The Gold Fields Of Nome, Alaska

WILLEY, GEORGE FRANKLYN [FISCAL AGENT FOR THE CORSON GOLD MINING COMPANY OF ALASKA]

Publication: The Rumford Press, 1902, Concord

First Edition. 9 3/4" x 6 3/4" in yellows wrappers, printed in red and black. 16pp. Illustrations. Offers information on the officers and directors; organization of the company; management; stockholders of the Corson Gold Mining Company; the properties of the company; discovery of Cape Nome Gold Fields; climate; Eureka Creek; Anvil Creek; Dry Creek; Skookum Bench; the Kugruk District; etc. Illustrations include five portraits and five views (two full-page) of gold-mining operations. Also includes a two-page typed letter on the stationery of George Franklyn Willey, Fiscal Agent for The Corson Gold Mining Company, 36 Merrimack Street, Manchester, New Hampshire. Datelined June, 1902, enclosing the prospectus described above, in part: "...the stock of the Corson Company advances to 40c. a share on July 1, and to one dollar a share a little later, and will be withdrawn from the market entirely at an early date....Our first shipment of laborers and supplies is now at Nome....the Alaska gold field is only in its infancy...exceeds all previous years and is double the estimated output...." On the verso of letters are the names of some 80 people who had invested in the Company. John W. Corson of Seattle was President of the Corson Gold Mining Company. In 1902, the "United States Investor" reported that Corson had 50 placer mining claims on 20 acres, and that Corson was alleged to have several years experience mining in Alaska and had been in Nome since gold was discovered there. In 1912, the Mining & Engineering Record reported: "The Corson Gold Mining Company was formed in 1901, and in 1902 this company did considerable development work, the holes proving rich surface gravels, but failing to reach the pay streak. The company went out of business in 1903." Light soiling to wrappers, crease to bottom corner of wrappers and pages along with vertical crease and scraping to front wrapper removing the words and letters "NEW H" and "M" in Massachusetts. Very good.

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