Golden Fleece Mining and Milling Company (New York)
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The Golden Fleece Mining and Milling Company (New York), probably already founded in 1879, but incorporated on April 22, 1882 in Tompkins County, New York
, with a capital of $1,000,000, was a San Francisco Stock and Exchange traded mining company.
The company operated several mining sites, including at Deadwood
, after driving a three thousand foot tunnel, the Golden Fleece Tunnel
, and one mine near Georgetown
, Clear Creek County, Colorado
, The company reportedly also held some interests in gold mining in Cave Creek, Arizona
.
In September 1892, George W. Peirce
, the company's treasurer, bought the Golden Fleece Mine (Colorado)
for $50,000., During that year the company seems to have raised its capital basis to finance its expansion. Probably the new capital stock of $600,000 was organized under another company, which was incorporated in Iowa in 1893, under the same name of Golden Fleece Mining and Milling Company (Iowa)
.
After the death of Mr. Marsh, public concern was expressed on the prospects of the company. Excerpt of The Daily Democrat, August 9, 1884 reads:
The fate of the company is not known in detail, but very probably the interests and properties of the company were transferred to the Golden Fleece Mining and Milling Company (Iowa)
, which was incorporated 1893 under the laws of Iowa
. George W. Peirce was the secretary and treasurer of both companies.
, in Peavine Mining District, near Poeville, Nevada
, Washoe County. The company was listed at San Francisco Stock Exchange, on the Washoe Board list.
Today, this Nevada company is known in connection of legal proceedings against the Cable Consolidated Gold and Silver Mining Co. in relation to some mining claims. The results of this case, held before Supreme Court of the State of Nevada, are considered to be important for prevailing case law in mining in the United States.
Tompkins County, New York
Tompkins County is a county located in the U.S. state of New York, and comprises the whole of the Ithaca metropolitan area. As of the 2010 census, the population was 101,564. The county seat is Ithaca, and the county is home to Cornell University, Ithaca College and Tompkins Cortland Community...
, with a capital of $1,000,000, was a San Francisco Stock and Exchange traded mining company.
The company operated several mining sites, including at Deadwood
Deadwood, Placer County, California
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, after driving a three thousand foot tunnel, the Golden Fleece Tunnel
Golden Fleece Tunnel (California)
The Golden Fleece Tunnel, is a gold mining site in the Westville gold mining district in Placer County, California. The mine is located 2 miles northeast of the former mining town Westville, California, north to the Foresthill Divide Road. It has a tunnel and was operated successfully by the...
, and one mine near Georgetown
Georgetown, Colorado
The historic town of Georgetown is a Territorial Charter Municipality that is the county seat of Clear Creek County, Colorado, United States. The former silver mining camp along Clear Creek in the Front Range of the Rocky Mountains was established in 1859 during the Pike's Peak Gold Rush...
, Clear Creek County, Colorado
Clear Creek County, Colorado
Clear Creek County is one of the 64 counties of the state of Colorado of the United States. The county population was 9,322 at U.S. Census 2000. The county seat is Georgetown...
, The company reportedly also held some interests in gold mining in Cave Creek, Arizona
Cave Creek, Arizona
Cave Creek is a town in Maricopa County, Arizona in the United States. According to 2006 Census Bureau estimates, the population of the town was 4,951.-Geography:...
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In September 1892, George W. Peirce
George W. Peirce
George W. Peirce was secretary and treasurer of the Golden Fleece Mining and Milling Company , and the Golden Fleece Mining and Milling Company , since its incorporation until his death in a train collision on December 4, 1899....
, the company's treasurer, bought the Golden Fleece Mine (Colorado)
Golden Fleece Mine (Colorado)
The Golden Fleece Mine is a gold mining site in Hinsdale County, Colorado, south of Lake City. The mine is located half a mile west of the north end of Lake San Cristobal. By 1904 it had produced $1,400,000 in silver and gold ore. The mine operated intermittently until 1919...
for $50,000., During that year the company seems to have raised its capital basis to finance its expansion. Probably the new capital stock of $600,000 was organized under another company, which was incorporated in Iowa in 1893, under the same name of Golden Fleece Mining and Milling Company (Iowa)
Golden Fleece Mining and Milling Company (Iowa)
The Golden Fleece Mining and Milling Company , was a mining company and was incorporated on May 7, 1893 under the laws of the state of Iowa. It had an initial capital stock of $600,000, 600,000 shares, $1.00 each. The company was represented by its president Biddle Reeves and its secretary and...
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Management
- George W. PeirceGeorge W. PeirceGeorge W. Peirce was secretary and treasurer of the Golden Fleece Mining and Milling Company , and the Golden Fleece Mining and Milling Company , since its incorporation until his death in a train collision on December 4, 1899....
was secretary and treasurer of the company., George W. Peirce was also secretary of Golden Fleece Mining and Milling Company (Iowa)Golden Fleece Mining and Milling Company (Iowa)The Golden Fleece Mining and Milling Company , was a mining company and was incorporated on May 7, 1893 under the laws of the state of Iowa. It had an initial capital stock of $600,000, 600,000 shares, $1.00 each. The company was represented by its president Biddle Reeves and its secretary and...
, in 1893.
- John Owen Marsh, born March 21, 1829 in McLean, died on August 1, 1884, was chosen president of the Golden Fleece Mining and Milling Company since April 1884. But his fortune as president of the company did not last long. An excerpt of the Daily Democrat from August 4, 1884 reads:
ITHACA IN MOURNING. Death of the Well-Known Merchant, John O. Marsh:
…. Last April, Mr. Marsh became a member of the Golden Fleece Mining and Milling Company, and was at once elected its president. About four weeks ago, he started west on business connected with the affairs of the company, intending to be gone five or six weeks. He went first to Denver, Colorado, and after transacting some business there; continued his journey to Arizona Territory, where the property of the Golden Fleece Company is situated. It is supposed that he went first to Phoenix, Arizona Territory, and from there accompanied by Mr. S. F. Mack, the company's superintendent of mines, to Cave Creek, the location of the company's property. He then returned to Phoenix, having written one letter home meantime. Last Thursday, Mr. D. E. Marsh received a telegram from S. F. Mack, saying that Mr. Marsh was quite sick with fever but not considered dangerous, and that he was having good care. Another telegram the next day stated that the fever was typhoid, and the patient in a critical condition. Saturday morning a still more disheartening message was received, followed by another at three o'clock in the afternoon with the sad tidings that Mr. Marsh commenced sinking at ten o'clock last Friday night and died at midnight. …
- Henry Monell (born July 15, 1848 in Warwick (Bellvale), Orange County, N.Y.; died March 1922 in Boulder, Colorado, unmarried) was superintendent of the company, very probably until 1883 and was a good mineralogist and prospected from Alaska to Mexico. Henry Monell had two brothers, Ira and Peter B. Monell, the last resided in Montross, Colorado. Ira and Henry Monell, both unmarried, were residents of Sugar Loaf, Colorado. Mr. Monell played an important role in the development of the mining activities in Colorado.
- Thomas Blake Campbell (born January 8, 1854, at Fayetteville, N.Y., died August, 1928 in Huntington; married Eaura Frances Poole on February 23, 1881), was an architect, contractor and builder of the Memorial Chapel, Franklin Hall, Armory Hall, Morse Hall, Gymnasium Annex, Sibley College, and the Zeta PsiZeta PsiThe Zeta Psi Fraternity of North America was founded June 1, 1847 as a social college fraternity. The organization now comprises about fifty active chapters and twenty-five inactive chapters, encompassing roughly fifty thousand brothers, and is a founding member of the North-American...
and Alpha Delta PhiAlpha Delta PhiAlpha Delta Phi is a Greek-letter social college fraternity and the fourth-oldest continuous Greek-letter fraternity in the United States and Canada. Alpha Delta Phi was founded on October 29, 1832 by Samuel Eells at Hamilton College and includes former U.S. Presidents, Chief Justices of the U.S....
Chapter Houses, at Cornell University, was named to be a director of the company.
- Stephen F. Mack, superintendent of the Golden Fleece Mining Company., He probably held this position after the resignation of Mr. Morell.
After the death of Mr. Marsh, public concern was expressed on the prospects of the company. Excerpt of The Daily Democrat, August 9, 1884 reads:
BACK FROM ARIZONA. Mr. Mack Returns with Particulars of Mr. Marsh's Death:
Mr. Stephen Mack, superintendent of the Golden Fleece Mining Company, and who was with the late John O. Marsh, when that gentleman died, one week ago to-day, arrived in town last evening. This morning he was immediately besieged by a host of inquiring friends who were anxious to learn further details concerning the death of our lamented fellow citizen. A DEMOCRAT representative called upon Mr. Mack at his residence on Green Street, and learned the following facts from him. When Mr. Marsh arrived in Arizona he was much wearied by the long, tedious journey, and the slight symptoms of illness which he then displayed were attributed to this cause. His sickness, however, increased so long before it developed into typhoid fever, the details and sad result of which have already been published. It is not necessary to give the particulars of the long days and sleepless nights that preceded the termination of the sad affair; it is sufficient to say that Mr. Mack affirms the statement that everything within the power of skillful medical attention and careful nursing was done to relieve the sufferer. In regard to the remains of the deceased, Mr. Mack says that it will be impossible to remove them to Ithaca until cold weather, for the frontier village where Mr. Marsh died is utterly void of those improved undertaking appliances for the preservation of remains so common in the east rapidly that it was not. When asked as to the prospects of the mining company which he represented, and the stock of which is largely owned by Ithaca gentlemen, Mr. Mack did not feel at liberty to talk upon that subject, although he said that he felt satisfied that they had a good claim. Mr. Mack left Arizona Sunday morning.
The fate of the company is not known in detail, but very probably the interests and properties of the company were transferred to the Golden Fleece Mining and Milling Company (Iowa)
Golden Fleece Mining and Milling Company (Iowa)
The Golden Fleece Mining and Milling Company , was a mining company and was incorporated on May 7, 1893 under the laws of the state of Iowa. It had an initial capital stock of $600,000, 600,000 shares, $1.00 each. The company was represented by its president Biddle Reeves and its secretary and...
, which was incorporated 1893 under the laws of Iowa
Iowa
Iowa is a state located in the Midwestern United States, an area often referred to as the "American Heartland". It derives its name from the Ioway people, one of the many American Indian tribes that occupied the state at the time of European exploration. Iowa was a part of the French colony of New...
. George W. Peirce was the secretary and treasurer of both companies.
Golden Fleece Gold & Silver Mining Company, Nevada
The company should not be confounded with the Golden Fleece Gold & Silver Mining Company, Nevada incorporated on February 2, 1875. The Golden Fleece Gold & Silver Mining Company held interest in gold and silver mining at Golden Fleece Mine (Nevada)Gold mining in Nevada
Gold mining in Nevada, a state of the United States, is a major industry, and one of the largest sources of gold in the world. Nevada currently mines 79% of all the gold in the United States, which is equivalent to in 2009. Total gold production from Nevada recorded from 1835 to 2008 totals ,...
, in Peavine Mining District, near Poeville, Nevada
Poeville, Nevada
Poeville, also known as Peavine until 1863, is the site of a historical mining town, established in 1864. John Poe, a professional promoter from Michigan allegedly related to Edgar Allan Poe, discovered rich gold and silver veins in 1862 on the slopes of Peavine Mountain...
, Washoe County. The company was listed at San Francisco Stock Exchange, on the Washoe Board list.
Today, this Nevada company is known in connection of legal proceedings against the Cable Consolidated Gold and Silver Mining Co. in relation to some mining claims. The results of this case, held before Supreme Court of the State of Nevada, are considered to be important for prevailing case law in mining in the United States.