Records of the Spenazuma Gold Mining and Milling Company
Assay Certificate for Spenazuma Mining and Milling Company Assay and Chemical Laboratories, Spenazume, Arizona, 1899
Collection area: Arizona and Southwest
Collection dates: 1898-1899
Promotional and descriptive literature, assay certificates, and other papers concerning the Spenazuma swindle.
Company, formed in 1898, by Richard C. Flower to fraudulently sell stock in a non-existent mine. The scheme was exposed in 1899 by newspaperman George H. Smalley.
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