Railroad surveying notes, 1883.

  1. Resources
  2. View Resource

ArchivalResource

Railroad surveying notes, 1883.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/122499656

The document consists of two pages of handwritten instructions about how to prepare maps as part of the process of surveying a railroad.

28 cm.

Huntington Library, Art Collections & Botanical Gardens

Information

SNAC Resource ID: 6736949

Related Entities

There are 2 Entities related to this resource.

Perris, Frederick Thomas, 1837-1916

http://n2t.net/ark:/99166/w6jt1z6q (person)

Fred Thomas Perris (1836-1916) grew up in England and Australia and joined the Mormon colony at San Bernardino, California, as a teenager. In 1863 he was hired to survey land near what is now Perris, Idaho. This helped get him a position as a surveyor for the transcontinental railroad, a job he lost in a labor dispute with Brigham Young. Perris worked at a variety of odd jobs before helping to found the Liberal Party of Utah and the Salt Lake Tribune. In 1874 he returned to San Bernardino, and w...

Peris, Frederick Thomas, 1837-1916.

http://n2t.net/ark:/99166/w693324d (person)