Description
THE ROMANCE OF A MINING VENTURE: MEMOIRS OF DAVID M. HYMAN,
Hyman was a Cincinnati, Ohio lawyer turned mining speculator, to become one of the founders of the Town of Aspen and the Aspen Silver Mining District, Colorado.
Book: original gold-printed green binding, #98 of 200 copies, printed by Larchmont Press, Cincinnati, Ohio, 1981
Book dimensions: 6-1/8 inches by 9-1/4 inches; 105 pages
Illustrated.
Book sold with an original Aspen, Colorado silver mining stock certificate:
THE BI-METALLIC MINING AND MILLING COMPANY, signed by David M. Hyman as vice president, issued 1893, not cancelled by the Company.
Condition: book is fine condition and does not appear to have been read; stock certificate is in very good plus condition with usual 2 folds and a bit of paper loss at bottom of one fold, in margin.
DAVID M. HYMAN once owned most of the Aspen, Colorado townsite, as well as numerous productive silver mines in the Aspen Silver Mining District of Pitkin County, Colorado.
There is still a “Hyman Avenue” in the center of the Town of Aspen, Colorado to this day.
Hyman owned such mining companies as the Bi-Metallic, Smuggler, Aspen Contact, and the Mollie Gibson, and others. The famous, and most significant, apex mining lawsuit that set Colorado mining laws concerning mineral veins surfacing on a specific claim was centered on Aspen mining property owned by David M. Hyman and D.R.C. Brown. David Hyman’s mining operations continued from the 1880s into the 1920s. He was one of the few Aspen
mining entrepeneurs who continuously operated his mining properties for over 40 years. He also became involved with the Guggenheims of Leadville, copper mining in Utah, and the American Smelting and Refining Company.
Educate yourself on the extraorindary history of DAVID M. HYMAN and Aspen, Colorado
with this lot of two historic items.
COLORADO ARTIFACTUAL
ROMANCE
