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.
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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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.
Note: 1898 November 14 letter enclosed in Hood letter to Huntington, 1989 November 21. Also: blueprint copy of map of California, Utah, and Nevada showing in color, area inspected and blueprint of route profile; blueprint map of area showing alternative routes. Subjects: Southern Pacific Railroad route from Sevier Valley to Escalante Desert, Utah for extension of Rio Grande Western Railroad and routes in vicinity of Cove Fort, Milford, and Beaver, Utah.
68 items. Also: copy of financial report of Nevada-California-Oregon Railway; Resolution re: bond issue of Southern Pacific Railroad Co. of New Mexico; copy of memo showing lot sold by Mrs. Darling; copy of telegram with note by Julius Kruttschnitt; letter from S.P. Doane to Collis P. Huntington, 1898 December 3; invoice for two paintings by Giovanni Battista Piazzetta to Collis P. Huntington, 1898 December 19. Subjects: Santa Monica wharf, Central Pacific Railroad, California politics, San Francisco to Los Angeles railroad, Southern Pacific Co., George Crocker, Los Angeles street railway, Nevada-California-Oregon Railroad, San Francisco real estate, Pacific Improvement Co.
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.
Also: blueprint map, with color added, fo railway system in Southern California; clipping re: Southern Pacific Railroad; three memos about railway routes. Subjects: Atchison, Topeka & Santa Fe Railroad.
53 items. Enclosure: copy of report by G.B. Reynolds on coal lands near Coos Bay, Oregon, 1898 December 16. Also: copy of two reports by William H. Holabird related to Santa Anna & Newport Railroad, 1899 January 3, 7; copy of letter from Henry E. Huntington to Thomas H. Hubbard. Subjects: Nevada politics, Central Pacific Railroad, Southern Pacific Co., San Francisco real estate, Market Street Railway.
