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NV - Gold Hill,Storey County - Nevada Billheads

Currency:USD Category:Collectibles / Western Americana Start Price:150.00 USD Estimated At:300.00 - 500.00 USD
NV - Gold Hill,Storey County - Nevada Billheads
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Lot of 17. Silver City & Gold Hill Billhead Collection including Silver Hill Mining Co., Lawson McTigue Wines and Liquors (from Silver City). From Gold Hill: Issued to the Savage Mining Co., T.H. Smith & Co., D.S. Gallatin, Eugene Bittner & Co., Mercer & Tucker, Pioneer Boiler Works, Gold Hill Foundry & Machine Shop, L.B. Frankel & Fulton Foundry. This collection covers a productive era for these two communities. It shows that the towns of Silver City and Gold Hill were both active for merchants working in a variety of industries. Savage mine was named after Leonard Savage who was involved in a lawsuit with Joseph Stone over a verbal agreement to purchase land for $3000. According to Sam Davis, “The Savage Mine was one of the great Comstock mines” [Ref: Davis, The History of Nevada, 1913, 1984, p. 282].