Bodie and Hawthorne Telephone and Telegraph Company

Date

1892

Location

Bodie Mining District, Mono County, California

Amount

$1,000

Signatures

  • Lewis Williams
  • R. L. McCarty
  • Thomas Leggett

Description

This stock certificate (No. 78) represents 20 shares valued at $1.00 each for the Bodie and Hawthorne Telephone and Telegraph Company. This stock is signed by Company President Thomas Leggett, the creator of the first long distance electric transmission lines. Leggett also pioneered the use of cyanide for extracting gold from ore.

Notable Bond Imagery

This certificate has an elaborate border. Over the whole certificate, in red ink, is the statement, “Canceled Jan 10 1905.”

Certificate with blue and black ink shows intricate bordering, lettering, signatures, and “canceled” handwritten in red ink
Backside shows a handwritten note and multiple colored stamps
Transcription 
						The Bodie and Hawthorne Telephone and Telegraph Company stock certificate reads:
Capital Stock, $3,500.00. | 3,500 Shares, $1.00 each.
Number 78 | 20 Shares
Bodie, California, Nov. 17 1892.

This Certifies that Lewis Williams is entitled to Twenty Shares of the Capital Stock of the Bodie and Hawthorne Telephone and Telegraph Company Transferable on the books of the Company by endorsement hereon and surrender of this Certificate.
Signed by the Secretary R. L. McCarty
Signed by the President Tom. H. Leggett
Incorporated August 6, 1892

On the back this certificate reads:
I hereby assign and transfer this Certificate #78 of Twenty Sares Stock, for Value Received to the Order of J. S. Cain
Signed Lewis William

There are also 6 dividend stamps on the back made out to the order of J. S. Cain. that say
	Dividend No. 1 Paid Oct 6 1894 By J. S. Cain
Dividend No. 2 Paid Feb. 10th 1896 By J. S. Cain
Dividend No. 3 Paid July 26 1897 By J. S. Cain
Dividend No. 4 Paid July 27 1899 By J. S. Cain
Dividend No. 5 Paid Feb 21 1901 By J. S. Cain
Dividend No. 6 Paid Dec 28 1903 By J. S. Cain

Accession No:

2017.002.026