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.
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: 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.
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.
72 items. Also: copy of letter from Collis P. Huntington to N.H. Conklin, 1899 November 15; two copies of form of deed between D.O. Miles and Southern Pacific Co. for certain property at Millbrae (Calif.) and two blueprint maps of property, 1899 November. Subjects: Central Pacific Railroad, Union Pacific Railroad, Mrs. Stanford, Stanford property "Twin Peaks," San Francisco real estate, Los Angeles Terminal Railway, Indian School in Riverside, Atchison, Topeka & Santa Fe Railroad, Union Colliery Co., Robert Barker, Pacific Improvement Co.
