Bluebird Copper-Gold Mining Co. - 1903 dated Stock Certificate

Stock issued to and signed front and back by the president. Exceptional Title & Graphics! The 1905 Copper Handbook indicates that the company owned property in Milford, Beaver County, Utah, adjacent to the Hickory group associated with the Majestic Company. At that period, the primary shaft on the Copper King claim extended to a depth of 275 feet. The property was recorded as inactive in the 1906 Handbook.

Interesting excerpt about Peter A. H. Franklin from the Peter S. Martin and Ellen Varden Family Website: https://peter-s-martin-and-ellen-varden-family.org/the-martin-family-today/

Fanny Woll emigrated to Utah from Norway in 1873. She, her mother Anna, and her sister Catherine had joined the church in Bergen and planned to join the Saints in Utah, as well as a brother who was a miner. Catherine had married Peter Audres Hol, a missionary in Norway, before they left. When they arrived, it appears the family’s lives took unexpected turns. Anna and Fanny stayed in Salt Lake City. Peter changed his name to Peter A. H. Franklin, and went to Beaver County where he energetically set about providing for his family. He is listed on the 1880 Census in Frisco, working as a mechanic, seven households removed from Peter S. Martin.

Franklin eventually started up a sawmill to provide timber as supports for the Horn Silver Mine. He also worked as a miner, wherein at one point he saw a vision while underground and decided he was meant for a higher calling. Peter became a minister and set out to reclaim lost Scandinavian souls in Utah who had been misled into becoming Mormons. Peter became quite adept at fund-raising for new churches, which skill he then employed as a mining speculator, eventually losing millions of other people’s dollars in mismanaged schemes. Members of the Woll family were among those who lost money.