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CO - Cripple Creek,Teller County - 1896, 1900 - Cripple Creek Mining District Stock Certificate Grou

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CO - Cripple Creek,Teller County - 1896, 1900 - Cripple Creek Mining District Stock Certificate Grou
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!!!
Lot of 2. 1. The Matoa Gold Mining Company stock, number 726, issued to Edward Ferris, agent by W. S. Reynolds, Secretary and Harlan P. Lillibridge, President on 12 November 1896, for 1,000 shares. Also signed by the registrar of the International Trust Co. of Denver. Cancelled on 31 March 1899. Signed by Ferris and a witness on 28 July 1897 on reverse. Two adhesive, ten-cent, brown, document stamps, with serrated edges, affixed on reverse and stamped cancelled. Plain stock, with no vignette. It has some wrinkling and discoloration. Fair to good condition. Harlan P. Lillibridge, the president of this company, was born in Oneida, New York, April 24, 1838. He completed his education at Whitestown Academy, Utica, N.Y. in 1858. He then entered the banking establishment on Wall Street, N.Y. In 1892 he moved to Colorado Springs and invested in the Molly Gibson Mine in Aspen. He organized the Midland Terminal Railroad Company, which was open to traffic in 1893. His holdings of Cripple Creek mining stock amounted to over 4,000,000 shares. In 1900 H.P. Lillibridge was president of the Matoa Gold Company, which owned the Half Moon, the Harlan H., and the Gold Pass No. I, all on Gold Hill and containing 12.4 acres; also property reaching from Beacon Hill downwards through Aregua Gulch to Grouse Mt. and containing 47.8 acres. In 1900 there were numerous shafts from 100 to 1000 ft. deep with extensive cross-cutting, drifting, and stopping. Gross production to January 1, 1900 was approximately 39,092 ounces of gold [Ref: Hills, Fred, The Official Manual, Cripple Creek District, Colorado, 1900].

2. The Mary Cashen Mining Company stock, number 917, issued to B. B. McPherson, CEO by John J. Key, Secretary, and J. P. Pomeroy, President on 30 July 1900 for 500 shares. Signed on the same day by The Assistant Secretary of The International Trust Co. of Denver. On crème paper with a gold border. U/C. Vignette of a mountain with a mill at the bottom over the company masthead. Yellowing in the folds on the reverse but the front of the stock is in excellent condition. This property had formerly been worked under bond and lease for $100,000 from the Mt. Rosa Mining and Milling Co., for two years, when it was purchased by this company. The former lessees had been cross cutting to the west, but failed to find pay ore; in cross cutting to the east, however, this company opened up a large fissure vein, varying from 8 to 12 feet wide, and containing several ore shoots. This has been opened up at the 350 foot and 425 foot levels [Ref: Hills, Fred; The Official Manual Cripple Creek District, Colorado, 1900].