Northwest Equipment Company Issued To And Signed On Verso By Charles W. Harkness

1891, Minnesota. Stock certificate for 100 shares. GreenBlack. Engraved vignette of a steam locomotive at train platform. Issued to and signed on verso by <B>CHARLES HARKNESS</B>. <P> The Northwest Equipment Company was organized in 1888. Many of the company founders and shareholders rank among the elite of the banking and business world including John D. Rockefeller and a number of other Standard Oil Company dignitaries. The company leased to the Northern Pacific a large number of steam locomotives and a wide variety of passenger and express cars, finally selling all of its equipment to the reorganized Northern Pacific Railway Company in 1897. </p> Light stamp and punch cancellations not affecting Harkness' signature on verso. Extremely Fine.