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Poverty Gulch Mining Company Stock, Crested Butte, CO. 1881 [165478]

Currency:USD Category:Coins & Paper Money / Stock & Bond - Mining Start Price:100.00 USD Estimated At:200.00 - 400.00 USD
Poverty Gulch Mining Company Stock, Crested Butte, CO. 1881    [165478]
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160.00USDto 8***1+ buyer's premium (35.20)
This item SOLD at 2023 Dec 10 @ 10:03UTC-8 : PST/AKDT

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Cert. #2546, 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)._x000D_
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