884. clay is frequently stained red. These clays were extensively utilized in Not cancelled. One vertical and two horizontal folds. No pin hole, the manufacturing of brick. Est. $160-320 HWAC# 57337 edge, corner or discoloration. Magnificent! The copper belt extends 13 miles: 9 in Pennsylvania and 4 in Maryland in the Appalachian Mountains. Prag Collection Est. $300-900 HWAC# 81932 248 December 2018