Cactus Peak Mining and Milling Company

Date

1905

Location

Arizona

Amount

$1,000

Signatures

  • Marshall Bond

Description

This stock certificate (No. 19) represents 1000 shares valued at $1.00 each for the Cactus Peaking Mining and Milling Company. Company Secretary Marshall Bond’s signature is seen on this bond. Bond was the landlord of Jack London’s who based his book Call of the Wild on Bond's dog. Bond spent his later years travelling Africa as a hunter and prospector.

Notable Bond Imagery

On the left stands a man behind a drill. On the right, two men mine in a cavern. In the large middle, one of several men mines with a house and mountains in the background. The company’s golden seal on the bottom left reads, “Cactus Peak Mining and Milling Company, Incorporated under the Laws of the Territory of Arizona 1804.”

Certificate with black and yellow shows intricate borders, lettering, and signatures and vignettes of miners
Backside shows various legal language split into 3 columns which provide legal language including spacing for dates, amounts, and signatures
Transcription 
						The Cactus Peak Mining and Milling Company stock certificate reads:
Incorporated Under the Laws of the Territory of Arizona
Number 19 | Shares 1000
Capital Stock 1,000,000 Shares, Par Value One Dollar Each. Fully Paid, Non-Assessable.

This is to Certify that C. H. Brown is the owner of One thousand Shares of the Capital Stock of the Cactus Peak Mining and Milling Company transferable only on the books of the Corporation by the holder hereof in person or by Attorney, upon surrender of this Certificate properly endorsed.

In Witness Whereof, the said Corporation has caused this Certificate to be signed by its duly authorized officers and to be sealed with the Seal of the Corporation at Goldfield, Nev. this 16 day of March A.D. 1905.
Signed by the Secretary Marshall Bond
Signed by the Vice President Lewis Bond

The back side of this document is split into 3 columns
The left column reads:
For Value Receive, ___ hereby sell, assign, and transfer unto Miss Ella Sindley Shares of the Capital Stock represented by the within Certificate, and do hereby irrevocably constitute and appoint _____ to transfer the said Stock on the books of the within named Corporation with full power of substitution in the premises.
Dated June 29 1906
Signed by C. H. Brown
Notice. The signature of this assignment must correspond with the name as written upon the face of the certificate in every particular without alteration or enlargement or any change whatever.

The center column reads:
No. 19 Certificate for ___ Shares of the Capital Stock of the Cactus Peak MIning and MIlling Company Issued to ____ dated ____.

The right column does not contain any text, just an ornate and artistic symbol.

Accession No:

2017.002.025