Rare Books
The fogs and fog signals of the Pacific coast of the United States. : Published for the use of shipmasters, owners and agents interested in the commerce and navigation of the Pacific coast
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"CLASSIFICATION: New Lines. SUBJECT: Southern Pacific of Mexico RRCo of Mexico -- Extensions and Completion of Existing Main Line and Branches. NOTE: Correspondence in August 1912, on suit of Lewis Warfield vs. General Miller, President of the Galena Signal Oil Company, and L.F. Loree for $6,000,000, in connection with the affairs of the Occidental Construction Company, which originally had in mind the construction of a line from Guaymas to Orendain or Guadalajara. - is filed in 089-L. (Loree)." Also another note on cover mentioning a book titled "Mexican West Coast and Lower California: A Commercial and Industrial Survey," published by the Bureau of Foreign and Domestic Commerce, U.S. Dept. of Commerce, 1923. File No. 310-973, Part 1. From (~1.5 inches). VERY useful file
Manuscripts
These materials, consisting primarily of correspondence but also including maps, news clippings, photographs, and blueprints, are arranged and bound by topic according to the Southern Pacific's internal organizational schema. There are 160 individual bound items in these 23 boxes. Each grouping is in reverse chronological order as it was originally filed by SP de México administrators. Collection has material in English and Spanish.
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