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Rare Storey County Assay Report for Wiegand & Co. (Comstock)

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Rare Storey County Assay Report for Wiegand & Co. (Comstock)
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Rare! Storey County Report of Assaying Business filed by Samuel Dowling as owner of the assay business Wiegands Assay Office for the month of March 1891. 20 entries. Lists Name of Person Depositing or Selling Bullion, Residence of Such Person, Amount Deposited, and Name of Mine and Mill, Blanket Sluice or other source from which Bullion was obtained. Most of the residences are listed as Silver City or Six Mile Canyon. 17" x 11" Folds, some separation, and toning.



Sam Dowling was a long term assayer on the Comstock. In 1865, he was working at the Ogden Mill at the bottom of the hill below Virginia City. It was owned independently by San Francisco banker W. C. Ralston, who incorporated it. Perhaps it was the first mill purchased by William Sharon on his road to own all the important mills for the Comstock. Born in Maine about 1832, Dowling worked for several mines before settling is as the key assistant to an aging Conrad Weigand. Dowling married a young lady about 1867 and had two children by 1870, according to census records.



Dowling took over or bought Weigand’s business shortly after Weigand died in 1880. He continued the Gold Hill Assay Office for a short time, perhaps just a year, getting contracts with several mining companies free of the politics that bogged down Weigand. Dowling sold out to Chris James late in 1880, who handed the business off to W. S. James within a few years. Dowling continued as an assayer for various mining companies, though he no longer ran his own company. State: Nevada City: Virginia City Date: 1891 FHWAC#: 41254