CRIPPLE CREEK PAGE 2
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PROGRAM OF TRANS-MISSISSIPPI COMMERCIAL
CONGRESS
CRIPPLE CREEK, COLORADO, JULY 16 - 19, 1901
Published by The Official Souvenir Publishing Company under
the direction of The Local Executive Committee
in cooperation with The Midland Terminal Railway
1901
Photographic covers
72 pages
8-1/2 by 11 inches
The Publisher's Press Room Company,
Denver, Colorado
Also, in conjunction with the Cripple Creek Evening Star,
Victor Daily Record, Victor Daily Times, and Cripple Creek Daily Press
Excellent descriptive and pictorial of the Cripple Creek Gold
Mining District
Very good condition
Price: $500.00
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GOLD RUSH DE LUXE
The Early Cripple Creek Gold Boom
and The Future of Gold
by Sam L. Cohen
of the New York City Bar
Privately published, 1940
Bar Press Inc.
Original brown cloth binding with gold print on front cover
131 pages
Inscribed by Cohen on front fly leaf
Condition: very good; front cover lightly faded
Sam Cohen supported Joseph Lesher, of Victor, Colorado, and
his Referendum Dollar, minted for pro-silver businesses in the Cripple Creek
Gold Mining District
Price: $450.00
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THE
PORTLAND: COLORADO'S RICHEST GOLD MINE, by Joe Vanderwalker and Brian
Levine. Syzygy Gold Mining Company, Victor, Colorado, 1989. One of 150 hardback, dust-jacketed copies. Photography by Joe
Vanderwalker.
Text by Brian Levine. Book signed by Brian Levine. Book is in its
original black cloth binding with gold-embossing on cover; 64 pages.
Included with this copy is an original Portland Gold Mining Company check,
issued 1924, and signed by Thomas F. Burns and Irving Howbert. Also,
original PORTLAND GOLD MINING COMPANY stock certificate tipped in, issued 1895,
cancelled, signed by James F. Burns, as president; and, James Doyle, secretary. Condition:
fine; strong, tight spine; bright, fresh, clean pages. Price:
$750.00
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THE PORTLAND GOLD MINING COMPANY
Issued 1895, cancelled, light folds, very light bit of staining
on left border. Condition: very good. Signed by the discoverers of
this highly significant Cripple Creek mining property: James F. Burns, as
president; and, James Doyle, as secretary. The most important issue on
this 3-million ounce gold producer. James Burns continued to live in
wealth after the discovery of this property, and died in 1917. James Doyle
lost his fortune, attempted to regain wealth and status through a variety of
mining ventures, but died in 1954 in modest circumstances. W.S. Stratton
and Verner Z. Reed, also owners of the Portland, died wealthy men. Price:
$500.00
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Cripple
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Cripple
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Cripple
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Cripple
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