Also: copy of telegram from Hood to Henry E. Huntington, 1892 August 7 and two memos; report on cost of building breakwater at Santa Monica Bay; blueprint map of Great Salt Lake area; blueprint map of Santa Monica Bay showing location of proposed breakwater. Subjects: Santa Monica, Los Angeles port, railroad ties.
gift of Edwards H. Metcalf, Collis H. Holladay, Jr., November 1981.
Gift of Southern California Transit District, December 1981.
gift of Alta California, January 1982.
Purchased from Frances Russell, March 1982.
Provenance unknown. In library as of January 1986.
gift of Collis H. Holladay, Jr., February 1992.
transferred from Ephemera, September 1992.
Gift of March 2001.
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54 items. Also: memo regarding use of pier at Port Los Angeles and Santa Monica harbor by the Atchison, Topeka & Sante Fe Railway system; copy of resolution regarding Central Pacific Railroad Co. dividends; memo in pencil; copy of letter from Collis P. Huntington to L.W. Kennedy, 1896 June 17 and letter from Kennedy to Collis P. Huntington, 1896 June 11; typewritten note from Henry E. Huntington to William Hood on June 18th letter; copy of telegram from Henry E. Huntington to Collis P. Huntington, 1896 June 24. Subjects: Collis P. Huntington's house in San Francisco, Southern Pacific Railroad, Coos Bay coal mines, California politics, Pullman cars, Market Street Railway, Oregon Pacific Railroad, Los Angeles Hotel, Huntington-Hopkins Co., Pacific Improvement Co., petroleum rights, gift to YMCA, warehouse, Willard V. Huntington.
35 items. Enclosure: 1894 May 31 letter had copy of letter from Epes Randolph to Henry E. Huntington, 1894 May 24. Also: memo by W.G. Curtis regarding Colonel Mendell and Santa Monica breakwater, 1894 May 23. Subjects: Market Street Railway, Crocker estate, Pacific Improvement Co., Southern Pacific Co. securities, Port of Los Angeles, San Pedro, Oakland Railway, Huntington-Hopkins Co.
Also: estimate of cost of building San Francisco Bay shore line; report of cost of branch railroads built by Southern Pacific Co. in Southern California, and 3 related memos; cost report on Southern California Motor Road to Riverside, with copy, 1898 June 20; report on expenditures and distances on route: Pomona, China, Riverside, California; report of W.D. Gelette of routes in vicinity of Cove Fort, Milford, Beaver, Utah, 1898 November 14; blueprint showing Menvel, Blake, Cadiz, California route; report by George W. Boschke to William Hood re: Nevada-California-Oregon railway, 1898 December 29; blueprint map showing route of Nevada-California-Oregon railway. Subjects: Southern Pacific Company routes, Pacific Improvement Company.
50 items. Also: letter and telegram from Jay H. Northrop to Henry E. Huntington, 1891 October 11, 12; copy of letter from Henry E. Huntington to Northrup, 1891 October 26; copies of letters to C.L. Brown, Northrup, and Joseph S. Woolfolk from Henry E. Huntington, 1891 October 27; telegram from Collis P. Huntington to Henry E. Huntington, and copy of telegram from Henry E. Huntington to Northrup, 1892 February 29; letter from Collis P. Huntington to Henry E. Huntington, 1892 July 21; excerpts from letters from Collis P. Huntington to Henry E. Huntington, 1892 August 15; letter from W.D. Gilette to Henry E. Huntington, 1892 August 8; letter from Collis P. Huntington to Henry E. Huntington, 1892 August 15. Subjects: Big Sandy Railroad, Epes Randolph, Kentucky Central Railroad, Ashland Improvement Co. stock, Southern California Co., Southern California fruit production, Santa Monica breakwater, San Francisco street railways.
49 items. Enclosure: 1898 June 21 letter had letter from William Hood to Henry E. Huntington, with cost report, 1898 June 20. Also: copy of telegram from P.R. Thompson to Henry E. Huntington, 1898 June 4; copies of two reports on John Cross, 1894-1895; copy of a "Statement of Cost of Southern California Motor Road, complete to May 31, 1898;" memo on cash increases, leading stations, first five months, 1898; blueprint map showing Southern Pacific line Ontario-Chino-Pomona; copy of letter from William McLaughlin to Collis P. Huntington, 1898 June 17; copy of rough sketch of Los Angeles Terminal Railway property. Subjects: Holladay house, Oakland Railway, Chino Valley Railroad, Olympic Club bonds, California politics, San Francisco Street railway.
