Attractive $1000 bond of the Northern Pacific Railway Company issued November 10, 1896, 10.25 x 15, with 35 coupons intact on the adjoining sheet. The bond boasts magnificent vignettes of a pioneer landscape and two Native American Indians, and is signed at the conclusion by James N. Hill as president (son of famed railroad executive James J. Hill). In fine condition.
The first of the northern transcontinental rail lines, the Northern Pacific was chartered by an act of Congress signed by President Lincoln on July 2, 1864. Construction began in 1870 and the main line opened all the way from the Great Lakes to the Pacific when former President Ulysses S. Grant drove in the final 'golden spike' in western Montana on September 8, 1883.
