A collection of papers related to Warren Washington Bissell's investment in the Silver Pick Consolidated Mines Company. A majority of the papers in this collection is composed of Market Letters from Zadig & Company. This is a letter put out by the company which owns the Silver Pick Consolidated Mines Company. These letters mention the company, but also mention other company that Zadig & Company own. This is the first of two folders.

A notice to the stockholders that the company has decided to levy an assessment in order to continue development work and liquidating the current debt.

The letter's mention of The Silver Consolidated Mines Company mentions progress on work with sinking the main shaft and work pertaining to a flow of water.

The entry on The Silver Pick Consolidated Mines Company mentions good progress on lowering the main shaft.

A letter form Zadig & Company meant to supplement Market Letter No. 22. That market letter is not found in the collection, and the supplemental letter does not pertain to The Silver Pick Consolidated Mines Company, but would have been sent to Warren Washington Bissell solely because of his investment in that company; Herman Zadig of Zadig & Company owns the Silver Pick Consolidated Mines Company. The letter mentions only the North Star Mining Company.

The Market Letter's entry about The Silver Pick Consolidated Mines Company mentions a delay in sinking the mine shaft because of flooding water that has been mostly drained by the time the entry was written.

The entry on the Silver Pick Consolidated Mines Company appears to be the most optimistic entry of the market letters in the collection. The entry mentions that as the shaft is lowered assays are finding ore with greater values. The entry ends describing the company as a good prospect.

A copy of a letter from Edward S. Van Dyck, General Manager of the Silver Pick Consolidated Mines Company, to Herman Zadig, president of the Silver Pick Consolidated Mines Company. The letter is mostly about the lowering of the main shaft and mentions that water has been created problems. The letter also mentions other veins of ore.

The entry for the Silver Pick Consolidated Mines Company mentions only that an item (the previous item in the collection dated January 14, 1914) has been enclosed, and Zadig recommends that everyone should read the letter.

In the article at the beginning of the letter Silver Pick Consolidated Mines Company is mentioned as a company that, “You can’t miss making money during this year by buying.” The entry on the company later in the letter mentions that the shaft and values of some assays, and that a new pump is able to handle the water, and there are no more flooding problems.