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Oneida County,MT - July 12, 1867 - Oneida Montana Gold and Silver Mining Co. Stock *Territorial* :

Currency:USD Category:Coins & Paper Money / Stock & Bond - Certificates Start Price:200.00 USD Estimated At:400.00 - 800.00 USD
Oneida County,MT - July 12, 1867 - Oneida Montana Gold and Silver Mining Co. Stock *Territorial* :
Cert. No. 91 issued to Benjamin D. Gilbert for 43 shares. Early previously unknown certificate and mine. A railway is noted to have been built from Ogden, UT north 167 miles to Oneida (existing at that time 53 miles north of the Idaho border on the Fort Hall Indian Reserve) [Bancroft, 1890]. Fort Hall currently exists in the state of Idaho, previously overlapping in the Dakota Territory (1864) and Wyoming Territory (1868). Oneida County, ID was known in the 1885 to have numerous sawmills, saltworks and gold and silver mines [Bancroft, 1890]. It is possible that the mine existed apart from the Fort Hall area and could have been operating in the more common Alder Gulch area (Virginia City or East Bannock) in the Montana Territory. However, there is no mention of the mine's existence or its value during the year 1867, Idaho or Montana Territories by Browne, Raymond or Fry's Traveler's Guide. This remains an early example of an undocumented claim believed to be west of the Rockies. X-Rare. Fine. 10.25" x 7".