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Pacific Wood, Lumber and Flume Co., 1877 Certificate of Incorporation.

Currency:USD Category:Collectibles / Western Americana Start Price:70.00 USD Estimated At:120.00 - 200.00 USD
Pacific Wood, Lumber and Flume Co., 1877 Certificate of Incorporation.
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110.00USDto floor+ buyer's premium
This item SOLD at 2012 Oct 20 @ 12:08UTC-4 : AST/EDT
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San Francisco, CA. 1877, Articles of Incorporation signed by James Clair Flood. Includes partners names Flood, Mackay, O'Brien, Barron and Wallace. This corporation was set up for flume and lumbering as well as real estate and other purchases. XF condition. Flood was born in 1826 on Staten Island, N.Y. Flood came to San Francisco a few years after the discovery of gold in California, and tried his luck in mining, the saloon business and then in 1858 went into business as a stock broker. The following year, Flood and O'Brien formed a partnership with fellow Irishmen James Graham Fair and John William Mackay. By 1878 the four partners had made more than $300,000,000: their firm was described as “the richest in America, and prospectively the richest in the world. “ The four-way partnership was commonly known as the Bonanza firm and together they also established the Bank of Nevada in San Francisco, California.