UPPER SAN MIGUEL GOLD & SILVER MINING COMPANY mining stock certificate 1882
UPPER SAN MIGUEL GOLD & SILVER MINING COMPANY mining stock certificate 1882

UPPER SAN MIGUEL GOLD & SILVER MINING COMPANY mining stock certificate 1882

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THE UPPER SAN MIGUEL GOLD & SILVER MINING COMPANY, mining stock certificate #639; issued 1882.  Telluride Mining District, San Miguel County, Colorado.

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THE UPPER SAN MIGUEL GOLD & SILVER MINING COMPANY, mining stock certificate #639
Issued April 7, 1882; not cancelled
Issued to James T. Phillips.  Signed by A. T. Nichols, as president.  John B. Corliss, as secretary
Company owned: 16 claims on Bear Creek, three to four miles south of Telluride, Upper San Miguel District; located in 1878; veins were all fissures from 1/2 to 5 feet in width, containing gold-bearing quartz
Owned stamp mill built by Fraser & Chalmers, Chicago
Telluride, San Miguel County, Colorado

REFERENCE: 1883 Colorado Mining Directory, Page 734

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