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CO - Cripple Creek,Teller County - 1914 - Elkton Consolidated Mining and Milling Company Stock Cert

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CO - Cripple Creek,Teller County - 1914 - Elkton Consolidated Mining and Milling Company  Stock Cert
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 37824 issued to Elisabeth W. Cook by H. M Ragle, Secretary and [illegible], President on 3 April 1914 for 1,000 shares. Also signed by the registrar of the Colorado Title and Trust Company. On white paper with an orange flowered border. Vignette is a rendition of the Elkton Mine operation including it’s hook up to a railroad trunk line. U/C. Excellent condition. The Elkton Mine is situated in the deep hollow between Raven Hill and Battle Mountain. It worked on an exceptionally long vein, partly in breccia, partly in granite and following a basalt dike. By 1906 it produced 375,000 oz. of gold at only 900 feet. Properties owned by this company are the Walter, Katherine, Elkton, Kentucky Bill, Appie Ellen #2 and Thompson located in N.E. one-quarter Section 30.

A man named John W. Bernard, who knew nothing about prospecting, spent his first night in the Cripple Creek region sleeping on the ground. On awakening the next morning he staked the first likely rock pile he could find and named it for a pair of elk horns lying nearby. The Elkton produced more than thirteen million dollars; Bernard gave half interest in the mine to two grocers in payment of a $36.50 grocery bill [Refs: Hills, Fred, The Official Manual Cripple Creek District, Colorado, 1900; Lindgren, W. and Ransome, F., “Geology and Gold Deposits of the Cripple Creek District, Colorado,” USGS Prof. Paper 54, no date given; Eberhart, Perry; Guide to the Colorado Ghost Towns and Mining Camps, 1959].