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U.S.A.: Sierra Apache Mining Company, $25 shares, Philadelphia 188[2], #1451, with facsimile signature of J. Whitaker Wright as President, black, Kendall Bank Note Co., Mines at Lake Valley, New Mexico. Whitaker Wright was a company promoter based in Philadelphia who made a fortune in Leadville, Colorado and Lake Valley, New Mexico. He returned to England where he carried on the same business floating many companies for mining in Western Australia, British Columbia and elsewhere. He was found guilty of fraud following the collapse of his empire and committed suicide in an ante room of the court. GVF.
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