Enclosed in: B.A. Worthington to Henry E. Huntington, 1895 September 24; Curtis to Henry E. Huntington, 1895 September 6; Collis P. Huntington to N.W. Griswold, 1896 January 9. Also: two reports re: car mileage on Southern Pacific systems, 1894-1895.
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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60 items. Enclosure: 1896 July 11 letter had copy of letter from Collis P. Huntington to William H. Mills, 1896 July 11. Also: list of plumbing fixtures and fittings and Bill of Lading for shipment from New York; two telegrams from Collis P. Huntington and B.A. Worthington to Henry E. Huntington, 1896 July 23. Subjects: Southern Pacific hospitals, Nippon Yusen Kaisaha shipping, Collis P. Huntington gift to the YMCA, politics, the silver party, and William Mills, Collis P. Huntington's house in San Francisco, Santa Barbara water supply, Willard V. Huntington, Grove L. Johnson, Hiram Johnson, California politics, California Pacific Railroad, financial and funding bills, J.J. Cullenden and Harry N. Morse (detectives), Henry E. Huntington's health, Toyo Kaisaha Steamship Co.
76 items. Enclosure: 1896 May 11 letter had copy of letter from W.G. Curtis to William Mahl, 1896 January 27 and Report of Taxes Paid in California by Central Pacific Railroad Co., 1863-1895. Also: copy of letter from J.A. Muir to William H. Mills, 1896 January 27; copy of minutes of Southern Pacific Railroad Co. Director's Meeting, 1896 April 14; copy of memo regarding right of way on Sacramento levee, copy of telephone message from Jack B. Wright, 1896 May 6; copies of letter from B.A. Worthington to Henry E. Huntington. Subjects: Huntington-Hopkins Co., Adolph Sutro, funding bill, electricity in Sacramento, Collis P. Huntington's house in San Francisco, Market Street Railway annual report, James de Barth Shorb's and Dennis Spencer's deaths, Grove L. Johnson, Central Pacific Railroad, Colonel Crocker, Santa Monica, J.D. Spreckels, Hiram Johnson and California politics, Pacific Improvement Co., Los Angeles Hotel, Atlantic & Pacific Railroad.
