Category: States & Countries
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Charles Pletz, Assayer
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Read more: Charles Pletz, AssayerWallapai Mining District, Cerbat Mountain, Mohave County, Arizona Very little is recorded of Charles Pletz beyond a few bare notices in Arizona’s Weekly Miner newspaper of the mid-1870s (all of which were provided to Mr. Ford by the Sharlot Hall Historical Society). The paper’s issue of May 14, 1875 notes Pletz as superintendent of the…
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A. P. Molitor, Assayer
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Read more: A. P. Molitor, AssayerAGOSTHON P. MOLITORSTEPHEN F. MOLITORSan Francisco, California, San Diego, California, Deadwood, Dakota Territory Agosthon Molitor began his work as an assayer in California in 1851 in partnership with fellow Hungarians Samuel Wass and Charles Uznay in the firm of Wass, Molitor and Company, one of the most important private coinage ventures in the west. He…
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Abadie & Arnolds, Assayers
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Read more: Abadie & Arnolds, AssayersIn 1881, Leadville was well into is biggest boom period. Placer gold had been discovered in California Gulch in about 1859, and by 1860 placer mining was booming. Lead-silver ores were later discovered, and the newly created United States Geologic Survey sent Samuel Emmons to Leadville in 1881-1882 to unravel the geology, which was subsequently…
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Trade Dollar Mining & Milling Co
Read more: Trade Dollar Mining & Milling CoTrade Dollar Mining & Milling Co. First Mill Product, 1892Made by R.B. Euler, assayer, Silver City, Idaho (By Fred N. Holabird, c 2011)The Trade Dollar Mining and Milling Company Mining at Silver City took off with the explosive news and subsequent production of the rich ores in the Poorman Mine in 1865-6. Miners continued to…
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Mary Thompson Hunt
Read more: Mary Thompson HuntThe President Rutherford B. Hayes Silver Ingot – The Hayes party The Presidential Procession had started in Wells on the Central Pacific Railroad just after the train crossed into Nevada from Utah, stopped at Humboldt where Nevada Governor Kincaid boarded the train, then on to Reno for another celebration and transfer to the Virginia &…
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Belcher Mine
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Read more: Belcher Mine2.62 oz Belcher Mine, Comstock Lode, Virginia City, 1876. Face Value: $4.34 This ingot is from the Belcher Mine, an exhibition ingot used at the Philadelphia Centennial Exposition, in which Nevada played an important role. It is the only such marked ingot surviving today, with the possible exception of uncataloged ingots in institutional collections.Nevada began…
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Ophir Mine
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Read more: Ophir MineThis ingot pair came from an estate in the Eastern United States, uncovered this year. We had originally planned on separating the pair, but after research, find the two are inseparable, clearly owned and collected by the same person, George F. Ford. The story of Ford involves his work with important mines on the Comstock,…
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Leopold Kuh, Assayer
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Read more: Leopold Kuh, Assayer1856-1860Leopold Kuh. Resides at Green betw. Kearny and Dupont. Leopold Kuh works at the U.S. Mint. Colville’s San Francisco Directory for the YearCommencing October 1856 Kuh, Leopold. Clerk U.S. Branch Mint. Dwells atNE corner Green and Lafayette. Langley’s San Francisco Directory for the YearCommencing January 1, 1858 Kuh, Leopold & Fisher Henry I. Gold refinery.Taylor…
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Harvey Harris, Assayer
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Read more: Harvey Harris, AssayerIn October, 1855 the Sacramento Union ran an advertisement announcing the formation of a new assaying firm under the partnership of Harvey Harris, Desiré Marchand, and C. Farrington. Harris, a gentile who had come to America from his native Denmark, had formerly been an assayer in the NewOrleans and San Francisco Mints and before removing…