Guide to the Carson and Colorado Railroad Company records, 1881-1901
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Contributing Institution:
The Bancroft Library
Title: Carson Colorado Railroad Company Records
Identifier/Call Number: BANC MSS P-G 232
Physical Description:
1.75 linear feet
(1 carton and 3 packages)
Date (inclusive): 1881-1901
Abstract: This fragmentary collection consists of correspondence, 1884-1901; station ledgers and accounts, 1886-1895; miscellaneous
financial records, 1881-1896; register of waybills, 1896-1900; rate books, 1883-1884, 1892-1897; passenger statistics book,
1881-1884; and related materials.
Physical Location: For current information on the location of these materials, please consult the Library's online catalog.
Language of Material:
English
.
Collection is open for research.
The Carson & Colorado Railroad Company was incorporated in Nevada on May 10, 1880 as a narrow gauge extension of the parent
Virginia & Truckee Railroad. Rails were laid south from Mound House, Nevada on the Virginia & Truckee during 1880-1883 through
the communities of Wabuska, Hawthorne, Belleville, Candelaria, Laws, and Owenyo to Hawley, later renamed Keeler, California--some
300 miles south of Mound House. Consolidation of three separate operating divisions and reorganization as the Carson & Colorado
Railway Company occurred on February 27, 1892. With general offices and shops at Carson City, Nevada, the Carson & Colorado
was operated by joint V. & T. and C. & C. officers as a feeder or branch of the V. & T.; its sole President and General Superintendent
was Henry Marvin Yerington. Control of the C. & C. was negotiated by major stockholder Darius Ogden Mills with sale on March
1, 1900 to the Southern Pacific Railroad which subsequently operated the line under the name of the Nevada & California Railway
Company beginning in May 1905. In February of 1912 the Nevada & California was absorbed into the Southern Pacific System and
portions of the original 1880 right-of-way continue in present operation.
This fragmentary collection of Carson & Colorado Railroad records comprises 1 box, 1 carton, and 3 packages and covers the
period 1880-1901 when the railroad was primarily under the operation and control of the Virginia & Truckee. The collection
was acquired by purchase from Grahame H. Hardy in 1948, 1952, 1953, and 1957; by gift of Louis B. Siegriest in 1954; and by
a gift of Stephen E. Drew in 1972.
[Identification of item], Carson & Colorado Railroad Company records, BANC MSS P-G 232, The Bancroft Library, University of
California, Berkeley.
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box 1 (missing)
Correspondence papers arranged by railroad officer or department 1881-1901
Materials from: George F. Ford (Chief Clerk to the President); David Almon Bender and Edward Boucher Yerinton (General Freight
and Passenger Agents); Robert H. Wright and George Todd Mills (Paymasters), Marvin Hume Yerington and Lawrence Leroy Elrod
(Purchasing and Supply Agent); and paint shop account books.
Box 1 has been missing from the collection since at least 2010. Unsuccessful attempts to locate it have been made repeatedly
by Bancroft staff over the years.
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