Description

THE POVERTY GULCH MINING COMPANY, Crested Butte, Colorado

Stock certificate #2549

Issued October 4, 1881, for 10 shares

To C. E. Chillis

H. C. Howard, president.  T. H. Lewis, secretary

Certificate not cancelled by the Company.

Mining property was located in Poverty Gulch, Elk Mountain Mining District, Gunnison County, Colorado.

Office: CRESTED BUTTE, COLORADO

Owned seven mining claim in Poverty Gulch, near Augusta Mountain: Good Enough, Burpee, Poay, and four others.  Two to three foot wide pay streak carrying steel galena, running high in silver content.  Newfield Tunnel was drilled to mine properties.  [Source: Gunnison Daily News-Democrat, early 1880s]

Certificate condition: fine; no folds; clean, bright; no signs of aging.

Dr.  H.C. Howard of Indianapolis, Indiana was the main owner of the property.

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