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NV - Bullion,Elko County - January 4, 1876 - Webfoot Mining Company, Stock - Gil Schmidtmann Collect

Currency:USD Category:Collectibles / Western Americana Start Price:150.00 USD Estimated At:300.00 - 600.00 USD
NV - Bullion,Elko County - January 4, 1876 - Webfoot Mining Company, Stock - Gil Schmidtmann Collect
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!!!
Rail Road District. Incorporated 1872. Cert. #509, issued to C.E. Gillett for 250 shares. Signed by S. R. Rosarle as president and David Senning, secretary. Center vignette of a busy mill site interior showing workmen and a man and woman in center ground. Black border and print on pale yellow paper. U/C. Printer: Britton Rey & Co., S.F. Datelined San Francisco. 4 ¼ x 9.” The Webfoot was one of a number of new mines developed in the mid-1870s near Bullion, Nevada in the Railroad District, near the Railroad District toll road that J.F. Tasker had opened in 1870. Author Shawn Hall notes, “More than fifty miners were now working the district, and mines were producing copper, silver and lead. New mine discoveries included the Elko Tunnel, the Hussey Tunnel, the Our Kentucky, the Industry, the Miss Emma, the Wormer, the Last Chance, the Lee, the Love, the True, the Red Jacket, the Tripoli, the Humboldt, the Webfoot, the Otto, the Republic, the Mayflower, being worked included the Bullwhacker, the Grand Strike, the Blue Belle, the Ella, the Henry Clay, the California and the Poor Man’s Friend….By the summer of 1880 three mining companies controlled virtually all the mines. The new entrant was the Enterprise Mining Company, which owned the Webfoot. Lone-time resident, A.J. Roulstone, was mine superintendent. Three furnaces were in operation at this time [Ref: Old Heart of Nevada: Ghost Towns and Mining Camps of Elko County, Univ. of Nevada, Reno Press, 1998, pgs.177-179].