Pacific Improvement Company letters to Henry E. Huntington
Description
Also: copy of "General Specifications for Construction of Track for Paving on an Electric Railway; copy of "Resolution by Directors of Pacific Improvement Company," 1899 March 7. Subjects: Market Street Railway Co., Collis P. Huntington's estate.
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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Also: reports by William H. Holabird, 1898 June 13, June 21; newspaper clipping, 1899 March 26; copy of letter from D.T. Bohmer to G.B., 1900 July 30; copy of letter from W.G. Van Vleck to Collis P. Huntington, 1900 August 7; blueprint of map with extension of Hearns & Brazos Valley Railway; copy of memo from J.A. Muir to William F. Herrin, 1900 September 4; copy of telegram from Henry E. Huntington to Muir, 1900 September 24; copy of letter from Henry E. Huntington to Hugh Neill, 1923 February 26. Subjects: Frank Miller, Bixby Ranch, Central Pacific Railroad, Los Angeles Pacific Railway bonds.
Enclosure: 1895 September 26 letter had copy of report by William H. Holabird to Southern Pacific Company, 1895 September 24; 1895 October 14 letter had Holabird report, 1895 October 12; 1896 January 6 letter had letter from D.A. Chambers to C.J. Wilder, 1895 December 30; 1897 May 6 letter had two reports by Holabird, 1897 May 3, 5. Also: vouchers; copy of letter by Holabird to J.A. Muir, 1896 March 20; seven photographs of San Bernardino Mountain Park area, 1897; report and sketch by Holabird, 1897 June 17. Subjects: Market Street Railway Co.
39 items. Also: four copies of schedule of insurance covering paintings in home of Collis P. Huntington in San Francisco; memo; copy of "Report from William H. Holabird, 1899 July 12; copy of letter from ---- Garland to Henry E. Huntington, 1899 July 7; vouchers for payments from Southern Pacific Co., 1899 August 31. Subjects: Market Street Railway stocks, W.H. Kountz, Crocker estate, coal fields in Mexico, Central Pacific Railroad, Paris Exposition.
44 items. Also: report on Russian immigrants in Doukhobor colony, copy of report from W.H. Holabird (probably), 1899 December 4; copy of a voucher from Southern Pacific Co. to Collis P. Huntington, 1899 December 27. Subjects: Market Street Railway earnings, Oregon & California Railroad, Santa Monica beach cottages, Gila Valley, Globe & Northern Railway Co., California bridge over Salinas River, railroad employee relations, San Francisco real estate.
Enclosure: 1894 April 6 letter had construction estimate for Market Street Railway Co. by H.H. Lynch to Charles F. Crocker, 1894 March 1 and cost memo, 1893 October 22; 1897 October 8 letter had copy of letter from S.L. Foster to E.P. Vining, 1897 October 6. Also: two plans of Church Street properties in San Francisco; list of cars owned by various railway companies of San Francisco, 1893 November 6; printed announcements of stockholders' meetings; estimate of rail required for truck construction on streets; list of proportionate number of shares in the capital stock of the Market Street Railway Co. issued; estimates for railway line construction; printed map of San Francisco showing water services of Spring Valley Water Works, 1894; memo (in pencil) about offices rents. Subjects: Oakland and San Francisco railways.
48 items. Note: receipt dated 1893 March is in the handwriting of Henry E. Huntington. Also: draft of telegram from Henry E. Huntington to Collis P. Huntington, 1893 March 2; copy of telegram from G.L. King to Henry E. Huntington, 1893 March 2; copies of letters from Henry E. Huntington to Collis P. Huntington, 1893 February 15, March 6, April 18; copy of Report of Earnings of the Arizona & New Mexico Railroad, 1892; copy of letter from J. Kennedy Tod to Collis P. Huntington, 1893 March 29, and Huntington's reply, April 7; copy of letter from Collis P. Huntington to J.C. Stubbs, 1893 April 24. Subjects: Oregon Pacific Railroad, Oakland Railway, San Francisco Street railways, John P. Raymond, Huntington-Hopkins Co., Santa Monica, Southern Pacific Co., Panama and Cape Horn freight rates, San Pedro, Market Street Railway, Lewis Tasheira.
