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United States Mining Company Stock Collection (100) [155646]

Currency:USD Category:Coins & Paper Money / Stock & Bond - Mining Start Price:10.00 USD Estimated At:200.00 - 500.00 USD
United States Mining Company Stock Collection (100) [155646]
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This item SOLD at 2023 Mar 19 @ 13:35UTC-7 : PDT/MST
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Lot of 100 stocks issued in 1899. All punch cancelled. All appear to have at least one adhesive revenue stamp. Black print on yellow paper. Inc. in Maine. Signed by president Edward Clark and the treasurer. This company was made up of a group consisting of Albert E. Holden of Salt Lake City and a group of Boston bankers and businessmen appropriately called the "United States Oil crowd." Holden and his father, Liberty E. Holden, had been prominent Utah mining men, with interests in the Bingham and Tintic districts dating back to the 1880's. By the late 1890's they had an extensive and profitable group of mining properties including the Old Jordan and Galena claims at Bingham, and the Centennial-Eureka Mine in the Tintic District. The new company, with a capitalization of $10 million in 400,000 shares at $25 par, constituted the largest, mining "deal" ever to be undertaken in Utah. Edward A. Clark, president of the United States Oil Company, was elected president of the new company and A. E. Holden appointed managing director. The company immediately began a full program of exploration and development, as the result of which considerable quantities of copper-bearing ores were revealed in both the Bingham and Tintic properties. The company, therefore, selected a site for the new smelter on the Jordan River at Bingham Junction (Midvale) south of Salt Lake City.

Date: 1899
Country (if not USA):
State: Utah
City: Midvale
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