Also: twenty-four share certificates of South Side Improvement Co. of Kentucky, 1888-1893, and list of shareholders; affidavit by Henry E. Huntington about purchase of interest of Charles L. Brown in the South Side Improvement Co., 1900. Subjects: 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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66 items. Also: newspaper clipping re: death of Moses C. Freeman; letter by Ben Wilson to Collis P. Huntington, 1893 September 8; two proxies for vote at shareholders meeting of Esquimalt Nanaimo Railway Co. and Union Colliery Co., 1893 September 18. Subjects: Port of Los Angeles, Southern California fruit shipments, railroad labor problems, Capital Gas Co., Market Street Railway stock, Collis P. Huntington's house in San Francisco, Oregon and California railroad, Southern Pacific Co., Wells Fargo, Pacific Mail Steamship Co., funds for Henry E. Huntington house, Eugene Clapp, Oakland.
46 items. Also: copy of telegram from Collis P. Huntington to G.L. King, 1893 November 29; copy of letter from Collis P. Huntington to John E. Sexton, 1893 December 6 and Sexton's reply, November 30. Subjects: Edward N. Grant, Huntington-Hopkins Co., San Francisco street railway, San Francisco Oakland ferry, Pacific Improvement Co., Port of Los Angeles, San Francisco electric poles, Southern Pacific Co., Newport News & Shipbuilding, Union Pacific Railroad, Oregon Railway & Navigation Co., Pacific Mail Steamship Co., Collis P. Huntington's house in San Francisco.
Also: receipt from Southern Pacific Co. to Collis P. Huntington, 1892 December 17; two lists of California Pacific Railroad Co. stockholders for 1892 June 7-December 31; letter from Gates to Huntington, 1893 June 13. Subjects: Olympic Club, Market Street Railway stock, Chesapeake & Ohio bonds, Atlanta & Pacific Railroad, Kentucky Central Railroad, Pacific Improvement Co., Collis P. Huntington's health, William H. Baker.
35 items. Also: copy of Statement of East Bound Tonnage from points south of Mohave, 1892 September-1893. Subjects: Oakland waterfront case, Sacramento Capital Gas Co. stock, Southern Pacific Company finances, San Francisco street railways, Market Street Railway, C.G. Hooker, Pacific Mail Steamship Co., Port of Los Angeles, Pacific Improvement Co., Jane Stanford and bonds and Stanford estate.
