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Cattle, Land AND Water Certificates

 


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Your source for historic and collectable Colorado stock and bond certificates.


Nothing says "Colorado" quite like this diverse, but closely related group of stock certificates.   Next to mining, Colorado is possibly second-best known for its Cattle Ranching, Water-Rights issues, and Land booms & busts.    Land was important for a multitude of reasons including farming, ranching, logging, town sites, etc.   The water than ran across and through the land became the subject of remarkable legal battles and resulted in physically shaping the landscape across Colorado in the form of irrigation ditches, reservoirs, and tunnels bored directly through the Rockies to move water from one side of the Divide to the other.  Water was important to the cattle, the crops, and the residents who settled the land, for survival in the arid high desert of Colorado.  


Click on images below to see an enlarged view and read a short history of each piece.


 

 

Beaver Land and Irrigation Company - 1908

 

Crescent Cattle Company - 1907

Grand Valley Ranch and Cattle Company - 1889

 

Montezuma Cattle Company - 1885

Naturita Cattle and Land Company - 1891

 

Powder River Live Stock Company - 1884

 

Reynolds Cattle Company - 1885

 

 

White-Bear Land & Cattle Company - 1909

 

Shenandoah Irrigation and Land Company - 1897

 

Ute Pass Land and Water Company - 1890's


 

 

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