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McMahon & Irvine Consolidated Mining and Milling Co.

Currency:USD Category:Western Americana Start Price:75.00 USD Estimated At:150.00 - 200.00 USD
McMahon & Irvine Consolidated Mining and Milling Co.
Incorporated in 1879. Cert. #174, issued to John Bowman for 50 shares. Signed by president J.M. Hunter) and by secretary John Irvine. Vignette of miners working underground. “Grantville, Nevada” printed beneath masthead. Small little Grantville gave rise to 2 Nevada inventions about this time, and was also the site of a lynching: The Gainesville Reporter (Alabama) noted in its February 17, 1881 edition that Matthias Salmon, “a bad character” who was under arrest for killing a man, had been lynched at Grantville on the 5th. but on a more positive note, Grantville was the home of Thomas J. Bell and Nathaniel A. Griffith, who acquired patents on a furnace for desulphurizing and chloridizing ores (1881) and an Improvement in Mechanism for Converting Motion in steam engines (1880). [Ref: theoldentimes.com/matthiassalmon02171881nv.html].City: GrantvilleCounty: NyeState: NV