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Calumet Mining Company
Wallace, Shoshone County, Idaho

Date: 1906
Source Type: Stock Certificate
Publisher, Printer, Photographer: Goes Lithographing Company
Postmark: Not Applicable
Collection: Steven R. Shook
Remark: Calumet Mining Company, located in Wallace, Shoshone County, Idaho, was incorporated in the State of Idaho on September 25, 1906. The company forfeited its corporate status on December 2, 1916, due to inactivity.

The company was founded by Owen Dugan, of Wallace, Shoshone County, Idaho, and M. J. Murphy and Fred Muse, both being residents of Burke, Shoshone County, Idaho. The purposes for which the corporation was formed were: "acquiring, purchasing, leasing, owning and operating of lands, mines, mining claims, water rights, smelters, reduction works, mills, machinery and electric and steam power plants...."

Source:
The Idaho Press, Wallace, Shoshone County, Idaho; September 22, 1906; Volume 13, Number 6, Page 5, Column 1. Column titled "New Incorporations. Calumet Mining Company."

Copyright 2024. Some rights reserved. The associated text may not be reproduced or transmitted in any form or by any means, electronic, mechanical, photocopying, recording, or otherwise, without prior written permission of Steven R. Shook.

My ancestors were active buyers of mining and oil stocks. Several, like these, were purchased just before the Great Depression. Apparently my profoundly bad stock market timing is an inherited trait.

"Middletown, Highspire & Steelton Street Railway Co. 48."

Vignette illustration of an electric streetcar from a stock certificate for the Middletown, Highspire, and Steelton Street Railway Company.

An unissued stock certificate for the Middletown, Highspire and Steelton Street Railway Company, which operated in three Dauphin County boroughs southeast of Harrisburg, Pennsylvania.

See also a close-up of the vignette, which features an illustration of an electric streetcar.

Middletown, Highspire and Steelton Street Railway Company

This is to certify, that ____________ is entitled to ________ Shares in the Capital Stock of the

Middletown, Highspire and Steelton Street Railway Company.

Transferable only in the Books of the said Company in person or by Attorney on the Surrender of this Certificate.

Witness, the seal of the Company and the signatures of the President and of the Treasurer at Steelton, Pennsylvania, this ________ day of ________ A.D. 18 ____

____________ Treasurer ____________ President

Number 412.
Shares ____.

Middletown, Highspire & Steelton Street Railway Co. 48.

Shares $50 Each.
Capital Stock $100,000.

Wm. Mann Co., Philadelphia.

Printed on the back:

Know all men by these presents, that ____________ for value received, have bargained, sold, assigned, transferred and set over, and, by these presents, do bargain, sell, assign, transfer and set over unto ____________ ____ Shares of the Capital Stock of the

Middletown, Highspire and Steelton Street Railway Company,

standing in ____________ name on the books of said Company; and do hereby constitute and appoint ____________ true and lawful attorney, irrevocable; for ________ and in ________ name and stead, to sell, assign, transfer and set over all or any part of the said Stock; and for that purpose to make and execute all necessary acts of assignment and transfer, and one or more persons to substitute with like full power; hereby ratifying all that ________ said attorney, or ________ substitute or substitutes, shall lawfully do by virtue hereof.

In Witness Whereof, ____ have hereunto set ____ hand and seal, this ________ day of ____________ one thousand ________ hundred and ________.

Signed, Sealed, and Delivered
in the Presence of
____________

____________ SEAL

A nineteenth-century reward of merit.

Bank of Merit

20 Shares of Stock to the Holder

God offers reward, my Teacher does the same--they both encourage me. I tried, and success crowned my efforts.

Harry Lightcap, Pupil. Benjamin Rich, Teacher.

20. XX.

This is a print which appears to have been cut from a book, the artist is William Stephen Tomkin who in 1898 was employed by Waterlow & Sons, the publishers of the print. The company produced banknotes, stock certificates and postage stamps for many countries in its 200-year-old history, the company was dissolved in 2009 after being taken over by the De La Rue Company in the early 1960s. Tomkin lived until 1940 producing marine watercolours, he exhibited at the Royal Academy in 1909. The print shows the view looking west across the River Thames from the Albert Embankment, the subject is the paddle steamer “Alexandra” with the Palace of Westminster in the background, the artist has taken the liberty of showing the area of the Victoria Tower Gardens as being embanked, at this time there were still industrial units occupying the site and it was not embanked until ten years later. The “Alexandra” was one of the ABC boats built for the Thames Steamboat Company in 1898, the other boats were the Boadicea and Cleopatra, all were built by the Thames Ironworks at Blackwall. They were to remain in service until 1912 when the company ceased operating. This watercolour may have been commissioned by the company to celebrate the first trip the boat made in the summer of 1898.

An early stock certificate for the Manheim, Petersburg, and Lancaster Turnpike or Plank Road Company, which established a private turnpike road in northwestern Lancaster County, Pennsylvania, in the 1850s.

The road was part of what is now designated as Pennsylvania Route 72. As Wikipedia's Route 72 article explains, "The portion of the route between Lancaster and Manheim was chartered on May 9, 1850 as the Manheim, Petersburg, and Lancaster Turnpike, a private turnpike running from Prussia Street in Manheim south to Petersburg (now East Petersburg) and Lancaster."

See also an enlargement of the top part of the stock certificate (below).

Manheim, Petersburg, and Lancaster Turnpike or Plank Road Company

No. 126. Twenty-five dollars per share.

Be it known, that Abraham Shelly Esqr. is entitled to four shares of stock in the Manheim, Petersburg, and Lancaster Turnpike or Plank Road Company, transferable only on the books of said company, in the presence of the president or treasurer, by the said Abraham Shelly personally, or by his attorney.

Witness the seal of said company, this fifth day of May 1852. Henry Imhoff, president.

Attest: Em[anuel] G. Shober, treasurer.

John Bear's [Baer's] Steam Power Press, Lancaster.

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Handwritten notes on the back: "Certificate, Abraham Shelly, 4 Shares, Cancelled, 126. Plank Road, Stock 4 Shares."

For more information, see the full version of this stock certificate (below).

The Sunday school of the Third Moravian Church of Philadelphia used share certificates like this to raise funds for the purchase of a church bell. The sale of all 2,500 shares at 10 cents each would have raised $250, and perhaps that would have covered the cost of a bell in the 1870s, which is when these certificates were issued.

For another nineteenth-century fundraising strategy that involved buying bricks rather than shares, see The Owner of This Card Has Purchased One Brick in the People's Church, Boston, Mass., ca. 1880 (below). And for a more recent fundraiser, see Buy a Block, Benefit of the Longfellow Community Building (below).

Third Moravian Church Sunday School, Harrowgate, Philadelphia.

2,500 shares. 10 cents each.

This is to certify that John Diehne is entitled to one shares in the bell of the Third Moravian Church at Harrogate, Philadelphia.

Chas. Thieley, president.

J. Lietz, secretary,

Senseman & Son, Printers, 416 Callowhill Street, Philadelphia.

Local accession number: 11_03_000113
Title: Gulltown in an uproar!!
Genre: Political cartoons; Lithographs; Prints
Publisher: J. L. Magee, publisher, 305 Walnut Str., Philad.
Date issued: 1865
Physical description: 1 print : lithograph ; 12 1/4 x 18 3/4 in.
General notes: Title from item.; Caption on item: Terrific excitement at the office of the Munchausen & Gull Creek Grand Consolidated Oil Company. Astonishing demand for stock.
Subjects: Riots; Petroleum industry; Stock certificates
Collection: Americana Collection
Location: Boston Public Library, Print Department
Rights: No known copyright restrictions.

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