Description
THE COLORADO MOUNTAIN CHIEF MINING COMPANY, Stock certificate #209
Issued SEPTEMBER 8, 1883. Not cancelled by Company.
Signed by Charles H. Emerson, as president.
Company owned Mountain Chief, Zephyr, Bonnie Bell, Ben Hill lodes, in Taylor’s Gulch, near Town of Garfield, Monarch Mining District, Chaffee County, Colorado.
[Ref: 1883 COLORADO MINING DIRECTORY, Corregan & Lingane Page 114 & Fossett’s COLORADO, pages 560-562]
Condition: near fine; usual folds.
Highly unual “onion-skin” like paper used to print this delicate mining stock certificate. Yet, still in near fine condition.
Mining area known as Emerson’s Camp, Taylor’s Gulch, Monarch Mining District, Chaffee County, Colorado.
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