Manuscripts
"Claim of Mexican Government for Duties, Fines, and Penalties for Fuel Oil Taken by SPdeM Locomotives Across Border Without Being Manifested in Customhouse." SPM 023-6, Section 1. From This seems like a tempest in a teapot; it generated maybe 100 pieces of correspondence (~.5"). Apparently at various times the issue has arisen as to whether or not the SPM owed claims for passing fuel oil across the border without paying duties on it -- but specifically the fuel oil used to run the locomotive, not fuel oil it was transporting as freight
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"Remittances From SPdeM and Payments for Those Lines." File No. SPM 210-002, Section 1. From (About 40 pieces). Primarily discussion of moneys sent to parent SP company. Apparently SPM Pres. Walter Douglas was pretty tight with Calles; he notes in a letter to A.D. McDonald dated 10/3/34 that "I returned last night with General Calles from Monterrey and found your telegram C-336...", and "The matter of these claims [of Mexican Treasury against SPM for the introduction of fuel oil at Nogales as well as income tax owed by SPM for car rentals], however, is held up due to the good offices of President Rodriguez and General Calles..."
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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"Classification: Fuel for Company Use. Subject: Fuel Oil -- Mexican Lines." "Related Files: Supply of Freight Cars -- Distribution of Tank Cars --542.116." File No. SPM 023-6. Part 2. From Material on how the SP supplied itself. Nationalization of oil in Mexico took place very late under Cárdenas) in the period covered in this correspondence, so look for this issue in your next pass through this. Cárdenas' huge land redistributions also took place in the middle of this period
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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File No. SPM 071-01. Several items, dated noting bond-related items for SPM and for the Nacozari RR
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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Handwritten sheet of figures: assets and liabilities for SPM, for
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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"Investment in SPM -- Agreement between Mexican Government and SPM -- Notes Received and Claims Against Mexican Government." File No. 1083, Part 7. From (~1"). There's a good clear summary of tax issues on green paper roughly midway through this: notes when first Mexican tax law was passed (1924), why (primarily to tax the U.S. oil companies doing business in Mexico), and what the effect of the income tax is and has been on SPM. Lots of financial issues discussed, such as bond issues, coupon payments, 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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File: SPM 211; Section: 1; From: Dept.: Office of the President; Subject: Reduction in Capital Stock of the S.P.deM. "Remarks" on cover note: "See File 081 SPM Lease of Equipment for Purchase of SPM Stock owned by SPCo."
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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