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Van Wyck & Co. Assay Office Receipt Collection for NumeroU.S. Mills 1864-65 [166983]

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Van Wyck & Co. Assay Office Receipt Collection for NumeroU.S. Mills  1864-65  [166983]

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Lot of 10 receipts. All are for bullion deposits by the Savage Mining Company. Almost as soon as the news of a strike in Esmeralda (Aurora) reached the San Francisco newspapers, Van Wyck headed there to open an assay office. He was the principal in the firm of Van Wyck & Winchester and later Van Wyck & Sanchez. By the summer of 1864 he was in Virginia City. According to the Virginia Daily Union of June 3, 1864 he had an office in the Taylor Building. By September of 1865 Van Wyck had moved his assay office to Gold Hill. 1) Seven receipts issued November-December 1864, right after Nevada became a state. These forms, Enterprise Print (as in Territorial Enterprise), even list the office as being in "N.T." 2) The other three receipts are a different form and were issued in 1865. Deposits are huge, ranging from 1,000-4,000 ounces of bullion. Eight different mills are represented: Marysville, Booths, Central, Island, Swansea, Buckeye, Mariposa, and Chas. Land. Receipts measure approx. 3.5 x 7.75" The Savage MC was probably delivering ingots to Van Wyck on a daily basis (FH). A group that is an important record of the various mills being employed by the Savage Mine in the early years! Virginia City Nevada Franklin Collection