Collection context
Summary
- Title:
- Burro Mountain Railroad Company records
- Dates:
- 1913 - 1935
- Abstract:
- Accounting records for the Burro Mountain Railroad Company include typescripts of annual reports submitted to the Interstate Commerce Commission, journal entries, vouchers, and a balance sheet of general ledgers (Form 141).
- Extent:
- 2 Linear Feet 1 half-box + 1 volume
- Language:
- English .
- Preferred citation:
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[Identification of item], Burro Mountain Railroad Company Records, MS 110, California State Railroad Museum Library & Archives, Sacramento, California.
Background
- Scope and content:
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Accounting records for the Burro Mountain Railroad Company include typescripts of annual reports submitted to the Interstate Commerce Commission, journal entries, vouchers, and a balance sheet of general ledgers (Form 141).
- Biographical / historical:
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The Burro Mountain Railroad, 13.09 miles between Burro Mountain Junction and Tyrone, New Mexico, was incorporated on April 12, 1909 and was partly constructed by its own company prior to 1912. It was completed by the El Paso & Southwestern Railroad on February 5, 1914 and leased to that road on July 1, 1914. In September, 1914, the El Paso & Southwestern Railroad secured trackage rights over the Santa Fe from Deming to Burro Mountain Junction, 33.20 miles thus affording a connection between its own and leased line. (The Southern Pacific had a similar arrangement.) The line was abandoned by the Southern Pacific in 1934 and trackage rights were surrendered the same year. The Burro Mountain Company was dissolved in 1935.
[Guy Dunscomb, A CENTURY OF SOUTHERN PACIFIC STEAM LOCOMOTIVES, 1862-1962 (Modesto, California: 1967), p. 382]
- Acquisition information:
- Southern Pacific Railroad, New York Collection
- Processing information:
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Formerly part of MS 10
- Physical location:
- Statewide Museum Collection Center
- Rules or conventions:
- Describing Archives: A Content Standard
Indexed terms
- Subjects:
- Financial accounting
- Places:
- United States. Interstate Commerce Commission
About this collection guide
- Date Encoded:
- This finding aid was produced using ArchivesSpace on 2025-12-10 22:55:31 +0000 .
Access and use
- Restrictions:
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Collection is open for research by appointment. Contact Library Staff.
- Terms of access:
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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 also be obtained by the reader.
- Preferred citation:
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[Identification of item], Burro Mountain Railroad Company Records, MS 110, California State Railroad Museum Library & Archives, Sacramento, California.
- Location of this collection:
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111 I StreetSacramento, CA 95814, US
- Contact:
- (916) 323-8073