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CA - Ione City,Amador County - May 30, 1863 - Ione Copper Mining Company Stock

Currency:USD Category:Collectibles / Western Americana Start Price:250.00 USD Estimated At:500.00 - 800.00 USD
CA - Ione City,Amador County - May 30, 1863 - Ione Copper Mining Company Stock
Session D is a Mail-Bid Only Auction. Absentee bids will be accepted only. No live bidding will be allowed. All winners will be contacted after the auction. BIDDING ENDS MONDAY JUNE 27 AT 5PM PACIFIC TIME!!!
Incorporated in 1863. Cert. #34 issued to John Edwards for one share. Signed by Geo. Withington, president, and Joseph Bowen, secretary. Vignette at left of mine tunnel entrance, trestle, and wagon team. A central vignette of a miner with shovel standing on a rocky slope. An applied 25ct revenue stamp (R43 R4) is on left quarter. U/C. Printer: Towne & Bacon, San Francisco. Datelined Ione City. 5 ½ x 10 ½.” There is a Prescott Robinson, Notary Public, living in Sacramento in 1866, according to the Sacramento Directory of that year, and James Coggins from Philadelphia is listed as Justice of the Peace in the same directory. This property is located near the Newton and the Copper Hill mines, which were the big producers of copper in Amador Co. Of the three distinct lodes in Amador County, the Central or Mother Lode belt is the principal one. Six to ten miles east of this is the East Belt, near the Pioneer and Defender districts in a granite area. Then, about 8 miles to the west of the Mother Lode is the copper belt at Ranlett, running in a northwesterly and southeasterly direction through the county. The ores occur in the form of copper sulphides associated with iron pyrites in amphibolite schist, and diabase [Ref: www.quarriesandbeyond.org/states/ca/.../ca-amador_indus.html]. Ione itself is situated in the valley of the same name, thought to be named by Thomas Brown about 1849. It’s been known by a multitude of names, such as Bedbug and Freezeout, among others. Ione, however, was not founded as a mining camp but was founded as a supply center, stage and rail stop, as well as an agricultural hub. The town flourished in the 1850s, and by the 1876 centennial had a population of about 600, a public school, 4 churches, an art gallery, six saloons and more, but the most important feature was that the railroad arrived in that year. Its first post office opened in 1852, and the town was incorporated in 1853.