Marlette Gold & Silver Mining Co. - Virginia Mining District, Storey County, Nevada Territory Stock Certificate No. 66 for 10 shares made out to J. S. Fried dated July 10th, 1863. The Company was capitalized at $220,000; 2200 shares at $100 each and incorporated in Virginia N.T. in April 1863. Signatures include J.G. Libbey, Secretary and S. (Seneca) H. (Hunt) Marlette, President. Marlette was appointed first Surveyor General in Nevada in 1864 and Marlette Lake (formerly Alta Lake) just west of Carson City is named in his honor. He is listed in J. Wells Kelly's First Directory of Nevada Territory 1862 as being a County Surveyor and Civil Engineer boarding at Main Street hotel in Gold Hill. Vignette of eagle on left and a dog next to a safe at the bottom. Printed black on light brown patterned paper. Rare, not in J. Ross Browne, Becker or the Nevada state mineralogist Report of 1866; signatures of Marlette are seldom seen. Very Fine condition. References: History of Nevada - Thompson & West 1881, p. 73, 76, 87, 89, 541,607, 679; see also: Water Supply for the Comstock by Hugh A. Shamberger 1969, p. 23, 30. and Water History at Lake Tahoe by: Julie R. Stone: http://www.nevadaheritage.com/contribute/Julie Stone/History%20of%20the%20Virginia%20and%20Gold%20Hill%20Water%20Company.htm. Seneca Hunt Marlette - In 1852, Marlette was elected County Surveyor of Calaveras County and in September 1853, was elected Surveyor General of California, an office he assumed in January of 1854. In February 1854, the capitol of California was removed from Benicia to its final location in Sacramento. After taking office Marlette recruited the help of Sherman Day (later to become Superintendent of the New Almaden Quicksilver Mine) becoming his chief field assistant and George H. Goddard, who had been with the Ebbets-Moore Party. Together they charted and opened many of the passes over the Sierra. After moving to Nevada in 1860 he was elected County Surveyor and later after statehood the first Surveyor General of Nevada. Later in 1873, Walter Scott Hobart and S. H. Marlette opened the Excelsior Mill in Little Valley. Two steam-powered saws cut a daily average of 25,000 board feet. It was the Excelsior Mill that cut the first boards and planks used for the Virginia Gold Hill Water Company's box flumes. Marlette was perhaps the best educated, most responsible, efficient, and public-spirited of the early Surveyors General in California and later in Nevada, and several noteworthy tasks were accomplished under his supervision. In addition to his extensive work and effort to complete the survey for the Emigrant Wagon Road, Marlette understood and called attention to the inaccuracies of the State map produced by Eddy. Further, he took active steps to correct the errors by vigorously collecting all the newest and most recent government maps and surveys, and by employing a professional draftsman to reduce copy inaccuracies. Although a second State map was not produced during his term, Marlette's efforts indicated the major defects of the first map and provided for improved accuracy in production of the second. Of all the early Surveyors General, Marlette was perhaps the best qualified by virtue of his education and experience in the engineering field. After earning a B.S. in Civil Engineering from Renssalaer University, Marlette worked for some years as a civil engineer for the New York and Erie Railroads and did not leave their service until 1849. Seneca Hunt Marlette was born January 18, 1824, in Syracuse, New York and died August 24, 1911, in Glendale, California, at the age of 87. Virginia City Nevada 1863