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DAY 1 Thursday, Feb 11 Stocks Part 1: Mining Lot# 1439 Nome, Alaska Wild Goose Mining Lot# 1443 Mohave County, Owen Mining & Trading Company Stock, Alaska Two District, Arizona 1877 McCrackin Consolidated vignettes of sailing ships and a miner working Mining Company Stock Certificate Location: the sluice box. Large underprint in orange of the “wild goose” and of Owen Mining District, Mohave Co., Arizona a miner working a sluice box at right. This is certificate #788, issued (printed at upper right). Consolidated in 1876. for 1902 shares in 1905 to Nevada National Bank of S.F. Gold was No. 341, issued for 250 shares to HH Allen discovered at Nome in 1898. Charles D. Lane, an experienced mining on Dec. 7th, 1877 in San Francisco. Signed by the vice-president (JC entrepreneur who had become wealthy from mining enterprises in the Balinar?) and secretary H. Aug. Whiting. Not cancelled. Black border Lower 48, paid a sizeable price to buy into the gold rush. He arrived and print. Lith. Britton & Rey, SF. Pinholes, folds. 4 x 8.75” The mine was in Nome in 1899 and established the Wild Goose Mining and Trading discovered by Jackson McCracken (notice slight spelling difference) in Company with a capitalization of over $1 million. A prominent Nome 1874. Located twelve miles from Greenwood, six miles north from Bill resident, he was president of the Company which had rich operations Williams Fork. Owned three claims: the Alta, Senator, and Palmetto, in the Anvil Creek area, and he was instrumental in building and on the crest of a mountain. In 1879, it was reported as having a shaft operating the regions first railroad. In 1905, Charles Lane sold most 365 ft. deep, and the vein explored with many tunnels. The ore is of his holdings in the Wild Goose Mining and Trading Company, described as “earthy, oxidized ore, dry and friable, easily mined and because of dissatisfaction with his partners, although he apparently milled.” Assays run from $25-70 per ton. Weekly ore extraction is 600 retained a cordial feeling toward the company (Nome News 1905). tons. They also have a 20 stamp mill. The mine is described favorably This certificate was issued after Lane and signed by his successor as and promising. [Ref: United States Annual Mining Review and Stock president. Tiny dollar sign cancels thru share line and signatures. Info Ledger, 1879, pg 217] Fred Holabird Collection Est. $150-250 HWAC# from encyberpedia, BLM and oldcompany.com. Printed by Britton & 129851 Rey, S.F. View to inspect condition. Very rare. Est. $300-500 HWAC# 129493 Lot# 1444 Pima County, Arizona 1883 Gunsight Mining Company Stock Certificate Lot# 1440 Alaska Copper River Copper Pima Co., Arizona (printed under title). Inc. in Company Stocks, Alaska, 2 different New Jersey. No. 192, issued for 1,200 shares Varieties Two Copper River Copper Company to M.J. Dohan on Feb. 16th, 1883 in Camden. stocks issued in 1907 and 1908. Incorporated in Arizona. The Signed by president Baker and treasurer company held two sets of claims in Alaska, according to the 1908 Matthews. Not cancelled. Very ornate black Copper Handbook. The Copper River is a 290-mile river in south- border and print with green underprint design. Fancy logo and central Alaska. It drains a large region of the Wrangell Mountains and vignette of miners with headlamps. Folds, one spindle hole on the left Chugach Mountains into the Gulf of Alaska. One of the certificates is a side. Very nice. 7 x 11” This mine was located at the north end of the Pooled stock certificate and the other is for 10,000 common shares. Ajo Mountains. The district was protected the the 1860’s, but it wasn’t Both are VF and uncanceled. Est. $200-400 HWAC# 129490 until this mine began operations that the district actually produced. The Gunsight was the major producer when high-grade silver ore was Lot# 1441 Chloride, Arizona 1916-1918 discovered. The story is told that the Gunsight Mine was discovered Chloride & Kingman Mining Stock by prospectors in November 1878 and so-named because the nearby Certificate Trio Lot of 3 different. 1) Carter mountain looked like a gunsight. Soon the miners came for the rich Gold Mining & Milling Co. Kingman. Issued in 1916, not cancelled. silver ore and Gunsight camp was established. The Post Office was Mining vignettes. Deep folds. 2) Chloride-Arizona Copper Company. established in 1892, and at that time the mine was producing under $100 Gold Convertible Note, 1916. Not cancelled. Swastikas in the the aegis of the Silver Gert Mining Company. There were 8 buildings corners. 3) Chloride Queen Mining Co. Issued in 1918, not cancelled. at the site and 40 employees. The vein was over 4 feet wide, reached Mining vignettes.Deep folds, toning. Ken Prag Collection Est. $60-80 by a 340 foot shaft. It was the richest mine in the district. By 1896 the HWAC# 113840 Post Office closed. [Ref: Mines Register, 1922]. [Garbani] Fred Holabird Collection Est. $150-200 HWAC# 129853 Lot# 1442 Gila County, Arizona 1911 Old Dominion Arizona Copper Stock Cert This Lot# 1445 Pima County, Arizona 1881 Orion cert is issued by Old Dominion Company, a Silver Mining Company of Arizona Stock copper mining operation based in Gila County, Certificate Interesting stock. Organized in Arizona. It is made out for one share (No New Jersey. An Arizona mining stock issued for shares in another price per share) to Jacob A. Kamhrim, is dated mining company, the Montana Gold & Silver Mining Company (of December 14, 1911 and signed by president, Montana). No. 29, issued in 1881 for 12.5 shares. Signed by president CS Suieto (sp?) and secretary, (illegible). Hamilton Disston and secretary BF Hart. Not cancelled. Black border There’s a nice vignette of hard rock miners at the bottom. Please see and print, folds, hole in seal. 5.25 x 8.75” We have sold different photos for more detail and condition. Ken Prag Collection Est. $200-400 versions of this stock that have “Pima County” printed on it (and HWAC# 129783 same corporate signatures). According to a Dec. 5, 1878 article in The Times of Philadelphia, the company was named after the Orion Club in Philadelphia. They organized to purchase eleven different mining sites in Arizona. The company had decent ores and built a mill which ran intermittently for lack of water. Disston as the son of a millionaire saw manufacturer in Philadelphia. He would make a dramatic purchase of 4,000,000 acres of Florida swampland for 25c and acre. He would turn this into buildable land. [Garbani] The Montana Gold and Silver Mining Company is reported as having the same corporate officers and working the Gregory Mine, near Jefferson City. [Helena Weekly Herald, Jun. 29, 1882] Stuart Mackenzie Montana Mining Collection Est. $80-150 HWAC# 129648 View complete catalog, Register, and Bid online at FHWAC.com 49

DAY 1 Thursday, Feb 11 Stocks Part 1: Mining Lot# 1446 Pima County, Ajo Mining District, Lot# 1452 Arizona 1902-1928 Arizona Arizona Ajo Mining & Development Co. Stock Copper Mining Stock Collection Lot of 18, Certificate Inc. in New Jersey. No. 738, issued most different. Includes: Howard Copper Co. for 528 shares to M.J. Dohan on May 8th, 1883 (1920); Intercolonial Copper Co. (1902); Jerome Victor Extension in Camden. Signed by secretary EG Hamersly Copper Co. (1916); Ball Copper Co. (1910 bond); Cactus Copper Co. and president JB Baker. Not cancelled. Dateline (1911); Central Copper Co. of Arizona (1928); Coast Line Copper CO. 1883 Camden. Very ornate black border (1912); Cons. Copper Creek MC (1909); Copper Butte Mines (1907); and print, underprint design. Underground mining vignette. Theo Copper Metals Co. (1910 bond); Cordova Copper Co. (1918); Globe Leonhardt & Son printer. Heavy folds. Extremely nice. 6.75 x11 “ Not Dominion Copper Co. (1918); Great Standard Copper MC (1903); in Filer or other Holabird indexes. No additional information located. Harcuvar Copper Co. (1909); Haynes Copper Co. (1907); and Hembrillo Fred Holabird Collection Est. $200-300 HWAC# 129854 Copper MC (1911). Ken Prag Collection Est. $400-600 HWAC# 113889 Lot# 1447 Pinal County, Arizona Mineral Lot# 1453 Arizona 1907-1928 Arizona Gold Mountain Mining Co Stock, Arizona Mining Stock Certificate Group Lot of 6 Territory, Santa Rita Mts. 1882 Cert. #187, different. Includes: Flagstaff Gold Mining Co. issued for 200 shares to Wm. Eilman in 1882. Signed by B.F. Kanns (1928); Hi Henry Gold Mines Co. (1916); Clarissa Gold Mining Co. as president. Mines Located in Santa Rita Mountains noted on the (uniss.); The Gold Bar Cons. Mining Co. (1907); The Gold Run Mining certificate. This was in Pinal County, Arizona. Two nice mining vignette & Tunnel Co. (1910); and The Gold Belt Drainage & Transportation of miners working underground. Mines were south of the Gila River at Tunnel Co. (1911). Nice group! Ken Prag Collection Est. $100-150 Cottonwood Canyon on the west slope of Mineral Mountain. Western HWAC# 113890 Bank Note, Chicago. VF. Uncanceled. Est. $200-400 HWAC# 128882 Lot# 1454 Arizona 1901-1966 Arizona Mining Stock Certificate Collection Lot of Lot# 1448 Vulture, Arizona 1905 Vulture 21, most different. Includes: Mid-Arizona MC Development Company Stock Certificate (1922); High Top MC (1911); Central Mining & Dev. Co. (1907, 1908); Pair Lot of 2 different. 1) Stock no. 462, issued International Exploration Co. (1910); Jack Waite MC (1966); Jelm- for 10,000 shares to WA Tarish on Jan. 14th, 1905. Signed by president Curlew MC (1901); Karnac M&MC (uniss); Katherine Extension MC Sanders and the secretary. Not cancelled. Black border and print, (1929); Oatman Eastern GMC (1928); Calzona MC (1917): Cash Entry gold seal, and allegorical vignette. Deep folds, toning. 2) Guaranteed MC (1916); Clemenceau MC (1946); Cold Spring Quartz & Channel MC Compensation Certificate no. 23, issued to OH Nickerson in 1905. Same (1908); and others. Please inspect. Ken Prag Collection Est. $300-500 corp. signatures. Not cancelled. Green border and black print. Deep HWAC# 113880 folds, toning. According to The Mining Reporter, 1904, Sanders formed this company to work the Angel and other properties adjoining the Lot# 1455 Arizona Ten Arizona Mining Vulture. Pending litigation, the company would also get the old Vulture Stocks Including Two from Bisbee and a group of mines. Ken Prag Collection Est. $100-200 HWAC# 113947 Silver King Nice selection of Arizona mining stocks including Empire State Mining Company, issued at Bisbee in Lot# 1449 Yavapai County, Arizona 1908-1919 1911 and Bisbee-Arizona Gold and Copper Mining Company, 1907, Consolidated Arizona Smelting Company Principal office at Bisbee, Arizona. Also, Cons. Arizona Smelting Stocks & Bonds Lot of 5, all different. Includes: Company, Gold Beam Consolidated Mining & Milling, two from Clarinda $500 bond (1909, not cxl); $1,000 bond (1909, not cxl); 1919 Interest Copper and one from Silver King of Arizona Mining Company, 1920. Certificate; 1916 stock (not cxl), and 1908 stock (not cxl). Good to Unfortunately, the Silver King has damage to the folds (see photos). very good condition. Consolidation of the Arizona Smelting, Arizona All the rest are mostly above average condition. Est. $200-400 HWAC# Exploration and DeSoto Mining. They would operate the Blue Bell and 129503 DeSoto Mines. In 1909 only 82,250 pounds of copper was produced. By 1911 that number was up to 600,000 pounds. The company went Lot# 1456 Arizona 1881-1886 Two Different into receivership in 1920. Ken Prag Collection Est. $200-300 HWAC# 1880s Arizona Mining Stock Certificates 113847 Lot of 2 different. 1) Silver Nugget Mining Company. Globe District, Maricopa County, Arizona (printed at bottom Lot# 1450 Yavapai County, Big Bug District, left). No. 2870, issued for 10 0shares in 1881. Signed by vice president Arizona 1907 Great Belcher of Arizona Earle and the secretary. Not cancelled. Black border and print, orange Company Stock Certificate Inc. in Arizona. underprint, and mining vignette. Pinholes, folds. 2) Arnold Gold & No. 10003, issued for 1,000 shares to FM Kemard in 1907. Signed Silver Mining Company. Cedar Valley Mining District, Mohave County, by president Isaac Mason and secretary Noel. Not cancelled. Orange Arizona Territory (printed at bottom center). No. 788, issued for 100 border and underprint, black print, and three vignettes: miners shares in 1886. Signed by president Bates and the secretary. Not working a drill, a cow’s head, and horse-drawn ore carts. New York cancelled.Pinholes, folds, some toning. Ken Prag Collection Est. $200- Bank Note Co. Deep folds, toning, more evident on reverse. 8 x 300 HWAC# 113881 11.5” Two claims in the Big Bug District of Yavapai County. A mile of underground workings and tunnels. [Mines Directory, 1910] Ken Prag Lot# 1457 Hot Springs, Arkansas Champion Collection Est. $80-100 HWAC# 113882 Mining & Smelting Company Stock, Hot Springs, 1887 Cert. #57, issued for 1000 Lot# 1451 Arizona 1907-1923 Arizona shares to Wm. J. Little in 1887 at Hot Springs, Arkansas. Signed by O.J. Copper Camps Mining Stock Group Lot of Smith as president and Geo. W. Watson as secretary. The company was 5 different. Jerome, Bisbee, Miami. Includes: incorporated in Arkansas in 1886. Nice gold underprint and mining Green Monster Mining Co. (Jerome, 1916); Calumet & Arizona Mining vignette. We don’t see many mining stocks from Arkansas. There was Co. (Bisbee, 1914 and 1923); Cadena de Cobre Mining Co. (Bisbee, gold, silver and vanadium in the Hot Springs area. There was also lead 1907); and Inspiration Central Mining Co. (1919). Please inspect. Ken and zinc mining and smelting. This is a very beautiful certificate. VF. Prag Collection Est. $100-150 HWAC# 113841 Uncanceled. Est. $200-400 HWAC# 128887 50 February 2021

DAY 1 Thursday, Feb 11 Stocks Part 1: Mining Lot# 1458 Arkansas Arkansas Mining & Lot# 1463 Downieville, California Eclipse Investment Company Stock, 1888 Inc. in Gold Mining Company Stock, Downieville, Iowa. Cert. #105, issued for 500 shares. The Cal. Cert. #76, issued for 2000 shares. Signed company mined zinc in the Rush Creek area. Zinc was discovered by Brown and issued to a Brown. Location of Works: Sierra County. on Rush Creek, a tributary of the Buffalo River in the early 1880’s Place of business: Downieville, California printed at the top. The (Hill Folks, Brooks Blevins, 2002). Nice vignette of three miners company incorporated in 1877. This certificate is usually canceled, but working underground. This is rare and we haven’t seen it before. VF. this one isn’t. The Eclipse quartz gold mine was located one mile south Uncanceled. Est. $200-400 HWAC# 128819 of Allegheny. The company was a producer, netting between $20,000 and $50,000 gold. VF. Est. $200-400 HWAC# 128878 Lot# 1459 Arkansas South-Western and Arkansas Mining Company Stock, 1850 Lot# 1464 Furnace Creek, California 1907 Rare, early date mining stock issued for one Butte = Furnace Range Copper Company share at Little Rock, Arkansas in 1850. Cert. #536, each share was Stock, Furnace Creek, Inyo County, California $100. Endorsed on the back, but uncanceled. VF. Est. $240-350 HWAC# # 436 for500 shares to George Williams. Signed 128792 by Arthur Mueller and president HJ McDonald. Dateline Butte, Montana. Located next to the Lot# 1460 Alpine County, California People’s Furnace Creek Mine. In 1910 it was listed as Gold & Silver Mining Co Stock, Monitor “Moribund.” [Copper Handbook] Vertical folds. District, 1865 Incorporated December 1863 No edge, corner, pin hole or discoloration issues. Stuart Mackenzie and capitalized at $500,000; 100,000 shares at $5. Monitor Mining Montana Railroad Collection Est. $100-200 HWAC# 123990 District, Alpine County. Certificate No. 1365, made out to Columbus A. Zimmerman for two shares dated June 19, 1865. Large mining Lot# 1465 Grass Valley, California 1855 buildings top right, 25 cent internal revenue stamp at left. Black print. Helvetia & Lafayette Gold Mining Co. Stock Red stamp “Fully Paid Stock, Unassessable” printed vertically. Small Certificate Extremely rare Gold Rush era; fold split at bottom left fold. Uncancelled. Est. $300-500 HWAC# 129487 2-3 known. Grass Valley, Nevada Co., Cal (printed under title). Dateline Grass Valley, Nevada Co., Cal., July 24th, 1855. No. 2286, issued for five shares to Lot# 1461 Death Valley, California 1883 South George A. Montgomery. Signed by president Carvill Conaway and the Pacific Mining Company Stock Certificate secretary (ink nearly gone). Not cancelled. Black print. Two allegorical Located in the old Salt Springs area of Death vignettes of women and a smaller vignette of an eagle. Printed by Valley (Lingenfelter, 1986, Death Valley & the Amargosa, p.158- SF Butler. 3.5 x7.5” Significant condition issues: toning, some foxing, 159). This was one of the biggest mine frauds of the 19th century! large old tape repairs, small piece missing on left border. According No. 6545, issued to EG Johnson for 100 shares in 1883. Signed by to Mining Magazine (1854), the company was formed in April 1852 the president and secretary. Not cancelled. Ornate black border with with E.R. Baxter president. They had 12 claims (80 ft. each) on an underground mining vignette. Printed by Homer Lee Bank Note Lafayette Hill, as well as claims on Gold and Massachusetts Hills, along Co., N.Y. Pinholes, light wear. Lingenfelter, describes it best: “Early in with an 18-stamp mill. The vein was originally located by a party of 1881 Luckhardt (a San Francisco assayer) sold it to James Madison Frenchmen who noticed a small piece of gold-rich quartz. The quartz Seymour. Seymour was a slim, dapper operator in his mid-thirties. He was buried and thus had been previously overlooked. From April to had speculated in cotton in Texas and grain in Chicago before coming August 1852, $98,000 was taken out. From August 1852 to Dec. 1853, to New York to buy a seat on the New York Stock Exchange and stage a they took out $84,200 in gold. The Lafayette Hill vein is 2-3 feet in run of stock manipulations. Together, Luckhardt and Seymour dressed thickness and encased in greenstone, making blasting a necessity. Also up the old Salt Spring mine until it became the new speculative contains large volumes of sulphuret of iron. [Ref: Mining Magazine Vol. favorite of Broadway. They bought the mine for $22,500 and gave it 3, Tenney, 1854, pgs. 541-542] Fred Holabird Collection Est. $1000-2000 the exotic stage name of the South Pacific Mining Company...In the HWAC# 129850 glow of Luckhardt’s praises, Seymour put the South Pacific stock on the exchanges in October 1881, and within a month he and his broker Lot# 1466 Herbertville, Amador County, friends had ‘washed’ the price up from its $1 par to $14.63 a share! No California 1855 Herbertville Quartz Mining other mining stock on the New York exchanges had ever been so far Company Stock Certificate Rare California above par, and none had ever been more fictitious.” Ken Prag Collection Gold Rush certificate! Amador County. Cert. No. 77, issued for one share Est. $120-200 HWAC# 113894 to WP Jones on April 2nd, 1855. Signed by the president (illegible) and Samuel Davis (secretary). Not cancelled. Printed on delicate blue Lot# 1462 Inyo County, California Greenwater paper with no vignette. Reverse has notations for transfers of shares. & Death Valley Copper Company Stock, The city of Herbertville began in 1851 and was named after reverend 1907 Cert. #A1422, issued to Oswald Kirkby Lemuel Herbert, who was an owner of Spring Hill Mine. It is now a for 100 shares. Signed by Donald B. Gillis as president. Tasker Oddie ghost town. Measures 5.25 x 8.” Light wear. Ken Prag Collection Est. was one of the company directors. Greenwater Copper Mines & $400-800 HWAC# 113893 Smelters controlled 95% of the stock of the company. This company actually had potential and was developing steadily in 1908, with 40 Lot# 1467 Mariposa, California 1851 men employed. The company had 5 shafts in the Greenwater district Mariposa Gold Quartz Mine Stock Certificate including the Copper Glance No. 2. The main shaft was 700’, with plans A stock certificate issued by the Ave Maria Gold to go to 1600’ with crosscuts at the 400’ and 500’ levels. The mine was Quartz Mine in Mariposa, California. I t is for five shares. As for the systematically touted during the Greenwater boom, but the Copper price per share, it along with the issuer and party it’s issued to are Handbook noted that the company “is one of the few properties of illegible, not because of condition, but because it’s too fancy for these promise in the district. Beautiful, engraved certificate by American old eyes to discern. Please see photos for detail and condition. Est. Bank Note, N.Y. This company spent extra on this fancy certificate, and $100-150 HWAC# 131354 it’s the only engraved certificate from Death Valley that we can think of other than the Montgomery Shoshone (also a hugely successful mine). EF. Uncancelled. Est. $200-400 HWAC# 129499 View complete catalog, Register, and Bid online at FHWAC.com 51

DAY 1 Thursday, Feb 11 Stocks Part 1: Mining Lot# 1468 Owens Lake, California 1921, 1928 Lot# 1473 Sacramento, California Sutter Inyo Chemical Company Stock Certificate Basin Company Stock, Rare Issued, 1913 and Gold Debenture Lot of two includes a First one of these we’ve ever seen issued. stock certificate and gold debenture for the Named after John Sutter of Sutter’s Mill gold rush fame. Organized Inyo Chemical Company, whose principal office under the laws of California Apr. 29, 1913. Owns the fee to 50,087 was in Reno, Nevada. Includes: certificate acres of land in the Sacramento Valley, in Sutter County, Cal., in what is No. 634, 10 shares issued to Edward A. Knabe, Jr. in 1921, signed known as the Sutter Basin, lying between the Feather and Sacramento by President and Secretary, with eagle vignette and embossed gold Rivers. Signed by company officers W. E. Gerber, Pres.; R. J. Dunham, seal, with four one-inch tears along folds; and 1928 convertible gold secretary. Issued for 250 shares. Red pen canceled. Stub glued to the debenture for $5,000, signed by President Henry M. Leland and back. Est. $100-200 HWAC# 129485 Treasurer, with ornate border, in fine condition with no folds or tears, some staining around edges from age. The Inyo Chemical Company Lot# 1474 Santa Cruz, California 1911 existed from 1917-1932. It operated a plant at Owens Lake for making California Powder Works Stock Certificate sodium carbonates. Ken Prag Collection Est. $100-300 HWAC# 127694 Issued in 1911. No. 22, 100 shares, issued to Geo. Lezinsky, Trustee, signed by the president and secretary. Detailed Lot# 1469 Placer County, California 1913- vignette and gold company seal. Uncanceled. Fine condition with 20 California-Hawaiian Development Co two minor folds. California Powder Works was incorporated in 1861 and Hawaiian Electric. Lot of 8. California- when supplies to the West were cut off during the Civil War. It was the Hawaiian Development Co. incorporate. 1911 first company west of the Rockies to manufacture gunpowder which Calif. and operated the Ralston Divide Gravel was needed for California’s mining and road-building industries. The Monte in Placer County (Callif Mining Revue company was located along the San Lorenzo River, 3 miles north of 1922). Two U/U and six I/C certs. Three mining Santa Cruz. Ken Prag Collection Est. $150-250 HWAC# 127737 vignettes: hydraulic mining, river scene and mining entrance. Issued 1913-20, green borders, embossed vignette, Lot# 1475 California Giant Powder Company F-EF cond. Ken Prag Collection Est. $150-300 HWAC# 122455 Stock Certificate, 1919 Stock certificate from the famous dynamite maker, issued at Giant Lot# 1470 Plumas County, California 1900 Station in California for one share. Pen and hole cancels through Twelve- Mile Bar Gold Mining Stock, Plumas signatures. On March 19, 1868, the Giant Powder Company began County, Cal. 1900 We’ve never seen this one production at its first manufacturing plant under license from Alfred before. Certificate #14, issued for 1,000 shares Nobel to produce his new explosive. The plant only lasted until 1869, of Twelve-Mile Bar Gold Mining Company when the entire facility blew up. The company moved locations at at San Francisco in 1900. Twelve Mile bar is least twice before ending up on the east bay. This was away from heavy located in Plumas County, on the East Branch of the North Fork of the population centers. The certificate has an underprint of an explosion. Feather River. Recorded on Trask’s map, 1853. In 1862, The Mining Part of stub attached at the left along with a transfer slip to the back. Press reported new quartz lode discoveries at the location. In very These are becoming quite rare in issued form. Est. $200-400 HWAC# good, uncancelled condition. Rare. Fred Holabird Collection Est. $60-100 128874 HWAC# 129849 Lot# 1476 Skidoo, California Wild Rose Lot# 1471 Plumas & Sierra Counties, Mining Company Stock, Inyo County, California 1867-1882 Plumas & Sierra Panamints, 1907 Cert. #377, issued for 500 Counties Mining Stock Certificate Trio Lot shares to Frank E. Parlin in 1907. Signed by W.B. Gray as president. of 3 different. 1) Gold Valley Main Tunnel & Mining Co. Poverty Hill The company operated at Skidoo and Wild Rose in the Panamint Mining District, Plumas County. Issued in 1867 for 10 shares to the Mountains, west of Death Valley. Incorporated in South Dakota in company president, James Lafferty. Not cancelled. Vertical fold, some 1906. The company’s mine office was at Skidoo and their business toning on edges. 2) The Monte Cristo Mining Company. Sierra County. office was at Beatty. The company’s properties located 7 miles from No. 24, issued for 100 shares in 1875 in Stockton. Signed by president Skidoo included the Wild Rose mine, the Wild Rose Annex and the Buck and secretary Humphreys. Not cancelled. Allegorical and mining Rush Group. By the spring of 1907, an eighty-foot tunnel had been vignettes. Folds, toning. 3) The Harlem Mining & Milling Company. excavated with a crosscut running through the ledge and exposing ore Self-identified. Issued in 1882 for 100 shares. Not cancelled. Two assaying as high as $100 in gold and $25 in silver at the Wild Rose. mining vignettes. Pinholes, folds, toning. Ken Prag Collection Est. $150- The Wild Rose Annex property was also making a good showing at 250 HWAC# 113966 this time (nps.gov). MInes located in Wild Rose Mining District, Inyo County, California printed on the masthead. The certificate is VF. Lot# 1472 Plumas County, Taylorville, Uncanceled. Est. $200-400 HWAC# 128872 California 1890s California Gold Mining & Investment Co. Stock Certificate Inc. in Lot# 1477 Trinity County, California Two Montana. No. 46, issued for 5,000 shares to PL Hainscom. Not dated. Trinity County, California Mining Stocks Lot Signed by president Cornelius Barker and secretary Hay. Not cancelled. of 2 includes: Trinity Gold Mining & Reduction Black border and print, gold seal, green background, and mining Co., issued in 1910 and Trinity Copper Corporation, issued in 1924. An vignette. Deep folds. 8 x 10” Owned mining property at Taylorville, enclosed letter to the 1910 shareholder stated the Mines and Works in California. [San Francisco Chronicle, July 8, 1896] In 1896 the Trinity County, California. Both VG or better. Uncanceled. Est. $160- California Debris Commission received a request from the California 250 HWAC# 129494 Gold Mining and Investment Co., with their claim, near Taylorville, to deposit tailings in Foreman Canyon [Mining and Scientific Press, Lot# 1478 California 1850s-1903 California 1896]. Stuart Mackenzie Montana Mining Collection Est. $70-100 HWAC# Gold Mining Stocks including Two Gold 129608 Rush Lot of 7 different. Nice group! Includes: Ave Maria Gold Quartz Mine (Mariposa, c.1851); Anglo-Californian Gold Mining Co. (1853); Occidental Gold Mining Co. (San Jose, 1903, photo vignette); New York Hill Gold MC (1880, Grass Valley); Peerless Gold Mine Dev. Co. (Jackson, uniss); Homestake Gold Mining Co. of Tuolumne (1898); and Manhattan Gold Mining Co. (1899). Ken Prag Collection Est. $200-400 HWAC# 113892 52 February 2021

DAY 1 Thursday, Feb 11 Stocks Part 1: Mining Lot# 1479 California 1850s California Gold Lot# 1485 Cripple Creek, Colorado 1892- Rush Mining Stock Pair Lot of 2 different. 1) 1899 Cripple Creek Mining Stock Collection Tuolumne County Water Company. Columbia. incl. Burns Autograph Lot of 6 different pre- Issued in 1856 for one share to LN Kendall. Signed by the president 1900. Includes: Pharmacist Consolidated Mining Co. (1899, signed and secretary. Cut cancelled. Fabulous mining vignette by Britton & by Colorado mining millionaire James “Jimmy” Burns, punch cxl); Rey. Light wear. 2) Le Nouveau Monde. Issued c.1851 for 5 shares. Beacon-Gold Hill Cons. Mining Co. (1897); Acacia Gold Mining Co. French and English text. Pinholes, folds, creases. Ken Prag Collection Est. (1899); Orphan Bell Mining & Milling Co. (1892); Harvard Gold Mining $150-200 HWAC# 113870 Co. (1896); and New York Tunnel & Mining Co. (unissued, 1890s). Ken Prag Collection Est. $150-250 HWAC# 113981 Lot# 1480 California Three California Stocks Includes Mining First, we have a Lot# 1486 Denver, Colorado 1893-1922 Proof certificate from the Iowa Tunnel Mining Colorado Mining Stocks Issued in Denver & Milling Company, printed on thick paper by Western Bank Note & Lot of 9 different. All with Denver datelines. Engr. and Ebbert, Fidlar & Chambers, Davenport, IA. Great vignette of Includes: Imperial Cons. Mining Co. (1922); Inter-Mountain Mining miners posing outside the mine portal. We are guessing this company & Industrial Assoc. (1906); Black Ant Mines Co. (Goldfield, Nevada, might have operated at Iowa Hill, near Colfax, in Placer County. Rough 1906); Invincible Gold Mines Co. (uniss); Arvilla Tunnel & Mining condition on the right edge. Engravings Company labels on card Co. (Cripple Creek, 1896); Anaconda Gold Mining Co. (Cripple Creek, attached to the verso. 2) Oneida Gold Mining & Milling Company, (CA), 1896); Valley View Gold Mining Co. (1897); Queen Bess Gold Mining 1900 with coupons. Rough top edge. 3) The Farmer’s Union of San Co. (1893); and The Gold Exploration Co. (1899). Please inspect. Ken Jose, California, 1894. Brown left edge where stub was removed. Pen Prag Collection Est. $180-300 HWAC# 113883 canceled. Est. $200-300 HWAC# 128790 Lot# 1487 Denver, Colorado 1882 Manly Lot# 1481 Boulder County, Colorado Consolidated Mining & Milling Co. Stock American Mining Company Stock, Boulder Certificate Not listed in the Colorado Mining County, Colorado, 1869 Cert. #29, issued Directories (1867, 1879, 1883, 1898) or in in1869 at New York for 30 shares to J.K. Smyth. Signed by H. Augustus Filer. The only “Manly Mine” located was in Taylor as president and Morgan L. Ogden as secretary. This is a rare Shawnee Town, Ohio (Balch, 1882). No other certificate, not to be confused with the company of the same name, info found online. Inc. in Colorado. No. 169, issued for 100 shares to incorporated in Vermont. Our company was incorporated in New York. GW Warmack on Dec. 2nd, 1882 in Denver. Signed by the president Our research indicates that the company operated in Boulder County (Thomas Terry) and secretary (Henry D. Merritt). Not cancelled. in 1874, as there was a New York company operating there during Simple design with black border and print, no vignette. Printed by that timeframe. Nice mining vignette and 25 cent revenue stamp. Tiny Lambert Steam Printer & Binder, Pueblo. 5.5 x 10.25” Folds. (Prag tears at top edge. Uncanceled. Est. $300-500 HWAC# 128825 Collection) Fred Holabird Collection Est. $100-150 HWAC# 129856 Lot# 1482 Creede, Colorado 1895-1899 Lot# 1488 Leadville, Colorado 1881 Leadville Creede, Colorado Mining Stock Certificate Mining Stock Group (3) Lot of three different Pair Lot of 2 different. 1) The Nelson Tunnel mining stocks from Leadville. Includes Bald and Mining Company. No. 1064, issued for 7 shares in 1895 in Creede. Mountain Mining Company, issued in 1881. Mines at Fryer Hill, Signed by president JP Wallace and the secretary. Not cancelled. Leadville. Franklin Bank Note, N.Y. I/U. VF. Also, Canterbury Mining Black border and print, eagle vignette, and orange underprint. Company, issued at Leadville in 1901. Transfer office and Mines Folds, curled corner. 2) The Atlanta, Cripple Creek & Creede Mining located at Leadville, Colo. printed on the certificate. Vignette of Company. Principal Office: Cripple Creek, El Paso & Mineral Counties. Canterbury Cathedral, England. Operated the Canterbury mine. Lastly, No. 1401, issued for 1,00 shares in 1899 in Cripple Creek. Signed by an unissued certificate from the Brookland Mining Company. Claim the president and secretary. Not cancelled. Gold border, black print, map on the back of the certificate shows the Brookland claim adjacent and mining vignette. Folds, creases, tears along edges, stains. Ken Prag to the famous “Maid of Erin”. All of these certificates are VF. Est. $200- Collection Est. $120-200 HWAC# 113963 300 HWAC# 131532 Lot# 1483 Cripple Creek, Colorado Lot# 1489 Leadville, Colorado Cadillac Apothecaries Gold Mining Company Stock, Consolidated Mining Stock, Rare Leadville, Rare Cripple Creek, 1896 Beautiful and 1881 Very rare, Leadville mining stock issued rare Cripple Creek district mining stock. Issued at Colorado Springs, in 1881 from the Cadillac Consolidated Mining Company. The company Colorado in 1896. Cert. #272, issued to Fred A. Pride for 1000 shares operated the Cadillac mine at Leadville. Incorporated in Colorado in and signed by A. Jae Ward as secretary and S. Ben Smith as president. 1881. Signed by John Law as president and C.W. Waite as secretary. Vignette of apothecary balance with beacon sitting on top of scales. Listed as the Cadillac Mining Company in Corregan and Lingane, both Printer was Telegraph Printing Co. Mines included the Chicago, Red companies incorporated in 1881 and had the same company officers. Mountain, as well as several others in the Cripple Creek mining Their office was at 219 Harrison Avenue in Leadville. The company district. VF. Uncanceled. Est. $200-400 HWAC# 129498 owned eight claims on Bald Mountain, California district, four miles from Leadville, located in 1879. The certificate is only VG with fold Lot# 1484 Cripple Creek, Colorado 1895-1899 splits and some damage at top left fold. Nevertheless, this is a good Cripple Creek Mining Stock Collection incl. one and likely your only chance to get it. Uncanceled. Est. $200-250 Burns Autograph Lot of 6 different 1890s HWAC# 131531 pieces, including a “Jimmy” Burns autograph. Burns was a Colorado millionaire after striking it rich in the Portland Mine. Included: Lot# 1490 Marble, Colorado 1907, 1910 Pharmacist Consolidated Mining Co. (1899, signed by Burns as Colorado-Yule Marble Company Stock president, punch cxl); Cripple Creek Gold Rock Mining Co. (1895); Certificates Lot of 2 different. Issued in 1907 Anaconda Gold Mining Co. (1896); Abdallah Gold Mining Co. (1896); and 1910, not cancelled. Labelled vignette of the Cheeseman Memorial Acacia Gold Mining Co. (1897); and Findley Gold Mining Co. (1899). in Denver, made of Colorado-Yule Marble. International Bank Note Great group! Ken Prag Collection Est. $160-300 HWAC# 113964 Co., NY. Pinholes, folds. Yule Marble is a marble of metamorphosed Leadville Limestone found only in the Yule Creek Valley, in the West Elk Mountains of Colorado, 2.8 miles southeast of the town of Marble, Colorado. Ken Prag Collection Est. $70-100 HWAC# 113873 View complete catalog, Register, and Bid online at FHWAC.com 53

DAY 1 Thursday, Feb 11 Stocks Part 1: Mining Lot# 1491 Trinidad, Colorado Trinidad Coal Lot# 1497 Coeur d’Alene, Idaho 1894 Coeur and Mining Company Stock, Starkville, d’ Alene Silver-Lead Mining Company Stock, Colorado, 1879 Very rare and exciting stock Burke, Shoshone County, Idaho, 1894 # from the Trinidad Coal and Mining Company issued at Starkville, A159 for 500 shares to James Denning. Signed Colorado in 1879. Issued to and signed by the president, S.H. Mallory. by vice president B Kingsbury. Dateline Bute, Three vignettes including a nice mining vignette at the top. The coal Montana. Beautiful river canyon vignette. Also fields of Trinidad covered 600 square miles. Trinidad was incorporated young lady vignette. Light issues at borders. in 1876 and became the supply and transportation center for the Otherwise quite nice. Signed on back by Denning issuing his stock to region’s coal mines. The coal from these mines was highly prized W. S. Clark. Their main shaft was the Tiger-Poorman. Stuart Mackenzie for its quality in creating coking fuels for Colorado’s smelters. As the Montana Mining Collection Est. $400- HWAC# 123864 mines and smelters of Colorado grew into a major industry, Trinidad prospered and became a wealthy commercial center full of stunning Lot# 1498 Kellogg, Idaho 1917-1953 Idaho Victorian homes and buildings (westernmininghistory.com). This Mining Stocks for Companies Based in certificate is an exciting find and very rare. Red pen canceled. VF. Est. Kellogg Lot of 8 different. Includes:Bobby $200-400 HWAC# 128881 Anderson Group MC (1928); Caledonia Silver-Lead MC (1953); Decker Dev. Co. (uniss); Hill Mining & Milling Co. (1917); Lynch-Pine Creek MC Lot# 1492 Colorado 1902 Colorado Fuel & (1944); North Bunker Hill MC, Ltd., (1917); and Signal MC (1953). Ken Iron Company Stock Certificates (2) Stock Prag Collection Est. $100-200 HWAC# 113888 certificates(2), from the Colorado Fuel and Iron Company. One is blank and unused. the other is Lot# 1499 Lemhi County, Idaho 1882 issued to George Fischer for 100 shares at $100 Consolidated Yankee Fork Gravel Mining per share. The signatures are illegible, but it’s dated April 16, 1902 and Co. Stock Certificate Located in Lemhi County, cancelled June 26, 1902. Please see photos for more detail. Ken Prag Idaho Territory (printed under title). No. 984, issued for 100 shares Collection Est. $100-150 HWAC# 127496 to JC Hall in 1882. Signed by the president (illegible) and secretary Parker. Not cancelled. Green border and seal, black print, and two Lot# 1493 Colorado Colorado Mining Stock allegorical vignettes. Printed by ABN. Pinholes, folds, toning. 7 x 11” Group (5) Nice group of five Colorado miners According to Burchard (1882), the company had 600 acres of gravel, includes: Gold Dollar Cons. Mining Company, average depth 60 ft. They were using a Little Giant or Monitor Chief 1905, Gold Hammer Mines & Tunnel Co. 1910, Sedalia Gold Mining with a 6-inch nozzle, 600 ft. of iron pipe, 2,000 cubic yards per day. Company, 1910, Golden Slipper Mining & Milling Company, mines They also have 1.5 miles of ditch and flume for water (pg. 191). Ken and mill at Puzzler, Boulder County, 1904 (dated on the back) plus a Prag Collection Est. $120-200 HWAC# 113879 mailing to shareholders, and The Moose Smelting & Refining Company, 1912. Stocks are in average condition. Some damage at the bottom on Lot# 1500 Shoshone County, Clearwater the Gold Hammer and a scotch tape repair on the front and back of the Mining District, Idaho 1891 Northern Pacific, Moose Smelting stock. Est. $200-400 HWAC# 129504 Montana & Idaho Placer Mining Co. Stock Inc. in Montana. No. 63, issued for 500 shares to H.P. Heacock in Missoula Lot# 1494 Colorado Colorado Stocks, in 1891. Signed by president L.R. Lothrop and secretary W. Klingberg. Document & Stereoview, All from the Not cancelled. Brown border and black print on tan paper. 7.25 x 11” 1800’s (4) Lot of 4 pieces includes: Vulcan Folds, holes in seal. Financed out of Missoula, Montana. In 1891, they Gold & Silver Mining Stock, Ouray, 1880; Highland Chief Cons. Mining were employing a large group of men at their 160 acre placer claim Company Stock, Leadville, 1879; a stereoview of a birdseye view of in the Clearwater Mining District, Shoshone County, Idaho. [Missoula Manitou, Colorado, Pike’s Peak in the Distance; and Aspen Mine Weekly Gazette, April 15, 1891] In May 1891, they reported finding letterhead, datelined Aspen, Colorado, 1891. All four pieces are in very numerous nuggets running as high as $6.50 a piece. Several thousand good condition. View photos. Est. $300-500 HWAC# 128889 feet of lumber was on order for sluicing efforts. Lothrop was division engineer for the Northern Pacific. Stuart Mackenzie Montana Mining Lot# 1495 Colorado 1877-1895 Great Collection Est. $100-200 HWAC# 129646 Colorado Mining Stock Group Lot of 6 good pieces. Includes: The Allied Mines (Ouray, Lot# 1501 Wallace, Idaho 1917-1948 Idaho 1881, not cxl, mining vignette); Osprey Consolidated Mill & Mining Mining Stocks Based in Wallace Lot of 8 Co. (Ouray, 1880, not cxl, two mining vignettes); Malachite Mining different. Included: Burnt Cabin Mining Co. Company of Colorado (Jefferson County, 1877, not cxl, mining (Coeur d’Alene, 1928); Inspiration Lead Co., Inc. (1929); C&R Mining vignette); Iron Hill Consolidated Mining Co. (Leadville, 1884, pen cxl., Co. (1922); New Jersey Cons. Mines Co. (1928); Rae-Wallace Mining mining vignette); and Fortunatus Mining & Milling Company (1895, Co. (uniss); Silver Summit Mining Co. (1937); Success Mining Co. Bald Mountain City, Wyoming, not cxl). Ken Prag Collection Est. $500- (1917); and Union Silver-Lead Mines, Inc. (1948). Ken Prag Collection 800 HWAC# 113983 Est. $100-120 HWAC# 113886 Lot# 1496 Colorado Three Colorado Mining Lot# 1502 Idaho 1906-1968 Idaho Mining Stocks and Bonds Lot includes an 1882 Stock Certificate Collection Lot of 25, many bond from London Mining Company, (NY). different. Includes: Baltimore Silver Lead The company owned the London and Hard-to-Beat patented claims Mines (1948); Blue Bell Mining Co. (1908); Boulder Mining Co. (1908); on London Mountain, seven miles from Alma. Also, a 1901 issued Caledonia Mining Co. (1910); Excelsior Mining Co. (1910); Florence certificate from the Canterbury Mining Company, Leadville and a Mining, Milling & Reduction Co. (uniss); Great Western Mining Co. bond from the Mono-Baltic Mining & Smelting Company, 1909. The (1906); Idaho-Champion Mining & Milling Co. (1908); Idawa Gold company operated near Ouray. Est. $200-400 HWAC# 128787 MC (1923); Idaho Copper Co. (1927); and more. Please inspect. Est. $- HWAC# 113885 54 February 2021

DAY 1 Thursday, Feb 11 Stocks Part 1: Mining Lot# 1503 Maine Maine Sienite Company Lot# 1508 Duluth, Minnesota 1893 Mining Stock, Rare and Early, 1836 The Rouchleau-Ray Iron Land Company Stock certificate was issued for two shares, #21 and Certificate Very attractive! Inc. in Minnesota. #22. The company was incorporated by the state of Maine in 1836. No. 23, issued for 200 shares to the company president and secretary Although, the certificate is undated, as there were 3000 authorized on Feb. 24th, 1893 in Duluth. Signed by president James D. Ray and shares, we can assume it was issued shortly after incorporation. secretary Robert Ray. Pen cancelled. Gold border, black print, and Great vignette of a long, wooden rampway witha crane at the top to three vignettes: miners next to windlass (left), eagle (center), and load the sienite. Sienite is an igneous rock containing hornblende miners walking with picks and shovels (right). Pinholes, light wear. 9 and feldspar. Red and gray granite and sienite have been used in x 11.5” This company owned the Rouchleau-Ray Mine, a property in pavements, stairways and lower part of walls. Sienite is also known the Mesabi Iron Range, a mining district in northeastern Minnesota. It as Syenite. It is not a common rock. In North America, it occurs in was purchased from the company by John D. Rockefeller and his Lake Arkansas, Montana and parts of New England. The certificate is small, Superior Consolidated Iron Mines Company in 1895/1896. Ken Prag about the size of currency. It is signed by Thomas Todd as president Collection Est. $150-250 HWAC# 107955 and Wm. H. Winslow as treasurer. We could find no instances of this certificate ever being sold in a scripophily auction. So very rare. Fold Lot# 1509 Minnesota 1905-1912 Minnesota lines. Uncanceled. Est. $600-1000 HWAC# 129486 & Michigan Mining Stock Trio Lot of 3 different. 1) Kin-E-Chy Mining & Milling Lot# 1504 Maryland 1838-91 Maryland Company. Inc. in AZ. No. 1397, issued for 250 shares in 1905 in Detroit, Mining Stocks Lot of 2 . 1. # 358 for 1 share Michigan. Not cancelled. Mining vignettes. Folds, separation. 2) Youngs to D Thomas Sewell. Signed by president River Company. Inc. in Minnesota. Issued in 1911, not cancelled. Folds, Matthew St. Clair Clarke (see below). Dateline heavy soiling. 3) Mt. Helen Development Company. Inc. in Minnesota. Washington 1838. Cut very unevenly. Rips Low number 3, issued for 450 shares in 1912 in Minneapolis. Folds, center left and lower left. Fair condition, but heavy soiling. Ken Prag Collection Est. $100-150 HWAC# 113967 very early and very important historically. Not cancelled. 2. Silver Bell Mining Company of Lot# 1510 Jackson County, Missouri Oronogo Garrett County Stock - Rare Maryland Silver Mining Company Stock, Missouri, 1899 Cert. MIning Certificate. # 7494 for 1 share to Henry #28, issued for 4 shares in 1899 to B.N. Simpson, M Broadwater. Signed by RR Matheny and auto signed by president and signed by C.A. Braley as vice president and Arthur Robinson as RM Boyd. Dateline 1891. Incorporated in 1891. Printed by The Review secretary. Jackson County printed on the corporate seal. Two mining of Lonaconing Missouri. Incorporated in West Virginia. Fred Holabird vignttes. The Oronogo Mining Company owned and operated lead and Collection Est. $70-100 HWAC# 129848 zinc producing mines in western Jasper County, southwest Missouri. The towns of Joplin, Webb, and Carterville are included in this area. Lot# 1505 Michigan 1920’s Michigan Copper Mining of lead and zinc ore began in the mid-1800s and included Mining Stock Certificate Stock cert issued by hundreds of mines and 17 smelters. This area of mining in Jasper and Mayflower Old Colony Copper Company for Newton Counties is known as the Tri-State Mining District. (Oronogo- three shares at $15 per share to Elroy Carter, Duenweg Mining Belt). Tiny tears in right margin repaired archivally dated June 23, 1922 and signed by president on the verso. Still, VF. View photos for closeups of condition. Est. H.F. Fay and secretary J. Morrisey. It appears $200-400 HWAC# 128888 to have been canceled on November 22, 1929. Please see photos for more details and Lot# 1511 Anaconda, Montana 1893 Red condition. Ken Prag Collection Est. $70-100 HWAC# 129782 Lion Mining & Reduction Company Stock Certificate Inc. in Montana Territory. No. 115, Lot# 1506 Michigan Mohawk Mining Co issued for 500 shares to Mrs. E. Syher in Anaconda in 1893. Signed by Stock, Rare Green Variety, Early Date, 1908 president JR Boyce Jr. and secretary FitzPatrick. Not cancelled. Fabulous Cert. #15359, issued for one share in 1908. design with red and gold border, black print, green background, and This is a rare green variety, issued very early. As such, it has the red underprint vignette of a lion’s head! Folds, creases. 6.75 x 10.75” quiver of arrows vignette, rather than the Indian Chief in later years. In 1889, it was reported that the Red Lion and Utopia Lodes had been The Mohawk Mining Company was a major copper mining company, transferred to this company, with plans to build a water-powered based in the Keweenaw Peninsula of Michigan, that was established in mill. The Red Lion Lode was located on Upper Flint Creek in Deer November 1898 and lasted until 1932. The company, between 1906 Lodge County. Given that “and Reduction” is crossed out on this stock, and 1932, paid out more than $15 million in shareholder dividends. perhaps the mill was not built? [The Butte Weekly Miner, Jan. 9, 1889] The Mine is best known for the large amounts of mohawkite that were Stuart Mackenzie Montana Mining Collection Est. $300-500 HWAC# 129581 found on the property. The Mohawk mine operated until 1932; in 1934 it was purchased by the Copper Range Company (oldcompany. Lot# 1512 Barker, Montana 1892 Silver Tip com). The certificate has stamp cancels and a few hole cancels. The Mining Company Stock Certificate ”Mines signatures are clear of Gay as president and Hundley as secretary VF. at Barker, Montana” (printed under title). Est. $400-800 HWAC# 129492 Principal Office in Great Falls. Inc. in Montana. No. 180, issued for 10,000 shares to Mary S. Jenkins in 1892. Signed by president Thos. Lot# 1507 Michigan Mohawk Mining Co Thomson and secretary Thomas Gahagan. Not cancelled. Black border Stock, Rare Orange Variety, Early Date, 1904 and print. Folds, creases, bent corner. 8 x 9.75” Barker is a ghost town Cert. #B2131, issued for 50 shares in 1904. located on Galena Creek in the Little Belt Mountains of Judith Basin This is the rare orange variety, issued very early. As such, it has the County, first discovered in 1879. In 1891, this company was sinking quiver of arrows vignette, rather than the Indian Chief in later years. a 50 ft. shaft on their property, and hoped that the Silver Tip was a The Mohawk Mining Company was a major copper mining company, continuation of the adjacent Top Hand claim. Iron carbonate ore with based in the Keweenaw Peninsula of Michigan, that was established in silver. [Great Falls Tribune, Nov. 1, 1891] Stuart Mackenzie Montana November 1898 and lasted until 1932. The company, between 1906 Mining Collection Est. $100-200 HWAC# 129582 and 1932, paid out more than $15 million in shareholder dividends. The Mine is best known for the large amounts of mohawkite that were found on the property. The Mohawk mine operated until 1932; in 1934 it was purchased by the Copper Range Company (oldcompany.com). The certificate has stamp cancels and hole cancels thru the signatures and at the top. VF. Est. $400-800 HWAC# 129491 View complete catalog, Register, and Bid online at FHWAC.com 55

DAY 1 Thursday, Feb 11 Stocks Part 1: Mining Lot# 1513 Basin, Montana 1890 Obelisk Lot# 1518 Broadwater County, Montana Mining & Concentrating Co. Stock Certificate 1886 Huron Gold Mining Company Stock Inc. in Montana. Low number 13, issued for Certificate Inc. in Montana Territory. No. 31, 1,000 shares to Thos. W. Poindexter in 1890 in Butte City. Signed by issued for 150 shares to McCutchen in Helena in 1886. Signed by president Frost and secretary Guy Pratt. Not cancelled. Blue print on president Henry Klein and the secretary. Not cancelled. Black print, yellow paper. Deep folds and creases. 7 x 10” Incorporated in 1890 by gold border and gold underprint mining vignette. Also Egyptian Poindexter, Frost, Pratt, and others to “operate on the Boulder river vignette on the left border. Printed by Geo. E. Boos, Helena. Folds, near Basin City.” [Butte Daily Post, Aug. 14, 1890] In 1893, the name small hole along one fold. 5.75 x 10.75” The company had property had changed to Eagle Mining & Concentrating Company, and the mine on Beaver Creek, and were seeing “$18 rock at its property” in 1888 manager had gone missing, leaving behind a bride and miners who [Philipsburg Mail, Jan. 26, 1888]. The Beaver Creek Mining District was were owed their paychecks. [Anaconda Standard, Jan. 22nd, 1893] located in Broadwater County. Stuart Mackenzie Montana Mining Collection Stuart Mackenzie Montana Mining Collection Est. $80-120 HWAC# 113859 Est. $100-150 HWAC# 129599 Lot# 1514 Beaverhead County, Montana Lot# 1519 Broadwater County, Indian Creek Beaverhead County Mining Stock Collection Mining District, Montana 1892 Standard Lot of seven. 1) New Departure Mining. # 243 Mining Company Stock Certificate ”Helena, for 500 shares to George W French. Signed Montana” printed under title. Inc. in Montana. No. 272, issued for by president E Norris. Underground mining 100 shares to Geo. H. Reed, Jr. in 1892. Signed by vice president WL vignette. Issued at Dillon in 1907. By 1910 it Vinson and secretary John W. Eddy. Not cancelled. Black border and was dead. 2) Pioneer Gold Mining and Milling. print. Deep folds with large tears, some soiling. 7 x 11” Operated the #62 for 100 shares. Three mining vignettes. Printed by “Tribune Pub. Patsywatomie and Tigonderago Mines in the Indian Creek District Co.” of Dillon. Also # 52 Argyle Silver of Vipond for #25,000 shares near the town of St. Louis (later renamed Hassel). The Indian Creek to WE Cullen 1920 signed by J Leggat, Montana Rex 1926 Bluewing mining district is located ten miles west of Townsend on the Northern (Dillon), # 140 Silver Spray Mining and Milling 1921, # 19 Argenta Pacific Railway. [The Anaconda Standard, Sept. 6th, 1890; https://deq. 1929, and an unissued Bannack Mines with great vignette of the mine mt.gov/Land/abandonedmines/linkdocs/35tech] Stuart Mackenzie and mill!!! Stuart Mackenzie Montana Railroad Collection Est. $80-120 Montana Railroad Collection Est. $80-120 HWAC# 127163 HWAC# 123971 Lot# 1520 Butte, Montana Amy & Silversmith Lot# 1515 Beaverhead County, Hecla, Montana Consolidated Mining Company Stock, Butte, 1898 Hecla Consolidated Mining Company Montana, 1898 # 248 for 56,956 shares to Stock Certificate Rare. No. 1049, issued for Marcus Daly. Endorsed by Margaret Daly on 303 shares to the Philadelphia Trust Safe Deposit & Insurance Co. reverese as trustee of the Marcus Daly estate. in Indianapolis in 1898. Signed by vice president John Wright and Known as one of the three “Copper Kings” of secretary McCutcheon. Not cancelled. Black print on thin paper. Butte, Montana. He gained experience in the Wm. E. Burford Lith, Indianapolis. Pinholes, folds, creases and a tape mines of the Comstock under the direction of repair. 4.25 x 9” Famous mining property at Hecla, above Lion City, in John Mackay and James Fair. While working in the mines of Virginia Beaverhead County. The town of Hecla was founded by the company City, Daly met and befriended George Hearst. Signed by Joseph Long in 1881. In February 1890, an avalanche struck the company property, and George W Irwin as president. Datelined Butte. Two underground killing two miners. Stuart Mackenzie Montana Mining Collection Est. $100- mining vignettes. Printed by Brueker & Kessler of Philadelphia. Many 200 HWAC# 129621 edge tears. Cancelled in red. Still a rare certificate issued to one of Montana’s most famous mining engineers. Stuart Mackenzie Montana Lot# 1516 Beaverhead County, Logan Mining Mining Collection Stuart Mackenzie Montana Ephemera Collection Est. District, Montana 1887 Big Hole Placer Mining $200-400 HWAC# 123861 Company Stock Certificate Great name for a mining company! Location: Logan Mining District, Beaver-head County, Lot# 1521 Butte, Montana Anaconda Copper Montana. Inc. in Utah Territory. Dateline Salt Lake City, May 18th, 1887. Mining Company, Butte, Montana - rare No. 280, issued for 1,000 shares to Jas. G Romney. Signed by J. Beattie specimen Stamped “Record& Specimen Dept.” (president) and P.A. Dix (secretary). Not cancelled. Vignette of placer Doubt if used as there is no place for signatures miner. Printer: Parker, Salt Lake City. 4.5” x 9.5” Folds and light stains. or dates. Stamped N163. Printed by American The company used water from Swamp Creek and Ruby Creek to work Bank Note Company. The Anaconda is probably hydraulic diggings on a rich bar near the Big Hole Battlefield site. [The Montana’s greatest mine and, arguably the New North-West, Oct. 9, 1885] The 1877 Battle of the Big Hole was most important copper mine in the United the largest battle fought between the Nez Perce and U.S. Government States. Stuart Mackenzie Montana Mining Collection forces in the five-month conflict known as the Nez Perce War. Stuart Est. $60-100 HWAC# 123877 Mackenzie Montana Railroad Collection Est. $100-200 HWAC# 127170 Lot# 1522 Butte, Montana Anaconda, Montana Mining Stock Group Lot of four. 1) Lot# 1517 Billings, Montana 1892 Boulder Nelson Mining Company. Number 2 for 50,000 Chief Mining Company Stock Certificate shares to Patrick Cuddihy. Signed by president ”War Eagle Mountain” printed in gold under FL St. Jean and J Vantrin. Dateline Anaconda, the title. Inc. in Montana. No. 130, issued for 4,000 shares to Fred Dec. 16, 1916. 2) Moose Lake Mining Company. Sweetman in Billings in 1892. Signed by president Philip M. Gallaher # 87 for 200 shares to George Manier(?). and secretary W. Ennus. Not cancelled. Green border, black and gold Signed by WA Bower president. Dateline print, gold seal, and purple vignette of Native American on horseback. Anaconda July 7, 1906. 2) Butte and Anaconda Consolidated. # 345 Gazette Print, Billings, Montana. Deep folds. 6.75 x 10” The Boulder for 100 shares to Lina Best. Signed by vice president Keppler. 1927. 4) Chief Mining Company owned the Ida M lode in the Cataract Mining Unissued Black Diamond Coal Mining Company. # 314. c190-. Listed District, Jefferson County. [Butte Daily Post, May 13, 1890] War Eagle as ‘Anaconda, Montana’ under company name! Stuart Mackenzie Montana Mountain is located in Park County, Montana. It is unclear if there was Railroad Collection Est. $80-150 HWAC# 123977 a separate Boulder Chief MC in Park County. Stuart Mackenzie Montana Mining Collection Est. $100-200 HWAC# 127178 56 February 2021

DAY 1 Thursday, Feb 11 Stocks Part 1: Mining Lot# 1523 Butte, Montana 1900-1909 Butte Lot# 1528 Butte, Montana 1910-1940 Butte, 190- Mining Stock Collection # 1 Includes Montana Mining Collection (#1) Lot of 1) the beautiful Reines Copper Company of fifteen. Circa 1910 through the 1930’s. Includes Butte. Red and green, # 18 in 1907. 2) British Butte and London Copper Development Butte MC with British three pence stamp tax. Company, 1916 at Greendale Placer east of 3) Butte-Consolidated Copper 1907. Letter was Butte. 2) Butte & Great Falls, 1916located in not returned in 1910/11. Presumed defunct. 4) British Continental the Lost Child Mining District northeast of Butte. 3) Butte - Elk Park Copper 1910. Reported idle in 1910. 5) East Butte Extension Copper Extension 1917 and 1921. Bankrupt by 1926. Leased the Ardsely. Also 1906. Idle since July 20, 1909. Also Butte & London Copper 1906, # 4 Anderson 1916, # 1 Butte-Deer Lodge 1916, # 18 Butte Pacific Butte Exemption Copper 1913, Butte and Barorn Copper 1906 and 1912, # 15 Butte Ramsdell Copper 1919, # 23 Silver Butte Mines 1920, two different Parrot Silver and Copper 1908 and 1907. [Notes from Butte Independent Mines orange 1928.,Butte Independent Mines the Copper Handbook] Stuart Mackenzie Montana Railroad Collection Est. green 1936, Butte Montana 1937, Butte Highlands 1938, and Butte $200-400 HWAC# 123981 Olive Branch 1929 (Summit district). [Notes from Copper handbook] Stuart Mackenzie Montana Railroad Collection Est. $200-400 HWAC# 123979 Lot# 1524 Butte, Montana 1907-1909 Butte 190- Mining Stock Collection # 2 Lot of ten. Lot# 1529 Butte, Montana 1915-1929 Butte, Includes 1) Butte South Zone Mining. Early # 5 Montana Mining Collection (#1) Lot of for 1 share to John Redlich. Signed by CA Lloyd. thirteen. Includes Butte-Bullwhacker 1915, 1907. 2) Reins Copper 1906. 1910/11 Copper Butte and Zenith City 1915, Butte Ramsdell Handbook reported 2,061 tons of ore with 4.7% Copper 1919, Butte and New England Copper copper. “Condition is apparently hopeless!” 3) 1919, # 13 West Butte Silver 1919. 1920’s North Butte Summit Copper 1908. Idle since organization. 4) Butte certificates are Butte Copper Czar, # 12 Butte-Chicago Copper, Ardsley and Crobin Consolidated. In October 909 they started a new tunnel. Butte, Ardsley-Butte Extension, Butte and Isele Consolidated (two Butte in title. Also # 21 Butte and Yellow Mountain 1907, South different), Butte Independent Mines, and # 11 Butte-Elk Park Stuart Butte Copper 1907, Butte and Yerington Copper 1908, Butte Copper Mackenzie Montana Railroad Collection Est. $200-400 HWAC# 123980 Mining & Smelting 1905, Butte Copper Exploration 1906 and Butte and Barorn Copper 1907 signed by Barorn. [Notes from the Copper Lot# 1530 Butte, Montana 1905-1968 Butte, handbook] Stuart Mackenzie Montana Railroad Collection Est. $200-400 Montana Mining Stock Certificate Collection HWAC# 123982 Lot of 23 different. Varying condition, please inspect. Includes: Parrot Silver & Copper Co. (1901); Butte & London Lot# 1525 Butte, Montana 1901 Butte Copper Dev. Co. (1916); Butte & London Copper Co. (1906); Anaconda Mining & Development Company Stock, Co. (1967, 1968); Anaconda Copper MC (1932-1961); Anaconda Colorful green, orange, black, red and white Mining & Milling Co. (1935); Black Diamond Coal MC (uniss); Boston- Montana Mining Corp. (1921-26); British Butte MC (1907); Butte- certificate # 399 for 100 shares to Richardson Argenta Copper Co. (1906); and others. Ken Prag Collection Est. $200- Hill in 1901. Signed by CM Hoyer and Lee 400 HWAC# 113887 Mautte. Incorporated in New Jersey. Liberty & Prosperity seal vignette. Slight dog ear upper Lot# 1531 Butte, Montana Butte, Montana right. Otherwise no edge, corner, hole or Mining Stock Collection Lot of ten. 1) Copper discoloration issues. 25 cent documentary stamp on reverse. Signed Eagle 1910. Bright orange. 2) Butte Silver by Hill. Issued on March 6, 1901. On February 7, 1901 the Livingston Copper. 1917. Number 24 for 2,500 shares Enterprise had an ad for this mine - If you can’t own a mine, why not to CF and SC Lynch. Signed by president invest in one! The company owned the Emma Mine. Stuart Mackenzie Hatchings. 3) Pittsburgh and Montana Copper. Montana Mining Collection Stuart Mackenzie Montana Ephemera Collection # 1663 in 1906. Through 1910 production Est. $60-120 HWAC# 123862 showed790,600 pounds of fine copper. 81,911 ounces of silver and Lot# 1526 Butte, Montana 1889-1913 Butte 1,422 ounces of gold. 4) Vermillion Placer. 1904. 5) Alliance Copper. # 124 in 1906. Signed by president Don Campbell. Company had a Mining Products Stock Certificate Pair Lot of small acreage. Idle by 1910. 6) Colusa-Leonard Extension. # 278 in 2 different. 1) Montana Fire-Clay Company. No. 1907. One mile east of the Colusa Leonard Mine. Idle since 1907. 7) 34, issued for 500 shares to George Alchoff in Butte in 1889. Signed Bullwhacker Copper Company. 1906. President was W. A. Clark. Signed by president Bradshaw and secretary James Leahy. Stamp cancelled. by vice president MJ O’Farrell. Reported Idle since 1907. 8) Pauper’s Beautiful multi-colored certificate with red, blue, and orange plus a Dream. 3 299 in 1907. 9) Ardsely Butte Mines Corporation. 1929. vignette of a bald eagle. Inter-Mountain Print. Folds, some soiling on 10) Montana Copper. # 827 in 1900. Stamped reissued.[Notes from reverse. Mines at Thompson Falls. 2) Jacob Nielsen Square Hole Auger the Copper Handbook] Stuart Mackenzie Montana Railroad Collection Est. Company. No. 73, issued for 50,000 shares to president Jacob Nielsen $200-400 HWAC# 123976 in 1913. Not cancelled. Orange border and seal, allegorical vignette. Deep folds. Stuart Mackenzie Montana Mining Collection Est. $120-200 Lot# 1532 Butte, Montana Butte, Montana HWAC# 129633 Stock Group Lot of six. 1) NUMBER 1 Montana Lot# 1527 Butte, Montana 1905-1927 Butte Yerington Copper. 1932. Issued to and signed by president C.S. Jackman. Seal vignette. Montana Mining Stock Collection Lot of 2-3) Blue and red Davis-Daley Copper. 1912. eight. Includes Silversmith Mining # 31, 1905. Dividend stamp on front. 4) Treasure State Signed by John Lloyd. Also two different Davis- Mining. 1903. Issued to LH Stanhope and signed by president BW Daly Copper Company stocks. 1918, 1924. # 11 Wilson. Butte listed in seal. 5) Ramsey Canyon Copper. # 464. 1918. Montana Metals 1910, # 93 Flume Gulch 1927, Issued to John Redlich and signed by president George H Scott. 1918. # 60 Montana Continental Development 1915, Orange. 6) A rather unique Pauper’s Dream located at Dreamland, Montana Zinc 1917, Ramsey Canyon Copper 1918 (Tear upper right). Stuart Mackenzie Montana Railroad Collection Est. Montana (all self-identified). Main office was in Butte. # 30. 1910. $100-150 HWAC# 123968 Steam train rolling through a valley vignette. We are not sure exactly where this mine was located. Stuart Mackenzie Montana Railroad Collection Est. $70-120 HWAC# 123974 View complete catalog, Register, and Bid online at FHWAC.com 57

DAY 1 Thursday, Feb 11 Stocks Part 1: Mining Lot# 1533 Butte, Montana 1920 Butte- Lot# 1539 Butte, Montana 1889 North Star Montana Corp. Silver Mine Stock Cert and Salsbury Mining Company Stock, Butte Stock certificate issued by Boston-Montana Montana with MARCUS DALY connection Corporation, a copper and silver mining Very early # 4 to Burnett for 18,749 shares. operation, headquartered in Butte, Montana. Signed by Geo. H Tong and president JA Murray. It’s issued to John Brown for one share at $25 Dateline Butte, Nov. 20, 1889. Mountain and per share. It’s dated April 30, 1920 and signed valley scene vignette. Western Bank Note by secretary CE Gallup and president, W.R. Allen. No cancelation printer. Small tear and very light discoloration upper right. Extremely apparent. Please see photos for more detail and condition. Ken Prag nice. The Engineering and Mining Journal of January 31, 1891 noted Collection Est. $50-100 HWAC# 128958 that a two foot vein of 50 ounce ore had been hit. This mine had been given up for dead until MARCUS DALY took it over. He needed water Lot# 1534 Butte, Montana 1895 Columbia for his Anaconda Mine and started pumping the liquid that had caused Gold Mining Company Stock Certificate this mine to cease operation. So much water was pumped out, mining ”Butte, Montana” printed in gold below title. could once again be attempted. Stuart Mackenzie Montana Mining Collection Inc. in Montana. Low number 17, issued for 100 shares to secretary Est. $150-300 HWAC# 123881 Louis E. Best on Oct. 5th, 1895. Signed by Best and president Henry Mueller. Not cancelled. Gorgeous certificate with black border Lot# 1540 Butte, Montana 1884 Stevens Gold and print, company name in gold lettering, and an underground & Silver Mining Company Stock Certificate mining vignette. Pinholes, deep folds. 8.25 x 10” The company was Organized under the laws of Montana Territory. incorporated in 1895 for mining and smelting business in Butte and No. 580, issued for 500 shares to Jos. Long in Butte City, in 1884. the whole state of Montana. Stuart Mackenzie Montana Mining Collection Signed by president Alfred Wartenweiler and secretary M. Davis. Not Est. $100-200 HWAC# 127176 cancelled. Black border and print, gray seal, and two vignettes: miners using drill (center) and allegorical woman with harp (left). Printed by Lot# 1535 Butte, Montana 1905 Elm Orlu HC Kessler, Butte. Folds. 8 x 10.5” This company owned the Stevens Mining Company Stock signed by W. A. Mine at Butte. Marcus Daly was one of the company directors. “The Clark, Butte, Montana NUMBER 2 for William Stevens Mine is one of the richest and most prominent mines in the A. Clark Jr. Signed by president W. A. Clark. district, with a strong vein of rich ore well developed below water For 49,980 shares. Date is not listed on stock, level.” [The Butte Miner, April 28, 1881] Stuart Mackenzie Montana Mining but the company was incorporated in 1905 Collection Est. $200-400 HWAC# 129622 making a #2 stock 1905. Fancy scroll work. Underground mining vignette. By September Lot# 1541 Butte, Montana 1890-1893 Two of 1906 only surface work had been done with a shaft of five feet. In Different Butte Mining Stocks: Argentine August of 1907 a 6’ vein was reached at the 500’ level. Work progress MC and Alps MC Lot of 2 different. 1) The was readily available in the local paper through 1910, but little to Argentine Mining Company. Inc. in Montana. No. 206, issued for 1,000 no production was given. It seemed to be a zinc mine. [Anaconda shares to EH Bruce in Butte in 1890. Signed by president J. Kloffki Standard] Stuart Mackenzie Montana Railroad Collection Est. $200-400 and secretary Dunbar. Not cancelled. Brown border, black print, and HWAC# 123978 two vignettes: miners with headlamps (bottom center) and Native American on horseback (upper left). Pinholes, folds. Operated the Lot# 1536 Butte, Montana 1913 Jacob Grand Republic Mine. 2) Alps Mining Company. Inc. in Montana. No. Nielsen Square Hole Auger Company Stock 331, issued for 25,000 shares to vice president John Caplice in 1893. Certificate Inc. in Montana. No. 71, issued Signed by Calpice and the secretary. Not cancelled. Green border, for 100,000 shares to company president (and namesake) Jacob brown print. Deep folds, creases, rough edges. Mining operations near Nielsen in Butte in 1913. Also signed by secretary Edward Hounsell. Harvey Creek in Deer Lodge County. Stuart Mackenzie Montana Mining Not cancelled. Orange border and seal, black print, and allegorical Collection Est. $180-300 HWAC# 127174 vignette. McKee Printing Co. 8.25 x 11” Deep folds. Stuart Mackenzie Montana Mining Collection Est. $50-100 HWAC# 129647 Lot# 1542 Butte, Montana 1892-1899 Two Different Butte Mining Stocks: Salsbury MC Lot# 1537 Butte, Montana 1902 Montana and Brooklyn MC Lot of 2 different. Both self- Mining Loan and Investment Company $1.00 identified. 1) Salsbury Mining Company. Inc. in Montana. Low number and two 50c Currency The Butte Land and 6, issued for 299,995 shares (of the 300,000) to Andrew J. Davis on Investment Company was a real estate, insurance March 14th, 1892 in Butte City. Signed by president Geo. H. Tong and and investment brokerage in Butte, Montana. secretary Joseph Oettinger. Pen cancelled. Black border and print on Affiliated companies including the Brooklyn blue paper. Torn left border, glue on reverse, staining. 2) Brooklyn Mining Company; Daly Addition Company; Gibson Mining Company. Low number 10, issued for 33,334 shares to Arthur Ranch Company; Montana Land and Securities Worwick on July 10th, 1899 in Butte City. Signed by president Kemper Company; Salmon River Mining and Smelting and secretary ES Shields. Pen cancelled. Identical design as other. Company; South Park Mining and Realty Company; Three revenue stamps. Folds, tape repairs, some separation. Stuart Washington-Butte Mining Company; and Western Fuel Company. Mackenzie Montana Railroad Collection Est. $150-250 HWAC# 127155 $1.00 dated March 20, 1902. The two 50c pieces dated June 20, 1902 and April 21, 1902. All stamped on back, “Peter Ruff, Agent, cor. Main Lot# 1543 Butte, Montana 1890-1896 Two and Washington.” Good to Nice condition. Stuart Mackenzie Montana Different Butte Mining Stocks: The Princess Railroad Collection Est. $80-120 HWAC# 123989 and Jefferson MC Lot of 2 different issued in Butte. 1) The Princess Gold & Silver Mining & Smelting Co. of Montana. Lot# 1538 Butte, Montana Montana Mining No. 126, issued for 2,000 shares to F.P. Gable in 1890 in Butte City. stocks with Butte in the Dateline or Title Signed by the president and secretary. Not cancelled. Red print on Lot of eight. 1) 1893 Butte & Boston gold white background.Folds, some toning. Possibly located in the Castle bond. Unissued. 1892. Number 12 Rob Hill. Mountain District. 2) Jefferson Mining Company. Mine office in Butte. 1918. Number 148 Montana Mining 1917. Mines located in Lemhi County, Idaho. Low number 8, issued for 4,000 Number 21 Lizzie Leasing and Development shares to Alex. Johnstone in 1896 in Butte. Signed by president EM 1912. Number 136 Conda Mining 1919. Two Trask and secretary Henry W. Trask. Not cancelled. Maroon border, different Boton and Montana 1917 and 1922. Tuolumne Copper 1916. black print, and mining vignette. Folds, tape repaired separations. Stuart Mackenzie Montana Railroad Collection Est. $140-250 HWAC# 123975 Stuart Mackenzie Montana Mining Collection Est. $120-200 HWAC# 113858 58 February 2021

DAY 1 Thursday, Feb 11 Stocks Part 1: Mining Lot# 1544 Butte, Montana 1888-1898 Two Lot# 1548 Castle, Montana 1890 Cumberland Different Butte, Montana Issued Mining Mining & Smelting Company Stock Stocks Lot of 2 different. 1) Volunteer Mining Certificate Very attractive. Inc. in Montana. Company. No. 34, issued for 1,000 shares to Sophronius Marchesseau in “Castle, Montana” printed below vignette. No. 300, issued for 750 Butte in 1888. Signed by the president (Kenyon) and secretary (Clark). shares to E.G. Bailey in 1890. Signed by president Ash and secretary Not cancelled. Ornate brown border, black print, and blue background. J. Anderson. Not cancelled. Black border and print, orange seal and Folds, old sticker attached in corner on reverse. The Volunteer Mine underprint. Vignette of mines and mills on a hillside. Printed by Geo. adjoined the Anselmo and was near the famous Gagnon in Butte. 2) Barnard & Co., St. Louis. Folds, curled corner, small tear on bottom left Zenith Gold Mining Company. Mines located in Madison Co., Montana border. 8 x 11” The Castle Mountains District is located in the Castle (printed under title). No 171, issued for 850 shares to Felix Balinger Mountains SW of White Sulphur Springs. Initial discoveries were in in Butte in 1898. Signed by president JM Merrill and the secretary. Not the mid-1880s. Prospectors located about 1500 claims, of which 15 cancelled. Green border and seal, three mining vignettes. Deep folds to 20 became significant producers of primarily lead and silver, with with some separation, toning. Stuart Mackenzie Montana Mining Collection some copper, gold, manganese and iron. The most important, the Est. $150-300 HWAC# 129649 Cumberland Mine, was the state’s largest producer of lead in 1891. High transportation costs cut into mine profits, and the financial Lot# 1545 Butte, Montana 1886-1890 Two panic of 1893 dealt the final blow to the isolated district. (Roby 1950; Different Mining Stocks Issued in Butte Winters 1968; Wolle 1963). Stuart Mackenzie Montana Mining Collection incl. Handwritten Stock Lot of 2 different. Est. $150-200 HWAC# 113868 1) Interesting handwritten stock for the James B. Leahy Real Estate, Mining and Commission Company. Stock no. 1, issued to company Lot# 1549 Castle, Montana Great Eastern secretary M.S. Greene for one share in Butte City in 1886. Signed by Mining Company Stock, Castle, Montana, Leahy as president and Green as secretary. Not cancelled. 6 x 9.5” Seal 1897 # 232 for 1,300 shares to Elizabeth imprint. Toning, soiling around edges. 2) New State Mining Company. Chambers. Signed by JT Anderson and “Property Situated at Oro Fino Mining District, Deer Lodge County, president Ben Bevis(?). Dateline Feb. 2, 1897. Montana” (printed under title). No. 302, issued for 5,000 shares to Black with green underprint and border. Geo. Caleb E. Irvine in Butte in 1890. Signed by the president (illegible) and Barnard of Chicago printer. Four mills below sect. Newell. Not cancelled. Black border and print, vignette of miners a mountain with road going up to mines. using a drill. Folds, creases. 6 x 9.75” Stuart Mackenzie Montana Railroad Incorporated in 1890. Nicks at fold edges, some wrinkling. Overall Collection Est. $150-200 HWAC# 127166 nice! Located in the New World district. It seems a new effort to work the mine came in 1898. A new Steam hoist was purchased that year Lot# 1546 Butte City, Montana Two c1889 for the mine. Stuart Mackenzie Montana Mining Collection Est. $150-250 Butte City, Montana Stock Certificates 1) HWAC# 123885 Capital Gold Mining Company. Number 17 for 8,600 shares to JL Gessler trustee. Signed by Lot# 1550 Castle, Montana 1890 Jumbo Gessler and president. Stamp cancelled. No Mining Company with rather unique vignette. Light wrinkling on right side. Otherwise no edge, corner Elephant in African Desert vignette # or discoloration issues. 2) Glengarry Mining and Milling Company. 188 for 250 shares to ES Bailey. Signed by Number 76 for 2000 shares to JV Long. Signed by president Kenyon. president Severance and L Penny. Datelined Semi-nude allegorical woman flying on bird vignette. Cancelled in Castle, Montana, Cot. 20, 1890. “transferred red. Light discoloration bottom left . Folds. Other all very nice look from certificate 58.” Black with brown safety cert. In 1879 Long owned a general merchandise store in Walkerville. paper. Vertical folds. No edge, corner, pin hole Walkerville was described “1/2 mile beyond Butte is the little hamlet or discoloration issues. Extremely nice. The Jumbo Mining Company, of Walkerville.” He was also a member of the Washington Guards. of White Sulphur Springs, Montana, was incorporated in 1890 by Stuart Mackenzie Montana Mining Collection Est. $150-250 HWAC# 123883 Cyrus R. Chapin, Charles E. Severance, John R. Lewis, Len Lewis and Jacob T. Gove. The company was capitalized at $5,000,000. In 1895, Lot# 1547 Butte, Summit Valley Mining the company was reorganized as the Jumbo Mining and Development District, Montana 1882 Vulcan Mining Company and the capitalization was reduced to $428,000 in $1 shares. Company Stock Certificate Location: Summit [Archives West online] Stuart Mackenzie Montana Mining Collection Est. Valley Mining District, Butte, Montana (printed under title). Inc. in $300-500 HWAC# 123872 New York. No. 100, issued for 10,000 shares to trustee WC Child in 1882 in New York. Signed by president C.T. Child, treasurer Charles Lot# 1551 Castle, Montana 1891 Rare Miller, and secretary Geo. Child. Not cancelled. Ornate border and title, Mary Anderson Mining Company Stock black print. Printed by FC Philbrick & Co., Boston. Folds and creases. of Castle Montana, 1891 Early number 12 6.5 x 10.5” The company owned the Tecumseh Mine. In Dec. 1880, for 10,000 shares to R. Ashworth. Signed by rich ore was taken from the mine and sold to the Colorado Smelting president Henry Rowly and Henry Burton. Company for $260/ton. In 1882, they encountered a 2-foot thick pay Dateline Billings 1891. Incorporated 1890. streak at the 130 ft. level, assaying in the hundreds. They were working Underground mining vignette. Printed by towards the Star West Lode. [The Butte Miner, March 13, 1881; The Guglar Litho. of Milwaukee. Slight dog ear upper right. Otherwise no Independent-Record, Jan. 25, 1882] Stuart Mackenzie Montana Mining corner, edge, holes or discoloration issues. Near perfect. Fancy title Collection Est. $200-400 HWAC# 129574 bar. Maroon and black on yellow background. Different look. The Castle Mining district was in Meagher County. Stuart Mackenzie Montana Mining Collection Est. $120-150 HWAC# 123875 View complete catalog, Register, and Bid online at FHWAC.com 59

DAY 1 Thursday, Feb 11 Stocks Part 1: Mining Lot# 1552 Cody, Montana 1902 Alice E. Lot# 1557 Deer Lodge County, Montana 1866 Mining Company Stock: Location of Mines: Montana Mining Claims Stock Certificate- Cooke City, Montana Territory # 373 for -Number 1 Very early! The company’s 650 shares to Fred S. Mayer on Nov. 26, 1902. properties are listed on the certificate: a 100 ft. silver claim on the Signed by vice president James K Marsh and Washoe Lode in Bannak[sic.] District and a 100 ft. gold claim on the secretary Alexander Dowling(?). Underground Spring Hill Lode in Deer Lodge County. Stock number one, issued to mining vignette. Underprint $10.00 in gold. Darius Lyman for one share on May 12th, 1866 in Philadelphia. Signed Incorporated in Kentucky and printed by by Hiram Torrey and Harvey Sturderant. Not cancelled. Black border Louisville Lithograph and Bank. Top right corner torn. Hole punched and print, with red vignette at top and Native American and mining for storage. Otherwise quite fine. The earliest information we could vignettes on either side. Printed by Loag. 5 cent adhesive revenue find on this property was 1882. It seems it was in an out of court and stamp attached at bottom center. Deep folds and creases, a few holes changed hands many times. Little to no production was recorded in the signature. 8.5 x 10.75” No other information located. Stuart [newspapers.com] Stuart Mackenzie Montana Mining Collection Stuart Mackenzie Montana Mining Collection Est. $500-1000 HWAC# 129617 Mackenzie Montana Ephemera Collection Est. $200-300 HWAC# 123859 Lot# 1558 Deer Lodge County, Cable, Montana Lot# 1553 Deer Lodge, Montana c1900-1910 1889 Golden Gate Mining Company Stock Deer Lodge Mining Stock Collection Lot of Certificate ”Mines & Works Located in Deer Seven. 1) # 7 French Gulch for 500 shares to Lodge County, Montana” (printed at bottom center). Inc. in Montana. George Gallup. Signed by president WR Allen No. 257, issued for 5,000 shares to JV Long in Helena, M.T., 1889. and Mahoney. Eagle vignette. 1910. Nice green Signed by president John Noyes and secretary FF Irvine. Not cancelled. underprint. cancelled. 2) Cable Ontario Mining. Black border and print on yellow paper, nice company logo. Folds. 7.5 # 18 for 9,499 shares to Mr. Ella Roller. 1910. x 10.5” The company operated at Cable, Deer Lodge County. In 1889, Dateline Bute. 3) Cable Consolidated. # 4843 for they were sinking a 200 ft. shaft on the Golden Gate property, adjacent 200 shares to Mrs. Norah Lynch. 1907. Bright orange and in excellent to the Cable Mine. [Butte Weekly Miner, June 26, 1889] In 1891, they condition. The settlement began when three prospectors made camp filed patents for the Golden, Black Diamond, and Stirton lodes. Stuart here in 1867. Today it is a ghost town. 4-7) Four unissued Deer Lodge Mackenzie Montana Mining Collection Est. $150-300 HWAC# 129587 Stocks (three self-identified) #30 Hidden Hand, # 23 Pioneer Placer, # 109 Independence Gold Mining and Milling and # 30 Dempsey Creek Lot# 1559 Deer Lodge County, Flint Creek Water with Washingtonand Lincoln vignettes. Stuart Mackenzie Montana District, Montana 1887 San Francisco Railroad Collection Est. $80-120 HWAC# 123973 Consolidated Mining Company Stock Certificate Inc. in the Territory of Montana. No. 562, issued for 100 Lot# 1554 Deer Lodge County, Montana 1886, shares to Jno. W. Dawson in St. Louis in 1887. Signed by the president 1930 Blackfoot Mining & Milling Company (GJ Plant) and secretary (LM Kennett). Not cancelled. Striking design Stock Pair Lot of 2 different. This company with bold company logo, black print. Stephens Litho. & Eng. Co., St. was headquartered in Helena with mining operations in Deer Lodge Louis. Deep folds, some stains on reverse. 7.25 x 10.25” The company County. 1) No. 121, issued for 2,166 shares to Earl Clarke in Helena, owned the ED Holland lode claim in the Flint Creek Mining District M.T., July 17th, 1886. Signed by president Moris and secretary Clayberg. of Deer Lodge County, about one mile east of Philipsburg. This claim Not cancelled. Black border and print, orange background, and mine was situated between the Marie lode and Little Tom lode. [Philipsburg drilling vignette. Many folds and creases, some toning and soiling. 2) Mail, March 22, 1888] Stuart Mackenzie Montana Mining Collection Est. Low number 12, issued for 1,000 shares to JA Stone in 1930. Signed by $120-200 HWAC# 129589 president Ferguson and sect. Ferguson. Not cancelled. Orange border and seal, black print, and unique vignette featuring ore car train. Folds, Lot# 1560 Deer Lodge County, Granite, light wear. Stuart Mackenzie Montana Railroad Collection Est. $150-200 Montana 1891 Elizabeth Mining Co. Stock HWAC# 127159 Certificate w/ Morgan Dollar Vignettes Highly sought after. Inc. in Montana. No. 4234, issued for 100 shares Lot# 1555 Deer Lodge County, Montana to Gaylord, Blessing & Co. in St. Louis in 1891. Signed by the president 1888 Carbonate King Mining Company (LM Rumsey) and assistant secretary. Stamp for dividends paid. Stock Certificate Rare. Inc. in the Territory of Brown border and print. Vignettes of the obverse and reverse of and Montana. No. 55, issued for 500 shares to John Shober in Helena, 1888. 1889 Morgan silver dollar. Folds. 7.75 x 10” Buxton & Skinner, St. Signed by president J.C. Cramer and the secretary. Not cancelled. Black Louis. This company took over the West Granite Mining Company border and print, gold seal, and vignette of a mill next to a river. Folds, properties at Granite. According to an 1891 Report by the Inspector large stains, soiling, old tape repair. 8.5 x 11” The company filed a of mines, the superintendent was W.D. Dodds. In 1891, the mine had placer claim in Deer Lodge County in 1892. [Anaconda Standard, May a 3 compartment shaft down 470 feet. The company had 14 miners 5, 1892] In 1899, the company was bought by Pennsylvania interests. on its payroll. Stuart Mackenzie Montana Mining Collection Est. $150-250 At that time, it consisted of 9 quartz patented claims and 160 acres on HWAC# 129613 the Little Blackfoot, 3 miles south of Elliston. [Independent-Record, Mar 30, 1899] Stuart Mackenzie Montana Mining Collection Est. $180-300 Lot# 1561 Fergus County, Maiden, Montana HWAC# 129583 1885 Maginnis Mining Company Stock Signed by Montana Governor Inc. in Lot# 1556 Deer Lodge County, Montana 1888 Montana. No. 36, issued for 335 shares to secretary Geo. H. Hill Deer Lodge Mining & Reduction Company in Helena in 1885. Signed by S.T. Hauser as president and Hill as Stock Certificate Choice. “Deer Lodge County, secretary. Not cancelled. Black border and print, green background. Montana Territory” (printed at top center). Inc. in Montana. No. 152, Western BN& Eng, Chicago. Folds. 6.5 x 9.5” Samuel Thomas Hauser issued for 500 shares to Thomas Hemmerle on April 14th, 1888. Signed was the seventh governor of Montana Territory, appointed by Grover by president Conrad Kohrs and secretary HH Zenor. Not cancelled. Cleavland, and serving 1885-1887. He was a prominent mining and Brown border and print. Two vignettes: miners underground (top businessman in Montana, founding the First National Bank of Helena. center) and building on a hill (bottom center). Pioneer Press Co., St. The Maginnis Mining Company operated properties at Maiden (now a Paul. Deep folds, creases. 8.25 x 10.5” Organized in 1887. Owned the ghost town). Their properties included the Kentucky Favorite, Comet, well-known Nonpareil and Ironclad lodes in the Boulder District. The and Keystone. [Billings Herald, Nov. 1st, 1884] Stuart Mackenzie Montana Nonpareil had a carbonate silver and lead ore body 50 feet wide. “The Mining Collection Est. $100-150 HWAC# 129602 property is one of the best prospects in the Territory.” [New North- West, Dec. 2, 1887] Stuart Mackenzie Montana Mining Collection Est. $150- 200 HWAC# 129618 60 February 2021

DAY 1 Thursday, Feb 11 Stocks Part 1: Mining Lot# 1562 Granite County, Montana Granite Lot# 1567 Helena, Montana 1880s-90s County Mining Stock Colelction Lot of Helena Datelined Unissued Mining Stock thirteen. Includes colorful Albion Copper Collection, pre-1900 Lot of 11 different. Mining Company. Green and red. #236 for 1000 While unissued, these can help fill holes in your collection. Sometimes, shares to AN Wallace. Listed as idle for several only unissued pieces are known. Includes: Helena Mining & Stock years in 1910. 2) Bright blue Windfall Mining. Exchange (1880s); Gold Hill & Lee Mountain MC (1880s); Overland # 31 for 400 shares to Dr. CK Cole. 3) 1903 Cons. GMC (1890s); Middle Fork MC (1880s); Montana Gold & Gem Crescent Gold Mining Company. 4) Red and black Albion Copper. 1912, MC (1890s); Alhambra Flume & Mercantile Co. (1880s); Jay Gould MC; Unissued to Henry Rottmar and signed by AJ Violette and Christian Basin Mining & Concentrating Co. (1890s); Inter-State MC (1890s); (?). 5) Orange Gold Creek 1930. Also Butte-Garnet Consolidated of Boulder Smelting Co. (1890s); and Blackfoot M&MC (1880s). Stuart Garnet. From Maxville: three different Maxville Gold and Silver Mining Mackenzie Montana Saloon Billhead Collection Est. $150-200 HWAC# 129572 and Development. From Philipsburg: Mondamin, Swastika, and Beaver Creek. Also a Keystone Gold and Copper, # 93 early 1900 ‘s or later Lot# 1568 Helena, Montana 1884 Helena 1890’s. [Notes from Copper Handbook] Stuart Mackenzie Montana Mining and Reduction Company Stock, Railroad Collection Est. $160-300 HWAC# 123966 1884, Montana # 500 for 5,000 shares to DC Corbin. Signed by John W Busk--- and Lot# 1563 Great Falls, Montana 1891 Two president Hanson. Underground mining Mining Stocks Issued in Great Falls, Montana vignette with horse drawn ore cart. Black Lot of 2 different. 1) Lexington Consolidated print, brown border and brown safety paper. Mining Company. “Mines at Neihart, Mont.” (printed under title). No. Strange certificate seal? One inch tear upper left fold. Wrinkles and 37, issued for 500 shares to EW Grew in Great Falls in 1891. Signed another smaller tear. Overall nice. A successful smelter operation was by president Edward G. Hanson and secretary HH Harrison. Not built at Wickes by the Helena Mining and Reduction Company in which cancelled. Brown border, black print. Pinholes, folds, some toning. 2) processed ores from the surrounding mines as well as from districts The Brown-Eyed Queen Mining Company. “Mines Located on Hoover as far away as Coeur d’Alene, Idaho. It was the largest plant of its kind Creek, Montana” (printed above title). No. 37, issued for 25,000 in Montana and was fueled by 25,000 bushels of charcoal a month shares to the company president, HG Klenze in Great Falls in 1891. produced in six kilns at Wickes. The smelter operated until 1893 when Also signed by the sect. Cut cancelled. Black border and print, silver it was shut down. Stuart Mackenzie Montana Mining Collection Est. $200- seal. Folds, tape repaired cancellation, some staining. Stuart Mackenzie 300 HWAC# 123873 Montana Railroad Collection Est. $100-150 HWAC# 127165 Lot# 1569 Helena, Montana 1917 Helena Lot# 1564 Helena, Montana 1885 Boardman Mining Bureau Stock, Montana Organized Amalgamator Company Stock Certificate in 1914 with the purpose of revitalizing the Inc. in Montana Territory. “City of Helena / mining industry in Helena. Incorporated Territory of Montana” printed under title. No. 59, issued to Lorenzo through the Helena Commercial Club. Minimum M Boardman (inventor) for 25 shares in Helena, MT in 1885. Signed purchase was for 36 shares - 1 share a month by president FW Flint and the secretary. Not cancelled. Black border for the three years that they expected to run. and print, striking green underprint design. Printed by Gies & Co., In 1917 they bought a mining property in the NY. Horizontal fold, small stains. 7 x 11” n 1878 Boardman received Grass Valley district. The Helena Independent Record announced on a patent for his amalgamator and concentrator for a stamp mill. January 3, 1920 they had loaded their 36th railroad car. # 840 for 9 [Commissioner of Patents Report]. The company was incorporated in shares to the Collins Land Company. Signed by S. H. Balliel(?). Montana 1884. Stuart Mackenzie Montana Mining Collection Est. $200-300 HWAC# seal vignette. Green on white. Extremely nice. Stuart Mackenzie Montana 113866 Railroad Collection Est. $100-200 HWAC# 123967 Lot# 1565 Helena, Montana 1881 Bonanza Lot# 1570 Helena, Montana 1885 Helena Chief Gold Mining Company Stock Silver Mining Company Stock Certificate Certificate Inc. in Montana Territory. No. 2238, Inc. in the Territory of Montana. Low number issued to Clinton Field for 100 shares in 1881 in New York. Signed by 6, issued for 200 shares to Geo. H. Hill in Helena in 1885. Signed by president W.W. Wicks and secretary Robert Brooks. Not cancelled. president WB Raleigh and the secretary. Not cancelled. Brown border, Black border and print. Two vignettes: prospectors (top center) and black print, and underground drilling vignette. Folds, large 4” tear- Native American (bottom center). ABN. Pinholes, folds, creases. 7 x -needs conservation. 6.75 x 10.25” Stuart Mackenzie Montana Mining 11” This company was incorporated in 1879 under the laws of the Collection Est. $100-150 HWAC# 129597 Territory of Montana with offices in New York. It was a gold mining company located eight miles from Helena. Placer gold was discovered Lot# 1571 Helena, Montana 1904-1938 in the area in about 1864. Soon after, the rich Last Chance Gulch gold Helena, Montana Mining Stock Certificate placers were discovered on the present site of Helena. About 1 million Group Lot of 5, four different. Includes: Rex ounces of gold was mined from the Helena area. Stuart Mackenzie Mining Company (1938); Amalgamated Silver Mines Company (1917); Montana Railroad Collection Est. $120-160 HWAC# 127154 Helena Gold & Iron Company (1904); and Lump Gulch Silver Mines Company (two signed by secretary but not issued). Varying condition. Lot# 1566 Helena, Montana 1886 Capitol Ken Prag Collection Est. $100-150 HWAC# 113871 Mining & Milling Co. of Montana Stock Certificate No. 29, issued for 1,000 shares to William Jewell and Charles F. Gage on June 26th, 1886 in Helena, M.T. Signed by president WD Hurlburt and secretary HC Stevens. Not cancelled. Green border and underprint, black print, and two vignettes: miners using a drill (top center) and allegorical woman (bottom right). Folds with some separation, creases. 8.5 x 11” No information located about this mine in our references or on newspapers.com. Stuart Mackenzie Montana Mining Collection Est. $200-400 HWAC# 129591 View complete catalog, Register, and Bid online at FHWAC.com 61

DAY 1 Thursday, Feb 11 Stocks Part 1: Mining Lot# 1572 Helena, Montana Helena, Montana Lot# 1577 Helena, Montana 1890 Penn Placer Stock Certificates Lot of ten. Oldest is Helena Mining Co. of Helena, Montana General Gold and Iron (Helena?). NUMBER 7 for 1000 Mortgage Bond Number 85 signed by president shares. Signed by Taylor and Sheethorn. William Pancoush, secretary NO Griffin and 1907. Placer mining vignette. Other stocks treasurer John R. White. Coupons 3-20 attached. are Bald Bute Mining and Milling 1912 (7 Outside of folds, extremely nice. 18 x 14.5”. Large miles northwest of Helena), Scratch Gravel and attractive! Stuart Mackenzie Montana Mining 1916 (2 miles from Helena), Helena Scratch Collection Est. $80-120 HWAC# 130000 Gravel 1917, Helena Montana 1916. Others are Montana Consolidated (dateline Helena), Consolidated Mining & Lot# 1578 Helmville, Montana 1893 Milling, Strawberry Mining of Helena 1911, 1906 Custer Consolidated American Silver-Copper Mining, Milling # 21 (poor condition) and Montana Mines Corp. of Springhill 4 miles & Reduction Company Stock with rare from Helena. Notes from Copper Handbook Stuart Mackenzie Montana Helmville, Montana dateline # 59 for 2,500 Railroad Collection Est. $100-200 HWAC# 123997 shares to James Ogden. Signed by JE Marcum and president Charles Cooper. Moose head Lot# 1573 Helena, Montana 1886 Hot Springs vignette. Reddish brown on yellow. Pinter was Mining & Milling Co. Stock Certificate Lot of Litho “New Northwest”. Issued Oct 3, 1893. 2. 1) Stock no. 84, issued for 300 shares to Torn roughly from right at book (which could be fixed be reducing the Dickinson Devine & Hendry in Helena in 1886. Signed by president stock to its proper size). Vertical and one horizontal folds. No other John Tooker and secretary Clyde Tooker. Not cancelled. Black border edge corner, discoloration or hole issues. The mine was located on and print, tan background, and two part mining vignette (at left). Boos the North Fork of the Blackfoot River 28 miles north east of Helmville. Print. Folds. 5.5 x 10.5” 2) Comes with corner ad cover for the Helena It is said to show a veritable bonanza with little development work. Independent that is labelled for the stock issued. The company owned [Livingston Enterprise, Jan. 25, 1890] Stuart Mackenzie Montana property at Hot Springs, 3 miles from Helena. In 1886, Tooker was Mining Collection Stuart Mackenzie Montana Mining Collection Est. $240- reporting a specimen had assayed containing 131 ounces of silver and 500 HWAC# 123860 $482 in gold. The shaft is down 60 ft. and shows a fine body of galena ore. [Helena Weekly Herald, June 3, 1886] Stuart Mackenzie Montana Lot# 1579 Jefferson City, Montana 1876 Mining Collection Est. $150-250 HWAC# 129611 Gregory Mining Company Stock Certificate Lot# 1574 Helena, Montana 1882 Legal Organized in Montana Territory, 1876. No. 37, Tender Mining Company Stock Certificate issued for 100 shares to trustee W.F. Sanders in Jefferson City, Montana, Nov. 3rd, 1876. Signed by president W.S. Paynter and secretary Sanders. Inc. in Montana Territory. No. 1189, issued Not cancelled. Black border and print, gray seal, and two vignettes: for 500 shares to EW Carlies in 1882. Signed by vice president Cole miners loading an ore bucket (left) and allegorical (center). No printer Sanders and the secretary. Not cancelled. Ornate border, black print. listed. Left border trimmed tight. Folds, bent corner. 7 x 10.5” This Pinholes, folds, very fine. 6.75 x 10.5” The Legal Tender Mine is “one of company owned the Gregory Mine in the Jefferson District, Jefferson the most famous mines of Montana, and has produced the richest ore County. In August 1876, they had 30-35 men employed, 450 tons of ever shipped in quantity from the Territory.” In 1881, this company “first-class ore” had been shipped, with 2,000 tons of second-grade was reopening the mine, which had been worked in the 1870s. Their ore waiting. [Butte Weekly Miner, August 17, 1876} Stuart Mackenzie plan was to erect hoisting machinery to sink a 750 ft. shaft on the Montana Mining Collection Est. $200-400 HWAC# 129588 property, as well as build a mill facility that would consist of two Huntington mills. In Nov. 1881, the company discovered a rich six-inch Lot# 1580 Jefferson County, Montana 1886 vein of ruby silver and silver glance ore, and deposited the specimens Boulder Mining & Reduction Co. Stock at the First National Bank in Helena. [The Independent Record, May Issued to Montana Governor Inc. in the 27, 1881 and Nov. 18, 1881] Stuart Mackenzie Montana Mining Collection Territory of Montana. No. 24, issued for 5,000 shares to S.T. Hauser in Est. $120-150 HWAC# 113865 Nov. 1886. Signed by president Albert Kleinschmidt and secretary John Lot# 1575 Helena, Montana 1886 Silver Cliff Busket. Not cancelled. Endorsed on the back. Black print on yellow Mining & Tunnel Company Stock Certificate paper, vignette of large mill operation. Printed by Tribune, Fremont, Nebraska. Deep folds. 7.5 x 10.75” The company incorporated in 1886 Organized in Montana Territory. No. 19, issued and bought the Amazon works in Jefferson County, consisting of a 5 to W.B. Reed for 2,000 shares on Jan. 15, 1886 in Helena. Signed by stamp mill, smelter and concentrator. [The River Press, Jun. 23, 1886] Gillette (president) and Townsend (secretary). Not cancelled. Ornate Samuel Thomas Hauser was a prominent Montana businessman and gilt border and Egyptian vignettes (left border) and green underprint miner and served as the 7th Governor of Montana Territory, 1885- vignette of arm with mining pick (background center). Printed by 1887 (when this stock was issued). He also founded the First National Geo. E. Boos. Folds, otherwise very clean. 5.5” x 10.5” Notices of stock Bank in Helena. Stuart Mackenzie Montana Mining Collection Est. $120- holders meetings could be located, but not specific information about 200 HWAC# 129596 production. There was a Silver Cliff lode at about this time in the Summit Valley Mining District, 9 miles west of Butte. Stuart Mackenzie Montana Mining Collection Est. $150-300 HWAC# 129590 Lot# 1581 Jefferson County, Montana Jefferson County Stocks: Corbin and Basin Lot# 1576 Helena, Montana 1896 Union Districts Lot of fourteen. Corbin district includes Corbin Copper # 13 1912. Also New Mining Company Stock Certificate Inc. in Boston Mining 1910, Republic and Dominion Montana. Low number 7, issued for 100 shares # 6, Alta Montana, and Montana Corbin. Basin to Swend Carlson in Helena in 1896. Signed by president Wm. Bailey District includes Basin Gold & Silver # 23 for 1 shares in 1919. Also and secretary EW Bwandegee. Not cancelled. Green border, black # 35 Silver Hill mines, two different Basin Montana Tunnel for a print, and vignette of eagle in a nest. Deep folds, some separation. combined 26,850 shares to William H. Hax, Basin Montana Mines, # 8.25 x 10” Operated the New Whitlach Union Mine, located 5 miles from Helena. [The Helena Independent, Jan. 16, 1896] Stuart Mackenzie C7 Northwestern Metals (10 miles from Basin with 2/3 interest in the Montana Railroad Collection Est. $80-100 HWAC# 127161 Bullion Mine). Two mines located on Cataract Creek: Hattie Ferguson # 5 and Mt. Thompson # 49 1917. One unissued Basin Goldfields. Stuart Mackenzie Montana Railroad Collection Est. $120-240 HWAC# 123970 62 February 2021

DAY 1 Thursday, Feb 11 Stocks Part 1: Mining Lot# 1582 Jefferson County, Montana Lot# 1586 Jefferson County, Boulder District, Jefferson County Stocks: Elkhorn and Montana 1877 Rumley Mining Company Mammoth Districts Elkhorn District includes Stock Certificate--”The Comstock of an 1893 Elkhorn Mining Company, Limited. # Montana” Choice Montana Territory certificate. No. 23, issued for 500 3534 for 10 shares to John Leigh Nisson. 1907 shares to Melissa Nettleton on May 28th, 1877 in Philadelphia. Signed Park Copper # 299 for 2500 shares to JM Keith. by president C. Tower, secretary AB Nettleton, and treasurer DC Corbill. Listed as having two shafts called park and Williams. 1000’ of works. Not cancelled. Black border and print, with five vignettes: miners 1907 Elkhorn Copper. # 84 for 3000 shares. Also unissued Golden underground (top center), allegorical women (top right and left), dog Curry 190- # 172 (had a 100 ton cyanide plant in 1910), 1925 Boson next to safe (bottom right), and Native American (bottom left). ABN. Mining Corporation bond and 1927 Northwest Copper. Mammoth 6.75 x 10.75” Folds, bent right border. The company, composed of district includes New York-Montana 1906, Montana-Illinois 1913, Philadelphia men, operated the Rumley lode, located in the Boulder Mammoth Mines Corporation 1937 (two different). And saving the Mining District of Jefferson County. The mine was originally owned best for last, NUMBER 2 Leviathon Gold 1899. [Notes from Copper by prominent Montana citizens ST Hauser, DC Corbin, AM Holter Handbook] Stuart Mackenzie Montana Railroad Collection Est. $140-300 and CW Higley, and they served as trustees in this company. In 1875, HWAC# 123969 300 hundred tons of ore taken out of the Rumley in 60 days yielded $70,000. The Rumley “is one of the largest, if not the largest, quartz Lot# 1583 Jefferson County, Montana vein in the Territory, and is often called the Comstock of Montana.” Jefferson County Stocks: including Boulder [New North-West, Deer Lodge, March 24, 1876; Independent Record, and Lump Gulch Districts Lot of twelve. Three March 17, 1876] Stuart Mackenzie Montana Saloon Billhead Collection Est. Boulder district stocks: Includes Baltimore $300-600 HWAC# 129570 Copper Mining. Number 15 fo16,666 shares to BE Calkins in 1904. Signed by president CH Lot# 1587 Jefferson County, Cataract District, Palmer and Daniel Hanley. By 1910 it was presumed idle. Also Montana Montana 1890 Cataract Mining Company Consolidated 1915 and Elkhorn Skyline self identified as Boulder Stock Certificate Inc. in Montana. Low number 1950. Four Lump Gulch district stocks. Includes Vera Cruz number 110 15, issued for 5,000 shares to John H. Shober in Helena in 1890. for 1000 shares to AJ La Grand. Signed by T Stewart president and LJ Signed by president William Thompson and secretary TH Clewell. Not Coleman. 1920. Also Amalgamated Silver Mines # 219 issued in 1919, cancelled. Gold border, black print. Folds, two bent corners. 7 x 10.5” Legal Tender Consolidated #887 in 1919 (reported as producing two This was the successor to the Boulder Chief Company, and operated car loads a month that year), and Legal Tender Mining #133A in 1927 the Boulder Chief Mine in the Cataract District. [The Independent- (lead, zinc, silver). Other Jefferson County stocks include NUMBER Record, May 1st, 1890] Stuart Mackenzie Montana Railroad Collection Est. 3 Copper Gulch in 1908 for 45,000 shares issued to Emil Mundt. $80-120 HWAC# 127164 Signed by CF Hopkins. Dailey Copper signed by CH and WW Dailey, 1908. Wickes. Columbia, Butte Gold Mining and Milling # 35 for 2000 Lot# 1588 Jefferson County, Cataract District, shares to AW Gibson in 1908. Signed by WK Malcolm. Whitehall. Also Montana 1889 Comstock Mining & Milling Jefferson Mines 1920 and Butte Copper 1929, Elk Park district. [Notes Company Stock Certificate Great name. Inc. in from the Copper Handbook] Stuart Mackenzie Montana Railroad Collection Montana. No. 18, issued for 500 shares to Edwin O. Child on Dec. 30th, Est. $150-250 HWAC# 123963 1889 in Helena. Signed by president E.F. Child and treasurer George Child. Not cancelled. Dark blue border and print. Folds. 5.5 x 10.5” This Lot# 1584 Jefferson County, Montana 1889 company was based in Helena and operated the Boulder Mine in the New Park Mining Company Stock Certificate Cataract District, Jefferson County [The Independent, July 2, 1889]. Inc. in Montana Territory. No. 58, issued for Also operated the Comstock Mine near Basin. No doubt named after 250 shares to Harvey Paull in Helena, 1889. Signed by president A. the world famous mining district in Nevada. Stuart Mackenzie Montana J. Seligman and secretary Geo. Jackson. Not cancelled. Gold and red Railroad Collection Est. $80-120 HWAC# 127162 border, black and red print, and green underprint mining vignette. Folds, many creases, some soiling. 5.5 x 11” The company operated Lot# 1589 Jefferson County, Cataract District, the Park Mine in Jefferson County, with operations based in Helena. Montana 1890 Copper Bell Mining Company In June 1889, foreman George Harrison reported striking four feet of Stock Certificate Inc. in Montana. No. 99, galena in the long tunnel. [The Independent Record, June 30, 1889] issued for 500 shares to TH Kleinschmidt in Helena in 1890. Signed Stuart Mackenzie Montana Mining Collection Est. $100-200 HWAC# 129577 by president Samuel Word and secretary Howell. Not cancelled. Brown border and underprint, black print, gold seal, and mine Lot# 1585 Jefferson County, Boulder, Montana drilling vignette. 6 x 9” Horizontal fold, smudge upper right corner, 1883 Amazon Mining & Smelting Company otherwise nice. Incorporated in December of 1889. Original trustees Stock Certificate Rare. “Boulder, Montana” included Howell, Word, LG Phelps, JM Fox, LL Dahler, DF Riggs and printed beneath title. Inc. in Montana. No. 79, issued for 1,250 shares AJ Bradley. “The Cataract district is situated almost north of Basin to Hiram Hammond in 1883. Signed by president George Hammond City along the Cataract Creek which flows into the Boulder at this and secretary JL Waggenor. Not cancelled. Black border and print. Two point. The district is full of quartz discoveries. The majority of them vignettes: miners working underground (bottom right corner) and however are undeveloped except by such annual work as was required allegorical woman (top center). Printed by H. Gugler & Son, Milwaukee. in representing. Some of the properties on which considerable Folds, creases, light discoloration. 7.25 x 9.75” The company owned development has been done show good bodies of pay ore.” [History the Amazon Mine and Concentrator at Boulder, Jefferson County, of Montana. 1739-1885 by Leeson] Stuart Mackenzie Montana Railroad Montana. “The Amazon Mine is looking splendid...The Amazon ore Collection Est. $80-150 HWAC# 127160 carries a high per cent of lead, and is most excellent smelting ore... The company have a bright future before them.” [Independent-Record, Lot# 1590 Lewis & Clark and Jefferson Sep. 8, 1882] Stuart Mackenzie Montana Mining Collection Est. $150-300 Counties, Montana 1897 Alhambra & Wolf HWAC# 129623 Creek Coal & Wood Co. Stock Certificate Inc. in Montana. Low number 7, issued for 850 shares to secretary Geo. H. Hill in Helena on March 23rd, 1897. Signed by Hill and president Walter J. King. Not cancelled. Black border and print. Thurber, Koch & Schuele Print. Deep folds. 7 x 11.5” Incorporated in 1890 to work Wolf Creek in Lewis & Clark County and at Alhambra in Jefferson County. [Independent-Record, Dec. 19, 1890] Stuart Mackenzie Montana Mining Collection Est. $100-150 HWAC# 129605 View complete catalog, Register, and Bid online at FHWAC.com 63

DAY 1 Thursday, Feb 11 Stocks Part 1: Mining Lot# 1591 Lewis & Clark County, Montana Lot# 1596 Lewis & Clark County, Unionville, 1902-1932 Lewis & Clark County Mining Montana 1876 Columbia Mining Company Stock Collection Lot of nine. 1) Consolidated Stock Certificate--Number 1 Rare. Stock Ten Mile Mining and Reduction Company. #102 number 1, issued for 1,526 shares to Henry H. Houston in Philadelphia First Mortgage Bond. Coupon #2 included. on Sept. 22nd, 1876. Signed by president Geo. B. Bonnell and secretary Condition issues. 2) Bald Butte Mining. 1902. Geo. W. Mears. Not cancelled. Simple design with black border and #2098 for 200 shares to Henrietta Reed. print. 7.75 x 10.5” Deep folds, some soiling and stains. The company, Signed by president William Chessman. Montana’s Original Governor’s “a Philadelphia company composed of wealthy and prominent Mansion, built in 1888 by Helena entrepreneur William Chessman as a gentleman,” owned 500 ft. on the Union lode, along with a 30 stamp symbol of his wealth and influence throughout the Helena community. mill, in 1868. The Union was located at Unionville in Lewis & Clark 3) North Kendall Gold Mining. 1907. Self-identified ‘Lewistown.’ # County. In 1874, they bought feet on the Park Lode. Numerous articles 68 signed by president WS Smith. 4) Valley Forge Mining. Mines at found about activity in the late 1860s/early 1870s. Stuart Mackenzie Rimini. # 729. Also Barnes King Development. Two different - orange Montana Mining Collection Est. $200-300 HWAC# 129606 and green. 1917, 1914. # 10 Porphyry Dike Gold. 1923. Lincoln Gulch Placer. 1931. General Mines at Rimini. 1938. Stuart Mackenzie Montana Lot# 1597 Lewis & Clark County, Unionville, Railroad Collection Est. $100-200 HWAC# 123961 Montana 1886 Whitlatch Union Mining & Milling Co. Stock Certificate Inc. in Montana. Lot# 1592 Lewis & Clark County, Montana Low number 10, issued for 2,500 shares to HR Conly in 1886. Signed Morning Star Mining Company, M. T., 1889 by president BH Watson and secretary Geo. H. Hill. Not cancelled. # 63 for 400 shares to Nolan & Bean. Signed by Black border and print, orange underprint, and mine hoisting vignette. Glenell and president David Gilman. Vignette Engraved by Maverick & Wissinger, NY. Water damage to right border, of miners working ore buckets in a shaft. Also otherwise nice. 7 x 11.5” Operated close to the the old Whitlatch Union a ‘Morning Star.’ Printed by Porter of Chicago. mine at Unionville. They have free-milling gold quartz assaying at $10- Edge issues - small rips, tears, bent corners. 25 a ton and an incline shaft 125 ft. deep. [E&MJ, April 24th, 1886] Dateline June 3, 1889 in “Helena, Lewis & Clark Stuart Mackenzie Montana Mining Collection Est. $80-150 HWAC# 113864 Co., M. T.” Gold seal. Stuart Mackenzie Montana Mining Collection Est. $150- 250 HWAC# 123884 Lot# 1598 Livingston, Montana Golden Star Mining and Milling Company Stock, Lot# 1593 Lewis & Clark County, Marysville Livingston, Montana, 1892 # 10 for 500 Mining District, Montana 1896 Big Ox Mining shares to George T Chambers. Signed by Hugh Company Stock Certificate Inc. in Montana. Miller and president A. B. Gould. Dateline May No. 70, issued to James C. Nesbitt for 3,300 shares in Helena in 1896. 26, 1892. Underground mining vignette with Signed by president Charles J. Fulton and secretary John W. Fulton. short ore cars. Incorporated 1892. Vertical Stamp cancelled. Black border and print, gold seal, green background, folds. No edge, corner, pin hole or discoloration and multiple mining vignettes. Folds. 8.25 x 10” The Big Ox Mining and issue. One red mark bottom right. On June 11, 1892 the Livingston Star Reduction Company was a Helena, Montana, firm organized in 1889. reported that the Morning Star prospects are exceedingly good for the Operated mines and a mill in the Marysville Mining District of Lewis & new mining camp. Stuart Mackenzie Montana Mining Collection Est. $150- Clark County. Stuart Mackenzie Montana Railroad Collection Est. $60-100 250 HWAC# 123886 HWAC# 127157 Lot# 1599 Livingston, Montana Mill Creek Lot# 1594 Lewis & Clark County, Silver & Emigrant Mining & Smelting Company Creek Mining District, Montana 1886 Boston Stock i/u. # 270 for 5000 shares to Ina M. & Montana Gold Mining Company Stock Glaser. Signed by president Mulholland and Certificate Gloster Mine, Silver Creek Mining District, Lewis & Clarke secretary Miller. Vignette shows a small, lonely County, Montana (printed below vignette). Inc. in New York, 1880. No. smelter in a valley with the most massive 2138, issued for 100 shares to Emery Hodges in New York in 1886. mountains possible! Gold seal. Black on green Signed by president Levinthal, secretary Child, and the treasurer. Not safety paper. Datelined Livingston. Date is not cancelled. Ornate border, black print, and detailed vignette of mine filled in. Some edge and corner issues. Stuart Mackenzie Montana Mining entrance, mill, and many miners. Printed by Winkley, Dresser & Co., Collection Est. $150-250 HWAC# 123876 Boston. Deep folds, overall very nice. 7 x 11” The Gloster, a property of the Boston and Montana Gold-Mining company, is among the finest Lot# 1600 Madison County, Montana 1901- in Montana, three miles away from Marysville, but all is tributary to 1941 Madison County, Montana Mining Helena. The ore vein was 20 feet wide in places. L. R. Nettre, manager Stock Collection with a map and a lot and H. W. Child assistant. The company had an office in Helena and of shares sold! 1) This is a real treasure. New York. Stuart Mackenzie Montana Mining Collection Est. $120-200 Jack Creek MC. # 45 for 10,000 shares to HWAC# 127179 RG McIntosh. 1909. Signed by John Jackson president and secretary Ida Thorne. Comes Lot# 1595 Lewis & Clark County, Ten Mile, with small ad paper 6x3”. On reverse is a map of the mine and the Montana 1889 Braligan Mining Company Wolf Tone, Sarah Jane and CC&C lodes. Tunnels and shafts shown! 2) Stock Certificate Location Mine, Ten Mile, Missouri & Montana Gold. # 29 for 34,000 shares to HN Carroll. Signed Lewis & Clarke County (printed under title). Organized in Montana by vice president Carroll.1903. Cancelled. Highland Mining and Milling Territory. No. 40, issued for 100 shares to A O’Connell in Helena in Co. # 44 for 10,000 shares to Jno. J. O’Meara. Signed by John O’Meara 1889. Signed by president A.G. Clarks and secretary Geo. Piott. Not as president. BRIGHT RED TITLE. 3) Butte and Potosi Gold, Silver and cancelled. Attractive design with black border, pink background, Copper. # 224 for 2,380 1/2 shares to LH Stanhope. Signed by Scott and Egyptian motifs. No printer listed. Folds, very clean. 5.5 x 10.75” president. 1908. Also Wilmont Madison (#85), Norwegian Mining The Tenmile mining district (aka the Rimini District) was located 3 and Development (unissued), Smuggler Mining (Sheridan District), miles west of Last Chance Gulch. The town of Ten Mile (later known Iron Rod Gold (Twin Bridges), Monitor Consolidated (83,333 shares as Rimini) was founded in the 1860s and peaked in the 1890s. Stuart issued to and signed by WA Reel) and Valley View (bison vignette). Mackenzie Montana Mining Collection Est. $100-200 HWAC# 129576 Stuart Mackenzie Montana Railroad Collection Est. $150-300 HWAC# 123993 64 February 2021

DAY 1 Thursday, Feb 11 Stocks Part 1: Mining Lot# 1601 Madison County, Midasburg, Lot# 1604 Mineral County, Spring Gulch, Montana 1871 Montana Midas Mining Montana 1890 O.R. and N. Mining Company Company Stock Certificate ”Gold & Silver Stock Certificate Inc. in Montana. No. 672, Quartz Property located in Montana Territory” (printed under title). issued for 125 shares to OTH Allen in Helena, 1890. Signed by president “Montana” handwritten in pen and added into the title in front of Samuel Word and secretary J. Hibbard. Not cancelled. Unusual design Midas. Inc. in New York. No. 270, issued for 2,352 shares to Peter with the company name in the underprint in white, gold, and green. Jackson in Rochester in 1871. Signed by the president (Samuel Lee Green border and gold seal. Pioneer Press Co., St. Louis. Deep folds, Selden) and secretary. Not cancelled. Black border and print, two some stains. 5.5 x 9.25” The company operated the OR & N mine at mining vignettes including hoisting scene at left. 25 cent adhesive Spring Gulch. In the 1891 report of the Montana Deputy Inspector of revenue stamp. Printed by BF Corlies & Macy, NY. Horizontal and Mines, it was noted that 7 men were employed, the old workings had vertical folds, left border trimmed tight. 5.25 x 10.75” According to been abandoned, the air was not good, but drifting was being down a report from Henry Ward in The Montana Post (Dec. 21, 1867), the from the lower tunnel (pg.52-53, 1891). Stuart Mackenzie Montana Mining company worked the Boaz Lode in the Hot Spring District in Madison Collection Est. $120-200 HWAC# 129578 County. Ward was a noted mining geologist--his uncle was the company president, Samuel Lee Selden. Ward built a mill and company Lot# 1605 Missoula, Montana 1890 Buckeye town consisting of buildings which he called “Midasburg.”Selden was Mining & Milling Company Stock Certificate a prominent judge in New York and created a group of companies that ”of Helena, Montana.” Inc. in Montana. No. 27, eventually became Western Union. Peter Jackson came to Montana issued for 1,000 shares to Mrs. Burke in 1890. Signed by president by the Missouri river in the spring of 1867 and assumed his duties at Charles M. Jeffries and secretary Harry Davis. Not cancelled. Black Midasburg, the company’s headquarters west of present day Norris in print, gilt border and gold vignette of two miners with an ore cart. Madison County, Montana. When the company suspended operations Helena Herald Print. Folds. 7.25 x 11.5” The company was incorporated in 1869 Jackson was left in charge of the works, and becoming part in 1890. They owned the Ohio, Climax, Paymaster, and Treasury owner of the property, continued in charge until 1871, when he lodes at Missoula. Located opposite the Bell Stow on the south side became assistant superintendent for the Columbia Mining Company at of the Thompson River, 4 miles from Woodlin on the Northern Pacific Unionville for one season, retaining his interest in the Midas Company. Railroad [Anaconda Standard, July 20, 1890]. Stuart Mackenzie Montana The company’s Ward Mill at Sterling/Midasburg was one of the finest Mining Collection Est. $120-200 HWAC# 129598 in Montana, and was built at a cost of $250,000. Stuart Mackenzie Montana Mining Collection Est. $300-600 HWAC# 129600 Lot# 1606 Missoula, Montana 1912 Royal Mining Company signed by Cattle Baron Lot# 1602 Marysville, Montana 1885 Cruse Conrad Kohrs Number 21 for 500 hares to Mountain Consolidated Mining Co. Stock WA (?) & Brother. Signed by president Conrad Certificate ”of Helena, M.T.” Inc. in Montana Kohrs and secretary WW Brickford. Eagle Territory. No. 125, issued for 100 shares to Benjamin E. De Camp in vignette. Vertical folds. No edge, corner, pin Helena in 1885. Signed by president HW Child and secretary Bach. hole or discoloration issues. Carsten Conrad Pen cancelled. Black border and print, vignette with mining inset at Kohrs was born in Wewelsfleth, Denmark. He bottom left. Geo. E. Boos, Print. Folds, staining/water damage. 5 x 10” came to America at the age of 15 as a cabin boy. He followed the gold The company incorporated in 1885 and proposed to tunnel into the to Fraser, Canada and the California Gold Rush. In 1862 he arrived in same hill that the Drum Lummon [sic.] Mine is located (at Marysville). California where he found gold, not only in the mines, but in his gold [Independent Record, Dec. 12, 1885] Further newspaper articles camp butcher shops and eventually in a cattle empire that sprawled discuss pleasing assay results from that work. Stuart Mackenzie Montana over four states and two Canadian provinces. Stuart Mackenzie Montana Mining Collection Est. $100-150 HWAC# 129619 Railroad Collection Est. $80-150 HWAC# 123960 Lot# 1603 Marysville, Montana 1879 Early Lot# 1607 Missoula County, Montana 1892- Penobscot & Snowdrift Consolidated Mining 1893 Bitter Root Canal & Mining Co. Stock Company Stock, Marysville, Montana # 1073 and Illustrated Butte Lettersheet Lot of for 50 shares to Jacob Hiener(?). Signed by 2. Location of Properties: Missoula County (printed on stock). 1) RH Rickard and Spencer Trask vice president. Stock number 11, issued for 4,000 shares to IG Denney in Butte City Dateline New York, March 12, 1879. Miners in 1892. Signed by president BCW Evans and secretary Ben. Orcutt. moving ore buckets up and down a shaft by Not cancelled. Brown border and print. Folds. 7 x 9.75” 2) Fantastic hand vignette. Printed by Lawrence of New York. Registered stamp pictorial lettersheet with birds-eye view vignette of Butte. Dated May center right. Light folding lower right corner. Otherwise extremely 23rd, 1893. Agreement between the company and a party in Anaconda nice. “The historic name of the Marysville mining district is the Ottawa for promise of payment. Signed by the directors of the Bitter Root Canal mining district. The only town in the region, Marysville, is about 18 & Mining Co., with their number of shares next to their signatures. The miles northwest of Helena. The Belmont mine and 20-stamp mill was Bitter Root Canal & Mining Company planned to construct a flume or sold to the Penobscott & Snowdrift Consolidated Mining Company water ditch from the Rock Creek stream to the Three Mile Creek, Eight around 1878. The mill featured shaking copper plates in addition Mile Creek, and Miller Creek placer claims. [Missoula Weekly Gazette, to stationary plates. These were attached to the four Frue vanners. Feb. 10, 1892] Later in 1892, they were reported as having property These vanners were invented by William Frue, who controlled the between the Bitter Root River and Stony Creek, consisting of 6,000 Penobscott company. From December of 1878 to April of 1880, the acres of placer ground, 8,000 acres of timber ground, and 40,000 mine produced $104,238 in bullion. The ore yielded from $8 to $20 acres of agricultural land. [Independent Record, Dec. 27, 1892] Stuart per ton while expenses were about $6.50. The company enlarged the Mackenzie Montana Mining Collection Est. $400-800 HWAC# 129616 capacity of the mill to 30-stamps in 1881. That same year a fire and explosion resulted in the loss of six miner’s lives. The mill continued to operate until 1885.” [Montana Department of Environmental Quaility] Stuart Mackenzie Montana Mining Collection Est. $300-500 HWAC# 123880 View complete catalog, Register, and Bid online at FHWAC.com 65

DAY 1 Thursday, Feb 11 Stocks Part 1: Mining Lot# 1608 Missoula County, Montana Lot# 1613 Missoula County, Spring Gulch, Missoula County Mining Stock Collection Montana 1891 Little Anaconda Mining Mostly 190-’s. Lot of seven. 1) Intriguing Company Stock Certificate ”Location of Billy Maddow Gold. NUMBER 1 for 1 SHARE Mines, Missoula County, Spring Gulch, Montana” (printed under title). - Founder’s Share. Signed by secretary, but Inc. in Montana. No. 129, issued for 2,050 shares to Wm. McKeen in no other information? Was this a mistake? 2) Missoula in 1891. Signed by the president (illegible) and secretary Triangle Mining and Development. # 222 for Keith. Not cancelled. Brown border, black print. Printed by Western 250 shares in 1907. Issued to Oliver Blood and signed by president Bank Note Co., Chicago. Folds, crisp and clean. 8 x 11.25” The Little RB Hughes. Located in Wallace District at Clinon. 3) King and Queen Anaconda Mine was located between Deep Creek and Spring Gulch. In Mining. Number 61 for 500 shares in 1905. Issued to George Nelles 1891, 18 men were employed, with CB Phillips as manager. “A tunnel and signed by president Rieges. Located at Carter. 4) True Fissure. # is run in the hill, where the chute of ore is cut and drifted on...Stoping 229 for 5000 shares in 1911 issued to Dr. J Lindley Hoag. 5) Different in progress.” [Reports of the Inspector of Mines and Deputy Inspector Triangle M&D. NUMBER 4 or 500 shares to RB Hughes (president of Mines, Montana, 1891] Stuart Mackenzie Montana Mining Collection Est. while the other certificate was issued) and signed by Frank Robb. $100-150 HWAC# 113862 Located 5 miles north of De Borgia. 6) Clark’s Fork Gold. NUMBER 4 for 500 shares. 1901. 7) Lucky Lead Mines. 1952. Stuart Mackenzie Lot# 1614 Neihart, Montana 1919, 1921 Cascade Montana Railroad Collection Est. $100-150 HWAC# 123999 Silver Mines and Mills Stocks of Neihart, Little Belt Mountains, Montana: Green and Red Lot# 1609 Missoula County, Montana Two 1) Green #A244. 1919. 1000 shares issued to intriguing Missoula County Mining Stocks Parkinson & Burr. Signed by signed by William Collection 1) Kennedy Creek, 1908, # B99for McClure and president Babcook. Shows aging 250 shares to Kate Millis. Signed by John A. Scot color. No real edge, corner or discoloration issues. president and Frank Thomas. Gold Seal. Large 2) Red. #C3691. Secretary was Fletcher. No color, size, but spectacular. 2) Amador Consolidated edge, discoloration or hole issues. Nice pairing. with a panorama vignette of the Actual LOCATION This was a re-incorporation of the Broadwater OF THE MINE! Vignette identifies Amador Mines, and Moulton group of mines that had previously taken out 6,700,000 Oregon Creek, Amador R. R., Cedar Creek, Amador ounces of silver. It was located at Nieihart in the Little Belt Mountains. and the Northern Pacific Railroad. 1906. Number Stuart Mackenzie Montana Mining Collection Stuart Mackenzie Montana 1592 for 100 shares to J Pettengill. Heavy folds on Kennedy Creek, Ephemera Collection Est. $200-400 HWAC# 123863 otherwise on edge, corner, pin hole or discoloration. Stuart Mackenzie Montana Railroad Collection Est. $100-150 HWAC# 123998 Lot# 1615 Neihart, Montana 1890 Florence Mining Company Stock Certificate White Lot# 1610 Missoula County, Flat Creek, Sulphur Springs, Montana (printed below Montana 1889 Iron Mountain Company title). Inc. in Montana. No. 204, issued for 500 shares to R. Raymond Stock Certificate Inc. in Montana. No. 740, in 1890. Signed by president R Wight and secretary AM Henry. Not issued for 250 shares to James Donovan in Helena in 1889. Signed cancelled. Brown border and print on yellow paper, red seal, and blue by the president (Thomas Cruse) and secretary Chas. Dohler. Not underprint listing the company’s mines, the Florence and M&I, and cancelled. Brown border, black print, and underground drilling location, Neihart. Pinholes, folds, 2” separation. Needs conservation. vignette. Pioneer Press Co., St. Paul. 5.75 x 8.75” Pinholes, folds. The 6.75 x 10.25” In January 1891, the company reported shipping a large company incorporated in 1889 to work mines near Iron Mountain, batch of ore because their ore house was full and the dump was getting Flat Creek, Missoula County. [Independent-Record, Jan 16, 1889] large. They were doing well! [New North-West, Jan. 30, 1891] Stuart Stuart Mackenzie Montana Mining Collection Est. $100-150 HWAC# 129603 Mackenzie Montana Mining Collection Est. $80-120 HWAC# 129615 Lot# 1611 Missoula County, Spring Gulch, Lot# 1616 Neihart, Montana 1892 Omaha Montana 1891 El Dorado Mining Company Mining Company Stock Certificate Inc. in Stock Certificate Inc. in Montana, 1890. Montana. No. 93, issued for 10,000 shares No. 141, issued for 3,000 shares to WHH Dickinson in Missoula in to the company president, Adam Hornung, in Neihart, Montana on 1891. Signed by president EM Tower and secretary Henry Bernard. Feb. 1st, 1892. Signed by Hornung and secretary JC Wardner. Not Not cancelled. Attractive design with a blue border, gold seal, black cancelled. Black border and print, red seal, and vignette of miners with and blue print, and underprint design. Pioneer Press Co., St. Paul. headlamps. Folds, creases, rough edges. 9.25 x 11.25” Incorporated in Horizontal and vertical folds, some soiling. 5.25 x 9.25” The company 1892 to work ground in Meagher and Cascade Counties. [Anaconda owned property in Spring Gulch between the King and Queen and Standard, Feb. 1st, 1892] Stuart Mackenzie Montana Mining Collection Est. OR&N Mines. [The Anaconda Standard, April 8, 1891] Stuart Mackenzie $100-200 HWAC# 127173 Montana Mining Collection Est. $120-200 HWAC# 129624 Lot# 1617 Neihart, Montana 1892 Lot# 1612 Missoula County, Spring Gulch, Whippoorwill Consolidated Mining Montana 1892 Keystone & King Mining Company Stock Certificate Wow! “Mines in Company Stock Certificate ”Location of Neihart, Little Belt Mountains, Montana” (printed above title). Office Mines, Missoula County, Spring Gulch, Montana” (printed under title). in Great Falls. Inc. in Montana. No. 272, issued for 1,108 shares to JD “and Milling” handwritten above the title. Inc. in Montana, 1892. No. McCutcheon in 1892. Signed by president Burghardt and secretary 207, issued for 1,149 shares to Richard Kearny in Missoula in May Cooper. Not cancelled. Brown border, brown and black print, silver RN 1892. Signed by vice president John Cromie and secretary Frank M. facsimile underprint, and three different mining vignettes! Printed by Tibbals. Not cancelled. Very attractive design with green border, black John Morris Company, Chicago. Folds, staple holes. 8 x 10.5” Comes print, and beautiful vignette of mules pulling away from mine under a with slip from the company acknowledging McCutcheon has sold snow-capped mountain. Lewis & Denver Printing Co., Portland. Folds. 596 shares of his stock. The Whippoorwill Mine was composed of the 7.5 x 10.5” The company owned the Keystone, Iron King, Iron Queen, Whippoorwill and Uncle George claims, located on Carpenter Creek. and Ivanhoe claims. Principal development was on the Keystone. In 1892, it was reported that Col. A. Lambeth was general manager [Missoula Weekly Gazette, June 29, 1892] Stuart Mackenzie Montana for the company and was erecting hoisting and pumping machinery to Railroad Collection Est. $100-200 HWAC# 127169 drain the water and continue exploration. [Great Falls Tribune, May 1, 1892] Stuart Mackenzie Montana Mining Collection Est. $300-500 HWAC# 129612 66 February 2021

DAY 1 Thursday, Feb 11 Stocks Part 1: Mining Lot# 1618 New Chicago, Montana 1892 Lot# 1623 Philipsburg, Montana 1893 Magnet Mining Company Stock Certificate Puritan Mining & Milling Company Stock Not seen by us before. Inc. in Montana, 1891. Certificate Inc. in Montana. No. 221, issued for No. 31, issued for 1,500 shares to Wm. B. Corwin on Feb 25th, 1892 24 shares to J. Munroe in Philipsburg, 1893. Signed by president John in New Chicago, Montana. Signed by president JA Featherman and McKechney and secretary John McKechney Jr. Not cancelled. Gorgeous secretary RM Ferguson. Not cancelled. Ornate black border and print, design with black border and print, underground mining vignette gold seal, and vignette of a cowboy with a group of horses. Printed by showing mine candles, and RN facsimile underprint. Lith. John Morris A. Gast & Co. Bank Note Engs, St. Louis & NY. Folds, creased corner, Co., Chicago. Many folds and creases, soiling on reverse. 8.5 x 10.75” very nice. 8 x 10.5” The Magnet Mining Company took over the Hatta The Puritan Mine was an exciting discovery for Philipsburg. In Nov. Mining Company. Their properties were the Hattie, Margaret, and Lily, 1892, it was reported: “Never since the discovery of the world famous located near New Chicago. [The Independent-Record, Jan. 26, 1892] Granite, and later the Bi-Metallic, has there been so much cause for New Chicago, Montana was located in Granite County and is now a congratulations in this district over the discovery and development ghost town. Stuart Mackenzie Montana Mining Collection Est. $100-200 of a mine as there is over late developments in Puritan.” The vein was HWAC# 127175 in a granite formation, and had been explored to a depth of 222 ft., with wire and native silver found, assays of 60-70 ounces silver/ton. Lot# 1619 Oro Fino District, Montana Gospel McKechney was a capitalist from Chicago and used his McKechney Mountain Mining Company stock, Oro Fino Milling Co. 20-stamp mill to process the ore. [See nice article in The District, Deer Lodge County, Montana, 1889 Anaconda Standard, Nov. 30, 1892] Stuart Mackenzie Montana Mining # 378 for 100 shares to Mrs. Eleanor Oates Collection Est. $300-400 HWAC# 129575 Read. Signed by Charles D Kenyon and AH Mitchell. Miner and ore cart vignette. Litho: Lot# 1624 Philipsburg, Montana 1895 Royal New Northwest. Green and Black on green Gold and Silver Mining Co. Stock with safety paper. Wrinkles at fold edges. Nice. Lies complete coin border on reverse with in Deer Lodge County, Oro Fino District Stuart Mackenzie Montana Mining William A. Clark Connection - WOW!!! It is Collection Est. $150-300 HWAC# 123874 not often we talk about the back of a certificate first, but the reverse of this certificate is Lot# 1620 Philipsburg, Montana 1880-81 spectacular1890 coins make up the entire Algonquin Company Stock Certificate Pair border: silver dollars, seated Liberty dime and Lot of two different for the same company. 1) quarters (although not identified, the right size). All in underprint gray. No. 288, issued for 100 shares to James J. Dull in Philadelphia in 1880. Number 146 for 5000 shares to Larabie Brothers. Signed by Coleman, Signed by president HA Stiles and treasurer Williams. Not cancelled. president Nelson Burnet and Conrad Kohr over crossed out Burnett. Green border and print, mining vignette. Folds, rips and tears along A multitude of vignettes include miner, waterfall, late, cherub and a right border. 2) No. 23, issued to company president HA Stiles for fine looking gentleman. Printed by Geo. D. Barnard of St. Louis (who 1,000 shares in 1881 in Philadelphia. Signed by Stiles and Williams. has done some of the other amazing certificates in this collection). Not cancelled. Red border and print, same vignette. Folds, clean. The Records in the Montana Historical Society indicate the mine was company was formed to work 1,000 ft. on the Algonquin Lode, Granite active from 1891 to 1921. The Royal Mining Company, originally the County, lying near the Trout and the Franklin Mines at Philipsburg. JK Royal Gold and Silver Mining Company, was located near Philipsburg, Pardee was hired as superintendent. [The Butte Weekly Miner, Oct. 10, Montana. WILLIAM A. CLARK incorporated the Royal Gold and Silver 1876] Stuart Mackenzie Montana Railroad Collection Est. $150-300 HWAC# Mining Company on May 2, 1891. The company established its office 127168 in Anaconda, but moved it to Deer Lodge on August 22, 1891. Larabie Lot# 1621 Philipsburg, Montana 1893 Bi- Bros & Co. Bankers of Deer Lodge was its official depository. The Metallic Extension M & M Company Stock company owned six mines: the Etna, Extension, Pine Tree, Omega, South Fraction, and Royal. The mines produced free gold and covered Certificate Inc. in Montana. No. 330, issued an area of 94.87 acres. The Royal Mine, located near Granite, operated for 500 shares to Thomas Donivan in 1893 in Philipsburg. Signed by mostly in the 1890s and produced about $1,000,000 in gold, with $8 president Joseph A. Hyde and secretary Josiah Shull. Not cancelled. to $200 of gold to the ton. After 1910, the mines fell into disrepair. Brown print on brown paper with vignette of Montana state seal. [Montana Historical Society] Stuart Mackenzie Montana Mining Collection Printed by Stephens Litho & Eng. Co., St. Louis. Folds, holes in seal, Est. $300-800 HWAC# 123879 tape repairs, portions missing on left border. 8.5 x 11” In October of 1890, it was reported the company was selling the stock to sink a shaft Lot# 1625 Philipsburg, Montana 1889 400’ and cross-cut as needed. Their claims were the Susie H, Great Vanderbilt Consolidated Mining Co. Stock Western and Shoe Fly. Located in Flint Creek District. In 1893, the Certificate Inc. in Montana Territory. No. company lay idle and a lawsuit was in the works against them. Stuart 37, issued to company president RA Hawkins for 100 shares in Mackenzie Montana Mining Collection Est. $80-120 HWAC# 113861 Philipsburg in 1889. Signed by Hawkins and secretary JH Loomis. Not cancelled. Dark blue border and print with a green underprint mining Lot# 1622 Philipsburg, Montana 1888- vignette. Also lists the claims of the company: Mystery, Vanderbilt, 1893 Philipsburg, Montana Mining Stock Combination, and Silver Spike. Montana Mining Review Print, Helena. Certificate Collection Lot of 5 different. Deep folds, creases. 6.25 x 11.25” Formed in 1889. Properties at Excellent group. 1) Pearl Silver Mining Company. No. 575, issued Philipsburg. Colonel RA Hawkins is referred to as a “temperance in 1888. Not cancelled. Brown border, black print, gold seal, and lecturer.” [Independent-Record, Sep. 6, 1889] Stuart Mackenzie Montana underground mining vignette. Folds, punch on border. 2) East Granite Mining Collection Est. $100-200 HWAC# 129620 Company. Mines Located on Granite Mountain, Montana. No. 589, issued in 1891. Not cancelled. Green border, black print, gold seal, and mine drilling vignette. Pinholes, folds. 3) Bi-Metallic Extension Mining Company. Issued in 1891, not cancelled. Brown border and print on tan paper, state seal vignette. Folds, light wear. 4) Philipsburg Mining & Milling Company. Issued in 1892, not cancelled. Black border and print, eagle vignette. Pinholes, folds. 5) M&JK Water Company. Certificate number 1, issued in 1893, not cancelled. Black border and print. Folds, creases. Stuart Mackenzie Montana Railroad Collection Est. $400-800 HWAC# 127151 View complete catalog, Register, and Bid online at FHWAC.com 67

DAY 1 Thursday, Feb 11 Stocks Part 1: Mining Lot# 1626 Powell County, Montana 1903- Lot# 1630 Saltese COunty, Montana Ten 1930 Powell County Mining Stock Collection Saltese County Mining Stocks, Montana 1) Lot of 11. 1) # 43 Bison Mountain. For 10,000 NUMBER 6, Inland Mining, 5,000 shares. 1910. shares in 903. At the time employed 10 men. 2) Eddy Mining Company. 1908. Presumed idle Located at Elliston. By 1910 it was ‘dead.’ 2-4) in 1910. Claims on Eddy and Packer Creeks Three different Pennmont Consolidated, 1903, near Copper Mountain. Last Chance Mining. 1904, 1905. NUMBER 11904 signed by Jno. W 1905. Listed as hoping to resume in 1911. Coolidge and secretary TS Letterman. Issue to E. S. Clark, # 55 signed Currently idle. Adjoins Ben Hur Mine. Has a 30’ vein estimated at by president Letterman. NUMBER 1 signed by Coolidge and issued to $100 per ton. 3) Boston Coby. Idle in 1911. Planning a new 500’ two- TS Letterman. For 20,000 shares. Letterman was a prominent Montana compartment shaft. 4-5) Copper Come Mining located south of Saltese. miner who owned many properties in his lifetime. 5) Beatrice Mining 1906, 1907. Two different. Has a 205’ tunnel. Good assays in copper, and Milling. # 421. 1903. Signed by D Barringer. Located at Elliston. 6) gold and lead, 1911. 6) Copper Age and Edison. Four miles southeast Butte & Elliston Gold and Copper. 1907. By 1910 it was presumed idle. of Saltese. 1910. 7) Wilson Mining & Smelting. 1915.8-10) Ben Hur # 25. 7) A fourth different Pennmont. Signed by Coolidge. 8) Quantock Mining. Two different. 1909, 1910. In 1911 the mine was considered Mining and Milling. # 46. 1905 bond. 9) 1919 Potomac copper. 10) as promising. Notes from Copper Handbook. Stuart Mackenzie Montana 1920 Blackfoot Gold. At Helmville in the Big Blackfoot district. 11) Railroad Collection Est. $200-300 HWAC# 123996 Monarch Mining and Power. 1919. Located 14 miles from Elliston. By 1919 had 400’ and 1400’ tunnels with a 200 ton flotation mill. Stuart Lot# 1631 Sappington, Montana 1894 Sand Mackenzie Montana Railroad Collection Est. $150-250 HWAC# 123962 Creek Mining & Improvement Co. Stock Certificate Inc. in Montana. No. 30, issued Lot# 1627 Prickly Pear District, Jefferson for 20 shares to Sewall M Rich in 1894 in Butte. Signed by president County, Montana 1910 Rare Corbin Copper Thomas A. Grigg and secretary CW Sherwood. Not cancelled. Black Company Stock with great vignette of short border and print, gold seal, green underprint, and three vignettes train exiting tunnel Located at Prickly Pear (two mining and one allegorical). Folds, creases. 8 x 10” Sahinen District, Jefferson County. # 803 for 10 shares. (1935) places the Sand Creek district about two miles southeast of Has a unique stamped ‘10’ to right of shares. To Sappington, a station on the Northern Pacific and Chicago, Milwaukee, Gay & Sturgis. Signed on safety print. Stephen and St.Paul Railroads. The Sand Creek district was developed in the Dow president. Incorporated in Michigan. Reddish brown on white. 1890s by John A. Pashley who immediately staked the Good Friday Five assessment stamps on reverse: 1911, 1913, 1913, 1914 and mine. Stuart Mackenzie Montana Mining Collection Est. $80-100 HWAC# 1926. Unique ‘10’ stamp also on back. Heavy fold on left. Otherwise 113857 no corner, edge holes or discoloration issues. Stuart Mackenzie Montana Mining Collection Est. $120-150 HWAC# 123865 Lot# 1632 Silver Bow County, Montana 1891 Milwaukee Mining Company Stock Lot# 1628 Rimini, Montana 1890 Crescent Certificate Inc. in Montana. No. 449, issued Mining Company Stock with large Crescent for 500 shares to Gable & Nichols in Butte City, Feb. 9th, 1891. Signed Moon Underprint This is rather rare and by president JA Talbott and secretary FP Gable. Not cancelled. Black unique (don’t confuse with Utah and Colorado border and print, green background, and underground mining companies of the same name). Three yellow vignette. Deep folds with some separation, assessment stamps on crescent moon underprints. # 282 for 17,000 reverse. Sherwood Litho, Chicago. 7.5 x 12” The company owned the shares to ME Bamhart(?) trustee. Signed by Milwaukee claim, located in Silver Bow County a mile and a half west Miller and president WP Jewett. Green border. Incorporated Feb. 27, of Butte, “and is said to be on the same vein as that on which the Blue 1890. Discoloration with age and red seal. Overall nice. Owned and Bird is located.” [Independent-Record, April 28, 1890] Stuart Mackenzie operated mines six miles south of Rimini, Lewis & Clark County, Montana Railroad Collection Est. $100-150 HWAC# 127171 Montana. [mthistory.pbworks] Est. $100-200 HWAC# 123867 Lot# 1633 St. Regis District, Montana 1900, 1906 Lot# 1629 Ruby City, Montana 1891 Extremely Deer Creek Gold Mining and Milling Company Rare Fourth of July [Mining] Company Stock Stocks, St. Regis District, Missoula County, with Morgan Silver Dollar Vignette Listed Montana Lot of two. 1) Blue. # 926 for 100 shares on certificate as Ruby City, Okanogan County, to AF Ferris. 1900. 50 cent documentary stamp. 2) Washington. # 221 for 200 shares to Thomas Green. # B317 for 1000 shares to Ernest Sandmann. Donovan on Nov. 25, 1891. Signed by GM Both signed by president Clyde Heller. Both with Hedderich and president JK Clark. 1878 Siler underground mining vignette. Both with no edge, Dollar front and reverese vignette. Datelined corner or discoloration issues. There are a few pin Helena, Montana. Folds. Rips and tears especially top. Listed as in holes. Stuart Mackenzie Montana Mining Collection Est. Washington, but the Daily Independent newspaper of Helena lists it $200-400 HWAC# 123869 under Montana Mines. Must have been right on the border. On May 4, 1890 the Independent says the main shaft is down 90 feet and has Lot# 1634 Townsend, Montana 1896 run into a twelve foot wide fissure wide. Stock for the company has Vose Mining Company Stock Certificate recently jumped to 52 cents a share. A must for any Washington or ”Townsend, Montana” printed under title. Montana collector. Stuart Mackenzie Montana Mining Collection Stuart Inc. in Montana. No. 79, issued for 6,980 shares to Joseph Theobald Mackenzie Montana Ephemera Collection Est. $300-500 HWAC# 123866 on May 1st, 1896. Signed by president F. Radbourne. Not signed by the secretary. Not cancelled. Gold border, black print, and green underprint mining vignette. Folds, creases. 7.25 x 11.25” The company operated in Kimber Gulch, Park Mining District. In December 1890, they were running a 500 ft. tunnel with a 60 ft. deep shaft on the lode. [Salt Lake Tribune, Dec. 31st, 1890] In 1892, they owned the Cora Congdon Mine. The Park District was also known as the Indian Creek and/or the Hassel. Stuart Mackenzie Montana Mining Collection Est. $100- 150 HWAC# 127172 68 February 2021

DAY 1 Thursday, Feb 11 Stocks Part 1: Mining Lot# 1635 Victor, Montana Very Rare Legal Lot# 1639 Walkerville, Montana 1881 Tender Silver Mining Company Stock of Moulton Mining Co. Stock Issued to & Signed Victor, Montana, 1893 # 292 for 1000 shares by W.A. Clark Inc. in the Territory of Utah. No. to David H Dickinson. Datelined Feb. 27, 1893, 285, issued for 10,000 shares to Clark & Larobie in 1881 in New York. Missoula. Signed by vice president HD Moore Signed by WA Clark as president and asst. secretary Moore. Stamp and JH Fairchild. Unusual design of Missoulian and punch cancelled. Black border and print, mining and allegorical Print. Eagle vignette and fancy title area. Gold vignettes. ABN. 7 x 11” Folds, pinholes, creases. WA Clark was one seal. Vertical horizontal and vertical folds. of the three Butte “Copper Kings.” Clark worked mining in Colorado One pin hole at fold intersection. Light staining. Overall very nice. before heading for the Montana Gold Rush. He was more successful as Located in the beautiful Bitterroot Valley, Victor is nestled between a trader than miner at first. Later, he went into banking in Deer Lodge, the Bitterroot Mountain Range, the Bitterroot River, and the Sapphire Montana, repossessing defaulted mining claims. Slowly, he became a Mountain Range. Named for Chief Victor of the Salish tribe. Stuart powerful mining force. He also served as a US Senator from Montana, Mackenzie Montana Mining Collection Est. $150-300 HWAC# 123871 1901-1907. Clark & Larobie (and Donnell) operated a bank together in Butte beginning in 1877. The three had opened a bank in Deer Lodge Lot# 1636 Victor, Montana Victor Mining & in 1869. The Moulton Mining Company operated the “Frank Moulton” Milling Company with three great vignettes claim beginning in 1878. It was located at Walkerville in the Summit Early number 6 for 500 shares to JV Long. Valley Mining District near Butte. Stuart Mackenzie Montana Mining Signed by SV Brobst and president Jos. V Long. Collection Est. $200-300 HWAC# 129652 Dated June 4, 189-. Center vignette is of a steam train with the word ‘VICTOR’ printed on front. Lot# 1640 Walkerville, Montana 1881 Also a smaller mine and smaller mill scene. Moulton Mining Company Stock Signed by “Mines are located in Beef Straight District, WA Clark Inc. in the Territory of Utah. Low Jefferson Co. Montana and consists of five full claims: The New Castle, number 9, issued for 50 shares to Standish Rood in 1881 in New York. Spring Hill, Silver Queen, San Francisco and New State” printed on Signed by WA Clark as president and the secretary. Not cancelled. Black certificate. Black on white and brown border. Left fold has rips (1/2 border and print, mining and allegorical vignettes. ABN. 7 x 11” Folds, inch) at borders. Otherwise a nice looking certificate. Stuart Mackenzie pinholes, creases. WA Clark was one of the three Butte “Copper Kings.” Montana Mining Collection Est. $150-250 HWAC# 123878 Clark worked mining in Colorado before heading for the Montana Gold Rush. He was more successful as a trader than miner at first. Later, Lot# 1637 Virginia City, Montana 1882 he went into banking in Deer Lodge, Montana, repossessing defaulted Alder Gulch Consolidated Mining Co. Stock mining claims. Slowly, he became a powerful mining force. He also Certificate--Number 1 Great stock with three served as a US Senator from Montana, 1901-1907. The Moulton Mining Montana pioneers. Inc. in Montana. Stock number one, issued to Company operated the “Frank Moulton” claim beginning in 1878. It Patrick A. Largey for 320 shares in Virginia City, Montana, June 1882. was located at Walkerville in the Summit Valley Mining District near Signed by president Chas. L. Dahler and secretary Julian M. Knight. Butte. Stuart Mackenzie Montana Mining Collection Est. $200-300 HWAC# Pen cancelled. Signed on the back by Largey. Black border and print. 129651 Elaborate vignette of wagon train in the mountains. Lith. Culver, Page, Hoyne & Co., Chicago. Folds, pinholes, some soiling and toning. 8.25 x Lot# 1641 Warm Springs District, Montana 10.5” The company “own an unbroken space of ground over two miles 1910 Cumberland Gold Mining Company in length above and below the city and extending the whole width of Stock for 3,407 shares making Peter Ross Alder Gulch--an area that cannot be worked out in the next forty years, the majority owner This certificate is for working the greatest number of men that can be profitably employed.” 63,407 2/10 of the 99,999 shares of stock in [New North-West, May 19, 1882] Julian Knight came to Montana the company. Number 256 issued on June 30, in 1866. He ran a hardware business in Virginia City with Henry 1910 in Chicago. Signed by Frank Stephens as Elling. Charles Dahler was a successful Montana pioneer banker and president. Vignette of placer miners finding gold. Printed by Child of businessman. He opened the banking firm of Hussy, Dahler & Co. in Chicago. No corner, edge or discoloration issues. Extremely nice! The Virginia City, Helena, and Salt Lake City. He became largely interested Cumberland mine is in the Gilt Edge sub-district of the Warm Springs in the gold mines of Silver Star, and other properties in the Madison District half a mile northeast of the district’s leading producer, the County area. He eventually acquired eighteen prosperous mines. Spotted Horse. A 150 ton cyanide plant was installed in 1910 to work Patrick Largey, “Butte’s fourth Copper King,” was president of the the low grade ores; the mill featured a crusher, rolls and Wilfley tables State Savings Bank. In 1898, he was shot and murdered in the bank by worked in conjunction with a 100 ton cyanide circuit. From 1910 to miner Thomas Riley. Riley had lost a leg in an 1895 explosion caused 1915 the mine was owned and operated by James Breen who employed by dynamite stored in the warehouses of the Kenyon Connell and 60 to 75 men. The mine was closed in 1912. [Montana Department of Butte Hardware companies, and had blamed Largey for the accident, Environmental Quality] Stuart Mackenzie Montana Mining Collection Est. demanding compensation. Stuart Mackenzie Montana Mining Collection $150-200 HWAC# 123868 Est. $200-400 HWAC# 129626 Lot# 1642 Washoe District, Montana 189- Lot# 1638 Walkerville, Montana 1910 Mammoth Gold Mining Company Stock Moulton Mining Co. Stock Issued to & of Washoe District, Deer Lodge County, Signed by W.A. Clark Inc. in Washington. No. Montana This certificate is a very unique 550, issued for 1,000 shares to W.A. Clark in Butte in 1910. Signed by deign of Geo. D. Barnard of St. Louis. #807. Clark as president and secretary Rickford. Pen cancelled. Signed by Unissued. Pristine. Stuart Mackenzie Montana Clark on the reverse also. Black border and print. 7 x 10.75” Folds. Mining Collection Est. $80-150 HWAC# 123870 WA Clark was one of the three Butte “Copper Kings.” Clark worked mining in Colorado before heading for the Montana Gold Rush. He was more successful as a trader than miner at first. Later, he went into banking in Deer Lodge, Montana, repossessing defaulted mining claims. Slowly, he became a powerful mining force. He also served as a US Senator from Montana, 1901-1907. The Moulton Mining Company operated the “Frank Moulton” claim beginning in 1878. It was located at Walkerville in the Summit Valley Mining District near Butte. Stuart Mackenzie Montana Mining Collection Est. $200-300 HWAC# 129650 View complete catalog, Register, and Bid online at FHWAC.com 69

DAY 1 Thursday, Feb 11 Stocks Part 1: Mining Lot# 1643 White Sulphur Springs, Montana Lot# 1647 Montana 1887 Penn Yan Mining 1890-1896 Two Different White Sulphur Company Stock, Issued, with famous coin Springs, Montana Mining Stocks Lot of vignette The key word here is ISSUED. Many 2 different, both self-identified. White Sulphur Springs is near of these beautiful certificates are unissued. Yellowstone. 1) Amelia Consolidated Mining Company. No. 67, issued Not only is is issued, there are not corner, for 10 0shares in 1890 to Hickliffe T. Buckley. Signed by president edge, pin hole or discoloration issues on this CW Cook and secretary E. Anderson. Not cancelled. Gold border and certificate! Number 80 issued to RB Harrison. seal, green and purple print. Folds. 2) Jumbo Mining & Development Signed by Geo. H Hill and president Henry Hill. Company. No. 18, issued for 1,100 shares to Albert Merrill in 1896. Five coins shown in vignette: 1873 2 1/2c, 1880 five c, 1882 ten cent, Signed by president Seurs and secretary David Powell. Not cancelled. 1876 twenty cent and reverse of silver dollar. The company had its Black border and print. Eagle and floral vignettes. Folds, paperclip headquarters in Helena with the mine located in Wickes (now a ghost stain. Stuart Mackenzie Montana Mining Collection Est. $140-200 HWAC# town). Produced $50,000,000 in gold and silver before operations 113856 ceased in the early 1890’s. Records show the business ran from 1888 to 1892. Stuart Mackenzie Montana Mining Collection Est. $300-500 HWAC# Lot# 1644 White Sulphur Springs, Montana 123882 1892 Yellowstone Mining Company Stock Certificate Fantastic! Inc. in Montana, Sept. Lot# 1648 Winston, Montana 1896 Ajax 1st, 1891. No. 199, issued for 1,000 shares to Nolfork and Richardson Mining Company Stock Certificate Inc. in in White Sulphur Springs on Feb. 6, 1892. Signed by president RW Montana. Low number 4, issued for 2,800 Peters and secretary JE Hensley. Not cancelled. Yellow border, maroon shares to TA Marlow in Helena in 1896. Signed by president William seal, black print, and vignette of elk. No printer listed. Folds, bent left Treacy and secretary AL Smith. Not cancelled. Brown border, black border. 7.25 x 10.75” This was a reincorporation of a mining company print, and eagle vignette. Folds, 4 revenue stamps on the reverse. 8 dating back to 1888. At the meeting to vote on reincorporation, it was x 10” The company owned the famous Stray Horse Mine at Winston. also decided the shaft would be made ready for a cage and driven [The Anaconda Standard, Feb. 11, 1897] Stuart Mackenzie Montana Mining 100 feet deeper from the 300 ft. level. [Independent-Record, Sep. Collection Est. $60-100 HWAC# 129601 22, 1891] The previous company is reported as owning property in the Emigrant and Mill Creek Districts. Mostly copper with some gold Lot# 1649 Montana 1889, 1898 “Cleveland” and silver. Composed of the Ruth, Minnie Moore, Little Ida, Cameron, Mining Companies Stock Certificate Pair Lot Fountain, and Bulldozer Lodes. [Livingston Enterprise, Feb. 11, 1888] of 2 different. 1) Cleveland Mining Company. Stuart Mackenzie Montana Mining Collection Est. $300-500 HWAC# 129609 Inc. in Montana Territory. No. 57, issued in 1889 in Butte City. Signed by president James Reardon and secretary James Leahy. Stamp cancelled. Lot# 1645 Wickes, Montana 1881 Alta Black border and print. Pinholes, folds. The company was based in Montana Company Stock Certificate Signed Butte but the mines (the Cleveland and the Anchor) were located in the by Town Founder Inc. in the Territory of Alton Mining District in Idaho. 2) The Cleveland and Montana Mining Montana. No. 2488, issued for 100 shares to B.G. Bushnell in 1881 Company. “Location of Mine, Jefferson County, Montana” (printed in New York. Signed by president WW Wickes (namesake of Wickes, under title). Inc. in West Virginia. No. 160, issued in 1898 for 10,000 Montana) and secretary Robt. Brooks. Not cancelled. Gorgeous design shares in Cleveland, Ohio. Signed by president WH Taulman and the with black border and print, and two vignettes: train with city and secretary. Not cancelled. Black border and print, eagle vignette. Six mines in the background on a mountain (top center) and miners adhesive revenue stamps. Deep folds, toning. Stuart Mackenzie Montana working underground (bottom center). Printed by ABN. Pinholes, very Mining Collection Est. $140-200 HWAC# 129604 clean. 7 x 10.5” This mine is one of the oldest in Montana. The Alta was discovered in 1869. Walter Wickes (president of this company) and Lot# 1650 Montana Afro-American Mining other New York capitalists arrived in the late 1870s, took over the Alta, and Milling Company Stock with Charles and platted out the camp of Wickes. In 1880, the company reorganized. F. Jones, the Montana colored mining man They owned the Alta, David Copperfield, and Rocky Bar lodes. [See a as president This is a rare mining venture by detailed report in the Jan. 1st, 1880 Helena Weekly Herald] The mill African Americans. # 124 for 385 shares to of the Alta was burned down in 1882, and Sam Houser stepped in Retta Vitt. Signed by James D. Yancey secretary and rebuilt it. The Alta Mine stopped operating in the 1890s. Wickes and Charles F. Jones president. In 1902 the nearly burned down in 1901 and 1902. Stuart Mackenzie Montana Mining New Age newspaper of Butte reported “C. F. Collection Est. $150-300 HWAC# 127177 Jones, the colored mining man....will control some twenty of more claims in Silver Bow, Madison, Jefferson and Teton counties...” In 1906 Lot# 1646 Wickes, Montana 1897 Penn Yan the company was reincorporated with /3 interest in Bessie Brooks Company Stock Certificate Rare variety of and Big Western and full ownership of six other lodes. [Butte Miner] this famous mining company. The other stock Abraham Lincoln vignette. Printer: McKee Printing Co., Butte. In form is the one with all the coin vignettes on it. The Penn Yan Mining 1907 the Mining and Engineering World ads more information. The Company was headquartered in Helena, Montana, with its mines company board was entirely colored men. The had 5 claims at Willow at Wickes, now a ghost town in Jefferson County. No. 48, issued for Creek in Lewis & Clark county and 5 in Madison county. Stuart Mackenzie 1,665 shares to Geo. H. Hill in 1897 in Helena. Signed by president HW Montana Mining Collection Est. $100-200 HWAC# 130001 Parker(?) and secretary Kay. Not cancelled. Green border, black print, and eagle vignette. Folds. 8 x 9.75” Printed by Ross & Frank, Helena. Lot# 1651 Montana 1882 Amy & Silversmith Stuart Mackenzie Montana Railroad Collection Est. $100-150 HWAC# 127158 Consolidated Mining Company Stock - NUMBER 1 Number 1 for 350 shares to James Farry. Signed by president Hiram Knowles and secretary George (?). Certificate is in poos condition, but it is NUMBER 1 and early 1882! Incorporated March 15, 1881. Three underground mining vignettes. Breuker & Kessler lithographers. Cancelled in red pen. In 1886 the stock was quoted at 25 cents. [Butte Miner] Stuart Mackenzie Montana Mining Collection Est. $100-200 HWAC# 130005 70 February 2021

DAY 1 Thursday, Feb 11 Stocks Part 1: Mining Lot# 1652 Montana Mineral, Lincoln, Lot# 1656 Montana 1890-1948 Montana Flathead 1900’s Mining Stocks, Montana Mining Stock Certificate Collection Lot of Lot of eight. 1) Lincoln County. 1903 West 10 different. Includes: Elizabeth Mining Co. Fisher Gold. # 296 for 6,800 shares. JF Little(?) (1890, Morgan silver dollar vignettes); Eastern Montana Mining & president. Sailing ship vignette. 2) Libby, Smelting Co. (Bozeman, 1904); Rock O’Ages Gold Mines Inc. (1937); Lincoln. 1906 Illinois Gold Mining and Milling. Basin Gold & Silver MC (1919); Basin Goldfields, Limited (unissued); 10,000 shares to Dr. R. Dailey. Datelined Libby. Jardine Mining Co. (1948); Jefferson Mines Co. (1922); Legal Tender Three mining vignettes. 3) Superior, Mineral. Consolidated Mines Co. (1920); Miles City Oil Refinery Co. (1922); and 1910 Iron Mountain Tunnel. Was bought by Federal Mining & Smelting Republic Coal Co. (unissued). Ken Prag Collection Est. $200-300 HWAC# in 1915 in receiver’s sale. Also Libby, Lincoln, Vermiculite & Asbestos 113984 Company, 1920, comes with 1931 letter of purchasing property. . LaSalle, Flathead, Gorgeous La Salle Mining and Development, Mining Lot# 1657 Montana 1899-1913 Montana vignette. Spring Gulch District, Mineral, #3, 1926 Amalgamated Metals. Placer Mining Stock Certificate Collection Libby Lincoln, 1920, #10 Double Mack Mining. St. Regis District Lot of seven. 1) King Solomon Quartz and Mineral, #A6, 1925, Boston Colby Copper, complex mining vignette. Placer Mining Company. # 89 for 1000 shares Most of these have no edge, corner, pin hole or discoloration issues. to EC Ulman(?) on August 30, 1899. Signed by Stuart Mackenzie Montana Railroad Collection Est. $100-200 HWAC# 123994 H. Burk? as Vice president and H.T. Tobey as Secretary. 5c purple documentary stamp. Seal Lot# 1653 Montana 1883, 1894 Montana and vice president’s name have been cut cancelled. This company Coal Mining Stock Certificate Pair Lot of 2 was one of a number of predecessor companies operating in the different. 1) Bozeman Coal Company. No. 22, Bear Gulch area later absorbed into the Jardine Mining Company issued for 35 shares to James H. Paddack in 1883. Signed by president in 1917. 2) Georgetown Placer Mining Company. Self identified as Hoffman and sect. Sherman. Punched signatures. Folds, pinholes, Georgetown. NUMBER 17 for 8,571 shares to Louis King. Signed by stains. 4 x 7” Owned the Chestnut Mine. 2) The Gilchrist Coal Company. N Sheahan president. Not cancelled. 3) Horse Shoe Mining Company. No. 11, issued for 79,000 shares to secretary Jas. Smith in Helena in Number 129 for 300 shares. Names and numbers are faded. Located 1894. Also signed by president R. Lockey. Not cancelled. Mining at Iron Mountain near Superior. 4) South Fork Gold Mining Company, vignette. Folds, creases. toning. 8 x 10.25” Owned a 180 acre coal NUMBER 16 for 2000 shares to Thomas Couch Jr. Signed by president field at Toston, 40 miles from Helena. Stuart Mackenzie Montana Mining McDonaugh. 5-6) Western Montana Placer Mining Company. Numbers Collection Est. $60-120 HWAC# 129625 248 and 363 issued in 1900 and 1901. Signed by president HE Girling. 7) Perhaps the most striking piece! Meadow Creek Place Mining Lot# 1654 Montana 1907-1928 Montana Company of Helena Montana. 18--. Unissued and perhaps a printer’s Coal Mining Stock Certificate Collection 1) sample with hole punched at president’s name. Stuart Mackenzie NUMBER 2 for 10 shares in the Medicine Lodge Montana Railroad Collection Est. $120-250 HWAC# 123987 Coal Company. Signed by William Logan. 1922. Dateline Helena. 2) # 12 for 50 shares in the Lot# 1658 Montana 1919-1926 Montana National Fuel Company. Singed by GE Coleman. Rock-related Stock Certificates Lot of 2 1918. Green $1.00 documentary stamp. 3-5) different. 1) Montana Iceland Spar Company. Three Havre Coal Mining stocks. Signed by John Stock no. 30, issued for 50 shares to secretary JE Reed in 1919. Signed Small in 1907 and 1908. Located at Havre. 6) by Reed and president Thomas J Welch. Not cancelled. Black border Bear Creek Coal. # 135. 1909. Located in Carbon County near Billings. and print, gold seal, and eagle vignette. “Iceland spar” is a clear variety 7) Carbon Coal and Coke. # 18 for 8,384 shares to George Nelson. of calcium carbonate. The company mined this rare mineral at Big Signed by president Nelson. 1917. 8) Montana Mutual Coal. 1928. Timber, with their mine office in Butte. [Anaconda Standard, Oct. 9) Unissued Foster Creek Coal. # 11. Located 50 miles south of Miles 15, 1918] 2) Feeley Granite Company. Handwritten stock number 1, City. 1) Unissued Republic. # 18. 90-. Stuart Mackenzie Montana Railroad issued in 1926 for 2,500 shares. Pen cancelled. Green border and seal, Collection Est. $120-200 HWAC# 123984 black print, and allegorical vignette. Attached to a letterhead for the Butte Tombstone Company about transfer of ownership of this stock. Lot# 1655 Montana Montana Large Stuart Mackenzie Montana Mining Collection Est. $60-100 HWAC# 127594 Collection of Mining Stocks - 32! Although all are unissued there are treasures, it is a ride Lot# 1659 Montana 1900-s to 1920’s South through Montana mining history. Includes / Central Montana Mining Stocks (Remote stocks with Double digit certificate numbers: Counties # 1) Lot of fourteen. Fergus County: Minnie R G&S, Butte-Corbin (Helena DL Bullard Extension 1905 Kendall. Cascade dateline), Montana Consolidated (Butte DL), County: Tenderfoot Copper 1922 Tenderfoot Timber Butte, Washington Butte, South park M&R (Butte DL). Others Creek. Musselshell County: Carpenter Creek are Minnesota and Montana (Missoula)m Plymouth (Greenhorn, 1921. Carbon County: Gold-Black Sand Mining Lewis & Clark), Pine Ridge (Marysville), Cooper Creek (Thompson 1925 Clark Fork District. Broadwater County: De Lome Gold 1920 Falls, Sanders), Montana Clinton (Ellison, Powell on Telegraph Creek Radersburg, Stockton Copper 1901 Radersburg, Ohio Keating Gold ), Butte Georgetown, New General Sheridan, Little Ben, Peerless 1912. Keating Gold 1909 Radersburg. Park County: West Fork 1909 Queen (Helena DL), St. Helena (Helena DL), Blue Cloud, Montana Livingston, Chico Mining 1913 Chico, Jardine Mining 1936 Jardine, Reliance, New York Bonanza, Snowshoe Copper, Mining Development Butte Jardine Metals1924 Jardine, Trelour Arsenic Gold Trust Jardine, Corporation, Montana Yerington. AND they are almost all in excellent Jar9ine Mining 1935 Jardine. Stuart Mackenzie Montana Railroad Collection condition with no issues. Stuart Mackenzie Montana Railroad Collection Est. Est. $180-350 HWAC# 123972 $200-350 HWAC# 123985 View complete catalog, Register, and Bid online at FHWAC.com 71

DAY 1 Thursday, Feb 11 Stocks Part 1: Mining Lot# 1660 Montana 1881-1895 Three Lot# 1665 Montana 1889-1891 Two Different Different Montana Mining Stocks: Black Montana Mining Stocks: Muldoon SMC Pine, Atlantic & Pacific, Last Chance Lot of 3 and Buckeye M&MC Lot of 2 different. Both different. 1) Black Pine Mining Company. Deer Lodge County, Montana issued in Butte. 1) Buckeye Mining and Milling Company. Operated at (printed under title). Issued in 1887 for 50 shares, not cancelled. Blue Thompson River, Missoula County. No. 112, issued for 250 shares to print. Folds. 2) Atlantic & Pacific Mining Company. Pony, Madison John Kinney in 1889 in South Butte. Signed by president AA Pickens County. Issued in 1895 for 20 shares. Not cancelled. Black border and and sect. H. Kennedy. Not cancelled. Red border, blue print. Pinholes, print. Folds. 3) Last Chance Consolidated Silver Mining Co., Ltd. No. deep folds with some separation, some toning. 2) Muldoon Silver 595, issued in 1881 for 350 shares. Not cancelled. Folds, soiling and Mining Company. “Mines and Works located in Silver Bow County” toning. Possibly a Utah mine. Stuart Mackenzie Montana Railroad Collection (printed under title). No. 200, issued for 2,000 shares to Gable & Est. $160-300 HWAC# 127153 Nichols in 1891 in Butte City. Signed by president Jeremiah Roach and the secretary. Not cancelled. Blue border and print. Deep folds. Stuart Lot# 1661 Montana 1890-1899 Three Mackenzie Montana Railroad Collection Est. $120-200 HWAC# 127167 Different Montana Mining Stocks: Montana Carbonate, Bear Gulch, Basin Lot of 3 Lot# 1666 Montana 1890-1906 Two different. 1) Montana Carbonate Mining Company. No. 16, issued for Different Montana Mining Stocks: Potosi 3,000 shares to Oliver Brooks in 1890. Signed by president James MC and Farrel Copper Co. Lot of two different, Hall and the secretary. Cut-out cancelled. Black print on yellow paper. both issued in Butte. 1) Potosi Mining Company. No. 107, issued for Folds, tear. Possibly located in the Alhambra mining district, also 1,000 shares to CM Ulrich in Butte City, 1890. Signed by president called the Warm Springs district, ten miles southeast of Helena. 2) John Curran and secretary S.R. Graves. Not cancelled. Black print on Bear Gulch Mining Company. No. 686, issued for 250 shares in 1899. blue paper. Folds, light wear. The Potosi Mining District was located Signed by president Bush and the secretary. Stamp cancelled. Black about 14 miles southwest of Pony at the headwaters of the South Fork border and print, gold seal, and multiple mining vignettes. Very good of Willow Creek on the eastern slope of the Tobacco Root Mountain condition. Located in the Jardine District, in the vicinity of the town of range. Silver discovered around 1875. In 1890, the Potosi was Jardine in the upper Yellowstone River valley. 3) Basin Gold & Copper described as a new mining camp connected to the outside world by Mining Co. Basin, Montana. Issued in 1899, not cancelled. Signed by a 12 mile trail. 2) Farrel Copper Company. Butte. No. 94, issued for president Smith and the secretary. Brown border and seal, mining 500 shares to AL Stone in 1906. Signed by president Walter Lewis and vignette. Pinholes, folds. Stuart Mackenzie Montana Railroad Collection Est. the asst. secretary. Not cancelled. Black border and print, gold seal, $120-200 HWAC# 127152 multiple mining vignettes. Deep folds. Stuart Mackenzie Montana Mining Collection Est. $120-200 HWAC# 113867 Lot# 1662 Montana 1890, 1893 Two Different Damaged Montana Mining Stocks Lot# 1667 Montana 1896-1897 Two Different Lot of 2 different. Both need conservation. 1) Montana Mining Stocks: Salmon River MC The Eureka Gold & Silver Mining Company. Issued in 1890 for 6,250 and Pauper’s Dream Lot of 2 different. 1) shares to Joseph Cook in Philipsburg. Signed by president Huffman Salmon River Mining Company of Silver Bow County, Montana. Low and secretary HF Titus. Not cancelled. Mining vignette. Right third of number 6, issued to E. Wyman for one share in 1897. Signed by stock is detached. 2) Silver Glance Mining Company. Issued for 100 president T.J. Bliss and secretary HM Reynolds. Not cancelled. Blue shares in 1893 in Butte. Signed by president CA Krodel and secretary border and print. Pinholes, folds. 2) Pauper’s Dream Mining and HH Krodel. Not cancelled. Upper left corner detached, folds, tears. See Milling Company. Mines at Dreamland, Montana (printed near seal). pictures. Stuart Mackenzie Montana Mining Collection Est. $80-150 HWAC# Low number 14, issued for 12,500 shares to CW Ellingwood in 1896. 129607 Signed BY president Geo. H. Tong and the secretary. Not cancelled. Black border and print, gold seal, vignette of locomotive passing by Lot# 1663 Montana 1891-1899 Two Different mines. Serious condition issues with tape repairs and large tears that Mining Company Stocks with “Montana” in need TLC. Very rare location. Stuart Mackenzie Montana Railroad Collection their Name Lot of 2 different with Montana in Est. $100-150 HWAC# 127150 their name. 1) Montana & Idaho Mining & Reduction Company. Based in Toston, Montana, and owned the Lee Mountain Mine near Rimini. Lot# 1668 Montana 1882, 1891 Two Different No. 238, issued for 23 shares to FL Todd in Dec. 1891. Signed by the Montana Mining Stocks: Silver Bill and Bell president (illegible) and secretary. Punch cancelled. Black border and Silver Lot of two different. 1) Bell Silver & print, underprint design. Folds, heavy soiling, tape repairs. 2) Montana Copper Mining Company. Butte. No. 1088, issued for 100 shares to JF & Denver Reduction Company. Missoula. No. 72, issued for 625 shares Duffy in 1882 in Butte. Signed by president CT Meader and sec. Wm. to Jas. G. Hickey in 1899. Signed by president William Wood and the Jack. Not cancelled. Black border and print and Liberty Bell vignette! secretary. Not cancelled. Red border and seal, black print, and three Printed by LF Lawrence & CO., Boston. Deep folds, some toning and mining vignettes.Pinholes, folds. Stuart Mackenzie Montana Railroad soiling. 2) Silver Bill Mining Company. Livingston. No. 330, issued for Collection Est. $120-200 HWAC# 127156 1,000 shares to Geo. Chambers in 1891. Signed by president Eaton and secretary Hoopes. Not cancelled. Black border and print, gold seal, Lot# 1664 Montana 1889-1890 Two Different and underground mining vignette. Folds, light wear. Stuart Mackenzie Montana Mining Stocks: Bedford MC and Montana Mining Collection Est. $150-250 HWAC# 113863 Great Canadian Lot of 2 different. 1) Great Canadian Gold & Silver Mining & Milling Company. Formed in Butte. Lot# 1669 Montana Unissued Montana Possibly located there or Jefferson County. Inc. No. 251, issued for 515 Mining Stocks, pre-1900 Lot of 7 different. shares to FW Rogers in 1890. Signed by president J. Chauvin and the While unissued, these can help fill holes in your secretary. Not cancelled. Black print on yellow paper. Folds. 2) Bedford collection. Sometimes, only unissued pieces are known. Includes: Flint Mining Company. Helena (printed under title). Low no. 11, issued for Creek Mining Co. (Butee, 1890s, fabulous Morgan Dollar vignettes); 66,667 shares to Henry Elling, Virginia City, Montana pioneer. Signed Rock Creek Ditch & Mining Co. (Deer Lodge, 1880s); Luxembourg by the president and secretary. Not cancelled. Not endorsed by Elling. M&MC (1880s, signed by the president); Maginnis MC; Bannock Ditch Maroon border, nice mining vignette. Big condition issues including & MC (two different); and Montana & Idaho Mining & Reduction Co. soiling, tears and portions missing. Stuart Mackenzie Montana Mining (1890s). Stuart Mackenzie Montana Saloon Billhead Collection Est. $100- Collection Est. $100-150 HWAC# 113869 200 HWAC# 129571 72 February 2021

DAY 1 Thursday, Feb 11 Stocks Part 1: Mining Lot# 1670 Montana Western Montana Lot# 1676 Como, Lyon County, Nevada 1883 Mining Stocks (Remote Counties # 2) Lot Como Eureka Gold & Silver Mining Co. Stock of ten. Sanders County: Montana Standard Certificate Inc. 1881. Palmyra and Indian 1903 (by 1911 had 9 claims with a 1,800’ Springs Mining District, Lyon County, Nev. (printed at the top of the tunnel), Vermillion Silver and Lead 1919 certificate). Stock No. 156, issued for 665shares to trustee, Herman on on Trout Creek, Ambassador 1931 on Trout May 15, 1883 in San Francisco. Signed by EW Leonard president and Creek. Ravalli County Ore Finder Copper 1909, secretary Herman. Not cancelled. Gold Border, black print, no vignette. Hamilton. Powell County: Copper Boy 1905. Crocker & Co.’s print, SF. Folds, light wear. 4.25 x 9.75” The Palmyra Cascade County, Great Falls: Great Falls Gold Mining District was located at the north end of the Pine Nut Mountains, unissued, Great Falls & Judith 1911. Teton County: Imperial Montana extending generally from Lyon Peak on the south to the Carson River Copper 1902 Blackfoot (dead by 1910), Silver Bow County: Bluebird on the north. The Indian Springs district was organized in 1860. The Consolidated 1929 (one of the world’s largest silver mines).Bedford Palmyra district, which included the towns of Palmyra and Como, was Consoldiated and Smelting 1901 Virginia City. Stuart Mackenzie Montana organized in 1862 in the Pine Nut Mountains 8 miles southeast of Railroad Collection Est. $160-250 HWAC# 123986 Dayton between the Sullivan (to the southwest) and Indian Springs (to the northeast) districts. Ken Prag Collection Est. $120-150 HWAC# Lot# 1671 Montana Seventeen 1930’s 113977 and 40’s Montana Mining Stocks Includes NUMBER 1 Dutchman 1949, # 14 Magpie 1934, Lot# 1677 Palmyra Mining District, Lyon # 20 Menomont Exploration and Development County, Nevada 1863 Invincible Gold & 1940. Also Young Promise Mining & Chemical Silver Mining Co., Nevada Territory, Stock 1946, Inspiration Gold 1930, Moonlight Certificate We have not offered this before! Location: Palmyra Mining 1947, Golden West 1930, White Sulpher 1980, Western Mines 1939, District, Lyon County, N.T. (printed under title). Inc. July 25, 1863. Rademont 1947, Olamont 1949, National Boston Montana 1933, Dateline Dayton, August 24th, 1863. No. 67, issued for 10 shares to L.F. Montana Thermin 1930, Broadgauge-Tamarack 1932, Glengarry 1931, Collins. Signed by president ID Cross and secretary JS Van Down(?). and Montana Chicago 1941 Stuart Mackenzie Montana Railroad Collection Not cancelled. Black border and print, three vignettes: mining scene Est. $100-150 HWAC# 123995 (center), eagle on shield (left), and miner with flag (right). Printed by Towne & Bacon, S.F. 20 cent and 5 cent stamps, tied pen cancel. Lot# 1672 Aurora, Nevada 1864 Consolidated Folds, creases, a few small stains. 5.5 x 10” None are listed in the 1864 Silver Hill Mining Company Stock Certificate Comstock Collins directory. The Palmyra Mining District was located Stock certificate #994 issued to A.L. Chamberlin at the north end of the Pine Nut Mountains, extending generally from for ten shares in the Consolidated Silver Hill Lyon Peak on the south to the Carson River on the north. The district, Mining Company. Mining vignette, lithography which included the towns of Palmyra and Como, was organized in by Britton & Co. S.F. Ken Prag Collection Est. 1862 in the Pine Nut Mountains 8 miles southeast of Dayton between $500-1000 HWAC# 127948 the Sullivan (to the southwest) and Indian Springs (to the northeast) districts. Ken Prag Collection Est. $400-600 HWAC# 113980 Lot# 1673 Austin, Nevada Roman Brothers Silver Mining Co Bond, Reese River, 1866 Lot# 1678 Comstock, Silver City, Nevada 1923- Inc. in 1864 in New York. Bond cert. No.7, 25 Spearhead Gold Mining Company Stock issued for $500 in 1866. Signed by the president, James B. Taylor, and Certificates Lot of 3 different. Issued 1923, the treasurer Wm. L. Shardlow. Printed on parchment paper. This is a 1924, and 1925.”Mine at Silver City, Nevada” rare piece. Not cancelled. Printed by Anson Herrick & Sons, Nassau. printed on all 3. One has a photo vignette of the Not listed in Raymond. According to an 1867 New York court case, mine. None cancelled. Folds, two have pinholes. the mining property was located near Austin. The company’s two Ansari notes this was located 1/2 mile north of ledges of silver ore were called the Romulus and the Remus (hence Silver City and reported production during the 1930s. Fred Holabird the company’s name). There are 10 coupons attached at the bottom. Collection Est. $60-90 HWAC# 129859 Rough top edge and folds. Still VF. Est. $200-400 HWAC# 128797 Lot# 1679 Comstock, Nevada 1905-09 Brunswick” Lot# 1674 Bullfrog, Nevada 1906 Bullfrog, Comstock Mining Stock Certificates Lot of 3 Nevada Mining Stock Certificate Pair Lot of different. The Brunswick Lode (previously called 2 different. 1) Nevada Bullfrog Midas Mining the Occidental or Monte Cristo Lode) was 1.25 Company. Inc. in South Dakota. No. 75, issued for 1,000 shares in 1906 miles east of Virginia City and Gold Hill, parallel to to AF Coffin in Beatty, Nevada. Signed by president GA Webster and the Comstock Lode. 1) Brunswick-Savage Mining secretary Jackson. Not cancelled. Black border and print, gold seal. Company. Inc. 1904. Issued in 1905 for 100 shares. Pinholes, folds. 2) Pittsburgh Bullfrog Mining Corporation, Limited. Not cancelled. Black border and print on yellow Mines Located in Bullfrog District, State of Nevada (printed under paper. Pinholes, folds, missing lower left corner. title). No. 2058, issued for 500 shares in 1906. Signed by president 2) Brunswick-Potosi Mining Company. Inc. 1904. William Scott and secretary Bayley. Not cancelled. Green border, black Issued in 1905 for 500 shares. Not cancelled. Black border and print on print, and vignette of allegorical women. Pinholes, heavy folds. Ken yellow paper. Pinholes, folds, creases, some soiling. 3) The Brunswick Prag Collection Est. $100-150 HWAC# 113969 Consolidated Mining Company. Delaware Mining District, Ormsby Lot# 1675 Bye County, Nevada 1934 Royston County, NV. Issued in 1909. Not cancelled. Signed by two Yeringtons (not Henry). Very poor condition with panel detached but present. Coalition Mines Stock, Royston Nevada Some Fred Holabird Collection Est. $100-200 HWAC# 129869 of the world’s best turquoise has been mined in the Royston district at Royston, Nevada. Royston Coalition Mines stock is issued in 1934. The company inc. in 1933 and took over a property formerly owned by Hudson Mining Co. that produced about $1 million between 1912 and 1922. This gold-silver mine was at Royston. Prior shipments from this mine, pre-1922 ran about $119 per ton. Vignette of a torch. Uncancelled. Fred Holabird Collection Est. $40-60 HWAC# 129861 View complete catalog, Register, and Bid online at FHWAC.com 73

DAY 1 Thursday, Feb 11 Stocks Part 1: Mining Lot# 1680 Comstock, Nevada 1903-57 Post- Lot# 1685 Virginia City, Nevada White Cross 1900 Comstock Mining Stock Group Lot Consolidated Mining Company Stock, Rare of 6 different, all with “Comstock” in their Comstock Find, 1878 Cert. #189, issued for 20 name. Included: Comstock Mines Co. (1903, shares to Edmund Converse and signed by Frank B. Hine as president. not cxl, mining vignette, folds with tape The full name of the company was White Cross Consolidated Mining repairs); Comstock, Ltd. (1931, punch cxl, Co. of Cleveland. Location of mine: Virginia City, Storey County, Nevada folds); Comstock Merger Mines, Inc. (1925, not cxl, staple holes, folds, printed on the masthead. White cross vignette. This is a very rare creases); Comstock, Limited (1957, not cxl, folds and staple holes); comstock lode certificate. The mine had 650 linear feet in 1884, so Comstock Gold Mines Inc. (1937, not cxl, three mining vignettes, folds they were still operating after six years (Mining Record). Has been and creases); and Comstock Silver Mining Co. (1929, not cxl, multiple folded into fourths. Uncanceled. Est. $200-400 HWAC# 128877 mining vignettes, heavy folds). Fred Holabird Collection Est. $80-100 HWAC# 129858 Lot# 1686 Eureka, Nevada 1887 Eureka Consolidated Mining Co. Incorporated July 6, Lot# 1681 Comstock, Nevada 1905-50 Six 1870. Cert # 31135 for 20 shares of common Comstock Mining Stock Certificates Lot of 6 stock @ $100 per share issued Sept. 23, 1887 different, post-1900. Included: Pacific Mining to Wm Fries Jr. signed Wm Fries president. & Developing Company (1905, not cxl, mining Black border, no vignette, 15 dividend stamps on back, bi-fold crease, vignette, folds and toning); Comstock Silver overall good condition. Printer: H.S. Crocker & Co S.F. By the early Mining Company (1926, mining vignettes, 1870s the Eureka Consolidated Mining Company had purchased punch cxl, pinholes and folds); Comstock-Dexter Mines, Inc. (1935, not several additional mines, built five blast furnaces for smelting ore, and cxl, mining vignette, folds and toning); Concordia Virginia Mining Co. constructed a narrow-gauge railroad from the mines to its reduction (1924, not cxl, mining vignettes, folds); Comstock Extension Mining works . Production of the district from 1879-1883 was enormous, and Milling Co. (unissued); and Dayton Cons. Mines Co. (1950, not cxl second only to the Comstock as a source of precious metals in the folds, staple). Fred Holabird Collection Est. $70-100 HWAC# 129857 United States. In protective plastic sleeve. Extra Rare Fred Holabird Collection Est. $150-300 HWAC# 129860 Lot# 1682 Comstock, Gold Hill, Nevada 1865 Alpha Gold Hill Mining Company Stock Lot# 1687 Gold Flat, Nevada 1905 Gold Certificate Inc. Feb. 1863. No. 604, issued for Flat Mining Company Stock Certificate We 8 shares to O. A. Sanborn on July 8th, 1865 in have not seen this location (Gold Flat) before. Gold Hill (the “T” of “NT” has been crossed According to Preserving the Glory Days: Ghost out). Signed by president Alex. Baldwin and Towns and Mining Camps of Nye County, secretary Hale. Pen cancelled signatures. Black Nevada, Hall, Gold Flat was located 3 miles border and print with a nice mining vignette that looks similar to west of Quartzite Mountain (now inside the Gold Hill. Printed by Fishbournes Lithog., SF. 25 cent adhesive stamp Nellis Air Force Base Gunnery Range). Located attached in the bottom center (perhaps later?). The stub for the stock around Pahute Mesa, Gold Flat was originally known as Nixon. Nixon, was attached to the reverse. Folds, creases, discoloration on the left Wingfield, Oddie and Davis owned 32 claims nearby but abadoned a side especially. 5.5 x 9.5” Listed in the 1864 Collins Directory with townsite when the claims proved to be worthless. It was renamed Gold Chas. Foreman as secretary. Alex. Baldwin is not listed. Est. $300-500 Flat in February 1905. It never developed past a tent camp. Stock No. HWAC# 130006 109, issued for 1,000 shares to M.V. Collins on Nov. 20th, 1905. Signed by president P.J. Carney and the secretary. Not cancelled. Maroon Lot# 1683 Gold Hill, Nevada 1874-1910 Gold border, black print, two mining vignettes. 8.25 x 10” Folds, pinholes, Hill & Silver City, Nevada Mining Stock paperclip indentation. Fred Holabird Collection Est. $60-100 HWAC# Collection Lot of 6 different. All self-identified. 129863 Nice group! 1) Curtis Consolidated Mining Company. Gold Hill. Issued in 1880, not cancelled. Excellent condition. 2) Goodman Gold & Silver Lot# 1688 Goldfield, Nevada 1906-1951 Six Mining Company. Devil’s Gate Mining District (Silver City area). Different Goldfield Mining Stock Certificates Issued in 1874. Pen cancelled. Mining vignettes. Folds, bent corner. 3) Lot of 6 different. Includes: Lou Dillon Goldfield Sherwood Consolidated Mining Company. Gold Hill. Issued in 1881, not MC (1906); Goldfield Rex MC (1907); Goldfield Blue Bell MC (1906); cancelled. Deep folds, some toning. 4) Trojan Mining Company. Gold Great Bend Twin MC (1907); Goldfield Kewanas Extension MC (1915); Hill. Issued in 1879, not cancelled. Pinhole, toning. 5) Regent Mining and Goldfield Deep Mines Co. (1951). Please inspect. Ken Prag Collection Company. Devil’s Gate District. Issued in 1881, not cancelled. Pinholes, Est. $100-200 HWAC# 113898 folds, some stains. 6) Lady Washington Consolidated Company. Gold Hill. Issued in 1910, pen and punch cancelled. Folds, torn left corner. Lot# 1689 Humboldt County, Sierra Mining Ken Prag Collection Est. $460-650 HWAC# 113976 District, Nevada 1864 Eclipse Tunnel Company Territorial Stock Certificate Lot# 1684 Virginia City, Nevada 1889 Location: Sierra District, Humboldt County, N.T. (printed under title). Comstock Tunnel Company Bonds Signed Inc. July 1863. No. 280, issued for 5 shares to Brown Irvin. Signed by by Theodore Sutro Lot of 2 different. This secretary Wetzlan (?) and president John McHenry. Not cancelled. was the later name for the Sutro Tunnel in Virginia City, Nevada. Endorsed on back. United States 25c revenue stamp. Ledges listed This company took over after Adolph Sutro sold out and went to San on the stock include Thomas Jefferson, Granite, Lady Washington, Francisco. $500 and $1,000 bonds, issued in 1889, signed by Theodore Lady Madison, Lady Franklin, Eclipse and Eclipse Number 1. Mining Sutro (Adolph’s brother), one punch cancelled, the other cut cancelled. vignette by Loomis. Litho by Towne & Bacon of San Francisco. Excellent Eagle vignette, coupons attached. Ken Prag Collection Est. $120-150 condition. The secretary could possibly be Gustavius Wetzlar. Irvin HWAC# 113961 Brown was a real estate and money agent, according to Langley’s 1864 directory. There are several listings for John M. Henry. This one was possibly a street contractor, according to the same reference. The Sierra District was organized in 1863 across the Buena Vista Valley to the east of Star Peak at the north end of the East Humboldt Range, 10 miles northeast of Mill City. Dun Glen (later named Chafey—or Chaffey—for the mine there) was the business center for the district. The district has been a continuous producer and was fairly profitable. It was in Humboldt County, but with the redrawn county map, it is now in Pershing County. Ken Prag Collection Est. $300-500 HWAC# 113973 74 February 2021

DAY 1 Thursday, Feb 11 Stocks Part 1: Mining Lot# 1690 Lander County, Nevada Lot# 1695 Olinghouse, Nevada 1906 Rare Washington Silver Mining Company Bond, Olinghouse, Nevada Stock Certificate Lander County, NV.- 1867 Beautiful Nevada Stock certificate issued by The Olinghouse mining 1st Mortgage Bond for $500, issued in 1867. The company Development Company to W.L Stevenson for operated in Lander County, Nevada. Fantastic mining vignette at 500 shares at $1 per share. It’s signed by James the top. This is a rare one. Ten coupons attached at the bottom. VF. Canby, secretary and R.H. Cowles, president. Uncanceled. Est. $240-400 HWAC# 128805 It has an elk vignette, much like Hartford Insurance. It doesn’t appear to be canceled. Ken Lot# 1691 Lincoln County, Tem Piute Mining Prag Collection Est. $50-100 HWAC# 127408 District, Nevada 1878 Tem Pahute Land, Mining & Improvement Co. Stock Certificate Lot# 1696 Ralston, Nye County, Nevada 1907 Inc. in Illinois. No. 325, issued for 25 shares to Edward M. Tucke, Ralston Valley Gold & Copper Company Esq., on April 20th, 1878. Signed by the president and secretary. Not Stock Certificate Inc. in South Dakota, 1906. cancelled. Black border and print, gold seal, and nice locomotive No. 97, issued in Manhattan, Nevada for 1,000 shares to SE Hicks on vignette. Printed by Western Bank Note & Eng. Co., Chicago. 8 x 11”Deep Feb. 2nd, 1907. Signed by president JJ Griffen and secretary Lawrence. folds, pinholes, some staining. While based in Chicago, this company Not cancelled. Black border and print, gold seal, and three mining operated mines in the Tem Piute (or Tem Pahute or Tempiute) Mining vignettes. Folds. Ralston (not to be confused with “Royston” of Nevada District of Lincoln County, Nevada. The company owned the following turquoise fame) is now a small ghost town in Nye County that was on mines: the Sleeper, Poorman, Enterprise, Cadwallader, Bond, Hope, the Las Vegas and Tonopah Railroad. Ken Prag Collection Est. $50-80 Old Point Comfort, Mint, El Rekab, Dun Barton, and Cliff. Assays show HWAC# 113978 “exceedingly rich ore” [Report of the Nevada State Mineralogist, 1879]. Silver was discovered in 1865, but water availability made it difficult Lot# 1697 Reno, Nevada 1892-1925 Reno to mine. Ken Prag Collection Est. $200-400 HWAC# 113912 Area Mining Stock Certificates Lot of 4 different. Included: Reno Divide Mining Co. Lot# 1692 Luning, Nevada 1909-29 Stock (1919); Pritchett & Dahl Mining Co. (1907); Burnham Chemical Co. Certificates from Luning, Nevada (15) Lot of (1925); and California-Nevada Creamery Co. (1892). Ken Prag Collection 15. From Luning, Nevada with some nice ones. Est. $100-150 HWAC# 113845 1) Includes three from the Nevada Ore and Copper Co. issued in two diff. formats. 1909, Lot# 1698 Reveille, Nye County, Nevada 1911, and 1916. 4) Goldfield-Luning Cons. 1877 Gila Silver Mining Company Stock Mines Corporation. 1926. 3 mining vignettes. 5) Calavada Copper Certificate Rare location. Location: Reveille Company. 1919. Mining vignette with research. 6)American Copper Mining District, Nye County, Nevada. Inc. 1875. No. 8639, issued Company. Issued 1929. Mining vignette. 7) Nevada Marble Company, for 100 shares to HH Noble & Co. in 1877. Signed by the president 1909. Marble stocks are highly collectible. Stain near top of right fold. (illegible) and secretary Elias. Not cancelled. Black border and print, 8) The Wedge Copper Mining Company, 1916, no vignette. 9) Nenzel underground mining vignette. No printer listed. Two corners trimmed. Crown Point Mining Company, 1916. Mining vignettes. Offices at Folds, pinholes, creases. 5 x 9.75” Reveille started in the mid-1860s Lovelock. 10-12) Luning Cons. Silver Mines Co. issued 1920 and 1922 and died out by 1880. It is now a ghost town. Ken Prag Collection Est. with one unissued. Underground mining vignette. 13) Luning Gold $200-400 HWAC# 113968 Mines Company, 1913. Three mining vignettes. Treasury stock. 14) Lot# 1699 Royston, Nevada 1934 Royston Luning- Idaho Mining Company, 1916. Three mining vignettes. 15) Coalition Mine Stocks and Docs Incorporated American Copper Company, U/I. Condition of the lot overall is very good. Fred Holabird Collection Est. $120-200 HWAC# 129862 Nevada 1933. I/U #422 SE Williams 500 shares issued 1934. Signed Pres and Sec. Blue border Lot# 1693 Manhattan, Nevada 1906-1917 and blu embossed seal. Lighted torch vignette. Manhattan, Nevada Mining Stock Certificate Also 1951 Board of Directors meetingand 1956 Collection Lot of 13, most different. Included: estate transfer letters on company letterhead, Manhattan Monarch Mines Co. (1906); Manhattan Gold Wedge MC 1959 stockholder report Fred Holabird Collection (1906); Manhattan Catbird MC (1906); Chipmunk GMC (1906); Est. $80-100 HWAC# 129815 Manhattan Yankee Boy MC (1917); Manhattan Virginia GMC (1906); Lot# 1700 Tonopah, Nevada 1903-1927 Manhattan Silver Pick GMC (two issued in 1907, silver pick vignette); Tonopah Mining Stock Group Plus a Canyon Milling Co. of Manhattan, Nevada (1908); Dexter Union Mines Railroad Piece Lot of 6, most different. Co. (1912); Manhattan Central MC (1906); Manhattan Treadwell GMC (1906); and Little Joe GMC of Manhattan (1906). Ken Prag Collection Est. Includes: Tonopah Divide Mining Co. (1919); New California-Tonopah $300-500 HWAC# 113979 MC (1920 and 1927); Princess Maude Gold Mining Co. (1903); Gold Reef Consolidated Gold & Silver MC (1905); and a rare, unissued stock Lot# 1694 Nye County, Nevada 1920-29 for the Tonopah & Goldfield Railroad Company. Ken Prag Collection Est. Nevada Mining Stocks, All Certificates #1 $100-150 HWAC# 113899 Lot of 3. This is a great chance to get three great #1 stock certificates from Nevada miners. 1) Lafayette Central Mines Company, cert. #1, issued in 1920. Principal office: Tonopah, Nevada. Uncancelled. 2) Old Nevada Silver Mines, Inc, cert. #1, issued in 1929 for 340,000 shares! Small paper loss on top edge. Unc. 3) Tonopah Extension Mines, Inc., cert. #1, Unissued but signed by the company officers. Fred Holabird Collection Est. $150-300 HWAC# 129855 View complete catalog, Register, and Bid online at FHWAC.com 75

DAY 1 Thursday, Feb 11 Stocks Part 1: Mining Lot# 1701 Tuscarora, Nevada Tuscarora Lot# 1706 Nevada Nevada Mining Stock Trading Company Stock, Rare Cert. #1, Group (7) Lot of seven includes two from Nevada, 1889 Rare certificate from Tuscarora Paymaster Mining Co. of Nevada, 1905, ghost town and a #1 certificate as well! This colorful historic camp Esmeralda County; two from Brunswick-Gould & Curry, issued in originated with an 1867 discovery of placer gold by John and Steven 1910 (not commonly seen), Silver Pick Consolidated Mines, 1918, Beard. In 1871 W.O. Weed discovered the rich Mount Blitzen silver Goldfield; Old Kaintuck-Goldfield Mining & Milling Company, 1908, lodes, two miles northeast of the Beard claims. These and other mines Goldfield, Nevada; Goldfields Syndicate Mining Company, (AZ), 1906, were in the Tuscarora Mining District, which experienced its boom and Harmill Divide Mining Company, 1920, Divide District (damaged). between 1872 and 1874 and ultimately produced between $10 and Condition of the others is VG+ to F. None are canceled. Est. $200-400 $40 million. At its peak, Tuscarora boasted a population of over 3,000 HWAC# 129501 (westernmininghistory.com). One of the oldest grocery stores in town, George Peltier and Company, was sold and renamed the Tuscarora Lot# 1707 Nevada Three Mining Stocks from Trading Company. Later, in October 1989, the Elko and Tuscarora California-Nevada Border Area Lot includes Trading companies merged and formed the Elko-Tuscarora Mercantile Oriental Gold Mining Company, 1881, Gold Company. George Peltier was also the towns postmaster (scripophily. Mountain District, Hayseed Mining Company, 1907, issued at Rhyolite. com). The certificate was signed as president by Geo. A. Peltier and F.A. Mines at Lee, Echo mining district. Also, California-Nevada Mining Peltier as secretary. Cert. #1, issued for 5 shares to Robt. Hobbs. VF. Company, preferred stock issued in 1903. Very large size certificate, Uncanceled. Est. $200-400 HWAC# 128884 issued at Los Angeles. Est. $200-300 HWAC# 128789 Lot# 1708 New Jersey Union Phosphate Lot# 1702 Tuscarora, Elko County, Nevada Mining & Land Company Stock, New Jersey, 1880-1887 Tuscarora, Nevada Mining 1885 Cert. #517, issued in 1885 for 100 Stock Certificate Trio Lot of 3 different, shares. Nice vignette of miners working above ground with their picks. all self-identified. Scarce. 1) Commonwealth Consolidated Mining The company incorporated in 1883. The company mined phosphate in Co. “Veritas” and “All Alone” Mines. Issued in 1880, not cancelled. Ottawa County. Black on creme. VF. Uncanceled. Est. $200-400 HWAC# Allegorical vignette. Heavy folds, creases. 2) Elko Consolidated Mining 128879 Co. Issued in 1882, not cancelled. Small mining vignette. Pinholes, folds. 3) Argenta Mining Co. Issued in 1887, not cancelled. Pinholes, Lot# 1709 New Mexico New Mexico Mining folds. Ken Prag Collection Est. $200-300 HWAC# 113970 Stocks and Bonds (3) Three pieces. 1) New Mexico Mining Company, issued stock from Lot# 1703 White Pine County, Nevada 1881- 1867 for 100 shares. Mines at Ortiz, New Mexico Territory. Cert. #406. 1912 White Pine County, Nevada Mining Uncanceled. 2) Nacimiento Copper Company, 6%, gold bond, 1881. Stock Trio Lot of 3 different. 1) Exchange Operated at Bernalillo, New Mexico Territory. Cert. #926. Twenty Silver Mining & Milling Company. Extra rare. Issued for 100 shares in coupons attached. VF. Uncanceled. 3) Tularosa Copper Company, 1881. Signed by president William Hl. Guion(?) and secretary Gallaher. 1909. New York Bank Note. The company operated in Otero County, Not cancelled. Black border and print. Folds. 2) Kimberly Consolidated New Mexico. In 1921, an oil well was drilled in the Tularosa mine and Mines Company. Issued in 1912 for 500 shares. Signed by president struck black gold. That’s one we’ve never heard before! Est. $200-350 Frank Bar and the secretary. Not cancelled. Black border and print. HWAC# 128832 Folds, toning. 3) Original Hidden Treasure Mining Company. Unissued. Ken Prag Collection Est. $150-250 HWAC# 113971 Lot# 1710 New Mexico 1900’s New Mexico Territory Smelting & Milling Company Stock Lot# 1704 Nevada 1925 Eldorado Wood and Certificate Rare stock certificate presented by Flume Co. Stock Eldorado Wood and Flume The Bayard Smelting & Milling Company . It Co. Stock Certificate issued to Ogden Mills is unissued and has all its coupons intact. It is (1856-1929), son of capitalist Darius Ogden signed but signatures are illegible, not a matter of Mills (1825-1910), Feb 9, 1925. Incorporated condition, I’m just calligraphy challenged. There in 1875 in Nevada, EDW&F was a major land, are small tears and fold creases, but it’s in pretty wood, and fluming company with vast timber decent shape. Please see photos for more detail and holdings around Lake Tahoe and in Ormsby and Washoe Counties in condition. Ken Prag Collection Est. $300-400 HWAC# Nevada. Owned principally by Henry M. Yerington of the Virginia & 127004 Truckee Railroad, William Sharon, D. O. Mills, Alexander J. Ralston, and J. W. Haynie. Signed by Enrico Swift Daugherty (b.1861 Watsonville, CA) as President and Frank E. Murphy (1868-1939) as Secretary. Lot# 1711 New York New York and Boston Signed on the verso by the Estate of Ogden Mills. Black border, black Silver Lead Company Stock, 1860’s Cert. print on tan paper. Vignette at top center of what appears to us to be #242 was issued to Jaques R. Speyer for 1,700 Spooner Summit. Measures 10” x 5-3/4”. Excellent condition--see high shares of capital stock ($10 per share). Although the date is not filled resolution image online. Rare, historic stock certificate. Fred Holabird in, it is fully issued and we estimate the year at about 1865. Company Collection Est. $200-300 HWAC# 129816 capital was $1,000,000. Original ink signatures of company president N. S. Pearson and secretary R. W. Cocker. All of the lead and zinc mines Lot# 1705 Nevada 1908-1926 Miscellaneous of Chester County were located near Phoenixville, 25 miles west of Nevada Mining Stock Group Lot of 9 Philadelphia, near the Schuylkill River. The New York and Boston Silver different. Include: Wyoming-Nevada Copper Lead Company consolidated mining properties in 1864, including the Co. (Winnemucca, 1917); Gibraltar Silver Hill MC (1920): Rochester Wheatley, Brookdale, Charlestown and the Morris. The company did Silver Corp. (1921): Pioche X-Ray M&M Co. (1909); Mendha-Nevada considerable work reopening the Wheatly and Brookdale in 1864 and MC (1909); Goldyke Reef MC (1908); Dun Glen Mines Co. (1926); and 1865. All lead and zinc mining was abandoned in the county by 1870 Bluster Cons. Gold-Silver Mines Co. (Jarbidge, 1923 and 1924). Ken (Pennsylvania Bureau of Topographic and Geologic Survey, 1922). Red Prag Collection Est. $150-250 HWAC# 113878 pen cxled. VF. Est. $200-400 HWAC# 128886 76 February 2021

DAY 1 Thursday, Feb 11 Stocks Part 1: Mining Lot# 1712 Oregon 1916-1935 Oregon Mining Lot# 1718 Washington 1904-1968 Stock Certificate Group Lot of 6 different. Washington State Mining Stock Collection Includes: Pacific States Mines, Inc. (Medford, Lot of 19, most different. Includes: Silver Tip 1935); Silver King Mines, Inc. (1924); Silver King Mining Company Mining & Power Co. (uniss); Washington Nickel Mining & Alloys Inc. (1926); Wolf Creek Mining & Development Co. (Portland, unissued); (1937); Blewett Ridge Mines, Inc. (1941); Boise Basin Mines Merger Amalgamated Mines Co. (1916); and National Copper Mines Co. (uniss); Boundary Red Mountain MC (1922); Clipper MC (1905); (Portland, 1923). Ken Prag Collection Est. $100-120 HWAC# 113985 Cornucopia Gold Mines (1958); Crown Copper Co. (1907); Darnell M&MC (1902); Fox MC (1905); Imperial MC (1906); Kimberly Gold Mine, Inc. (1968); and more. Please inspect. Ken Prag Collection Est. Lot# 1713 McKean County, Pennsylvania $200-300 HWAC# 113876 1865 McKean & Elk Land & Improvement Co. Stock Certificate Gorgeous. Inc. in Lot# 1719 Ashland County, Wisconsin Iron Pennsylvania. No. 351, issued for 200 shares to MW Woodward in Belt Mining Company Stock, Ashland, 1865. Signed by president John Cresson and treasurer Biddle. Not Wisconsin, 1895 Cert. #872, issued for cancelled. Black border and print on thin paper. Multiple vignettes 500 shares in 1895. Located in Ashland County, Wis. printed on the showing farmers, a blacksmith, a lumber man, and Benjamin Franklin. masthead. Ore car and miners outside the portal vignette. W.J. Morgan, Printed by Draper, Welsh, & Co., Philadelphia. 25 cent revenue stamp Cleveland, Lith. The company was incorporated in Wisconsin. The attached at bottom left. Pinholes, folds. 6 x 10” The company owned Iron Belt Mining Company iron ore mines were located in Ashland 130,000 acres of land in McKean and Elk Counties, for minerals (coal County, Wisconsin, within the Gogebic Range ore deposits in northern and iron), timber, and agricultural uses. Their property was situated Wisconsin. VF. Uncanceled. Est. $200-400 HWAC# 128880 in the coal-fields of northern Pennsylvania. In their report to their Board of Directors, 1857, they go into detail about their coal mining Lot# 1720 Clark’s Fork, Wyoming 1877, 1896 prospects. Ken Prag Collection Est. $200-500 HWAC# 107958 Eastern Montana Mining & Smelting Co. Stock Certificate Pair Lot of 2 different. Both Lot# 1714 South Dakota 1886-1935 South incorporated in Montana and issued in Bozeman. Property located Dakota Mining Stock Collection Lot of 11, at Clark’s Fork, Wyoming Territory. (printed on the earlier stock). 1) most different. Includes: Monitor Mining Co. No. 66, issued for 25 shares to ED Ferguson in 1877. Signed by the (Deadwood, 1886); Annie Creek MC (1935); Kirby Furnace Smelting president and secretary. Stamp cancelled in 1896. Black border and & Refining Co. (1908); Victoria Extension Mining Co. of Deadwood print, mine hoisting vignette. AL Bancroft & Co. SF. Folds, pinholes. (1908); United States Coal, Oil, and Mineral Co. (1907 and 1908); 2) No. 613, issued to Charles C. Curtis in 1896. Signed by president Metals Exploration & Mining Co. (1907); Five Bears Mining Co. (1902); ED Ferguson (the man the early stock was issued to) and secretary Crown Mica Mining Co. (1902); Bismarck Cons. Mines Co. (1909); and McPherson. Not cancelled. Black border and print, red seal. Folds, Beaver Creek Mining Co. (unissued). Ken Prag Collection Est. $120-200 toning. Stuart Mackenzie Montana Mining Collection Est. $200-300 HWAC# HWAC# 113975 129610 Lot# 1715 South Dakota Two Scarce Dakota Lot# 1721 Wyoming 1904 Wyoming Mining Mining Stocks 1) Rare and beautiful South Stock Certificate Group Lot of 6 different. Dakota mining stock from the Midland Mining Includes: Elk Mountain Mining & Milling Co. & Development Company issued in 1892. Great mining vignette we (1904); Big Five Mining Company (unissued); Wyoming Shovel & Edge have not seen before shows miners candles on their helmets and a Tool Manufacturing Co. (unissued); Portland Gold Mining Co. (uniss.); horse pulling an ore car. This is cert. #68, issued for 25 shares. This is Mammoth Copper MC (uniss.); and Keystone Mining & Development a Dakota certificate this describer has never seen before. Very rare. VF. Co. (corp. signatures, but not issued). Ken Prag Collection Est. $100-150 Uncanceled. 2) Detroit & Deadwood Mining Company, issued for 100 HWAC# 113872 shares in 1900. Both companies were incorporated in South Dakota and are uncanceled. Est. $200-400 HWAC# 128813 Lot# 1722 1888-1907 Granite and Stone Co. Stocks Lot of 7. 1. Three Unissued:Pink Granite Lot# 1716 Logan County, Virginia Logan Co. U/C, great vignette, dateline 1891, Black, County Mining and Mfg. Company of Virginia $10 gold under print. Incorporate Virginia. Bond, 1860 Rare $500 bond 6%, 1860, 15 Old Bangor Slate Co, U/U, date 1911, black, no coupons. Coal train vignette. Signed by president J George Bolen and vignette.. Salisbury Granite Co. U/C, dateline B M Weymouth as secretary. The lands of this company encompass 189_, Vignette dockside train, incorp N.C. 101,000 acres near Logan Courthouse on the Guyandotte River. Red Printer: Gedney & Roberts, Theo Leonardo & Son. VF. 2. I/U : Walker underprint and green seal. In VF condition with fold lines. Uncanceled. Granite Co, Sonoma Stone and Construction, Sioux Valley Stone Co, and Est. $200-500 HWAC# 128796 The Granolithic Co. issued 1888-1907F-VF. Printers: Goes, Mount & Co, Jackson Stationery. Ken Prag Collection Est. $100-200 HWAC# 122417 Lot# 1717 Spokane, Washington 1905-1947 Washington State Mining Stock Collection: Spokane-Based Companies Lot of 25, most Lot# 1723 1800’s-1900’s Marble Company different. Mining companies with offices in Spokane. Some unissued. Stock Certificates (11) Collection of eleven Included: Republic Iron Mask GMC (uniss.); Clarence Ray Buffalo Hump stock certificates issued by various mining GMC (1917); Black Bear War Eagle Gold Mines (uniss); Bead Lake MC companies. Included are (Two) Moretti White Marble Company (uniss); Broken Hill Silver Lead MC (1923); Byrne M&MC (1905); (1923), Nevada Marble Company (1911), Joseph Black Marble Centennial Mines (uniss.); Gladstone Mountain MC (1925); Liston MC Company (1922), Plastic Marble or Stone Company (1889), U.S. (1913); Lone Pine Surprise CMS (uniss.); New Victor Empire M&MC Marble Company (1932), Middlebury Marble Company (1922), (1912); Patterson Mines, Inc. (1936); and others. Please inspect. Ken Henderson Land and Marble Company (No Date), Shelbourne Marble Prag Collection Est. $300-500 HWAC# 113875 Company (1867) and (Two) Rutland Marble Company (1863). Some have revenue stamps. Please see photos for more detail and condition. Ken Prag Collection Est. $400-600 HWAC# 127406 View complete catalog, Register, and Bid online at FHWAC.com 77

DAY 1 Thursday, Feb 11 Stocks Part 1: Mining Lot# 1724 Group of 21 Mining Stocks from Lot# 1729 1950s Uranium Mining Stock Misc. States Group of 20 different. Some of Certificate Collection Lot of 22 different. the nicer ones include: Taylor Plumas Mill and These are mostly issued in the 1950s, an Mining Co. (CA), 1886; Empress Gold Mining & Milling Company, (CO), important era for uranium mining in the US. Following the atomic 1895, likely Cripple Creek as issued at Colorado Springs, but not in bombing of Japan in WWII, the demand for uranium for nuclear Hills or Poole; Pierre Lake Gold Mining Company, Northport, Wash, weapons drastically increased. Shifting away from importing uranium issued 1901, Creede Copper Mining Company (WY), 1907, Copper from Africa, the Atomic Energy Commission searched for domestic Independent Cons. Mining Company, (WA), 1903, and Colonial Copper deposits. They found them in the Southwest US (Arizona, Colorado, Company, (WV), issued 1899, operated at Nova Scotia and Ontario, New Mexico, Utah). Demand and production increased when the US Canada. Many more. View photos. Est. $280-400 HWAC# 129484 entered the Cold War. This collection includes: Union Uranium Co. (1958); O-Kan Uranium & Oil Co. (uniss); Black Mesa Uranium Corp. Lot# 1725 1864 International Gold (uniss); US Beryllium Corp. (1969); Lisbon Valley Uranium Co. (1957); Amalgamating Company Stock 337 for Ute Uranium Inc. (1955); Mullen-Buckley Uranium Corp. (1955); 500 shares to August Motter(?). Datelined Trabella Uranium Mines (1955); Acme Uranium Mines, Inc. (1957); New York 1865. Used for the purpose of Lucky McUranium Corp. (1958); Lightning Uranium Co. (1955) and purchasing property. Signed by William Cobb others. Please inspect. Ken Prag Collection Est. $300-500 HWAC# 113896 president and Samuel Cooper treasurer. 25c Insurance Revenue stamp. Printed by Macoy & Herwig stationers. Not cancelled. Spectacular condition: no edge, border, pinhole or discoloration issues. An 1865 resource puts the business office at 187 Broadway. We could not fin a location. Perhaps Colorado. Prag Collection Fred Holabird Collection Est. $200-400 HWAC# 129847 Lot# 1726 1890-1959 Mining Equipment Stock and Bonds Lot of 40 . I/C. I/U, U/U combined. Incorporate. Throughout the US: N.Y. Delaware, Nevada, Arizona, Washington, Calif, Ohio, Colo. . Issued from 1890-1959. Multiple border colors. Note: Great color cert from Westgate Metal Products 1923, color eagle. National Heating and Ventilating Co .. vignette of Lady Justice seated w/flying game eagle issued 1890. Jackson Compressor Co w/revenue stamp. Katalite Corp w/10 revenu stamps 92c to $1). Oriental Metal Manufact Co issued 1885.Van Aden File Co w/revenue stamp and Nehalem Boom Co w/8 revenue stamps. Various Cond. Ken Prag Collection Est. $200-400 HWAC# 122416 Lot# 1727 Three Western Mining Stocks Lot includes: 1) Philadelphia Mining & Smelting Company, 1882, Location, Alturas County, Idaho.2) The Consolidated Alaskan Company, 1906. 3) Bear Creek Placers Company, Limited, 1903. The company possibly mined the Bear Creek Placer at Bearmouth, Montana. All three certificates are VF and uncanceled. Est. $200-250 HWAC# 128823 Lot# 1728 1906-71 Unusual Mining Stocks. Lot of 21. Combination of I?U and I/C and U/U. Mining related stocks from around the US.: II Corp. in Delaware, New Jersey, W. Virginia, Colorado, Nevada, Arizona, Wash. Maine, Idaho, New Mexican and Calif. 1904-66. Border colors: Green, Purple, Orange, Black, roses and brown. Vignettes from state seal to eagle. Two of note: Western Pyrites Corp. issued 1919 w/four revenue stamps and The Snowstorm Hydraulic Co. issued 1906 w/ four revenue stamps. Two Pacific Tin Consolidated Corp Specimens. Great looking certificate from Silver Chieftain Co. issued 1942, Idaho, Black border w/green sunburst under print and an Indian CHief bust in red under print. Ken Prag Collection Est. $200- 400 HWAC# 122418 78 February 2021

DAY 2 Friday, Feb 12 Stocks Part 2: Oil Lot# 2000 Arizona Arizona Oil Stock Group, Lot# 2005 Coalinga, California 1900’s Various Many Pre-1920 (30) Lot of 30 different oil Oil Stock Certificates (4) Stock certificates stocks incorporated in Arizona. Some of these issued by four oil companies. Included are the companies may have operated in California. The highlight is the Old Tex-Mex Fuel Oil Co. issued March 6, 1916. For Glory Oil Company stock issued in 1900 with a full color American 10 shares at $1 per.No cancellation. California flag at the center. Lots of the companies have Native American names Specialty Oil Company issued September or desert names such as Aztec, Cactus, Hopi and Montezuma Oil. This 1, 1911 for 65 shares at $10 per share. No excellent group must be seen. View photos. Ken Prag Collection Est. cancellation. Vapor Phase Oils, Inc. issued August 21, 1931 for Twelve $200-400 HWAC# 128731 and one half shares at $100 per share. No cancellation. Coalinga Lubricating Oil Company issued February 3, 1917 for 257 shares at Lot# 2001 Arkansas Arkansas Oil Stock $1 per share. No cancellation apparent. Please see photos for more Collection (16) Sixteen oil stock certificates details and condition. Ken Prag Collection Est. $100-150 HWAC# 127833 from Arkansas. Arkansas oil dates back to 1920 when the first major well, Hunter #1 was discovered. Then the Lot# 2006 Contra Costa El Dorado field was discovered in 1921. On Jan 10, 1921, St. Busey County, California Grand made the 1st commercial production in Arkansas’ El Dorado field. In Pacific Oil Company this lot, we have an extremely early date Arkansas oil issued in 1902. Stock, California, It has major splits and tape repairs, so the condition is only fair. Still a 1901 Beautiful oil stock great certificate. We also have two issued in 1921 including one from issued in 1901 with January! This is the original production period from the El Dorado field. Condition of the lot is about average, some have issues. Ken Prag a great vignette of a Collection Est. $200-400 HWAC# 128752 harbor scene with many sailing ships across the Lot# 2002 Arkansas 1923 Arkansas Oil entire certificate. The Syndicate Stock Certificates (4) Various company’s property was stock certificates from Arkansas including Arch located a mile east of Lafayette, California. Issued to W.H. Baldwin & Brewer Oil Trust issued to Will Shaek (sp?) and Co- Trustees for 20 shares and signed by A.G. Deardorff as president. signed by trustee A.L. Brewer dated April 14, VF. Uncanceled. Ken Prag Collection Est. $200-400 HWAC# 128679 1923. Next, Bucher Smackover Trust, issued to S. J. Mathewson, signed by H.S. Bucher and dated March 14, 1923( Beautiful oil derrick Lot# 2007 Dos Palos, Merced County, vignette). Next, Jess Tomberlin Smackover Syndicate, issued to Charles California Dos Palos Oil Stocks, (2) from1900 Gardner and signed by trustee Jess Tomberlin, dated January 2, 1923 Plus a Los Banos Oil Stock, Merced County (Oil derrick vignette) and Taylor Syndivcate Plan No.1, issued to Two certificates from Dos Palos Oil & William Green, signed by William Taylor, trustee and dated December Development Company, issued at Dos Palos, 11, 1927. Please see photos for more detail and condition. Ken Prag California in 1900. Located in Merced County. Collection Est. $100-150 HWAC# 127478 Lot also includes a Los Banos Oil Company stock issued in 1921. All from Merced County, California. This could possibly be the only time Lot# 2003 Bakersfield, California Bakersfield, certificates were issued at Dos Palos, California. Rare. Ken Prag Collection California Oil Stock Group (6) Six certificates Est. $80-150 HWAC# 128661 from Bakersfield oil companies. These were all issued at Bakersfield. Includes Octopus Oil, Lot# 2008 Eureka, California Buckeye 1910; Jewett-Blodgett-Beal Oil Company, 1900; Petroleum Mining Co Stock, Eureka, Cal. Lake View Oil Company, 1903; Calnava Midway 1865 Nice, early date California oil. Cert. #17, Oil Company, 1911 (Likely operated in the Sunset-MIdway field in issued for 25 shares in 1865 at Eureka, Humboldt County, California. Kern County); Comstock Crude Oil Company, 1914; and Bakersfield The company held 640 acres Land, Mattole district, Humboldt County. Oil Company, 1952. Nice looking certificates overall. View photos to Very attractive oilfield vignette and 25 cent revenue stamp at left. VF inspect. Ken Prag Collection Est. $80-150 HWAC# 128670 and rare. Uncanceled. Est. $400-800 HWAC# 128824 Lot# 2004 Coalinga, California Lot# 2009 Eureka, California Northern Superior Oil Co Specimens California Oil Stocks (5) Includes North (2) by Jeffries Banknote Two Counties Oil, Eureka, 1923; Bear River Oil specimen certificates from Company, Eureka, 1910; Hesperian Cruse Oil Superior Oil Company (CA). Company, Chico, 1901; Shasta Oil Company, Both stamped “SPECIMEN” with Anderson, California, 1922 and Sutter Butte Oil small hole cancels where the Company, Marysville, 1921 (damaged- lots of signatures go. The Superior Oil scotch tape repairs). Rare stocks from a scarce Company was founded in 1921 in area. Ken Prag Collection Est. $100-150 HWAC# 128684 Coalinga, California, by William Keck, after he had accumulated Lot# 2010 Fresno, California Fresno Area enough leases to start his own Oil Stocks Including a Nice Hanford Stock firm. Superior Oil began as a (9) Nine oil stocks from Fresno or the nearby drilling contracting firm and grew area. Includes a nice one from Sand Hills Crude into other oil services including Oil Company, issued at Hanford, Cal. in 1900. exploration and production of Cert. #11, with a nice oil field vignette. Also, a oil and natural gas. In September San Joaquin County Oil Development Co. stock issued in 1902; Fresno 1984 the company, then based in Petroleum Company, 1923, and two from San Juan Oil Company, Houston, became a wholly owned 1909 and 1943. This must have been an extremely strong company subsidiary of Mobil Oil Company. Both certificates are VF. Ken Prag as it lasted at least four decades. Unusual, with these early 1900 oil Collection Est. $120-200 HWAC# 128685 companies. Includes a few others not mentioned. Very good condition overall. Ken Prag Collection Est. $120-250 HWAC# 128658 View complete catalog, Register, and Bid online at FHWAC.com 79

DAY 2 Friday, Feb 12 Stocks Part 2: Oil Lot# 2011 Kern County, California Rare Group Lot# 2015 Los Angeles, California Los Angeles of Kern County Oil Stocks (13) Great group Oil Stocks Including Three Issued in 1900 includes Kern Midway Oil Co, 1910; Kern West (33) Group includes two issued certificates Side Oil Co, 1910; Whittier & Kern River Oil Co, from Juanita Oil Company, 1900 and 1901, 1900 (dated on back); Elk Horn Oil Company, principal place of business, Los Angeles, and 1908, a stock and a bond; California Kern Oil a very nice Argonaut Oil & Mining stock, cert. Company, 1904; and a beautiful Almota Oil Mining Company stock #3, issued in 1900. The Argonaut stock has a red underprint of oil issued in 1901. Another certificate, the Kern Oil Land Development derricks and seven mining vignettes. Also has Los Angeles on the gold Company was issued at Kern City in 1900. The Kern River district seal and a revenue stamp at top left. All of these stocks were issued at continues to be a large producer and was the 16th largest producing Los Angeles or have Los Angeles on the corporate seal. Other nice ones oil field in the United States in 2013. The Kern River oil field was include Apex Oil, issued in 1905, and two from Northern Consolidated discovered in 1899, and by 1901 was the largest developed oil-field Oil & Mining Co. No. 2, issued in 1900 and 1901. Too many to mention. in California. These certificates are all very rare and this describer has Also, includes two from Pyramid Oil Company, issued in 1912 and never seen any of these previously. Average condition overall. View 1926. The 1912 stock is uncanceled. Although issued in San Francisco, photos. Ken Prag Collection Est. $200-400 HWAC# 128653 the company operated just north of Tejon Ranch, closer to California and was still operating until acquired a couple of years ago. Rare Lot# 2012 Kern County, California Sedalia & certificates in this group overall and the condition is average to VF. Ken California Oil Bearer Shares (2) 1901-02. Prag Collection Est. $280-500 HWAC# 128655 One With Coupons Two beautiful certificates Lot# 2016 McKittrick, California McKittrick issued 1901-02 from Sedalia and California Oil and Lost Hills, Cal. Oil Stocks (5) Lot Company. Both issued for five Bearer Shares includes Templor-McKittrick Oil Company, (not issued to a named person). So whoever had possession of the 1909;Syndicate Petroleum Company, issued certificate was the owner. One of the certificates has coupons, which is 1901 at Portland, Oregon. Wells, McKittrick odd for a stock certificate. Sedalia, California on one of the gold seals. District, Kern County, California printed at The company operated in the Sunset District, Kern County, California. Ken Prag Collection Est. $200-400 HWAC# 128688 the top. Also, Lost Hills and Midway Company, 1911; San Jose McKittrick Oil Company, 1923; Lot# 2013 Kern County, California Sunset- and San Francisco & McKittrick Liquidation Midway Oil Field Stocks, Kern County, Cal. Corporation, 1928. Average to better condition. Uncanceled. Ken Prag (12) Twelve stocks from the Sunset-Midway Collection Est. $100-150 HWAC# 128682 oil field district in Kern County. The district Lot# 2017 Oakland, California Oakland, Cal. was still the 15th top producing oil field in the Oil Stock Group- Most Pre-1910 (8) All of United States in 2013. The Midway-Sunset Oil these stocks are issued at Oakland, California Field is a large oil field in Kern County, California. It is the largest known or had their offices there. Alisal Oil, California oilfield in California and the third largest in the United States. The field Combined Oil, Calhoma Oil, Sierra Oil, was discovered in 1894, and through the end of 2006 had produced Columbian Oil and Tessajara Oil Corporation close to 3 billion barrels of oil. At the end of 2008 its estimated reserves are included. Average condition. View photos amounted to approximately 532 million barrels ,18% of California’s to inspect. Ken Prag Collection Est. $100-150 HWAC# 128652 estimated total. Stocks include the Consolidated Midway Chief Oil Co, issued in 1914; Midway Basin Oil Company, 1910; Midway Premier Oil Lot# 2018 San Diego, California San Diego Company, Midway Prudential Petroleum Company, Midway View Oil Area Oil Stocks (17) Group of oil stocks Company, 1910; and a very unusual Midway Pacific Oil Co. stock issued from places like La Jolla, Laguna and Balboa. in 1912 showing a large gusher at the left, attached to a gold bond Two from Laguna plus a nice Mission Bay Oil from Granite Securities Company, Los Angeles, California. Apparantly, Company, cert. #7, 1923. Two or three issued there was some sort of an exchange offer. Also, included are Sunset pre-1902. Also, a Tecalote Dome Oil Co., San Crude Oil Company, issued in 1900, Sunset Pacific Oil Company, issued Diego stock issued in 1920. Seventeen different. Average condition. in 1929 and two voting trust certificates from Sunset Oil Company. View photos. Ken Prag Collection Est. $200-400 HWAC# 128686 This is a nice group from one of California’s most important oil fields. In average to better condition overall. Ken Prag Collection Est. $200-400 Lot# 2019 San Francisco, HWAC# 128657 California 1900’s Asphalt & Petroleum Company Stock Lot# 2014 Los Angeles, California Santa Fe Certificates (2) A pair of stock Springs and Rare L.A. Area Oils (22) Group certificates issued by asphalt of 22 different oil stocks from the L.A. area and petroleum companies. First includes four Santa Fe Springs and many is a cert issued by Continental great ones from around the area. Neat ones Asphalt and Petroleum include Bunker Hill Oil Producing Company Company. It is for one-tenth of (downtown L.A.),1920, the Sawtelle-Santa Monica Oil Company issued a share at $10 per share. While at Sawtelle in 1923, Puente Hills Oil Syndicate, Towsley Canon Oil the name of the big spender F.H. Company, issued 1902 at Pasadena, the Arcadia Oil Company, 1923, Larson is typed and readable, the Redondo Oil, 1920 (tears in top edge), Pomona Oil Company, 1921, signatures at the bottom are not. San Fernando Oil Corporation, 1922, Los Angeles & Beaumont Oil Co, It’s dated November 22, 1921. 1902, Mar Vista Oil Co, 1932, and Calabasas Oil, 1911. Fullerton and Next us issued by California Claremont are represented as well. Also, some nice pictorial beauties Petroleum and Aspahalt for including Los Angeles Petroleum Company, 1901, Big Chief Oil Co, one share at $50 per to Charles 1901 and Bard Oil & Asphalt Company, 1902. This describer in 23 Gardner. It is signed by secretary, Al Terry and president, W. Nowlse years has only seen two of these certificates out of the 22. So, most of (sp?). It’s dated November 18, 1900. Please see photos for more detail these, this is your only chance. Condition ranges from fair to very fine. and condition. Ken Prag Collection Est. $100-150 HWAC# 127507 Ken Prag Collection Est. $280-500 HWAC# 128645 80 February 2021

DAY 2 Friday, Feb 12 Stocks Part 2: Oil Lot# 2020 San Francisco, California Bay Area Lot# 2025 Sisquac, California Palmer Union Cities Oil Stock Group (10) Great group Oil Stock Group Includes Two #1 Certificates, includes ten different bay area oils datelined or Great Story (16) Most are issued. Includes from Vallejo, Hollister, Santa Cruz, San Mateo, a #1 common stock and a #1 preferred stock Vacaville, Watsonville, Rio Bravo, Richmond, both issued and canceled. Other certificates in San Jose and Port Lobos. Santa Cruz Oil, San different colors and with different vignettes. Benito County Oil, and Central California Oil Company of Vallejo stand The company operated at Sisquoc in Santa Barbara County. In 2013, out as well as Watsonville Oil, 1905, San Mateo Oil & Refining and a crazy court case was filed by a family that picked up a canceled Vacaville Oil, 1905. Also notable are Rio Bravo Oil, 1900, Richmond- certificate of the company in an estate sale, filled in their name, and Garcia Oil Co, and Port Lobos Oil Company. Again, these are all rare sued Coca Cola claiming it was now worth $130 million. Coca-Cola’s and this describer has never seen any of these in 23 years of collecting attorney at the time stated “our position is that it is worth in the range western stock certificates. Average condition. Likely only chance to get of zero”(aoghs.org website). The line of mergers and acquisitions over any of these. Ken Prag Collection Est. $200-400 HWAC# 128646 a 40 year period involving the Palmer Union Oil Company is too lengthy to list here. This ended a short lived speculation in certificates of this Lot# 2021 San Francisco, California Roosevelt company. The case fizzled. A couple of the certificates are early date Oil Stocks w. Teddy Roosevelt Vignette Goes style issued in 1901. THESE CERTIFICATES ARE BEING SOLD AS Issued at S.F. and Oakland This is very ANTIQUES ONLY AND HAVE NO INVESTMENT VALUE AS SECURITIES unusual. The first Roosevelt Oil Company stock WHATSOEVER. Ken Prag Collection Est. $200-400 HWAC# 128672 is issued in 1903 at San Francisco. Nice vignette of an oil derrick with Teddy Roosevelt’s picture. The second Roosevelt Lot# 2026 Tehama County, California Corning Oil Company stock was issued at Oakland in 1907. I guess they moved Oil & Gas Stock, Issued at Corning, Rare their offices. Both of these are rare and have the cool vignette. Very Dateline, 1901 Rare issued stock from Corning, unique. Ken Prag Collection Est. $80-150 HWAC# 128647 California in Tehama County. We’ve never seen a stock issued at Corning. Beautiful large size Lot# 2022 certificate from the Corning Oil & Gas Company San Francisco, issued in 1901 for 50 shares. The Corning gas California San fields were located in Tehama County. The Corning anticline is one of Francisco Oil the major structural features of the Sacramento Valley basin. It is in Stocks 1900- the north-central part of the valley just east of the city of Corning, and 1910 (26) about 4 mi west of the Sacramento River (geoscienceworld.org. The Twenty six certificate has browning on the top edge and a small fold split at the different oil bottom. Uncanceled. Ken Prag Collection Est. $80-150 HWAC# 128683 stocks issued in San Francisco. Lot# 2027 Ventura, California Ventura, Some of the California Oil Stocks (7) Great lot of Ventura cooler ones oils includes Nevada-Ventura Oil Syndicate, Los include “1901 Oil Company”, surprising issued in 1901, the Golden Angeles Ventura Oil Fields Company, Ventura Gate Oil Company, 1901 (issued at Cleveland Ohio, but included Oil Development Company, 1910, American- here), Electric Oil Company of Arizona, 1901, Oceanic Oil Company, Ventura Oil Company, 1918, North Ventura Oil Radium Oil Company and Lion Oil Company, 1901. Also, includes the & Gas Co., incorporated in Nevada and issued at Goodsprings! That’s a best condition California Diamond Oil Company stock this describer strange one! Also, California-Ventura Oil Co. (two different). One of the has seen. Usually this oversized beauty is in somewhat damaged certificates has some holes, the rest are average to better condition. condition. This one is pristine and uncanceled. Have only seen three or Also, includes a Section of Ventura-Ojai Oil Fields map showing four of these ever, so this is a rare group. Most in very good condition. Richfield Oil, Union Oil of Cal and Rio Grande Oil. Very interesting. Ken See photos. Ken Prag Collection Est. $200-400 HWAC# 128648 Prag Collection Est. $100-150 HWAC# 128689 Lot# 2028 California 1900’s Assorted Lot# 2023 San Francisco, Petroleum Stock Certificates (8) Group California San Francisco of eight petroleum themed company stock Oil Stocks 1910-1935 certificates. Issuers include Malklin Petroleum (12) Nice group of 12 San Corporation, dated December 31, 1926 Francisco oils. All are in very for 36 shares at $1 per share. No apparent good to VF condition with cancellation. Deuel Petroleum Corporation the exception of Fruitvale Ltd. dated May 26, 1930 for 80 shares at $1 per share. No apparent Oil Company (poor). This cancellation. Cypress Petroleum Company of California, dated January collector and dealer has only 8, 1936 for 100 shares. Beautiful oil derrick vignette, no cancellation. seen one of these before, so Commercial Petroleum Company, dated September 27. 1911 for they are rare. One of the nicer ones is Red Man Petroleum issued in 14 shares at $100 per share.No apparent cancellation. Commodore 1911. Lots of derricks and gushers. View photos to inspect. Ken Prag Petroleum Company dated November 21, 1931 for 100 shares at Collection Est. $160-250 HWAC# 128649 $1 per share.No cancellation apparent. Carbo Petroleum Company dated March 21, 1941 for 937 shares at $1 per share. No cancellation Lot# 2024 Selma, California Selma, California apparent. Atlantic Petroleum Syndicate dated March 29, 1923 for two Oil Stock Group (3) Three stocks issued at units at $100 per unit. No cancellation apparent. Atlantic Petroleum Selma, California including Gloria Mundi Oil Company dated December 28, 1917 for 25 shares. No price per share Company, 1900; Isis Oil Company, 1900; and and this is marked “Temporary Certificate.” Please see photos for more Colorado & California Oil Company, 1900. detail and condition. Ken Prag Collection Est. $100-200 HWAC# 127834 Selma is a rare dateline seldom seen. Average condition. All are uncanceled. Ken Prag Collection Est. $80-150 HWAC# 128659 View complete catalog, Register, and Bid online at FHWAC.com 81

DAY 2 Friday, Feb 12 Stocks Part 2: Oil Lot# 2029 California 1900’s California Oil Lot# 2034 California Richfield Oil Stock Syndicate Stock Certificates (8) Various Group (14) Nice, varied group of stocks company stock certificates from California oil from Richfield Oil Corporation and Richfield syndicates. Included are Calpetro Producers Oil Company of California. Plus, three other Syndicate (2) (May 4, 1924), Co-Operative earlier date certificates from companies with Petroleum Syndicate No. 3 (March 15, 1923), Richfield in the name. Includes Richfield Southwest Petroleum Syndicate (December Union Petroleum, 1921, Placentia-Richfield 9, 1922), The Spindle Top Oil Association Oil Company (also comes with a letter to shareholders), and Richfield (October 28, 1930), Yale Signal Hill Syndicate (February 26, 1923), United Oil Co. 1920. Also includes 8 bank note printed certificates Vivian Extension Lease Syndicate (February 10, 1941) and T.G. Shaw from ABN for Richfield Oil Company of California and Richfield Oil Oil Corporation (December 2, 1930). Please see photos for more detail Corporation. The Richfield Oil Corporation was founded in 1905 and and condition. Ken Prag Collection Est. $150-200 HWAC# 127474 opened its first automotive service station in Los Angeles in 1917. After quick expansion, Richfield Oil Corp fell to the Great Depression and Lot# 2030 California California Oils With went into receivership in 1931. Cities Service Company (now known Fancy Vignettes (4) Lot includes four beauties as Citgo) offered one share of stock for every four Richfield’s[5] and we put in one lot. First, California Southern acquired a majority of the stock. Consolidated Oil Corporation (in 1943 Oilfields Company has an oil derrick with a big renamed Sinclair Oil Corp), in 1932, offered to buy Richfield Oil. While gold nugget around it. Issued in 1914. Ohio & this offer was not accepted, Harry Sinclair president of Consolidated California Refining Oil Company (WV) shows Oil continued to pursue Richfield Oil and prevented Standard Oil of many derricks. Big Panoche Oil Company California (now known as Chevron) from taking over the company. The issued in 1900 is just a great looking piece. Richfield Oil Corp was the first to discover commercial quantities of oil Lastly, California Consolidated Oil Company, issued in 1911 has a large in the state of Alaska. This occurred in 1957 on the Kenai Peninsula. orange underprint of the California state seal, Eureka. Nice looking Ken Prag Collection Est. $200-400 HWAC# 128671 certificates. View photos. Ken Prag Collection Est. $160-250 HWAC# 128677 Lot# 2035 California Santa Maria, San Luis Obispo, Arroyo Grande Oil Stocks (8) Lot# 2031 California Coalinger Oil Stock Central coast area oil stocks includes a beauty Certificate Group (7) Seven scarce oil stocks from Santa Maria Midway Oil Co. issued at from Coalinga, California. All but one issued Los Angeles in 1910. Possibly operated in pre-1910. Coalinga oil certificates are scarce the Sunset-Midway oil field in Kern County and desirable. The Coalinga Oil Field is a large with offices in Santa Maria. Also, Miramar Oil oil field in western Fresno County, California, Company, Santa Maria, Cal. issued at Santa in the United States. It surrounds the town of Maria in 1907. Others of interest include Cat Canyon Oil Company, Coalinga, about halfway between Los Angeles Santa Maria, California issued in 1911, and La Point Oil Company of and San Francisco, to the west of Interstate 5, Arroya Grande (sic), 1907. Obispo Oil and See Canyon Oil from San at the foot of the Diablo Range. Discovered in the late 19th century, it Luis Obispo are also here. All are in very good to VF condition, except became active around 1890, and is now the eighth-largest oil field in the See Canyon Oil stock which is fair to good with splits at the folds. A California, with reserves totaling approximately 58 million barrels, and nice group overall and all are scarce. Ken Prag Collection Est. $160-250 over 1,600 active oil wells .The Coalinga Oil Field is the northernmost HWAC# 128650 of a series of oil fields along anticlines extending along the western margin of the San Joaquin Valley, anticlines which parallel the San Lot# 2036 California Three California Oils, Andreas fault and have their origin in compression from associated All Certificates #1 Three issued oils, all tectonic processes. Other anticlinal oil fields in the same series include certificates #1. Includes San Juan Oil, issued the Lost Hills, South Belridge, Kettleman Hills, and Cymric fields. The at Fresno in 1909; Edington-Witz Refining southernmost, and largest in the series, is the Midway-Sunset Field in Company, 1928; and Argonaut Oil and Mining the southwestern corner of the valley. This is a nice group and they are Company, cert. #1 issued in 1900. Has red oil hard to come by. View photos. Ken Prag Collection Est. $200-400 HWAC# derricks underprint, but is issued on a Goes 128673 mining certificate with the seven mining vignettes. Los Angeles is on the gold seal. This is a very nice one. Tiny Lot# 2032 California Large Group of piece missing at top left corner, otherwise the condition of these is California Oil Stocks (60) Large group of very good to VF. The San Juan Oil stock was canceled and reissued in California oils with all date ranges. Many are 1916. Pen cxled. Ken Prag Collection Est. $100-150 HWAC# 128654 Goes certs but some are engraved by bank note companies. These stocks we could not Lot# 2037 California Union Oil Company of ascertain exactly where they operated in the California Specimen Plus Union Oil & Gas state. A few are unissued and some are canceled. This is a great lot to Stock, 1901 The specimen is for the famous look for nuggets. Average condition. View photos for more. Ken Prag Unocal (Union Oil Company of California) Collection Est. $400-800 HWAC# 128662 with the Union 76 stations. The company was a bohemoth, incorporated in 1890. They produced, refined and Lot# 2033 California Misc. California Oil transported oil across California with trunk lines from Sunset-Kern Stock Group (28) Varied group includes 28 to Ventura. In 1922, the company had storage capacity of 20 million certificates, most are issued. Fair to good barrels. The certificate is red stamped Specimen with hole punches condition overall. Lot includes six certificates thru the signatures. Jefferies Bank Note. The issued stock is from issued pre-1910, a Wynn Oil Company Specimen Union Oil and Gas Company, issued at San Francisco in 1901 for 10 certificate, and three bearer certificates from preferred shares. This company may have been playing off the earlier Caltex Oil Company with coupons. Also, a nice certificate from United company’s name. It’s doubtful the two are related. Ken Prag Collection Chino Oil and Refining Company, issued in 1918. Please inspect this lot Est. $100-150 HWAC# 128668 to view. Ken Prag Collection Est. $160-250 HWAC# 128660 82 February 2021

DAY 2 Friday, Feb 12 Stocks Part 2: Oil Lot# 2038 Colorado 1900’s Colorado Gas & Lot# 2043 Kentucky Oil Stocks from Petroleum Company Stock Certificates (20) Kentucky and Virginia Region Includes 7 Collection of 20 gas and petroleum company Engraved Ones (34) Nice oil stock group from stock certificates based in the state of Colorado. Kentucky and Virginia primarily includes seven Issuing companies include The Selway engraved by banknote companies including Petroleum Company, The Southern Petroleum Pierce Oil (2) and Pierce Petroleum by ABN, Company, The Starkey Filling Stations, Inc, The two different from Glenrock Oil Company (VA), Republic Bank Note, Southwest Petroleum Company and a beautiful Pittsburgh, and two from Invincible Oil Corporation (VA), ABN. There unissued intact cert from The Yankee Fuel Company of Trinidad, are more from Kentucky than Virginia in this lot, but there’s even a Colorado.Please see photos for more detail dn condition. Ken Prag Fentress County Oil Company stock from Tennessee dated 1899. The Collection Est. $200-300 HWAC# 127450 condition of this lot overall is average, some with flaws and some VF. Ken Prag Collection Est. $300-500 HWAC# 128747 Lot# 2039 Colorado Colorado Oil Stocks, 1915-1919 (54) Fifty four different issued Lot# 2044 Michigan Ann Arbor & West between 1915 and 1919. Notables include Virginia Oil & Mining Stock, Michigan, 1867 Empire OIl & Gas, 1918, The Owl Oil Company Rare cert. #45, issued for 20 shares at Ann with two black owls surrounding an oil Arbor, Michigan in 1867. Oilfield with derrick, tank and barrels with vignette, The Calumet Oil & Gas Company, workers. Black print on creme. Calvert & Co. Lith. Detroit. Signed 1917 with miners working a shaft at left, the Colorado Mahoney by president E.O. Haven and secretary J.H. Burleson. Issued to S.A. Dome Oil Company, 1916, showing pipes and tanks connected to their Mattison. The company was located at Wetzel, West Virginia. The derricks on either side, the United Petroleum Company, 1917 and the Ann Arbor and West Virginia Oil and Mining Company was organized Lost Soldier Big Dome Oil Company, issued in 1916. Many more. Please and incorporated January 13th 1866 in accordance with the general inspect this lot. Ken Prag Collection Est. $400-900 HWAC# 128738 law of Michigan for the incorporation of manufacturing and mining companies . Although mining is in the company name, we believe this Lot# 2040 Colorado Colorado Oil Stocks, company was in the petroleum business in West Virginia. Extra fold Early 1900’s, We Haven’t Seen Before (12) lines and small tears in right edge. Uncanceled. Ken Prag Collection Est. Nice group of early Colorado oils from the early $500-1000 HWAC# 128723 1900’s. Includes a nice one from Columbine Oil Company, issued at Montrose in 1910. Others include Sunshine Oil, 1904, Denver Basin Oil Lot# 2045 Montana 1920-1925 Montana Oil Development Company, 1901, Manhattan Oil Company, Denver, 1902, Mining Stocks Lot of seven1) Harlow Oil & and others. View photos. Ken Prag Collection Est. $160-300 HWAC# Gas. # 61 for 1000 shares to RE Burns. Signed 128725 by George B White. 1920 2) Musselshell Valley Oil Company. # 971 for 150 shares to Harry W Lot# 2041 Delaware 1911-1962 Petroleum Wade. Signed by George W. Thompson. 1920. 3) Butte=Cat Creek Oil. # Stock Certificates Incorporated in Delaware 74 for 250 shares to AR Bertog. 1920. The Cat Creek Oil Field is located (24) Group of 24 petroleum stock certificates near the community of Cat Creek in Petroleum and Garfield counties. for companies incorporated in the State of 4) Ruby Ridge Oil. # 269 for 70 shares to George R Sebens.1921. 5) Delaware, c1911-1962. Includes (oldest): three Decker-Collins Oil. # 1578 for 100 shares to Stanley Northey. Signed certificates issued by Central Fuel Oil Company, by Jack Decker. 1920. Located at Roundup. 6) Madison County Oil. 1911, 100 shares to F. G. Drum, 67 shares to James Wallace, and 10 # 812 for 100 shares to AH Jones. Signed by H Albright president. shares to Joseph Chinnery and Francis Mackenzie Ogilvy, detailed 1925. Located at Virginia City. 7) Mosby Consolidated Oil. # 943 for vignettes and ornate borders, signed by president and assistant 200 shares to Lois I. Parks. 1922. Winnett, Montana. Stuart Mackenzie treasurer, one canceled with folds, the other two fine condition with Montana Railroad Collection Est. $100-200 HWAC# 123983 no folds and minor wear. Some with stamps, some unused, most with signatures of secretaries, vice-presidents or presidents. Many Lot# 2046 Montana Montana Oil Stock interesting vignettes. In good to fine condition. See photos for details. Certificate Collection (35) Nice collection of Ken Prag Collection Est. $200-500 HWAC# 127728 35 different oil certificates from Montana. The date range is from 1907-1945, but the majority were issued between Lot# 2042 Kansas Kansas Oil Stock 1915 and 1925, the major production period. Includes some from Certificate Group (47) Nice group of oil Elk Basin. Continental Resources and Anadarko are currently large stocks from Kansas. Forty seven different. The producers in Montana. Condition is average. They are uncanceled. Ken first oil well in the state was drilled in 1860 in Prag Collection Est. $360-700 HWAC# 128753 what is now Miami County. It was marginally, but not economically, productive. The first Lot# 2047 Montana 1921-1945 Montana Oil well to produce commercial quantities of oil was drilled in 1892 near Stock Certificate Trio Lot of 3 different. 1) Neodesha in southeastern Kansas. The Stapleton No. 1 well initiated Bullseye Syndicate. Winnett, Montana. Issued the October 1915 discovery of the El Dorado, Kansas, oilfield, at the in 1921, punch cancelled. 2) Winnetka Leasing Company. Red Lodge. time one of the largest in the world. Most of the certificates were issued No. 14, issued in 1925. Not cancelled. Allegorical and Native American in the teens and their headquarters were in different cities around the vignettes. 3) Pilot Production Company. Issued in 1942, not cancelled. state. Condition of the group is very good overall. Lot also includes a Stuart Mackenzie Montana Ephemera Collection Est. $60-90 HWAC# 127589 #1 certificate from Osage Oil & Gas Company, issued in 1918. Ken Prag Collection Est. $400-800 HWAC# 128743 Lot# 2048 Omaha, Nebraska 1901 Rare Nebraska Petroleum Company Stock Certificate Rare stock certificate issued by The Unita Petroleum Company for 100 shares at $1 per share. It’s issued on April 4, 1901 to J. Kennard and has a gold embossed seal and a 5 cent purple revenue stamp. It’s signed by John Westberg secretary and George Nicholson, president. Ken Prag Collection Est. $60-100 HWAC# 127497 View complete catalog, Register, and Bid online at FHWAC.com 83

DAY 2 Friday, Feb 12 Stocks Part 2: Oil Lot# 2049 Nevada Nevada Oil Stock Lot# 2054 Oklahoma 1900’s Eastern Oil Certificates- Large Lot (58) Large lot of 58 Royalty Company Stock Certificates (16) different Nevada oil stocks, most issued in Stock certificates issued by several royalty the late teens to early 1920’s. It’s possible companies in the east and the state of that some of these companies operated in Oklahoma. A few examples include Imperial California. Nevada is not usually thought of as Royalties Company, issued to John Minnick an oil-producing state but exploration for oil, which began 80 years on August 13, 1930 and five more. Panhandle Co-operative Royalty ago, has been successful to a degree during the past 35 years. The first Company of Tulsa, Oklahoma, issued in 1927. This one has a very well drilled in search of oil in Nevada was a 1,890-foot deep “dry hole” impressive oil field vignette. Next is issued by Big Indian Royalty Pool, drilled in 1907 on a terrace overlooking the Truckee River a few miles issued in 1930 (4). and more. Please see photos for more details and west of downtown Reno. Another well is rumored to have been drilled condition. Ken Prag Collection Est. $150-200 HWAC# 127501 on Peavine Mountain northwest of town. Some of these companies surely were exploring for oil in Nevada, such as Illipah Petroleum Lot# 2055 Oklahoma Oklahoma Oil Stock Syndicate, principal office, Ely, Nevada, 1926; Elko Oil Development, Collection (100+) Massive Oklahoma oil stock 1922, resident agent, Elko, Nevada;Fallon Petroleum Oil Company, collection of over 100 certificates including Lahontan Nevada Oil Company and Ilipah Basin Oil & Gas, offices at 8 issued from 1900-1909. Oil was discovered in Oklahoma in 1859, Tonopah. Fuel Oil=Gas Company, issued at Los Angeles and Great near Salina, Mayes County. Between 1907 and 1930, Oklahoma and Western Oil & Development, issued at Los Angeles, were probably California traded back and forth as the largest oil producing state in California operations. In 954, Shell Oil Co. hit oil near Currant, 50 miles the country. In 1927, production was 762,000 bbl per day. The first southwest of Ely. The resulting oil field at Eagle Springs in Railroad commercial well in the state was the Nellie Johnstone in 1896, located Valley has produced 3.8 million barrels of oil in the past 32 years near Bartlesville. This is where the Dewey field is located. There are (nbmg.unr.edu). The certificates are in average condition and mostly 26 major oil fields in the state. There is too much to mention in this uncanceled. Ken Prag Collection Est. $400-700 HWAC# 128744 lot, but a few highlights include a couple issued or incorporated in Oklahoma, Indian Territory, one from Uinita and one from Muskogee, ten varieties from Uncle Sam Oil Company including stocks and Lot# 2050 New Mexico New Mexico Oil Stocks bonds, a nice bond certificate dated 1918 from Norman Oil, two from (21) Twenty one New Mexico oils includes a Okmulgee Producing & Refining engraved by New York Bank Note and few early ones. These include: 1) Fidelity Oil an engraved Invader Oil from ABN. Another neat one is a common Company, 1901, issued at Denver, incorporated stock from Black Gold Petroleum Company with the title and logo in in New Mexico Territory. Mining Vignette. 2) gold gilt. The oil stock collector will appreciate this lot. In average to The Raton Oil and Gas Company, Raton, New better condition. Please inspect this lot. Ken Prag Collection Est. $1000- Mexico, 1902. 3) Great Western Oil Company, Gallup, New Mexico, 2000 HWAC# 128750 1901. Lot includes many others in various dates. Average condition overall. Ken Prag Collection Est. $200-500 HWAC# 128742 Lot# 2056 Oregon Oregon Oil Stock Certificates, 1907-1920’s (17) Not for lack of Lot# 2051 New York Two Early New York Oil trying, according to the experts, there has never Stocks, 1864 and 1872 Lot includes Noble Well Oil been a successful oil well drilled in the state of Oregon (aoghs.org). Company (NY), issued at New York in 1864. Also, That doesn’t mean you can’t sell stock and try anyway. That’s what The Read Lubricating Compound & Oil Company, these companies did. We have 17 different Oregon oil stocks here. The issued in 1872. Both have revenue stamps at left Harney Valley Oil & Gas Company stock issued in 1910 shows a large side. Extra folds on the Read Lubricating stock. gusher. They must have taken a picture elsewhere. Others include Both VF. Uncanceled. Ken Prag Collection Est. $300- the Fat Elk Oil and Gas, Madras Oil & Gas, Lower Columbia Oil & Gas, 500 HWAC# 128714 Astoria, Oregon, Clarno Basin Oil Company and others. Most are in very good condition and are uncanceled. Ken Prag Collection Est. $200- Lot# 2052 New York Two More Rare New 400 HWAC# 128728 York Oil Stocks Issued 1864 and 1865 Two Lot# 2057 Pennsylvania Birmingham, East more rare New York oils. 1) Bergen Oil & Coal Birmingham & So. Pittsburgh Gas Co Stock, Company, issued at New York in 1864. Cert. 1857 Early, 1857 stock from the discovery #559. Vignette of workers with barrels, a derrick period in Pennsylvania, pre-dating the 1859 and tanks. Revenue stamp at left. VF. Uncanceled. oil discovery at Titusville. Three nice vignettes 2) Buchanan Farm Oil Company, issued at New include a blacksmith at the left. Nice vignette York in 1865. Cert. #1888. Oil field with workers, at the top of the gas company’s facilities. This tanks, train and derrick. A large miner at the is cert. #117, issued for 40 shares. In 1874, the company changed it’s right. VF. Uncanceled. Ken Prag Collection Est. $600-900 HWAC# 128713 name to the South Side Gas Company, providing service to the portion of the city of Pittsburgh, south of the Ohio and the Monongohela Lot# 2053 New York Two New York Oil Stocks Rivers. This is a very attractive certificate. VF. Uncanceled. Ken Prag Collection Est. $300-500 HWAC# 128721 dated 1864 and 1865, Very Rare Two very rare New York oils. First, Manhattan Petroleum Lot# 2058 Pennsylvania Early PA Gas Company, issued at New York in 1864. Horse and Stock from Before Pennsylvania Oil Was wagon in front of an oilfield. Fere. Meyer, New York, Discovered, 1846 Oil was discovered in 1859 Lith. Revenue stamp at bottom right. Uncanceled. in Pennsylvania. This is issued in 1846. Stock VF. Second, we have Empire City Petroleum from Northern Liberties Gas Company, issud Company of the City of New York, issued at New for 231 shares. Inc. in Pennsylvania. Issued at York in 1865. Oil workers at bottom left and Philadelphia. Spindle and cut canceled. Black revenue stamp at left border.. VF. Uncanceled. Ken on creme. No printer noted. Ken Prag Collection Est. $300-600 HWAC# Prag Collection Est. $600-900 HWAC# 128712 128722 84 February 2021

DAY 2 Friday, Feb 12 Stocks Part 2: Oil Lot# 2059 Pennsylvania Pennsylvania Oil Lot# 2065 Pennsylvania Two Pennsylvania Stocks Post-1900 (27) Twenty seven different Oil Stocks from 1870’s-80’s Lot includes Pennsylvania oil stocks issued and uncanceled. a very attractive stock issued in 1884 from Most were issued around 1920. In average condition overall. View the Towanda Oil Company, inc. in New York. photos to inspect. Ken Prag Collection Est. $200-400 HWAC# 128729 Vignette of a train, derrick, barrels and a tank with workers. Was issued for 51 shares and is uncanceled. Has Lot# 2060 Pennsylvania 1897 Rare 1897 edgewear and some browning. Still very nice. Also, an unissued Gas Company Stock Certificate Rare stock certificate from Phoenix Oil & Land Company (PA). It would have been certificate issued by The Anthracite Gas issued at Titusville in the 1870’s. VF. Stub still attached and folded Producer Company for five shares at $100 per under at left. Ken Prag Collection Est. $120-250 HWAC# 128720 share to W.L. Smith and signed by Smith as treasurer and J.H. Rice, president. It is dated Lot# 2066 Pennsylvania Two Pennsylvania Oil February 23, 1897. It is stamped on the reverse Stocks Issued 1866 With Choice Vignettes Lot that it became part of Mr. Smith’s estate after includes Central Oil Run Petroleum Company, his passing. Please see photos for more detail and condition. Ken Prag issued at Philadelphia in 1866. Cert. #37. Three Collection Est. $70-150 HWAC# 127494 nice vignettes. Also, a Jersey Well Oil Company stock, issued at Philadelphia in 1866. Cert. #1035. Lot# 2061 Pennsylvania Ross Oil Company Tear in bottom border with some browning. Stock Certificate, Pennsylvania, 1865 Cert. Both certificates have outstanding vignettes and #545, issued for 500 shares at Pittsburgh are uncanceled. Oil was discovered at Titusville in 1865 to Wm. Brice and signed by Wm. McCutcheon as president. in Pennsylvania in 1859. Ken Prag Collection Est. Amazing vignette shows well over 100 wooden oil barrels all stacked $600-1200 HWAC# 128717 and ready to go. VF. Uncanceled. Est. $200-400 HWAC# 128876 Lot# 2067 Texas All Pre-1910 Texas Oil Lot# 2062 Pennsylvania Three 1865 Stocks, Includes Seven from Beaumont, Pennslyvania Oil Stocks With Great 1901-02 (31) Lot includes seven nice stocks Vignettes Lot includes Cameron Petroleum from the Beaumont Spindletop era dated 1901 Company, 1865, Venango County, Pennsylvania; and 1902. In January, 1901, the great gusher Sherman & Bardsdall Oil Company, issued at at Spindletop - a salt dome about three miles New York in 1865; and Sterling Oil Company, south of Beaumont was discovered. Dubbed “The Lucas Gusher,” the issued at Philadelphia in 1865. Operated oil discovery on Spindletop Hill changed the economy of Texas and in Venango County, Pennsylvania. All have nice vignettes. Two are helped to usher in the petroleum age. It took nine days to control uncancelled. The Sherman & Bardsdall is pen canceled. VF. Ken Prag the gusher! (lamar.edu). Gulf Oil and Texaco were formed to develop Collection Est. $600-1500 HWAC# 128716 production at Spindletop. Spindletop stocks are pretty rare. Lot also Lot# 2063 Pennsylvania Three Pennsylvania includes three from Galveston, issued 1901 and 1902. Also, two different from Geraldine Oil Company, issued at Geraldine, Texas. All Oil Stocks Issued in 1865 This is a once in of the certificates in this lot are issued pre-1910. Ken Prag Collection Est. a lifetime opportunity to pick these up from $400-1000 HWAC# 128704 Ken Prag’s amazing collection. Lot includes: 1)Plainfield Petroleum Company, Plainfield, Lot# 2068 Texas Burkburnett Oil District N.J. Organized under the General Law of Stocks, Texas (13) Some highlights include Pennsylvania, but issued at Plainfield. Free Burknett Van Cleave Oil stock, 1920, with a huge floating shares not issued to a specific person, but fully issued for50 view of the Burkburnett oil field across the top. shares in 1865. Irregular left edge. Oil vignette at the bottom left and Almost looks like a photo. Another cool one is revenue stamp at bottom right. Uncanceled. 2) Tionesta and Sugar the Poor Man’s Chance Oil & Refining Company, Creek Oil Company (PA), issued at New York for 250 shares in 1865. Fort Worth, TX. dated 1919. Has a claim map of the Burkburnett district Issued for the Purchase of Lands printed at the top. Sugar Creek and for the vignette. Very nice. Other names include El Paso Burkburnett Tionesta are both in Venango County, Pennsylvania. VF. Uncanceled. Oil, Gypsy Burk Oil, Texas-Burk Oil, Silver-Burk Oil, Double-Birk Oil of 3) Sterling Oil Company, Venango County, Pennsylvania, issued for 50 Waco, Texas, Burks Electra Oil, Burks Progressive OIl, Wichita Falls, TX, shares at Philadelphia in 1865. Eagle vignette with revenue stamp. VF. Burk-Louisiana, Billie Burk Oil, Burk-Tillman,and Burk-Tex Production Uncanceled. Ken Prag Collection Est. $600-1500 HWAC# 128719 Company. Most of these are dated 1919. On July 29, 1918, a wildcat well Lot# 2064 Pennsylvania Two Early drilled by the Fowler Farm Oil Company revealed an oilfield beneath the small cotton-farming town of Burkburnett in North Texas. The Pennsylvania Oil Stocks Issued in 1864 Two subsequent exploration and production frenzy arrived two decades rare Pennsylvania oils issued in 1864. 1) Oceanic before “Boom Town,” the popular 1940 MGM movie it inspired (aoghs. Petroleum Company, Organized in Pennsylvani. com). By the end of 1918, Burkburnett oil wells were producing 7,500 Cert. #379, issued at New York. Eagle, harbor barrels per day. By June 1919, there were more than 850 producing scene and an oil operations vignette. Revenue wells. The Burkburnett oilfield joined earlier discoveries in nearby stamp at bottom right. 2) Lancaster Oil Company, Electra (1911) and Ranger (1917) that helped make North Texas a issued at Philadelphia in 1864. Cert. #74, issued worldwide leader in petroleum production. The group is in average for 500 shares. Shows men handling oil in barrels condition. Ken Prag Collection Est. $100-200 HWAC# 128696 with derricks in the distance. Revenue stamp at top right. It also says, “Canada West” on the masthead. Both certificates are black on creme paper. VF. Uncanceled. OIl was discovered at Titusville in Pennsylvania in 1859. 1864 issued oils from Pennsylvania are early and rare. Ken Prag Collection Est. $600-1200 HWAC# 128718 View complete catalog, Register, and Bid online at FHWAC.com 85

DAY 2 Friday, Feb 12 Stocks Part 2: Oil Lot# 2069 Texas Comanche Oil District Lot# 2074 Texas Ranger District Oil Stocks, Stocks, Texas (8) Eight stocks from Comanche Texas (7) Nice looking group from the Ranger or Comanche County. All were issued in 1919. Oil district in Texas. The standout is an Includes two from Comanche County Oil attractive bond from Ranger Consolidated Oil Company, Deleon, Texas; Comanche Home Company, dated 1921, with an oilfield vignette, Oil, Comanche, Texas; Columbia=Texas Oil; and coupons attached. Others include Ranger- Comanche Queen Oil Association; Comanche Central Oil & Refining, 1919; two from Texas Home Oil #2, Waco; Comanche Gusher Oil, Comanche, Texas; and Ranger Producing & Refining Company in different colors, 1919 and Comanche Central Oil, DeLeon, Texas. All of the certificates have oil 1920; Ranger Oil & Gas, 1919; El Paso-Ranger Oil Company, 1919; derricks or gushers. Oil drillers moved into northern Comanche in the and Ranger-Vindicator OIl & Development Company, 1923. In 1917, wake of the Eastland County discoveries and brought in wells at Sipe Ranger became the first of the West Texas oil boom towns. Four years Springs, Sidney, Comyn, and Proctor; De Leon became an important later it was dead (texasmonthly.com). The October 17, 1917, wildcat supply center to the oilfields. The peak year for the Comanche County well in Eastland County made headlines worldwide. “Roaring Ranger” oil boom was 1920, when production was 328,098 barrels. A small erupted in a geyser of oil – and revealed an oilfield that would help the amount was still being produced in the county by 1938 (tshaonline. Allies win World War I (aoghs.org). In average condition overall. Ken org). Ken Prag Collection Est. $100-200 HWAC# 128697 Prag Collection Est. $100-150 HWAC# 128695 Lot# 2070 Texas Huge Group of Texas Oil Lot# 2075 Texas 1902-1922 Texas Oil Stocks from the 1920’s (138) All different Companies Stock Certificates (22) Nice certificates, mostly issued in the early 1920’s. variety of 22 Texas oil companies stock Average to better condition. Most with certificates, c1902-1922. Includes: Altex vignettes and uncanceled. This group must be Petroleum Company (4); Anchor Petroleum viewed to appreciate. Highlights are too many Company (1); Bankers & Merchants Petroleum to mention. An instant Texas oil collection! Ken Prag Collection Est. Company (2); Bay Shore Production Co. (2); $500-1500 HWAC# 128710 Blackstone Production Company (1); Burk-Tex Production Company (1); California Petroleum Company (1); Dallas Petroleum Company Lot# 2071 Texas Large Group of Texas Oil (1); Texas Petroleum Company (4); The Texas Petroleum and Stocks (65) Lot includes 61 different common Asphalt Company (1); United Texas Petroleum Company (1); Walker stocks and four bonds. The four bonds are Consolidated Petroleum Company (1); United States Fuel Oil Company from Black Diamond Oil Company (D.C.), dated (1); Tamisi Petroleum & Asphalt Co. (1); and Star Petroleum Company. 1917. Most of the stock certificates are dated Interesting vignettes, signed by presidents and secretaries, company 1919 and are from all areas of Texas. Many seals. Fine condition, some with minor tears and folds. (Some repaired with offices in Fort Worth or Wichita Falls. A couple are unissued and with tape.) Uncanceled. Ken Prag Collection Est. $200-300 HWAC# 127727 none are canceled. In average condition overall. Please inspect this lot. Ken Prag Collection Est. $400-1000 HWAC# 128703 Lot# 2076 Texas 1900’s Texas Oil Company Royalty Stock Certs (14) Collection of 14 Lot# 2072 Texas Mexia Oil District Stocks, stock certs from various Texas oil royalty Central-East Texas (10) Ten different oil companies. Included are Valley Ranch stocks from the Mexia oil district in Texas. All Royalties (September 21, 1928), Limestone are issued between 1921 and 1923. All are County Oil Club(February 21, 1922), Mid- uncanceled and in very good condition overall. ContinentPetroleum Trust (August 6, 1923), The Mexia oilfield was discovered in 1920, Panfield Royalty Company (February 24, 1927), Atlantic Oil Royalty by Colonel Albert E. Humphreys and his geologist F. Julius Fohs. Oil Corporation (may 1, 1923), Atlantic Oil Royalty Corporation (October production peaked in November 1921 at 53,000 BOPD. The population 26, 1927), Big State Oil & gas Royalties Inc (August 25, 1928), Bleam of Mexia increased from 3,482 to nearly 35,000. The rapid growth was Plan Royalty Syndicate (January 20, 1922), Harry Bleam Syndicate excessive for local authorities, and for a short time in 1922, Mexia was (2) (March 23, 1922), The Winkler Royalty Association(April 5, under martial law. That year, production for the Mexia field was 35 1828), Winkler-Yates Oil Royalties (October 13, 1928), Thrift Royalty million barrels produced. Cumulative production of the field totaled Company (March 17, 1922) and Accumulative Royalties Corporation 108 million barrels by the mid-1980s (wiki). Ken Prag Collection Est. (July 15, 19300. Please see photos for more detail and condition. Ken $100-200 HWAC# 128698 Prag Collection Est. $150-300 HWAC# 127476 Lot# 2073 Texas 1900’s Oil Syndicate Stock Lot# 2077 Texas Texas Oil Stocks Including Certificates (40) A whole buch (40) of stock Some Famous Companies Plus Some certificates issued by Texas oil syndicates and Specimens (14) Nice lot includes some stocks with the expanding use of automobiles and the from famous companies. A bond from Phillips booming oil industry in the state, it’s easy see Petroleum, and a stock from Texaco, Houston why so many of these syndicates were formed. Oil Company of Texas (3), Humble Oil & A few examples in this lot include, The Super Refining (2). Also two specimen certificates from Crystal Oil Company Syndicate (1921), Sure Shot Oil Company of Wichita Falls, Texas and one from Texas Gulf Sulphur Company. Fourteen certificates in all. (1918), Texas-Eureka Syndicate (1923), Texas-American Syndicate Average condition. Ken Prag Collection Est. $100-200 HWAC# 128707 (1969), Tillicum Oil Association (1919), The Watson Oil Syndicate (1922), West Caddo Oil Syndicate (1919) and several more. Nice large Lot# 2078 Texas Texas Oil Stocks With collection. Please see photos for more detail and condition. Ken Prag Fancy Vignettes (16) Notables include Blue Collection Est. $300-400 HWAC# 127499 Bird Oil, Houston, Texas; Big Gusher Oil, Houston; Export Oil and Pipe Line Company, Beaumont, 1901 (Spindletop); McFadden- Wiess Oil & Gas, Beaumont, 1901 with very attractive green underprint. Also, Colonial Oil & Production Company with huge gusher; Hoffman Oil & Refining, Geyser Oil Development Company with an underprint of a gusher, Big 4 Oil with a large “4” (some damage) and Texas Star Oil & Refining with a red star on the masthead. Other certificates as well. Ken Prag Collection Est. $400-800 HWAC# 128702 86 February 2021

DAY 2 Friday, Feb 12 Stocks Part 2: Oil Lot# 2084 Washington Washington State Oil Stock Group (29) Twenty nine different oil stocks issued or incorporated in Washington state. Currently, there is no oil and gas production in Washington. However there are many areas of the state that have attracted exploration since 1900 when the first exploration well was drilled. Around 1914, there was much speculation in Washington oil stocks and an oil stock exchange even opened in Tacoma. By 1914 most of the exploration and drilling had centered in the Tenino area of Thurston County. A few of the companies involved were: Adjax Oil & Gas Co, Utah Oil Mineral & Development Co., Little Rock Oil Co., Globe Oil Co. Old Glory Oil Co., Scatter Creek Oil Co., Crescent Oil Co. Lot# 2079 Texas Texas Oil Stocks With Great Names (7) Names and others (historylink.org). A couple of nice ones here include Puget include Lucky Dime Oil, (Galveston), Silver Dime Oil (Galveston), Deep Sound Petroleum, 1901 and Alaska Petroleum & Coal Company, issued Sand Oil, Deep Wells Oil, San Antonio, Texas Treasure Oil, The Golden in 1906. Many of the other stocks were based in Seattle or Spokane. Goose Oil & Refining Company, Fort Worth, and The High Grade Oil Includes a couple from Spokane- Wild Rose Oil & Gas, 1920 and 1921. Company. Issued between 1902 and 1926. All are uncanceled. Texas Average condition overall. Ken Prag Collection Est. $200-300 HWAC# Treasure has a tiny piece missing from the top left corner, otherwise 128734 the condition is VF. Ken Prag Collection Est. $100-200 HWAC# 128700 Lot# 2085 West Virginia Bull Creek Oil Company Stock Certificate, 1864 Pleasants County, West Virginia printed on the masthead. Inc. in 1864. Issued for 100 shares at Philadelphia in 1864, so very Lot# 2080 Texas Texas Oils Includes Two early. Amazing vignette. Two trains, oil derrick and barrels being Beaumont’s Issued 1902 Plus Other Areas loaded.Twenty-five cent revenue stamp at left. Some browning at top edge. Line canceled thru signatures. VF. Est. $200-400 HWAC# 128875 (11) Includes two nice Beaumont oils dated 1902 (Spindletop era) plus one from Floydada, Texas and two from Sanderson. Houston and El Paso are also represented as well as a nice Great Plains Oil and Gas Company stock, issued at Amarillo in 1927. All are issued between 1902 and 1936. All are uncanceled and in very good condition. Ken Prag Collection Est. $100-200 HWAC# 128709 Lot# 2081 Utah 1900’s Oil Exploration Company Stock Certificates Group of seven stock certificates issued by various oil exploration companies. Included are four issued by Williston Basin Oil Exploration Company of Utah (1950-1957). All are cancelled. Next, Western Natural Resource Corporation (October 28, 1930), World Exploration Company (1928) and Borderland Exploration Company Inc. (1929). Please see photos for more detail and condition. Ken Prag Lot# 2086 West Virginia Important West Virginia Oil Stock Group Collection Est. $80-150 HWAC# 127463 With 5 From 1860’s (18) West Virginia has been a very important oil producing state. The Volcano oil field was discovered in 1860 and the Lot# 2082 Utah Utah Oil Stock Certificate state’s first oil pipeline was built in 1879 from Volcano to Parkersburg. Group (38) Thirty eight different Utah oil Also at Volcano in 1874, W.C. Stiles, Jr. invented the “endless wire” stocks. After the Spindletop discovery in Texas pumping method of pumping many wells from a central engine. West in 1901, oil exploration increased dramatically in Utah. By 1903, 35 oil Virginia’s peak production year was 1900, producing 16 million companies were operating in the state, but with only two wells drilled. bbls. We have a fabulous collection here including five oils from the Oil was found in 1908 at Mexican Hat in San Juan County. Oil produced 1860’s. They are: West Virginia Oil City Company, 1867; Bull Creek at Virgin City and Mexican Hat kept small local refineries busy for Oil Company, Pleasant’s County West Virginia,1864; Government Oil many years. After WWII, the Uinta Basin became the focal point for and Mining Company of West Virginia,1865; Magenta Oil Company, oil in Utah. Most of the certificates are in better than average to VF Pleasants County, 1865; and a $500 bond from Ritchie Mineral Resin condition. All date ranges here with quite a few later date companies. and Oil Company, 1866. There are also four engraved certificates from View photos. Ken Prag Collection Est. $300-500 HWAC# 128736 1902 to 1920. This is a historic collection and must be seen. Better than average condition throughout. Ken Prag Collection Est. $1200- Lot# 2083 Utah 1900’s Utah Water & Power 2000 HWAC# 128748 Co. Stock Certificates (5) Group of five stock certificates issued by various Utah based petroleum and one water company. Included Lot# 2087 West Virginia Randolph Oil & are Burrow Springs Water Company, dated Mining Stock, West Virginia, 1865 Beautiful, August 10, 1916, Arrowhead Petroleum lavender printed stock from Wood County, Corporation, dated June 12, 1934, (3) estern Empire Petroleum West Virginia and issued in 1865. Cert. #53, issued for 100 shares. Company, one dated February 20, 1957, the other, April 9, 1958 and July 16, 1921. Please see photos for more detail and condition. Ken Prag Professionally graded Choice Uncirculated 63 by PMG. Nice vignette Collection Est. $100-200 HWAC# 127506 of men loading wooden oil barrels at the derrick. It’s rare to find and 1865 oil stock in this sort of fine condition. Uncanceled. Est. $200- 400 HWAC# 128873 View complete catalog, Register, and Bid online at FHWAC.com 87

DAY 2 Friday, Feb 12 Stocks Part 2: Oil Lot# 2088 Wyoming Massive Wyoming Oil Lot# 2094 Great Lakes Region, Mostly Stock Collection (130) One hundred thirty Michigan Oil Stocks (29) Lot includes 29 different oil stock certificates from Wyoming different oil stocks from the region. Includes including one from 1888 and half issued between 1917 and 1919, the Windsor Oil & Gas, 1887 (MI), and seven others issued between most active period in the state. The Mike Murphy #1 well was the first 1900 and 1910. Many of these companies had their offices at Detroit, oil well drilled in Wyoming. It was drilled in 1884 next to a natural Michigan. Condition is average and a few have tape repairs. View oil seep and was the discovery well for the Dallas field, which is still photos. Ken Prag Collection Est. $300-500 HWAC# 128726 an active oil field today. Wyoming’s first real petroleum boom began in 1908 when the Dutch-owned Petroleum Maatschappij Salt Creek Lot# 2095 Gulf States Oil Stock Certificate Company completed the “Big Dutch” well about 40 miles north of Group (36) Thirty six different oil stocks Casper. Then, the giant Elk Basin oilfield opened on October 8, 1915. from the Gulf Coast. The majority are issued By 1930, the Salt Creek dome comprised 20% of all U.S. production. pre-1920 with some dating back to 1902. Highlights include Inter- The 1888 Wyoming oil was from Bell Cook Oil Company, issued for State Petroleum, Jackson, Mississippi, issued in 1902; six stocks from 50 shares at Omaha. The company was incorporated in Wyoming Shreveport, Louisiana; also, Tri-County Oil, Palmetto, Florida, 1924; Territory (rare). Some splits to the folds. The extent of Prag’s collection Birmingham-Beaumont Oil & Transportation Company, 1902 (AL), is mind boggling and it’s doubtful that there is a collection of Wyoming and Gahoma Oil & Gas, Savannah, Georgia, 1920. A few are unissued oils in existance that rivals this group. We hope you can preview this here. Average condition overall. Ken Prag Collection Est. $240-400 lot to appreciate it fully. Average condition overall. Ken Prag Collection HWAC# 128732 Est. $1000-2000 HWAC# 128754 Lot# 2096 Iowa, Missouri and Nebraska Lot# 2089 1920’s U.S. Oils All Printed by Oil Stocks (22) Lot includes 22 oil stocks Goes With Unknown Locations (48) The including 6 from Iowa, 13 from Missouri, and 1920’s was the most popular underwriting 3 from Nebraska. Four of the certificates are period for oil companies due to the explosion of automobiles and issued pre-1905, but most are from the late gas use. This lot features 48 oil stocks printed by Goes and issued teens. Most are Goes style certificates. There in the 1920’s. Most are incorporated in Delaware from unidentified are three or four from Laclede Gas Company locations. Still a great and varied group of oils. In average condition. (Missouri), one of the original Dow 30 in the late 1800’s. Most of the View photos. Ken Prag Collection Est. $300-500 HWAC# 128759 certificates are in VG+ to VF condition and are uncanceled. Ken Prag Collection Est. $150-250 HWAC# 128745 Lot# 2090 1920’s U.S. Oils Printed by Private Printers (60) U.S. oil stocks issued Lot# 2097 Large Group of Modern Oil in the 1920’s and not printed by Goes or by Company Stocks (40) Lot includes stock banknote companies. These are by private printers. Almost all were certificates and debenture certificates from incorporated in Delaware, so we have mostly unidentified locations. many famous oil companies. Includes two This is a large and varied group with some interesting pieces. In common stocks and six debentures from average condition overall. Please view photos to inspect. Ken Prag Standard Oil Company, two debentures from Collection Est. $300-500 HWAC# 128758 Shell Oil, one stock from Sun Oil, three different common shares from Mobil Oil, a debenture from Ashland Oil, three Lot# 2091 1930 C.C. Julian Oil & Royalties common stocks and two debentures from Atlantic Richfield Company, Co. Stock Certificate Stock certificate issued and two stocks and a debenture from Socony Mobil Oil Company. by C.C. Julian Oil & Royalties Company to Harry Also, there are three different bond certificates from Continental Oil Lloyd Baldwin for three shares. It is signed by Company, which are all Specimens. There are no duplications here. The Sole Trustee C.C. Julian and dated September multiples are different formats, colors and share quantities. Condition 25, 1930. Ken Prag Collection Est. $100-200 of all is VG+ to VF. Ken Prag Collection Est. $300-600 HWAC# 128749 HWAC# 127472 Lot# 2098 1900’s Natural Gas Company Lot# 2092 Foreign Oil Stocks Mostly from Stock Certificates (4) Collection of four stock Mexico & South America, Some Canadian certificates issued by four different natural gas (44) Large and varied group includes many companies. First is Spokane-Benton County from Mexico and South America. Also, thirteen Natural Gas Company, issued to Herbert Harris stock certificates from Canadian oil ventures for 500 shares at $1 per share and is signed including three different from Beaver Oils, by Mr. Harris as president and E.O. Harris as Ltd. Some others of interest include Mexican Premier Oil Company, secretary. Dated November 7, 1917 and not cancelled. Next Chicago issued at Los Angeles in 1911; three different certificates from St. Perfect Gas Controller Company, issued to James Erenden for 500 Mary’s Franco-American Petroleum Company, 1902; and a Standard shares at $1 per share. It’s signed by H.W. Hill secretary and Daniel Oil Company of Mexico (any connection?) stock issued at New York in Freedman, president, It’s dated August 8, 1907 and appears cancelled 1907. Ken Prag Collection Est. $200-300 HWAC# 128711 on November 4, 1907. Next, California Natural Gas & Development, issued 80 shares at $1 per share to R.E. Parker. It’s signed by Amos Lot# 2093 1900’s Gas Company Stocks Elliott, secretary and a Mr. Johnson and dated February 10, 1921. from Eastern US - 30 Several certificates Lastly, Butte Gas & Oil Company, issued 70 shares to Florence Vantress, and specimens from various eastern U.S. It’s signed by Judith Johnson, secretary and John Bosley, president gas companies. There are a half dozen or so and dated October 10, 1969. It’s punch cancelled on August 20, 1993. specimens from The Brooklyn Union Gas Please see photos for more detail and condition. Ken Prag Collection Est. Company, as well as four certs issued by $150-250 HWAC# 127469 Appalachian Gas Corporation from the 1930’s and a 1951 issue from American Gas and Electric Company. There are a few issued by The Columbian Gas System, Inc. dated 1959 & 1969 respectively. There are a few specimens from County Gas Company. Many more. Please see photos for more detail and condition. Ken Prag Collection Est. $200-400 HWAC# 127500 88 February 2021

DAY 2 Friday, Feb 12 Stocks Part 2: Oil Lot# 2099 Ohio Valley Oil Stock Group Lot# 2105 1893-1961 Petroleum and Fuel Includes Two #1 Certificates (59) Fifty Companies Stock Certificates (16) Lot of nine oil stocks from Illinois, Ohio and Indiana 16 mostly western states petroleum and fuel primarily. There are 17 issued pre-1909, 9 between 1910 and 1920, 23 companies stock certificates, c1893-1961. during the 1920’s and ten post-1930. The two #1 certificates include Includes (the oldest): Virginia Eggette Fuel Ellwood Petroleum, Elwood, Indiana, 1903 and Wind River Oil and Company, Richmond, Va., 1893, one share Gas Company (IN), issued in 1926. The stocks are in average condition issued to Robt. E. Griffith, signed by president and secretary, good overall. Please inspect. Ken Prag Collection Est. $300-600 HWAC# 128735 condition with minor tears, some repaired, and folds; Casper-Embar Petroleum Co., 1917, 50 shares issued to R.A. Cook, signed by president Lot# 2100 1900’s Oil Drilling & Equipment and assistant secretary, fine condition with two folds and some wear; Company Stock Certificates (7) Group of stock and Casper-Embar Petroleum Co., 1918, 1000 shares issued to Carl F. certificates issued by oil drilling and drilling Rotz, signed by vice-president and secretary, fine condition with two equipment companies. Issuing companies folds. See photo(s) for details on others. Ken Prag Collection Est. $100- include Banner Drilling Corporation (May 30, 200 HWAC# 127729 1944), The Super Drill Bit Company (May 29, 1923), Southeastern Drilling, Inc.(June 19, Lot# 2106 1900’s Petroleum Stock 1968), Drilling Operation McCulloch County Certificates - 13 Collection of 13 stock Texas (September 8, 1926), The Texas Drilling Company (February 17, certificates issued by various petroleum 1903), The Seifert Well-Digging Machine Company (January 7, 1920) companies. Issuing companies include Cole and Standard Drilling Company, Inc. (September 25, 1917). Please see Petroleum Company, dated 1938, Westfield photo for more detail and condition. Est. $100-200 HWAC# 127471 Petroleum Company, dated 1916, Vermont Petroleum Development Company, dated 1928, Venezuelan Petroleum Company, dated 1955 and many more. Please see photos for more detail and condition. Ken Prag Collection Est. $100- Lot# 2101 1920s-1960s Oil Lease & 200 HWAC# 127505 Dividend Stocks Lot of 30, most different. Includes: Fortnightly Dividend League (1923); Lot# 2107 Potomac Oil Company Stock, Cal-Ven Holding Co. (1932); Corpus Christi Development Co. (1956); Kern River Producer, 1901 Very attractive ET&T Holding Corp. (1930); Stony Creek Devel. Co. (1925); El Centro certificate issued at Los Angeles in 1901 for Holding Co., Inc. (1925); Sun Coast Dev. Co., Inc. (1962); Sudbury 500 shares. The company produced and sold Northern Syndicate (1933); Cleveland Farm-Massey Well, Inc. (1927); 421,000 barrels of oil in 1902 at an average Three States Lease Syndicate (1921); Trapshooter Dev. Co. (1922); price of 18 cents per barrel on average. Most Shawona Dev. Corp. (1956); General Lee Development Interests of their production was from the Kern River (1922) and many more. Please inspect. Ken Prag Collection Est. $100- field. The company also operated in the Los 200 HWAC# 113936 Angeles oil fields (Petroleum Review, 1903). In very good condition. Uncanceled. Ken Prag Collection Est. $80-150 HWAC# 128667 Lot# 2102 1900’s Oil Refinery Stock Certificates -35 A load of stock certificates Lot# 2108 Two Early Oil Stocks, 1887 and 1891 issued by various and sundry oil refineries. from Kentucky and Ohio Lot of 2 includes The Most are endowed with beautiful vignette. Kentucky Consolidated Oil & Natural Gas Company, A few examples include Star Refining and Limited (KY), issued at New York in 1891. Inc. Producing Company of Fort Worth, dated in Kentucky. Gusher at top left. Globe Stationary 1903, Seaboard Refineries, Inc. dated 1921, and Printing, N.Y. Very nice. Also, The Hamilton U.S. Producers Refining Company, dated 1920, Universal Refining County Natural Gas and Oil Company, issued at Company, dated 1923, World Refining Company, dated 1920, Constant Cincinnati, Ohio in 1887. Both certificates are VF Refining Company, dated 1925, Commonwealth Oil Refining Company, and uncanceled. Ken Prag Collection Est. $200-300 Inc., dated 1973 and several more. Please see photos for more detail HWAC# 128740 and condition. Ken Prag Collection Est. $300-700 HWAC# 127503 Lot# 2109 U.S. Oil Stock Certificate Group, Lot# 2103 1900’s Oil Royalty Company Stock 1915-1919 (65) Nice group of issued U.S. oil Certificates (14) Oil royalty company stock stocks, most issued between 1915 and 1919. certificates from various parts of the country. A Many of these incorporated in Delaware, due to the favorable corporate few examples include Great Northern Royalties laws in the late teens and early 1920’s. Sixty five certificates without Company, issued in 1927, nice oil derrick duplications. A great collection to build upon. In average condition. vignette, Producers Royalty Corporation, View photos to inspect. Ken Prag Collection Est. $400-600 HWAC# 128756 issued 1930, with an impressive RR tank car vignette. Baxter Royalty Company, issued in 1907, California Royalties, Lot# 2110 U.S. Oil Stocks 1900-1909, Some issued 1923 two oil derrick vignettes. and more. Please see photos for California Operators, With Two Engraved more detail and condition. Ken Prag Collection Est. $150-250 HWAC# (14) Nice group of early oils contains two 127502 nicely engraved ones. One from United Oil Producing Company, 1903, E.A. Wright Bank Lot# 2104 1900’s Oil Syndicate Stocks - 6 Note Engraver, Phila. The second one is from Stock certificates from various oil syndicates. Central Oil Company, (ME), 1900, ABN. Another nice one is from They include Shallcross 500% Syndicate Universal Oil Company with a large globe vignette over the company (October 11, 1923), Dakota-Montana Twelve name. Eastern Consolidated Oil Company we know operated in the Oil Syndicate (June 30, 1922), CERTIFICATE Kern River district of California. Also, two different certificates from (March 9, 1922), Offset Lease Interest Contract Gusher Oil and Pipe Line Company. This is a nice group of oils. Ken Prag by W.J. Anson (June 5, 1931), Thunder Mountain Collection Est. $200-300 HWAC# 128746 Syndicate (August 2, 1902) and Columbian Oil Concessions, Inc (June 7, 1927). Please see photos for more detail and condition. Ken Prag Collection Est. $100-150 HWAC# 127473 View complete catalog, Register, and Bid online at FHWAC.com 89

DAY 2 Friday, Feb 12 Stocks Part 2: Oil Lot# 2111 United States Oil Stocks, Early Lot# 2117 California 1885-1909 California 1920’s,Printed by Banknote Companies Railroad Stock Certificate Group Lot of 4 (47) Forty seven oil stocks from around the different. Included: California Street Cable country printed by banknote companies in the Railroad Co. (1887, pen cxl, streetcar vignette); California Street early 20’s. Includes 1 from Western Banknote, Railroad Co. (1885, pen cxl); San Francisco & San Joaquin Valley 2 from Republic Banknote, 1 from Columbian Railway Co. (1895, signed by sugar magnate Claus Spreckels, stamp Banknote, 8 from Hamilton Banknote, 9 from Security Banknote, 23 cxl, locomotive vignette); and Central California Traction Co. (1909, from ABN and 3 unidentified. Lot also includes five bonds. In average stamp cxl, streetcar vignette). Ken Prag Collection Est. $150-250 HWAC# condition overall. Ken Prag Collection Est. $400-800 HWAC# 128739 113959 Lot# 2112 1950’s Uranium and Oil Stock Lot# 2118 Canon City, Colorado Canon City & Certificates (6) A variety of oil & uranium Cripple Creek Electric Railway Bond, 1897 stock certificates that reflect a time when Beautiful Cripple Creek railroad bond issued in uranium stocks were on the upswing. Included 1897. Cert. #272. Signed by Syman Robison as president. Vignette of issuers are Crusader Oil and Uranium Company a millsite along a river gorge. Two full pages of coupons attached, 60 (June 22, 1955), Big Horn Uranium and Oil, Inc.(November 2, 1956), in all. Rare. $1000 5% gold bond. Not cancelled. Organized in 1897 Bapco Uranium and Oil, Inc.(September 15, 1954), Apollo Oil Uranium by Colorado railroad magnate David Moffat as a new branch of his Company (October 15, 1954), American Uranium (March 17, 1955) Florence & Cripple Creek RR. Ran from Canon City to Cripple Creek and Uranium-Petroleum Company (January 11, 1955). Please see thru Victor. Began by connecting the Florence & Cripple Creek Railroad photos for more detail and condition. Ken Prag Collection Est. $100-150 to Canon City since Moffat was not receiving the land in Florence HWAC# 127477 he needed for additional tailings processing facilities. Finding more support in Canon City, Moffat moved the Florence & Cripple Creek Lot# 2113 1929 Yellowstone Petroleum RR headquarters to Canon City and incorporated the new branch as Stock Certificate Stock certificate issued by a subsidiary, the Canon City & Cripple Creek Electric Railway. The line Yellowstone Petroleum Corporation for 75 was placed into operation in 1900 and abandoned in 1912. VF. Est. shares at $25 per share to George K. Hinds $200-400 HWAC# 128798 and signed by himself as secretary and R. C. Ferdag as president. It is dated January 25, Lot# 2119 Chaicago, Illinois 1907 The 1929. Please see photos for more detail and Chicago Southern railway Co. Lot of 34. condition. Ken Prag Collection Est. $70-100 Syndicate certificates. Combination of U/C and HWAC# 127475 I/C . All signed. Brown, no vignette, 1st (first) in white letter over brown under print. Western Bank Note printer. Lot# 2114 Oakland, California Fifteen East F-VF. Ken Prag Collection Est. $150-300 HWAC# 122464 Bay Railroad Stock Certificates Group of 15 Oakland, California, railroad stock Lot# 2120 Chicago, Illinois 1886-1954 Chicago certificates,issued from 1910-1914. Includes five East Shore and Railroad stock Lot of 19. 1. Two The Chicago, Suburban Railway Company stock certificates, issued 1910-11, four Kansas and Western Railroad Co., incorp. Oakland, Antioch and Eastern Railway stock certificates, issued 1913- Illinois. I/C, A1163 &911. First Mortgage Bond 14, and six Oakland Traction Company stock certificates, issued 1910- Scrip, Issued 1886. Two vignettes: Frontal 12. All are canceled and have vignettes. One of the Oakland Traction of train upper left and farmer plowing field stocks is issued to F.M. (Borax) Smith and one is signed by Dennis bottom. American bank Note Co. VF. 2. Eight Chicago South Shore and Searles. Borax Smith, the Borax King, controlled most of the east bay South Bend Railroad incorp. Indiana. I/C, Issued 1929, Vignette of railroads during this time period. Est. $200-400 HWAC# 128885 two electric trains, Greeen, four have revenue stamps. American Bank Note. F. 3. Nine Chicago, Indianapolis and Louisville Railway Co., I/C, Lot# 2115 Oakland, California Piedmont issued 1946-54. SOme with . No vignette, other two allegorical figures. Cable Company Bond, Oakland, Cal. 1889 Various colors. Security Bank Note. F-VF/ Ken Prag Collection Est. $150- 1st Mortgage Bond,6%, 30 year gold bond 300 HWAC# 125294 issued in 1889 from Piedmont Cable Company, Oakland, Alameda County, California. Cert. #234 for $1000. Vignette of sailboats on lake, Lot# 2121 Chicago, Illinois 1898-1906 streetcar near terminal, vertical format. Listed in Cox. According to Chicago Terminal Transfer Railroad Co. Lot the Railway Journal in 1893, the company was called the Consolidated of 9. I/C. Issue 1898-1906. Orange. Vignette; Piedmont Cable Company,and their system encompassed horse, allegorical female holding two circles one of cable and electric railway lines and 24 miles of track. Bond coupon train under bridge and one of men working on #1 was clipped and reattached to the front of the bond and stamped rails. Small vignette on bottoms. COMMON in CANCELED in purple. The face of the bond is also stamp cxled as is orange under print. Two with revenue stamps. F-VF. American Bank each coupon. This is a very rare California railroad bond. Est. $200- Note printer. Ken Prag Collection Est. $180-400 HWAC# 122457 400 HWAC# 129483 Lot# 2122 Chicago, Illinois 1930-69 Railway Lot# 2116 Sacramento, California 1907 and Railroad stock of Chicago Lot of 35. Both Northern Electric Railway Company Bond issued and cancelled certificates. The Joliet and Rare. $1,000 bond issued in 1907, not cancelled. Chicago Railroad Co., Chicago, Burlington and Signed by the president and secretary (illegible). Green border, black Quincy Railroad Co., Chicago Great Western print, and vignette of street car. One and half pages of coupons still Railway Co. and Chicago, Milwaukee and Gary attached. 15 x 9.5” Ran from Sacramento north through Marysville- Railway Co. . American Bank Note, Colombian Yuba City to Chico. Combined with the Sacramento Northern in 1928 Bank Note, Western bank Note and Franklin to become the Sacramento Northern Railway. Ken Prag Collection Est. Lee bank not. Various cond. Ken Prag Collection Est. $150-300 HWAC# $100-200 HWAC# 113950 125295 90 February 2021

DAY 2 Friday, Feb 12 Stocks Part 2: Railroad Lot# 2123 Chicago, Illinois 1886 The Chicago, Lot# 2129 Billings, Montana Billings and Rock Island and Pacific Rail Road Co. Lot Central Montana Railway Company Stock of 5. Incorp. Illinois and Iowa 1847, originally Number 3, 1912 # 3 for 1 share to AA Scott. called Rock Island La Salle Rail Road Co. and Founder share. Signed by secretary Scott and at the end known as The Rock. I/C. $5000, 6%, president RE Shepherd. Fancy title bar. No Mortgage Bond. All Issued 1886 and due 1917. edge, corner or discoloration issues. Black Brown, signed by president, brown. Embossed on green safety paper. Cancelled. This was a seal, vignettes: Center male portrait w/4-4-0 on single-track, standard-gauge, steam railroad, left and harbor on right. American Bank Note located in Montana. The main line extends from a connection with printer. VF. Ken Prag Collection Est. $100-250 the lines of the Chicago, Burlington & Quincy Railroad Company and HWAC# 122462 the Northern Pacific at Billings, to Shepherd, a distance of 12.6 miles. [Notice Shepherd signs as president.] The town was named after R.E. Lot# 2124 Illinois 1902-06 Collection of Shepherd, a prominent early settler and owner of the Billings Land and Chicago Terminal Transfer Railroad Co. Irrigation Company and the Merchants National Bank. Stuart Mackenzie Lot of 7. One U/U all the rest ar I/C. Orange. Montana Railroad Collection Est. $100-200 HWAC# 123901 Vignette; allegorical female holding two circles one of train under bridge and one Lot# 2130 Blackfoot, Montana 1910 Big of men working on rails. Small vignette on Blackfoot Railway Company Stock - bottoms. COMMON in orange under print. F-VF. NUMBER 1 - founders share, 1910 Number American Bank Note printer. Ken Prag Collection Est. $100-200 HWAC# 1 for 1 share to John R. Toole. Signed by Toole 122460 as president. Dateline Feb 11, 1910/. Steam locomotive exiting a tunnel vignette. Cancelled. Lot# 2125 Illinois 1886 The Chicago, Kansas No edge, corner or discoloration issues. Toole and Western Railroad Co. Lot of 13. On Corp. was an industrialist in Montana. He served in Illinois. Income Bond and First Mortgage Bond the Montana State Legislature in 1890. John R. Toole became president Scrips. All dated 1886. I/C. $20-50 several are of this company shortly after he moved to Missoula. By 1900 the Big in consecutive order. Black, no seal. Vignettes: Blackfoot Milling Company had largely depleted its nearby timber top frontal view of locomotive, bottom farmer supplies and moved further up the Blackfoot. The mill, now owned plowing field. VF-EF cond. American bank Note by the Anaconda Company, got most of its timber from logs cut and printer. Ken Prag Collection Est. $150-350 HWAC# 125293 dumped into the river and floated down to Bonner. The mill decided to build semi-permanent camps further up the river and bought two Shay Lot# 2126 Louisville, Kentucky Louisville engines. They constructed the Big Blackfoot Railroad from the landing through Potomac to Greenough, some 14 miles. It was completed by Bridge Company Stock, Kentucky, 1869 Cert. 1904. This track had temporary branch lines, which could be moved #20, issued for 100 shares to the Jeffersonville when an area was cleared of timber. When logs reached McNamara’s Madison & Indianapolis Rail Road Company in Landing, they were dumped in the river and floated to Bonner. 1869. Large river vignette shows a long railroad [bonnermilltownhistory.org] Stuart Mackenzie Montana Railroad Collection bridge crossing the river and many steamers. Est. $100-200 HWAC# 123907 The company built the 14th Street Bridge over the Ohio River connecting Louisville, Kentucky Lot# 2131 Bozeman, Montana 1904 Bozeman and Clarksville, Indiana. 25 cent revenue stamp at bottom left. Hole Street Railway Company Stock for 3,732 cancels through signatures. VF. Ken Prag Collection Est. $200-400 shares, 1904 Early number 20 for 3,732 HWAC# 128595 shares to Thomas Duncan Managing Executor Lot# 2127 Louisiana 1877 Chicago, St. Louis [Henry] Elling Estate. Singed by George Cox & New Orleans Railroad Company Bond and president SA Mendenhall. Dateline Oct. 1, 1904. Gold seal. Allegorical vignette. Fancy States of Louisiana, Mississippi, Tennessee, and title scrolling. Excellent condition. Hole Kentucky. Second Mortgage Bond. No. 4871, issued in 1877 for $1,000. punched cancelled at signatures, but holes to not go entirely through Signed by the president and secretary. Punch and stamp cancelled. 59 the certificate. Believe to be for Henry Elling who died in 1900. Henry coupons attached. Black print, vignette of bird with babies. National Elling was a famous banker in Virginia City, Montana. Mendenhall Bank Note Co., New York. 25 x 14” (with coupons). Folds. Ken Prag was the son of John Mildenhall, Bozeman general merchant. Signed Collection Est. $100-300 HWAC# 113991 by Duncan on reverese. Stuart Mackenzie Montana Railroad Collection Lot# 2128 Amador, Montana 190- Amador Stuart Mackenzie Montana Ephemera Collection Est. $100-200 HWAC# 123854 Railway Company Stock - Ran from one ghost town to another in Montana Number Lot# 2132 Boseman, Montana Gallatin Light, 1200 for 225 shares to Mrs. J Muldoon in Power & Railway Company of Bozeman 1909. Incorporated 1904. Signed by George Montana Stock (hand written) Number Dreary and president Adam Kasper Jr. Steam 1 (founders share) to WG DeCelle for 1,995 locomotive exiting tunnel vignette. Light edge shares on April 7, 1892. Signed by president issues at folds. Otherwise no edge, corner DeCelle and CJ Clark. (CJ Clark must have or discoloration issues. This electric railway ran for 10.5 miles from been related to WA Clark as he appears on stock certificate # 2 as Amador to Glassett. It reached Riverside Natural Park. [American vice president.) Black on blue. Plain and simple. This company held Street Railway Investments, 1910] Glassett is a defunct town just off the street lighting and electric railway franchises of Bozeman. See of !-90 in Mineral County. Amador is an historic community on I-90. certificate #2 in this sale. It is a printed certificate. DeCelle was from Stuart Mackenzie Montana Railroad Collection Est. $100-200 HWAC# 123890 St. Paul and a heavy investor in the street railroad. Stuart Mackenzie Montana Railroad Collection Est. $150-300 HWAC# 123887 View complete catalog, Register, and Bid online at FHWAC.com 91

DAY 2 Friday, Feb 12 Stocks Part 2: Railroad Lot# 2133 Bozeman, Montana 1894 Gallatin Lot# 2137 Butte, Montana 1888 Montana Light, Power and Railway Company Stock, Union Railway Company Stock with Jay Certificate NUMBER 1 to Minneapolis Gould Connection # 31 for 1 share to Gardiner Trust Reverse shows that the stock has been M Lane on July 12, 1888. Signed by president, transferred to Henry Elling, George L Ramsey secretary, transfer agent and registrar. All hole and Joseph Kountz. Signed by WA Clark (hole punch cancelled. Staining from certificate punched) and CJ Clark. Gold border. Number book on left. Otherwise fine. Reverse assigns 1 for 1,995 shares. This company had the this stock to Jay Gould on September 26, 1888. “The Montana Union franchise to Bozeman lighting and street railways. Stuart Mackenzie Railway was a company jointly owned by Northern Pacific and Union Montana Railroad Collection Est. $100-200 HWAC# 123895 Pacific. It was organized on June 28, 1886, and took over the operation (not ownership) of the former Utah & Northern line between Butte Lot# 2134 Bozeman, Montana 1894 Gallatin and Garrison, Montana on August 1, 1886. It was a joint company from Light, Power & Railway Company of 1886 until 1898, when the company was sold to Northern Pacific.” Bozeman Montana Stock certificate # 2 [utahrails.net] Stuart Mackenzie Montana Railroad Collection Est. $100- signed by WH Clark. # 2 for 1 share to J. 200 HWAC# 123912 Parker Veazey. Signed by CJ Clark and WH Clark vice president. Dateline Jan. 10, 1894. Lot# 2138 Butte City, Montana 1886 Montana Golden brown border. Printer: State Publishing Railway Company Stock Butte City, Montana, Company of Helena. Pen cancelled. This company had the franchise 1886 Lucky number 13 for 5 shares to Elisha rights to the street railway and electric lighting system in Bozeman. Atkins. Green on white. Discoloration left Veazey as a lawyer originally from Minneapolis, but in 1894 resided where attached to certificate book. Otherwise, in Great Falls. See stock certificate number 1 in this sale to see his no edge, color or corner issues. Names are connection to this project. Stuart Mackenzie Montana Railroad Collection hole punch cancelled. In 1886, the year of our Est. $150-250 HWAC# 123888 certificate, the Montana Railway Company started a line from Anaconda to Walkerville. Stuart Mackenzie Montana Lot# 2135 Bozeman, Montana 1909, 1917 Gallatin Railroad Collection Est. $100-200 HWAC# 123918 Valley Electric Railway, The Bozeman line to Yosemite Valley! - Two Varieties 1) Gallatin Valley Lot# 2139 Clearwater, Montana 1896 Electric Railway. # 24 for 50 shares to RM Hart in Clearwater Short Line Railway Company 1909. Signed by Charles Anderson and president HS Stock - NUMBER 2 Number 2 for share to JW Buell. 2) # 115 for 1 share to David C. Owen. Signed Kendrick. Signed by C Muller and president by EW Adams and president Woodrow(?). Gallatin William Gemmett(?). Datelined Nov. 21, Valley Electric Railway has been crossed out and 1898. Cancelled. Some discoloration where Gallatin Valley Railway Company has been stamped the certificate was glued to the book. In 1914 over it. The Gallatin Valley Electric Railway was the Northern Pacific Railroad purchased this Incorporated in the State of Montana on 18 March 1908. The name route. “The Clearwater Short Line Railway is a branch of the Northern was changed to the Gallatin Valley Railway on 8 September 1910, and Pacific Railroad, now under active construction, extending from the line opened on 1 November 1910. In 1911 the entire stock of the Missoula., Mont., westward across the States of Idaho and Washington company was purchased by the Chicago, Milwaukee and Puget Sound to the Northern Pacific main line at Pasco Junction. The road will Railway, and the line was thereafter run as a branch of the Milwaukee open a large and rich agricultural region now far distant from rail Road. The line extended 27 miles south from Three Forks Junction on communication, and afford the many thousands of settlers within the the Milwaukee Road’s main line to Bozeman Hot Springs, thence about former Nez Perces Reservation and adjacent region direct rail facilities 11 miles east to Bozeman and another 25 miles more or less due north for reaching markets with their farm products.” [1899, letter to the to Menard, bringing it to a point 17 miles east and 6 miles south of the US House of representatives] Stuart Mackenzie Montana Railroad Collection other end of the line at Three Forks. There were two branches, one Est. $100-200 HWAC# 123902 5 miles long from Belgrade Junction to Belgrade, and another which ran 15 miles south from Bozeman to Salesville, now known as Gallatin Lot# 2140 Cooke City, Montana Rocky Fork Gateway, where there was access to the Yellowstone National Park and Cooke City Railway Company Stock, and a large railway hotel. The line also absorbed the Bozeman street Cooke City, Montana, Number 6, 1888 eclectic railway. Stuart Mackenzie Montana Railroad Collection Est. $150- Number 6 for 40 shares to James Platt. Dateline 250 HWAC# 123889 June 13, 1888. Platt, Hubbel and Word, three major backers, all sign on back. Fancy title box. Lot# 2136 Butte, Montana 1906 Butte No edge, corner or discoloration issues. The Electric Railway Company Stock signed by Rocky Fork and Cooke City Railway Company W. A. Clark - Butte, Montana’s Mining and (RF & CC) was formed in 1886 to construct a standard-gauge rail line Railroad Financier! # 19 for 1000 shares to from the Northern Pacific main line at Tilden, Montana Territory, along WA Clark. Signed by president Clark, but hole Rock Creek, to the rich coal fields near Red Lodge. Principal backers punch cancelled. However, his endorsement included James Platt, Hamilton Browne, James Hubbel, Walter Cooper, on reverse is crisp and clear. Datelined June and Samuel Word. In 1889 Samuel Hauser contracted with Green and 5, 1906 in New York. Street car vignette. Fold Keefe, to finish all remaining work. The line was completed in April bottom left and light wrinkling. Otherwise very fine. Has wonderful 1889 and acquired by the Northern Pacific in July 1890. [Montana variety of New York Revenue Stamps: one blue $10, one red $1, two Historical Society] Stuart Mackenzie Montana Railroad Collection Est. black 20c and four brown 2c. The line had 23 miles of track. It ran until $100-200 HWAC# 123896 1937 when it was bought and replaced with busses. Stuart Mackenzie Montana Railroad Collection Est. $300-600 HWAC# 123891 92 February 2021

DAY 2 Friday, Feb 12 Stocks Part 2: Railroad Lot# 2141 Drummond, Montana 1887 Lot# 2145 Helena, Montana 1887 Helena Drummond and Philipsburg Railroad and Red Mountain Railroad Company Company Number 4 for 1 share to John C. Stock, Number 3, 1887 Number 3 for 2,040 Curtin. Signed by George earl and ST Hauser shares to Northern Pacific Railroad. Signed as president. Cancelled. The Drummond and by Hauser and George Earl as secretary. Hole Philipsburg Railroad Company was a short punch cancelled. Robert Harris signs back as line railroad that ran between Drummond and President of the Northern Pacific Railroad Philipsburg, Montana. This 26 mile-long branch line was located in Company. Samuel T. Hauser was educated as a civil engineer, he found Granite County, Hauser was an American industrialist and banker who his first employment, in 1854, on The Missouri Pacific Railway, but was active in the development of the Montana Territory. In addition several years later followed the throng of emigrants to the Northwest, to his many business interests, he was appointed the 7th Governor and, in 1862, prospected the upper waters of the Missouri river as far of the Montana Territory, serving from 1885 to 1887. Stuart Mackenzie as Fort Benton and the upper waters of the Columbia River. In the Fall, Montana Railroad Collection Est. $100-200 HWAC# 123903 he came East as far as the Bannock mines, and spent some time in mining in that region, and, in 1863, prospected along the route of the Lot# 2142 Helena, Montana 1891 Helen Lewis and Clarke expedition as far as the Yellowstone valley. Having Electric Railway Company Stock - Rare accumulated sufficient means, Mr. Hauser opened a bank in Virginia Issued, Number 1 Number 1 for 502 shares City, Mont. In 1866, Hauser organized The First National Bank of issued to Charles Broadwater. Signed by Walker Helena, which city has since been his home. Several branch railroads as secretary (also treasurer) and William in Montana, now united as The Northern Pacific & Montana, were Chessman as vice president. Issued on January built by him under contract. Star punch cancellation effects Hauser’s 14, 1891. Semi-nude allegorical lady flying on signature as president. Very nice. Stuart Mackenzie Montana Railroad winged creature. Cancelled in red. Staining on left that seems to have Collection Est. $100-200 HWAC# 123905 come from the certificate book. All-in-all it is in very nice condition! We certainly have seen these stocks before, but NEVER issued. This is Lot# 2146 Helena, Montana 1889-1916 a rare 2 rare two-year railroad company. The The Independent-Record Helena Motor Railway Company Stock - Very (Helena, Montana) reported on July 27, 1893 that the railway was Early # 3 # 3 for 50 shares to JJ Palmer. Signed going into assignment! Stuart Mackenzie Montana Railroad Collection. by HB Palmer and president NE Cox. Palmer Stuart Mackenzie Montana Ephemera Collection Est. $100-200 HWAC# was the early Helena Banker. Signed by JJ 123853 Palmer on reverse. Datelined Helena Jan. 1889. Unique vignette of the street car Prospector #1 Lot# 2143 Helena, Montana 1884 Helena of the Helena Motor Railway. No edge corner and Jefferson County Railroad Company of discoloration issues - practically perfect. Signed by two important Stock, NUMBER 2, Founders Share Number early citizens of Helena. Stuart Mackenzie Montana Railroad Collection Est. 2 for 1 share to Robert Harris. Signed by $100-200 HWAC# 123892 James Williams secretary and president Hauser. Datelined Sept. 18m 1864 in Helena. Lot# 2147 Helena, Montana 1887 Helena, small size. Staining on left from certificate Boulder Valley and Butte Railroad Company book. Cancelled. No corner edge or discoloration. Very nice. Samuel Stock, Number 2, Founders Share Number T. Hauser (1833-1914) was a Helena, Montana, Territory, pioneer, 2 for 1 share to AM Holter. Signed by George territorial governor (1885-1886), and entrepreneur in the fields of Earl and president Hauser. Small size. Black banking, mining, smelting, ranching, railroads, irrigation, and hydro- on white. Cancelled. Samuel T. Hauser (1833- electric power. the road was in business from 1883 to 1896. it went 1914) was a Helena, Montana, Territory, to Wilkes. Purchased by the Northern Pacific. Stuart Mackenzie Montana pioneer, territorial governor (1885-1886), and entrepreneur in the Railroad Collection Est. $100-200 HWAC# 123908 fields of banking, mining, smelting, ranching, railroads, irrigation, and hydro-electric power. The Helena, Boulder Valley and Butte Railroad Lot# 2144 Helena, Montana Helena and started operations in 1886 and stopped service in 1888 for a total Northern Railroad Company Stock, 1888, period of operations of 2 years. Stuart Mackenzie Montana Railroad Helena, Montana Number 13 to WF Sanders Collection Est. $100-200 HWAC# 123909 for 1 share. Datelined Helena May 1,1888. Signed by secretary Geo. Earl and president Lot# 2148 Helena, Montana 1895 Montana Hauser. Signatures are hole punch cancelled. Railroad Company Stock Certificate # 1 Reverse signed by earl and Sanders. This line NUMBER 1 for 1 share to Milton Gunn - a ran from 1886 to 1888. In that year the Northern Pacific Railroad took founder’s share. Signed by Gunn as president. over the company. Signature of Montana’s 9t Governor or a relative? Names cancelled in red. No edge, corner or Stuart Mackenzie Montana Railroad Collection Est. $100-200 HWAC# 123900 discoloration issues. Extremely nice and clean. However, endorsed by Gunn on reverse. Black on yellow. Gunn was one of Helena’s most prominent attorneys. This was part of the Northern Pacific Railroad line! Stuart Mackenzie Montana Railroad Collection Est. $200-400 HWAC# 123894 Lot# 2149 Helena, Montana Rocky Mountain Railroad Company of Montana Stock, NUMBER 4, 1885 # 4 for 1 shared to AL Stokes. A Founder’s share. Cancelled in blue and signatures are hole punch cancelled. Dateline Helena, Dec 19, 1885. These are often found not issued. Organized under the auspices of the Northern Pacific. In 1881 they announced their intention to build three roads: Little Blackfoot to Butte, Helena to Benton, and Bozeman to the National Park. Signed by Stokes on the reverese. Stuart Mackenzie Montana Railroad Collection Est. $150-300 HWAC# 123899 View complete catalog, Register, and Bid online at FHWAC.com 93

DAY 2 Friday, Feb 12 Stocks Part 2: Railroad Lot# 2150 Missoula, Montana 1887 Missoula Lot# 2155 Montana Remainder of Montana and Bitter Root Valley Railroad Company Railroad Stocks - Lot of Five All unissued. Stock signed by Samuel T Hauser # 14 for ) Montana & Wyoming Railroad. # 51 1 share to TC Power. Signed by H Barbour Unissued.18--. 2) Helena Hot Springs and and president Hauser. Cancelled. Transfer Smelter Railroad. # 425. 18--. Great unusual information glued to back. Samuel T. Hauser street car vignette title “Prospector”. 3) Helena was educated as a civil engineer, he found his and Red Mountain Railroad. 18--. Steam locomotive vignette4) Butte, first employment, in 1854, on The Missouri Pacific Railway, but several Wisdom & Pacific Railway Company. 19--. # 24. Valley smelter vignette. years later followed the throng of emigrants to the Northwest, and, 5) Gallatin Valley Electric Railway. #141. 190-. CONDITION: No issues in 1862, prospected the upper waters of the Missouri river as far as with any of these certificates. Stuart Mackenzie Montana Railroad Collection Fort Benton and the upper waters of the Columbia River. In the Fall, Est. $100-200 HWAC# 123906 he came East as far as the Bannock mines, and spent some time in mining in that region, and, in 1863, prospected along the route of the Lot# 2156 Nevada 1901 Eureka & Palisade Lewis and Clarke expedition as far as the Yellowstone valley. Having Railroad Co -1st Mortgage Bond receipt Lot accumulated sufficient means, Mr. Hauser opened a bank in Virginia of 2. Eureka and Palisade Railroad Co receipts City, Mont. In 1866, Hauser organized The First National Bank of for 1st Mortgage Bond. Extremely rare and in Helena, which city has since been his home. Several branch railroads good condition. Receipt #788 cancelled (March in Montana, now united as The Northern Pacific & Montana, were 16, 1901) issued to Frank Miller, Trustee on January 23, 1901 signed built by him under contract. Star punch cancellation effects Hauser’s by J. M. Telluauf, secy. Receipt #953 not issued. Eureka & Palisade signature as president. Stuart Mackenzie Montana Railroad Collection Est. Railroad was built in 1873-1875 between Palisade and Eureka, $100-200 HWAC# 123904 Nevada. Railroad built to connect Eureka, center of a rich silver mining area with the national railway network at Palisade. Financial problems Lot# 2151 Montana Chicago, Milwaukee, lead to reorganizations and name changes to Eureka and Palisade St. Paul and Pacific Railraod Stock Group Railway and then Eureka Nevada Railway. Line run by John Sexton, but 1) Certificate for preferred stock to Julius floods and fires along with less ore being moved ended the line and Wadsworth. 1873. Hole punch cancelled. 2) rails removed in 1938. The Eureka, one of the railroad’s only surviving Purple 1932. 3) Orange 1969. 4) Green 1935. steam locomotives, is listed on the United States National Register of Four different vignettes! Stuart Mackenzie Historic Places. Prag collection. Fred Holabird Collection Est. $300-500 Montana Railroad Collection Est. $100-200 HWAC# 129852 HWAC# 123897 Lot# 2157 New Jersey Phillipsburg Horse Lot# 2152 Montana Five Unissued Montana Car Railroad Company Stock #1, dated 1873 Railroad Stock Certificates 1) Bear Creek Great certificate #1. Issued for 300 shares in and Western Railway. 19--. Number 78. 2) 1873 at Phillipsburg, New Jersey.Vignette of a horse pulling a trolley Shields River Valley Railway. 19--. Number 95. car at the top. Black on creme. No printer noted. The certificate is 3) Intra=Montana Railway. Number 46. 19- canceled by pen and has the stub attached at the left. Some foxing but -. All three are the exact same design. Eagle still VG+. Est. $200-400 HWAC# 129495 vignette. 4) Missoula and Hamilton railway. 19- -. Number 82. Eagle vignette. 5) Columbia Falls and Southern Railway. Lot# 2158 Tucumcari, New Mexico 1909 19--. Number 29. Eagle vignette. All are pristone. Stuart Mackenzie Tucumcari & Memphis Railway Company Montana Railroad Collection Est. $100-200 HWAC# 123916 Bond $10,000 bond no. 126, issued in 1909 to the Chicago, Rock Island & Pacific Railway Co. Signed by the Lot# 2153 Montana 186- to 1968 Northern president and secretary. Signatures are punch cancelled. Green border, Pacific and Great Northern Railroad Stock black print, and vignette featuring allegorical man and woman with Collection 1) Unissued 186- stock of the locomotive in-between them. Western Bank Note Co., Chicago. 9 x 13” Northern Pacific railroad. Six per cent bond. Ken Prag Collection Est. $100-200 HWAC# 113956 Blue on white. 205) Northern Pacific stocks: reddish $100, blue $100, green $100, and Lot# 2159 Brooklyn, New York 1901 Nassau Orange 100. 1890’s. All cancelled 6-7) Blue Electric Railroad Co. Lot of 4. Incorp. NY . Cert. <100 1966. Reddish 100 1968. Stuart Mackenzie Montana Railroad #12-14 and 18. I/C. Consolidated Mortgage, Collection Est. $200-400 HWAC# 123898 4%, gold bearer bond. Issued 1901 signed by President. Brown, Embossed seal. Three Lot# 2154 Montana 1888 Northern Pacific vignettes: Upper left electric trolly, upper right and Montana Railroad Company Stock - allegorically figures w/factory background. signed by Robert Harris, president Number 2 Bottom allegorical female and child holding for share to Charles B Wright. Signed by Robert electric lamp. “$ PER CENT” brown under Harris president and George Earl. Names print. American Bank Note printer. VF. Ken Prag are punch cancelled. Dateline June 14, 1888. Collection Est. $150-300 HWAC# 122461 Overall nice - minus cancel. Robert Harris was a civil engineer and railroad executive who became president of the Lot# 2160 New York 1877-1906 New York and Chicago, Burlington and Quincy Railroad and Northern Pacific Railway. Philadelphia RR stock Lot of 2. 1.Incorp. 1859 Stuart Mackenzie Montana Railroad Collection Est. $100-200 HWAC# 123917 Penn. Philadelphia City Passenger Railway Co.. I/C, #479, 60 shares @ $50 oar issued August, 1877. Black, embossed seal, four vignettes: allegorical females seated w. State seal, two male portraits and building on bottom. Cancel punch holes through signatures. American Bank Note printer. F. 2. Incorp 1817 New York. Newburgh, Duchess and Connecticut Railroad Co, I/C, #1114 for 1 share @ $50 par. Issued Jan, 1906, black, embossed seal, no vignette. VF Ken Prag Collection Est. $100-200 HWAC# 125289 94 February 2021

DAY 2 Friday, Feb 12 Stocks Part 2: Railroad Lot# 2161 New York 1892-1968 New York Lot# 2169 Virginia Virginia & West Railroad Bonds & Stock Group Lot of 4 Virginia Railroad & Mining Stocks (3) Lot different. Included: Jamestown, Franklin & includes an attractive railroad bond from The Clearfield Railroad Co. (1909, $1,000 bond); Central New York & Fredericksburg, Orange & Charlottesville Rail Road Company, 1872. Western Railroad Co. (1892, $1,000); New York Central & Hudson Fully issued for $500 with 40 coupons below. Would be a great framer. River Railroad Co. (1968, $1,000); and Pennsylvania New York Central Small hole near top below the cert. #515. Not very noticable. Bonds Transportation Co. (1968 stock). Ken Prag Collection Est. $100-200 from this rail come in $500 and $1000 denominations, with this $500 HWAC# 113995 bond the more rare of the two. We also have two mining stocks from Charlestown Mining, Manufacturing and Improvement Company, Lot# 2162 New York 1880-1906 Newburgh, issued in 1891. Both are signed by R.P. (Robert Preston) Chew as Duchess and Connecticut Railroad Co. Lot of president. Chew was a Captain in VA’s Chew’s Battery in 1861 and a Lt. 2. Incorp. 1877 New York. #1012 & 1119, I/C, Col. by early 1865. Both of the mining stocks are red pen canceled. Est. One share @$50 par, issued 1880 and 1907. $240-350 HWAC# 128788 Black, embossed seal, no vignette. Signatures cancel punched. F-VF cond. J.S. Babcock printer. Lot# 2170 Spokane, Washington 1917 Ken Prag Collection Est. $120-200 HWAC# 125291 Spokane, Valley & Northern Railway Company Bond $100 bond no. 1263, issued in 1917, not cancelled. Signed by the president (Cole) and secretary Lot# 2163 Philadelphia, Pennsylvania (illegible). Orange border, gold seal, black print, and vignette of train 1888 Woodruff Sleeping & Parlor Coach passing factories along the river. Printed by Cole Litho Co., Chicago. 14 x 9.5” Folds, some toning and soiling, uneven bottom right border. One Company Bond No. 662. Issued for $1,000 in coupon attached. Cole also ran the American Minerals Production Co., 1888. Signed by president DC Corbie and secretary Augustus Trump. mining magnesite in Stevens County, Washington. This railroad was Not cancelled. Brown border, blue seal, black print, and gorgeous locomotive vignette. Homer Lee Bank Note Company, NY. 40 coupons developed to exploit those resources. [Salt Lake Mining Review, Dec. 15th, 1917] Ken Prag Collection Est. $100-200 HWAC# 113951 attached. 14.5 x 9.5” Built the Rotunda train car, in direct competition with Pullman. Founded by Jonah Woodruff, brother to Theodore Lot# 2171 West Virginia 1872 Northern & Woodruff, noted train car inventor. Stuart Mackenzie Montana Ephemera Southern West Virginia Railroad Company Collection Est. $100-200 HWAC# 127592 Bond $1,000 bond no. 240, issued in 1872. Lot# 2164 Pennsylvania Huntington & Broad Signed by president Strong and the secretary. Punch cancelled. Black Top Mountain Rail Road Coal Company border and print, red seal, green underprint, and four vignettes (two locomotive, one eagle, and one of farmers). Printed by ES Dodge & Co., Bond, 1863 Cert. #38, issued for $500 in 1863. NY. 54 coupons attached. 23 x 17” Wear to edges, stain, folds. Ran from Nice railroad vignette with George Washington at top right. Rare 30 Charleston to the Pennsylvania State line. Ken Prag Collection Est. $100- cent revenue stamp at top left. Pen canceled through signatures. VF. 300 HWAC# 113994 Est. $300-500 HWAC# 128791 Lot# 2165 Pennsylvania 1906 Philadelphia Lot# 2172 1800’s-1900’s 14 Railroad Related Certificates Stock Company Traction Co. Lot of 3. Incorp. 1883 Penn. Cert. Fourteen railroad related company stock certificates # 1527, 1686 and 1695. !00 shares @ $50 par. Issued 1906. Orange. Embossed seal. Vignette from different supply and manufacturing companies. Issuers include, Globe Company of electric trolley w horses alongside. “SHARES (1881), Reading Rolling Mill company (1894, $50 EACH” orange underprint. Two certificates General safety Signal Company (1921), Futrell have Renee stamps 10c to $2. American Bank Note printer. VF Ken Prag Collection Est. $100-200 HWAC# 125292 Coupler Company (1920), International Couplers Company (1916) and more. Most are cancelled. Please see photos for more detail and Lot# 2166 South Carolina 1869 The Blue condition. Ken Prag Collection Est. $150-300 HWAC# 127385 Ridge Railroad Co Bond Lot of 2. I/C, Lot# 2173 American Railroad Stocks and Guaranteed by South Carolina, two $1000 or Bond Collection - 2 Folio Books American 200 pound sterling Mortgage Loan Gold Bearer Railroad Stocks and Bond Collection with 2 Bonds issued 1860. Blue, four vignettes: one in Folio Books containing about 80 certificates, each corner, state seal and allegorical females. all different. Gary Nelson Railroad Collection Est. All Coupons attached for both bonds, of which $300-500 HWAC# 133474 the numbers are in gold under print. Except for cancel “X” cut, EF cond. Ken Prag Collection Est. $120-250 HWAC# 122465 Lot# 2174 1868 Michigan, Iowa & Illinois Lot# 2167 South Carolina 1860 The Blue RR Bonds. Lot of 3. 1. Two certificates States of Iowa & Illinois bond for The Dunleith & Ridge Railroad Co. Lot of 3. I/C, Guaranteed Dubuque Bridge Co, I/C, #45, $1000, 8%, Bond by South Carolina, two $1000 or 200 pound issued May 1968, signed Wm. B. Allison Pres. sterling Mortgage Loan Gold Bearer Bonds Black, red embossed seal, vignette top train issued 1860. Blue, four vignettes: one in each crossing bridge. ONE THOUSAND DOLLARS red corner, state seal and allegorical females. All under print. Ten coupons attached, Five are cut Coupons attached for both bonds, of which the numbers are in gold under print. Except for cancel “X” cut, EF cond. Ken Prag Collection Est. in half. 1” tear at top. E.S. Skinner & Co printer. $150-300 HWAC# 122466 VG. #75 Ten coupons are whole, certificates is F-VF cond. Right corner torn. 2. The Ionia and Lansing Railroad Co. incorporate Michigan. Lot# 2168 Utah 1895-1926 Utah Railroad #48, I/C, $1000, 8%, bearer bond. Issued 1869. Singed, signature hole punched. Vignette top 4-4-0 r-l, Michigan state seal. ONE THOUSAND & Canal Stock Certificates Lot of 4 different. DOLLARS red under print. Embossed seal. Calvert lItho Co printer. VF. Includes: Utah & Salt Lake Canal Company (1895); Utah Coal Railway Co. (1914); National Coal Railway Co. Ken Prag Collection Est. $180-350 HWAC# 122477 (1926); and Bingham Central Railway Co. (1914). Ken Prag Collection Est. $150-200 HWAC# 113957 View complete catalog, Register, and Bid online at FHWAC.com 95

DAY 2 Friday, Feb 12 Stocks Part 2: Railroad Lot# 2175 1848-1889 Railroad Stock Lot# 2181 1919-1977 Automobile Stock Certificates with Nice Vignettes Lot of Certificate Group Lot of 8. Includes: Nash- 6 different. Nice, early group. Included: Kelvinator Corporation (three stocks, issued Cleveland, Painesville & Ashtabula Railroad Co. (1856); Sullivan 1937-1954); General Motors Corp. (1977); Little Motor Kar Co. (1919); Railroad Co. (1848); Cleveland & Toledo Railroad Co. (1854); Fitchburg Hudson Motor Car Co. (1950); Mercury Machine Co. (unissued); and & Worcester Rail Road Co. (1869 with revenue stamp); Louisville City Oscar Maples Chevrolet Co. (unissued). Ken Prag Collection Est. $100- Railway Co. (1889); and Flint & Pere Marquette Railroad Co. (1880). 200 HWAC# 113849 Ken Prag Collection Est. $200-400 HWAC# 113851 Lot# 2182 1887-1962 Rotary, Turbine and Lot# 2176 1882-84 Southern Horse-Drawn Internal Combustion Engine Co. Stocl Lot of Railroad Stock Certificates Lot of 2 different. 19. Engines from 1887-1962. National rotary Both have vignettes of horse-drawn streetcars. Engine Manufacturing Co, Valley Elcetric Motor 1) Memphis City Railroad Company. No. 608, issued for 100 shares in Works, Milner Electro-Gravitational Motor 1882. Signed by president Davis and secretary Vance. Pen cancelled. Co. Lesley Turbine Motor Co., International Horse and streetcar vignettes. Staining on left border. 2) Louisville Combustion Engineering Corp. Of Note. City Railway Company. No. 620, issued in 1884 for 5 shares. Signed Norseman Turbine Explosive Engine Co. issued May, 1916 w.revenue by the president and secretary. Pen cancelled. Ken Prag Collection Est. stamp. The Triple Thermic Motor Co, issued June 1887, eagle vignette, $100-200 HWAC# 113997 embossed seal. Triple Cylinder Engine Co. issued Dec 1894, great looking, red seal, black border, green under-print “SHARES $100 Lot# 2177 Massachusetts 1933 Indian EACH”, VF Ken Prag Collection Est. $200-400 HWAC# 122441 Motorcycle Company Stock and Scrip Certificate (2) Lot of two includes a scrip Lot# 2183 California Helicopter Stock certificate and stock certificate for Indian Certificates A group of three different Motocycle Company, Massachusetts, with the helicopter certificates. San Francisco &amp; signature of President E. Paul duPont, of duPont Oakland Helicopter Airlines with propeller logo, 1966; Bendix Motors, which merged with Indian in the early Helicopter with propeller logo, 1945; Helicopters Inc. 1949. Plus SFO 1930s and ultimately saved the motorcycle Helicopter Airlines flight schedule. VF. Est. $60-100 HWAC# 131397 company during the Great Depression. Includes: scrip certificate No. 39 for 5/10ths of a share, Lot# 2184 Helena, Montana 1915 White transfer agent Kidder, Peabody & Company, NY, signed by Transfer Equipoised Aeroplane Company Stock Agent Kidder Peabody, dated July 6, 1933; and stock certificate Certificate Inc. in Montana. No. 285, issued for No. C170, two shares issued July 6, 1933 to W.E. Burnet & Co., with 100 shares in 1915 to J. Rector. Signed by the president (U.G. White) signatures of President E. Paul duPont, and Treasurer L.B. Mason. Both and secretary (Leroy White). Orange border and seal, vignette of early are in fine condition with slight folds. Ken Prag Collection Est. $100-300 airplane. Folds. 8.25” x 11” From a 1914 New York Times article: “The HWAC# 127696 Thomas Brothers’ Aeroplane Company of Bath has closed a contract with U.A. White of the White Equipoised Aeroplane Company of Lot# 2178 Houston, Texas 1920 Southern Helena, Mont., for the construction of the White type of aeroplane, Motor Manufacturing Association, Ltd. Stock which, as indicated by its name, is a flying machine that relieves the Certificate No. 19016, issued for 2 shares to operator entirely from maintaining poise and balance of the aeroplane RC Bush on August 31st, 1920. Printed signature of president Jacques as a part of his operation of flying.” Stuart Mackenzie Montana Ephemera Blevins and the secretary. Not cancelled. Green border, gold seal, black Collection Est. $100-200 HWAC# 129644 print, and logo vignette of wooden wheel with wings labelled “Ranger.” 9 x 12” Folds, toning on reverse. This company was founded in 1920 Lot# 2185 1946-58 Airlines and Aviation and produced the “Ranger Four,” a 5 passenger, 4 cylinder model which Stock Lot of 15. Three The Aviation Corp. (I/C), claimed it could go 50 mph without vibrations. The company closed by issued 1947, printed seal, vignette of U.S.. Five 1922. Ken Prag Collection Est. $100-200 HWAC# 113918 Robinson Airlines Corp (I/U), issued 1948, embossed seal, no vignette. Seven Fairchild Lot# 2179 Seattle, Washington 1903 Engine and Airplane Corp. (I/C), issued 1946- Washington State Motor Company Stock 56, Allegorical figures Mobile Red Horse Certificate Stock certificate issued by The center.. Colombian Bank Note printer F-VF cond. Ken Prag Collection Est. Tidal Motor Company to I. A. LaBeau for 200 $120-200 HWAC# 122476 shares at $1 per share. It’s dated April 23, 1903 and signed by G. Berudid (sp?) secretary Lot# 2186 Petersen’s American Aerial and E. B. Cade, president.Vignette shows the Navigation Co. Stock Certificate, 1883 Columbia River, with Mt. Rainier rising in the Extremely rare and fantastic airship company background. Please see photos for more detail and condition. Ken Prag certificate issued in 1883. Cert. #805, issued for five shares and signed Collection Est. $100-200 HWAC# 127504 by Carl W. Petersen as president. Amazing vignette shows airship pulling three others. Captain Carl W. Petersen was a mariner, aviator, Lot# 2180 Automobile Related Stock explorer, and inventor, who proposed to cross the Atlantic in five aerial Certificate Group (18) Stocks from various tacks (risings and lowerings) in an “oblong, horizontal flat reefable companies include some unusual ones. One gas-vessel” airship propelled by an electric motor, and promising the from Elephant Tread Wheel Company (CA) stability of a sailing ship. He formed and was president of Petersen’s issued in 1920 at Los Angeles, and another American Aerial Navigation Company and received patents for his from Elephant Tread Distributing Company airship (Smithsonian website). Tiny hole at bottom right doesn’t (CA) issued in 1921. Other notables include Coxey Extension Car detract from this incredible certificate. Uncanceled. Est. $1000-2000 Step Company, Aberdeen, Washington, issued in 1914 and Boston HWAC# 128815 Automatic Bed Company (ME) issued in 1903. Eighteen certificates in all. Ken Prag Collection Est. $200-500 HWAC# 118756 96 February 2021

DAY 2 Friday, Feb 12 Stocks Part 2: Transportation Lot# 2187 Mexican Ocean Mail and Inland Lot# 2192 Chicago, Illinois Columbian Expo Company Stock, 1853 Look at this beautiful Tourism Stock Certificate, Chicago, 1890’s thing. Great vignette of two sailing ships Certificate from The World’s Fair Excursion in rough seas. Cert. #184, issued for 50 shares and signed by the and Transportation Boat Company, issued at Chicago, Illinois. Cert. company officers. The company operated mail transportation on #12, fully issued for 15 shares, but undated. The date on the gold seal the Mescala River in Mexico. The company also contracted with the shows date of incorporation at 1892. Low certificate number indicates U.S. government to carry mail from Vera Cruz to San Francisco. VF. date of issuance likely in 1892 or shortly thereafter. News of the day Uncanceled. Est. $300-500 HWAC# 128831 referred to a World’s Fair Transportation Co which had the purpose of carrying passengers between Chicago and the Exposition buildings Lot# 2188 Tucson, Arizona Tucson Rapid Transit at Jackson Park. The company launched the great steel whaleback Company Bond Unissued, but rare bond from the passenger ship, the S.S. Christopher Columbus, which could carry Tucson Rapid Transit Company. Nice vignette of an 5,000 people at a time. We are not sure whether this company built the electric streetcar. Would have been issued in 1906. ship or operated it. This is a rare exposition related certificate we have A page and a half of coupons still attached. Denver not seen before. Rare. VF. Uncanceled. Est. $200-300 HWAC# 131082 Litho Co. printer. Tucson Rapid Transit Company assumed operations in 1905 of the horse-drawn Lot# 2193 Lafayette, Indiana 1865 1865 streetcar system in town, converting it to electric Bridge Company Stock Certificate A rare stock streetcars. By the 1930s, the streetcar lines were certificate issued in 1865 to a Mr. McCormick by converted to buses (wiki). EF. Ken Prag Collection Est. The Main Street Bridge Company of Lafayette, $200-400 HWAC# 118537 Indiana. Cert is for 10 shares at $50 each. The cert is signed by secretary Potter and president Lot# 2189 Connecticut 1814 1814 Bridge Stock Fowler. The ubnusual but whimsical vignette Certificate A very rare and old stock certificate issued shows a boy with his horse and dog refreshing themselves at a creek. on January 12, 1814 to Judah McClellan ( no relation There is a brown revenue stamp affixed. Please see photos for more to George, I checked). The president of the issuing detail and condition. Ken Prag Collection Est. $200-400 HWAC# 127371 company is Bryce McClellan and the name John McClellan also appears on the cert, showing it to be an Lot# 2194 Mt. Vernon, Indiana 1883 1883 obvious family business.There is a crude pressed seal. Turnpike Company Stock Certificate A A unique piece of early American business. Please see nice old stock certificate issued by the North photos for more detail and condition. Ken Prag Collection Vernon and Hardenburg Turnpike Company Est. $200-500 HWAC# 127372 for two shares at $50 each to John Waley and signed by secretary A.A. Tripp and president Lot# 2190 Connecticut Norwich & New York V.C. Maloy. The stock was issued on November Transportation Company Stocks, 1892 (2) 17, 1883. Cert does not appear to have been cancelled. There is an Lot of two issued in 1892. Both have a nice eagle vignette. Please see photos for more detail and condition. Ken steamer vignette. Inc. in Connecticut. The Prag Collection Est. $200-300 HWAC# 127370 Norwich & New York Transportation Company was organized in 1860 to operate passenger Lot# 2195 Keokuk, Iowa 1887 & 1912 Two and freight steamers between New York City Wagon Related Company Stock Certificates and New London and Norwich, Connecticut. A pair of stock certificates. The first issued by It was later owned by Norwich and Worcester Kentucky Wagon Manufacturing to William Railroad Company, acquired by New York, New Overton Harris for 32 shares at $100 per share. Haven, & Hartford Railroad Company in 1899, and purchased by the It is signed by John Shelley, secretary and W.C. Jones, president. It’s railroad’s New England Navigation Company in 1904 (Mystic Seaport dated February13, 1912. Next, we have a cert issued by Keokuk Wagon Museum website). One of the two certificates is issued to the Norwich Tongue Support Company, to T.T. Cunningham for one share at $50 per and Worchester Railroad Co. Both are red pen canceled. VF. Ken Prag share.The bottom signatures are hard to make out. It is dated August Collection Est. $200-400 HWAC# 128587 31, 1887. Ken Prag Collection Est. $100-200 HWAC# 127395 Lot# 2191 Wilmington, Delaware 1900 Lot# 2196 Portland, Maine Palace Marine Deleware 1900 Turnpike Company Stock Berth Company, Rare Steamer Certificate, Certificate Stock certificate issued by the 1885 Very nice cert. #184, issued for 1000 Wilmington and Christiana Turnpike Company shares at Portland, Maine in 1885. Great vignette of a steamer at the to John Mendenhall for seven shares. there top. The company made mechanical berths to stay level when the is no cost per share noted. It’s dated May 9, shipped rolled (oldcompany.com). This one is rare. VF. Uncanceled. 1900. It is signed by both the president and the Est. $300-500 HWAC# 131085 secretary of the company, but both signatures look like Greek to me. There’s an embossed seal and some fold creasing. Please see photos Lot# 2197 Maine Portland & Boothbay for more detail and condition. Ken Prag Collection Est. $100-200 HWAC# Steamboat Company Stocks, Three Issued 127416 (6) Six certificates, three are issued in 1887 and 1889. Portland, Maine is on the masthead. In 1887, Capt. Alfred Race organized the company and purchased the steamer Enterprise. This boat makes it’s terminal points Portland and East Boothbay, touching at Boothbay Harbor and South Bristol, and during the season at Squirrel and Heron Islands. The three issued certificates do not show cancellations, but they have browning near the left border where stubs may have been attached. So possibly they were canceled. Ken Prag Collection Est. $200-400 HWAC# 128615 View complete catalog, Register, and Bid online at FHWAC.com 97

DAY 2 Friday, Feb 12 Stocks Part 2: Transportation Lot# 2198 Maine 1886 Boston Vacuum Lot# 2203 Missouri Two St. Louis Bridge Company Dredging Company Stock Certificate Stock Certificates, 1879 Two attractive certificates (1) Boston Vacuum Dredging Company, from the company issued in 1879. Both certificates incorporated in Maine, uncanceled stock certificate issued on May 5, are issued for 2 preferred shares. Large vignette 1886. Detailed vignette of barge (ship) on a river with a large dredge, of the Eads Bridge, built over the MIssissippi River and ornate border. No 37, three shares issued to W.H. Roby, signed by to connect St. Louis and East St. Louis, Illinois. At President Simeon Snow and Treasurer S. D. Gilbert. With embossed 520 feet between the piers, the center arch of Eads seal, in choice condition with two folds. Ken Prag Collection Est. $300- Bridge was the longest rigid span ever built at the 500 HWAC# 127743 time of its construction. Extending more than 100 ft below water level, the foundations for Eads Bridge Lot# 2199 Boston, Massachusetts Bay State were the deepest underwater constructions of their time. They Steamboat Company Stock Certificate, were installed using pneumatic caissons, a pioneering application of Boston, 1863 Certificate notes receipt of caisson technology in the United States and, at the time, by far the $3,000 for purchase of shares in the Bay largest caissons ever built. The Eads Bridge caissons were the model State Steamboat Company. The company was for subsequent projects, including the Brooklyn Bridge, which was established to run a line of steamboats and constructed just a few years later (wikipedia). Both certificates have other vessels between New York, Newport and punch hole cancels. Ken Prag Collection Est. $100-200 HWAC# 128576 Fall River. In pen is noted, “certificate No. 96 issued”. The stub #41 is attached at the left. Signed by the trustees of Lot# 2204 Yellowstone, Montana 191- the company including Alex Holmes, Geo. A. Kettell, John R. Brown and Yellowstone Park Boat Company, unissued J.J. Tobey. Ken Prag Collection Est. $200-400 HWAC# 128642 Number 40. Green underprint fan above title. Light edge issues, otherwise very fine. This was a Harry W. Child Company. Child was an Lot# 2200 Boston, Massachusetts Old Colony entrepreneur who managed development and Steamboat Company Stocks and Bonds, ranching companies in southern Montana. 1880’s (4) Two bonds issued for $5,000 in He was most notable as a founder and 1889 plus a common stock issued for one share longtime president of the Yellowstone Park Company, which provided in 1886. Plus an unissued certificate. All have accommodation and transportation to visitors to Yellowstone vignettes of a steamboat with sidewheeler. National Park from 1892 to 1980. Child was, with park superintendent The company ran the steamer Puritan on Long and National Park Service administrator Horace Albright, singularly Island Sound. The certificates are stamp and pen canceled. Folded responsible for the development of the park as a tourist destination down the middle, otherwise fine. Ken Prag Collection Est. $200-400 and for the construction of much of the park’s visitor infrastructure. # HWAC# 128613 7 for 1000 shares to HW Child Corporation. in 1929. [wikipedia] Stuart Mackenzie Montana Stock Collection Est. $1000-2000 HWAC# 123946 Lot# 2201 St. Louis, Missouri 1870’s Bridge Company Stock Certificates (3) Three Lot# 2205 New Jersey 1854 The Florence early stock certs issued by bridge building and Keyport Co. Stock Incorporate. March companies. First is issued by Kellogg Bridge 1850 Monmouth County, New Jersey. I/U, of Buffalo, New York for 20 shares at $100 #1120 for 50 shares issued Aug 1854. Each per share and is issued to the president of the share holds 25x100 feet of roadway. Beautiful company Charles Kellogg. It’s dated August 24, stock w/ vignettes at top of ships under sail. At 1871. there is a 25 cent red revenue stamp and Lady Justice vignette. the left side New Jersey state seal, and lower Next is issued by the St.Louis Bridge Company for four shares at $100 left a circle with a map of the road. Object of per share to the Roberts Company of London. It’s signed by president the company was to build and maintain road between the two ports and secretary and dated Dec. 1, 1879. Lastly, the Illinois and St. Louis and an invest other companies to further the Company. Condition F No Bridge Company, for 10 shares at $100 per share. It’s signed and dated tears or stains, couple of small pinholes. Ken Prag Collection Est. $200- Feb. 12, 1876. There is a very impressive bridge vignette. Please see 300 HWAC# 122420 photos for more detail and condition. Ken Prag Collection Est. $100-300 HWAC# 128954 Lot# 2206 Nevada 1904 Stock Cert. Issued Lot# 2202 St. Louis, Missouri St. Louis Merchant’s to Buffalo Bill Business Partner Stock Bridge Company Stock Certificates (2) Two certificate issued by Western Pneumatic certificates issued in 1890 and canceled in 1893. Horse Collar Company for 2,500 shares at $1 Printed by New York Bank Note Co. Nice vignette of per to Nate R. Salsbury, former producer and a rail bridge crossing a river. Merchants Bridge is one manager of Buffalo Bill’s Wild West Show. of two rail bridges used for freight in the St. Louis The stock was issued to Salsbury’s estate May region. Both are operated by the Terminal Railroad 13th, 1904. Salsbury died December 24, 1902 and that is noted by the Association, which is owned by five freight railroad executor of Salsbury’s estate on the reverse of the certificate. Salsbury companies. The 130 year old bridge is now being was basically the money behind Cody’s show and had several outside replaced along with the other rail bridge in a $172 investments including a ranch in Arizona. There are fold creases on million project. Both certificates are pen canceled and have a diamond document. Please see photos for more detail and condition. Ken Prag hole cancel. Ken Prag Collection Est. $200-400 HWAC# 128580 Collection Est. $500-1000 HWAC# 127419 Lot# 2207 Mt. Holly, New Jersey 1856 New Jersey Turnpike Company Stock Certificate Rare stock certificate issued by The Mount Holly, Lumberton & Medford Turnpike Company to Thomas Hamitt (sp?) four shares. Cert is signed by president A.E. Budde and treasurer, Thomas Wilkins. There appears to be a handwritten cancel. The cert is dated February 23, 1856. Please see photos for more detail and condition. Ken Prag Collection Est. $200-500 HWAC# 127391 98 February 2021