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Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: Mai Belle?Feb. 1, 1878; capital, $6,000,000; shares, 60,000. Wm. M. Stewart (President), Win. F. Herrin, Wm. B. Carr, H. I. Thornton, R. C. Hooter, and Geo. C. Gorham, Jr. (Secretary). R. J. McPhee, Superintendent. Concobdia?Feb. 4, 1878; capital, $6,000,000; shares, 60,000. Wm. M. Stewart (President), Frank Taglibue, F. K. Bechtel, Win. F. Herrln, Qeo. C. Gorham, Jr. (Secretary). Noonday?March 6, 1878; capital, $6,000,000; shares, 60,000. Wm. M. Stewart (President), Wm. B. Carr, F. K. Bechtel, F. Taglibue, Wm. F. Herrin, and Geo. C. Gorham, Jr. tSecretary). Bookeb?Capital, $10,000,000; shares, 100,000. John Neate, F. Hor- ner, H. Williams, S. M. Booker, and J. P. Fous. Note.?The accompanying map is partly from actual surveys, and partly approximate in its locations of claims, etc. New companies will be formed, new locations made, and changes of names will take place, but a large number are established. [The Tioga Consolidated, for instance, is a claim created, since the map was engraved, out of certain ground hereinafter described.] Daily changes are taking place, of course, in the measurements of shafts, drifts, etc., but the general extent and character of work done is sufficiently set forth to render the publication valuable for ready reference. DETAILED DESCRIPTION OF MINES. The Standard. The many changes of fortune and ownership of the old Bunker-Hill-Bullion property have been already outlined; hence, the description herewith will be confined to details of workings under the present proprietorship. In 1874, the ground became the property of Louis Lockberg and Peter Eshiugton?two Scandinavians. Owing to the loose manner in which the work had been timbered, a cave took placp, exposing a rich chamber of ore. During two seasons subsequently, the proprietors...
