Nevada Copper Belt Railroad Accounts Payable Ledger and Daily Report of Train and Engine Movements
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Title: Nevada Copper Belt Railroad Accounts Payable Ledger and Daily Report of Train and Engine Movements
Dates: 1901-1911, 1925
Collection Number: MS 684
Creator/Collector:
Nevada Copper Belt Railroad
Extent: 1 oversize box
Repository:
California State Railroad Museum Library and Archives
Sacramento, California 95814
Abstract: These records include an accounts payable ledger which records expenses incurred by the Nevada Copper Belt Railroad Company
during its construction from 1909 to 1911 and a daily report of train and engine movements for July 1925.
Language of Material: English
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[Identification of item]. Nevada Copper Belt Railroad Accounts Payable Ledger and Daily Report of Train and Engine Movements.
Collection Number: MS 684. California State Railroad Museum Library and Archives
Biography/Administrative History
The Nevada Copper Belt Railroad Company was a 41-mile road in Lyon County, Nevada incorporated in 1909 primarily to haul freight
and copper from the Ludwig Mines to a smelter near Wabuska. It also carried mail, passeners and other freight. Grading
on the road began in September of 1909 and was completed in October of 1911. Passenger service terminated in 1945 and the
entire line was abandoned in 1947 because of a shortage of copper and gypsum.
Scope and Content of Collection
Business records for Nevad Copper Belt Railrooad include an accounts payable ledger which records expenses incurred by the
Nevada Copper Belt Railroad Company during its construction from 1909 to 1911 and a daily report of train and engine movements
for July 1925.
The ledger is arranged in two sections by:
1. Interstate Commerce Commission (ICC) Uniform System of Acccount Numbers
Entries of expenses are arranged by the ICC uniform system of account numbers in effect at the time. These account numbers
include those for: payroll, supplies, stock bonuses, vendors, and sundries.
2. By subject or corporate name
Expenses include those owed to or for: corporate entities, first mortgage bonds, stocks, rooming houses, and pay roll. Some
of these names and subjects are also entered in the section arranged by ICC account number.
There is also an alphabetical index of creditors.
Mining Railroads
Nevada