COLORADO. NEW YORK. 6% First Mortgage Gold Bond of $1000. brown, black. No 27. Vignette of an elk at the top and a train crossing a bridge at the bottom. Formed 1887 and purchased by the Crystal River RR in 1898. At that time, the Elk Mountain Railway had just built 31 miles of railroad track between Sands and Prospect, Colorado. Only 2 pieces known.