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Richardson Gold & Silver Mining Company Stock, Central City 1880

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Richardson Gold & Silver Mining Company Stock, Central City 1880
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Cert. #57, issued to Egbert Gurnsey for 150 shares in 1880. Incorporated in New York. Signed by D.H. Baldwin as president and Thomas J. Barbour as secretary. The company owned the Richardson lode as well as the Guernsey and Baldwin lodes in Russell Gulch, Russell district, 3 miles from Central City. The lodes were located in 1859 and patented in 1872, all fissure veins, four to seventeen feet in width containing gold-bearing quartz and iron and copper pyrites (Corregan and Lingane, 1883). The Richardson was developed by a shaft 400 feet deep, and 1,000 feet of drifts showing large quantities of argentiferous gray copper. The first class stamp-rock milling, when sorted yielded from three to fourteen ounces gold net per cord. The company leased the property for three years to E.E. Pray, Central City from October 9, 1882 hence. EF. Uncancelled. City: Central City State: Colorado Date: 1880 hwac# 35444