2026

Mokelumne & Campo Seco Canal & Mining Co. Stock Certificate (106930)

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Mokelumne & Campo Seco Canal & Mining Co. Stock Certificate  (106930)
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"Calaveras County" printed under title. No. 95 for 100 shares issued to Sylvester Bowman on April 25th, 1865 in Mokelumne Hill. Signed by Chaz C. Bowman, president and Chad Longbody, secretary. Pen cancelled. Amazing vignette that takes the entire left side as water runs down the mountainside to the river below with mining going on throughout. Britton & Rey printer. 25 cent US IR stamp at upper left. 6 x 9.75" Pinholes, folds, creases, some soiling/toning. "The works of the Mokelumne Hill Canal and Mining Company were begun in 1852, and completed to Mokelumne Hill the following year. The ditch, with a capacity of 1000 miner’s inches, was subsequently extended to Campo Seco, Camanche, and vicinities, a distance of 60 miles from the flume at the head of the canal on the South Fork of the Mokelumne River. Under Samuel L. Prindle, the renamed Mokelumne Hill and Campo Seco Canal and Mining Company completed extensions to Chile Camp and Spring Valley (near Valley Springs and Burson today). The demise of hydraulic mining in Calaveras County in the early 1900s, however, brought the prosperity of the independent water companies to an end." [Mokelumne Hill and Campo Seco Canal and Water Company by Judith Marvin online]

Provenance:
Country (if not USA):
State: California
City/County: Calaveras County, Mokelumne Hill
Date: 1865