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Big Pittsburgh Consolidated Silver Mining Company

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Big Pittsburgh Consolidated Silver Mining Company
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Fabulous condition. Coupons 5 and 6 still attached. Number 319 signed by John Stanton and (?). H. A. W. Tabor, as every Coloradan knows, struck it rich when he grubstaked a pair of shiftless miners who discovered silver. He bought up other mines and merged them into the Big Pittsburgh Consolidated Silver Mining Co. Then he and his partners sold shares at inflated prices. Tabor's dupes may have had the last laugh, because the silver king went broke not just because of the drop in the price of silver closed most of the mines, but because Tabor himself was a plunger, a sucker who couldn't resist a scam to strike it rich again. [Bonanzas and Borrastas by Lingenfelter]

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State: Colorado,
Date: 1888

FHWAC#: 26903