WINONA GOLD-COPPER MINING MILLING Stock 1910 Park Co, WY Sunlight Basin Absaroka

Description

The Winona Gold-Copper Mining and Milling Company. Stock issued July 11, 1910 at Denver, Colorado. Incorporated in 1903 in the State of Wyoming
. Gold embossed company seal lower left. Certificate
No. 3341
was issued to
Dr. William Steven for 1,000 shares
of capital stock ( per share). Company capital was
,000,000
. Hand signed by company
president L. Cavnah
and secretary. Certificate is about 7.5” x 11.” Black print with gold borders.
The Winona Gold-Copper Mining and Milling Company owned mines in the Sunlight district of Park County, Wyoming (north of Cody, Wyoming). Mines were within Sunlight Basin, east of the Absaroka Range and Yellowstone National Park. A 1911 plat map of the Winona Gold-Copper mining Company mining claims in the Sunlight district shows the company owned the following claims: Greenhorn, Deacon Fraction, Allegana, Little Annie, Lookout, Zack, Badger, Mohawk, Malachite, Granite Mountain, Copper Queen, Copper King, Butte, and Copperopolis claims.
In a 1907 letter from Wyoming’s state geologist Henry C. Beeler to the president of the Winona Gold and Copper Mining and Milling Company, L. Cavnah, describing the geology and mountainous terrain in the area around what would become the Winona mines:
“
Sulphur Creek heads to a point south and South East of Stinkingwater peak in a great amphitheater formed by the lesser ranges. [It is] connected with the main peak and the whole, forming a narrow valley with the high mountains rising abruptly on either side to a height of 1500 feet above the creek and with steep slopes showing an angle of 40 degrees in some places. Dykes of many varieties of rocks, and varying in size from thin stringers to huge intrusions many hundreds of feet in thickness and veins of quarts and lime material are frequently noted, and many of these are heavily mineralized. Copper being the principal mineral with gold and silver.”
The rights to mining claims were purchased by Winona Gold and Copper later that year and by 1910 they utilized the creek to build a steam and electric plant. Eventually there would be 10 wooden buildings constructed in the area by the company along with 1,032 feet of tunnels to access fissure veins and extract copper. A smelter was also erected on the premises. Building of a narrow gauge railroad to transport ores was planned but never completed.
The Sunlight mining region (originally named Telluride, and was never a formal mining district) was active in the late 19th and early 20th centuries. The first claim was filed by John Painter in September of 1890. An early mining camp, Lee City, was founded on Sunlight Creek about two miles upstream of its confluence with Sulphur Creek. Eventually 1,111 claims were filed in the district, with 38% filed between 1890 and 1910. Most of the prospecting occurred within the six-year period 1903-1908.
Condition:  Very Fine
++
, light folds, very minor creasing, no tears, light signs of wear/handling/toning (see photos),
uncancelled.
Printer:
W. H. Kistler Stationery Co., Denver, Colorado.
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