Name
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ELA HELEAN GOLD MINING CO
Country
United States
Location
Cripple Creek, Co
Capital Stock
$ 1.000.000
Shares each
$ 1
Description
The Ela Helean Gold Mining company was and early Cripple Creek mining company. Cripple Creek became Colorado’s second largest town in 1891 after Bob Womack’s big gold strike. The site, at the time, had 150 digs and was the state’s last placer mining bonanza.
Little history is left of the company. Famous Madam Pearl DeVere, of Cripple Creek, is mentioned, in “Settlers of the American West: The Lives of 231 Notable Pioneers” by Mary Ellen Snodgrass, as a shareholder of the Ela HElean Gold Mining Company, for 1.000 shares.
The stock certificate is signed by stock broker/promoter F.H. Pettengill.
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