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Virginia City, Nevada Checks Issued to the Scorpion Mine [199032]

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Virginia City, Nevada Checks Issued to the Scorpion Mine [199032]
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80.00USDto C**********9+ buyer's premium (20.00)
This item SOLD at 2025 Jul 13 @ 10:15UTC-07:00 : PDT/MST
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Lot of 4 checks signed by mine supt. RP Keating (Savage Mine) and issued for payrolls and expenses of the Scorpion Mine. The Scorpion is a claim that was staked in 1859. It lay across the junctions of Six and Seven-mile Canyons, reaching nearly to the Union Cons. and Mexican. Near the old Catholic Cemetery. Ansari notes the main activity was 1870s-80s, then in the early 1890s and 1920s. In 1876, a tunnel had been driven into the ledge. [Ref: Annual Mining Review and Stock Ledger, 1876, pg. 65; Ansari]
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Date: 1883-84
Country (if not USA):
State: Nevada
City: Virginia City
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