MINING PAGE FOUR
MINING PROSPECTUSES, ANNUAL REPORTS, AND
STATEMENTS
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REPORT OF THE QUARTZ HILL GOLD MINING
COMPANY*
NEVADA DISTRICT, COLORADO TERRITORY
With a Copy of the By-Laws
New York: John W. Amerman, Printer, No. 47 Cedar Street, 1863
Original printed tan wrappers; 15 pages; 4 separately inserted
plates
"The Quartz Hill Gold Mining
Company own the next 90 feet (Burroughs Lode), upon which is a shaft something
more than 200 feet deep, well timbered, having two bucket ways, and a fair
ore-vein in the bottom. Thirty or forty feet above the bottom of the shaft
a level has been run the whole length of the mine and the back mostly taken out,
paying in stamp mill, $35 a ton, average three feet of crevice crushed.
The hoisting is done by whim. The Company have a compact 12-stamp, steam
mill in the gulch near the mill, which commenced running in December 1964, and
did well, producing in three months 480 ounces of gold. It was
subsequently stopped together with work on the mine, because the whole situation
was on too small a scale to work to advantage. The Company are understood
to have since acquired other valuable mining property in the vicinity, which
will enable them to enlarge their operations. They own a tunnel site
pretty well up in the gulch, and have driven the tunnel 150 feet. It was
cross six lodes in course of 900 feet, the last at a considerable depth.
A. Mansur of Nevada is the agent." Hollister, MINES OF COLORADO,
1867, pages 171 - 172.
Plate I: Route to the Colorado Gold Region, Lith. of L. Prang
& Co., Boston
Plate II: Map of the Central Gold Region of Colorado, Lith. of
L. Prang & Co., Boston
Plate III: Map of Mountain Ranges from Central City to Nevada
City, Showing Property of the Quartz Hill Gold Mining Comp'y, L. Prang &
Co., Boston
Plate IV: Profile Section of Nevada Gold Hill, showing the
Tunnel of the Quartz Hill Gold Mining Co. and the Viens (sic) intersected by it,
L. Prang & Co., Boston
[Louis Prang
(1824-1909) was one of the most prolific and influential print publishers of the
19th-century. His Boston-based firm specialized in chromolithography, a
technique of printing multi-color lithographs that eliminated the need for
labor- and time- intensive hand-coloring. Prang emigrated to the
United States
from
Germany
in 1850 and soon established a commercial lithographic company in
Boston
. He became the best known printer of popular chromolithography in
America
, producing maps, cards, books, and artistic prints. His output ranged
from reproductions of paintings and maps to album cards, business cards and
greeting cards, and he is credited with being the first publisher of Christmas
cards. These publications feature typically Victorian subjects such as flora and
fauna, animals, angels and cupids, and children.]
Report contents: Property of the Quartz Hill Gold Mining
Company; Title to the Property; Character of the Ore; Buildings, Machiner,
&c.; Old Method of Working; Improvements in Machinery; Assay of Professor
Kent; General Remarks; Working the Mine. Also, By-Laws.
Condition: very good plus; some light chipping around edges of
covers; 2 ex-library stamps
Dimensions: 5-7/8" by 9-1/4"
THE QUARTZ HILL GOLD MINING COMPANY,
issued 1864, uncancelled (certificate is NOT cropped; rather, it is too large
for scanner base)
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Significant books related to these mining Colorado Territorial
publications:
HISTORY OF CLEAR CREEK AND BOULDER VALLEYS, COLORADO,
Containing a brief History of the State of Colorado from its earliest settlement
to the present time, embracing its geological, physical and climatic features;
its agricultural, stockgrowing, railroad and mining interests; an account of the
Ute trouble; a History of Gilpin, Clear Creek, Boulder and Jefferson Counties;
and Biographical Sketches, Illustrated. Chicago: O.L. Baskin &
Co., Historical Publishers, 1880; 713 pages.
ECONOMIC GEOLOGY OF GILPIN COUNTY AND ADJACENT PARTS OF
CLEAR CREEK AND BOULDER COUNTIES, COLORADO, by Edson S. Bastin and James M.
Hill, Washington: Government Printing Office, 1917; United States Geological
Survey, Professional Paper 94.
A TRIP TO PIKE'S PEAK AND NOTES BY THE WAY, with Numerous
Illustrations, Being Descriptive of Incidents and Accidents that attended the
Pilgrimage; Of the Country through Kansas and Nebraska; Operations, etc., by
C.M. Clark, M.D. Chicago: S.P. Rounds' Steam Book and Job Printing House,
1861; 134 pages, plus errata sheet.
THE GOLD MINES OF GILPIN COUNTY, COLORADO: Historical,
Descriptive and Statistical, by Samuel Cushman and J.P. Waterman, Central
City: Register Steam Printing House, 1876; 137 pages.
THE MINES OF COLORADO, by Ovando J. Hollister,
Springfield, Mass.: Samuel Bowles & Company, 1867; 450 pages,
(advertisements: front [7]; back [31])
A MINE TO MAKE A MINE: Financing the Colorado Mining
Industry, 1859 - 1902, by Joseph E. King, Texas A&M University Press:
College Station and London, 1977; 209 pages
THE ROCKY MOUNTAIN DIRECTORY AND COLORADO GAZETTEER, FOR
1871, comprising a brief history of Colorado, and a condensed but comprehensive
account of her Mining, Agricultural, Commerical and Manufacturing Interests,
Climatology, Inhabitants, Advantages and Industries, together with a complete
and accurate Directory of Denver, Golden City, Black Hawk, Central City, Nevada,
Idaho, Georgetown, Boulder, Greeley, Colorado City, Pueblo, Trinidad, etc.;
S.S. Wallihan & Company, compilers and publishers, Denver, 1871; 500 pages.
COLORADO, IN THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA: Schedule of Ores
contributed by sundry person to the Paris Universal Exposition of 1867, with
some Information about the Region and Its Resources, by J.P. Whitney,
printed by Cassell, Petter, and Galpin, London, 1867; 61 pages.
SILVER MINING REGIONS OF COLORADO, with Some Account of the
Different Processes now being Introduced for Working the Gold Ores of that
Territory, by J.P. Whitney, New York: D. Van Nostrad, 1865; 107 pages.
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* Special Note on Provenance:
All of the prospectuses, annual
reports, and statements in this group were officially de-acquisitioned by the
University of Wisconsin in 1962. They were purchased in single group at a
library sale and have remained together as a single group in two previous
collections before proper acquisition by Mt. Gothic Tomes and
Reliquary.
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Mining Page Three
Mining Page Four -
Mining Prospectuses, Annual Reports, and Statements - Colorado Territory
Mining Page Five
- Mining Prospectuses, Annual Reports, and Statements - California,
Nevada, Dakota
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