WATER BOND FOR COLORADO GOLD MINING GHOST TOWN: The Town of Nevadaville, Gilpin County, Colorado New Water Bond
Denver: The Denver Litho Co., July 25, 1899. Engraved and printed in black, green, and red on thin cream stock (14 ¾” x 15 ½”), this is bond number 54, unsigned. $500, six percent bond issued by the town of Nevadaville in Gilpin County to help fund a “gravity system of water works”. The total issue was $20,000, and the bonds’ mature date was 10 years. Includes 30 coupons valued at $15 each.
Nevadaville was founded in 1859 and is now a gold mining ghost town. It was once one of the most important mining settlements in the area and originally part of the Kansas Territory. It grew to house the miners working the Burroughs lode and the Kansas lode, and the population was predominantly Irish. Item #79680
Price: $500.00