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Cripple Creek Stock Brokers Handbooks

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THE STANDARD HAND BOOK

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A New Book of Reference to the Mines and Mining Companies of Cripple Creek, and Other Mining Camps of Colorado, U.S.A.

Corrected to Date.  Compiled from the land Office Records, and Official reports of the Various Companies Mentioned herein.

By F.F. Horn and E.E. McMahan

Colorado Springs, Colorado; October 1899

William A. Otis & Co., Bankers and Brokers, Members Colorado Springs Mining Stock Association, Colorado Springs, Colorado

Original printed tan wrappers; 75 pages

Condition: near fine.

$950.00

 

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THE OFFICIAL MANUAL, CRIPPLE CREEK DISTRICT, COLORADO, U.S.A

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Fred Hills' "ultimate" stock broker's handbook

Published by Fred Hills, E.M.

Colorado Springs, Colorado; June 1900

 

Original red cloth binding with gold print on cover and spine; 495 pages

With original 25" x 28" "Map Showing the Surface Holdings of the Mining Companies of the Cripple Creek Mining District, Teller County, Colorado, compiled expressly for the Cripple Creek Manual, 1900."

Book in fine condition.  Map in fine condition.  With letter to A.E. Carlton, signed by Fred Hills.

This book contains the following:

The Cripple Creek District: Its Past and Future, written specifically for the OFFICIAL MANUAL, by T.A. Rickard, Denver, State Geologist of Colorado

Cripple Creek from the Standpoint of Statistics, by George Rex Buckman

Geological Map of the Cripple Creek Mining District

Plats, locations, development details, directorship, ore production and more on nearly 400 operating mining companies in the Cripple Creek District in 1900.

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CRIPPLE CREEK STANDARD HANDBOOK

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OF THE MINES AND MINING COMPANIES OF AMERICA'S GREATEST GOLD CAMP

And Other Mining Camps of Colorado, U.S.A.

Correct to Date.  Compiled from the Land Office Records and Official Reports of the various companies mentioned herein

By O.R. Salmans and J.M. Auld

Colorado Springs, Colorado, January 1901

Compliments of Lee A. Reynolds, Mining Stocks, Bonds and Investments, 300 Century Building, Denver, Colorado

Two-page Map of Cripple Creek District in center of publication

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Original illustrated tan wrappers; 96 pages; numerous plat maps of mining properties (approximately 40 plat map pages)

 

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Condition: very good

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CRIPPLE CREEK, COLORADO MINING BROADSIDE

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FRANK H. PETTINGELL

Mining Stock Broker

1901

Original advertising broadside.

Dimensions: 15-1/2" in height by 11-1/2" in width

Near fine condition; framed.

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THE RED BOOK

A Handbook of the Mines and Mining Companies of the Cripple Creek Mining District.

Second Edition, January 1902

Compiled from Official Reports by Edw. R. March, Colorado Springs, Colorado

Missing original red printed wrappers; 50 pages

Map of Cripple Creek District

Plats of entire Cripple Creek Mining District

(21 map pages similar to below covering entire mining district)

Dimensions: 9-1/4" by 11" (much larger than the typical broker's handbook)

Condition: good plus; original wrappers missing; title page and last page chipped, but no information missing; interior pages are in very good condition.

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