Manuscripts
"Lease of Cars." Single folder with single item in it: letter from unknown [J.A. Small, President?] to A.T. Mercier, Chairman of the Executive Committee for SPdeM, in San Francisco. Notes that cash balance after converting pesos to dollars is $660,000 U.S. Notes a number of items owed: to parent SP company; to Ice Plant; to Pacific Fruit Express; etc. Final sentence notes: "As soon as the railroad is returned to us, as I wrote you, I will personally discuss with the President and endeavor to get his assistance for the rehabilitation of the line."
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[Both items 9a and b in a single folder titled "Southern Pacific de Mexico / 081 SP de México"]
Manuscripts
These materials, consisting primarily of correspondence but also including maps, news clippings, photographs, and blueprints, are arranged and bound by topic according to the Southern Pacific's internal organizational schema. There are 160 individual bound items in these 23 boxes. Each grouping is in reverse chronological order as it was originally filed by SP de México administrators. Collection has material in English and Spanish.
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"Analysis of Operating Expenses, Fixed Charges and Purchases -- Years " 1 p. Some interesting line items: "Empalme townsite" (pesos $753,464); "Hospital Deficit" (pesos $1,102,365); "sleeper cars deficit" (pesos $935,000); "dining cars deficit" (pesos $50,000), etc
Manuscripts
These materials, consisting primarily of correspondence but also including maps, news clippings, photographs, and blueprints, are arranged and bound by topic according to the Southern Pacific's internal organizational schema. There are 160 individual bound items in these 23 boxes. Each grouping is in reverse chronological order as it was originally filed by SP de México administrators. Collection has material in English and Spanish.
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"Financial Forecasts; Estimates of Cash Requirements: Cash Advances to SPdeM Bank Account - Mexican Lines. Includes c/s on indebtedness of SPdeM to SPCo." File No. SP de México 210-002. Part 1. From [Asterisk in title notes: "C/s on this subject prior to November 12, 1934, is filed in SP de México-2."] Discussion at length in this collection of about 1.5 linear inches of the financial relationship of SP to SP de México in the mid- and late 1930's. Includes correspondence from Hale Holden, SP Chairman, with Walter Douglas, SPdeM Chairman of the Board (i.e., see March 22, 1938 letter from Holden to Douglas.) SP de México appears to have regularly leeched money from parent company and then been pretty dilatory about paying it back, at least throughout much of the 1930's. Brief mention of Hotel Playa de Cortés
Manuscripts
These materials, consisting primarily of correspondence but also including maps, news clippings, photographs, and blueprints, are arranged and bound by topic according to the Southern Pacific's internal organizational schema. There are 160 individual bound items in these 23 boxes. Each grouping is in reverse chronological order as it was originally filed by SP de México administrators. Collection has material in English and Spanish.
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Brief series of letters (one each) among A.T. Mercier, SPM Pres., P.J. Wendall, and Amos Taylor, Director of the Bureau of Foreign and Domestic Commerce [of the U.S. Dept. of the Commerce], about a request for certain information concerning SP's investments in Mexico for quarter ended Correspondence dated 1945-46. Not very important because it contains little detail, but does refer receipient of one letter to Table 23 of the 1944 SP Annual Report
Manuscripts
These materials, consisting primarily of correspondence but also including maps, news clippings, photographs, and blueprints, are arranged and bound by topic according to the Southern Pacific's internal organizational schema. There are 160 individual bound items in these 23 boxes. Each grouping is in reverse chronological order as it was originally filed by SP de México administrators. Collection has material in English and Spanish.
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"Question as to whether SP de Mex is a Mexican or Foreign Company." File No. SPM 120, Section 1. From On cover: "Department: Office of President." Thin item
Manuscripts
These materials, consisting primarily of correspondence but also including maps, news clippings, photographs, and blueprints, are arranged and bound by topic according to the Southern Pacific's internal organizational schema. There are 160 individual bound items in these 23 boxes. Each grouping is in reverse chronological order as it was originally filed by SP de México administrators. Collection has material in English and Spanish.
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"Devaluation of the Peso." Notes Mexican government's withdrawing support of the peso with relation to U.S. currency. "It is a practical certainty that both prices and wages will advance in the near future, and that the S.P.deM. problem will be further aggravated thereby." 1 p
Manuscripts
These materials, consisting primarily of correspondence but also including maps, news clippings, photographs, and blueprints, are arranged and bound by topic according to the Southern Pacific's internal organizational schema. There are 160 individual bound items in these 23 boxes. Each grouping is in reverse chronological order as it was originally filed by SP de México administrators. Collection has material in English and Spanish.
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