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Information about Cooper's Ravine

From: J.H.W.
Emai1: jandtetal@yahoo.com
Date: 14 Jul 2002
Time: 18:37:54

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I have to very old stock certificates that I have given to my stock broker friend to identify their value. I recently heard that his company had researchers looking into it and they had run into a dead end. I had contacted Sotheby's and they recommended to contact in New York a company that specializes in older stocks or obselete stocks. The company is R.M. Smythe. I've done some research on my own by visiting libraries and trying to find a certain volume of Marvyn Scudder Manual of Extinct or Obsolete Companies. I also contacted the Bureau of Land Mines for the state of California and located the mine's location but still don't know much about if it was a very profitable area. I know that on my stock certificates it lists Mormon Island and a stamp of Eldorado County. I do know from my own research that Mormon Island was a very lucrative area to mine but still would like to know more history or if anyone has heard of this particular mining company called Cooper's Ravine Gold, Silver, and Copper Mining Company. If the certificates are worthless they are of historical value and they were tucked inside the lining of an old trunk that my grandmother was given. She went to replace the lining and they fell out. It sounds like a made up story, but I don know that things of value were often sewn into the linings of trunks. I have tickets to the Antiques Roadshow that is visiting the K.C. area this month and I am taking them along. I don't know if any experts will be there in scripophily but it is worth a chance before making copies to send to New York for the Smythe Company to examine. Any information is of interest to me and my family. Thank you! P.S. I do know that the area is around the Folsom area but it isn't under water as one might think. The Bureau of Land confirmed this to me in their land description. J.H.W. at jandtetal@yahoo.com