Rock Creek Mining Company stock cert. #142, issued for 1000 shares to A. K. Durbrow trustee and signed by A. K. Durbrow as secretary and John Paxton as president. Issued on November 5, 1877 in San Francisco. Incorporated on October 31, 1877 (Nevada Day). Location: Rock Creek District printed at the top. No vignette. In very good, uncancelled condition. The Rock Creek MC was originally called the Scorpion. It showed promise, but no major production. Located by the short-lived mining camp of Falcon. The Elko papers predicted it would be the next mining camp boomtown, but rising water in the mines and difficult to process ore doomed the city in less than a year. Durbrow was involved with such Comstock mines as the Gould & Curry (secretary for two decades), California and Potosi. John A. Paxton was one of California's richest men [x=#241/] acquiring that wealth as president of the Manhattan Silver Mining Company in Austin. Notes on Durbrow, company, district and Falcon included.Date: 1877Country (if not USA): State: NevadaCity: Falcon, ElkoProvenance: Joe Elcano Nevada Mining Stock Collection