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Antelope Silver Mining Company Stock - Mark Twain Related (82005)

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Antelope Silver Mining Company Stock - Mark Twain Related  (82005)
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#519 for one share to Alf Gamble. Signed by Jno. L. MacKenzie and president William Norris. Dateline San Francisco 1864. According to the Sacramento Daily Union an Antelope Silver Mining Company of San Francisco with the same $600,000 capital stock and the same 1,200 shares was incorporated around February 1, 1861. This would actually put this stock certificate in the Utah Territory! Antelope vignette. Britton & Co. printer. 25c Power of Att'y revenue stamp. Nick top left. Otherwise no corner, edge, pin hole or discoloration issues. Mark Twain in a letter of May 4, 1862 writes his brother, "Yesterday we took a spirit level and got the angle of the celebrated “Antelope” ledge, and tomorrow we shall commence a hunt after the second E. extension of it. We may find it and we may not. The thing has often been tried before, but with no success. If we find it, our fortunes are made - if we don’t, - they ain’t. I have 75 feet in a spur of the “Antelope,” which promises nothing save that it is an offshoot from a good family - and I am aristocrat enough to attach some importance to that sort of thing." On May 5 he writes, "Hunted for “Antelope” today, and found a ledge - but hardly think it is the right one. Four of us boys have dug two trenches, each 20 feet long and 6 feet deep, to-day, in the gravelly hill side. Finally, if we do find the “Antelope,” we shan’t care a d—n any more." [Letters from the Mark Twain Project] Prag Collection

Date: 1861 (1864)
City/County: Esmeralda
State: Nevada