Salt Lake Tribune | 1904-07-31 | Page 3 | Valuable Stocks Lost

VALUABLE STOCKS LOST. Certificates Representing Nearly Thirty Million Dollars Disappear. BALTIMORE, Md., July 30. Gov. Edwin Warfield has begun his semiannual semi-annual inspection of the State's securities securi-ties stored in the vaults' of the Safe Deposit De-posit and Trust company, seeking particularly par-ticularly stock supposed to be held by the State in the, Chesapeake . Ohio canal, ca-nal, but failed to find It. Whether the stock was ever Issued, or whether, if Issued, it has been lost, is a mystery. The State's Interests in the waterway amounts to 529,052,724. This sum has been largely increased by interest accumulating. accu-mulating. The canal Is now controlled by trustees trus-tees representing interests of the Baltimore Balti-more & Ohio railroad. The Western Maryland railroad, the extension of the Wabash lo Tidewater, wants to buy the canal for railroad purposes, and Gov. Warfield wants the stocks at the consideration of the question of sale by the Board of Public Works next week.