Manuscripts
"Proposed Regulation of Article 27 Mexican Constitution (Also SPdeM Properties at Nacozari)." File 070, Section 1. From (~.5", including blueprint related to CRYyP RR.) Title's pretty self-descriptive. Good correspondence in Spanish and English from within and without SPM
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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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Folder is marked "Equipment Depreciation." Title: "Change From Retirement to Depreciation Accounting for Tax Income Purposes for: SPM, Tijuana & Tecate RR Co., Nacozari RR Co., and Inter-California RR Co." SPdeM 410-002, Part 1. From More tax issues
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: Relations with Contractors. Subject: M.C. & J.H. Threlkeld (Threlkeld Commissary Company). Commissary in connection with SPdeM's Mexican laborers. Furnishing SPdeM with Mexican laborers." File No. 300.402-T. Part 2*. From 46 pieces. (~1.25 linear inches)
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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"Income and Absentee Taxes on Equipment Rents -- Mexico." File No. SPM 073, Part 3. From (~1.25"). More material on issues of rental and income taxes between Mexican govt. and SPM. Largely covers the issue of the 4% Exportation of Capital Tax placed upon the SPM by the Mexican government. The SPM seems to have wanted to appear as a Mexican corporation when convenient, and as a U.S. corporation when convenient
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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"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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"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
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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