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Assurance Mining Company Stock, Monitor Mining District, Alpine County

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Assurance Mining Company Stock, Monitor Mining District, Alpine County
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This item SOLD at 2018 Oct 20 @ 10:17UTC-7 : PDT/MST
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# 154 for 5 shares to Henry Huntington. Datelined Jackson 1864. Signed by JA Romison as secretary and ES Hall as president. Incorporated march of 1864. Not cancelled. Printed by Crocker & Company. 'Eureka' vignette. Located at "Monitor Mining District." Top right dog ear. Otherwise an excellent example. Not in Filer. Rare! Unusual dateline, Jackson, for a Silver Mountain company. "On Wednesday [workmen] struck through into a porphyritic formation... the prospects of this company have been from the start bright and flattering" and the Morning Star (the "crack ledge of Mogul" crosses their tunnel 5 or 600 feet from its mouth; "Among the stockholders are many of our old friends on the eastern slope of Amador, and they richly deserve all that may be in store for them deep down in the bowels of Mount America." [Mount America was the hill at the foot of Monitor Canyon, bordering the creek.] (1864 July 2 Monitor Gazette ). The Assurance was apparently south of the town Monitor and about 400 feet west of F.A.S . Jones's Constitution lode. The Constitution Lode was about ¾ of a mile below the town of Monitor on Monitor Creek, commencing at the south bank and then going SW 1,000 feet; it was about 400 feet east of the Assurance Company's tunnel (1864 Dec 24 Monitor Gazette). [Thank you to Karen Dustman, local historian and author of the book "Silver Mountain City (Clairitage Press) for background information on the mine and signatures.] Prag Collection City: Monitor Mining District, Alpine County State: California Date: 1864 HWAC# 79723