Scan of ID42880

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Haxby

Whitman

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Coeur D'Alele Coeur D'Alene Water Supply Scrip 1885 $5 Unl N/A Unl Unl Water was essential to the miners in the extraction of gold and silver from the ore---as such water was as valuable to the miners as the gold itself.  This Water Scrip has no imprint but displays a bridge at the center and miners to the lower right and agriculture & a miner to the left; the centering is shifted toward the top in very large full margins, a premium example Gem CU $595