Fort Worth & Rio Grande Railway Co. - 1900\'s dated Fully Issued Texas Railroad S For Sale

Fully Issued Stock printed by Franklin Bank Note Co., New York. The Fort Worth and Rio Grande Railway, chartered under the laws of Texas on June 1, 1885, was part of a plan conceived by Buckley Burton Paddock and other Fort Worth civic leaders to create a transcontinental route linking New York, Fort Worth, and the Pacific port of Topolobampo, which they believed would stimulate the growth and development of southwest Texas in general, and the economy of Fort Worth in particular. With financial backing from the Item ordered may not be exact piece shown. All original and authentic.

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