The Goldfield Consolidated Mines Company - 1957

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The Goldfield Consolidated Mines Company - Signed by George Wingfield

The Goldfield Consolidated Mines Company - 1957 - Wyoming

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Product Code: SC2190

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This Goldfield Consolidated Mines Company stock certificate was issued in 1957 and is hand-signed by co-founder George Wingfield. The Goldfields Consolidated Mines Company was formed by two of Nevada's most colorful millionaires in 1906 - George S. Nixon and George Wingfield. Wingfield was a gambler who dabbled in mining and Nixon a banker with political ambitions. They became best friends and successful business partners. Wingfield became the richest man in Nevada and political power-broker while Nixon became a U.S. Senator.

Wingfield, the gambler, won while playing in Tonopah, Nevada and bought a saloon and a local mining operation with his winnings. The Tonopah silver-boom followed and when gold was found in neighboring Goldfield, Nixon and Wingfield moved in taking a stake in the Goldfield Mohawk Mining Company and struck it rich. With their success they gobbled up neighboring mines and formed the Goldfield Consolidated Mines Company and incorporated in Wyoming. They owned a virtual monopoly in the Goldfield mining district and became the 148th largest company in the U.S by 1917.