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Higgins Hope Gold Silver and Copper Mining Company, San Francisco County RARE

Currency:USD Category:Coins & Paper Money / Stock & Bond - Mining Start Price:200.00 USD Estimated At:400.00 - 600.00 USD
Higgins Hope Gold Silver and Copper Mining Company, San Francisco County RARE
SOLD
450.00USD+ (99.00) buyer's premium + applicable fees & taxes.
This item SOLD at 2018 Oct 20 @ 10:39UTC-7 : PDT/MST
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Early number 52 for sixty shares to H Benson. Datelined San Francisco 1863, Signed by secretary Hugo Dreschfeld (also secretary to Comstock mining companies) and president H B...(?). Incorporated May 22d 1863. Miner with pick vignette. United States 25c Insurance Revenue Stamp. "Location, San Francisco County, State of California." Valentine & Co. of San Francisco printer. Very rare! One of few mines from this location and a reminder of the early mining efforts attempted near San Francisco. No reference to the district is made in J Ross Browne 1865. Irelan 1888 describes the county as follows: "...little can be said about her mineral resources...A number of small auriferous veins have been found in the county, the most of them located in the vicinity of the city. The ore thus far obtained from these veins has been scanty and of low grade. None of them has been developed to a paying point...On the ocean beach gold-bearing black sand occurs in considerable quantity. Attempts have also been made to work these deposits; but these efforts proved so remunerative that they were soon given up." Dreschfeld is listed in the 1863 and 1864 San Francisco directories as "secretary mining companies office 24 & 26 Naglee's building." No company is listed. [HWAC] Prag Collection City: San Francisco County State: California Date: 1863 HWAC# 79700