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The Estate of Thomas T. Fargo, CA - Georgetown,El Dorado County

Currency:USD Category:Collectibles / Western Americana Start Price:200.00 USD Estimated At:400.00 - 800.00 USD
The Estate of Thomas T. Fargo, CA - Georgetown,El Dorado County
IMPORTANT NOTE ON BUYERS PREMIUMS:

Lot 100 to 343 have a premium of 15%.

The rest of the sale is 19.5% as noted in the listing.

Lot Pick Up: Holabird-Kagin Americana,
3555 Airway Drive Ste #309,
Reno NV 89511,
Sunday - December 9, 10am-4pm
1858-1889 - The settlement of the Fargo’s estate contains 29 items including: mining claims in Spanish Dry Diggings and Greenwood Mining District mines, maps of the mines, bills of sale for the mines, recordings of the mining properties, legal papers, claims against the estate, and correspondence from Fargo’s siblings in Wisconsin and Colorado to their appointed lawyer for the estate, Mrs. Mary Frances Jones of Georgetown. The papers do not include the outcome. Sometimes it took years to settle the estates of miners. Names of the mines held by Fargo were The Fargo Mining Claim at Spanish Dry Diggings, Hoboken Quartz Mine, and the Hunter and Rincanon claim at Spanish Dry Diggings, plus a share of water from the ditch. The Fargo Mining Claim had twenty-eight acres to it. The map to it is in the archive. Little by little, Fargo had purchased the surrounding claims at the Diggings, one for as little as a dollar. Lewis Sites sold a portion of his claim to Fargo in 1869 for $200.00. This particular bill of sale has an adhesive, serrated edged, fifty cent green, George Washington U. S. revenue stamp on it with Lewis Siles signature. There are three covers in the group that are legal sized. Two are addressed to Mrs. Mary Frances Jones. One is postmarked Madison, Wis. affixed with three adhesive, serrated edged, green George Washington two cent cancelled stamps. The second envelope has Jones’s name on it but the stamp has been torn off. The third cover is titled “Fargo’s Papers” and has Jones’s name on it. The last two covers are in poor condition. What is most unusual about this case is that Jones was a female attorney in the 1880s. -52127