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Check from Express & Banking Office of Rhodes and Co Signed by FW Blake

Currency:USD Category:Collectibles / Paper Start Price:100.00 USD Estimated At:200.00 - 400.00 USD
Check from Express & Banking Office of Rhodes and Co Signed by FW Blake
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Rare! This pictorial check for $4000 was made out to Pierce Delap??? signed by F. W. Blake as agent for Rhodes & Co. Blake was the agent for Rhodes in Weaverville beginning in 1852. Very little survives today from this remote important gold mining camp located in the middle of the Trinity gold region in far northern California. Weaverville was the business center for the all the Trinity River region. The entire northern gold region’s business center was Shasta. From there, all business matters went south, either to Marysville or Sacramento.



Frank W. Blake, the cousin of Gorham Blake of S.S. Central America fame. After arriving in California from Boston in 1852, Frank settled in Weaverville for seven years, where he eventually opened his own express company. After two years in Sacramento, Frank moved to Carson City for a year, only to leave for Unionville, NV, the “Land of Silver.” By 1863, F.W. Blake was issuing assay certificates and serving as mining secretary for several local corporations. He remained in Unionville until 1866, when he left for Silver City, in southern Idaho, where new gold camps were springing up. He set up a successful assay office and was soon the owner of a jewelry store and additional real estate [Holabird, 2008, 467]. HWAC# 61742 Date: Location: Weaverville, California