Comstock Foundation receives donation

The Comstock Foundation for History and Culture, a three-year old non-profit working to preserve the history of the Comstock Mining District, received its first donation.John Winfield donated 100,000 shares of Comstock Mining Inc. stock, which was trading on the New York Stock Exchange at 55 cents per share on Monday morning.Winfield, a former chairman of the board at the Virginia City-based Comstock Mining and a principal investor in the company, has committed to donating 1 million shares to t