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TELLURIDE AMES SAN MIGUEL COUNTY COLORADO GOLD KING MINING & MILLING CO 1888
TELLURIDE AMES SAN MIGUEL COUNTY COLORADO GOLD KING MINING & MILLING CO 1888

TELLURIDE AMES SAN MIGUEL COUNTY COLORADO GOLD KING MINING & MILLING CO 1888

$ 396

Availability: 19 in stock
  • Historical personality: L. L. Nunn
  • Historical Significance: First mine in San Miguel County powered by an hydroelectric plant
  • Mining stock certificate: GOLD KING MINING & MILLING COMPANY, Ames, Colorado, 1888
  • Date Issued: 1888
  • Type: Stock
  • Condition: Condition: very good to very good plus; several small spots of light staining, mostly on back with a shade of bleed-through to front; usual two folds; issued/not cancelled.
  • Circulated/Uncirculated: Circulated
  • Country/Region of Manufacture: United States
  • Modified Item: No

    Description

    THE GOLD - KING
    MINING & MILLING
    COMPANY
    Issued on gold mine near
    Ames, San Miguel County, COLORADO
    Stock certificate #409
    Issued December 29, 1888
    Not cancelled
    THIS IS ONE OF THOSE DOCUMENTS
    THAT DOES HAVE HISTORICAL
    SIGNIFICANCE!!!!
    It represents,
    "Pioneer Work in High-Tension Electric
    Power Transmission,"
    as detailed in an article
    by P. N. Nunn
    in
    CASSIER'S MAGAZINE
    Volume XXVI, January 1905, No. 3.
    This excellent article, with photographic
    illustrations, exhibits how L. L. Nunn
    employed the novel use of hydroelectric
    power to significantly improve the
    processing of the gold ore extracted
    from the Gold-King, near Ames, and
    above Telluride, San Miguel County,
    Colorado.
    COLORADO ARTIFACTUAL