Descriptive Summary
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Descriptive Summary
Title: Atlantic and Pacific Railroad records
Dates: 1889-1893
Collection Number: MS 491
Creator/Collector:
Atlantic and Pacific Railroad
Extent: 1 oversize box
Repository:
California State Railroad Museum Library and Archives
Sacramento, California 95814
Abstract: Includes two letterpress books of land department records and an invoice for ties. One of the letterpress books contain copies
of letters issued by J.W. Donnelly, Land Agent in Albuquerque, New Mexico, and C.H. Fancher, General Land Agent for Albuquerque.
The other letterpress book contains copies of letters issued by J. W. Donnelly as Chief Clerk and J. A. Williamson as Land
Commissioner. A copy of a report retained by H.C. Nutt, President of the Atlantic and Pacific Railroad "on the condition
and state of repair of the Southern Pacific Railroad from Mojave Station to the Colorado River (near Needles Station) was
written by Santa Fe engineers Albert Alfonzo Robinson, James Dun, and Southern Pacific chief engineer George Edward Gray.
Language of Material: English
Access
This collection is open for research at our off-site storage facility with one week's notice. Contact Library & Archives staff
to arrange for access.
Publication Rights
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 Archivist. 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]. Atlantic and Pacific Railroad records. Collection Number: MS 491. California State Railroad Museum
Library and Archives
Acquisition Information
Land Department records and invoice, gift of Robert Krave, 2001. Report, gift of Jeff Asay, 202. Originally obtained from
the Manuscripts Department of the Kansas State Historical Society.
Biography/Administrative History
The Atlantic and Pacific Railroad Company was incorporated on July 27, 1866. Atchison, Topeka & Santa Fe Railroad Company
and the St. Louis & San Francisco Railway Company joined in a partnership in 1879 to build the western section of the Atlantic
& Pacific Railroad Company under the original charter, from south of Albuquerque, New Mexico Territory, to San Francisco and
other California points on the 35th Parallel Route. In 1895, it was forced into receivership. In 1879, an agreement between
the Atchison, Topeka & Santa Fe Railroad, St. Louis & San Francisco Railroad Company and the Atlantic & Pacific arranged for
the building of a transcontinental railroad under the initial Atlantic & Pacific charter. Through passenger service from
the east began October 21, 1883. In 1895, at the time that the Atchison, Topeka & Santa Fe Railway Company was chartered,
the Atlantic & Pacific was retained, foreclosed and reorganized as the Santa Fe Pacific Railroad. For additional information,
see Keith L. Bryant, Jr. HISTORY OF THE ATCHISON, TOPEKA AND SANTA FE RAILWAY (New York: MacMillan, 1974).
Scope and Content of Collection
Includes two letterpress books of land department records and an invoice for ties. One of the letterpress books contain copies
of letters issued by J.W. Donnelly, Land Agent in Albuquerque, New Mexico, and C.H. Fancher, General Land Agent for Albuquerque.
The other letterpress book contains copies of letters issued by J. W. Donnelly as Chief Clerk and J. A. Williamson as Land
Commissioner. A copy of a report retained by H.C. Nutt, President of the Atlantic and Pacific Railroad "on the condition and
state of repair of the Southern Pacific Railroad from Mojave Station to the Colorado River (near Needles Station) was written
by Santa Fe engineers Albert Alfonzo Robinson, James Dun, and Southern Pacific chief engineer George Edward Gray.
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