Certificate: Shares of the Capital Stock, shares of $1.00 each
Dated: 1910 - Territory of Arizona - United States
Signature: hand signed
Measure: 11" x 8.3"
Edition: -
Category: Mining & Oil
Condition: VF+
Mount Whipple Mining Company
Mount Whipple MC‘s office was located in Needles, San Bernardino County, California, and its property near Empire Flats, on the Colorado River, near the junction of the Bill Williams Fork River The property consisted of 10 claims, developed by a 1000 ft tunnel from which small shipments or ore had been made, assaying up to
15% copper, with materially larger gold values. (Copper Handbook, 1908, p. 1000; 1910-1911,p. 1242,) Mount Whipple Mining Company was listed as dead in Vol. XI of the Copper Handbook. (Holabird)
San Bernardino County: Copper Basin. Mining in Copper Basin is what sparked interest in the Whipple Mountains during this century. The Copper Bain Mining Company in October, 1906, had a 65 foot shaft on its property, and was reportedly opening the Black Metal Mine.
At least two other companies were working nearby during 1904: the Mount Whipple Gold Mining Company, adjoining the Copper Basin Mine, and the Colorado River Gold and Copper Company. These three companies, along with the White Eagle Mining Company, consolidated their interests and formed a company to build a seventy-five-ton smelter on the Colorado. lt is not known ifthis smelter was in fact constructed, but a 1927 map shows a structure labeled the California Gold and Copper Mining Company on he river just south of Copper Basin.
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