North Bloomfield Mining District Nevada County Cal Yuba Start Price USD 24.95 Current Price USD 24.95 Time Left - Bid Count 0 Buy It Now Price - Reserve Price - Start Time Saturday, July 05, 2008 End Time Saturday, July 12, 2008 Location Santa Ana, California See more about 'North Bloomfield Mining District Nevada County Cal Yuba' Description   This is a rare 1910 issued stock certificate for the Fairview Gold Mining Company, signed by the president and secretary. The company was incorporated in California in May 1906. Location of works Nevada County Cal.  The stock certificate features a nice detailed vignette of miners with axes on the front left and on the bottom a vignette of a lake and mountains. On the back is a detailed vignette of miners working in a stream. The stock certificate has a nice gold trim and is embossed with the company name and incorporation date. The stock is printed on thick paper with two folds, with slight tears on the bottom and top at the folds.   The Fairview Mine is located in Nevada County above the South Fork of the Yuba River, east of North Bloomfield/ Malakoff's Diggings and just west of the historic gold rush town of Washington on the South Fork of the Yuba. The location of this mine can be found at 39 deg, 21 min, 51 sec by 120 deg. 49 min, 14 sec. The Fairview Mine is discussed in "Mines and Mineral Resources of Nevada County", published in 1919 by Errol MacBoyle, Calfornia State Mining Bureau. Here is a brief history of the North Bloomfield Mining District in Nevada County, California;   In 1851 three miners headed northeast of what is now Nevada City for a less crowded area to prospect. One miner went back to town with a pocket full of gold nuggets for supplies and was followed back by many prospectors, these followers, however did not find any gold and declared the area "Humbug", thus the stream was so named "Humbug Creek".  Around 1852 settlers began to arrive in the area and the town of "Humbug" sprang up, by 1857 the town had grown to 500 residents. Locals felt the name "Humbug" was too undignified and renamed the town "Bloomfield", but California already had a town by this name so they renamed the town "North Bloomfield".  By 1860 the surface claims had played out and the miners left for the mines of Nevada. These claims were bought up and consolidated into the North Bloomfield Gravel Mining Company. Because the gold in this region was small and hard to extract, hydraulic mining was seen as the only profitable way to extract it. Dams were built and ditches dug to deliver the water needed. Over 300 Chinese worked on this project and two Chinese settlements existed in North Bloomfield. By 1876 the mine was in full operation with 7 giant water cannons, called monitors working around the clock. By now the town had grown to a population of around 2000 with various business and daily stage service. In 1880 electric lights were installed in the mine and the world’s first long distance telephone line was developed to service the mine.  North Bloomfield and the Malakoff Mine basically became a ghost when hydraulic mining was brought to an end in 1884 by a suit filed by Sacramento valley farmers. Debris, silt, and millions of gallons of water used daily by the mine caused extensive flooding in Marysville and Yuba City. San Francisco bay was estimated to be filling with silt at a rate of one foot per year. Shipping is via USPS Priority Mail with Delivery Confirmation. Be sure to check out the other ghost town and mining items I have listed. Place a Bid!