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Gold Crater Mining Co. (104774)

Currency:USD Category:Coins & Paper Money / Stock & Bond - Mining Start Price:150.00 USD Estimated At:300.00 - 800.00 USD
Gold Crater Mining Co.  (104774)
SOLD
225.00USDto m********1+ buyer's premium (56.25)
This item SOLD at 2019 May 17 @ 09:50UTC-7 : PDT/MST
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Stock Certificate from the Gold Crater Mining Co. Located at Cripple Creek. Certificate number 85 issued in 1896 to Wm. P. Boubright & Co. Signed by president W. S. Stratton, and (?). Printed by Elgan Bank Note Co. Denver, Colo. Size 10 by 7 inches. Not cancelled. Strange discoloration line, perhaps from stock book? Otherwise fine. Brown raised seal. Grey border. "The property thus owned consists of the Globe, Close Shave, Lady Stith, Deerhorn Deerhorn No 2, and Pride of the Rockies; in all about 35 acres, all patented in section 18, on Globe hill. Also owns the Callie, about 5 acres, in section 19, on Gold hill, adjoining the Anaconda [The Official Manual of the Cripple Creek District, Colorado, U. S. A.] "W.S. Stratton was indeed the ìMidas of the Rockies.î For 19 years he was a failed prospector, but in 1891, his luck changed and he became legend. As owner of the Independence and Little Portland Mines, he was in control of the greatest gold producers in the history of Cripple Creek. Together, the two mines produced over $88 million of ore!" [National Mining Hall of Fame and Museum]

Date: 1896
City/County: Cripple Creek
State: Colorado