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Toquima Stores Company stock

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Toquima Stores Company stock
NUMBER 8 for 1 SHARE to J. R. Davis issued in 1920. Hard to find, hard to get information on, The Toquima store as located was located in a fairly remote part of the state. The more famous Toquima Cave sits high in the north section of the Toquima Range and is accessed via a four-wheel drive dirt road that leads over the mountains from the Big Smoky Valley to the Monitor Valley. J. R. Davis is one of the most famous mining promoters in 20th century Nevada history-. He was a well-educated prospector in Arizona, California, Oregon and Alaska, and involved in several mining operations including the Sandstorm and Round Mountain Mining Companies in Goldfield, the Great Bend Mining Company near Diamond field, and the Gold Bar Mine in the Bullfrog District. With his partner Loftus he was later involved in the notorious "Gold Bar Swindle"--a scheme in which the pair claimed the Gold Bar mine was a high-grade mine whereas in fact it was low-grade. Two things, though, are abundantly clear abut this deal: the private stockholders of the Gold Bar Company never made any money at all, and Loftus and Davis never lost any. How much money those two promoters gained from their various swindles will never be known. (Ames Collection)

Date: 1920City: ToquimaCounty: NyeState: NV