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NV - Death Valley,Nye County - 1909 - Furnace Creek Copper Documents

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NV - Death Valley,Nye County - 1909 - Furnace  Creek Copper Documents
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 3. 1) Furnace Creek Copper Co.; Incorporated in Washington, 1906; Certificate No. 23982 issued January 20, 1909 to William L. Kennedy for 100 shares. Signed by W.C. Meyer, Vice President and J. J. Stewart as Secretary. Printed by Goes. U/C.

“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." 2) Furnace Valley Copper Company. Incorporated in Washington, 1906; Certificate No. 3181 issued March 4, 1907 to John W. Curtis for 100 shares. Signed by W.C. Meyer as Vice President and Abel August, Assistant Secretary; printed by American Bank Note Co., New York, Litho; U/C. . Endorsed on reverse. The Furnace Valley Copper Company was located near the Furnace Creek Copper Co. in Death Valley. The shaft was 250 feet deep. According to Munsey’s Magazine (Vol. 46, 1911/2, page 88) the company was “moribund” by 1912. “As the great rush to the Bullfrog Hills soon filled up the 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.” 3) Furnace Creek Extension Copper Co. Incorporated in Montana, 1906; Certificate No. 268 issued September 29, 1906 to Kenneth Donnellan Co. for 100 shares; signed by Irwin as President and H.F. Collins, Secretary; no printer; not cancelU/C on reverse; has water damage; Munsey’s Magazine, Vol. 46, p. 888, dated 1912, claims that this mining company was “dead”. [http://www.legendsofamerica.com/ca-furnace.html]