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Consolidated Silver Hill Mining Company Stock Certificate [166940]

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Consolidated Silver Hill Mining Company Stock Certificate [166940]
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"Esmeralda" printed at top center. No. 732, issued for 5 shares to William Feast on April 23, 1863 in San Francisco. Signed by president Alex Gamble and secretary Solon Pattee (also the officers for the First North Extension). Not cancelled. Black border and print with vignette of two miners pushing a cart of ore away from a mine entrance. Lith. Britton & Co., SF. 25 cent US IR Insurance stamp at upper left with tied cancel. 5.5 x 9.9" Folds, clean. Braly, Cory & Hicks staked the first claims in the Aurora Mining District on Silver Hill on August 24, 1860. The first shipment of ore was made on November 10, 1860. Shortly thereafter the Esmeralda Mining Company and the Consolidated Silver Hill Mining companies were formed and incorporated. Although the certificate says the company was incorporated in January of 1861, the Daily Alta California reported that articles of incorporation for the company was flied early November 1860! They report the mines are in Mono County, said to be Calaveras County. William Feast was in Aurora by 1861. He owned a cabin on the northeast corner of Silver & Del Monte. He was the Mono County Treasurer and continued in this capacity after Aurora was proven to be in Nevada. Feast was the secretary of the West Wind, Fairy Queen, Utah, Gibraltar etc. He died in Aurora in 1864. Gamble was a very successful merchant in Big Oak Flat, California during the Gold Rush. He took that money and became a mining speculator and investor. His brother Peter and he were founders of the immensely successful Wide West Mine on Last Chance Hill. They sold their stock at a great profit and bought Real Del Monte stock cheap. Within a few months it had risen to $500 a share and Gamble was a millionaire. Not too long after that Governor R. K. Colcord of Nevada in his memoirs of territorial Aurora noted that he had fallen into poverty, "...his shirt was unlaundered and he was living in a two-bit restaurant."

Date: 1863
Country (if not USA):
State: Nevada
City: Aurora
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