Sentence:  At about the time the Marsden enterprise was getting under way , the Vail Light and Lumber Company started construction of a chair <WSD>stock</WSD> factory on the site of the present Bennington Co-operative Creamery , intending to use its surplus power for generating electricity . 
Meaning of the word marked with <WSD> tags:  the capital raised by a corporation through the issue of shares entitling holders to an ownership interest (equity)