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CA - September 20, 1880 - North Hite & Yosemite Gold Mining Company of California Stock :

Currency:USD Category:Coins & Paper Money / Stock & Bond - Certificates Start Price:100.00 USD Estimated At:200.00 - 400.00 USD
CA - September 20, 1880 - North Hite & Yosemite Gold Mining Company of California Stock :
Incorporated in New York in 1880. Cert. # 677, issued to Wm. B. Rees for 100 shares. Signed by Edward H. Spooner as president and Lindly F.xxxx as secretary. Three vignettes: one at top right of 4 miners working a rock face, with mountains and mill site in the background; at left, a second vignette of a mine shaft cross section, showing 2 miners on the surface lowering a bucket to miners below; a small vignette of a stag at bottom. Orange borer and safety print with black print. Uncancelled. Printer: Snyder & Black, N.Y. Measures 6.75 x 10.25." From the Engineering and Mining Journal, Vol. XXX, #1 (July 3, 1880), p. 114: "The agent of this company telegraphed on the 4th inst. as follows. Surveyor commenced making his his surveys on the 2nd. We shall have extracted by the 7th of September about 1200 tons of ore, which will mill $20 per ton."