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Text converted and initial EAD tagging provided by Apex Data Services, 1999 Sept. 25.Supplementary encoding and revision supplied by Steven Mandeville-Gamble.Finding aid is written in English.Guide to the Pacific Improvement Company Records, 1901-1966Collection number: JL017Department of Special Collections and University Archives Stanford University Libraries Stanford, CaliforniaContact InformationDepartment of Special CollectionsGreen LibraryStanford University LibrariesStanford, CA 94305-6004 Phone: (650) 725-1022Email: speccoll@sulmail.stanford.eduURL: http://www-sul.stanford.edu/depts/spc/Processed by:S. McClureDate Completed:1970

Descriptive SummaryPacific Improvement Company Records, 1901-1966Special Collections JL017 Pacific Improvement Company. 78 linear ft. Stanford University. Libraries. Dept. of Special Collections and University Archives.Administrative InformationAccess Restrictions

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Provenance

Gift of Crocker Estate to Jackson Library in 1970. Transferred to Department of Special Collections in 1979.

Preferred Citation:

[Identification of item] Pacific Improvement Company Records, JL017, Dept. of Special Collections, Stanford University Libraries, Stanford, Calif.

Historical Note

Pacific Improvement Company was a large holding company in California, formed by C. P. Huntington, Leland Stanford, Mark Hopkins, and Charles Crocker. The Company played a role in the development of land and railroads in various parts of the United States, but particularly in California and Texas. The Company was incorporated November 4, 1878 and completed liquidation of its assets in 1967.

Scope and Content

Contains business records of the Pacific Improvement Company and its subsidiaries. Includes business and legal documents, correspondence, reports, minutes, deeds, annual reports, maps, and blurprints. Contains materials related to the Monterey Peninsula and its development. Business areas covered include land development, coal and iron mining, railroads, and hotels.

Container ListP.I. Co. Miscellaneous11“Co(mpany) History - written by S.F.B. Morse, 1966 - four pages”. 11/3/1966 -eulogy of Social Darwinism.12“Corporation Papers”. Includes certificate of incorporation from Dept. of State, California, dated Nov. 4, 1878,other certificates and resolutions 1907 - 1918.13“Reductions of Capital Stock - Documents 1920”.14“Reincorporation- 1929”. Includes Articles of Incorporation, two indentures, correspondence.15“Reduction of Capital Stock- 1940”.16“Dissolution - 1966”. Certificate of Dissolution for both P.I. Co. and C.H.C.C. filed 12/9/66 -endorsed by State of Calif. 12/13/66.File contains original and copies of certificate for P.I. Co., necessary prime and reports completed by Accountant - John Forbes Inc. and lawyers - Orrick, Dahlquist, Herrington & Sutcliffe.17“Stockholder Lists - P.I. Co. and Affiliates 1920-21”.18“Stock Transfers”. Dated 1929-1936.19“Liquidating Dividends”. Dated 1901-1968.110“Texas & New Orleans R.R. (Railroad) Bonds (liquidating dividend- 1941).”111“Dividends Paid to Stanford”. Sept.-Dec. 1901receipts signed for Jane Stanford by Charles G. Lathrop, her attorney in fact.112“Dividends Paid to Hubbard & Co., Huntington, Huntington Estate”. Receipts and acknowledgements of receipts Sept. - Dec. 1901.S.A. Van Devcer signs for P.I. Co.113“Crocker Estate Co., Origins, Dividends Rec'd”. Receipts signed by George Crocker for Crocker Estate Co., correspondence Sept. - Dec. 1901.List made by Crocker Estate (3/7/16)of Dividends received. Handwritten history of Crocker Estate, will and testament, dated 11/8/50.114“Director's meetings - Notices, scheduling”. Includes miscellaneous correspondence with directors as well Dates: Sept. 1933 - Dec. 1966.115“Directors”. Includes a handwritten list of the original directors and officers and their dates and places of death; correspondence and form letters to directors. Dates 8/17/15 - 12/27/66.List of officers and directors of P.I. Co. at time of dissolution.116“Director's Meetings - Notes of Meeting, Minutes”. One copy of minutes dated 9/12/01then begins 1936 through 1966.117“Miscellaneous Resolutions, Minute Excerpts”. Carbon copies dated 5/1/02 to 5/8/31.118“Financial Statements, Summaries and memoranda”. Includes year end balance sheets, dated 4/26/13 to 1967.119“General Ledger Balance Sheets 1892-1905.120“John Forbes & Co. - Audit Reports 1949-1959.”121“John Forbes & Co. Audit Reports 1960-1965”.122“Bearwald & Rens - Accountants, Correspondence 1944-48”.123“John Forbes & Co. - Accountants, Correspondence 1949-67.”124“Miscellaneous Notes Receivable 1879-1915”.125“List of Securities, Receipts, E.C. Wright, Treasurer 1900-03”.126“Miscellaneous Notes Regarding Stock Certificates and Lists”. Dates 1890-1900.127“Short Term Investments, Gov't. Securities 1934-66”.128“S.F.B. Morse Commission”. Annual Accounting (1945-1956)of S.F.B.M.'s 5% commission on all collections.129“Insurance”. Book recording all insurance transactions made by P.I. Co.'s Properties Feb. 1907 through 1910. Also misc. notes and correspondence re: P.I. Co. insurance and copies of 2 Insurance Contracts. Dates 1908-1930.130“New York Office”. Includes testimony of Frank Davis, New York Agent and astorney of P.I. Co., in the matter of taxation of the P.I. Co. before Commissioner Walter B. Atterbury 10/8/01.Testimony of S.A. Van der Veer, Asst. Secretary of P.I. Co. in N.Y., before Frank Sperry, Corporation Tax Commissioner attached to N.Y. State Comptoller's Office, 2/7/06.Lists of Assets and explanation of financial situation for tax pruposes. Correspondence predominantly between Van Der Veer and P.I. Co. General Manager, A.D. Chepard, dates 1907 through D c. 1934.131“New York Office, Bank Book - Bank of America, Transactions closing N.Y. Accounts”. (1918-1919).132“Leases - P.I. Co. Offices in Santa Barbara and Seattle”. Leases made by P.I. Co., Santa Barbara - 1909,Seattle - 1915.Includes map of Port of Seattle.133“Henry Cowell/Monterey and Salinas R.R., Loan Agreement 1875, C.P. Huntington Letter 9/24/79”.134“J.H. Strobridge/D.W. Parkhurst, Investment Agreement, 10/2/85”.135“Notes of Senator Wm. M. Stawart to P.I. Co. (one for $30,000, 1887 endorsed by Leland Stanford)”. Notes drawn up 1887 and 1891.Correspondence between P.I. Co. officers re: notes Jan.-Feb. 1902.136“Transfer of Lands Held by `Big Four' in Name of Crocker to P.I. Co. 1888-89”.137“C.F. Crocker Loan to P.I. Co. 7/14/93, C.P. Huntington, Loan to P.I. Co. 7/13/93”. Loans paid back by the end of the month, (July, 1893);and collateral, California Pacific R.R. Co. stock, returned.138“D.M. Seaton - Receipts for Payments of Legal Fees, 7/21/93, 7/26/93, 10/3/93”.139“Jane L. Stanford Agreement dated 12/5/98”.140“Statement of Operations, P.I. Co. & Affiliates - 1914”. Revenue and expenses broken down by each company still held by P.I. Co. in 1914.141“Salaries and Overhead, P.I. Co. Affiliates, 1915”.142“Supplemental Agreement United Fuel Co.- 3/10/25”.21“Sample Stationery, Checks, Land Dept. Forms”.22“Sample Receipt Books 1916-1934”.23“Vouchers, 1929-55.Checks, 1930-55. (Samples).”24“Journal Vouchers 1929-30”.25“Journal Vouchers 1929-42”.26“Correspondence - Distribution of Checks, Routine Office Correspondence”. All correspondence to or from Jack Beaumont, Asst. Secretary P.I. Co. dated Feb. 1929 - Dec. 1939.27“General Correspondence”. Unimportant topics, dates 2/7/08 - 12/16/66.28“Index to Correspondence, General Letters April, 1906 to August 31, 1906”.

Alphabetically by name of company or person. Under each name - chronologically.

29“Bank Statements: Jan. 1927 to May 1934”.210“Bank Statements”. 1947, 1950-1954.211“Bank Statements 1955-59”.212“Bank Statements 1960-64”.213“Bank Statements 1965-68”.214“Bank Deposit Books 1913-67,Crocker Bank, S.F.”.215“Railway Express Receipt Books 1938-41,Significance Unknown”.216“Miscellaneous”. Memos; notes; books and paper used for computing payrolls etc.; cancelled checks, etc. All quite old - before 1910.P.I. Co. Legal31“Weidenfeld v. P.I. Co. 1920 - 1929”. Two actions one brought before 1920 another brought Oct., 1922.Weidenfeld i.e. trying to recover $709,953.78 (with interest has accrued to $2 million plus) from the P.I. Co. - specifically the Big Four - all dead. File contains predominantly correspondence between S.F.B. Morse and Adelbert Moot of Moot, Sprague, Brownell, and Marcy, attorneys in Buffalo, N.Y. Case is tried in New York State Supreme Court. Verdict in both suits in favor of P.I. Co., Weidenfeld awarded nothing. Court minutes of both cases, and history of case written as a letter by a letter to a John Hubbard 12/13/28.Weidenfeld's attorney appeals to U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals.32“Weidenfeld v. P.I. Co. 1930-1939”. Welles V. Moot (Aldebert's son) now handling case. Again predominantly correspondence between Morse and the younger Moot keeping the P.I. Co. people up to date on the N.Y. proceedings. July, 1930 -U.S. Court of Appeals affirms previous judgement in P.I. Co. favor again - copy of opinion included. Weidenfeld makes motion for reargument denied 1/21/1930.Further appeals and court opinions - correspondence and finally general release executed by Weidenfeld 3/21/1929.33“Weidenfeld v. P.I. Co. - Transcript”. Transcript of Record in U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals - reviews entire history of case pre 1890through 1929. Dated 10/16/1929.34“Weidenfeld v. P.I. Co. Brief”. Brief for Defendant-in-error by U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals Review 1890 - 1928invalid 12/28/28.35“Central N.Y. & W.R.R. 5s '43 - Sample Bond”. Central New York and Western Railroad Co. Fifty Year Gold Bond Issued in 1892,redeemable in 1943for $1000.36“Central N.Y. & Western Bonds (Pittsburgh, Shawmut, & N. R.R.) - 1929”. Adelbert Moot's letters to Morse and copies of his correspondence to others in his attempt to collect money due P.I. Co. from Pittsburgh, Shawmut and Northern R.R. Explanation of history of case in letter from More to Herbert Fleishhacker 12/31/29. Dates 9/22/19 - 12/31/29.37“Central N.Y. & W.R.R. (Pittsburgh, Shawmut & N.R.R.) 1930-1939”. Same as 3-6 but Welles V. Moot takes over correspondence for deceased (1929)father, Adelbert. P.I. Co. takes over and reorganizes P., S. & N.R.R. in 1932.Copies of reorganization plans and agreements. Map of P.S. & N. line etc.38“Central N.Y. & Western Rwy. (Pittsburgh, Shawmut & Northern) 1940-52”. Correspondence Morse and W.V. Moot. Monthly “Summary of Operations” and “Income Statement” from P.,S. & N.R.R., until they file bankruptcy in 1946.P.I. Co. collects their Central N.Y. & W. bonds which are worthless.39“Weaver v. P.I. Co. (C.N.Y. & W.R.R.), Smith v. P.I. Co.”. Three booklets: 1 & 2undated opinions of Judge Woodward of Supreme Court of Allegany County in both case - in favor of P.I. Co., 3. brief prepared by Moot for P.I. Co. in response to State of N.Y. Supreme Court Appellate Division. Same two cases.310“Misc. Notes on Points of Law, Origin & Date Unknown”.311“Van Fleet Correspondence 1919-1920”. Routine, a few letters re: death of P.I. Co. counsel Earl H. Pier - formerly partner with Boalt.312“Van Fleet (House Counsel) Gen'l. correspondence- 1921”. Also includes copies of summonses and exhibits used in various cases concerning P.I. Co.313“Van Fleet Correspondence 1922”. Summonses and disclaimers re: P.I. Co. cases, included.314“Van Fleet - General Correspondence 1923”. Affadavits, summonses, other legal documents for P.I. Co. cases.315“P.I. Co. v. Pillsbury - 1920”. Mr. Pillsbury borrows $400 from P.I. Co. at 6% interest. Delays payment until 1920 -Van Fleet initiates legal proceedings for P.I. Co. Amicable settlement is reached and debt paid by August 31, 1920.316“Calif. Associate Raisin Co. v. P.I. Co. 1920”. Raisin Co. claims that P.I. Co. is liable for back taxes on land that they have since passed on to former concern. P.I. Co. objects court proceedings begin, but P.I. Co. ultimately pays without concluding the case.317“Legal - P.I. Co. v. Alta Livestock (1920), (See Also: P.I. Co. v. Pacific Hog Co., 3-18)”. Again - failure to make good on note of debt to P.I. Co.318“Legal - P.I. Co. v. Pacific Hog Co. (1921), (See Also: P.I. Co. v. Alta Livestock 3-17)”.319“Legal - Mason v. Larkin - 1921, Quiet Title Action, Shasta City”. 5/29/20 - 12/21.320“P.I. Co. v. Alexander 1921-1922(Suit for Collection, El Verano)”. Clifford Alexander.321“Legal-California Hotel Co. v. Joy (1922),Ryer Townsite Title”. P.I. Co. is a co-defendent with Mrs. Edna Ida Joy.322“City of Los Angeles v. Southern Pacific R.R. et al 1932”. Dispute over land.323“Legal - U.S. v. Certain Parcels of Land in the County of San Luis Obispo- 1944”.324“Wilkens v. Herget (Mitchell's Cafe) 1914-16, Documents”. Background material dates to 1906.Wilkens attempts to foreclose mortgage on Herget's Cafe because of Herget's failure to pay debt. Includes booklet of Mitchell's Cafe Inc. Stock certificats.325“Wilkens v. Herget (Mitchell's Cafe) 1914-16, Correspondence”. Stamp and cancellation 6/3/14.Correspondence of Earl H. Pier, P.I. Co. counsel and partner of Boalt. Herget's notes.326“Wilkens v. Herget (Mitchell's Cafe) 1914-1916- Bills and Receipts”.327“Martin v. El Dorado and Placer Counties Gold Mining & Power Co., 1916”. Brochure for Company. Ned J. Martin was prospecting area and charges that company jumped his claims. Both Pier and Van Fleet serve as attorneys for Martin.P.I. Co. Legal, Taxes, Louisiana41“Clark v. Qucal, 1917 (Pier)”. F.W. Clark charges Queal with character defamation which is prohibiting him from obtaining a new cashier job after he left Queal's employ at McCloud Nat'l. Bank. Pier is Clark's attorney. Background dates from 1912.42“Legal - Furlong v. White (1918)(P.I. Co. not Involved, Van Fleet's case).43“U.S. v. Curtis, Collins Holbrook Co., Complainant's Briefs - Aid, Hudson & Benner and Kindred C ses”. 1912 -three briefs. Case to do with money loaning and buying land.44“U.S. v. Curtis, Collins & Holbrook Co., Complainant's Briefs - Mitchell, Johnson, Allen, Cooksey & Kindred Cases”. Three briefs.45“U.S. v. Curtis, Collins & Holbrook Co., Abstracts of Testimony (Tuman, B.C.)”. Abstract (A) of Testimony of George E. Tuman; Abstract (B) of Testimony of: T.D. Collins, E.S. Collins, J.G. Curtis, D.G. Curtis; C.H. Holbrook, Jr., Arthur W. Elam, John H. Heppe, J.E. Remick, Charles E. Gregory; Abstract (C) of Testimony of: Charles A. Shurtaleff, Lillian B. O'Farrell, Irving F. Moulton, Arthur E. Vollmer, Charles E. Swezy, Alfred Taylor, A.O. White, W.C. Lawrence, C.H. Huntington, F.G. Hail, A.A. Hall, George Louis Tanner.46Gregory Family v. City of Elke, Nevada and P.I. Co., 1950”. Dispute over land.47“Tax Data Returns - Federal 1933-54”.48“Tax Data Rerurns - Federal 1955 -” to 1967.49“Tax Data Returns - California, - 1939”. Begins 1927.410“Tax Data Returns - California, 1940 -” to 1967.411“Taxes - San Francisco”.412“Financial Summaries - Louisiana”. July 1927, April 1949, 1956-1964.413“Louisiana Parish Taxes”. 1933 - 1953.414“Louisiana State Taxes”. Forms and correspondence, 1944 - 1967415“Louisiana Lands - Oil Lease Revenue, Conoco, 1955-1966”. Continental Oil Co. Division of interest check stubs.P.I. Co. - Louisiana51“Louisiana - 1909”. List of all P.I. Co. owned land in Louisiana - 27,000 acres in 1909.52“Louisiana Lands 1919-1929”. Contract of P.I. Co. sale to others, correspondence, agreement with law firm Cline & Plauché to represent P.I. Co. interets in Louisiana, map of Evangeline Parish.53“Louisiana Lands 1930-1939”. ( 11/30/31Tax Bill), tax bill 11/30/31displays a bit of political graft, parish assessor asks for campaign contribution in exchange for lowering taxes. Predominantly correspondence re: taxes, sales and rental of land or mineral rights. Copies of abstracts and agreements. Most business handled through Charles Cline - P.I. Co. signs over formal “Power of Attorney” to him.54“Louisiana Lands 1940-1947”. Copies of Oil, Cas & Mineral leases, resolutions and routine correspondence Cline and P.I. Co. (Morse or Beaumont).55“Louisiana Land 1948”. Oil, Gas and Mineral lease to A.B. Hoose.56“Louisiana Lands 1949-1950”. Map of Evangeline Parish, Proposed Tate Sand units, Graben Area Reddell Field, Evangeline Parish - maps; routine correspondence. Most of this correspondence is duplicated in JL 10, Box 3. Listing of that gives more complete explanation of contents. There are considerably more legal instruments here.57“Louisiana Lands 1951”. Plauché & Plauché (Cline's former partner) assumed representation of P.I. Co. interests in La. (cf. Box 3, JL 10),routine correspondence - oil companies request permission to run tests on land in search of oil, 1 ases (surface and mineral) drawn up, State Govt. secures Right of Way Easement Deeds to build highways.58“Louisiana Lands 1952”. Correspondence, Plauché - Morse.59“Louisiana Lands 1953”. Routine correspondence.510“Louisiana Lands 1954”. Routine correspondence re: taxes and leases, survey map of very small section of land P.I. Co. is leading to a certain Joseph Saucier.511“Louisiana Lands 1955”. Routine correspondence.512“Louisiana Lands 1956”.513“Louisiana Lands 1957”. Includes maps and specifications of P.I. Co. land in Evangeline Parish.514“Louisiana Lands 1958”.515“Louisiana Lands 1959”.516“Louisiana Lands 1960”.517“Louisiana Lands 1961”.518“Louisiana Lands 1962”. Detailed maps of tracts of land in Evangeline Parish.519“Louisiana Lands 1963”. Maps, routine correspondence and memoranda.520“Louisiana Lands 1964”. Legal instruments, routine correspondence.521“Louisiana Lands 1965”. Report of revenue and expenses on Louisiana land 1955-64.Routine correspondence, more concerted effort to sell off land.522“Louisiana Lands 1966”. Correspondence, land sales.523“Louisiana Lands 1967-1968”. Final windup of all Louisiana holdings, Quitclaim Deeds, etc.524“Small Maps”. Mostly of Evangeline Parish land, some of Acadia Parish. Schedule of land owned by P.I. Co. in Evangeline Parish. Made in 1935,total coverage: 2400approx.525“Large Maps”. Of Evangeline and Acadia Parish land, huge map of Southern Louisiana made in 1934 -shows waterways, oil fields, train tracks.526“Highway Project Maps”.P.I. Co. Land61“California Land - General”. Record of Townsite agreements late 1917,early 1918,other records and reports, earliest date - Sept. 1, 1906 -date of 15 different contracts made between E.B. Ryan of S.F. and P.I. Co. whereby Ryan buys different parcels of land from P.I. Co. with P.I. Co. land in order to protect it for P.I. Co.62“Index to Maps”. Small notebook.63“Real Property Holdings 1915”. Listing and description.64“Land sale summary 10/15/17 to 12/11/28”.65“Syndicate Lands - Siskiyou, Colusa, Glenn, Tehama and Madera, Sale 1903”. Land put in trust by P.I. Co. and heirs of Big Four, A.D. Shepard as trustee 1/2/03.Correspondence and legal instruments re: land dated 1903to July 1906.66Prudential Land Co. - Tehama County 1915-1918”.67“Colusa City - SW 1/4 of S34, T17, R3W”. Certificate of Search and Filling of Deed and Examination of Title to land in Colusa City - particularly described as “the southwest quarter of section 34 in township 17 north, range three (3) west, 1901.68“Conveyances, Abstracts - Fresno City”. Bound book of memoranda of deeds recorded in the office of the county recorder of Fresno County. Executed by P.I. Co. 6/4/1906.. Deeds date back to August 1883; 1906McKinley Commerative Postcards sent to P.I. Co.69“Conveyances by: Contract & Finance Co., Chas. Crocker, P.I. Co. - Humboldt County, Nev.”. Deeds of Conveyance for Humboldt County land, dated: 12/4/1872 - 5/24/1888;abstract of all lands granted by P.I. Co. between years 1895 and 1900;abstract of conveyances on record in County Recorder's Office of Humboldt County, Nev. from P.I. Co. since 1/1/1900 (- Dec. 1905).610“Conveyances - Kern City”. Book #1 P.I. Co. Deeds, Kern County, California not in chronological nor Deed # order, dates of deeds range 1891-1906.Book #2 P.I. Co. Deeds Kern County, Calif. no order - dates range 1889-1906.All books of conveyances of deeds compiled by Kern County Abstract Co. - Bakersflied, Calif.611“Conveyances - Kern County”. Book #3 P.I. Co. Deeds, Kern County, Ca. dates 1889-1906.Book #4 P.I. Co. Deeds, Kern County, Ca. dates range 1887-1892.612“Conveyances - Kern County”. Books #5 & #6 same title and subject dates 1887-1905.All books have notations on cover as to what townships in Kern County are included.613“Abstracts, Conveyances - Merced County”. Notebooks entitled: Abstract of Title. One prepared for P.I. Co. (dates 1889-1895)another for Charles Crocker (dates 1875-1887).Both prepared by Simonson and Harrell, Merced, Ca. Then two lists: 1. Contract & Finance Co. Deeds, 2. Lots in City of Merced, owned by P.I. Co. - no dates.614“Placer County E1/2 S13, T14, R16E”. Abstract of Title to 320 acres of land as specified in folder title (ie. eastern 1/2 of section 13, town 14, range 16 east). Property of P.I. Co. 12/16/1921.615“Siskiyou County S19, T39, R4W”. Abstract of Title for all of section 19 etc. 7/1/20.616“Tulare County - Portions of S27, T17, R25E, Conveyances”. Conveyances of Deeds date range 1885-1903.Certificate of Title (search) dated 5/13/19.617“P.I. Co. Conveyances - Ventura County”. Bound books containing abstract of deeds (P.I.Co. Conveyances) prepared by Ventura Abstract Co. Booklet subdivided: 1. Schedule A: real property in Saticoy, Ventura County, 2. Schedule B: real property elsewhere (not in Saticoy) in the County of Ventura dated August 11, 1906.618“Conveyances by Charles Crocker, Contract & Finance Co., P.I. Co. in Butte, Colusa, El Dorado, Glenn, Kings and Los Angeles Counties”. Abstracts made 1906-1907.619“Conveyances by Chas. Crocker, Contract & Finance Co., P.I. Co. in San Joaquin, San Luis Obispo, Santa Cruz, Shasta and Siskiyou Counties”. Most abstracts dated 1907,except 2nd Siskiyou abstract 1921.620“Conveyances by Chas. Crocker, Contract & Finance, P.I. Co. in Sonoma, Sutter, Stanislaus (Calif.), Cochise (Arizona), Elko (Nevada) and Jackson (Oregon) Counties”.621“Nevada Land - Leases - Fultons 1913-1922,Sale, Pierce 1922”. Land in Washoe County, Nevada. Includes history of how land was acquired by Big Four, held by Crocker and passed on at his death to P.I. Co.622“White Oaks, New Mexico Lands, Sale to Fulmer 1920”. J.H. Fulmer Jr.623“Buffalo, New York”. Sale of part of land owned jointly by P.I. Co. and the Estates of B.C. & D.P. Rumsey to Samuel Dark and Ward Wickwire 6/28/1916.Correspondence and reports concerning collection of payment and rest of Buffalo land runs to 1934.624“Texas Lands”. Bound volume - Alfred Abeel, Master Commissioner, Deed to Wilbur F. Boyle, recorded 1898.Other deeds to Boyle same year.P.I. Townsites71“General Quitclaim Correspondence (Intra-office, Multitownsite, Town Unidentified)”. Correspondence dates 9/25/20 - 6/27/66.72“Land - Outstanding Contracts for the Year Ending 12/31/11”.720“Cashmere Colony Tract, Yolo County (Capay Valley Land Co.)”. Two leases: 1. Nov. 1909, 2. Jan. 1917.Correspondence 9/24/63 to 4/25/66.721“Coalinga, Fresno County”. Letter of Administration (Superior Ct.) 10/14/1909,Certificate of Title 10/8/20,correspondence 5/26/36 to 5/13/49.722“Colfax”. Correspondence May - June 1945re: quitclaim deed for certain Colfax property.723“Colton, San Bernadino County”. Contract for a deed 8/1/16.724“Corning, Tehama County”. Correspondence and quitclaim deed 6/24/36 - 5/26/47.725“Cottonwood, Shasta County”. Correspondence, Right of Way and Track Map of Southern Pacific and Quitclaim Deed. Nov. 23, 1965 - Jan. 26, 1966.726“Cromir, Fresno County”. Copy of original deed to South. Pacific 5/29, 1894,map, correspondence and quitclaim deed, May to August 1945.727“Crow's Landing, Stanislaus County”. Correspondence and quitclaim deeds 10/26/32 - 10/17/44.728“Delano, Kern County”. Quitclaim deed request and P.I. Co. response Sept. - Oct. 1937.729“Dinuba, Tulare County”. Townsite Agreement, contract, leases, correspondence 4/8, 1888 to 8/24/47.Includes notification of lawsuit brought by town of Dinuba against P.I. Co. and others730“Dos Palos, Merced County”. Correspondence with District Attorney's Office of Merced re: Quitclaim Deed April - May 1953.731“Dunsmuir, Siskiyou County”. Three maps and correspondence 9/30/35 - 11/19/41.732“East Bakersfield, Kern Count (Formerly Summer)”. Document from Kern County Abstract Co. re: mapping of certain lot 7/31/06.733“East Oakland, Alameda County”. Notes on collection of rent, July 1906 - 1/13/10.734“Earlimart, Tulare County (Formerly Alila)”. Correspondence with Tulare County Abstract Co. re: quitclaim deed September 1939.735“Elko, Nevada”. Correspondence and legal suits 1/26/37 - July 1955.736“El Verano, Sonoma County (El Vernano Villa Assn., El Verano Improvement Assn.)”. Correspondence, leases, contracts for deeds 11/14/88 - 3/21/66.737“Esparto, Yolo County (Capay Valley Land Co.)”. Lease issued to A.H. Fredson 11/1/11.738“Exeter, Tulare County”. Letter of Administration, Superior Court, Certificate of Title and correspondence 2/15/10 - 2/27/39.739“Famoso, Kern County”. Three contracts for deeds 3/28/96, 3/9/10, 3/16/10.Another agreement (12/18/17)declaring the one of March 1896null and void. Finally, correspondence 5/18/30 - 6/4/38re: quitclaim deed.740“Firebaugh, Fresno County”. Townsite Agreement, Report of Title and correspondence 5/5/91 - 9/14/59.741“Fowler, Fresno County”. Certificate of Title, contracts for deeds, correspondence and map 4/21/11 - 3/8/51.742“Fruto, Colusa County”. Townsite Agreement, leases, quitclaim deed, correspondence July 10, 1888 - Oct. 3, 1960.743“Galt, Sacramento County”. History of Galt, Declaration of Trust (and cancellation thereof), quitclaim deeds, contracts for deeds, map, correspondence May 1916 - Nov. 1953.744“Gosford, Kern County”. Two townsite agreements between P.I. Co. and Kern County Land Co.: 1. Sept. 13, 1892,2. Dec. 18, 1917.745“Gridley, Butte County”. Correspondence. quitclaim deed and map 2/16/33 - 1/12/50.746“Guinda Colony Tract, Yolo County (Capay Valley Land Co.)”. Leases, contracts for deeds Nov. 15, 1912 - June 1, 1919.Correspondence re: quitclaim deeds March and April 1953.747“Hanford, Kings County”. Two quitclaims deeds and relating correspondence: 1. June - August, 1939,2. June 1951.748“Hardwick, Kings County”. Correspondence re: quitclaim deed including copy of original deed and map, Jan. - Feb. 1963.749“Herndon, Fresno County”. Receipts 1/3/13.Correspondence re: quitclaim deed Sept. - Oct. 1944.750“Hickman, Stanislaus County”. Townsite agreement July 1890,certificate to title 4/22/19,copy of `Instructions and Rules to Real Estate Brokers Governing the Sale of P.I. Co. Properties'. Correspondence re: quitclaim deed Nov. 1955.751“Hornbrook, Siskiyou County”. Correspondence and quitclaim deeds 12/30/49 - 11/2/65.752“Huron, Fresno County”. Three leases Dec. 1914 - August 1915.Then correspondence and map 3/15/37 - 4/22/58.753“Ingomar, Merced County”. Correspondence, quitclaim deed, map 5/24/61 - 11/13/61.754“Ivesta, Fresno County (Formerly Minneola)”. Lease (10/1/12),two copies of contract for deed (1/3/17).755“Jasmin, Kern County”. Superior Ct. letter of administration - estate of Jean Sarrazin (4/15/10).756“Lathrop, San Joaquin County”. Correspondence 8/5/33 - 1/16/47.757“Lemoore, Kings County”. Contracts and correspondence 8/7/08 - 9/15/58.758“Lethene, Kings County”. Correspondence and contract for deed Dec. 1922 - 4/25/25.759“Locans, Fresno County”. Correspondence, map and quitclaim deed, P.I. Co. land to Southern Pacific dates 7/16/63 - 5/24/65.760“Los Angeles”. Correspondence, lists of P.I. Co. land 1907 - 1909.761“Los Banos, Merced County”. Quitclaim deed (6/7/18).Then correspondence and other quitclaim deeds 2/18/49 - 5/2/51.762“Lovelock, Nevada”. Correspondence 5/15/34 - 3/31/39.763“McMillan Tract, Yolo County (Capay Valley Land Co.)”. Six leases 10/1/08 - 10/1/15.764“McMullin, Fresno County”. Correspondence re: quitclaim deed request June, 1965.765“Maxwell, Colusa County”. Agreement, lease, Superior Court. letter of administration, correspondence, map dates range August 15, 1878 - May 18, 1910.766“Mayhew Tract, Talare County”. Copy of agreement 10/10, 1893.767“Mendota, Fresno County”. Copy of townsite agreement (2/5/91).then correspondence and quitclaim deeds 7/6/42 - 12/17/57.81“Merced, Marced County”. Omnious Deed (L. Stanford, et. al. to P.I. Co.), legal suit, mortgage, financial reports, correspondence dates Feb. 26, 1889 - April 14, 1901.82“Modesto, Stanislaus County”. Legal suit (Copy of Summons and Complaint), correspondence 6/13/23 - 10/25/44.83“Mojave, Kern County”. Agreements, mortgage, certificates of title, contracts for deeds, notes, lists of property, correspondence, quitclaim deeds, map 7/1/06 - 12/31/63.84“Montague, SiskiyouCounty”. Leases, contracts for deeds, legal suits (P.I. Co. Plaintiff), correspondence, quitclaim deed, legal suit (P.I. Co. defendant) dates 1/7/08 - 5/26/61.85“Montpellier, Stanislaus County”. Townsite agreement (6/3/1889),lease (10/10/16),then correspondence re: quitclaim deeds 11/14/58 - 5/5/60.86“Mount Shasta, Siskiyou County (Formerly Sisson)”. Correspondence, map quitclaim deed, grant deed 4/8/36 - 10/17/63.87“Nelson, Butte County”. Copy of lease 5/9/17.88“Newhall, Los Angeles County”. Contract for deed (copy) 1/17/18,correspondence 3/20/34 - 3/13/46.89“Newman, Stanislaus County”. Townsite agreement (5/3/87),memorandum of Agreement (2/3/88),agreement (2/5/10),then correspondence and quitclaim deeds 5/29/35 - 3/20/58.810“Nord”. Letter 9/13/48.811“Orland, Colusa County”. Handwritten townsite agreement April 7, 1882 - Aug. 20, 1888,correspondence and quitclaim deeds Jan. 18 1937 - Dec. 14, 1945812“Orris, Tulare County”. Townsite Agreement (Aug. 9, 1888),(2) leases Dec. 23, 1913 and Sept. 1, 1915.813“Oswald, Sutter County”. Notes on deeds (5/23/1889-8/1/1896).Small map/814“Palermo, Butte County”. Cop of townsite agreement 10/17/1889,correspondence re: quitclaim deed, Jan. and Feb. 1945.815“Parker Tract, Folo Count (Capay Valley Land Co.)”. Leases and contracts for deeds. Dates: 1/15/1914 & 1/25/17.816“Pollasky, Fresno County”. Original memo of agreement (11/13/07),correspondence 12/18/35 - 3/18/36.817“Porterville, Tulare County”. Deed (4/14/1888),townsite agreement and typed copy (4/13/1888),agreement (4/13/07),then correspondence and quitclaim deed 6/19/23 - 3/3/64.818“Redlands, Riverside County”. Correspondence and quitclaim deed P.I.C. to Southern Pacific (July 1967).819“Reedley, Fresno County”. Townsite agreement, contract, lease, correspondence and quitclaim deed 5/4/1888 - 4/20/45.820“Reedley - Abstract of Title”. Bound volume in folder.821“Reno, Washoe County, Nevada”. Correspondence and quitclaim deed (4/6/37 - 9/27/44).822“Rio Bravo, Kern County”. Agreement and re: lease to P.I. Co. 12/13/23.823“Rocklin, Placer County”. Correspondence and quitclaim deed 7/6/36 - 3/27/45.824“Rolinda, resno County”. Correspondence, quitclaim deed, map 2/28 - 12/6, 1935.825“Rumsey, Yolo County”. Capay Valley Land Co. - leases, contracts for needs 10/1/1908 - 1/2/1914.Then P.I. Co. correspondence re: quitclaim July 20 - Aug. 4, 1954.826“Ryer, Merced County”. Townsite agreement, leases, release, cancelled check 2/24/1893 - 2/23/1921,then - abstract of title (includes map) in booklet.827“San Miguel, San Luis Obispo County”. Lease (9/7/1914,correspondence 12/27/40 - 3/15/44.828“Sanger, Fresno County”. correspondence for quitclaim deeds (2/7/11 - 12/4/1914),correspondence and quitclaim deeds (4/20/1941 - 12/15/64).829“San Joaquin County”. Map and legal suit (P.I. Co. as one of defendants).830“Santa Margarita, San Luis Obispo County. Contracts for deeds, correspondence and quitclaim deed (11/29/13 - 10/18/50),abstract of title (with map) in booklet.831“Santa Monica, Los Angeles Count”. Correspondence and legal suit (P.I. Co. as defendant) 11/8/1906 - 7/25/1935.832“Saticoy, Ventura County”. Contract, right of way, quitclaim deed and correspondence 12/13/12 - 9/11/52.833“Sespe, Ventura County”. Deed, contracts, law suits (P.I. Co. as plaintiff), leases, notes and figures (undated), map, correspondence (7/11/1887 - 1/31/1908).834“Stanley, Fresno County”. Copy of townsite agreement (9/18/1891),redemption of real estate, release, correspondence June 1921 - Nov. 1923.835“Stevens, Kern County”. Copy of townsite agreement (9/13/1892),2nd agreement (12/18/1917).836“Sweitzer Tract, Yolo County (Capay Valley Land Co.)”. Copy of lease 9/30/1915.837“Tarusa, Tulare County”. Release of heirs (2/11/15),original and copy of contract for deed (6/5/20).838“Tehachapi, Kern County”. Receipt (8/24/1907),correspondence and legal suits (P.I. Co. - defendant). Date: (3/25/37 - 8/3/66).839“Terra Bella, Tulare County”. Copy of townsite a agreement (5/7/1888) -accompanying latter (10/8/07).840“Tipton, Tulare County”. Tipton-Crocker deeds (abstracts) 1884 - 1902,lease (1/9/15),correspondence re: quitclaim deeds (6/18/38 - 3/13/41).841“Tracy, San Joaquin County”. Correspondence re: quitclaim deeds (7/19/33 - 12/14/61).842“Traver, Tulare County”. Correspondence, lease, agreement, corporate resolutions, law suit (P.I. Co. as defendant), quitclaim deed. Dates: 8/31,1895 - 4/20, 1950.843“Truckee, Nevada County”. Correspondence, quitclaim deeds, legal suits (P.I. Co. as sole defendant). Dates: Nov. 25, 1935 - Sept. 16, 1966.844“Tudor, Sutter County”. Note on deeds (1893),two leases 1/1/07 and 10/7/10.845“Tulare, Tulare County”. Correspondence re: quiet title August, 1947 and March 1950,legal suit - summons and complaint, P.I. Co., as defendant.846“Verdi, Washoe County, Nevada”. Correspondence including maps, sales options 4/7/61 - 6/10/68.847“Vina, Tehama County”. Correspondence and quitclaim deed Feb. 1935.Last letter in file re: same matter to P.I. Co. from A.E. Roth, Comptroller, Stanford University848“Volta, Merced County”. Townsite a agreement (11/9/1905).849“Wadsworth, Washoe County, Nevada”. correspondence and quitclaim deed (August, 1962).850“Waterford, Stanislaus”. Townsite agreement (1/26/1891),contracts for deeds, correspondence, certificate of title, quitclaim deeds (2/20/13 - 3/2/48).851“Weins Tract, Yolo County (Capay Valley Land Co.)”. Two leases (11/15/11).852“Wells, Elko County, Nevada”. Abstract of title (not bound), contracts for deed, correspondence, deed of confirmation, legal suits (P.I. Co. as one of defendants). Dates: August 7, 1920 - May 13, 1953.853“Westley, Stanislaus County”. Examination (4/18/1888)and cancellation (2/26/18)of townsite agreement.854“Wible Orchard, Kern County”. Cop of townsite agreement (9/13/1892),new agreement (12/18/17).855“Willows, Glenn County”. Correspondence re: quitclaim deed 3/10 - 6/3, 1944.856“Winnemucca, Humboldt County, Nevada”. Correspondence, quitclaim deeds, map, legal suit (P.I. Co. as defendant). Dates: 4/22/35 - 4/13/65.857“Yarmouth, San Joaquin County”. Deed (Oct. 16, 1914).Carbon Hill Coal Co.91“Carbon Hill Coal- 1892 and 1923Stock certificate”. List of stock owned by P.I. Co.92“Carbon Hill Coal Co. - Qualification to do business - Washington”. Secretary of (Washington) State document, annual license for P.I. Co. to operate in washington (1908 - 1915),corporation licenses for C.H.C.C., correspondence Dates: 6/15/08 - 7/1/1966.93“Carbon Hill Coal, Dissolution - 1966”. Correspondence between directors and lawyers, legal documents of Dissolution (Washington and California State). Everything date 1966.94“Auditor's Reports, Carbon Hill”. for years 1923 & 1927.95“Carbon Hill Coal - Corporation, Income tax”. Tax returns, some correspondence and financial reports 1936 - 1966.96“Carbon Hill Coal - Sale to Pacific Coast Co., 1924 - Sale, Supplemental, Liquidation Contracts”. 1st item - list of contents of folder and dates 8/28/24 - 10/1/47.97“Carbon Hill Coal, Correspondence 1906 - 1949”. 12/5, 1906 -letter from George Crocker, predominantly correspondence between P.I. Co. and Pacific Coast Coal Co. officials, inventory of C.H.C.C. propert 10/1/47Copy of Enumclaw Courier-Herald, 7/29/48 -with history of Carbonado. 1948-49much correspondence between S.F.B. Morse - George Hopkins.98“Carbon Hill Coal, General Correspondence 1950-1959”. Includes inter-organizational memos, quitclaim and grant deed issued by C.H.C.C.99“Carbon Hill Coal, General Correspondence 1960”. Dec. 1966(end), great deal of correspondence with Sheridan Hopkins who became P.I. Co. representative after death of his father, George, copy of Buckley New-Banner 2/2/61 -carrying story re: sale of Wilkeson Mine to Japanese concern, more newspaper articles - same subject, quitclaim deeds.910“Carbon Hill Coal, Gopher Mining, 1960-on/Prior Years in 'Correspondence' ”. (ie. 9-7 & 9-8)Tony Biselli and partners have small mining operation on C.H.C.C. land - correspondence with S.F.B.M. and P.I. Co. through S. Hopkins.911“Carbonado Controversy”. Also covered and explained in listing of JL 16 Box #3. Correspondence between S.F.B. Morse and R.B. Wallace, among others, re: stipuletions of deeds given to people living on C.H.C.C. land. All P.I. Co. Directors, Washington D.C. administrators, U.S. Senators and Congressmen from Washington and Calif. States drawn in to melee. File includes correspondence and some news articles (editorials). Dates: 11/8/1963 - 8/8/1966.912“Carbon Hill Coal Consultants Evaluations - Bailey Willis and George Watkin Evans”. Map of Pierce County, Washington, two reports by Bailey Willis (Stanford professor): 1. Memorandum Report on Current Conditions at Carbon Hill Washington (October 1920),2. Memorandum on the Pocahontas Property, King County, Washington (October 1920).Report by Stephen Knowles, Engineer - Fuel Situation in Seattle and in Western Washington. Market for Smokeless Fuel (3/14/1922), Estimates of available Tonnage Carbonado Mine (8/23/27).Report by R.J. Wulzen (9/18/36),Special Report to Directors P.I. Co. re: C.H.C.C. (Oct. 1936).Report by George Watkins Evans (4/15/42).913“C.H. Coal - Report on Carbon River Hydroelectric Potential 1914”.Bound volume, report authored by Ashton and Bridgman, Engineers. Date: June 1914914“Carbon Hill Coal, Index to Voucher Record 1918-1924”. Old notebook.915“Carbon Hill Coal - Bank Statements, Cancelled Checks 1924-1925”.916“Carbon Hill Coal - Sample Checks and Vouchers 1924-1925”. Cross reference to JL001.917“Carbon Hill Coal Co. - Map or Carbonado drawn 5/1/16for Insurance Purposes”.918“Carbon Hill Coal Co. - Pierce County Official Maps”. Eight maps by section, undated.C.H.C.C., Pacific Coast Commercial Co., Ione Coal & Iron Co., Rocky Mountain Coal & Iron Co.101“Carbon Hill Coal Co. - Reports June - Oct. 1910”. Different financial reports (typed copies).102“Carbon Hill Coal Co. - Reports - Jan. - June, Nov. - Dec. 1911”. Same as 10-1.103“Carbon Hill Coal Inventories 12/31/10”. Five inventories: 1. general 2. machinery and tools 3. store rooms 4. hotel 5. store and butcher shop.104“Carbon Hill Coal Co. In entories 12/31/11”. Six inventories 1-5 same as 10-3. 6. Betterment Account.105“Carbon Hill Coal Co. Inventories 12/31/23”. One all-inclusive inventory.106“Carbon Hill Coal, Mine Inventory - Sale to Pacific Coast, 9/15/24”. Includes map of mines.107“Carbon Hill Coal, Store Inventory - Sale to Pacific Coast 9/15/24”.108“Pacific Coast Commercial Co.”. Articles of incorporation, by-laws, Washington State documents, tax forms, bill of sale to C.H.C.C. (9/27/15),correspondence, certificates of dissolution and other documents, re: dissolution. Dates: 7/31/13 - 5/4/34.Pacific Coast Commercial Co. was a general merchandizing store in Carbonado.109“Pacific Coast Commercial Co.”. Financial reports (ie. accounts payable, collection sheets) related correspondence. Dates: 1/24/1914 - 9/30/1915.1010“Ione Coal & Iron Correspondence, Deeds, Etc. 1901 - 1929”. Handwritten receipts (1901),deed, predominantly correspondence, quiet title action suit by People of California. v. Ione Coal and others.1011“Ione Coal & Iron Co.”. Sample stock certificate, financial sheets, reports on mine and map of mine. Dates: Jan. 1902 - July 1907.1012“Ione Coal & Iron Co., Crocker Bank Deposit Books, 1906-1921”. Two bank books and financial statements.1013“Ione Coal & Iron Co., Cancelled Checks”. Dates: July 30, 1904 - Feb. 27, 1907.1014“Hocky Mountain Coal & Iron Co. - Corporate Papers”. Articles of Incorporation - Wyoming State document, certificate of filing in Calif., copies of documents - proxies, certificates, court decisions, licenses. Dates: 9/24/06 - 8/5/20.1015“Rocky Mountain Coal Co.”. Agreements, contracts, leases, map of mines, list of stockholders (Nov. 1918 -largest single stockholder trustees of Leland Stanford Junior University), correspondence. Dates: 4/1/07 - 3/19/21.1016“Rocky Mountain Merchantile Co.”. Sale of R.H. Merchantile and Coal & Iron Co. to George Dexton. Dates: Dec. 1919 - Oct. 9, 1923.O.W.F. Co. (Oakland Waterfront Co.)111“O.W.F. - Index to Company's Records”.112“The Oakland Water Front Company - Corporate Papers”. Certificate of Incorporation (3/27/1868,copy), certificate of Extension of Corporate Existence (3/15/1918,original and copy), stock ownership certificates, application for dissolution (1922),excerpts from Minutes of Director's Meetings (1910 - 1913).113“O.W.F. Co. - Meeting Notices & Proxies”. Dates: June 22, 1906 - May 27, 1922.114“O.W.F. - Stockholders, Settlements of Estates - Chas. H. Tweed, Juliet Waite Garber, Belle Garber Palache”. Dates: 1908 - 1917.115“O.W.F. Co. - Abstracts of Title”. Include maps, dates 1912 - 1917.116“Abstract” of title as to property in Alameda Marsh. Dates: 11/6/16.117“O.W.F. - Quitclaim correspondence” and copies of “Summons and Complaint” in legal suits, 3/6/1933 - 5/3/1946118“O.W.F. Co. - Indenture of Trust, 4/12/17- P.I. Co. and O.W.F. Co.”119“O.W.F. Co. - Southern Pacific Co. adements”. Right of way contracts or deeds and maps 1913 - 1918.1110“Oakland W. & Co. - Voucher Record, April 1906 - April 1915.Bound ledger in file.1111“O.W.F. Bank Deposit Book, 1906-1922,Crocker-Woolworth Wat'l. Bank”. Bank book in file.1112“O.W.F. Co. Misc.”. Contracts for deeds (copies), correspondence, notations and memos, sketches of maps, maps, descriptions of land, financial sheets. Dates: 1870 - 1914.1113“O.W.F. - Misc. Contracts, Agreements, Lease Options. List of contents: 1st item includes maps, old handwritten deed - Aug. 23, 1893,other material 10/15/03 - 2/3/15.Chronological order.1114“O.W.F. Co. Misc. Deeds” quitclaim and otherwise, mortgages and release, list of contents: 1st item, items in order given on list. Dates range: 1899 - March 1916.1115“O.W.F. - Sessions, Reports 1915”. Two large maps: 1. Portion of Alameda Marsh land, 2. Entrance to the San Francisco Bay.1116“O.W.F. Co. - Dredging Operations”. First two items lists concents, contracts, applications, proposals, bonds. Dates Range: 1917 - 1921.1117“Oakland Water Front Co. - Oakland Harbor Dredging”. Reports, contracts, resolutions and ordinances granting certain rights to O.W.F. Co., maps, some correspondence, notations of figures, memos and sketches of maps. Dates: July 26, 1900 - Aug. 12, 1919.1118“Oakland W.F. Co. - Oakland Harbor Dredging - Map”. 1917 - 1918.1119“O.W.F. - United Engineering Works sale 1901”. List of contents, deeds and contracts 1901 - 1916.1120“O.W.F. Co. Alaska Packers Assn. 1905 Sale”. List of contents, deeds, contracts 1905 - 1917.1121“United ng. Works, 1913”. Proposed deed 5/1/13 -notations and memos.1122“O.W.F. Co. - P.I. Co. & O.W.F. Co. Deed to U.S. 4/25/14”.1123“O.W.F. Co. - Agreement W/S.F. Bridge Co. for Construction of Spillway 1917”. 12/22/17 -map.1124“O.W.F. - Sale to Union Iron Works - Actual, Signed Contracts - 1917”. List of contents - first item, deeds, agreements, resolutions, map 3/29/17 - 2/13/18.1125“O.W.F. Co. - Agreements with Union Iron Works 3/18/18”. List of contents.1126“O.W.F. Union Iron Works Sale - Correspondence”. 2/21/16 - 3/24/17.1127“O.W.F. Co. - Tract 30, Sale to Union Iron Works, Contract Drafts”. Deeds, contracts, options, right of way deeds, all dated 1917.T.O.W.F. Co. (Oakland Water Front)121“O.W.F. Co. - Tract 30 Sale to Union Iron Works - Working Papers”. Maps 1916 - 1917.122“O.W.F. Co. - Sale to Demerritt - 1917”. List of contents Oct. 1917 - Dec. 1918.123“O.W.F. Co. - Transfer to U.S. Shipping Board, Emergency Fleet Corporation - 1918”. List of contents, July - Sept. 1918.124“O.W.F. Co. - Taxes on Land Deeded to U.S. Shipping Board, Emergency Fleet Corporation 1918”. Memoranda and correspondence re: taxes, certificate of redemption of real estate, land goes back to O.W.F. Co. Dates: 2/2/20 - 6/9/21.125“O.W.F. Co. - Alameda Naval Base Site - 1920”. Copy of publication - Oakland Achievement - Vol. IV, No. 1, Nov. 1920.all articles on Naval Base.126“Oakland W.F. Co. - Legal, Contra Costa Water Co. v. O.W.F. Co. (1909)”. Testimony and cross examination of consulting engineers re: depreciation in suit heard by U.S. Circuit Court Nov. 1909.127“O.W.F. Co. - 1917 Levee Break Litigation Papers”. List of contents, dates 11/17/15 - 4/11/19.128“Oakland W.F. Co. - Legal, Litigation Re: 1/9/17Levee Break During Dredging”. In Superior Court 1. Chas. Fitch and 2. Lee Beckley v. Standard American Dredging Co., both answered by O.W.F. Co. 3. O.W.F. Co. v. Standard American Dredging Co., notes on case, correspondence.129“O.W.F. Co. - Wilson v. Standard American Dredging (1/9/17 Levee Break), Files of Chickering & Gregory Attorneys for Defense”. Various cases, Wilson always plaintiff, copies of complaint & summons, court reports on developments of case, correspondence 1/16/17 - 1/29/18.1210“Wilson v. Std. American Dredging, 1917, Transcript: 10/25/17, 10/29/17”. Examination of Alan S. Wilson (direct, cross - 10/24,cross, re-direct, recross - 10/29).1211“O.W.F. Co. - Wilson v. Std. American Dredging, 1917 - Transcript: 10/31/17, 11/1/17, 11/5/17”. Examination of witnesses, important witnesses - 10/31 -A.B. Southard, 11/1 -A.D. Wilson and A.S. Southard, 11/2 -J. Beaumont and A.B. Southard.1212“O.W.F. Co. - Wilson v. Std. American Dredging, 1917 - Transcripts: 11/6/17, 11/7/17, 11/8/17”. A.B. Southard, J. Beaumont, A.D. Wilson - all re-called (again).1213“O.W.F. Co. v. Std. Amer. Dredging 1917 - Transcripts: 11/12-11/17, 11/15/17, 11/19/17”. Motion for non-suit on behalf of O.W.F. Co. - denied, end of defense.1214“Leroy v. O.W.F. Co. - 1919”. In U.S. District Court, copy of summons and complaint May 8, 1919.1215“O.W.F. Co. Ghiglione v. O.W.F. Co. 1920- Documents”. In Superior Court of Calif., file includes stipulations, notices, memoranda, supoena. Article in back re: Alameda vote on sewer bond issue.1216“O.W.F. Co. - Ghiglione v. O.W.F. Co. - Van Fleet Correspondence”. Includes reports, charts, but predominantly correspondence and memoranda of attny for O.W.F. Co., Van Fleet, 10/6/19 - 8/8/21.1217“O.W.F. Co. - Ghiglione v. O.W.F. Co. 1920- Exhibits”. Maps, photographs, reports - agricultural and financial, municipal resolutions giving O.W.F.Co. permission to dredge.1218“Ghiglione v. O.W.F. Co., 1921 - Transcripts: 1/17/21, 1/18/21, 1/19/21”. Testimony of Angelo Ghiglione, among others.Miscellaneous131“Ghiglione v. O.W.F. Co., 1921, Transcript: 1/20/21, 2/9-10/21, 2/14-16/21”.132“Ghiglione v. O.W.F. Co., 1921 - Transcript: 2/16-17/21, 2/21/21”. J. Beaumont testimony.133“O.W.F. Co. - Sessions v P.I. Co., 1920”. In Superior Court of Calif. George S. Sessions v. P.I. Co. and O.W.F. Co., court documents - notices, subpoenas, affadavits, 2/28/19 - 6/1/20.134“O.W.F. Co. - Sessions v. P.I. Co. - Transcript: 2/16/20 2/18/20”. Opening statements and testimony of Sessions and S.F.B. Morse, among others.135“Sessions v. P.I. Co., 1920 - Transcript: 2/19/20,-2/24/20”. Testimony of Sessions, among others.136“O.W.F. Co. Sessions v. P.I. Co., 1920 - Transcripts: 2/25/20, 3/3/20”. 2/25 - deposition of J.W. Powell, 3/3 - court's instructions to jury.137“Antioch Holding & Investment Co.”. Stock certificate 3/26/1912of 81 shares owned by Ione Coal & Iron Co.138“California and Oregon R.R., San Francisco and Marysvilles R.R.”. C. & O. R.R. Stock Certificate dated June 27, 1863(Corp. organized June 2, 1863),two S.F. & M. R.R. Stock Certificates dated Aug. 19, 1858,also Southern Pacific and P.I. Co. Correspondence Nov. & Dec. 1900.139“Capay Valley Land Co. - Stock Cert(ificate), By-Laws, Decreasement of Stock”. 5/8/1896 - 12/12/18,value of each share deminished to 1/100 of worth.1310“Capay Valley Land Co. - Meeting Notices, 1907 - 1920 - Proxies”. 1/4/07 - 8/16/20.1311“Capay Valley Land Co. (?) - Land Sales Record Book 1903-1908”.1312“Capay Valley Land Co.”. Financial reports, memos, correspondence, notations, receipts, bills, contracts, corporate resolutions, lists of deeds to and from C.V.L. Co. 1908 - 1911.1313“Chattanooga Southern R.R. (Tenn., Ala. & Georgis R.R., Successor)”. Letter from Col. Thomas Hubbard to A.D. Shepard 10/6/13re: Chattanooga Southern R.R. and Guatamala transaction.1314“Chevy Chase Land Company”. Correspondence Sept. - Dec. 1901.1315“Coal and Products Co.”. Two stock certificates 5/28/09 and 12/20/09 -owned by A.D. Shephard.1316“Colorado Steam Navigation Co.”. (Two) stock certificates 4/24/1877,owned by F.S. Douty and 11/10/93,owned by P.I. Co. - list of other certificates received 3/29/01.1317“Contract and Finance Co.”. Two notes to a `Black' from Lew Tashira November, 1912.1318“Cosmos Club - J.E. Polhemus, Cancelled Checks - April 1913”. List of members, some notations.1319“Crocker-Huffman Land & Water Co.”. Copy of articles of incorporation (4/30, 1888),contract with American Olive Co. and miscellaneous correspondence Sept. 1912 - Oct. 19351320“East Side Real Estate Co. of Portland, Ore.”. Transcript of entries from ledgers 6-8inclusive.1321“El Verano Improvement Assn.”. Examples of stock cartificates (1914, 1919),list of concents include articles of incorporation (6/13/08),notices of court action, annual meeting notices and proxies, resolutions, contracts (1912 - 1919).1322“El Verano Villa Association”. Stock certificates (P.I. Co.) 1914, 1919.1323“Esquimalt & Nanaimo R.R. Co. & Wellington Collieries Co. Ltd.”. Articles of Assn., agreements re: sale of P.I. Co. Canadian interests in these two companies to James Dunsmuir, further agreements concerning sale and payment, lists of stock, correspondence 3/26/02 - 4/11/19051324“Fresno Land & Improvement Co.”. Stock certificates (P.I. Co., George Crocker) 1892 - 1897.1325“Galveston, Harrisburg & San Antonio R.R.”. Correspondence with Franklin Trust Co., Jan. - Feb. 1910.1326“Garvey Bar Dredging Co. & Simmons Bar Dredging Co.”. Also Kalmath River Gold Mining Co. stock certificates, agreements, corporate description and reports, correspondence. Dates: 1910-1912.1327“Geary St., Park & Ocean R.R. - 5s 21 sample bond”. Stock certificates (June 3, 1887)and first mortgage bond, Oct. 1, 1891,misc. other business include Polhemus resignation, trust agreement.1328“Geary St., Park & Ocean Rwy. - Short Term investments 1907-12,Bank Deposit Book 1906-1924”. Correspondence from Crocker Nat'l. Bank re: investments.1329“Geary St., Park & Ocean R.R.”. Correspondence from Brobeck, Phleger & Harrison, attnys. accompanying small checks as installment of 1/10 the principal of G.S.P. & O.R.R. (2/10/27 - 2/14/33).1330“Geary St., Park