Collis P. Huntington letters to Charles F. Crocker
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Also: memorandum of general expenses of Union Colliery Co., 1892-1896, and memorandum of general expenses of Esquimalt & Nanaimo Railroad Co., 1892-1896. Subjects: San Francisco Street Railway, Market Street Railway, Grove Johnson campaign in California, Pacific Improvement Co.
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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66 items. Also: newspaper clipping re: death of Moses C. Freeman; letter by Ben Wilson to Collis P. Huntington, 1893 September 8; two proxies for vote at shareholders meeting of Esquimalt Nanaimo Railway Co. and Union Colliery Co., 1893 September 18. Subjects: Port of Los Angeles, Southern California fruit shipments, railroad labor problems, Capital Gas Co., Market Street Railway stock, Collis P. Huntington's house in San Francisco, Oregon and California railroad, Southern Pacific Co., Wells Fargo, Pacific Mail Steamship Co., funds for Henry E. Huntington house, Eugene Clapp, Oakland.
68 items. Also: letter from A.K. Grim to Collis P. Huntington, 1897 September 8; note by A.B. Worthington; copy of letter from Collis P. Huntington to Frank A. Miller, 1897 October 19. Subjects: Collis P. Huntington's house in San Francisco, Market Street Railway, Santa Monica, Southern Pacific Railroad, Northern Pacific Railroad Co., Puget Sound coal mines, Oakland waterfront, employee relations, Union Colliery Co., Esquimalt & Nanaimo Railroad Co., Newport News Shipbuilding & Dry Dock Co., Ensign Manufacturing Co., Vancouver lands, fruit shipped, Atchison, Topeka & Santa Fe Railroad, Carson City, Nevada, coal freight rates, Hotel Del Monte, Occidental & Oriental Steamship Co., Frank A. Miller, Mission Inn, Riverside, Owen's Lake, "Sunset Limited," Central Pacific Railroad, Pacific Mail Steamship Co.
60 items. Also: copy of letter from E.P. Ripley to Henry E. Huntington, 1899 November 18; table of Oakland Railroad earnings and expenses, 1898-1899; two maps showing location of coal properties; report of dividend paid by Huntington-Hopkins Co. to Collis P. Huntington, Charles W. Miller and W.R.S. Foye; copy of voucher from Southern Pacific Co. to Collis P. Huntington, 1899 November 29. Subjects: Union Colliery Co., San Francisco real estate, Henry E. Huntington's position at Southern Pacific Co., Indian School in Riverside, Pullman Co., telegraphers agreement, Market Street Railway stock, Pacific Improvement Co., Oakland Railway, Washington coal mines.
41 items. Also: memorandum of Special Tickets issued and note, 1892-1893; mem re: cost of Telegraph Avenue electric line, 1893 June 1; telegram from Collis P. Huntington to Henry E. Huntington, 1893 June 28. Subjects: Olympic Club bonds, Huntington-Hopkins Co., railroad labor problems, San Francisco street railways, Pacific Mail Steamship Co., California Gold Book (call number: 1466), Oakland Railway, Epes Randolph, Pacific Improvement Co., Union Pacific coal rates, Market Street Railway Co., North America Navigation Co., Panama Railroad.
35 items. Also: copy of Statement of East Bound Tonnage from points south of Mohave, 1892 September-1893. Subjects: Oakland waterfront case, Sacramento Capital Gas Co. stock, Southern Pacific Company finances, San Francisco street railways, Market Street Railway, C.G. Hooker, Pacific Mail Steamship Co., Port of Los Angeles, Pacific Improvement Co., Jane Stanford and bonds and Stanford estate.
42 items. Also: copy of telegram from George E. Miles to Henry E. Huntington, 1893 March 11; Report on Ferries & Cliff House Railway Co., 1892 December 31. Subjects: Oregon Pacific Railroad, Pacific Improvement Co. and William E. Brown, San Francisco street railways, Oakland Railway, Santa Monica Wharf, Golden Gate Park, California legislature, A.N. Towne, J.P. Jones.
