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Humboldt Exploration Company Stock Certificate

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Humboldt Exploration Company Stock Certificate
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Unique vignette is of A. Von Humboldt. Number A264 for 100 shares issued to William P Bartel. Signed by Henry Willey and (?). Incorporated in 1909 under the Laws of Arizona - this company was in search of fossils, especially in the Kimmswick Limestone site for a museum in St. Louis. [Archaeology in America: An Encyclopedia] This company may also have owned or controlled the the following mining companies: Zumate - Esperanza Mining Co., La Gloria - Success Mining Co., Ste Ana de Capula Mining Co., Capula No. 2 Mining Co., Vizcayua Mining Co., and Willey - Cananea Copper Co. These companies were south of the border in Mexico and produced gold, silver and copper ores. (Ref. The Mexican Year Book - Copyright 1911) Henry I Willey, president of the Humboldt Exploration Company, must be who the last mine was named for. [oldwesthistorystore.org] Friedrich Wilhelm Heinrich Alexander von Humboldt was a Prussian polymath, geographer, naturalist, explorer, and influential proponent of Romantic philosophy and science. He was the younger brother of the Prussian minister, philosopher, and linguist Wilhelm von Humboldt. Humboldt's quantitative work on botanical geography laid the foundation for the field of biogeography. Humboldt's advocacy of long-term systematic geophysical measurement laid the foundation for modern geomagnetic and meteorological monitoring. He is honored throughout Nevada (Humboldt River, Humboldt County, Humboldt Range, Humboldt Sink). (Laguna Collection) Date: 1910 Location: Arizona HWAC# 59599