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Treat Gold & Silver Mining Company Stock, Silver Mountain, Amador County

Currency:USD Category:Coins & Paper Money / Stock & Bond - Mining Start Price:200.00 USD Estimated At:400.00 - 900.00 USD
Treat Gold & Silver Mining Company Stock, Silver Mountain, Amador County
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350.00USD+ (87.50) buyer's premium + applicable fees & taxes.
This item SOLD at 2018 Oct 20 @ 10:37UTC-7 : PDT/MST
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# 69 for 5 shares to EG Treat. Signed by RH Ford and JD Dodge. Datelined Silver Mountain 1863. Incorporated September 5, 1863. Not cancelled. 20c and 5c small exchange stamps. Cut roughly on left. Folds on edges and one very large tear on bottom. We believe the printer was HS Crocker. Location was the "Fifty years, IXL Lode." The Treat Gold & Silver Mining Company (or "Treat and Dodge Ground") was a claim identified as being in the Silver Mountain Mining District in 1864 (per Calif. Division of Mines & Geology listing in "Mines and Mineral Resources of Alpine County" by William B. Clark). This claim was later re-located May 1, 1868 as the "Haight" claim, but it was on land already covered by the Buckeye No. 1 claim ( Lewis Chalmers, Exchequer Officials, 1871-2, p. 57). In 1871, Peter Peterson owned the "Segregated O.K., also known as Treat and Dodge Ground" in Scandinavian Canon, and sold it to D.N. McBeth for $100 (June 20, 1871 deed). Interestingly enough, E.G. Treat was Eleanor - a female. Assuredly the wife of D.W. Treat. She owned “separate property” (including quilts) per the Alpine Co. Archives, book of Separate Property of Married Women. There was also a "Treat's Hotel" in Silver Mountain City (briefly), which was theirs. It was also known as The Oriental. Reverend RH Ford is something of a Silver Mountain icon. Reverend Ford was an early settler from New Hampshire. The Ford Hotel (aka Silver Mountain Hotel or Alpine House) was a landmark. This hotel was also a restaurant boarding house, stage stop and post office. Ford was a Justice of the Peace, and superintendent of schools. Ford had no problem dabbling in mining stocks. When his hotel burned down in 1882 he finally left. [Thank you to Karen Dustman, local historian and author of the book "Silver Mountain City (Clairitage Press) for background information on the mine and signatures.] Prag Collection City: Silver Mountain, Amador County State: California Date: 1863 HWAC# 79721