Sutro Tunnel Company

Date

1868

Location

New York City, New York

Amount

$$50,000

Signatures

  • Charles Sutro

Description

This stock certificate (No. 74) represents 500 shares in the Sutro Tunnel Company valued at $100 dollars a share. It is signed and owned by the president of the company Charles Sutro. The signature of the president has been crossed out, possibly representing cancellation.

Notable Bond Imagery

In the top left corner of the Sutro Tunnel Company certificate is a vignette of a male miner holding a pickax with both hands. The same picture is located at the bottom left, but as a faded imprinting. At the bottom left of the certificate is a stamp of the United States tax revenue, with a portrait of George Washington in the center

Certificate with black ink shows lettering, seals, signatures, and vignettes of a male miner and a tax stamp George Washington.
The back of this document has ink writing including signatures and legal language
Transcription 
						The Sutro Tunnel Company certificate reads:
Sutro Tunnel Company
City of New York, October 25 1868.
No. 74 | 500 Shares
	This Certifies, that Charles Sutro of illegible is entitled to five hundred Shares of the unassessable Stock, representing One Hundred Dollars, each, of the Sutro Tunnel Company, an incorporation to be formed hereafter, and which shall succeed to the established rights, interests, franchises, powers, privileges and property, real and personal, of an association, known by the same name and title, now in existence under the Laws of the State of Nevada. 
The said Corporation shall have a Capital Stock of Twelve Millions of Dollars, divided into 120,000 Shares, of One Hundred Dollars each; and should said Capital Stock be increased, the holder of this Certificate shall be entitled to his proportion of such increase. 
Certificates, by the said Corporation, will be issued when the same is formed, subject to its Constitution and By-Laws, upon the surrender and cancellation of this Certificate.
Signed Charles Sutro, Duly Authorized Agent of the Association known as the “Sutro Tunnel Company.”

Across the middle of the certificate is the word “Cancelled”

The Back of this certificate states:
	For Value received I hereby transfer the within certificate to Wut & Co.
San Francisco, October 20 1868
Charles Sutro

Received to Wut & Co. together with others in Certificate No. 69 in lieu hereof

Accession No:

2017.002.088