Four Magma Copper Co. Stocks - 1920's-40's dated Attractive Arizona Collection o for Sale

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Four Magma Copper Co. Stocks - 1920's-40's dated Attractive Arizona Collection o For Sale

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Four Magma Copper Co. Stocks - 1920's-40's dated Attractive Arizona Collection o:
$60.00

Collection of 4 different colors. Mining town vignette engraved by Hamilton Bank Note Co., NY. Especially Attractive Collection of 4. Mines were located in the Pioneer and Superior Mining Districts of Arizona. The Magma Arizona Railroad (reporting mark MAA) was built by the Magma Copper Company and operated from 1915 to 1997. The railroad was originally built as a 3ft (914mm) narrow gauge line, but was converted to 4ft8+1⁄2in (1,435mm) standard gauge in 1923. Originally headquartered in Superior, Arizona, the company primarily hauled cattle and copper on 30.2 miles (48.6km) of standard gauge track to and from the Southern Pacific mainline in Magma, Arizona, between Florence and Queen Creek. BHP purchased the Magma Copper Company and its lines in 1996 for A$3.2billion and suspended rail operations on this line a year later. The Magma was the last industrial short line railroad to use steam power, dieselizing on September 4, 1968. Read more at William Boyce Thompson bought the old Silver Queen Mine in 1910, and by 1912, the new Magma Copper Company was in production running the operations of the Silver Queen Mine. The Magma Copper Company became one Arizona's greatest copper producer after the silver vein of the Queen Silver Mine dried and Item ordered may not be exact piece shown. All original and authentic.