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NV - Death Valley,Nye County - 1908 - Furnace Creek Copper Company Stock - Gil Schmidtmann Collectio

Currency:USD Category:Collectibles / Western Americana Start Price:50.00 USD Estimated At:100.00 - 200.00 USD
NV - Death Valley,Nye County - 1908 - Furnace Creek Copper Company Stock - Gil Schmidtmann Collectio
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 Washington, 1906; Cert. #16309 issued January 24, 1908 to L.A. Ludwig for 100 shares; signed by W.C. Meyer, President and J.J. Stewart as Secretary; printed by Goes; U/C; black ink on crème paper with green background, with one vignette of allegorical America holding a flag and a shield with a bald eagle at her side. Reverse is endorsed. “As the great rush to the Bullfrog Hills soon filled up the ground in that vicinity, and late-arriving prospectors were forced to move farther afield. Two such men, Fred Birney and Phil Creasor, ambled south down the east side of the Black Mountain Range, and in February, 1905, while looking for gold, instead uncovered rich surface croppings of an immense copper belt in Greenwater Valley. Birney and Creasor sent samples of their find to Clark soon formed the Furnace Creek Copper Company and by June, he had an operating mine with eight men working a 35 foot deep shaft. The first major operator in the district, he hoped to reap a quick fortune by finding the immense underground

copper deposits from which came the rich surface croppings. Though the copper lode had not been found by

March, 1906,http://www.legendsofamerica.com/wa-patsyclark.htmlClark offered 125,000 of these shares to the general public and within three hours every share had been sold. As the mine expanded operations, the camp that formed around the mine grew.

In July, 1906, the Greenwater Mining District was officially formed and a post office was

established in Clark's Camp.”http://www.legendsofamerica.com/ca-furnace.html]