Gold King Mines Company Cripple Creek Colorado mining stock certificate E. A. Colburn signed 1930
$400.00
Description
THE GOLD KING MINES COMPANY, #195, issued January 13, 1930, not cancelled by Company.
Signed by Cripple Creek, Colorado baron, E. A. Colburn, also owner of the Ajax Mine on Battle Mountain.
The significance of this certificate, other than the Colburn signature, is that the Company owned the original gold discovery claim filed by discoverer, Bob Womack.
Company owned the El Paso, Stop Short, Rosetta, Triangle, Sundown, E.C.L. & F., Lookout and part of the Jum Blaine, about 40 acres, in Poverty Gulch.
January 1, 1900: $125,000.00 in dividends paid to stockholders.
[Reference: The Official Manual of the Cripple Creek District, Colorado, by Fred Hills, Page 217]
Certificate is in near fine condition, usual two folds.
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