Information Sheet

 

 

R         Shannon County Copper Mining Company.

1169                Stock certificates, 1920.

                                    One folder.

 

 

 

These are two stock certificates in the Shannon County Copper Mining Company, issued to Mrs. Ocie Hensley and B. W. Hensley on 1 June 1920 at Eminence in Shannon County, Missouri.  J. E. Bennett was president and A. J. Clark was secretary of the firm.

 

The Shannon County Copper Mining Company was organized on 2 August 1918 and in­corporated in Missouri on 12 August 1918.  Its corporate address was in Eminence, the county seat.  The original incorporators were Raymond H. West, A. J. Clark, L. O. Nieder, and Mrs. Myrtle Friend, all of Mansfield, Missouri.  The company held a mining lease on land just south­east of Eminence.  On 16 December 1919 the shareholders voted to increase the firm’s capitaliza­tion from $100,000 to $1,000,000, and listed many new parcels of land southeast of Eminence as assets.  The company had sunk four shafts and operated two steam boilers, an air compressor, steam hoisters, drills, and pumps, and ore cars and trackage on its property.  This increase brought in many new shareholders, including the president of the firm, J. E. Bennett of Springfield, Mis­souri.  Among the new shareholders were Mrs. Ocie Hensley and B. W. Hensley of Eminence.

 

Included in this collection are stock certificates number 20 (to Mrs. Ocie Hensley) and number 21 (to B. W. Hensley), each for five shares at a par value of $25 each.

 

The Missouri Secretary of State declared the firm’s charter forfeited on 1 January 1922 for reason of failure to file an annual report.

 

 

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