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Sterling City Gold & Silver Mining & Tunneling Co. Stock Certificate (100817)

Currency:USD Category:Coins & Paper Money / Stock & Bond - Mining Start Price:200.00 USD Estimated At:400.00 - 600.00 USD
Sterling City Gold & Silver Mining & Tunneling Co. Stock Certificate  (100817)
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This item SOLD at 2019 May 17 @ 12:01UTC-7 : PDT/MST
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Very early! Inc. in New York. No. 32, issued for 300 shares to Russell Forsyth on September 29th 1864. Signed by J.D. Russell as president, Thos. Pope as vice-president, and the treasurer. Not cancelled. Black border and print, ornate title and nice mining vignette. Printed by RC Root, Anthony & Co., NY. 7 x 11.25" Horizontal and vertical folds, bent lower left corner, left border trimmed tight. Hollister (1867) mentions a "Sterling City Gold Mining Company" that built a stone-mill building in Musquito in 1865 designed for 30 stamps. J.W. Smith of Denver is agent. Not much mining has been done. According to a prospectus for the company sold online, they owned "5,300 feet and over of Gold bearing Quartz Lodes, well developed, and of proved value... Three Hundred Town Lots, on some of which are situated Mills, Mill sites, Mill Houses, Dwellings, Shops, and one large two-story Store-house." Sterling City was located near the present site of Park City on Mosquito Creek. [Hollister, 1867, pg. 299] Ken Prag Collection

Date: 1864
City/County: Park County
State: Colorado