Arizona and New Mexico Railway Records, 1881-1935

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Summary

Abstract:
The Arizona and New Mexico Railway Collection contains sixteen bound volumes of both equipment and financial records of the company from 1881 to 1935. One volume belongs to the equipment series, while the remaining fifteen belong to the financial records series. The equipment series contains a memorandum of depreciation of equipment from 1919 to 1924 that is arranged by type of equipment. The financial series contains cash books, balance sheets and general ledgers, accounts receivable, and agents' remittances.
Extent:
16 Volumes 16 volumes
Language:
English .
Preferred citation:

[Identification of item], Arizona and New Mexico Railway Collection, MS 108, California State Railroad Museum Libary & Archives, Sacramento, California.

Background

Scope and content:

¶ The Arizona and New Mexico Railway Collection contains sixteen bound volumes of both equipment and financial records of the company from 1881 to 1935. One volume belongs to the equipment series, while the remaining fifteen belong to the financial records series. ¶

¶ The single volume in the equipment series is a memorandum of depreciation of equipment from 1919 to 1924 that is arranged by type of equipment. The equipment covered in this series is specifically locomotives, work cars (outfit, derrick, ballast, tank, steam shovel, business, flat, and ballast spreaders), freight cars (ballast, caboose, flat, stock, box, tar (tank), gondola, oil tank), and passenger cars (baggage and mail, coach, observation, gasoline motor car). ¶

¶ The volumes in the financial series are arranged alphabetically by materials and contains accounts recievable, agents' remittances, balance sheets of general ledgers, bank balances regular and wage accounts, bills rendered and recievable, bonds, cash books and disbursements, transfer books, and voucher records. ¶

Biographical / historical:

There were two Arizona & New Mexico railways. The first was incorporated in 1883. It was a consolidation of: The Clifton & Southern Pacific Railway, with 41 miles between Clifton and the Arizona-New Mexico border and The Clifton & Lordsburg Railway, with 29 miles of line between the Arizona-New Mexico border and Lordsburg. The second Arizona & New Mexico Railway was incorporated on June 30, 1911 as a consolidation of : The Arizona & New Mexico Railway of 1883, with 70 miles between Clifton, Arizona and Lordsburg, New Mexico, and the Lordsburg & Hachita Railroad, with 38.9 miles between Lordsburg and Hachita. It was sold to the El Paso & Southwestern Railroad Company on January 1, 1922.

Acquisition information:
Gifts of the Bancroft Library, University of California, Berkeley and the Southern Pacific Company
Arrangement:

Collection is arranged alphabetically by type of material.

Physical location:
Statewide Museum Collections Center: I2.211.Q7-Q8
Rules or conventions:
Describing Archives: A Content Standard

Indexed terms

Subjects:
Railroads--United States--History

Access and use

Restrictions:

Collection is open for research by appointment. Contact Library Staff.

Terms of access:

Copyright has not been assigned to the California State Railroad Museum. All requests for permission to publish or quote from manuscripts must be submitted in writing to the CSRM Library & Archives. Permission for publication is given on behalf of the CSRM as the owner of the physical items and is not intended to include or imply permission of the copyright holder, which must be obtained by the reader.

Preferred citation:

[Identification of item], Arizona and New Mexico Railway Collection, MS 108, California State Railroad Museum Libary & Archives, Sacramento, California.

Location of this collection:
111 I Street
Sacramento, CA 95814, US
Contact:
(916) 323-8073
Library.CSRM@parks.ca.gov
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