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Baker Silver Mining Co. of Colo. Stock Certificate

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Baker Silver Mining Co. of Colo. Stock Certificate
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Inc. in Colorado in 1866 with offices in Philadelphia. Georgetown Mining District. No. 1418. Uncancelled. Issued for 10 shares to Abraham Mickley on Feb. 1st, 1868. Signed by Jas. Pollock (?) (president), John Miesh (treasurer), and E Booth (vice president). Green and purple lettering with a purple border and vignettes. Vignette of a miner with rifle (upper left), miners working underground (top center) and the Colorado seal (upper right). Company seal lower left. Printer: Jas. B. Rodgers, Phila. Measures 11" x 7 ¼." Condition: folds, and toning along folds, otherwise nice condition. The Baker Lode had "uncommonly rich ores, varying in width from twenty inches to twenty feet. The crevices consist[ed] of sulphuret and bromide of silver and argentiferous galena; all these ores being more or less interspersed within the vein matter of quartz and feldspar. Samples of ore, taken from these crevices, yielded by assay, as high as $800 to $2000 per ton" [Ref: Hollister, The Mines of Colorado, p. 260-61, 1867]. However, there is little information available on this particular company other than its mines were located on Kelso Mountain.City: GeorgetownCounty: Clear CreekState: CODate: