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Knickerbocker & Nevada Silver Mining Company Stock (88738)

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Knickerbocker & Nevada Silver Mining Company Stock  (88738)
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Mines located in the Union Mining District. The Knickerbocker & Nevada Mining Company came to life in 1865. On March 20th a meeting was held in New York to discuss offering stock options. The meeting describes the Knickerbocker as actually three mines: Phoenix, Olive, and Lockwood. (As we recall we have seen a Phoenix Stock Certificate come through here at one time.) They point out that 3 is better than 1. They notice goes on to say that by June of 1865 the president will be out in Nevada with machinery. A second meeting was held on August 1, 1865. And, my how promising things were. The president had arrived and found that a tunnel was being run at the Phoenix. It was a lateral tunnel which "obviates hoisting, drains the mine, etc." The ore at the Olive has been ordained as "unusually good, for so near the surface." Recent assays show the Olive at $650 per ton, Phoenix at $736.64 and Lockwood at $888.32. The minutes confirm that the mine is in the Union Mining district at Ione. A third meeting was held on October 22, 1866 just about one year later. Here is was announced that the mines "for all present purposes proved to be worthless." Since a large sum of money had already been spent and since they had a steam driven, twenty stamp mill up and running, it was approved to buy the "Great Eastern" mines. But capital is very short. So desperate are the times that the stock holders would either have to agree to sell the company or come up with $050,00 immediately. The suggestion was that they offer another round of stocks. These would be preferred stocks and dividends would be paid back at twenty-five per cent per annum. So where does this stock certificate fit in all of this? It was issued on September 5, 1867. It is preferred stock. It says on the stock certificate that "Dividends [will be paid] at the rate of twenty-five per cent per annum payable annually [written in pen from August 24, 1867] on the first Tuesday of May...." And with that we do not hear of this company again. This is a # 153, issued for 20 shares to William Vail of New Market , New Jersey on September 6, 1865. Signed by George N Taylor (president) and Frank Fuller (secretary). Not cancelled. Printed on thin paper with an ornate border and underground mining vignette by Hatch & Co., New York. Trimmed tight on the left, toning, wrinkled folds and some creases. 8.5” x 10.25” [Information on the Knickerbocker was found at the Nevada Historical Society.]

Date: 1865
City/County: Ione
State: Nevada