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Bisbee Copper Mining and Smelting Company (77000)

Currency:USD Category:Coins & Paper Money / Stock & Bond - Mining Start Price:250.00 USD Estimated At:500.00 - 800.00 USD
Bisbee Copper Mining and Smelting Company  (77000)
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State of Main is a big clue. Is this the Bisbee that the town in Arizona is name for? It seems not DH Bisbee was a native of Maine. As a matter of fact it isn't even an Arizona company! Bisbee was in the mining business, sort of, as the 1880 census ways he is in the explosives business. # 169 for 250 shares to WF Pictman. Singed by SQ Milliken as secretary and transfer agent and DH Bisbee as president and treasurer. Surely a Mom and Pop type organization. Dateline 1880. Underground mining vignette. Arthur & Ronnell of New York printer. Not cancelled. Some staining top Center. 2 vertical folds. Bisbee Copper operated on Blue Hill in Hancock County on the coast of Maine near Mt. Desert Island. Frank Bartlett, state assayer, reporter, "At the present time there are six regular companies at work. Among these may be mentioned the Bisbee, Blue Hill, Doaglass, Atlantic and Stover Hill. These mines are so well known that an extended description of them would be out of place." Ore was shipped to Baltimore for smelting. The ore was such that there was little contaminants to hinder the process. [Filer] Prag Collection

Date: 1880
City/County: Blue Hill
State: Maine