Manuscripts
Also includes a list of five related files on cover page
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[no cover page; four items.] Minor thing relating to the Bank of Montreal handling collection items for SPM
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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"New Construction: SPM -- Extensions and Completion of Existing Main Line and Branches. Includes correspondence on settlement with the Mexican govt. on account of construction, transportation services, depredations, and transportation and other taxes, etc. Note -- clippings... are filed in... envelope." Also long list of related files on cover. File No. 310-973, Part 8. (~1.5"). [slightly mildewed and a few pages stuck together, but nothing major.] Important item; contains a 30-page report called "Brief Outline of the More Important Current Affairs of the Southern Pacific Railroad Company of Mexico" - a plan by an unnamed author for turning around the railroad's economic woes
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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"Arroyo Grande Viaduct, South of Tepic, Mexico." File No. 331.1-973-(AG). In legal-sized folder. Note on cover: "Related Files: Bridges--SP de Mex--General File, 331.1-973. Includes correspondence re: trestles for this line." correspondence, original photo, and map/blueprint. 10 pieces total
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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"Oronori River Bridge." File No. 331.1-973-(O), Part 1. From Cover also notes related files: "BRIDGES - SOUTHERN PACIFIC R.R. of MEXICO - GENERAL FILE, 331.1-973." Four or five bland letters about this bridge (Bridge 380-B), with two blueprints of bridge. Items all dated 1924 or 1925, even though file start date is "1912." Bridge was a replacement, replacing 795-foot trestle of river; estimated cost was $242,150 U.S
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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"Southern Pacific Railroad Company of Mexico -- Extensions and Completion of Existing Main Line and Branches." File No. 310-973, Part 7. From "Note: This file includes c/s on settlement with the Mexican Government on account of construction, transportation service, depredations, and transportation and other taxes, etc." Includes longish list of x-refs on front cover. Includes great summary dated 10/21/31 for Mr. Holden about the Company's current status. More on the 10% transportation tax
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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[no cover page; five items.] also Another probably minor thing relating to receipt by SPM of Mexican government notes (all matured) due to SPM. Strange thing is that the dollar amount is so high and the discussion so cavalier; dollar amount is more than U.S. $4 million. [Both Items 8a and 8b in a single folder titled "Depositories / SPM 217-1."]
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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