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Served Oklahoma and other Western states.
The story of the Union Pacific Railroad's involvement with oil and the Tidelands goes back to at least 1911 when the State of California granted the City of Long Beach its tidelands properties for development of commerce, navigation, fisheries, and recreation under a public trust doctine, meaning any development and revenues from such development would have to benefit the state as a whole rather than merely neighboring communities. (The tidelands are defined as land and waterways from the mean high tide to three miles offshore.) Though oil had been discovered at Signal Hill in 1921, it wasn't until 1932 that oil was discovered in adjacent lands, mainly at the West Wilmington Oil Field. A few years later, the California Legislature gave the California State Lands Commission authority over California's ungranted public trust lands (tidelands, submerged lands, and navigable waters). In 1939 the City of Long Beach Harbor Department created a Petroleum Division and drilled the first well under the tidelands.The years between 1932 and 1958 saw a succession of court cases and landmark decisions regarding the City's rights to conduct oil operations, property disputes between the City of Long Beach and the Union Pacific Railroad, and the expenditure of oil revenues. Throughout the twentieth century, the tidelands trust doctrine, overseen by the three-member California State Lands Commission, has changed drastically and what exactly is considered state public land use has been a debate since the beginning, leading to lawsuits and jurisdictional amendments over the years.In the early 1990s, the Port of Long Beach purchased the 725-acre Union Pacific Railroad site, within the Wilmington Field off the coast of Long Beach for $405 million for the land and mineral rights.
Created in 1862, Union Pacific Railroad was one of the railroads that came together at Promontory Summit, Utah, to create the first transcontinental railroad in 1869.
This was a case testing the union shop provision of the Railway Labor Act in the Nebraska Courts, and appealed in the Supreme Court.
The Union Pacific Railroad Company was chartered by the U.S. Congress in 1862 and charged with building half of the transcontinental railway, which was completed in 1869.
In the 1870s the company was involved in a number of scandals, including the Credit Mobilier fraud. After going into receivership in 1893 it was re-incorporated in 1897 in Utah, and came under the control of magnate Edward H. Harriman. Harriman acquired the Southern Pacific and Central Pacific in 1901, but anti-trust actions led to the separation of the Southern Pacific in 1913. The Union Pacific acquired additional railway and motor coach lines over the next decades. In the 1990s the Union Pacific Railroad became a subsidiary of the Union Pacific Corporation.
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The story of the Union Pacific Railroad's involvement with oil and the Tidelands goes back to at least 1911 when the State of California granted the City of Long Beach its tidelands properties for development of commerce, navigation, fisheries, and recreation under a public trust doctine, meaning any development and revenues from such development would have to benefit the state as a whole rather than merely neighboring communities. (The tidelands are defined as land and waterways from the mean high tide to three miles offshore.)
Though oil had been discovered at Signal Hill in 1921, it wasn't until 1932 that oil was discovered in adjacent lands, mainly at the West Wilmington Oil Field. A few years later, the California Legislature gave the California State Lands Commission authority over California's ungranted public trust lands (tidelands, submerged lands, and navigable waters). In 1939 the City of Long Beach Harbor Department created a Petroleum Division and drilled the first well under the tidelands.
The years between 1932 and 1958 saw a succession of court cases and landmark decisions regarding the City's rights to conduct oil operations, property disputes between the City of Long Beach and the Union Pacific Railroad, and the expenditure of oil revenues. Throughout the twentieth century, the tidelands trust doctrine, overseen by the three-member California State Lands Commission, has changed drastically and what exactly is considered state public land use has been a debate since the beginning, leading to lawsuits and jurisdictional amendments over the years.
In the early 1990s, the Port of Long Beach purchased the 725-acre Union Pacific Railroad site, within the Wilmington Field off the coast of Long Beach for $405 million for the land and mineral rights.
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The Union Pacific Railroad was one the two original companies established in 1862 to construct the first U.S. trans-continental railway. Its mission was to build westward from Omaha and meet the Central Pacific, which began from Sacramento. After completion of the line in 1869, the Union Pacific underwent many changes in ownership and eventually came under the control of finacier Jay Gould in the mid 1870s. The railroad suffered substantially in the panic of 1893 and was placed in receivership. In 1897 it was purchased by a group of investors headed by financier E. H. Harriman, and reincorporated as the Union Pacific Railroad Company in Utah. Harriman acquired other railroads in the early 1900s, including the Southern Pacific, and formed the Northern Securities Company. This was dissolved in a notable anti-trust action by the U.S. Supreme Court in 1904, and the the Southern Pacific became independent in 1913. In the 1980s the Union Pacific acquired the Missouri Pacific and Western Pacific railroads, and in the 1990s it again acquired the Southern Pacific, along with the Chicago and Northwestern. It is now a subsidiary of the Union Pacific Corporation.
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