The Yellow Jacket Gold and Silver Mining Company

Date

1903

Location

Gold Hill, Nevada

Amount

$300

Signatures

  • Zadig and Co Trustees

Description

This stock certificate (No. 6167) represents 100 shares valued at $3 each for the Yellow Jacket Silver Mining Company. One of the deepest mines of the Comstock Lode, this mine in is where a fire started in a shaft at the 800ft level. Known as the “Gold Hill's Yellow Jacket Disaster," it was one of the worst fire incidents in U.S. mining history.

Notable Bond Imagery

In the upper left, a cloaked man rides a horse with hills, a river, and another horse behind him. Along the bottom of the certificate is some decay, perhaps as a result of the ink used. On the right, a purple stamp denotes cancellation. Four star-shaped cutouts line the bottom.

Certificate with black ink shows intricate borders, lettering, vignettes with men, horses, and a river, cancellation stamp & star-shaped cutouts
Back of certificate shows legal language including two signatures and a purple stamp showing dividends paid
Transcription 
						The Yellow Jacket Silver Mining Company stock certificate reads:
Incorporated under the Laws of Nevada 
State of Nevada
The Yellow Jacket Silver Mining Co.
Gold Hill Mining Dist., Gold Hill, Nev.
Number 6167 | 100 Shares
Capital Stock, $360.000. | 120,000 Shares | $3 Each.
Feb 18 1903

This Certifies, that Zadig and Co. Trustees is entitled to One Hundred Shares of the Capital Stock of The Yellow Jacket Silver Mining Company. Transferable on the books of the Company, by endorsement hereon and surrender of this Certificate.

Signed by the Transfer Secretary Illegible
Signed by the Vice President Illegible
Cancelled Dec.7  1908

The back of this stock certificate has two signatures, one is Illegible, the other belongs to Shaw and Douglass. Another purple stamp is on this side, showing when dividends were paid.
The Stamp reads, “Assessment No. 14, Paid Apr. 30 1908, Signed by the Transfer Secretary Illegible”

Accession No:

2017.002.078