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Crater Gold Mining Company stock

Currency:USD Category:Western Americana Start Price:25.00 USD Estimated At:NA
Crater Gold Mining Company stock
Incorporated in Arizona, 1904. Cert. No. 4, issued on October 19, 1904 to Fred R. Auglewier for 5,000 shares. (Auglewier also had stock number 3 for 5,000 shares?) Signed by John Beckman, President and M.H. Kunzle, Secretary. Printed by John Partridge, 306 Cal. St., San Francisco. U/C. Three vignettes: on upper left three miners looking at a large rock, on upper right, a miner panning for gold, in center, eight miners underground with picks and shovels. Black ink on crème paper. Gold Crater was located twenty-three miles southeast of Las Vegas. Speculators soon arrived and bought lots. By spring of 1905 the boom had subsided and a planned water pipeline was never completed. {Paher, 332]. (Ames Collection)

Date: 1904City: Gold CraterCounty: NyeState: NV