Railroad construction office memorandum book, 1877-1882.

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Railroad construction office memorandum book, 1877-1882.

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Bound volume with manuscript notes and index in various unidentified hands relating to the construction of portions of the Kansas Pacific and Denver Pacific Railways. The entries include names of architects, contractors, engineers, and other workers; specifications for and costs of construction materials; and two roadbed detail drawings. A four-page payroll of employees of the O & R V Railway extension, dated January 1882, appears in the back of the volume. A copy of a January 23, 1878 memo from the Land Department of the Kansas Pacific Railway regarding rainfall in Kansas from 1873 to 1877 is affixed to the inside front cover, and a measurement conversion chart is affixed to the inside back cover.

1 v. (80, [4] p.) ; 22 cm.

Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library

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SNAC Resource ID: 8018658

Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library

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Kansas Pacific Railway Company

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Kansas Pacfic Railway Company.

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Denver Pacific Railway and Telegraph Company

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Organized 1867 to build and operate a railroad from Denver, Colo., to a connection with the Union Pacific in Cheyenne, Wyo.; merged into Union Pacific Railway Company, 1880. From the description of Records, 1865-1868. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 86123182 ...