Item #30838 HISTORY OF THE FIRST MORTAGE [SIC] 30 YEARS 6 PER CENT PARAMOUNT LIEN BONDS HAVING PRIORITY OVER THE SUBSIDY BONDS OF THE UNITED STATES. ISSUED BY THE ASSIGNED TO CHARLES DURKEE FROM 1865 TO 1869 BY THE UNION AND KANSAS PACIFIC RAILROAD CO., Jacob J. Souder.

HISTORY OF THE FIRST MORTAGE [SIC] 30 YEARS 6 PER CENT PARAMOUNT LIEN BONDS HAVING PRIORITY OVER THE SUBSIDY BONDS OF THE UNITED STATES. ISSUED BY THE ASSIGNED TO CHARLES DURKEE FROM 1865 TO 1869 BY THE UNION AND KANSAS PACIFIC RAILROAD CO., ...

Washington, DC: Stoner & Hughes, printed by, 1912. First edition. Hardcover. Item #30838

Continuation of the title reads, "...and the Central and Western Pacific Railroad Company and by order and demand of President Johnson made on these railroads." An early financial history of the building of the first trans-continental railroad. Charles Durkee was a US Senator and Territorial Governor of Utah. Only one copy found on OCLC, at the University of Chicago. 224 pages plus one page index. Reportedly, only fifty copies printed. Bound in original brown cloth with lettering in gilt. Front cover midly mottled. Corners very lightly bumped. A very good plus copy.

Price: $190.00

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