Abstract

Collection includes correspondence; bills and receipts, including Multnomah County tax receipts; and an account book of the Oregon and California Railroad, for which Walter Bretherton was secretary.

Abstract Agreements, contracts, and financial records of the 19th-century railroad firms Oregon and California Railroad Company; the Oregon and Transcontinental Company; the Oregon Improvement Company; and the Oregon Railroad and Navigation Company. The collection also includes Oregon Railroad Commission reports, railroad guidebooks, and files of the Southern Pacific Railroad research team. The materials were compiled by Transport Consultants, Inc., whose president, Lynn D. Farrar, had worked for...