Nov 21, 2024 - Sale 2687

Sale 2687 - Lot 233

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(WEST--COLORADO.) Group of 5 untraced silver-mining promotionals from the Emporia and Mt. Princeton / Dido / Cornucopia Mining Co. 12, 14, 14, 18 pages, including a full-page frontispiece cut of Mount Princeton, 12mo in original wrappers; plus 3-page unbound leaflet (8¼ x 5½ inches) on one folding sheet. Various places, 1881-1887
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This company's mines were located on the slopes of 14,204-foot Mount Princeton in Chaffee County, CO. We find scant mention of the original company in contemporary newspapers beyond a brief notice of its formation in the Emporia (Kansas) Daily News on 27 July 1881, noting that " the property purchased by this company is adjoining the Dandy [Mine] and bids fair to rival it." Its name changed twice by merger. We trace no other examples of any of these pamphlets, or any other material relating to the initial company, in OCLC or at auction.

"Articles of Incorporation and By-Laws of the Emporia and Mt. Princeton Consolidated Mining Company." Moderate wear including chip on top edge; minor wear to contents. Emporia, KS: Rowland Brothers, 1881.

"Prospectus, Articles of Incorporation and By-Laws of the Dido Silver Mining Company, Incorporated as the Emporia and Mount Princeton Consolidated Mining Co." Includes a map of the company's six claims; minor wear. Fort Scott, KS: Fort Scott Herald, 1882.

"Prospectus, Articles of Incorporation and By-Laws of the Cornucopia Silver Mining Company." Minimal wear. St. Louis, MO: Hailman Brothers, 1882.

"The Articles of Incorporation and By-Laws of the Cornucopia Silver Mining Company." With map of the company's eight claims; minimal wear. Philadelphia: J.M. Goldy & Son, March 1886.

[Thomas Burrows.] Printed circular letter to the stockholders headed "The Cornucopia Silver Mining Company." Buena Vista, CO, 14 January 1887.