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NV - Bullfrog,Nye County - 1907 - Denver Bullfrog Annex Mining Company Stock Certificate - Fenske Co

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NV - Bullfrog,Nye County - 1907 - Denver Bullfrog Annex Mining Company Stock Certificate - Fenske Co
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!!!
Incorporated in the Territory of Arizona, no date; Certificate No. 557 issued July 19, 1907 to James J. Rutherford & Son for 500 shares; signed by Sherwood Aldrich, President, and (unreadable) Secretary; U/C. Black ink on crème paper; vignette in upper left corner shows a large male deer. At the end of 1906, or in early 1907, the Saddlerock Group, reportedly including only three claims and bordering the famous Skidoo Mine on the west, was purchased by Sherwood Aldrich of Colorado Springs and Hector Mckenzie and Russell F. Sutherland of Rhyolite for $25,000 cash. At this time the property's principal ledge, varying from three to five feet in width, was giving returns of $41 to the ton. By June 1907 Aldrich's company, the Skidoo Saddle Rock Mining Company, a South Dakota incorporation, was developing the property by means of three tunnels (two being dug under contract) and two shafts. The company-worked tunnel was now in over fifty feet and the other two extended for about thirty-five feet. The thirty-foot main shaft was disclosing ore similar to that on the Skidoo Claim, "and it is. the opinion of all who know the property that the Saddle Rock will develop a mine second only to the Skidoo." Unnamed Nevada mine promoters were backing the company, but keeping their future plans for the operation cloaked in secrecy. Encouraged by the ore showings so far, they were attempting to get the most work done in the fastest possible manner, and therefore were paying miners wages far above the ordinary scale. The only building on the property so far was a blacksmith shop. [http://www.cr.nps.gov/history/online_books/deva/section3b2t.htm]