Manuscripts

(12) AGENCIES LEDGER, NO. 1, AUDITOR

Description: March 1881 through December 1883. A special printed from filled out in manuscript. Each page is an account with one of the railroad's station agents for a month, with daily entries.
Type: Manuscripts(Opens in new tab)
Production date: 1862-1950.
Call number: NR 11
Provenance: Purchased from H. A. Levinson, February 27, 1963.; Purchased from Yale Brown, May 16, 1963.
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(2) AGENT'S LEDGER NO. 4

Manuscripts

For period December 1887 through January 1891. A special printed form filled out in manuscript. Each page is an account with one of the railroad's station agents for a month with daily entries. Records the amount of business done by each station.

NR 9

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(5) PASSENGER STATISTICS NO. 1

Manuscripts

Months of July 1887 through December 1888. Special printed form filled out in manuscript. Each page is for a different station and for a month. Shows number of passengers from each station to each other station on the V. & T. and the C. & C.

NR 3

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(10) WAY BILL REGISTER NO. 1

Manuscripts

Records way-bills from March 21, 1881 through April 30, 1884. This is the first way bill register of the railroad. A special printed form filled out in manuscript. Records point of origin, destination and charges.

NR 15

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(13) PASSENGER STATISTICS NO.1

Manuscripts

Month of July 1887 through July 1888. Special printed form filled out in manuscript. Each page is for a different station for a month. Shows number of passengers from each station to each other station on the V. & T. and C. & C. This is a companion record to V. & T. R. R. record, item 5.

NR 12

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(1) EXHIBIT OF RECEIPTS AND OPERATING EXPENSES

Manuscripts

This is a record for seventeen years, by months, for the years 1873 through 1889. A special printed form filled out in manuscript. Doubtless, this was a confidental record for the private use of the railroad's owners. This period includes the years of the Big Bonanza. The fabulous prosperity of the railroad and the Comstock during this period is indicated by the dividends paid. For the years 1876, 1877 and 1878 dividends averaged about $750,000 per year. Since it records concisely, the operating financial information accumulated from the many records of the company, it is most valuable for a study of the railroad during this period. Receipts are classified as from freight, passenger, ores, wood, lumber, weighing and miscellaneous. Disbursements are shown for train service, locomotive service, telegraph service, repairs, loss and damage to freight and property, etc. Of special interest are the manuscript notations of the payment of dividends, interest, the purchase of rails, payments to the contractors for the Carson and Colorado Railroad, etc.

NR 4

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C. & C. R.R. Co. - Agencies Ledger

Manuscripts

The collection consists of materials related to railroads built in Nevada and eastern California in connection with the Comstock Lode in Virginia City, Nevada, and other mining booms in Nevada and California (mainly in the period from 1870-1890). Subjects in the collection include not only the railroad and mining industries but also the lumber industry.

NR 11

(12) AGENCIES LEDGER, NO. 1, AUDITOR

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