Tommy graham, graham park, co http://www.rootsweb.com/~coyuma/city/city-g.html http://www.lakewood.org/index.cfm?&include=/CR/Urban/parkfacilities1.cfm Finley and Graham mines http://findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_m0GDX/is_1_78/ai_96194332 Although not particularly well known as a source of silver specimens, the mines at Leadville, Lake County, produced modest specimens, notably from the Maid of Erin, Matchless, First National, Coronado, and others. http://www.memoriallibrary.com/CO/1898DenverPB/pages/pbrd0369.htm For some months he was employed in the Maid of Erin mine at Leadville, but an attack of grippe left him in delicate health and he was obliged to seek a lower altitude. http://www.goantiques.com/detail,maid-erin-silver,340642.html Description: Beautifully engraved SCARCE SPECIMEN certificate from the Maid of Erin Silver Mines Company. This historic document was printed by the American Banknote Company and has an ornate border around it with a vignette of three men working in a mine inspecting samples and men working a surface outcrop. Certificate Vignette Certificate Vignette Mines located at Leadville, Colorado. The mine was located on Carbonate Hill and was discovered by John McCombe in 1877. By 1879 the shaft was down 193' in good ore. (Griswold, 1996 / Holabird 2002 ) About Specimens Specimen Certificates are actual certificates that have never been issued. They were usually kept by the printers in their permanent archives as their only example of a particular certificate. Sometimes you will see a hand stamp on the certificate that says "Do not remove from file". Specimens were also used to show prospective clients different types of certificate designs that were available. Specimen certificates are usually much scarcer than issued certificates. In fact, many times they are the only way to get a certificate for a particular company because the issued certificates were redeemed and destroyed. In a few instances, Specimen certificates we made for a company but were never used because a different design was chosen by the company. These certificates are normally stamped "Specimen" or they have small holes spelling the word specimen. Most of the time they don't have a serial number, or they have a serial number of 00000. This is an exciting sector of the hobby that grown in popularity and realized nice appreciation in value over the past several years. Status: For Sale Reference#: maidofersilm1 Condition: See Description Year: See Description http://www.memoriallibrary.com/CO/1898DenverPB/pages/pbrd0134.htm After some months among the mines, in November, 1877, General Logan and Mr. DuBois returned to Illinois; but in the spring of the next year the latter again went to Leadville, where he engaged in mining. With three others he located the Maid of Erin, http://history.sloco.net/COBio/Lake.351-389.html he discovered and located the Maid of Erin, Cresentia mine Name Crescentia Shaft County Lake USGS Cell Name Leadville South Elevation 0 Ending Elevation Description Beginning DMS Latitude 391359N Beginning DMS Longitude 1061605W Beginning Dec. Latitude 39.23306 Beginning Dec. Longitude -106.26806 Directions Notes ColoradoParks.net Code 13665 http://www.brainygeography.com/features/CO.mine/crescentiashaft.html http://www.rootsweb.com/~cenfiles/co/lake/1870/pg00001.txt Thomas Graham (but is out OUR Thomas Graham? CENSUS YR: 1870 TERRITORY: Colorado COUNTY: Lake POST OFFICE: Fairplay, Colorado REEL NO: M593-95 PAGE NO: 1 REFERENCE: Enumerated on 16th June 1870 by Wm H Beery; SHEET NO: 375B ======================================================================================================================================================================================== LN HN FN LAST NAME FIRST NAME AGE SEX RACE OCCUP. REAL VAL. PERS VAL. BIRTHPLACE FOREIGN BIRTH MONTH MONTH ATT. CAN'T CAN'T DEAF M-21yrs VOTE- FATHER MOTHER BORN MARR. SCHOOL READ WRITE DENIED ======================================================================================================================================================================================== 38 149 95 Graham Thomas 30 M W miner 1,000 Ireland X X X