Collis P. Huntington letters to Henry E. Huntington
Description
56 items. Also: note from George E. Miles; list of Central Pacific stock outstanding in California. Subjects: Southern Pacific Co., Huntington-Hopkins Co., Los Angeles Terminal railway property, Nevada-California-Oregon Railroad, San Francisco real estate, George Crocker, S.P. Doane, Nevada politics, Santa Ana & Newport Railroad, Henry E. Huntington being elected Vice President of Southern Pacific Co. and Collis P. Huntington as President, Oakland Railway, Union Pacific Railroad, mortgage on lots of Willard Huntington, Market Street Railway stock, Los Angeles real estate, Central Pacific Railroad stock.
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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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.
46 items. Also: article proposed for publication about Southern Pacific Railroad; extract of letter from Clara Huntington Perkins Young to Collis P. Huntington, 1900 February. Subjects: J.D. Spreckles, San Francisco real estate, Collis P. Huntington's house in San Francisco, Nevada coal, Carson & Colorado Railroad, Atchison, Topeka & Santa Fe Railroad, George Crocker, Dr. Stebbins, Nevada Central Railroad, Pacific Improvement Co., Central Pacific Railroad.
64 items. Also: copy of voucher issued to Collis P. Huntington for cash advance, 1899 June 28. Subjects: William H. Holabird, Union Pacific Railroad, San Francisco real estate, Southern Pacific Co., Newport News Shipbuilding & Dry Dock Co., coal fields in Mexico, Willard V. Huntington, Market Street Railway stock, Charles Crocker estate, Los Angeles real estate, copper mines in Arizona, Los Angeles Terminal, Los Angeles Railway Co., Jane Stanford, Gila Valley, Globe & Northern Railway Co.
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.
64 items. Also: copies of vouchers from Southern Pacific Co. to Collis P. Huntington, 1900 March 31, April 30; copy of letter from Henry E. Huntington to William F. Herrin, 1900 June 8. Subjects: Russian immigrants in Doukhobor colony, Columbia River coal property, Southern Pacific Co., Nevada Central Railroad, San Francisco real estate, Central Pacific Railroad, Collis P. Huntington's house in San Francisco, Santa Monica, Los Angeles Terminal, Occidental & Oriental Steamship Co., Sonora Railroad, Epes Randolph, coal fields in Mexico.
75 items. Also: copy of letter from Henry E. Huntington to Collis P. Huntington, 1899 June 20; printed map of San Francisco with additions in red ink. Subjects: Union Pacific Railroad, Southern Pacific Railroad, San Francisco real estate, Sonora coal fields, W.H. Holabird, Los Angeles real estate, Utah and Pacific Railroad, Central Pacific Railroad, Colonel Crocker's estate, W.H. Kountz, Market Street Railway stock, copper mine in Arizona, George Crocker, Frank C. Prescott, Paris Exposition.
