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CO - Summit County,1882 - Commodore & Deleware Mining & Milling Co. Stock Certificate - Fenske Colle

Currency:USD Category:Collectibles / Western Americana Start Price:150.00 USD Estimated At:300.00 - 500.00 USD
CO - Summit County,1882 - Commodore & Deleware Mining & Milling Co. Stock Certificate - Fenske Colle
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!!!
Peru district. Commodore & Delaware Mining and Milling Co. Incorporated in Iowa in 1882. Cert. # 98 issued to S. A. Hendricksen for 125 shares in 1882. Datelined Mount Pleasant, Iowa. Signed by President J. G. Newbald and Secretary J. B. Coate. U/C. Vignette upper left of seated woman holding wreath with fortress-like building in background and small rock crusher to the right; vignette at right end of civil war soldier holding flag next to plow and wheat sheaf with mill building and side-wheeler Iowa on river in background. In very fine print below 1st vignette: Entered according to act of Congress in the year 1876 by Charles Schlecht in the office of the Librarian of Congress at Washington D.C. and below 2nd vignette: Entered according to act of Congress in the year 1873 by the Western Bank Note and Eng. Co. in the Office of the Librarian of Congress, Wash. D.C. Black border on vanilla paper. 8 x 12. Printer Western Bank Note and Eng. Co., Chicago. Owned the Commodore and Delaware lodes, 1500 x 500 ft each, located on the west slope of Decatur Mountain, one mile from the town of Decatur. Claims were located in 1879 on 2 ft to 12 ft wide fissure veins containing a pay streak 6 to 36 inches in width. The milling ore consisted of galena, gray and yellow copper that, upon sorting, yielded from 25 to 600 ozs. silver per ton. Development included a 400 ft tunnel that cut the vein at great depth, a 165 ft shaft with drifts up to 235 ft in length from 3 levels, and other workings exposing large ore-reserves. There were two ore houses on the property with an output of 800 tons, with 2,000 tons in sight [Corregan & Lingane, 1883, p. 767]. Browning along folds, otherwise very fine.