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Wild Rose Mining Co. Stock, Death Valley, Inyo, Skidoo District, 1907, Rare [165524]

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Wild Rose Mining Co. Stock, Death Valley, Inyo, Skidoo District, 1907, Rare   [165524]

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VF. Uncanceled. Scarce Death Valley mining certificate issued in 1907 for 1000 shares. Mines located in the Wild Rose mining district, Inyo County, Cal. printed at the top. Office was at Beatty, Nevada. The district is located in the Panamint Mountains, near the western side of Death Valley. The town of Wildrose was platted in 1906 after the Skidoo boom of 1905. Bob Montgomery (former owner of the Montgomery Shoshone) was a big investor in Skidoo, and owned the prolific Skidoo mine there. Our certificate is signed by W.B. Gray as president. Gray became involved in litigation between 1909 and 1914 against Montgomery over claims for a few years with little results. Gray had purchased slivers of unclaimed ground adjacent to the prolific Skidoo mine and was trying a "shakedown" (Lingenfelter's Death Valley and the Amargosa).
Referred to from about 1873 to the spring of 1888 as "Rose Springs District, the area loosely bordered by the Panamint Mining District on the south, Townsend Pass on the north, Panamint Valley on the west, and Death Valley on the east, was first opened to easy access from the Panamints by W. L. Hunter and J.L. Porter, who had located some promising claims in the vicinity.
By 1906 several mining companies held interests in the Wild Rose District: the Telescope Peak Mines Syndicate, owning seven gold and copper claims covering about 140 acres in the Wild Rose District, the Panamint Mountain Mines Syndicate, owning sixteen full gold claims covering 320 acres each in the Wild Rose District; the Wild Rose Mining Company, whose interests were represented by W.B. Gray, Dr. U.V. Withee, and W.H. Sanders, and which owned gold, silver, copper, and lead properties with surface values ranging from $9 to $716.
VF condition. Uncanceled.

City: Inyo County,
State: California Inyo County California