This is an original stock certificate from The Acacia Gold Mining Company, dated 1899. Printed on paper stock in gold and black ink, the certificate features a central vignette of an acacia tree with detailed foliage and branches, rendered in fine line engraving style. The design includes an ornate decorative border with scrollwork in gold and brown coloring, and bears handwritten signatures of the company's President and Secretary.

The Acacia Gold Mining Company was incorporated during the height of Colorado's second gold boom, when the Cripple Creek district was producing more gold than any other mining camp in the world. Founded in the final years of the 19th century, the company operated during an era when Winfield Scott Stratton, the carpenter-turned-millionaire, had just sold his Independence Mine for $10 million, and Spencer Penrose was building his mining and milling empire that would transform Colorado Springs into the "Little London" of the West. The company's choice of the acacia tree as its symbol reflected the optimism of Colorado mining ventures, many of which were organized by Eastern capitalists who had never set foot in the Rocky Mountain camps where fortunes were won and lost daily. Tucker, Ballard & Co. served as trustees, handling the complex web of mining stock transfers that characterized Colorado's speculative mining economy during this golden age of American mineral extraction.

You will receive a certificate similar to the one shown. While each piece shares the same design and era, slight variations in serial numbers, signatures, and natural aging may occur. This example includes cancellation markings, indicating it was redeemed, with punch holes throughout the certificate that add to its authentic character as a genuine mining document from the Victorian era.

Colorado mining certificates from the 1890s gold boom represent some of the most historically significant pieces in American scripophily, capturing the entrepreneurial spirit that built the American West. Offered as a collectible.