Oroville and Nelson Railroad Company records

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Descriptive Summary

Title: Oroville and Nelson Railroad Company records

Dates: 1907-1918

Collection Number: MS 139

Creator/Collector: Oroville and Nelson Railroad Company

Extent: 1 half-box + 1 volume

Repository: California State Railroad Museum Library and Archives

Sacramento, California 95814

Abstract: Accounting records.

Language of Material: English

Access

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Publication Rights

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Preferred Citation

Oroville and Nelson Railroad Company records. California State Railroad Museum Library and Archives

Acquisition Information

Gift of Southern Pacific Railroad, New York Collection.

Biography/Administrative History

Incorporated January 12, 1907. Formed by the Southern Pacific Company, this road was projected about twelve miles from Oroville westerly to Nelson. The company was merged in July, 1917, with the Southern Pacific Company, and no such railroad was built. [Guy Dunscomb, A CENTURY OF SOUTHERN PACIFIC STEAM LOCOMOTIVES, 1862-1962 (Modesto, California: 1967), p. 400]

Scope and Content of Collection

Accounting records include a journal, January 1907 to December 1917, forms in general account with Southern Pacific Company, 1907-1911 and circular No. 12 submitted to the Interstate Commerce Commission, Division of Statistics, 1907-1918.