Description
THE BELDEN & TENNAL MINING COMPANY OF COLORADO Territorial stock certificate, #89, Gregory District.
Issued July 8, 1876, not cancelled by Company.
Near fine condition, folds.
Company owned the Belden Tunnel site, 300 feet by 6 feet, in Chase Gulch, Gregory Mining District, near Central City, Colorado Territory. Opened six veins on which the following claims were locasted:
George W. Ellery, Alonzo Furnald, Black Quartz, Herbert Spencer, R.P. Ramsey, Louis Napoleon and Arapahoe. Fissure veins from 3 to 7 feet in width, gold bearing, $12 per ton on average.
Output: $40,000.00 up to 1879, gold at $20 per ounce.
[Ref: 1883 Colorado Mining Directory, pages 263-264; and, Corbett’s Colorado Mining Directory, 1879]
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