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Poverty Gulch Mining Co. Stock, Crested Butte, CO. 1881 [165504]

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Poverty Gulch Mining Co. Stock, Crested Butte, CO. 1881 [165504]
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Cert. #2545, issued for 10 shares at Crested Butte in 1881. Crested Butte was founded in 1880 as a supply town for the hard rock mines in the surrounding mountains before becoming a coal mining town in its own right as the hard rock mining wound down (gunnisoncrestedbutte.com).
Burchard in 1881 estimates that production for Gunnison County in 1880 amounted to about $300,000, all silver. Poverty Gulch is a ravine on the Slate River in the Gunnison National Forest. The certificate is VF. Uncanceled. [ Crested Butte Colorado