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NV - Nye County,Johnnie Collection

Currency:USD Category:Collectibles / Western Americana Start Price:50.00 USD Estimated At:100.00 - 200.00 USD
NV - Nye County,Johnnie 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!!!
Lot of 3. 1) Johnnie Consolidated Gold Mining Company. Incorporated in Nevada, 1904. Certificate No. 3137 issued January 8, 1908 to Ernest Kennedy & Co. for 1000 shares. Signed by D.G. (illegible), Vice President and Robt. B….(illegible), Secretary. No printer. Cancelled. Endorsed on reverse. 2) Pittsburg Johnnie Mining Company. Incorporated in the Territory of Arizona, 1906. No. 1648, NOT ISSUED. Signed by Robert Atkinson, President and H. L. Schader, Secretary. Printed by Wood’s Red Seal Print, Los Angeles. Cancelled. 3) Receipt for Nevada Statutes, 1919: postcard pre-addressed to George Brodigan in Carson City and used as a receipt for delivery of the Statutes. Signed by E.J. Mitchell “per D.T.J.”

Office of the Justice of the Peace, Johnnie and dated July 9, 1919; printed by Typographical Washoe, Union Label; has two stamps: pre-printed green one-cent Martha Washington and one-cent green Washington. Cancelled by the Johnnie post office July 9, 1919. “http://www.legendsofamerica.com/photos-nevada/Johnnie,NV1930s.jpgJohnnie - The story of Johnnie begins with the "Lost Breyfogle Mine." This tale begins in 1863 when a prospector by the name of Joshua Breyfogle brought a very rich piece of ore into the mining center of Austin in 1863. Breyfogle who had been prospecting in Death Valley, had gotten lost after fleeing an Indian attack. Much later, his memories fuzzy, he began to search for the rich quartz ledge, but, though he searched for 26 years, he died before ever finding it. In 1891, while brothers, George and Bob Montgomery Paiute Indian named "Indian Johnnie" as a guide. Steering them to a rich site of gold, the brothers believed it to be the Lost Breyfogle. The camp that grew up around the mine was first known as Montgomery, but the mine was known as the Johnnie Mine, after the Indian that had guided the brothers to the discovery. Soon the camp was also called Johnnie and supported about 100 people. The Johnnie mine site was a few miles northeast of the townsite. Also supporting the camp was the Congress Mine, sometimes called the Chispa Mine, which was located just west of the townsite. A post office was opened in August, 1891. A few years later however, only the Congress Mine was active and the post office closed in March, 1894. When a new mill was built for the Congress Mine in September, 1895, it employed 70 men and revived the camp briefly before it emptied out. The Congress Mine was sold in 1898 and about 50 men were back. But, due to unresolved labor disputes, the operations were quickly shut down again. Still, it was not the end for Johnnie. When several new discoveries were made in 1905, the Congress Mine was again reopened and a number of new claims were staked. Just two years later, the camp boasted a population of about 350 people, several stores, saloons, hotels and restaurants. By 1914 the boom was over and the population dropped to less than 15 people. Just two years later, another discovery started Johnnie up again. The Eureka Johnnie Gold Mining Company began operations in 1921 and continued until 1925.”

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