Mill Creek Coal and Coke Co. - 1892 dated Mining Stock Certificate - Mill Creek, West Virginia
Inv# MS3353 Stock
Stock. Exceptional! Mill Creek is a town in Randolph County, West Virginia, United States, along the Tygart Valley River. The population was 563 at the 2020 census. The town takes its name from nearby Mill Creek. Read more at https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mill_Creek,_West_Virginia
John Cooper’s mine in Cooper section of Bramwell shipped 1st coal from W. Virginia’s valuable Pocahontas Coalfield over N&WRR on 4 Nov. 1884. The Coaldale, Caswell Creek & Booth-Bowen mines, operated by Cooper, Jones, Freeman, Booth & Bowen, were pioneer mines in the field. The Philadelphia financed Flat Top Coal Land Assoc., later Pocahontas Coal & Coke, became the coalfield’s largest landholder. Read more at https://www.hmdb.org/m.asp?m=1858
A stock certificate is issued by businesses, usually companies. A stock is part of the permanent finance of a business. Normally, they are never repaid, and the investor can recover his/her money only by selling to another investor. Most stocks, or also called shares, earn dividends, at the business's discretion, depending on how well it has traded. A stockholder or shareholder is a part-owner of the business that issued the stock certificates.
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