Description

THE CRIPPLE CREEK AND COLORADO SPRINGS

RAILROAD COMPANY, #12, issued 1925, signed by

SPENCER PENROSE

Railroad stock certificate issued December 1, 1925, not cancelled by Company.

Signed by SPENCER PENROSE as president.  Issued to Charles L. Tutt; however, not signed by Tutt.

Condition: near fine; usual folds.

This railroad, originally known as The Colorado Springs & Cripple Creek District Railway ( “The Short Line to Cripple Creek”), was purchased by a concern headed by A. E. Carlton, with Spencer Penrose, Charles Tutt, E. S. Hartwell, Henry Blackmer, and others as investors.  In 1920, after this Company was discontinued by the U.S. Government, Carlton resigned as president and focused his financial attention on the Cripple Creek Central Railroad; Spenrose Penrose resumed the preseidency of The Cripple Creek and Colorado Springs Railroad Company.

An exceedingly scarce and historically significant CRIPPLE CREEK GOLD MINING DISTRICT document.

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