Up for consideration is The Vulcan Gold and Silver Mining Co. stock certificate from 1880:

 

#31

Issued to Shalor W. Eldridge for 100 shares on June 17, 1880

Signed by Lewis Jones as president and Meredith L. Jones as secretary

Incorporated in New York

Capital stock of $300,000

Datelined New York

Uncancelled

Certificate in very good condition

Black print on vellum paper

 

The Vulcan Gold and Silver Mining Company owned mines near Ouray, Colorado (Ouray County) within the Ouray Mining District (also called the Mt. Sneffles District), San Juan Mountains (see attached photo of Ouray ca. 1890 with the Beaumont Hotel behind a stage coach). The company owned the Vulcan Lode, within an area of about 300 x 1,500 feet, situated on the south slope of Potosi Mountain, about 6 miles southwest of Ouray. The lode was patented ion 1879 by Vulcan Gold and Silver, and was a quartzite vein of gold and silver-bearing ore from eight to twelve feet wide. The Vulcan Lode was developed by one tunnel about 100 feet long, with one 15-foot crosscut.