Maricopa & Phoenix Railroad collection, 1886 - 1910

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Summary

Abstract:
This collection includes accounting records generated by the construction of the Maricopa & Phoenix Railroad from Maricopa Wells to Tempe, Arizona by the contractor Morris R. Locke and completed in July 1887.
Extent:
6 Linear Feet (4 boxes + 6 volumes)
Language:
English .
Preferred citation:

[Identification of item], Maricopa & Phoenix Railroad Collection, MS 127, California State Railroad Museum Library & Archives, Sacramento, California.

Background

Scope and content:

This collection includes accounting records generated by the construction of the Maricopa & Phoenix Railroad from Maricopa Wells to Tempe, Arizona by the contractor Morris R. Locke and completed in July 1887.

Also includes construction records for the Maricopa & Phoenix and financial records for the Maricopa & Phoenix, and the Maricopa, Phoenix & Salt River Valley. Also includes correspondence about the company's reorganization in 1908.

Biographical / historical:

Organized in 1886, the Maricopa & Phoenix Railroad was built with Southern Pacific backing from the Southern Pacific's main line at Maricopa Wells, Arizona, north through the farming community of Tempe to Phoenix. The Maricopa & Phoenix began operation in July 1887, and continued under that name until December 1895, when it was consolidated with the Phoenix, Tempe & Mesa Railway (built 1894-1895 between Phoenix and Mesa, eight miles to the east).

The new company bore the name Maricopa & Phoenix & Salt River Valley Railroad. This company was sold in July 1907, and in January of the following year was taken over by the second Maricopa & Phoenix Railroad, a subsidiary of the Southern Pacific. Two years later, the Maricopa & Phoenix became a part of another Southern Pacific company, the Arizona & Eastern Railroad.

Acquisition information:
Southern Pacific Railroad, New York Collection
Processing information:

Former MS Number': MS 10

Maricopa & Phoenix & Salt River Valley Railway Company: 1898-1904 Abstract of Phoenix account 1896-1904 [No title given] Maricopa & Phoenix Railroad Company 1908-1910 Journal abstract 1908 Fragment of annual report

Arrangement:

Arranged by material type.

Physical location:
Statewide Museum Collection Center
Rules or conventions:
Describing Archives: A Content Standard

Indexed terms

Subjects:
Construction
Invoices
Places:
Correspondence--Letters

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 also be obtained by the reader.

Preferred citation:

[Identification of item], Maricopa & Phoenix Railroad Collection, MS 127, California State Railroad Museum Library & 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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