COLORADO MINING CERTIFICATE: Clear Creek Tunnel Mining Company
Boston, Massachusetts: March 18, 1865. Engraved and printed in black on thin blue stock (7 ¾” x 6 ¾”) with a green stamp, this is certificate number 143, signed. Faded revenue stamp pasted on the left edge.
A certificate for 100 shares in the mining company. Clear Creek owned 600 feet on the Kinney Tunnel Lode on North Creek in Black Hawk, Colorado. Gold was found as high at $600 per ton, and the mine also owned a mill-site on the creek at the mouth of a mine entrance, a house, and a 25-horse engine (Hollister, Ovando James: The Mines of Colorado). Item #79374
Price: $100.00
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