San Domingo Gold Mining Company 1904 antique stock certificate - California

Description

Up for consideration is a San Domingo Gold Mining Company stock certificate from 1904:
#227
Issued to Mrs. A. E. Colton for 16 shares on December 13, 1904
Signed by H. P. Goodman as vice president and H. P. Veeder as secretary
Incorporated in California
Capital stock of ,000,000
Printer: Britton & Rey, San Francisco
Datelined San Francisco, California
Uncancelled
Certificate in good condition
Attractive vignette of hydraulic mining operation
The San Domingo Gold Mining Company owned hydraulic placer gold mining operations at Murphys, California (Calaveras County) near the former mining camp of Altaville. The company acquired a large group of gravel mining claims and built a 15-mile canal to supply three hydraulic mines, using high-pressure hoses and jets to wash river gravel down hillsides and through sluice boxes to recover gold.