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Rocky Bar Mining Company Stock, History and 1850 Prospectus Facsimile (86041)

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Rocky Bar Mining Company Stock, History and 1850 Prospectus Facsimile  (86041)
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# 994 for 2 shares to Thomas Houstin(?). Signed by James Delamar and president Philo D Mickles. Dateline New York 1850. Four vignettes: allegorical, pastoral, law and George Washington. Nanforth, Bald & Co. printer. Not cancelled. Cut poorly on left. Wrinkled on right. Very nice. The Rocky-Bar Mining Company was organized in July 1849 as an association of forty miners digging for gold on the Big-Bar on the middle fork of the American River, some seventy miles from Sacramento. Comes with facsimile 1850 prospectus: "The Rocky and the Big Bars are considered by the old miners as the richest, or to say the least, among the very richest portions of the gold region in California...It is in the first place freely admitted, that all calculations heretofore made on this subject, are wholly speculative. It is however not impossible that the wildest estimates may be fully realized." Secretary Delavan, was part of an 1849 expedition as part of the Feather River Party. The band of 40 was reduced to 25 who could survive the hardships, but were rewarded with 100 pounds of gold in three weeks. [Eberstadt]. Comes with 1934 Carl I Wheat historical 12 page work. Wheat referred to the Rocky-Bar Mining Company as "the first organized project for mining quartz in California." Prag Collection State: California City: Grass Valley Date: 1850