Mexican Timber Field Co. - 1903 dated Arizona Lumber Stock Certificate - Branch Company of the Atchison Topeka Santa Fe Railway
Inv# AT115 Stock
Lumber Stock. This is a Branch Company of the Atchison, Topeka and Santa Fe Railway. The Atchison, Topeka and Santa Fe Railway, commonly known as the Santa Fe or AT&SF, was among the prominent railroads in the United States. Established in February 1859, the railroad was intended to connect the cities of Atchison and Topeka in Kansas with Santa Fe in New Mexico. By 1873, it had extended to the Kansas-Colorado border and reached Pueblo, Colorado, in 1876. To stimulate demand for its services, the railroad established real estate offices and marketed farmland derived from the land grants it received from Congress. Although originally chartered to serve Santa Fe, the railroad opted to circumvent the city due to the engineering difficulties posed by the mountainous landscape. Ultimately, a branch line from Lamy, New Mexico, connected the railroad to its namesake city.
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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