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Colorado Central Rail Road Company

Currency:USD Category:Coins & Paper Money / Stock & Bond - Transportation Start Price:150.00 USD Estimated At:300.00 - 400.00 USD
Colorado Central Rail Road Company
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This item SOLD at 2018 Dec 09 @ 14:06UTC-8 : PST/AKDT
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Cancelled one hundred shares Colorado Central Rail Road Company number 3, issued to Jefferson County, Colorado. Assigned to Frank D. Rutnick. Grey border, raised seal. Three vignettes, two of trains and one barrels. Imprinted revenue paper RNT4. Colorado Central Railroad was a rail road company that operated in Colorado and southeastern Wyoming in the late 19th century. Built during Colorado Gold Rush to ship gold from mountains to its Golden-Denver line to form a connection with the transcontinental railroad. During the 1870s fighting between locals led by W. A. H. Loveland (William Austin Hamilton Loveland a U.S. railroad entrepreneur and businessman. He was one of the founders of the Colorado Central Railroad and a principal figure in the early history of Colorado) (Wikipedia) and outside investors of the Union Pacific Railroad led at times by Jay Gould. (Jason "Jay" Gould was a leading American railroad developer and speculator. He has been portrayed as one of the ruthless robber barons of the Gilded Age, whose success at business made him one of the richest men of his era. (Wikipedia). The railroad was chartered as the Colorado and Clear Creek Railroad Company on February 9, 1865 by Loveland. On January 20, 1866, the name of the railroad was changed to the Colorado Central & Pacific Railroad. The following year, in June 1867, the company was reorganized with the Union Pacific investors in control. (Revolvy) . Listed in Castenholz. Printer: Hooper, Lewis & Co., Boston. Ken Prag Collection. State: City: Date: HWAC# 83706