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Oneida Montana Gold & Silver Mine Stock, Lion Mt., 1867 [193631]

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Oneida Montana Gold & Silver Mine Stock, Lion Mt., 1867 [193631]
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A stock certificate for 43 shares in the Oneida Montana Gold & Silver Mining Company, issued in 1867 to Benjamin D. Gilbert. No. 91 issued. Uncancelled. Signed by president and secretary of the company. 25¢ IR stamp at top, embossed company seal at bottom left, great vignette of miners at work in a scenic mountain landscape. A railway is noted to have been built from Ogden, UT north 167 miles to Oneida (existing at that time 53 miles north of the Idaho border on the Fort Hall Indian Reserve) [Bancroft, 1890]. Fort Hall currently exist in the state of Idaho, previously overlapping in the Dakota Territory (1864) and Wyoming Territory (1868). Oneida County, ID was known in 1885 to have numerous sawmills, salt-works and gold and silver mines [Bancroft, 1868]. It is possible that the mine existed apart from the Fort Hall area and could have been operating in the more common Alder Gulch area (Virginia City or East Bannock) in the Montana Territory. However, there is no mention of the mine's existence or its value during the year 1867, Idaho or Montana Territories by Browne, Raymond or Fry's Traveler's Guide. This remains an early example of an undocumented claim believed to be west of the Rockies
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State: Montana
City: Glendale
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