Canyon Creek Consolidated Gold Mines 1910 antique stock certificate – El Dorado

Description

Up for consideration is a Canyon Creek Consolidated Gold Mines stock certificate from 1910:
#71
Issued to W. R. Barstow for 100 shares on October 15, 1910
Signed by H. A. Gard as president and G. R. Stouffer as secretary
Incorporated in California
Capital stock of only ,000
Datelined Oakland, California
Uncancelled
Certificate in good condition
The Canyon Creek Consolidated Gold Mines had placer mining operations at their Canyon Creek mines (also called the Gold Bug mines) located about two miles north of Georgetown, California (El Dorado County), along Canyon Creek just north of Georgia Slide mine. This was mostly a secondary mining operation since accumulated hydraulic mine tailings, seam deposit detritus and some virgin gravel were intermittently worked by several different operators from around 1896 to 1934. The material was extracted by draglines and sent through a trommel (screen) and sluices to accumulate gold.