Cascade Mining Company stock certificate c1877 (Colorado - New York)

Clear Creek County CO silver mining certificate. Fantastic double vignette of an artist's scene in interpretation of the New York state seal and, at the bottom right, a representative scene of the Colorado state seal with native American female leaning. Nice imprint to the right of the company name for the location of the silver mine (Near Georgetown Colorado). Unissued and not cancelled.  Circa 1877 from issued examples and corporate records. Dated 18__. Approximately 11 x 6 inches.

In 1876, a Cascade Mining Company prospectus 1876 was distributed in New York City to raise funds through temporary stock certificate issuance. The focus silver mining in Clear Creek County, Colorado. J. Warren Brown (see below) led the fund raising. With enough seed money, the company was incorporated in 1877 when full stock ownership was offered in exchange for initial shares and then to other open market investors.

J. Warren Brown was born in Kennebeck, Maine around 1832. Raised in New York, Brown lived in New York City. In 1874, Brown, the Lebanon Mining Company investors and other investors in New York City organized the Consolidated Republican Mountain Mining Company. It was later known as the Republican Mountain Mining Company. After 1877, Brown also managed the Cascade Mining Company, the Clear Creek Mining and Improvement Company, and the Dunderberg Mining Company.

Georgetown is the territorial charter municipality that is the county seat of Clear Creek County, Colorado, United States. The former silver mining camp along Clear Creek in the Front Range of the Rocky Mountains was established in 1859 during the Pike's Peak Gold Rush. The town was a historic center of the mining industry in Colorado during the late 19th century, earning the nickname the "Silver Queen of Colorado".

Silver, the main product from the district, was not discovered until 1864. In the fall of 1867 discussions began about the formation of a town. On January 28, 1868, the Territorial Legislature passed a law incorporating the Town of Georgetown. A few months later it wrested the county seat from nearby Idaho Springs. The town experienced its greatest growth and prosperity during the Colorado silver boom of the 1880s when it rivaled Leadville to the west as the mining capital of Colorado. At one time, before the collapse of the silver boom in 1893, the town population exceeded 10,000, and a movement arose briefly among local citizens to move the state capital there from Denver.

Following the collapse of the Silver Boom, the town population dwindled. In the 1950s the town began to experience a small renaissance as an après-ski watering hole for the thousands of skiers who passed through the town on their way down from the mountains at the ski areas near Loveland Pass and Guanella Pass.

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