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Byron Gold & Silver Mining Co. Stock Certificate, Brown & Murphy District, Nevada Territory

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Byron Gold & Silver Mining Co. Stock Certificate, Brown & Murphy District, Nevada Territory
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Byron is one of the three mining companies to have ledges in the Brown & Murphy District as reported by Mark Twain in a letter dated February 3, 1863! Location: Neighbor Lode, Brown & Murphy District, Lyon County, N.T. (printed in left border). Incorporated in Nevada Territory, Feb. 2nd, 1863. Dateline Carson City, March 27th, 1863. No.42, issued for 20 shares to Haswell. Signed by Joel Ball, president, and PW Van Winkle, secretary. Not cancelled. Vignette of an allegorical woman (by Loomis, SF). Printed by Towne & Bacon, SF. Rough bottom left and top right edges. This company was not in Filer, but the Lion G&SMC of the same district was. No record of this district in Clayton (1865) or Stretch (1866). FH believes that this district was likely part of Palmyra. Joel Ball was also a director for the Leviathan Mine on the Comstock Lode. From Twain's letter from Carson to the Enterprise in Virginia City: "Three new mining companies filed their certificates of incorporation in the County Clerk's and Territorial Secretary's offices last Saturday. Their ledges are located in the new Brown & Murphy District, in Lyon county. The names, etc., of the new companies are as follows: Jennie V. Thompson G. & S. M. Company, capital stock $220,000, in 2,200 shares of $100 each; Byron G. & S. M. Company, same number of shares, etc.; Lion G. & S. Company, capital stock $230,000, in 2,300 shares of $100 each. The following gentlemen are Trustees of all three companies: C. L. Newton, J. D. Thompson, J. Ball, G. C. Haswell and Wm. Millikin. The principal offices of the companies are in Carson City." [Ref:Nevada Place Names; The Works of Mark Twain: Early Tales & Sketches, Vol. 1 1851-1864, (Univ. of California Press, 1979), pp. 201-04.] HWAC# 62868 Date: 1863 Location: Lyon County, Nevada