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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;BUncirculated, post: 1533175, member: 29581&quot;]<span style="color: #333333"><font face="Arial">In the middle of 1913, because of the disruption in communications and the scacity of small change, certain companies in Parral and the surrounding area began to issue their own fractional paper currency. These <i>valores de trabajo</i> were payable to the bearer on presentation in the company&#039;s offices as soon as communications were restored (<i>al portador una vez que se reanuden las comunicaciones, en sus oficinas de esta ciudad, á la presentación de esto</i>).</font></span></p><p><span style="color: #333333"><font face="Arial">Many businesses and individuals were unwilling to accept some of these <i>vales</i>, and General Manuel Chao issued a circular calling upon the issuers to formally request permission and to offer adequate guarantees. In consequence, on 22 September 1913 Chao issued a decree that people should accept the notes of the Compañía Ferrocarril Parral y Durango; the Alvarado Mining and Milling Company; the San Francisco del Oro Mining Company; the Concurso Mexico Consolidated Mining and Smelting Company; San Pedro, Guanaceví and E.T.Notts, Guanaceví, and not accept the Fundicion de Fierro y Bronce, the El Rayo Mining and Development Company, the Mina La Cumbre y La Bufa or any other company that was not on the list of acceptable notes </font></span></p><p><span style="color: #333333"><font face="Arial"><br /></font></span></p><p><span style="color: #333333"><font face="Arial"><a href="http://www.papermoneyofchihuahua.com/the-history/private-issues/vales-in-parral.html" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="http://www.papermoneyofchihuahua.com/the-history/private-issues/vales-in-parral.html" rel="nofollow">http://www.papermoneyofchihuahua.com/the-history/private-issues/vales-in-parral.html</a></font></span>[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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