Collis P. Huntington letters to Henry E. Huntington
Description
75 items. Also: copy of letter from Henry E. Huntington to Collis P. Huntington, 1899 June 20; printed map of San Francisco with additions in red ink. Subjects: Union Pacific Railroad, Southern Pacific Railroad, San Francisco real estate, Sonora coal fields, W.H. Holabird, Los Angeles real estate, Utah and Pacific Railroad, Central Pacific Railroad, Colonel Crocker's estate, W.H. Kountz, Market Street Railway stock, copper mine in Arizona, George Crocker, Frank C. Prescott, Paris Exposition.
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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27 items. Also: voucher for cash advance from Southern Pacific Co. to Collis P. Huntington, 1899 October 31 and copy of voucher. Subjects: Sutro Railway, San Francisca real estate, Southern Pacific Co. and Charles Crocker's resignation, William H. Holabird, Central Pacific Railroad.
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.
57 items. Subjects: Southern Pacific Railroad, Occidental & Oriental Steamship Co., San Francisco real estate, Central Pacific Railroad, Galveston properties, Sonora Railroad, Atchison, Topeka & Santa Fe Railroad, Holabird report, Mr. Naugle, Epes Randolph.
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.
45 items. Subjects: Southern Pacific Co., Central Pacific Railroad, Los Angeles Terminal, Russian immigrants in Doukhobor colony, Occidental & Oriental Steamship Co., San Francisco real estate, William H. Holabird report, San Pedro Harbor.
51 items. Also: copy of telegram from Henry E. Huntington to Charles E. Graham and from Graham to Huntington, 1899 December 21; copy of letter from Collis P. Huntington to Mrs. Portus B. Weare, 1899 December 15; note in pencil by W.H., 1900 February 14; Collis P. Huntington account, 1900 January 1. Subjects: San Francisco real estate, Pacific Improvement Co., Guatemala Central Railroad, Southern Pacific Railroad, Atchison, Topeka & Santa Fe Railroad, Oregon and California Railroad, Santa Monica, John P. Jones, Los Angeles real estate, Galveston properties, Central Pacific Railroad.
