Original company ledger. Oblong folio (17 x 14 inches). 14 templated leaves with manuscript notations for all ore sold in each month of these years. At the bottom of each page the clerk has computed the average ore price per tom. Original post binding of half calf over corduroy with burgundy morocco gilt lettering label. Very good.Pasted to the inner front cover is a financial summary for the mine ending in 1922. The Vindicator Mine, located near the former town site of Independence in Teller County, Colorado, was the fourth highest producer in the historic Cripple Creek & Victor Mining District. The Vindicator realized gold production of 1,244,000 troy ounces valued at more than $27,000,000. At its peak in 1910, up to 350 miners and 150 lessees worked this property. It was purchased by Bert Carlton's United Gold Mines Company in 1922. After his sudden death in 1931, Bert Carlton?s brother Leslie assumed management of the company, but Leslie, too, passed in 1938. Bert Carlton?s wife, Ethel, then took the reins. In 1935, the government raised the price of gold to $35 an ounce. This boosted production in the District and improved the Vindicator?s profits but the Vindicator shit its doors for good in 1958.

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Title: The Vindicator Consolidated Gold Mining Co. Ore Book. Vindicator Mine.
Publisher: The Vindicator Consolidated Gold Mining Co. 1935-39, [Independence, CO]
Publication Date: 1935

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