1865 Yellow Jacket Silver Mine Receipt for Silver Bullion.

The receipt is printed and filled out in manuscript. It is made out to Superintendent J. B. Winters of the Yellow Jacket Silver Mining Company and is for 253 1/2 pounds of silver bullion to be deposited at the Bank of California. It was contained in three packages from the Morgan Mill of the Company. The receipt measures 12 1/4 x 7 1/4 inches and is signed by Assayer Conrad Wiegand. Fresh and attractive.A bullion receipt from one of the big six silver mines of Gold Hill, Nevada, that comprised the fabled Comstock Lode and at the height of the bonanza. The Yellow Jacket Mine was the most productive of all the mines on Gold Hill. The Yellow Jacket Mine on the southern end of the Comstock near the Virginia City border accounted for one fifth of the total output: $2.4 million for 20 percent of the total on the Surveyor-General?s list versus $2.3 million or 18 percent on Smith?s list. There was a disastrous fire in 1869 at the Mine in which 39 miners lost their lives.Adolph Sutro used this tragedy to gain support for his tunnel.…