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PROSPECTUS OF THE KINDA MINING & MILLING COMPANY, 1904

Of Clear Creek County, Colorado.  George F. Crawford, President of Company.  Company owned two mining lodes on Bellevue Mountain, near Idaho Springs in the Pioneer Mining District.  Company expected to produce gold, silver, copper and lead from ore.  Prospectus dimensions: 10-1/2 inches by 8-1/2 inches; 16 pages.  Illustrated with photographs.  One page plan and profile of Kinda workings.  One page plat of the Kinda Lode, showing underground workings.  Near fine condition.     

                SOLD

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THE SHORT LINE BLUE BOOK, 1907

A Guide to Colorado.  Volume VIII, Number 4.  Published in Denver, Colorado, December 1907.  Issued monthly under the immediate supervision of the Traffic Department of The Colorado Springs and Cripple Creek District Railway.  Published by The Blue Book Company, Denver, Colorado, Union Depot by F. T. Hartman.  Original illustrated wrappers; 64 pages; illustrated with photographs.  Regional advertisements.  Includes Official Directory of the Colorado Springs and Cripple Creek District Railway, “The Short Line,” General Offices: Colorado Springs, Colorado.  General information: Altitude of Mountains; Altitude of Towns; Colorado, a delightful Autumn Resort; Colorado Springs as a Winter Resort; Colorado springs, Manitou and The Pike’s Peak Region; Denver; How to See Colorado; Official Directory, Midland Terminal Railway; Official Directory, Florence & Cripple Creek Railroad; and more.  Very good plus condition; interior pages clean and bright.                          

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Compiled and published by The El Paso Blue Print Company.  William Garstin, Civil and Mining Engineer, Colorado Springs, Colorado.  For Sale by Out West Printing and Stationery Company, Colorado Springs, Colorado.  Circa 1918.  Map dimensions: 23 inches by 19 inches.  With original printed stiff folder.  Condition: near fine.  Highly detailed lot, block, street, road and railway map.         

Price: $400.00                                                           

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Complete set in 12 parts, published by Art Photogravure Company, Oshkosh, Wisconsin, 1900.  Each part consists of a portfolio of photogravure images.  Dimensions: 10-3/4 inches by 13-7/8 inches.  First part has several pages of accompanying text; the remaining parts generally just have captions for each photogravure.  Average amount of pages per part: 10.  Photogravure images from all over the State of Colorado, eastern plains to western slope.  Tissue guards between each page.  Last page of each part is text relating the history of Colorado.  General condition of each published part: very good plus to near fine.  The first part has several tiny chips to the front cover; otherwise, interior pages are very bright, clean and fresh.  Other parts in near fine condition.   8 OCLC listings.  Wynar 8364.                        

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 ANNUAL STATEMENT: 1909 and Summary of Proceedings of The Municipal Council for January, 1910, City of Colorado Springs, Colorado

Compiled by Charles Chapman, City Clerk.  Gowdy-Simmons Print, Colorado Springs, Colorado.  H. F. Avery, Mayor, Colorado Springs.  Original tan cloth binding; 588 pages.  Various reports from: Department of Water and Water Works; Department of Finance; Department of Public Safety; Department of Public Works and Property; Department of Public Health and Sanitation; Report of Auditor; Report of Park Commissioners; Report of Building Inspector; Report of City Weighers; Report of Street Department; Report of City Electrician; Report of Chief of Police; Report of Fire Chief; plus others.  Very detailed account of the planning and operating of the City of Colorado Springs.  Near fine condition.  

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 THE LINN CONSOLIDATED MINING COMPANY, GEORGETOWN, COLORADO, 1902

Prospectus: Williamson-Haffner, Denver.  Original gold-printed green covers; 8 pages.  B. B. Brown, President of Company.  Photographs by George Dagleish.  Company owned 10 patented claims one-half mile from Georgetown on Republican Mountain and extending into Silver Gulch to Democrat Mountain; one of the claims was the Smith and Wesson Lode and another, the Mineral Chief Group.  Dimensions: 9 inches by 6 inches.  Near fine condition.  

SOLD

MINES, MINING, MILLING, CLEAR CREEK COUNTY, COLORADO, 1928

Promotional pamphlet: Gazette Printery, Idaho Springs, Colorado.  Original black-printed red wrappers; 32 pages; profusely illustrated.  Published by The Clear Creek Mining Journal, Inc., Idaho Springs, Colorado.  Subjects include: Introduction by the Clear Creek County Metal Mining Association; Mining Engineer Sees Big Future for the Metal Mines; A Story of Gold and a Mine; The Argo Tunnel Enterprise; Veins developed on Central Tunnel Level of the Big Five; Chicago Creek District; Dumont Mining District; Lawson, Colorado; Empire, Colorado; Georgetown; Silver Plume; The Pioneers of Colorado; Alice Mining District; Idaho Springs World’s Center for Production of Steel Galena and Manufacture of Radio Crystals by Courtney Ryley Cooper; Milling; and others.  Condition: very good plus; interior pages clean and bright.  Dimensions: 6 inches by 9 inches.  2 OCLC listings; Wynar 3474.

Price: $500.00   

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THE BLAIR – ATHOLL MINING & MILLING COMPANY, circa 1915

4 related copper mining items.  Location: 3 miles north of Glen Eyre, El Paso County, Colorado.  1)  Prospectus: printed, enamel-coated covers; 8 pages; 1-page map of Blair-Athol Mine and route to Colorado Springs; development, management, assays, copper, future plans.  Near fine condition.  Dimensions: 3-1/2 inches by 6-3/8 inches.  2) Stock ledger, manufactured by The Out West Printing and Stationery Co.  Near fine condition.  100 pages.  Dimensions: 11-1/2 inches by 9 inches.  Alphabetical list of stockholders, purchases, sales, dates, number of shares.  3) Stock certificate on The Blair Athol Mining & Milling Co., #76, issued November 5, 1914.  Issued/uncancelled, near fine condition.  4) Letterhead of Company, listing stockholders and stock certificate numbers.  Very good plus.   

SOLD

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 THE COLORADO SOUVENIR BOOK for the INTERNATIONAL CONGRESS ON TUBERCULOSIS, 1908

Edited by William N. Beggs, A. B., M. D.  Published by The Colorado State Organization of the International Congress on Tuberculosis, 1908.  Original printed blue wrappers bound in contemporary gold-printed blue cloth; 200 pages, illustrated.  Ex-library.  Examples of articles: Is Tuberculosis Influenced by Climate?; How Does Climate Influence Tuberculosis by Charles Dennison; What Consumptives Should Come to Colorado; Physicians in Colorado for Tuberculosis; Colorado and Asthma and Hay Fever; Colorado and Non-Tuberculosis Pulmonary Disorders; Colorado and Cardiac Affections; Nervous Disorders in Colorado; Colorado in September; Colorado as a State by Alva Adams; Colorado Schools; Scenic Colorado; Touring, Camping, Hunting and Fishing in Colorado; Industrial Colorado; Colorado Mountain Railroads and Highways; Agriculture in Colorado; The Sugar Industry in Colorado; Fruit Growing in Colorado; The University of Colorado; Mines and Mining in Colorado by Frank Hall; The Forests and Forest Conditions of Colorado; University of Denver; The Agnes Memorial Sanatorium; The National Jewish Hospital for Consumptives; The Jewish Consumptives Relief Society Sanatorium; The Evangelical Lutheran Sanatorium Consumptives; The Swedish American Sanatorium; Cragmor Sanatorium; Nordrach Ranch Sanatrorium; Modern Woodmen of America Sanatorium; and many more.  Plus maps.  Very good plus.            

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 BIRDS AND PLANTS of ROCKY MOUNTAIN NATIONAL PARK, with Keys for Their Identification, 1930

Pamphlet with original printed gray covers bound in green cloth with gold print on front cover; 71 pages; marbled endpapers.  Birds by Dean Babcock.  Plants by Ruth E. Ashton.  Privately published.  F. A. Huck, gold-embossed on front cloth cover, may have had this copy bound.  It appears he also made some corrections in this publication and listed the animals he saw while in Rocky Mountain National Park.  Condition: very good plus to near fine.  OCLC listings; Wynar 8676.  

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 THE LOOKOUT, from The Denver Public Library, January 1927

Volume One, Number One.  MUSIC IN DENVER AND COLORADO.  Malcolm G. Wyer, Editor.  Dr. Edwin J. Stringham, Musical Editor.  Denver, January 1927.  Original printed stiff gray wrappers; 162 pages.  Inscribed by Malcolm G. Wyer.  Included: letters from Frank Damrosch, Director, Institute of Musical Art, New York, 1859 – 1937, founder of this institute, which merged with Julliard in 1926, also chorus master of the Metropolitan Opera House; and, Rudolph Ganz, Swiss pianist, conductor and composer, 1877 – 1972 (Conductor of St. Louis Symphony Orchestra.  Contents: Development of Music in Denver and Colorado; Special Fields of Music; Notable Contributions, including Dr. Frank Damrosch, Years in Denver; Musical Institutions; Musical Organizations; Biographies; Colorado Composers; Bibliography.  Fine condition.