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Ely Consolidated Mining Co.

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Ely Consolidated Mining Co.
Cert. #527 issued Nov. 23, 1871 to Glazier & Seligsburg, Trustees for 25 shares. Signed by F.W. Colburn, secretary and H.A. Lyons, president. Fancy bordering and lettering throughout. There was a Vigilante Committee in Pioche during this time that ran the politics of the town. Previously, Pioche had been one of the wildest camps out west. But the committee held little favor in the town. "At no time was crime punished, yet all the expenses [of building a courthouse and overpaying the officials] were piled up. The sums of money that were stolen under the name of the law need no exaggeration. Of the two kinds of men, which is the worst: He who 'rights his wrongs where it is given,' or the man who promises to protect you in your rights if you will only elect him to office and put your trust in him, and then deliberately steals everything in sight and bonds you for forty years to come? [The story of Pioche] was steal, steal, steal, early and late, and keep on stealing [Davis, The History of Nevada, 2009, pp 941-942].
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