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Click on the following web pages for more offerings: Bassick Mine, Querida, Custer County, Colorado Colorado Mining Stock Certificates Colorado Territory Mining Stock Certificates Cripple Creek Mining Directories Cripple Creek, Colorado mining stock certificates Custeriana, General George Armstrong Custer Denver and Rio Grande Railroad Gunnison County, Colorado, including Crested Butte Southwestern American Archaeology U.S. Military in the Old American West
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"In an age when information is everything, don't expect facts to be free."
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THE MINES OF COLORADO By Ovando J. Hollister (Late editor and proprietor, Colorado Mining Journal) Springfield, Mass.: Samuel Bowles & Company, 1867) First edition of this scarce Colorado mining publication; in original brown cloth; gold print on spine; 450 pages; with all advertisements. Plus, the very hard to find map:
Map of Colorado Territory, to accompany Hollister's MINES OF COLORADO, 1866 Book is in near fine condition, with some light wear to head and toe of spine; spine is strong and tight; pages are clean, bright. Map is in near fine to fine condition; folded; some conservation reinforcement on back.
Map has been removed from front of back, with no loss of paper, and is stored separately to protect it from damage.
Excellent detail on mining in the Colorado Territory, which specifics on mines and mining companies in Gilpin, Clear Creek, Boulder, Park, Lake, and Summit counties. Also, history of the first gold rush to the Territory, mining and milling processes, development and conditions of the mines.
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MINES AND MINING MEN OF COLORADO
John G. Canfield
Original leather binding; 118 pages; numerous illustrations; 26 x 36 cm. Very good condition; spine delicate; however, all pages are clean and bright.
This book was a promotional for many of the Colorado mining districts producing gold or silver during the late 1880s and early 1890s. These include: Leadville, Lake County, Colorado
Russell Gulch, Central City District, Gilpin County, Colorado
Aspen Silver Mining District, Pitkin County, Colorado
Cowenhoven Tunnel
Bushwhacker Mine
Smuggler Mine
Mollie Gibson Mine
Breckenridge, Summit County, Colorado
Creede, Mineral County, Colorado
Lake City, Hinsdale County, Colorado
Sunnyside Mine, San Miguel County, Colorado
Telluride, San Miguel County, Colorado
Silverton, San Juan County, Colorado
Cripple Creek, El Paso (Teller) County, Colorado
Caribou, Boulder County, Colorado
Black Hawk, Gilpin County, Colorado
Superb classic book of Colorado mining during some of its most productive years.
Price: $2,500.00
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GENERAL CATALOG NO. 150, HENDRIE & BOLTHOFF MFG. AND SUPPLY CO. Machinery and Equipment of All Kinds. General Automotive, Electrical and Radio Supplies, Builders' Hardware. The Bowen Publishing Co., 1939, Denver, Colorado. Original embossed blue cloth binding with gold embossing; 959 pages. Extraordinary detail and illustrations -- halftone photographs and steel-engravings. Condition: very good plus; binding strong and tight; pages bright and clean.
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(Cripple Creek, Colorado) THE OFFICIAL MANUAL OF THE CRIPPLE CREEK DISTRICT, COLORADO, U.S.A., published by Fred Hills, E.M., Colorado Springs, Colorado, 1900, first edition. Book is in its original red cloth binding with gold embossing on cover and spine; 495 pages. Enamel-coated pages; maps and halftone illustrations. This book was originally intended to be the ultimate in stock broker's handbooks, providing details of several hundred operating and producing mines and mining companies in the Cripple Creek Gold Mining District. T.A. Rickard, State Geologist of Colorado, wrote an article, "The Cripple Creek District: Its Past and Future," for the book; as well as George Rex Buckman, "Cripple Creek from the Standpoint of Statistics." Articles are accompanied by illustrations. Nearly all of the mining companies have details such as organization, capitalization, property, development, officers, and so on, along with a plat of mining claims. The book was originally published with a fold-out map of the Cripple Creek District, by Fred Hills, and copyrighted 1900. This copy is missing the original map; however, another original map -- published for William A. Otis & Company -- accompanies this volume. The Otis map, published in May 1896, is five-color, larger than the original Hills' map -- 23 inches wide by 34 inches in length -- and more detailed (showing mining claims, towns, railroads, topography, etc.). Condition of book: very good, with some binding reinforcement; light soiling; some sunning to spine; bumped corners and a bit of cloth fraying. Condition of map: good plus to very good; damp-staining in upper left-hand area of map; weakness in spots; fraying along edges. Book stated to be Volume 1; however, Hills did not publish another volume. Hills did, though, publish a small stock broker's handbook in 1902. Included with this book is a document signed by Fred Hills. Price: $2,500.00
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(Winchell, B.L.) COLORADO'S GOLD: Under the Crust. Turn the Soil and You Will Find All the Riches that are Needed by Man. Secrets of the Earth Exposed for the Benefit of the Human Race. The Golden Era Now Bursting on the United States. Fact and Legends of the Mountains Woven in Narrative by the Passenger Department of the Gulf Road and The South Park Line, Denver, Colorado, 1896. Publication is in its original illustration and embossed covers; 128 pages, plus Map of Colorado; square-bound. Profusely illustrated with halftones and drawings. Map at back of publication: Colorado, tributary to the lines of the U.P., Denver & Gulf (The Gulf Road) and Denver, Leadville & Gunnison Rys. (The South Park Line). Pages are enamel-coated, bright and clean. Front cover has signs of aging, with some very light soiling and several chips. Spine is strong and tight; however, has been, in the past, reinforced by cloth. Overall condition: very good. Book covers gold and silver mining all over the state of Colorado, including, Cripple Creek, Aspen, Telluride, Georgetown, Breckenridge, Central City, Leadville, Gold Hill, and many, many more districts. Price: $350.00
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(Cripple Creek, Colorado) THE VINDICATOR CONSOLIDATED GOLD MINING COMPANY, Annual Report, 1914. Mines in Cripple Creek District. Adolph J. Zang, president of company. Report is in its original tan wrappers, brown printing; 11 pages. Several half-tone illustrations. Joint report of the President and the Vice-President and General manager. Production and dividend charts. Mill Flow sheet. Report of Superintendent. Engineer's, Secretary and Treasurer reports. Some writing on pages, contemporary with publication. Overall condition: very good plus. Report on one of Cripple Creek's most productive mines. $450.00
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