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Live Yankee Gold and Silver Mining Company No. 2 Stock [144010]

Currency:USD Category:Coins & Paper Money / Stock & Bond - Mining Start Price:150.00 USD Estimated At:300.00 - 500.00 USD
Live Yankee Gold and Silver Mining Company No. 2 Stock  [144010]
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This item SOLD at 2022 Apr 24 @ 11:13UTC-7 : PDT/MST
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# 18 for 20 shares to Silas Fuller. Silas Fuller is listed as a speculator in the 1864 Langley directory. Signed by secretary Jonathan Hunt Jr. and president Myles D Young(?). Dateline San Francisco 1864. Incorporated February 23, 1864. Reese River Mining District. 25c Power of Att'y revenue stamp. Not cancelled. Mountain mill vignette. Female soldier with sword that says , 'UNION.' Francis, Valentine & Co. printer. Torn lower left. This stock certificate is one of the Front Street consortium. Instead of investing in stock, they invested in mining companies and sold stock. This group of San Franciscans used Benjamin Silliman Jr to promote their companies. His report neatly ties together and describes the 30 mines. However, an assay of over $5000 a ton should have given an investor pause. Ore could be worked for $40 to $50 a ton. The big Comstock companies were working at $100 a ton. Benjamin Silliman, Jr. was essentially a hired gun. Benjamin Silliman, Sr., a Yale chemist, had been one of America’s preeminent scientists, and the son had closely followed the father’s footsteps, specializing in chemistry, mineralogy, and metallurgy, serving often as a consultant to government, business and industry. City:Austin, Lander Co. State:Nevada Date:1864