Also: seven memos re: earnings and expenses on railway lines; copies of excerpts from letter by James L. Hill and Frances E. Clark, 1897 July; memo on Requirements of San Pablo Avenue lines to be continued through winter as cable road. Subjects: Eastside Railway Co. in Oregon, Southern Pacific Co., Mrs. Stanford, Market Street Railway Co., Pacific Improvement Co., Colonel Crocker's health, Central Pacific Railroad Co., Oakland railways, Occidental & Oriental Steamship Co., Oakland waterfront property.
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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Subjects: Eastside Railway Co., Oregon, San Francisco Street Railways, Market Street Railway, Southern Pacific Company, railroad strike, Louis T. Barney, Jane Stanford, Pacific Improvement Co., Oakland railroads, Crocker's death, Central Pacific Railroad, Occidental & Oriental Co.
Also: memo re: cost of removal of old track on San Pablo Avenue and conversion to electric power, 1897 October 6; copies of notes to Collis P. Huntington from Henry E. Huntington; copy of letter from Henry E. Huntington to Collis P. Huntington, 1897 October 30; statement of receipts and disbursements of East Oakland Railroad Co., 1897 January-September and press copy; copy of letter from Frank S. Douty to Henry E. Huntington, 1898 October 12. Subjects: Oakland railways, Mrs. Stanford, Market Street Railway stock, I.W. Hellman, Oakland waterfront property, Southern Pacific Co.
52 items. Enclosure: 1897 October 18 letter had copy of letter from Henry E. Huntington to C.S. Mellen, 1897 October 8; 1897 October 22 letter had letter from C.S. Mellen to Henry E. Huntington, 1897 October 18. Also: copy of statement of earnings "Sunset Limited," 1896-1897. Subjects: Southern Pacific Co., Pacific Improvement Co., coal freights, Collis P. Huntington's house in San Francisco, San Francisco & San Joaquin Valley Railroad, Newport News Shipbuilding & Dry Dock Co., Market Street Railway, coal freights, Occidental & Oriental Steamship Co., Lewis H. Mulligan, Central Pacific Railroad stock, Oakland Railway, Hotel del Monte, Carson City Railroad, Virginia & Truckee Railroad, Oakland waterfront.
Also: two items from "The Wave," 1897 December 11; copy of letter from Henry E. Huntington to Collis P. Huntington, 1898 September 28; financial statement "C.P. Huntington Cloverleaf Account," related to the Toledo, St. Louis & Western Co., 1900-1907. Subjects: Market Street Railway stock, Pacific Improvement Co., Oakland railroads, Southern Pacific Co., Charles Crocker.
81 items. Also: copy of letter from Collis P. Huntington to W.H. Mills, 1893 July 11. Subjects: San Francisco street railways, Huntington-Hopkins Co., railroad strike, Southern Pacific Railroad Co., Oakland Railway, Union Pacific coal rates, Port of Los Angeles, Pacific Mail Steamship Co., California politics, Market Street Railway, Oregon and California Railroad, railroad labor problems, Oakland Waterfront case, John P. Raymond, Oakland-San Francisco ferry.
34 items. Also: copies of telegrams from Henry E. Huntington to Collis P. Huntington, 1893 January 31; copy of letter from Collis P. Huntington to J.L. Willcott, 1893 February. Subjects: San Francisco street railways, Oakland Railway, California Pacific Railroad Co., Oregon Pacific Railroad, California politics, Collis P. Huntington's house in San Francisco, Oakland Waterfront case, Santa Monica, Southern Pacific Co., J.P. Jones property.
