record mining claims made silver (1 Ergebnisse)

Zustand: Good. Folio. Nine leaves consisting of 8 manuscript pages and one cover sheet with docket title: "Certified Extract from the County Mining Records of the Title of the Adolphus Lode, 1871". Light toning and some short tears at the page edges, small splits at margin edges of a few old horizontal folds, bottom margin of page one is chipped with loss of one final line of manuscript text, else very good overall with an early metal fastener at the top edge. A contemporary true manuscript copy of multiple mining claims recorded in 1863, 1866, 1867, and 1870: made respectively by various small groups of individuals under four evolving corporate names: "Live Yankee," "Honest John Lode & Company," "Confidence Gold & Silver Mining Co.," and the "Adolphus Gold and Silver Mining Co." The document also records at least one associated Deed and Indenture, and was certified as a "true copy" in 1870. Founded by Scandinavian miners as "Kongsberg" in 1858, Silver Mountain City was a boom mining town that served as the seat of Alpine County from 1864 to 1875. In 1878 news of a silver strike in Bodie emptied the town of most residents, and Silver City turned into a ghost town. A scarce surviving manuscript containing significant historical information about several of the town's residents during the gilded silver age of Alpine County.