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CO - Cripple Creek,Teller County - 1894 - Golden Eagle Mining and Milling Co. Stock Certificate - F

Currency:USD Category:Collectibles / Western Americana Start Price:75.00 USD Estimated At:150.00 - 250.00 USD
CO - Cripple Creek,Teller County - 1894 - Golden Eagle Mining and Milling Co.  Stock Certificate - F
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!!!
Number 1751 issued to J. B. Richards on 12 May for 500 shares by S. B. Dickens, Secretary, and L. E. Sherman, President. Some wrinkling. Good to excellent condition. U/C. Rare. This company was incorporated in 1892. It owned “the Comstock, containing 7 acres, with vein rights, situated in the N. E. 1-4 section 30, on Raven [Hill], east of the Raven and north of the Elkton Mines” [Ref: Hills, Fred, The Official Manual of the Cripple Creek District, Colorado, p. 208, 1900]. The Comstock had “four shafts; two [were] sunk to a depth of 45 feet each, one [was] 60 feet deep, and one 90 feet deep. In the 60-foot shaft, 50 feet of drifting and some surface [work had] been done [Ref: Hills, Fred, The Official Manual of the Cripple Creek District, Colorado, p. 208, 1900].