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Leavenworth, Lawrence and Galveston Rail Road Co

Currency:USD Category:Coins & Paper Money / Stock & Bond - Transportation Start Price:37.50 USD Estimated At:75.00 - 150.00 USD
Leavenworth, Lawrence and Galveston Rail Road Co
SOLD
140.00USDto m*****1+ buyer's premium (35.00)
This item SOLD at 2018 Dec 09 @ 14:16UTC-8 : PST/AKDT
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$1,000 10% Mortgage bond for Leavenworth, Lawrence & Galveston Rail Road Company, No coupons attached. Three vignettes, one train, one men in cart being pulled by horses and man on horse stabbing animal. Number 3448 dated and signed July 1, 1869 by J.M. Walker, president and R.S. Watson, secretary; bottom cut off bond. Imprinted Revenue stamp RNP5. First railroad locomotive to operate in Kansas south of the Kaw river made crossing of river at Lawrence, November 1, 1867. There was a construction race in the state to cash in on county bonds before a fixed deadline. To qualify Leavenworth, Lawrence and Galveston railroad to lay track from Lawrence to Ottawa by January 1, 1868. The track was completed a day before the deadline. (Kansas Historical Society) Several capitalists were named to the board of directors on November 29,1866 including William Sturges of Chicago and Cyrus H. McCormick of New York (inventor and businessman who founded the McCormick Harvesting Machine Company, which later became part of the International Harvester Company (Wikipedia), Was contingent upon the railroad completing and equipping 24 miles of track by January 1, 1868. (Kansas Historical Society). Others printed by: Western Engraving Co., Chicago. Ken Prag collection.

State: City: Date: HWAC# 83731