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Bill of Exchange Consolidated Kansas City Smelting & Refining Co.1896 /Tax Stamp
Bill of Exchange Consolidated Kansas City Smelting & Refining Co.1896 /Tax Stamp

Bill of Exchange Consolidated Kansas City Smelting & Refining Co.1896 /Tax Stamp

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    Description

    Bill of Exchange - Consolidated Kansas City Smelting and Refining Company Primera Bank Check (No.
    4507
    ) dated June 6th, 1896 in the amount of 0 pesos with one
    5 Centavos tax
    stamp on the back.
    Check measures 3-1/4 x 8-3/8 inches, Printer: Union Bank Note Co. K.C. Mo.
    The smelter -- with a 200-foot smokestack -- was the largest concern of its kind in the world. It cover 10 acres of a 19 acre site, and furnished one-fifth of all the silver bars smelted in the U.S. and one-fifth of the pig lead. With ores for processing shipped from North and South America, Argentina was known as the "Silver Refining Capital of the World." The smelter was organized in 1880 with ,000 capital. In 1882 the plant was enlarged to twice its original capacity and the capital stock to 0,00. After the consolidation in 1887 of the Arkansas Valley Smelter, the El Paso Smelting Works, the Eagle Pass, Laredo and Mexican Ore Companies and the Kansas City Smelting And Refining Company, the capital stock was increased to million. The Smelter was closed in October 1901. The smokestack -- the world's largest in 1884 -- was torn down in 1958 to make way for a sewer project.