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Andes Silver Mining Co. Stock Certificate (GT Brown Lith.) (107055)

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Andes Silver Mining Co. Stock Certificate (GT Brown Lith.)   (107055)
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Virginia Mining District, Storey County, Nevada (printed adjacent to the title). Inc. Dec. 18th., 1873. No. 11304, issued for ten shares to Nat Stein on Dec. 10th, 1877 in San Francisco. Signed by president (General) George S Dodge and secretary M. Landers. Not cancelled. Black border and print, ornate company logo. Printed by GT Brown & Co., SF (noted African-American lithographer). Heavy folds, toning/soiling. 4 x 9" Located within Virginia City, adjoining the rich Con. Virginia & California Mines. By 1876, the shaft had reached 400 ft. deep, with drifts on the 150 and 350 ft. levels. Ore has been taken out. [Annual Mining Review & Ledger, 1876, pg. 36] George Sullivan Dodge was a decorated Civil War veteran, who was brought to the West Coast about 1871 to manage the monstrous new silver company in Eureka, the Eureka Consolidated. The mine was so rich that it rivaled the best of the Comstock, ultimately producing over $20 million from 1873 to 1906 alone. Dodge’s office was in San Francisco, right in the center of the Montgomery Street business section (Bank of California, etc.) where most of the financial ends of the Comstock mining barons took place. Dodge appears to have been appointed the first president of the Company, with the attendant job of getting the mine into profitable and large scale production. He was in charge of hiring the best mining men and putting together a mining crew to rival the best on the Comstock. In 1861 he was appointed Colonel in the Quartermaster’s Department (Payroll). He was promoted to Brigadier General in January, 1865. He served as Consul to Germany after the War before heading to San Francisco. Dodge retired from the Eureka Consolidated by the late 1870’s, and lived the life of a mining capitalist. He and his wife moved across the Bay, where he died in Oakland in 1881. We sold one of the fabulous William Sharon dinner silver ingots that was personally engraved to Dodge. Ken Prag Collection

Date: 1877
State/Country: Nevada
City/County: Comstock, Virginia City