Schuyler J. Rumsey Philatelic Auctions Sale: 101
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United States
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Sale No: 101
Lot No:655 Symbol: Estimate; $300 - 400. R. Holloran was the Wells Fargo agent (1883) in Ash Fork in Yavapai County. Garrett & Elder was a groceries and liquors merchant located on 144 3rd Street in the 1882 and 1886 Marysville census. US$300-400 (Image) Est. $300-400
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Sale No: 101
Lot No:656 Symbol: Estimate; $500 - 750. George H. Davis was the Wells Fargo agent of Benson, Cochise County in 1883. US$500-750 (Image) Est. $500-750
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Lot No:657 Symbol: Estimate; $400 - 600. US$400-600 (Image) Est. $400-600
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Lot No:658 Symbol: Estimate; $200 - 300. Bowie, Arizona Territory, Cochise County was named for Col. George W. Bowie of the Fifth California Infantry Volunteers. US$200-300 (Image) Est. $200-300
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Lot No:659 Symbol: Estimate; $150 - 200. US$150-200 (Image) Est. $150-200
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Sale No: 101
Lot No:660 Symbol: Estimate; $750 - 1,000. In 1864, Pedro Aguirre Jr. established a homestead on the Grasslands near the present-day City of Arivaca, A.T. He dug a well and built an artificial lake for irrigation purposes. He called his ranch Buenos Ayres (Good Winds). The ranch expanded over time to include rooms For Rent, a School House (built in 1879), Cooks Quarters, and a Post Office (1892-1903 Mrs Beatriz Aguirre P.M.). By the Fall of 1879, he was running 15,000 Head of Sheep. In 1878, he established his Stage Line and in 1883 He Purchased a New twenty-two passenger Concord Stage For the Tucson-Arivaca Route. Aguirre extended his stage line an additional 60 Miles From Tucson to Quijotoa in 1884. Pedro Aguirre Jr. died February 21, 1907 in Tucson at 72 years old. His Daughters sold the Buenos Ayres Ranch. Today the Buenos Ayres 119,341 Acre Ranch is owned and operated by the united States Department of Interior as a Wildlife Refuse. US$750-1,000 (Image) Est. $750-1,000
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Sale No: 101
Lot No:661 Symbol: Estimate; $150 - 200. Chalender, Ariz. Terr., Coconino County was a Saw Mill town o the A.T. & S.F. Railroad. US$150-200 (Image) Est. $150-200
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Sale No: 101
Lot No:662 Symbol: Estimate; $750 - 1,000. THE ONLY RECORDED WELLS FARGO USE FROM THE CHARLESTON, ARIZONA TERRITORY OFFICE. Charleston was originally settled as a residence for the mill workers in Millville, on the opposite bank of the San Pedro River, where two mills were built to process ore from the silver mines of nearby Tombstone. The mills were constructed in Millville due to a lack of water, needed for refinement, in the immediate vicinity of Tombstone. The mills, one operated by the Tombstone Mill and Mining Company and the other by the Corbin Mill and Mining Company, processed or "stamped" the silver ore into fine powder in preparation for smelting. The mills began operations in 1879, and at their peak from 1881-1882, they processed almost $1.4 million in silver bullion in one year. Once the future site of Tombstone's mills was established, the land that was to become Charleston was claimed by Amos Stowe on October 28, 1878, and planning for the town began immediately thereafter. The town consisted of twenty-six blocks with sixteen lots each, laid out in a grid. Due to an attractive leasing system set up by Stowe, businesses flocked to Charleston, and by May 1879, the town already housed approximately 40 buildings, including a post office which opened on April 17, 1879. Millville's post office opened shortly after Charleston's, on May 26, 1879, but shut down less than a year later on May 3, 1880 as it became clear that Charleston was to be the primary residence for the people of both towns. While Millville was named for its primary function as a milling location, Charleston took its name from its original postmaster, Charles D. Handy. US$750-1,000 (Image) Est. $750-1,000
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Sale No: 101
Lot No:663 Symbol: Estimate; $300 - 400. US$300-400 (Image) Est. $300-400
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Sale No: 101
Lot No:664 Symbol: Estimate; $300 - 400. US$300-400 (Image) Est. $300-400
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Sale No: 101
Lot No:665 Symbol: Estimate; $400 - 600. Cochise was a station on the Southern Pacific Railroad at the junction of the Eastern Railroad. US$400-600 (Image) Est. $400-600
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Sale No: 101
Lot No:666 Symbol: Estimate; $500 - 750. THE FINER OF ONLY TWO RECORDED WELLS FARGO USES FROM DOS CABEZAS, ARIZONA TERRITORY. Benjamin Corey was the Wells Fargo agent of Dos Cabezas, Cochise County from 1883 to 1887. US$500-750 (Image) Est. $500-750
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Sale No: 101
Lot No:667 Symbol: Wells, Fargo & Co's Express, Dragoon, A.T. Purple oval cancels 2¢ red on amber entire with 1883 Wells Fargo & Co. train frank to San Francisco Cal.; tiny top edge tear, F.-V.F. Estimate; $750 - 1,000. THE ONLY RECORDED WELLS FARGO DRAGOON USE. Dragoon, now Dragoon Springs is a historic site in Cochise County, Arizona. The name comes from a nearby natural spring, Dragoon Spring, to the south in the Dragoon Mountains at 5,148 feet (1,569 m). The name originates from the 3rd U.S. Cavalry Dragoons who battled the Chiricahua, including Cochise, during the Apache Wars. The Dragoons established posts around 1856 after the Gadsden Purchase made the area a U.S. territory. Dragoon Spring was a watering place on the Southern Emigrant Trail in territory which eventually joined the United States in the Gadsden Purchase, becoming part of the New Mexico Territory. Following the purchase, Dragoon Spring was used as a watering place by the San Antonio-San Diego Mail Line, commonly called the "Jackass Mail", starting in July 1857. After Butterfield started service in September 1858, the Jackass Mail was still operating using Butterfield's improved trail. Dragoon Springs Stage Station was the second of the two stone fortified stations constructed in Arizona and was the last going west on the 2,700 mile trail from Tipton, Missouri, to San Francisco, California. A six-year mail contract, No. 12,578, was awarded to John Butterfield to start on September 1858 and end on September 15, 1864. This station was built in August and early September 1858 by Butterfield's Overland Mail Company to house employees and livestock. The construction of the station was supervised by Butterfield Division Superintendent William Buckley of Watertown, New York. During the American Civil War, it was the site of the First Battle of Dragoon Springs and near to the site of the Second Battle of Dragoon Springs, fought between Apache warriors and Confederate soldiers. US$750-1,000 (Image) Est. $750-1,000
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Sale No: 101
Lot No:668 Symbol: Estimate; $1,000 - 1,500. THE ONLY RECORDED WELLS FARGO & CO. EHRENBERG USE. The winter snows of 1868 brought devastating spring floods to the Colorado River and interrupted the easy steamboat service La Paz had enjoyed. The heavy river flow scoured the mainstream of the Color River so deeply that steamers could no longer gain access to the town of La Paz by the shallow La Paz slough. Efforts to link La Paz to the mainstream nearly two miles away by a corduroy wagon road proved unsuccessful. Such isolation from steamboat traffic marked the rapid decay of La Paz as the principal supply point on the river. In a very short time the firm of Gray & Co. dissolved. The town's next largest mercantile firm, J. Goldwater & Bro., built a new store and warehouse on more solid ground near the east anchore of the Bradshaw Ferry six miles to the south. Thus began an exodus from La Paz and the conversion of the scattered adobes and jacals of Olive City and Mineral City into a new thriving community that Mike Goldwater - grandfather of Arizona's U.S. Senator Barry Goldwater - decided to call Ehrenberg for a German friend who had been murdered by Indias in 1866. By 1871, there were only two Wells Fargo offices in Arizona Territory - at Ehrenberg and Arizona City (Yuma). US$1,000-1,500 (Image) Est. $1,000-1,500
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Sale No: 101
Lot No:669 Symbol: Estimate; $400 - 600. George N. Kent was the Wells Fargo Agent (1888-89) of Fairbank, Cochise County. Martin Damaret Scribner was the Wells Fargo agent (1885-88) of Tombstone, Cochise County. US$400-600 (Image) Est. $400-600
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Sale No: 101
Lot No:670 Symbol: Estimate; $300 - 400. In the 1860s, Fort Yuma was originally on both sides of the Colorado River. In 1874, the old Fort Yuma changed to the California side only. The Wells Fargo office was in the Hooper & Hinton store in Arizona City (Yuma). US$300-400 (Image) Est. $300-400
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Sale No: 101
Lot No:671 Symbol: Estimate; $500 - 750. Jeremiah J. Vosburg was the Wells Fargo agent and postmaster of Globe, Gila County from 1880 to 1887. US$500-750 (Image) Est. $500-750
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Sale No: 101
Lot No:672 Symbol: Estimate; $200 - 300. A.E. Saxe's Express carried this letter from Happy Camp, near the Silver King Mine, over the Pinal Range to Globe City - then placed on the Wells Fargo rail car on the Gila & Globe and Northern Railroad to the Southern Pacific Railroad and on to California. US$200-300 (Image) Est. $200-300
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Lot No:673 Symbol: Estimate; $400 - 600. US$400-600 (Image) Est. $400-600
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Sale No: 101
Lot No:674 Symbol: Estimate; $750 - 1,000. The Goldwater Brothers opened a dry goods store in Los Angeles near Bella Union Hotel in 1857. They filed for bankruptcy a few years later. The Goldwaters then established a store in La Paz, Arizona in 1862. La Paz had a Post Office from 1865 to 1875. Floods on the Colorado River isolated the village from a desirable landing for the river steamers. Goldwater moved their store and warehouse to Ehrenberg in 1869. At different times, there have been Goldwater stores at La Paz, Ehrenberg, Prescott, Parker, Seymour, Lynx Creek, Phoenix, Bisbee, Fairbank, Contention, Tombstone, Benson and Crittenden, Arizona. US$750-1,000 (Image) Est. $750-1,000
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Sale No: 101
Lot No:675 Symbol: Estimate; $300 - 400. J.C. Truman traveled through the Southwest in 1874. He resided in Tucson as Director of the Arizona & New Mexico Express Co. He traveled southward to Guaymas on the Gulf of Mexico. This was to study the establishment of the Arizona & Sonora Railroad. Letter to J.C. Truman's wife via Wells, Fargo Mexican Route via San Francisco back east. US$300-400 (Image) Est. $300-400
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Lot No:676 Symbol: Estimate; $300 - 400. US$300-400 (Image) Est. $300-400
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