Pitkin Mountain Boy Mining stock certificate c1903 (Colorado) 

CO silver mines.  Fantastic triple vignette of miners to the left and right with a center scene of milling operations next to a river. Unissued and not cancelled. Circa 1903 from state records. Measuring approximately 11 x 8 inches. 

Incorporated circa 1903, the Pitkin Mountain Boy Mining operated near Pitkin Colorado late in the area silver era, pulling low grade ore but lasted until 1927 according to Colorado Bureau of Mines records.

Pitkin, Colorado, started as Quartzville in 1878, becoming the first mining town west of the Continental Divide, booming with silver and gold in the 1880s, boasting over 1,000 people and 30+ mines before quickly declining due to plays-out, fires, epidemics, and the Silver Panic of 1893.

The town, which is situated on an alpine meadow one mile long and one quarter mile wide, was incorporated on August 11, 1879, when it was renamed Pitkin after Governor Frederick W. Pitkin.

Though a revival in the 1930s (timber, fish hatchery) offered temporary relief, Pitkin shrank to under 100 year-round residents, remaining a historic, rustic town today, with remnants of its rich mining past visible in its preserved buildings and nearby sites like the Alpine Tunnel.

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