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3 Death Valley area Mining Stocks (86562)

Currency:USD Category:Coins & Paper Money / Stock & Bond - Mining Start Price:50.00 USD Estimated At:100.00 - 150.00 USD
3 Death Valley area Mining Stocks  (86562)
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This item SOLD at 2019 Jan 26 @ 15:56UTC-8 : PST/AKDT
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Three mining stock certificates (2 final, 1 temporary certificate) from Death Valley area. 1) 333 shares of Furnace Creek Copper Co., cert. # 20483 issued to William St. Crocker signed June 28, 1910 signed by W. C. Meyer, pres., and J.J. Steuart, secy. Raised green company seal. Assigned signatures on back. Furnace Creek Copper Mine located on National Park Service wilderness land in Death Valley. In early 1900's Patrick Patsy Clark of Spokane notified. He visited and purchased the claim in May, 1905. Became a mining camp by next year, without copper being found. Beginning of Greenwater rush. Names Furnace Creek Copper Co in March. Stock sold within three hours. Best known and earlies mine in district as rush started. 2) 100 shares of Greenwater Copper Mines and Smelter Co. issued to A. H. Geuting cert. #1969. Raised company seal. Uncancelled temporary certificate to be exchanged when engraved certificate is ready. Greenwater Valley was the site of the most spectacular boom in the history of Death Valley mining. Within 1-1/2 years of the start of the rush it became home to over two thousand inhabitants. It also experienced the shortest life ever recorded for a boom camp of its size. Within 3 years it was practically deserted. On December 15, Charles Schwab, John Brock, and some financiers from Philadelphia formed the Greenwater Death Valley Copper Mines & Smelting Company. Ash Meadows became the smelter site. It was close to a water supply and the railroads. In 1907, the Nevada Smelting & Mines Corporation' which owned the control of the United Greenwater Copper Company, has exchanged its stock for the stock of the new Greenwater Copper Mines & Smelter Co.
3) 100 shares of Mojave Tungsten Co. cert. # B1551 issued to G.W. Field & Co, dated April 17, 1917. Mines located in San Bernardino County, CA. Assigned on back. Printed: Security Bank Note Com. Phila. Prag collection. State: California City: Date: