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Eastern Montana Mining & Smelting Co. Stock--Number 1 (101486)

Currency:USD Category:Coins & Paper Money / Stock & Bond - Mining Start Price:60.00 USD Estimated At:120.00 - 200.00 USD
Eastern Montana Mining & Smelting Co. Stock--Number 1  (101486)
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This item SOLD at 2019 May 17 @ 17:23UTC-7 : PDT/MST
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Location: Clark's Fork, Wyoming Territory (printed at upper right). Certificate number one, issued to James G. Dow for 100 shares on January 18th, 1877 in Bozeman, Montana. Signed by president Lester Wilson and secretary JD McCamam. Not cancelled. Black border and print, small mine hoisting vignette. Printed by AL Bancroft & Co., SF. Pinholes, small tear and ink stain. 5.25 x 10" 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. James G. Dow was a cashier at the First National Bank in Bozeman. Ken Prag Collection

Date: 1877
City/County: Clark's Fork
State: Wyoming