1890s-Era Mammoth Gold Mining Stock Certificate

Mining Stock From The Heyday Of Montana’s Gold Boom

In the 1890s, mining was big business. BIG business!

Across the American West, prospectors armed with pickaxes, shovels, and visions of finding that one big strike were going it alone or being put to work by newly-formed companies digging up the earth in search of precious metals. One company doing the digging was the Mammoth Gold Mining Company of Deer Lodge, Montana. Formed in 1890 by a group of Chicago investors who acquired the rights to the Mammoth Lode, the Mammoth Gold Mining Company in its heyday regularly employed 50 miners and helped spawn the town of nearby Coloma.

Money-Making Stock Sales

As business boomed for the company in the ’90s, Mammoth managers began thinking about how they could make even more money by selling stock in the operation. As plans progressed, they created, but never distributed, this beautiful 300,000-shares stock certificate. The front features an intricate design and a central image of a miner holding a pickaxe. The back depicts several U.S. silver coins, including an 1890 Morgan Silver Dollar

Step Back In Time To A Golden Era

This is your chance to step back in time to that era when vibrant cities seemingly popped up overnight. The aforementioned Coloma flourished in the 1890s thanks to the help of the Mammoth Gold Mining Company. By 1895, the company had constructed a boardinghouse, a company store, and a blacksmith shop in Coloma. There was also a general store, saloons, a meat market, a first-class restaurant, and a post office. By the end of the decade, however, Mammoth began having financial trouble due to milling errors and mismanagement of funds. As Mammoth’s mining activities declined, Coloma dwindled in size and by the 1950s it had become a ghost town.

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