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Clear Creek and Webster Consolidated Mining Company Stock Certificate (Tuolumne)

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Clear Creek and Webster Consolidated Mining Company Stock Certificate (Tuolumne)
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Very Early certificate # 10 to Harlow Nettleton for 100 shares datelined Stone Ranch and dated October 10, 1863. The company was incorporated July 1863 and capitalized at $150,000; 6,000 shares at $25 each. Signed by President, C.S.S. Hail (?) and Secretary, A. H. Dunlop. Vignette of a mill. A 25 cent brown Internal Revenue Certificate stamp. Black on white, 5 x 9 inches; printed by Towne & Bacon, Printers S.F. Extremely Fine. Very rare dateline; Stone Ranch is not listed in Gudde’s California Place Names. (Ref. KHWA 6-24-09-13 P350). The 1864 Mining & Scientific Press says this about the mine, "It contains 3000 feet in single foot shares. Main shaft 87 feet — opening well with gossan, and an east wall from the beginning, and now showing the west wall. The rock is pure and carries large quan- tities of mundic and yellow sulphurets. According" to indications at present, 125 feet ought to give a strong, rich vein of ore. State: California City: Stone Ranch Date: 1863 FHWAC#: 41804