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R         Consolidated Jack Mines Company.

1100                Stock certificate, 1905.

                                    One folder.

 

 

 

This is a certificate for 150 shares of stock in the Consolidated Jack Mines Company, a Washington, D.C., corporation with operations at Duenweg in Jasper County, Missouri.  The cer­tificate was dated 18 March 1905 and issued to A. M. Van Dyke.  Frank Mattes, president, and E. A. Mattes, treasurer, signed the certificate.

 

The Consolidated Jack Mines Company was “incorporated under the laws of the United States Congress for The District of Columbia ... for the purpose of mining in all its branches.”  Organized on 30 January 1904, the firm’s directors were Frank Mattes (president) of Duenweg, Missouri, Stanley R. Snook (treasurer) of Rochester, N.Y., and James A. Black, Eugene Schooley, and James R. Porter of Washington, D.C.  Capitalization was $850,000 in 85,000 shares with a par value of $10 each.  On 11 September 1995 the company’s charter was revoked by the District of Columbia for failure to file an annual report.  Only the firm’s Certificate of Incorporation, re­corded on 1 February 1904, is on file in the District’s archives.

 

Soon after it began operations the company was sued by the Marshall family for the wrong­ful death of a minor son at the firm’s plant in Jasper County (Marshall v. Consolidated Jack Mines Company; 119 Mo App 270, 95 SW 972).  Nothing else is known about the firm’s operations in Jasper County.

 

 

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