1890 CHOLLAR NORCROSS SAVAGE SHAFT VIRGINIA & GOLD HILL WATER CO DISBURSEMENTS

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Item Description:
FROM THE ESTATE OF A PALM SPRINGS, CA COLLECTOR OF WESTERN GOLD and SILVER RUSH MEMORABILIA THIS IS A NOVEMBER 1890 STATEMENT OF DISBURSEMENTS from A C HAMILTON, SUPERINTENDANT for the CHOLLAR-NORCROSS-SAVAGE SHAFT in the vicinity of VIRGINIA CITY, NEVADA site of the fabled SILVER MINES of the COMSTOCK LODE.
Lists costs of LABOR PAY ROLL and WATER from the VIRGINIA AND GOLD HILL WATER CO with PROPORTIONAL COSTS for CHOLLAR, POTOSI, SAVAGE and HALE & NORCROSS  MINING COS.
HISTORY:
The physical proximity of Savage and Hale & Norcross led to a common history, and although they maintained separate corporate identities, they experienced the same problems and successes. Both were supervised by James G. Fair in the 1870s and R. P. Keating in the 1880s. The companies exchanged material and personnel and in 1875 cooperated with the Potosi and Chollar mining companies to sink the Chollar-Norcross-Savage Shaft. In the 1890s when the Brunswick Lode was discovered, the Savage and Hale & Norcross joined forces with Gould & Curry, Best & Belcher, Consolidated California & Virginia, Chollar, and Potosi to dig the shaft.
MEASURES 16 1/2" x 18" fully open; folds neatly to 3 1/2" x 8 1/2"
EXCELLENT CONDITION WITH ORIGINAL FOLDS
GUARANTEED RARE ORIGINAL WESTERN GOLD & SILVER MINING ERA EPHEMERA-NOT A COPY