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Philadelphia Silver and Copper Mining Company

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19th-century American mining corporation

Philadelphia Silver and Copper Mining Company was a 19th-century mining corporation chartered in Pennsylvania, April 8, 1864.[1]

Background

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The company owned mining properties along theColorado River in theLower Colorado River Valley, inCalifornia andArizona Territory in the 1860s. The company involved eastern financiers including Thomas Tilden, Adolph Hugel, John Potter, William Reich, Alphonso F. Tilden, and Robert Smith.[2]

Its managing director was Alphonso F. Tilden, based inSan Francisco.[3]

The company mining properties weresilver mines inEl Dorado Canyon in theColorado Mining District of what was thenArizona Territory and after 1869Lincoln County, Nevada; andcopper mine in the Freeman Mining District inSan Bernardino County, California across the river fromAubrey Landing.[3][4]: 44 

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References

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  1. ^Beitel, Calvin Gustavus (1874).A Digest of Titles of Corporations Chartered by the Legislature of Pennsylvania, Between the Years 1700 and 1873 Inclusive. J. Cambbell & Son, Philadelphia. p. 359.
  2. ^Laws of the General Assembly of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania. Singerly & Myers, Harrisburg, State Printers. 1864. pp. 295–296.
  3. ^ab"Colorado Copper".Los Angeles Star. Vol. XIV, no. 15. August 13, 1864. p. 3.
  4. ^Lingenfelter, Richard E. (1978)."Steamboats on the Colorado River, 1852-1916"(PDF).University of Arizona Press. Tucson. Archived fromthe original(PDF) on September 16, 2014.


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