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Post by herosrest on Sept 7, 2009 13:36:14 GMT -6
PoLo - The MINT with a hole in it. ;D 30 TONS OF SILVER BULLION. Wealth that rebuilt the United States.James Putnam Kimball, Pennsylvania - Director of the United States Mint - July 1885 – October 1889. A soldier-doctor of our army, James P. Kimball, late colonel and assistant surgeon-general, U.S. Army-
"In all respects Dr. Kimball has been faithful, upright, and conscientious, discharging all his duties with
signal ability and beloved by those with whom he has served. . . .
www.archive.org/details/soldierdoctorofo00kimbrich
American geologist and explorer who made the first recorded discovery and scientific exploration of a glacier.
He discovered what is today Grasshopper Glacier in Custer National Park.
A.L.S. "J.P. Kimball" on Lehigh University letterhead, 2pp., [n.d.], docketed Nov. 1877 on verso,
to U.S. Senator William A. Wallace requesting a recent Senatorial document on silver currency
and congratulating Wallace on his recent election.
 
THE YELLOWSTONE EXPEDITION - Survey of proposed route of the Northern Pacific Rail road -
Chief medical officer under General Terry and General Stanley - Indian fights -
General (Lieutenant-Colonel) Custer Journal.
A SOLDIER-DOCTOR - Chief Surgeon of the Indian campaign under General Custer,
1876 At Fort Lincoln, after the battle of the Big Horn
This is what it was all about - Clark's Forke - Cooke City - the mother lode...... of SILVER.
Wealth that rebuilt the United States. The Generals who fought and won the CW
became cynical, hard-nosed Sob's doing it but truly, loved their country.
They found the means to kick start her economy against all odds.
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Post by herosrest on Sept 7, 2009 14:18:07 GMT -6
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Post by AZ Ranger on Sept 8, 2009 21:05:04 GMT -6
"The story of the Horn Silver Mine, one of the great producers in Utah and American mining history, reads like pulp fiction: Two prospectors casually discover a rich ore body, a bankrupt financier promotes the venture, the boomtown of Frisco becomes one of the wildest mining camps in the West with a murder or two every evening, a tough lawman who shoots on sight begins to clean up the town, after producing millions the huge mine collapses, and Frisco becomes another ghost town.
It all started in September 1875 when prospectors James Ryan and Samuel Hawkes, who were working a galena mine in the San Francisco Mining District of Beaver County, tested a huge outcropping they passed each day. They found a solid ore body and immediately staked a claim to it. The two men decided to sell the claim rather than work it, fearing perhaps that the ore body was not as large as it appeared. By the late 1870s the new owners had extracted 25,000 tons of ore with a high silver content. The town of Frisco had sprouted up near the mine, some 17 miles west of Milford. But developing a mine in that remote area, some 175 miles from the nearest railhead, required more financial muscle than was locally available.
Enter Jay Cooke, the financial genius who had come up with the idea of selling federal bonds to pay for the Civil War. In 1870 he was reportedly the richest man in America and the nation's leading banker. By 1873 he was broke. The Franco-Prussian War and the Panic of 1873 had dealt a fatal blow to his promotion of bonds to construct the Northern Pacific Railroad. Even his mansion near Philadelphia had been taken by creditors. Cooke had never been interested in mining investments, but a friend convinced him to take a look at the Horn Silver Mine in far-off Utah. Following a complicated series of events "Cooke induced the owners to bond the property to him in consideration of his promise to give them railroad connections." Cooke did not have a dime to put into the venture, but he still had his genius for organizing and promoting. He was able to convince the mine owners and the LDS church to each provide a quarter of the capital needed. The remaining half was guaranteed by Wall Street financier Jay Gould. Within a few years Cooke was again rich, selling his shares in the Horn for an estimated $1 million. Exit Jay Cooke.
By 1879 the United States Annual Mining Review and Stock Ledger was calling the Horn "unquestionably the richest silver mine in the world now being worked." Frisco fairly buzzed with activity. Two smelters processed ore from the mine, and the company had developed a number of other needed facilities, including charcoal kilns, an iron reflux mine, a telegraph line to Beaver, and several stores in Frisco. Still, smelting on site was difficult and expensive due to the scarcity of fuel, water, and iron ore. With the completion of the Utah Southern Railroad Extension to Frisco on June 23, 1880, ore could be shipped to the Francklyn smelter near Murray, Utah, for processing. During its peak years some 150 tons of ore a day were sent to the Salt Lake Valley for smelting. By 1885 the Horn had produced more than $13 million and paid its shareholders $4 million in dividends. Some of its ore averaged 70 to 200 ounces of silver per ton."
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Post by AZ Ranger on Sept 8, 2009 21:52:52 GMT -6
The Sitting Bull mine had a smelter that weighed 30 Tons.
30 T x 2000 lb/ T x 16 ounces/lb = 960,000 ounces
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Post by wolfgang911 on Sept 9, 2009 14:42:48 GMT -6
sorry az where is that the SB mine?
named before or after his death?
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Post by AZ Ranger on Sept 9, 2009 23:13:56 GMT -6
"Originally located in September, 1876. Two companies, the Sitting Bull (Sitting Bull and Tiger Tail claims) and Richmond (Silver Terra, Fraction and Surplus Claims) owned adjoining properties. By 1883, the Sitting Bull company had mined into Richmond company property and litigation ensued. A bench trial was agreed upon by both parties (to reduce the risk of bribery and jury tampering) and lasted 56 days, calling 95 witnesses. Sitting Bull claimed the right to follow the ore under the Apex Law, but the court found in favor of the Richmond company under the Blanket Formation rule. The Sitting Bull company was liquidated and the Richmond obtained its properties. Mining continued until mid 1891 when ore depletion and low silver prices forced closure"
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Post by herosrest on Feb 18, 2016 12:21:09 GMT -6
DucemusIT MAY BE NECESSARY TO DIG HIM UP, AND SHOOT HIM (by execution).
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Post by herosrest on Feb 18, 2016 12:45:35 GMT -6
"Originally located in September, 1876. Two companies, the Sitting Bull (Sitting Bull and Tiger Tail claims) and Richmond (Silver Terra, Fraction and Surplus Claims) owned adjoining properties. By 1883, the Sitting Bull company had mined into Richmond company property and litigation ensued. A bench trial was agreed upon by both parties (to reduce the risk of bribery and jury tampering) and lasted 56 days, calling 95 witnesses. Sitting Bull claimed the right to follow the ore under the Apex Law, but the court found in favor of the Richmond company under the Blanket Formation rule. The Sitting Bull company was liquidated and the Richmond obtained its properties. Mining continued until mid 1891 when ore depletion and low silver prices forced closure" |
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Post by tubman13 on Feb 18, 2016 17:20:16 GMT -6
HR,
You need to rename this thread APO stands for Army & Air Force Post office!
FPO Stands for Fleet Post office!
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