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Mariposa Land & Mining Company $1,000 Bond Certificate 1875

Currency:USD Category:Collectibles / Western Americana Start Price:20.00 USD Estimated At:200.00 - 400.00 USD
Mariposa Land & Mining Company $1,000 Bond Certificate 1875
Bond certificate issued in 1875 at San Francisco. Signed by S. Heydenfeldt as president and (?) Leavitt as secretary. Top vignette of a lumbering scene and cowboys and Indians at the bottom. One of the companies formed to operate the Mariposa Estate, originally the Mariposa Land Grant, owned by John C. Fremont. The Josephine, Pine Tree, Princeton and numerous other mines comprised the estate. The Mariposa Land & Mining Co. was organized in 1871 to relieve debts and the company was again reorganized in the 1880`s under the name Mariposa Mining and Commercial Co. Nineteen coupons attached at the bottom. EF.
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