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NV - Bullfrog,Nye County - 1923 - Pioneer District Documents - Clint Maish Collection

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NV - Bullfrog,Nye County - 1923 - Pioneer District 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!!!
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Reorganized Pioneer Mines Company (3)

1) Stock: Incorporated under the laws of Nevada, 1911. No. 1919 issued December 3, 1918 to Sol Segal for 1000 shares. Signed by M.J. Tobin, President and Ben Gill, Secretary. Printed by Mysell Rollins Co. U/C. Reverse has two assessment certificates.

2) Check No. 930 issued 4/9/23 in Goldfield; pay to Standard Oil Co. for $4.52 and signed by Benn Gill.

3) Employees Time Check No. 755 unissued

Consolidated Mayflower Mines (2)

4) Stock: Incorporated under Nevada Kaws, July 1917. No. 1517 issued January 24, 1919 to Wm. A. Krasselt for 50 shares. Signed by W.J. Tobin, President and M.H. Ollwert as Secretary. Printed by Goes. Not cancelU/C5”. One assessment stamp on reverse.

5) Letter: dated October 10, 1923 to Mr. Hugh H. Brown of Tonopah and signed by W.J. Tobin, Secretary. 8.5" x 11” and is typed. Hugh Brown was a lawyer and the president of the Nevada State Bar Association. In this letter Tobin is requesting that he look into some monies owed the mine by Victor Barndt of the Consolidated Spanish Belt Silver Mining Company.

6) Stock: Pioneer Consolidated Mines Company. Incorporated in Wyoming, 1909. No. 7956 issued March 21, 1917 to Dr. W.W. Butman for 4000 shares. Signed by Wm. J. Tobin, President and Chas. J. Clayton, Secretary. Printed by The Smith-Brooks Co., Denver, Colo. U/C. EndoU/Cse. In 1909 the Pioneer Consolidated purchased the Pioneer Mine, along with eleven other claims. In December 1914, part of the mine collapsed and had to be shut down. By 1917 the mine was reopened. [REF: Hall, Shawn. Preserving the Glory Days: Ghost Towns and Mining Camps in Nye, Nevada. Reno, Nevada: The University of Nevada Press, 1981. p. 259].

7: Letter: Bullfrog Pioneer Leasing and Milling Co. Letter to the stockholders dated August 10, 1909 from Rhyolite, signed by Oscar Smith, Manager. 8.5" x 11” and has four pages. The mine was the subject of an injunction by the Indiana Mining Company which prohibited the company from paying dividends. The mining itself was not impacted. The purpose of the letter was to explain the dispute to the stockholders and assure them that they would eventually be paid.

8 & 9) Proof of Labor Documents (2). These documents are identical with the exception of the date: one is March 16, 1910 and the other is March 16, 1911. Issued by the State of Nevada in Nye County, Louis Schloss states that he has spent $200 in labor or improvements on his claims: Desert Arab No. 1 and Desert Arab No. 2. Both are sworn before J.L. Cadogan and witnessed by C.W. Thomas, notary.

Federal mining law enacted in 1872 provided that all valuable mineral deposits in the public domain were free and open to exploration and purchase and that the locators of the same were to have exclusive right of possession as long as they complied with the laws of the United States and of the local mining district. The law authorized the democratic organization of local mining districts and charged them to record mining claims and manage mining operations in accordance with federal law and local needs and customs. Final ownership of a mining claim involved more than discovery, possession and recording, but also required that the claimant work the ground and perform labor on the claim as required by congress and the regulations of local mining districts. [REF: http://www.archives.state.ut.us/research/inventories/23671.html].

10) Prospectus: Mayflower Pioneer Mining Co. Prospectus, not dated but circa 1909. 13" x 9”. Folded in quarters. Fairly typical sales pitch on why an investor should by stock. The promoter was Thos. H. Condon, General Delivery, Chicago, Ill. Or Box 52, Parker, Ind. Condon had spent 1906-7 in Goldfield but returned to Parker, Indiana. Though he was involved in grain and coal, it appears he was still keeping in contact with his mining associates. [REF: http://www.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~inrandol/1914history/condonthomash.html].
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