Also: specifications for private car for Henry E. Huntington; memo re: finish and refurnishings of private car, 1915 February 20; blueprint showing 16-E-20 of private Pullman car showing structural bolster and platform.
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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Enclosures: 1903 September 9 letter had cost sheets of lands acquired for Pacific Electric Railway Co., from Los Angeles Land Co., and copies of correspondence between Henry E. Huntington and C.A. Henderson, 1902 August-September; 1905 March 2 letter had letter from John Earle Jarding to George S. Patton, 1905 March 1. Also: blueprint map showing lands acquired for Right-of-Way for the Pacific Electric Railway Co.; copies of letters from Huntington to Huntington Land & Improvement Co., 1904 May 20, May 21; copies of letters from Huntington to E.G. Wood, 1904 May 12, 25; letter from Huntington to E.W. Boehme, 1905 October 10; copy of letter from Huntington to Patton, 1905 January 24 and envelope advertising Huntington properties in Alhambra, California; letter from Huntington Land & Improvement Co. to Patton, 1906 October 27; copies of letters from Huntington to Patton, 1905 October 31, 1906 November 13; letters from Patton to Huntington, 1906 October 30, November 8; statements of lots sold from Huntington Land & Improvement Co. to Patton, 1906-1908; statement of disbursements for Howard Huntington house from August 1906 to June 1907. Subjects: California and Santa Monica real estate, Pasadena Country Club, Oak Grove Improvement Co., San Marino land development.
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.
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.
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.
