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Central Colorado Prospecting and Mine Developing Company Stock Certificate Red Cliff Eagle County 1881

$450.00

Original Central Colorado Prospecting and Mine Developing Company stock certificate #671, issued March 7, 1881, uncancelled. The Leadville-based company owned the Humboldt claim on the east slope of Battle Mountain near Red Cliff, Eagle County, a lead-silver contact vein developed by tunnel.

Description

CENTRAL COLORADO PROSPECTING AND MINE DEVELOPING COMPANY stock certificate #671

Issued March 7, 1881, not cancelled

Incorporated in Colorado in 1880.  Office in Leadville, Colorado.

Mining property on the east slope of Battle Mountain, Battle Mountain Mining District, near Red Cliff, Eagle County, Colorado.

Owned the Humboldt claim, located in 1879.

Mineral: vein contact, with a crevice 8 feet in thickness and containing small layers of lead carbonates, assaying 13% lead and 28 ounces of silver per ton.

Developed by a tunnel.

[Ref: 1883 Colorado Mining Directory, Corregan & Lingane, Page. 236]

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