Golden Fleece Mining and Milling Company (New York)
The Golden Fleece Mining and Milling Company (New York) was a mining company formed around 1879 and officially incorporated on April 22, 1882 in Tompkins County, New York, with a capital of $1,000,000. It was traded on the San Francisco stock market. The company ran several mining sites, including the Golden Fleece Tunnel in Deadwood, Placer County, California (a 3,000-foot tunnel) and a mine near Georgetown in Clear Creek County, Colorado. It also had interests in Cave Creek, Arizona.
In September 1892, George W. Peirce, the company’s treasurer, bought the Colorado Golden Fleece Mine for $50,000. That year the company appears to have expanded by raising capital. A new stock issue of $600,000 seems to have been organized under a separate company incorporated in Iowa in 1893, still under the name Golden Fleece Mining and Milling Company (Iowa).
John O. Marsh, a Ithaca merchant, became president of the company in April (previous year) and died in 1884 while traveling in the West for the company, in Cave Creek, Arizona. His death caused concern about the company’s prospects, but it seems the Iowa company later took over the interests.
George W. Peirce served as secretary and treasurer for both the New York and Iowa Golden Fleece companies.
This New York company should not be confused with the Golden Fleece Gold & Silver Mining Company of Nevada, founded in 1875. The Nevada company owned the Golden Fleece Mine near Poeville in Washoe County and was involved in notable mining-law litigation with Cable Consolidated Gold and Silver Mining Co. The case is significant in U.S. mining law.
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