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Mokelumne Hill Canal and Mining Company Stock and Share Purchase Receipt, CA - Mokelumne Hill,Calave

Currency:USD Category:Collectibles / Documents Start Price:200.00 USD Estimated At:400.00 - 800.00 USD
Mokelumne Hill Canal and Mining Company Stock and Share Purchase Receipt, CA - Mokelumne Hill,Calave
IMPORTANT NOTE ON BUYERS PREMIUMS:

Lot 100 to 343 have a premium of 15%.

The rest of the sale is 19.5% as noted in the listing.

Lot Pick Up: Holabird-Kagin Americana,
3555 Airway Drive Ste #309,
Reno NV 89511,
Sunday - December 9, 10am-4pm
Two pieces from the early California gold rush. 1)The stock certificate was fully issued with not date. Issued in 1854 or earlier as this particular share was part of a group involved in an Adams and Co. lawsuit in Calaveras County in 1854. Issued for one share to Cyrus Bayles and signed by Henry Eno as president and E.H. Pomeroy as secretary. Mokelumne was first known as Big Bar in 1848 and was an important business center for the early gold miners in the southern region [Gudde, 1949]. The Mok Hill Canal and Mining Co. is not listed in Browne’s 1868 work covering the district (mineral Resources West of the Rocky Mountains, 1868). It is likely that this company was the predecessor to the Mok Hill and Camp Seco Ditch Co., active in the mid-1860’s. The canal, or ditch, as they were later known, probably brought water to the dry Tertiary channels, known as the Mokelumne Hill Old Channel. It was basically mined out by the mid 1860’s. These certs are rare, but there are about four to six known. They are among the oldest of the Mok Hill certificates. 2) A purchase receipt from the Mokelumne Hill Canal and Mining Company: received of A.P. Breyton $250 dollars, it being the second installment on ten shares in the company. Dated Sept. 1, 1852. Signed by H.L. Clark the company treasurer. Fold lines and browning on the verso. VF. -61677