Boston and Albany Rail Road Co.

Boston, Massachusetts

Cancelled,  dated 1913.  Issued at Boston.

$1000, 5%, 50-year bond.  No coupons, trimmed from certificate.

Horizontal format bond with bridge, harbor, and state seal in vignette.  Small center vignette of locomotive #2980.

Certificate is in F condition.

Offered at:  $25       Newly Listed!

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Colorado Springs and Cripple Creek District Railway Company

Issued / Uncancelled, 1902

$1000, 5% First Consolidated Forty-Year Gold Bond

Signed by Irving Howbert

Wonderful vignettes of locomotives as well as a mountain cabin and water fall on coupons.  The Colorado Springs and Cripple District Central Railway was organized in 1899 and ground was broken by Irving Howbert, the companies first President, in January, 1900.  The Standard Gauge main line was built between Colorado Springs and Cripple Creek, but was born out of the Cripple Creek District Railway, which ran an electric interurban line between Cripple Creek and Victor.  This company's articles were amended and the name changed to The Colorado Springs and Cripple Creek District Railway Company.  This new line between Cripple Creek and Colorado Springs would become known as The Short Line to Cripple Creek.  The scenery was dramatic along the route which Theodore Roosevelt proclaimed so beautiful it "...Bankrupt the English language."  

Also included, the following ephemera from the Colorado Springs and Cripple Creek Dist. Railway; Voucher (1908) signed by J.H. Waters, Freight Bill from the United Gold Mines Co. (1910), and United Gold Mines check issued to CS&CC Dist.Ry. (1909).

Certificate is in VF condition.  Full page of coupons attached to bond.

This certificate is also listed in the Cripple Creek Certificate Catalogue.

Offered at:  $225       Newly Listed

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Cripple Creek Central Railway Company

Issued / Cancelled, 1930. Common shares.

Signed by L. G. Carlton and issued to the Golden Cycle Corporation.  Wonderful vignettes of men working in mine as well as a train.  The Cripple Creek Central Railway was organized in 1904 and is the successor of the Denver & Southwestern Railway.   It was a holding company for the Cripple Creek & Colorado Springs Railroad Co., Midland Terminal Railway, and the Golden Circle Railroad.  Several significant Cripple Creek personalities were associated with the operation in its early days; Henry M. Blackmer, J. H. Waters, Charles M. MacNeill, and C. C. Hamlin.   Certificate is in VF condition.

This certificate is also listed in the Cripple Creek Catalogue.

Offered at:  $150      Newly Listed

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Dubuque Electric Railway, Light & Power Co.

Iowa

Issued / Cancelled, 1891.  Issued at Davenport, Iowa.

Certificate displays a wonderful vignette of an electric power house and rail line.  The company wanted to publicize the use of electricity as a means of transportation through the use of trolleys.  They purchased 40 acres of land to build a park, known as Stewart Park, to become the terminus of the electric rail line.   The park struggled, as did the electric trolley system, and the company became unable to operate the trolley line.  The company was sold to Old Colony Trust in 1893 and eventually ownership passed to the General Electric Company, who reorganized the local business into the Home Electric Company, which later sold out to Union Electric Company. 

Certificate is in F condition.

Offered at:  $175     Newly Listed!

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United Smelters, Railway and Copper Co.

Wyoming

Issued / Uncancelled, dated 1909. 

Company owned 91% of the outstanding stock of the Penn-Wyoming Copper Company.   Penn-Wyoming had substantial holdings including mineral lands, coal lands, millsite, limestone quarry, timber lands, and the townsites of Encampment, Rudefeha, and Rambler, encompassing 1,373 acres located in and near Encampment, Wyoming. 

Penn-Wyoming also controlled, through ownership of 90% of capital stock, Haggerty Copper Mining Co., Encampment Smelting Co.,  Encampment Tramway Co., Encampment Pipe Line Ditch Co., Encampment Land & Townsite Lot Co., Carbondale Coal Co., Emerson Electric Light Co., Saratoga & Encampment Railroad Co., and North American Mercantile Co.  Company also controlled a substantial percentage of the common stock of the Battle Lake Tunnel Site Mining Co.

A wonderful certificate depicting an engine from the "Saratoga and Encampment Railway" as well as a vignette of the "Smelter and Reduction works at Encampment, Wyoming"

Certificate is in F condition.    This certificate is also listed in the Western Mining and Land Catalogue.

Offered at:  $75     Newly Listed!

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