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Eastern Montana Mining & Smelting Co. Stock Certificate

Currency:USD Category:Collectibles / Mining Start Price:100.00 USD Estimated At:200.00 - 300.00 USD
Eastern Montana Mining & Smelting Co. Stock Certificate
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Stock #261, Location, Clark's Fork, Wyoming Territory. Issued to J. W. Granis for 50 shares. Signed by J. D. Caman, Secr. and Lester Willson, Pres. A smelter, built in 1876 by the Eastern Montana Mining and Smelting Company successfully reduced eighty tons of silver-lead ore to thirty tons of bullion early in 1877. According to local legend, when Joseph, leader of the Nez Perce Indians passed through Cooke City in the summer of 1877 in a vain attempt to reach Canada and freedom, his people burned the gold mills and took with them the silver bullion that was ready to be packed out of the area. After this episode, new smelters were built and mining resumed, although the crude equipment was inadequate to process any but high-grade ore. Clark's Fork refers to the Clark's River, given that name in 1805 for Captain Clark of the Lewis and Clark expedition. Clark's Fork runs through the Bitter Root range.

City: Bozeman
State: Montana
Date: 1877
HWAC#: : 30707