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AZ,Tombstone-Cochise County,E.B. Gage Signed Checks

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AZ,Tombstone-Cochise County,E.B. Gage Signed Checks
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c1885-1890-Lot of 4 checks, all signed by E.B. Gage, all datelined Tombstone. Two of the checks are from the Office of E.B. Gage drawn on the First National Bank of Youngstown, OH, one is a Cochise County Bank check, and the 4th is from the New York Exchange Bank of Tombstone. Gage was a prominent mining engineer, as well as superintendent of the Grand Central Mining Company. He is credited with developing a way to end flooding in the mines, which led to a second mining boom in 1886. Before then, however, Gage was involved with several notable residents of Tombstone. Gage was known to be a friend to Wyatt Earp and the Irish “Angel of Tombstone” Nellie Cashman. In 1882 following the Gunfight at the O.K. Corral the previous October, Gage sent $1000 to Earp and his posse to help keep up the chase for Virgil Earp’s assassins. This would not be the only time that Gage assisted Earp financially. In 1884 when Gage was threatened by a lynch mob of miners over a labor dispute, it was his friend Nellie Cashman who saved his skin; “… Nellie drove her buggy into the mob and rescued Gage, spiriting him away to Benson, Arizona” [Ref: www.desertusa.com/mag98/may/papr/du_cashman.html]. In 1901 he developed and served as president of the Tombstone Consolidated Mining Company, by bringing together a number of Tombstones mines. HKA#64303