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American Pioneer Copper, Silver and Gold Mining Co. Stock Certificate [123655]

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American Pioneer Copper, Silver and Gold Mining Co. Stock Certificate  [123655]
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Incorporated August 1863. "Location Weaver District Arizona Territory" (printed at upper left). "Ledges Excelsior, Eagle Bird, Occidental" (printed at upper right). Low certificate #3, dated Sept. 2, 1863 for 10 shares made out to F. (Francis) G. Bornemann. (signed on back). Signed by President J. W. Hussey and Secretary J. (Joseph) N. Souther. Bornemann is listed in Langley's 1865 San Francisco Directory (p. 87) as working in the cashiers office of the U. S. Assistant Treasurers. Office at 606 Montgomery St., room #3 (notice of a $1 assessment levied; ref.: Daily Alta California, Volume 15, Number 4975, October 12, 1863). 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 prospecting 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. Weaver District Arizona 1863