• New Issuer: México- Estado de México- Private Issuer
• Wikkidata (Q104438683) El Oro Mining and Railroad
• Mexican Paper Money (MPM) - Book has them listed under M2831-2835. They would be listed in Numista as MPM#2831-2835
• Issuing Entity will be El Oro Mining & Railroad Co. Ltd.
• El Oro Mining & Railroad Co was a UK company that acquire the El Oro gold and silver mines and to build a railway from the mine connecting with the Mexican National Railway. The El Oro Mining and Railway company ordered a considerable amount in vales from Bouligny & Schmidt, Sucs., of Mexico City. On 13 January 1914 the Mexican Herald reported that "The scarcity of fractional coinage has necessitated the El Oro Mining company and the El Oro Mining and Railway company in El Oro, Mexico, issuing vales of five, ten, twenty-five, and fifty cents and of one peso, to meet the requirements of their weekly pay-rolls. These vales are exchanged when required at the office of the companies, the local bank of the state bank of Mexico, and are accepted at their face value in all commercial houses in making purchases.
