ROY STONE HYDRAULIC MINING & DREDGING CO. Stock 1882. CT. GREAT HISTORY. VF+++

Description

The
Roy Stone Hydraulic Mining and Dredging Company
. Stock issued June 13,
1882 at Hartford, Connecticut
. Incorporated in the State of Connecticut. Embossed company seal lower left (unique ‘parallelogram’ with “ROY STONE H.M.&D. COMPANY” inside). Certificate
No. 417
was issued to George Metcalfe for 100 shares of capital stock (Par Value per share). Company capital was
,000,000
. Hand signed by company
president Leavitt Hunt (see bio below)
and company treasurer George B. Upham. Certificate is about 6.5” x 10”. Black print on vellum paper.
Vignette with a large dredge working to remove river gravels and sands around a ship wreck.
Amazing historical background of Civil War General and prominent civil engineer Roy Stone (company owner/founder) and 1850s photography pioneer Leavitt Hunt (company president).
The Roy Stone Hydraulic Mining and Dredging Company was founded in 1882 by Roy Stone in Hartford, Connecticut. Roy Stone (1836 – 1905) was born in Plattsburg, New York – his family had been among the early settlers of the region.
In
1861, Stone joined the Union Army in the Civil War
with many of his lumbermen who called themselves the
"Bucktails"
, the
Kane Rifle Regiment of the Pennsylvania Reserve Corps
. Major
Roy Stone led several Union companies of Bucktails into many successful battles with the Confederates
. Ten more "Bucktail" regiments followed, and Stone was promoted to Colonel in 1862. In July 1863,
Colonel Roy Stone led his Regiments into the Battle of Gettysburg, which ended on July 3, the Union forces under General George G. Meade having defeated General Lee
. Stone then would
command in the Battle of the Wilderness
, and on July 7, 1864, Stone was
promoted to Brigadier General, effective September 7, 1864, "for gallant services during the war and especially at Gettysburg."
Following the war, Stone practiced the profession of civil and mechanical engineer.
He experimented with forms of mass transit, including a
form of elevated railway that he invented, which was displayed in Philadelphia during the 1876 Centennial Exposition
. The rail track of the Centennial grounds was built with support of the
West End Passenger Railway Company
, who also controlled the narrow-gauge railway encompassing the entire enclosure.
The “road/track” was the invention of General Roy Stone, of Elmira, New York.
His company,
Roy Stone Hydraulic Mining and Dredging Company, was established in 1882 (little is documented regarding the company's history).
Stone’s interest in mass transit led to
work with prominent Long Island businessmen who planned to construct a tunnel from Ravenswood to Manhattan to link the Long Island Rail Road and the New York Central and Hudson River Railroad (The tunnels would eventually become part of the Queensboro Subway.)
. On July 22, 1887, the
New York and Long Island Railroad Company was incorporated, with Roy Stone as one of the Board of Directors
.
Stone
eventually became
President
of the corporation before stepping down in 1890. He also was
connected with a number of large engineering enterprises
, including the blowing up of the
Hell Gate Rocks
and the removal of the
sand bars from the New York Harbor
. The increasing use of steel made possible still larger ships entering the harbor, thus necessitating further harbor improvements.
The first contract for work on the Gedney Channel was awarded to The Roy Stone Hydraulic Mining and Dredging Company of New York on February 7, 1885
. He guaranteed to provide a channel two hundred feet wide and twenty-eight feet deep, extending from the sea to the Narrows. Roy Stone's revised
project included dredging of the Gedney and Main Channels
. Among
Stone's inventions during the period was a suction dredge for harbor work
. General Stone also took up the
cause of Federal legislation to improve roads, waterways and harbors in the United States during the 1890s.
Leavitt Hunt (1831–1907) was a Harvard-educated attorney and photography pioneer who was one of the first people to photograph the Middle East.
He traveled to Egypt, the Holy Land, Lebanon, Turkey and Greece in 1851–1852
, making one o
f the earliest photographic records of the Arab and ancient worlds
, including the Great Sphinx and the Great Pyramid of Giza, views along the Nile River, the ruins at Petra and the Parthenon in Greece.
Hunt's photographs were dazzling, especially for a brand-new medium many had never seen before.
Hunt later returned to America where he took a second law degree, this one from Harvard. He began
practicing law in New York City
until the outbreak of the American
Civil War
, when he enlisted as lieutenant on the staff of General Heintzelman. Eventually he was promoted to
lieutenant colonel for bravery at the Battle of Malvern Hill
.
Hunt subsequently attained the rank of full colonel and assistant adjutant general in the Union Army.
Condition:  Very Fine+++
, light folds, very minor creasing, no tears, light signs of wear/handling/toning (see photos),
uncancelled.
Printer:
Forbes Co., Boston.
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