3-085-887 - The Print Collector/Heritage Images

Advertisement for the Salsadella Lithographic Stone Quarry, Ltd., 1898. 'The Subscription List will OPEN on Monday, Feb. 28,1898, and CLOSE on or before Wednesday, March 1...CAPITAL - £120,000, In 120,000 Shares of £1 each, of which 71,667 are now offered to the public at par...This Company has been formed to acquire, work, and develop the valuable and extensive Lithographic Stone Quarry of Clotazos at Salsadella, in the Province of Castellon de la Plana, Spain, and the concession of the Consuelo Mine on the same property...FORM OF APPLICATION FOR SHARES. To be cut out, filled up, and forwarded with cheque for the amount, payable on application to the Company's Bankers, the City Bank, Limited, Threadneedle Street, London, E.C. Salsadella Lithographic Stone Quarry, LIMITED...[at La Salzadella, Castellón]...When it is borne in mind that maps, plans, architectural and mechanical drawings...copies of old prints and pictures, photographs...and advertisements are produced by lithography, it will be seen that the discovery of a quarry like that of Salsadella may mean the development of a business which will prove the means of introducing into a poor country like Spain capital from England and elsewhere...'. From "Illustrated London News", 1898.