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NV - Bullfrog,Nye County - 1906 - Rhyolite Documents - Clint Maish Collection

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NV - Bullfrog,Nye County - 1906 - Rhyolite Documents - Clint Maish Collection
Session D is a Mail-Bid Only Auction. Absentee bids will be accepted only. No live bidding will be allowed. All winners will be contacted after the auction. BIDDING ENDS MONDAY JUNE 27 AT 5PM PACIFIC TIME!!!
Lot of About 21

Montgomery Shoshone Consolidated Mining Company. Incorporated in South Dakota. No. 1053 issued June 26, 1906 to E. E. Pugh for 100 shares. Signed by McDonald as Second Vice President and an assistant Secretary. Printed by the American Banknote Company, New York. Cancelled.Endorsed on reverse. The Montgomery-Shoshone mine was located by E A Montgomery near Rhyolite, Nevada in 1904. The Montgomery Shoshone mine had become nationally known because Bob Montgomery once boasted he could take $10,000 a day in ore from the mine. It was later owned by Charles Schwab, who purchased it in 1906 for a reported 2 to 6 million dollars [REF: http://www.nps.gov/deva/historyculture/rhyolite-ghost-town.htm]. The Montgomery Shoshone Consolidated Mining Company was made up of the original Montgomery Shoshone, the Shoshone Polaris, and the Crystal Bullfrog mines. [REF: Filer II]

Bullfrog Bonanza Mountain Consolidated Mining Company. Incorporated in Arizona, December 1, 1906. No. 121 unuissued. No printer. There is no information available.

Postcards (8) all RPC's, two in color, showing scenes of Rhyolite and the Montgomery Shoshone Mine. Three have been cancelled and two have green one-cent postage stamps with Benjamin Franklin.

Rhyolite/Bullfrog post office ephemera:

Envelope addressed to Mr. W.M Stewart, Bullfrog, Nev; has preprinted green 1-cent Franklin postage revenue stamp, cancelled

Envelope addressed to Mrs. Paul Reed in Philadelphia with a return address Paul Reed, Rhyolite, Nye Co. Nev. Has preprinted 2-cent red Washington postage stamp, cancelled.

US Postal Money Order No. 65148 dated November 16, 1908 for $1 to the order of Frank W. Rasch, paid by Postmaster at Bullfrog, Nev.

Registered package receipt dated January 13, 1907 stamped Rhyolite, Nev. For six packages; signed by postmaster Slovick

Registry Return Receipt from post office at Rhyolite, Nev. Unuissued

Three Receipts: Keystone Supply Company dated 10/10/1910; H.D. & L.D. Porter dated 1/21/1913. Unissued receipt for Bullfrog Reduction and Water Company.

One non-imprinted check to the order of R.J. Meyer for $50 signed by Phil M. Chandler to be charged to the account of A.E. Venton of Los Angeles.

Stamped “paid” by the Farmers and Merchants National Bank November 15, 1912.

Letter to L.L. Patrick of Goldfield from Clyde H. Jay, General Manager of the American Cyanide Filtration & Reduction Company dated June 12, 1907. Jay was sending Patrick a prospectus and requesting that Patrick buy some stock. Handwritten on company letterhead. 8.5" x 11”.

Letter to the Goldfield Consolidated Mines Co. from the “General Manager” of the Southern Nevada Consolidated Telephones and Telegraph Co. dated July 11th, 1910. Apparently the mine company was protesting their bill for June, 1910 and the protest was forwarded to headquarters of the “Postal company.” No signature or name. Measures 8.5" x 11” typed on crème paper.

“The earliest mail delivered to Rhyolite was brought in by stage from Goldfield. Once it arrived it was placed in a box in a convenient location at Len McGarry’s general store. The citizens would examine the mail in the box, pick out what belonged to them, and leave the rest. When letters became old or illegible they were bundled and put into a barrel until someone had time to look them over or destroy them. In the middle of February, 1905, Bill Parker opened a grocery store where a post office became established. When the stage arrived everyone gathered around the store for mail call. Someone would call off the name on a letter and the recipient would step forward to claim it. A collection was taken once a month to pay the stage for the delivery of the mail. These collections never amount to less than $200 a month. In the early days of the history of the Rhyolite post office, citizens had to go to Beatty for sending and/or receiving registered mail, as these services were not available in Rhyolite. There was no means of transportation at that time, so they had to walk to Beatty from Rhyolite. The first official post office of Rhyolite opened June 17, 1905 in a 12’ X 10’ tent just north of the Southern Hotel. Mrs. Anna B Moore served as postmistress. Delivery continued in the manner as it had when located in the store.

On August 20, 1905, 2000 lock boxes, which were ordered from San Francisco, arrived. Upon the arrival of the boxes it was discovered that the tent was entirely too small. A 15’ X 24’ frame building was constructed on Broadway to house the post office. They soon outgrew this building and an addition was built on to it in November 1906, making it 15’ X 54‘.It was report on March 31, 1907, that the Rhyolite Nevada Post Office was seventh in size in the state of Nevada. On June 10, 1907, Mrs. Moore resigned as postmistress. Her husband, M J Moore, took over as postmaster. He had been acting as assistant postmaster from the time the official post office had opened. By December 1907, the post office was equipped with 300 lock boxes, thirty-five lock drawers, a complete money order and registry department, a 2000-pound "burglar-proof" safe, a cancelling machine, sorting cases and other fixtures needed to run a post office efficiently. In January 1908, the John S Cook & Co. Bank Building opened on Golden Street. The post office moved into the 30’ X 70‘, basement of this building and as far as I know it remained there until it officially closed September 15, 1919.” [REF: http://www.rhyolitenevada.com/rhyolite_nevada_post_office.html].
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