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American Pioneer Copper, Silver and Gold Mining Co. – Colorado River, Weaver District, Territorial

Currency:USD Category:Coins & Paper Money / Stock & Bond - Mining Start Price:250.00 USD Estimated At:500.00 - 1,000.00 USD
American Pioneer Copper, Silver and Gold Mining Co. – Colorado River, Weaver District, Territorial
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Certificate #3 dated Sept. 2, 1863 for 10 shares made out to F. (Francis) G. Bornemann. (signed on back). The latter is listed in Langley’s 1865 San Francisco Directory (p. 87) as working in the cashier’s office of the U. S. Assistant Treasurers. Incorporated August 1863. “Ledges Excelsior, Eagle Bird, Occidental”. The dateline is San Francisco; office at 606 Montgomery St., room #3 (notice of a $1 assessment levied; ref.: Daily Alta California, Volume 15, Number 4975, October 12, 1863). Signed by President J. W. Hussey and Secretary J. (Joseph) N. Souther. Souther is listed in Langley’s 1865 San Francisco Directory (p. 410) as a receipt clerk in the U.S. Branch Mint. Cancelled. A vignette of mountains with a stagecoach. A brown 25 cent Internal Revenue Certificate stamp attached. Black on white; 5.5 x 9.5 inches, printer not identified. Two major tears. Cancelled. Old and wrinkled. Still a great find! The Weaver district is situated about 16 miles northeast of Wickenburg. A Mexican member of a propecting group unearthed gold nuggets “the size of potatoes.” The party members pried them from the ground with knives. Prospectors dubbed the basin the Potato Patch, the mountain Rich Hill and the mining region Weaver District No. 2. The district became Arizona’s richest producer of placer gold. Major claims included the Devil’s Nest, the Leviathan and the Upton. Miners poured into the district, panning more than 25,000 ounces of gold in the first five years.

Date: 1863
Country (if not USA):
State: Arizona
City: Weaver
Provenance:

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