[Scripophily] Oro Fino Gold & Silver Mining Company California $1,000.00 Bond--1865

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Oro Fino Gold & Silver Mining Company California $1,000.00 Bond--1865

17 7/8 x 15 5/8 inches. Missing coupon 1 in lower right-hand corner. Printed on thin onion paper. Several small areas of acid burns from ink pen. Previously folded. Verso is blank. Very good condition.

$1,000 7% Bond payable in Gold or Silver. Printer-Ferd Mayer & Co. Lithographers-NY. Has 8 out of 9 coupons. Oro Fino Gold & Silver Mining Company California. Inyo County.  Bond No. 81.

Chrysopolis Mining District. Incorporated in California. Signed by Wm. S. Corwin president and Miles Hadson secretary. Vignette at top center of a variation of the California State Seal with mining and forest scene surrounding. Vignettes at each edge. Ornate black border.

Green underprint. Blue 50 cent revenue attached at lower left corner. "...situated in Tulare County, State of California, consisting of the Oro Fino, Mammoth, Knickerbocker and Chrysopolis lodes and two cross lodes situated near Owen's River in the Inyo Mining District, Tulare County, State of California, and seven hundred acres of land situated in said mining district, also the Town Site of Chrysopolis, in the immediate vicinity of said lodes..." printed within the text on the bond. Chrysopolis is listed under Aberdeen in California's Geographic Names (Durham, p.1143). "A mining camp called Chrysopolis flourished briefly in the 1860's on the east side of the Owens River south of Aberdeen. Postal authorities established Chrysopolis post office in 1866 and discontinued in 1867."