CRIPPLE CREEK GOLD MINING DISTRICT
TELLER COUNTY, COLORADO
Established April 4, 1891
and still producing
There’s a Cripple Creek few but enthusiasts see. It’s an extraordinary and illusive place, America’s most illustrious gold mining camp, with a history both public and personal, colorful and dramatic, inventive and productive. Cripple Creek’s story has been told countless times, and in various forms, but the history presented here is different because it is tangible. It’s a story told from what still remains of the gold camp’s raucous, influential, and incredible past. Scarce historical documents, antique photographs and maps, rare books and other representations of daily life. Fragments that have traveled through spacetime to be before us today.
THE PORTLAND GOLD MINING COMPANY, stock certificate #1730, issued August 16, 1895, signed by two of the co-discoverers of this highly production Colorado gold mine, James F. Burns and James Doyle.
Price: $350.00
Cripple Creek Gold District statistics
Total gold production to date: 23 million troy ounces
In 1900, over 450 different mines operated in the 24 square mile gold mining district.
Over 20 gold barons were made from investing in the Cripple Creek Gold Mining District, from 1893 – 1920.
Three trains serviced the district: The Florence & Cripple Creek Railroad; The Midland Terminal Railroad; and The Colorado Springs and Cripple Creek District Railroad.
Two electric lines served nearly 24 cities, hamlets and towns.
Most significant single gold producing mine: the Portland/Independence,
until the Cresson pit was opened 1995.
CRIPPLE CREEK GOLD MINING DISTRICT, COLORADO STOCK CERTIFICATES
THE TRANSVAAL GOLD MINING COMPANY of Cripple Creek, Colorado, Colorado mining certificate #564, issued February 9, 1901, not cancelled. Signed by Mollie E. O’Bryan as president.
Price: $2,500.00
THE ARCADIA MINING COMPANY, #1410, issued August 19, 1896, not cancelled. Cripple Creek, Colorado gold mining company stock certificate. Company original owned by gold barpon, Sam Strong. Sam Strong was killed in a fight over gambling in the Newport Saloon, located on 4th and Bennett Avenue.
Price: $600.00
THE GOLD KING MINES, Cripple Creek Gold Mining district stock certificate, #195, issued January 13, 1930, not cancelled. Signed by gold baron, E. A. Colburn. Mining company owned first gold discovery claim filed by Bob Womack. Near fine condition, usual two folds.
Price: $400.00
THE DEFENDER GOLD MINING COMPANY, Cripple Creek, Colorado mining stock certificate, #537, issued February 21, 1896, not cancelled by Company. Signed by Edwin Arkell as president. Near fine condition, usual two folds.
Price: $750.00
THE PIKE’S PEAK PLACER MINING AND MILLING COMPANY, Cripple Creek, Colorado stock certificate, #472, issued October 13, 1893, not cancelled. Two punch holes on side done for placing on accounting ring. Issued out of Fremont (Cripple Creek), Colorado. Very good plus to near fine, usual two folds.
Price: $350.00
THE ANACONDA EXTENSION GOLD MINING COMPANY, Cripple Creek, Colorado mining stock certificate, #287, issued February 23, 1893, not cancelled by Company. Near fine condition, usual two folds.
Price: $2,000.00
THE HORSESHOE CONSOLIDATED MINING COMPANY, Cripple Creek Colorado mining stock certificate #468, issued February 2, 1901, not cancelled by the Company. Near fine condition, usual two folds.
Price: $300.00
The Gold Crater Mining Company, Cripple Creek gold mining stock certificate, #184, issued November 16, 1899, not cancelled by the Company. Signed by W. S. Stratton as president.
Price: $3,000.00
