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Lawrence Mining & Smelting Stock, Leadville, 1880

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Lawrence Mining & Smelting Stock, Leadville, 1880
Lawrence Mining & Smelting Stock, Leadville, 1880
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Cert. #694, issued for 50 shares to W.E. McGurvey in 1880. Signed by S.O. Thatcher as vice-president and Oscar F. Myers as secretary. The company was inc. in Colorado in 1879. The company owned the Lawrence group of claims: eight claims comprising forty acres on Bald Mountain and Printer Boy Hill, in the California district at Leadville. The vein was a contact, with a crevice from four to eight feet wide, containing carbonates, carrying gold and silver in a decomposed gangue, milling, when sorted, forty ounces of silver per ton; developed by four tunnels aggregating 700 feet and six shafts 100 feet deep each, with some other workings (Corregan & Lingane, Colorado Mining Directory, 1884). The certificate is in VF condition with a mountain scene vignette. Collier and Cleaveland Lith. Denver. Uncanceled. Date: Country (if not USA): State: ColoradoCity: LeadvilleProvenance:
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Lawrence Mining & Smelting Stock, Leadville, 1880

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