Cairo and Fulton Railroad Co.- circa 1860's Unissued Railway Stock Certificate of Missouri, Arkansas and Texas

Unissued Stock printed by Hatch & Co., New York. Superb vignettes and beautiful shade of cranberry color! Mint Condition and one of the prettiest stocks we’ve seen.

This railway operated from 1853 to 1874 before transforming into the St. Louis, Iron Mountain and Southern Railway. The St. Louis, Iron Mountain and Southern Railway, commonly known as the Iron Mountain, was an American railway organization that existed from 1856 until its merger with the Missouri Pacific Railroad in 1917. Originally, the Iron Mountain was established to transport iron ore from Iron Mountain to St. Louis, Missouri. It was previously owned by Henry Gudon Marquand and his brother, Frederick Marquand, who were eventually removed due to Jay Gould's railroad monopoly. In 1883, Jay Gould took control of the railway, incorporating it into an extensive network covering 9,547 miles (15,364 km). On May 12, 1917, the company was officially merged into the Missouri Pacific Railroad, which later merged with the Union Pacific Railroad between 1982 and 1997. The railway was the site of two significant robberies: the first by the James-Younger Gang on January 31, 1874, at Gad's Hill, and the second by the 'One-Time Train Robbery Gang' on November 3, 1893, at Olyphant, Arkansas.