Tonopah Divide Mining Company

Date

1929

Location

Tonopah Gold Mountain Mining District, Nevada

Amount

$100

Signatures

  • E.B Patson
  • W.J. Douglass

Description

This stock certificate (No. 25921) represents 100 shares valued at $1.00 each for the Tonopah Divide Mining Company. After acquiring much debt, Wingfield and other owners re-established the Gold Mountain Mine as the Tonopah Divide Mine, selling some of the former land to satisfy their debts.

Notable Bond Imagery

In the top center is a vignette of a mine, where several large buildings surround a towering pump or drill. Several people stand in front, some working, some supervising. Directly under is the company’s seal, reading “ Nevada Tonopah Divide Mining Company Incorporated 1912.” On the left side is a purple stamp that reads, “Registered at Tonopah, Nevada Mar. 8 1929” and is signed by the Tonopah Banking Corporation Registrar.” This stamp also has another stamp on top of it that says “Canceled.”

Certificate with black and orange ink shows intricate borders, lettering, signatures, a company seal, cancel stamps, and a vignette of miners
Backside shows various legal language including signatures and dates and cancel stamps punched out
Transcription 
						The Tonopah Divide Mining Company stock certificate reads: 
Capital Stock $2.500.000.
2,500,000 Shares | Shares $1.00 each
Incorporated under the Laws of Nevada, June 3, 1912
Number 25921 | Shares 100
Principal Office Tonopah, Nevada | Location of Mine. Tonopah - Gold Mountain Mining District
Fully Paid - Non - Assessable
Tonopah Divide Mining Company
This Certifies that Dominick & Dominick Feb 18, 1933 is the owner of one hundred Shares of the Capital Stock of the Tonopah Divide Mining Company Transferable only on the books of the Corporation by the surrender of this Certificate properly endorsed.
	In Witness Whereof, the said Corporation has caused this Certificate to be signed by its duly authorized officers and to be sealed with the Seal of the Corporation this March 8 - 1929.
Signed by the Secretary and Resident Agent E. B Patson
Signed by the 2nd Vice President W. J. Douglass

The back of this document states:
	For value received, ___ hereby sell, assign and transfer unto ______ Shares of the Capital Stock represented by the within Certificate, and do hereby irrevocably constitute and appoint ____ to transfer the said stock on the Books of the within named Corporation with full power of substitution in the premises.
Dated Mar 14 1929
Signed (illegible)
In Presence of C. W. Kickeila

Notice. The signature of this assignment must correspond with the name as written upon the face of this certificate in every particular, without alteration or enlargement, or any change whatever.
Revenue Stamps See Certificate No, 1755

Accession No:

2017.002.018