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Auction: 312 - Numismatic Collector's Series Sale
Lot: 3156

Kentucky Mineral & Timber (NJ) 1892. $1000. 5% First Mortgage Gold Bond. Cs. Red. Miners push ore cart from tunnel. Timbered mountains beyind. Signed by Thomas Fortune Ryan as secretary.VF. [9]Thomas Fortune Ryan (1851-1928) acquired New York City street railway franchises with August Belmont, and literally controlled transportation within New York City until 1906. He later organized the American Tobacco Company, and had extensive interests in the Seaboard Air Line Railroad, the Equitable Life Assurance Society, as well as in coal companies in Ohio, West Virginia and Kentucky.

Estimate
$600 to $800