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Lea Cattle Company Bond - RARE (90559)

Currency:USD Category:Coins & Paper Money / Stock & Bond - Certificates Start Price:100.00 USD Estimated At:200.00 - 400.00 USD
Lea Cattle Company Bond - RARE  (90559)
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110.00USDto 8*************e+ buyer's premium (27.50)
This item SOLD at 2019 May 16 @ 12:54UTC-7 : PDT/MST
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# 3 of this $1000 six percent bond. Coupons 16 to 30 still attached. Signed by president Thurber.Excellent condition. Joseph Lea was a Confederate guerilla who became a New Mexico partirach. Lea set his sights on a cattle empire and contacted Thurber with an optimistic proposal for another big ranch (he was involved in the El Capitan Land and Cattle Company, also in this sale) at the same time that Thurber and DeLany were forming their company. The articles of incorporation of Lea Cattle Company include the names of Horace Thurber, Lea, DeLany, and Charles S. Thurber, Horace’s brother. The document, dated April 20, 1885, declares that the purposes of the corporation were ‘… breeding, raising, buying and selling cattle and other domestic animals, and buying and selling merchandise.’ The capital stock was $1,000,000 in ten thousand shares. The letterheads and bonds of the company pictured cattle and horses bearing the ‘L-E-A’ and ‘H-K-T brands. They called the ranch ‘Agua Azul Ranch,’ after a pool where one Jesús Maes had settled in 1878 at the eastern foot of the Capitán Mountains. The letterhead defines the company range as ‘Agua Azul, Rio Hondo, and Rio Pecos, Lincoln County.’[Joseph C Lea an d the Lincoln Connection by Fleming online] Ken Prag Collection

Date: 1885
City/County: Lincoln County
State: New Mexico