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Consolidated Imperial Mining Company Stock [163679]

Currency:USD Category:Coins & Paper Money / Stock & Bond - Mining Start Price:50.00 USD Estimated At:100.00 - 200.00 USD
Consolidated Imperial Mining Company Stock [163679]
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This item SOLD at 2023 Mar 31 @ 13:26UTC-7 : PDT/MST
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Consolidated Imperial Mining Co. - Gold Hill, Storey County, NV - Certificate # 39002 dated May 27, 1879, for 5 shares at $100 per made out to E. A. Richardson, Trustee. Incorporated in San Francisco on April 13, 1876, and capitalized at $50,000,000; 500,000 shares at $100 per. Signed by President C. S. Weller and Secretary W.E. Dean. Alpheus Bull was also on the board. Vignette of two allegorical woman at lower left, one reclining and holding laurel wreath, the other standing and wearing crown. In 1876 William Sharon consolidated many of the small rich claims between the Alpha and the Challenge-Confidence mines located in Gold Hill. These included the Bacon, Bowers, Consolidated, Eclipse, Empire North, Empire South, Imperial North, Imperial South, Piute, Rice & Co., Trench & Co., and Triglone claims for a total of 431 feet on the Comstock Lode representing many of the first claims discovered on the Comstock. These small claims were often referred to as the 'Little Gold Hill Mines'. From 1864-1891 total recorded production was $9,232,000 from about 440,000 tons of ore. From 1866-1876 these mines produced $3,520,000 from 160,000 tons. (p. 185-6 Pacific Coast Mining Review 1878-79).

Date: 1879
Country (if not USA):
State: Nevada
City: Gold Hill
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