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York Gold & Silver Mining Company Stock [163635]

Currency:USD Category:Coins & Paper Money / Stock & Bond - Mining Start Price:200.00 USD Estimated At:400.00 - 800.00 USD
York Gold & Silver Mining Company Stock [163635]
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York Gold & Silver Mining Company Stock - Virginia City, Storey County NT Cert. #53, issued to A.C. Chapman for 20 shares on March 8, 1864. Signed by R.M. Daggett, president, and by A.C. Chapman, secretary. - Incorporated in Nevada in 1863 and capitalized at $250,000; 1250 shares at $200 per. Vignette column at left end with masted side-wheeler ship carrying an American flag, and an eagle atop a stars and stripes 'Liberty" shield. Small vignette at bottom center of dog guarding a safe. Black border and print. Uncancelled. No printer noted. 5.25 x 9."Not noted on Becker's map of 1883. The property is noted on Bancroft's 1865 map, located just north of the N. Ophir and the Mexican mines and the Summit Mill on the Comstock Ledge. Chapman was a partner in Armstrong and Chapman [Kelley, 1863]. Rollin Mallory Daggett was a notary public in the firm of Myers & Daggett in Virginia City [Kelley, 1863], and a partner with Myron Angel at El Dorado Canyon in 1862-63. He was born in 1832 in New York. 'He must have been a strange queer genius, even in childhood"[Angel's History of Nevada]. He helped found the Golden Era newspaper in San Francisco, where he was a partner and contributor, then sold it and went to Virginia City in 1862 to work with Joseph T. Goodman of the Territorial Enterprise, alongside Mark Twain. Both Daggett and Goodman considered themselves literary lights as poets and playwrights. Daggett stayed on until 1879 becoming manager of the paper [Robt. Armstrong, Nevada Printing History, Univ. of Nev. Press, 1981, pg. 206]. He is the namesake of Daggett, California.

Date: 1864
Country (if not USA):
State: Nevada
City: Virginia City
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