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[Donner Party & Mining]: Assorted California Ephemera....
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[Donner Party & Mining]: Assorted California Ephemera. 1) 1874 check drawn on Donohoe, Kelly & Co. Bankers of San Francisco. 2) Graphic 9" x 4" certificate from the Hale and Norcross Mining Company verifying that W. C. Ralston is entitled to 100 shares in the company, dated 1913. 3) 11" x 7" graphic stock certificate dated September 19, 1885 for one hundred shares in the Moulton Mining Company. 4) 10.25" x 6.25" graphic stock certificate dated July 7, 1898 for twenty shares in the Homestake Mining Company. 5) January 8, 1853 legal document from San Francisco regarding assets in a bankruptcy proceeding or lawsuit. 6) November 1, 1866 manuscript announcing a shareholder's meeting of the San Jose Sand Company. Addressed to James F. Reed, one of the survivors of the ill-fated Donner Party. Sold with transmittal envelope. 7) August 30, 1869 deed transferring land in Truckee, Nevada from Charles Crocker to G. W. Harrison (nearly detached at fold). 8) December 26, 1859 receipt for tools from Huntington & Hopkins of Sacramento (applicable to railroad or mining operations). 9) 8.25" x 10.25" ALS on bifolium lined paper, San Francisco, December 4, 1857, from C. Welsh to J. W. Denver, Commission of Indian Affairs in Washington, D.C. The letter has great content, talking about politics, the Mormon War and shenanigans of John C. Fremont vis-a-vis mining claims. Some excerpts: "... it was not until the large grant holders like Fremont undertook to throw the honest miners from their claims that the people, both in the mines & out of them, began to study their rights and no one thing gives them more pleasure than when they say Denver went to Congress to represent us & Herbert to make money... I see by the papers that the army is likely to be concentrated here if there is the serious Mormon War..." He goes on to relate some personal misfortunes, including losing vast sums of money in the Hide & Tallow business, the loss of a child and a sick wife. "...in course of time our Merced Mine will pay if ever we can get clean of the Fremont Palmer litigation but when that will be nobody knows." From the Estate of Robert (Bobby) Palazzo, Westlake Village, Ca.Auction Info
2020 September 14 - 15 Americana & Political Signature Auction - Dallas #6221 (go to Auction Home page)
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September, 2020
14th-15th
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