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Homestake Mining Co., 1897, I/C Stock Certificate Signed by Lloyd Tevis & J.B. Haggin

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Homestake Mining Co., 1897, I/C Stock Certificate Signed by Lloyd Tevis & J.B. Haggin
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Whitewood Mining District, Lawrence County, Dakota Territory, 1897. 40 Shares Capital Stock Issued and Cancelled Stock Certificate, Black printing on blue underprint with Indigenous people's watching train pass from mountain view, Stamp cancelled across face. Signed by J.B. Haggin, purchaser of shares, and Lloyd Tevis, as company president. James Ben Ali Haggin was an American attorney, rancher, investor, art collector, and a major owner and breeder in the sport of Thoroughbred horse racing. Haggin made a fortune in the aftermath of the California Gold Rush and was a multi-millionaire by 1880. Tevis was a banker and capitalist who served as president of Wells Fargo & Company from 1872 to 1892. Tevis made his most risky ventures when he went into gold, silver and copper mining on a large scale. He was owner or part-owner of gold and silver mines in California, Nevada, Utah, Idaho, and South Dakota. Tevis, Haggin and George Hearst, as Hearst, Haggin, Tevis and Co., owned the Homestake gold mine in the Black Hills and the Ontario silver mine in Utah, and Tevis, Haggin, Hearst and Marcus Daly owned the great Anaconda copper strike in Montana.