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Two Rich Hill Mining Stock Certificates

Currency:USD Category:Coins & Paper Money / Stock & Bond - Mining Start Price:50.00 USD Estimated At:100.00 - 150.00 USD
Two Rich Hill Mining Stock Certificates
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1) Blue Bell Mining Company. Number 277 for 500 shares to RL Duvall. Signed by George Crawford and William Chalfant Jr. 1907. Great condition. Heavy folds. 2) Weaver Mountain Mining Company. Number 46 for 1,255 shares to James Gay in 1907. Signed by EP Vogels and Charles Barrett. Some bends and rip at bottom of folds. Both have allegorical women vignettes. Neither is cancelled. Tennessee-born mountain man Pauline Weaver worked for the Hudson’s Bay Co. in Canada before heading to the Rocky Mountains in 1830. Weaver explored much of New Mexico Territory and Arizona Territory, and in 1862 Indians led him to placer gold deposits near La Paz, Arizona Territory. The following year Weaver guided a party of gold seekers under Abraham Harlow Peeples into the Hassayampa River country of central Arizona Territory. The party camped at the base of a mountain south of present-day Yarnell, and while searching for lost livestock in a shallow basin atop the mountain, a Mexican member of the group unearthed gold nuggets “the size of potatoes.” The party members pried them from the ground with knives. Prospectors dubbed the basin the Potato Patch, the mountain Rich Hill and the mining region Weaver District No. 2. The district became Arizona’s richest producer of placer gold. The Weaver and Rich Hill area is still active by amateur prospectors today. (Laguna Collection) Date: 1907 Location: Rich Hill, Arizona HWAC# 59473