Cripple Creek Mining Stock Certificates, Cripple Creek Gold Mining District, Verner Z. Reed, Mt. Gothic Tomes and Reliquary

Inscription to W.S. Stratton, Cripple Creek's most enigmatic gold baron by Verner Z. Reed in his book, TALES OF THE SUN-LAND.

This book was dedicated to Mary Dean Reed, wife of the author. This original 1st edition includes a document issued to Verner Z. Reed, but signed by his wife, Mary Dean Reed, on the reverse, after Verner Reed's death.

This book is in very good plus condition, with marbled endpapers, and all original L. Maynard Dixon illustrations. (The book offered here is different from the one signed and inscribed by the author to W.S. Stratton.)

Oliver H. Shoup served as secretary in the Reed Investment Company. Shoup continued as a business partner with Verner Z. Reed through his various enterprises, including real estate, Cripple Creek mining, Colorado Springs and Denver banking, as well as Salt Creek oil. Oliver Shoup was elected Governor of Colorado in 1918 and served two terms.

New York: John Lane Company; London: John Lane - The Bodley Head; Toronto: Bell & Cockburn, 1913, first edition

Original gold printed green cloth binding; 178 pages, complete with 9 illustrations

Condition: very good; some edgewear; bumped corners; occasional light soiling

Ernest P. Marsh and Verner Z. Reed served as labor mediators for President Woodrow Wilson and his special PRESIDENT'S MEDIATION COMMISSION*, 1917 - 1918.

*[The President's Mediation Commission represented a partial federal response to two aspects of wartime labor policy: 1) the spreading wave of strikes which interfered with the production of goods deemed vital to the war effort; and, 2) the growth of labor radicalism associated with the Industrial Workers of the World (IWW), which precipitated widespread state and local repression of labor's rights. On the urging of A.F. of L. President Samuel Gompers and of Secretary of Labor William B. Wilson, the Commission was appointed by President Woodrow Wilson on September 19, 1917. The Commission consisted of two representatives of management, two labor officials and Chairman William Wilson. Most important in establishing the guidelines on which the Commission operated was Felix Frankfurter, appointed as Commission secretary. These included the promotion of A.F. of L.-style trade unions and industrial democracy and the elimination of "subversive" IWW locals. Among the areas investigated by the Commission were the copper mining areas of Arizona and Montana, the lumber industry of the Pacific Northwest, telephone operators in San Francisco and packinghouse workers in Chicago. The Commission's findings were subsequently published as a special bulletin by the Dept. of Labor.]