Compania Agricola Del Chapala, S.A. - 1911 dated Mexican Stock Certificate - Chapala, Mexico
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Stock. "Blue Bells" Vignette of workers in the fields, blue imprinted revenue stamp. Several rows of coupons. Choice condition. Scarce!!!
Chapala is a town and municipality in the central Mexican state of Jalisco, situated on the northern shore of Lake Chapala, the largest freshwater lake in Mexico. According to the 2015 census, the municipality has a population of 50,738, including around 11,000 residents in the town of Ajijic. The origin of Chapala's name is uncertain, but it is most commonly believed to derive from Chapalac, the name of the last chief of the region's Nahuatl-speaking indigenous people. Chapala was officially designated a municipality on September 10, 1864, by decree of the Jalisco State Congress.
During World War I, in 1915, Norwegian speculators aimed to develop Chapala into a luxury resort town. Their ambitious plans included constructing a railway with segregated carriages, two motor vessels for lake navigation, a first-class hotel, an automobile club with a casino, and an extensive dam to create plots for upscale residences. However, the speculators only managed to deliver photographs of railway carriages and locomotives to their shareholders. For more details, see "Gullfeber" by Kr. Fr. Brøgger, published in Oslo in 1932.
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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