Lot of 2 different. 1) Lawrence Mining & Smelting Company. No. 765, issued for 50 shares to company secretary OF Meyer on Jan. 2nd, 1881. Signed by S.O. Thatcher as vice-president and Oscar F. Myers as secretary. Black border and print, vignette of wagon train, teepees, and snow-covered mountains. Folds. 6.75 x 9.5" 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). 2) Carbonate Hill Consolidated Mining Company. No. 294, issued for 100 shares to William Clark on July 4th, 1881 in Denver. Signed by CH White (president) and JM Dickey (secretary). Not cancelled. Vignette of group of miners working underground. Printed by Collier & Cleveland, Denver. Folds, clean. 7 x 11" The Carbonate Hill Consolidated owns three claims on the northwest end of the Carbonate. The workings have been conducted on the Pocahontas claim. The shaft is 240 feet deep and at 180 feet contact was cut and drifts are being run southeast and east. The prospects of the mine are very good at present." [Engineering and Mining Journal, Volume 35, 1883]Date: 1881Country (if not USA): State: ColoradoCity: LeadvilleProvenance: