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CO - Ouray County,1903-1918 - Ouray County Mining Stock Certificate Group

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CO - Ouray County,1903-1918 - Ouray County Mining Stock Certificate Group
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 4. 1. The Camp Bird Extension Mining Company. Thomas Walsh came to America from Ireland when he was 19. He worked many of the boom areas in Colorado, including Leadville where he made a small fortune in the Sugar Loaf Mining District (Independence District) just four miles west of Leadville. Walsh then moved to Silverton and erected a smelter. In the process of looking for siliceous ore for his smelter he came across very high grade gold samples on the dump of the abandoned Camp Bird claim. He bought the Camp Bird and the surrounding properties and under his leadership Camp Bird became one of the largest and most productive gold mines in the world, and the second largest in Colorado, trailing only the Portland in the Cripple Creek area. Walsh purchased the fabulous and ill-fated Hope Diamond for his wife; it was later given to his daughter. Senator Tom Walsh died in Washington in 1909. Across Imogene Basin, a little above timberline, the Camp Bird Extension was worked in 1905 by M.L. Thistle and associates. They expected to find ore similar to that found in the Camp Bird Mine. But neither quantity nor quality equaled their hopes and the mine was finally abandoned [Ref: The Hal Miller Files including Pictures, Maps and Assays; Rice, Frank, Mines of Ouray County, 1961; Benham, J. L., Camp Bird and the Revenue, 1980]. No. 863 issued to Frank L. Seaver by F. H. Campbell as Secretary and F. L. Sigel as President on 25 May 1903. Signed by Seaver on the reverse and witnessed by Eduardo Pergoli and stamped by the comptroller for the state of New York. Crème colored stock with a black border. The vignette is in the upper left corner and is of a Bald Eagle holding the world with his talons. The upper and lower right corners have fold lines. U/C. Good condition. 2. The Ouray Consolidated Mining and Reduction Company. No. 814 issued to E. E. Earhart by Anna Helen Autsen, Secretary, and Thomas B. Crawford, President, on 18 October 1918. Vignette of the Bald Eagle on a mountain perch above the company masthead. Crème colored paper that fades to green inside the black border. Signed by Earhart on reverse on the same date as the stock was issued. Not cancelU/Cnt condition. 3. The Ouray Smelting and Refining Company. Approximately two miles north of Ouray the extensive foundations of the smelter can still be seen by the river. This was a pyritic smelter with a 350 ton per day capacity, making it one of the largest smelters in the San Juan’s. It was owned by the Ouray Smelting and Refining Company. Thomas B. Crawford was president. It was at sometimes called the "Wanakah Smelter” for the Wanakah Mining Company was in the smelting business too. It was powered by river water brought in by a quarter mile flume. An office building and several houses were located in the area. The smelter stood intact but unused for many years until World War II. No. 199 issued to Margaret M. Hostetter by William E. Kramer, Secretary, and Thomas B. Crawford, President on 30 July 1914. Fold lines are yellowing on reverse. Crème paper with two borders. The outer border is black while a gold border is on the inner part of the stock. Vignette of a Bald Eagle with wings outstretched above the masthead. U/C. GoodU/C

4. San Pedro Gold Mining Company. About 1905 the Terry and Trench Development Company of St. Louis sent Joseph H. Tumbach to Ouray to develop several mining properties in which they had become interested. They tried several places but that receiving their first and longest attention was the San Pedro Tunnel which F.J. Hulaniski had tried unsuccessfully to promote a few years earlier. The tunnel was driven a long ways into the mountain, good ore was found, and some shipments made. Then it was purchased by the Atlas Mining and Milling Company and from the San Pedro came much of the best ore mined by The Atlas [Ref: Rice, Frank, Mines of Ouray County, 1958]. On crème paper with a gold border, no. 5170 was issued to Walter J. Vogt by Charles B. Burt, Secretary, and F. S. Mallory, President on 28 January 1907. Signed on reverse by Vogt and a witness on 6 November 1913. There are three vignettes above the masthead. The center vignette is of mountains, while the other two smaller vignettes on each side of the center piece are of miners working underground. Not cancelU/CnditionU/C
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