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1913 - Bullfrog Goldfield Railroad Bills of Lading - Ephemera 1155
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Appproximately 8.5" x 10.5" Two 1913 Bills of Lading from the Bullfrog Goldfield Railroad shipping a cook stove, stove pipe, gas cans, and hardware. One of the shipments was to Chester Pray in Zabriskie California. The Bullfrog Goldfield Railroad was an ... Read More
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- Year of Issue
- 1913
Item Description
Appproximately 8.5" x 10.5"Two 1913 Bills of Lading from the Bullfrog Goldfield Railroad shipping a cook stove, stove pipe, gas cans, and hardware. One of the shipments was to Chester Pray in Zabriskie California.
The Bullfrog Goldfield Railroad was an 85-mile extension of the Tonopah and Goldfield Railroad established in 1905 to extend their line to reach the Beatty and Rhyolite mining camps.
Chester Pray discovered Lead Carbonate (Cerussite), the lead ore then used to manufacture white lead paint, in Death Valley near Galena Canyon at the foot of the Panamint Mountains. He graded a road from the Tonopah Tidewater station to his claim, the Carbonate Lead Mines, where this shipment was likely used. For some unrecorded reason, Pray killed himself shortly after this shipment. See Lingenfelter's "Death Valley and the Amargosa."
In nice shape.
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- Virginia, United States
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