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MINING PAGE FOUR

 

MINING PROSPECTUSES, ANNUAL REPORTS, AND STATEMENTS

 

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REPORT OF THE QUARTZ HILL GOLD MINING COMPANY*

 

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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

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Plate II: Map of the Central Gold Region of Colorado, Lith. of L. Prang & Co., Boston

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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"

 

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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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Please view our other Mining web pages:

Mining

Mining Page Two

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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