9,691 Shares of St. Joseph, St. Louis and Santa Fe Railway Co. - 1888 dated Stock Certificate
Inv# HD1079 Stock
9,691 shares Stock printed by Kansas Publishing House, Topeka. Certificate #10! Slight staining at stub. Operated from 1888 to 1900, then became part of the Atchison, Topeka & Santa Fe Railway (reporting mark ATSF), often referred to as the Santa Fe or AT&SF, was one of the largest Class 1 railroads in the United States between 1859 & 1996.
The Santa Fe was a pioneer in intermodal freight transport; at various times, it operated an airline, the short-lived Santa Fe Skyway, & the fleet of Santa Fe Railroad Tugboats. Its bus line extended passenger transportation to areas not accessible by rail, & ferryboats on the San Francisco Bay allowed travelers to complete their westward journeys to the Pacific Ocean. The AT&SF was the subject of a popular song, Harry Warren & Johnny Mercer's "On the Atchison, Topeka & the Santa Fe", written for the film The Harvey Girls (1946). Read more at https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Atchison,_Topeka_and_Santa_Fe_Railway
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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