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Fifty-One Union Mining Co. Stock, Virginia, Placer County, California (123658)

Currency:USD Category:Coins & Paper Money / Stock & Bond - Mining Start Price:250.00 USD Estimated At:500.00 - 1,000.00 USD
Fifty-One Union Mining Co. Stock, Virginia, Placer County, California  (123658)
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240.00USD+ (60.00) buyer's premium + applicable fees & taxes.
This item SOLD at 2020 Dec 17 @ 10:17UTC-8 : PST/AKDT
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Cert. #228 issued to John Bosquit on March 9, 1864 for 25 shares. Signed by Wm. H. Hunt as Secretary and by Geo. Glass as president. Incorporated in Virginia on March 13, 1863 and capitalized at $1,020,000; 10,200 shares at $100 per. Virginia was opened to mining in the year 1852, by the discovery of gold on the adjoining hills and ravines. The want of water during the dry season retarded the work of miners for two or three years subsequent, which was finally remedied by the introduction of water by the same canal which conveyed water into the Gold Hill district. In 1853, a company of miners built a railroad track from Virginia Hill to the Auburn 'ravine, for the transportation of ore. This road was certainly the pioneer railroad of Placer, if not the first laid down in the State for any purpose. The work was finally abandoned by the company, and its labor was redirected towards the introduction of water, through canals, direct to the tops of the various hills lying in and composing the Virginia district. John Bosquit (or Bosquet) was a representative for Placer County in the 1865 California Assembly. He died Nov. 9, 1868. [Ref: Bancroft, Gudde] Uncancelled. Vignette, showing a miner with a pick-axe, in front of a mine entrance. And another of a woman at left. A red brown 25 cent “Protest” Internal Revenue stamp is affixed. Printed by H.S. Crocker & Co., Sacramento.

Date: 1864
Country (if not USA):
State: California
City: Virginia
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