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Five California Stock Certificates - Take a Look!!!

Currency:USD Category:Coins & Paper Money / Stock & Bond - Mining Start Price:75.00 USD Estimated At:150.00 - 200.00 USD
Five California Stock Certificates - Take a Look!!!
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There are some nice stocks in here. 1) Tuolumne County Water Company. Columbia. 1860. Gold Rush! One share to AE Hooker. Signed by Chesney and Joseph Pownall. The classic mining vignette showing a dammed river, miners operating sluices and a rocker. Emigrants who rushed to California after the discovery of gold in 1848 discovered an environment whose climate and geography were sharply different from home. It cycled between periods of wet and dry, drought and flood and quickly emphasized the importance water management. As well as its domestic importance, large quantities of water were essential to large scale mining operations and the control of water became key. Miners were tied to the area by the availability of water, which eroded the gold from the mountains and deposited it in Columbia. Soon the control of water became the biggest and most complex struggle facing miners, and Columbia epitomized this struggle. The Tuolumne Water Company was the answer. 2) Calaveras Water Mining Company. Number 1366 for 100 shares issued to William H Metcalf in 1892. Signed by H Marshall and RK Southwick. 3) Black Oak Gold Mines, Consolidated. Number 1142 for 1,000 shares to W Fink in 1905. Signed by WH Fraser and GH Salisbury. 4) United States Exploration Company. Number 662 for 500 shares to George W Underwood in 1907. Signed by Hopson and (?). 5) Unissued Chico Gold and Silver Mining COmpany. 186-Mill vignette with wagon to carry the ore away. (Al Adams Gold Rush Memorabilia Collection) HWAC# 58331 Date: 1860-1907 Location: California