BUNKER HILL MINING & SMELTING Stock 1903. Gold Bar, Snohomish Co, WA Index Dist.

Description

Bunker Hill Mining and Smelting Company. “Mines Located near Index, Washington” printed beneath vignette. Stock issued February 3, 1903 at New York City. Incorporated in 1902 in the State of Maine.
Gold embossed company seal lower left. Certificate
No. 736
was issued to Wisner Martin for 400 shares of capital stock ( per share). Company capital was
,000,000
. Hand signed by company
president Charles G. Reiter
and cashier J. D. Campbell. Certificate is about 8” x 10.” Black print with green borders and underprint.
Vignettes with underground mining scene between state seals of Washington (left) and Maine (right).
The Bunker Hill Mining and Smelting Company owned mines at Gold Bar, Snohomish County, Washington within the Index Mining District. The mining town of Gold Bar is on the Skyomish River, which flows from the Cascade Mountains west through Index, Gold Bar, Startup, Sultan, and Monroe, and into Puget Sound at Everett. In the late 1800s, Gold Bar developed as a logging and mining camp, with steamboats traveling up the Skyomish River from Puget Sound as far east as Gold Bar, and the Great Northern Railroad crossing the Cascade Mountains. Throughout the 1890s, the primary businesses in the valley were logging, railroading, mining, and agriculture. Although its name came from small gold discoveries made in the area, Gold Bar's primary profits from mining would come from copper and arsenic.
By 1905 Gold Bar had become primarily a logging town, with telephone and telegraph service and good transportation links. The Gold Bar Lumber Company, Wallace Lumber and Manufacturing, and the Bunker Hill Mining and Smelting Company were the town's main industries. In 1906, the nearby community of Reiter was formed and named for Charles G. Reiter, president of the Bunker Hill Mining and Smelting Company.
Condition:  Very Fine+
, light folds, very minor creasing, no tears, light signs of wear/handling/toning (see photos),
uncancelled.
Printer:
Joseph H. Palmer, New York City.
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