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Sierra Grande Mining Company (Benjamin Shoemaker) to Walt Whitman, 20 March 1883

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  • Title: Sierra Grande Mining Company (Benjamin Shoemaker) to Walt Whitman, 20 March 1883
  • Date: March 20, 1883
  • Creator(s): Benjamin Shoemaker
  • Whitman Archive ID: loc.05677
  • Source: The Charles E. Feinberg Collection of the Papers of Walt Whitman, 1839–1919, Library of Congress, Washington, D.C. Transcribed from digital images or a microfilm reproduction of the original item. For a description of the editorial rationale behind our treatment of the correspondence, see our statement of editorial policy.
  • Contributors to digital file: Stefan Schöberlein Blake Bronson-Bartlett Nicole Gray
  • Cite this page: Shoemaker, Benjamin. "Sierra Grande Mining Company (Benjamin Shoemaker) to Walt Whitman, 20 March 1883." The Walt Whitman Archive. Gen. ed. Matt Cohen, Ed Folsom, & Kenneth M. Price. Accessed 20 April 2024. <http://www.whitmanarchive.org>.
  • Source File: loc.05677.xml (TEI)
 loc_ad.00757_large.jpg The Sierra Grande Mining Company of Lake Valley, New Mexico. Transfer Office, 18 Exchange Building. Philadelphia, March 20th, 1883.

Dividend No. 6.1

The Board of Directors have this day declared a dividend (Number 6) of one hundred thousand dollars ($100,000), being twenty-five cents per share, payable at the Transfer Office of the Company on and after April 2d, 1883, to the stockholders then of record. Transfer books close on March 24th, at 3 P.M., and reopen April 3d, at 10 A. M.

By order Benjamin H. Shoemaker, President Attest:—Geo. L. Smedley, Sec.  loc_ad.00756_large.jpg

Notes

  • 1. See the letter from Robert Pearsall Smith to Whitman of February 23, 1883, detailing the transferral of the referenced certificate of stock from Smith to his "friend" Whitman for remainder of the poet's life "may the which be in a far distant future!" [back]
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