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Eureka, Wells Fargo Entire with two interesting mining letters (99123)

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Eureka, Wells Fargo Entire with two interesting mining letters  (99123)
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This item SOLD at 2019 May 18 @ 15:16UTC-7 : PDT/MST
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1870. Nice stike. Cover is addressed to Will Seaton. First letter is from CC Goodwin ("furnaces have yieded 73 bars in the past 24 hours," "mine is living up to its former prestige," Goodwin wants to go to the new mining fields in Utah and he asks to be excused from his duties). The second letter is from Judge Bruce in Utah ("Little Cottonwood Canyon has exellent possibilites," "producers are getting from 4 to $5000 a ton," "coal is a bit (12 1/2c) a bushel," "David Buel is already here and planning to erect 3 or 4 funaces"). Buel and Goodwin had the best operating furnaces in the Eureka area and Seaton transported ore. Long biographies on Buel (the Sanitary sack of flour, mining in Austin, on Board of Directors for the non-existant Humboldt & Austin Railroad) and Goodwin (editor of the Washoe TImes, Inland Empire in Hamilton, the Territorial Enterpise, and the Salt Lake Tribune). He would get to Utah - but ten years later.

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City/County: Eureka, Express
State: Nevada