[California Mining]:

$950 · Offered by William Reese Company · No longer available

THE QUICKSILVER MINING COMPANY. CHARTER AND BY-LAWS. PROCEEDINGS OF THE ANNUAL MEETING OF THE STOCKHOLDERS, HELD AT PHILADELPHIA, FEBRUARY 22, 1865. Prospectus for the Quicksilver Mining Company, owners of the New Almaden and other mercury mines in the Santa Cruz Mountain Range of San Jose, California. In addition to the company charter and by-laws, the prospectus contains the proceedings of the annual meeting of the stockholders, which includes the report of the vice president, the statement of the treasurer, the report of the engineer, production statistics for the mine, and a report on litigation involving the "rights and interest of the Company, resulting in an undisputed possession of the lands upon which the New Almaden and other quicksilver mines are located." The folding map illustrates the 3360-acre span in Rancho Los Capitancillos where the company's mines were located, and which was the subject of the litigation. The appendix of the report provides the would-be investor with a full report and survey of the mercury mines in Rancho Los Capitancillos, a geologic study of the mines, a full chemical description of the cinnabar found in them, and a description of how cinnabar is mined and sublimated into mercury. The New Almaden mine was one of the first quicksilver mines in California, and long reigned as one of the most productive in the world. The mine was initially "discovered" in the 1820s by Mexican settler Antonio Sunol, and in 1845, Mexican Army officer Andres Ca

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