Check signed, as President of the Oregon & California Rail Road Company, to George Weidler in the amount of 153

by Ben Holliday

$150 · Offered by James Cummins Bookseller

Partly-printed check lithographed by Britton & Rey. Endorsement signatures on verso. Item #374867 By 1849, when the great race across the plains had begun Holladay already owned wagon trains, gold mines and a fleet of steam boats on the Sacramento River. He continued to expand, purchasing the Overland Mail Express Company and by 1864 had put together a nearly complete monopoly of the stage, mail and freighting business between the Missouri

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