This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Classification: Biography Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/rw/ok.2ADE/57.277 Message Board Post: THE FREMONT COUNTY HERALD. March 2, 1922. "THE BIGGEST MORTGAGE".--Probably the largest mortage ever recorded in Fremont county was entered on the records of the county last week by the county recorder, Miss Ruby Story. The mortgage was for the huge sum of $300,000,000 and was given by the Chicago, Burlington and Quincy Railroad Company to the First National Bank of the City of New York and covers all land owned by the company in Fremont county and other lands belonging to the railroad. Why this railroad needed the money we are unable to determine since it is reported that the C.B. & Q. paid a dividend last year amounting to twenty per cent over and above the regular five per cent. The railroad is contemplating buying a lot of new equipment which will include more cars, six freight engines and six new passenger engines.