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Contention Gold Mines Company Stock (91714)

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Contention Gold Mines Company Stock  (91714)
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# 454 for 85 shares to John H Holtkamp. Signed by Lansford F Butler and president Sidney Tone. Dateline Denver 1905. Incorporated 1905. Not cancelled. Double tunnel underground mining vignette. Black on brown safety paper. Located near Contention City. Prospectors Ed Williams and Jack Friday discovered what was to become the Contention and Grand Central mines when their mules broke free from a nearby camp one night. The mules, in search of water, dragged a chain behind them, which allowed Williams and Friday to track the animals the next morning. As they walked, they noticed the gleam of metal where the chain had scraped away the overlying dirt, and upon investigation, they found what would develop into a significant silver lode. The mules were tracked to the nearby camp of well-known prospector Ed Schieffelin, who had been prospecting extensively in the area, and who had staked claims to many of the Tombstone area mines. Unhappy that two competitors had discovered a claim in what he considered to be his territory, Schieffelin disputed the ownership of the claim. Eventually, the claim was split in two, with the upper end going to Williams and Friday, and named the Grand Central Mine, and the lower end going to Schieffelin, and named the Contention Mine after the disputed ownership that earned him the claim. In the wake of the Gunfight at the O.K. Corral, Ike Clanton attempted to have Wyatt Earp and Doc Holliday tried in Contention City after a grand jury refused to indict them in Tombstone. It was never held. [wikipedia] Ken Prag Collection

Date: 1905
City/County: Tombstone
State: Arizona