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Two Different Custer County, Colorado Mining Stocks: Game Ridge and Buckeye [155445]

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Two Different Custer County, Colorado Mining Stocks: Game Ridge and Buckeye [155445]
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Lot of 2 different. 1) Game Ridge Consolidated Mining Company. "Location of Mine: Rosita. Col." printed on either side of the vignette. Inc. in New York. No. 215, issued for 1,000 shares to the Farmers Loan & Trust Co. in 1882. Signed by vice-president Smith and the secretary. Not cancelled. Black border and print, mining vignette. 7 x 10.5" National Bank Note Co. Pinholes. Not listed in the 1883 Colorado Mining Directory. According to Engineering and Mining Journal, Volume 35 (1883), they owned the Green River and Ditto Lodes. Burchard (1883) lists them in the Hardscrabble District of Custer County. According to History of the Arkansas Valley, Colorado, Issue 889 (1881), the company was building a large 40-stamp mill in Wilmer Gulch. Their property was on Game Ridge at Rosita with assays of 25 ounces of silver per ton. 2) Buckeye Mining and Tunneling Company of Colorado. Inc. Feb. 1876. No. 1082, issued for 100 shares to HM Funston in 1879. Signed by president Alex M. Cassidy and secretary FA White. Not cancelled. Black border, red and black print. 5.25 x 10" Pinholes, chips/tears along edges, especially rough top border. The company owned the Silver Cliff Mine with assays of $20-75/ton. Large masses of cerargyrite [or horn silver] of this ore were mined near the surface which yielded 30-50 oz/ton. Silver Cliff, which was founded in 1878, had a population of 5,000 with 29 grocery stores, two banks, three fine hotels, three dance halls and 25 saloons by 1880.

Date: 1879-1882
Country (if not USA):
State: Colorado
City: Custer County
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