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Colorado-Utah Construction Company Mss 808 Colorado-Utah Construction Company Mss 808 The Colorado-Utah construction Company incorporated in 1902 to build the Denver, Northwestern & Pacific Railway. The collection contains correspondence, financial records, cost estimates, and construction contracts and costs estimates dated 1902-1906. Records are incomplete so researchers are not able to develop a comprehensive view of company operations. Note: File folder four contains an Index to the Estimates found through the collection and as such serves as the inventory for file numbers 4-24. The inventory will abbreviate the descriptions so it is advisable to consult the Index for fuller description of estimates. Provenance unknown. Contents: FF 1 Transmittal of bills Nov. 13, 1903-Feb. 5, 1904 FF 2 Transmittal of bills Feb. 5, 1904-July 7, 1904 FF 3 Miscellany re: Estate of Amanda Freeman 1906-1907 FF 4 Index to Estimates File Box, No. 1 1902-1906 [All estimates are labeled beginning 1-1, through 1-50, unless otherwise noted] FF 5 1. Road from Denver to Salt Lake Mar. 3, 1902 [No numbers 2-3] FF 6 Estimates 4-6 Feb.-May 1903 4. Road Coal Mines Jct. to Routt County 5. Statement date commencement 6. DNW&Pry from Boulder to gore Canyon FF 7 Estimates 7-9 July-Nov. 1903 7. Lines from Main Range Tunnel 8. Main Range Tunnel to Boulder Park 9. Tunnel 1 to Goodenough Cuts FF 8 Estimates 10-12 Nov. 1903 10. Letter to A.C. Ridgway; Mammoth 11. Rollins Pass Branch line 12. Letter to W.F. Jones; Good’s contract; Streeter contract 1 FF 9 Estimates 13-15 Dec. 1903-Jan. 1904 13. Letter, E.A. Meredith, Yarmony Mountain 14. Letter to A.C. Ridgway, Main Range to Graser 15. Memo to A.C. Ridgway, Graser to Strawberry FF 10 Estimates16-18 Jan.-Mar. 1904 16. Letter to A.C. Ridgway, Orman & Crook 17. Letter to A.C. Ridgway, Grade Wahsatch Range 18. Grading contracts Orman & Crook FF 11 Estimates 19-20 Apr.-May 1904 19. Letter to A.C. Ridgway, disbursements 20. DNW&PRy from Streeter & Lusk to Routt Co. [No number 21] FF 12 Estimates 22-24 June-July 1904 22. Main line from Mammoth to Rollins Pass 23. Grading Smith’s D Line around Kremmling Res. 24. Correspondence relative to work beyond Arrowhead FF 13 Estimates 25-27 Jan. 1905 25. Correspondence of A. C. Ridgway, Arrow to Steamboat 26. Grading from Arrow to Hot Sulphur springs 27. Letter from W.F. Jones, cost of line Arrow to coal fields FF 14 Estimates 28-29 Mar., Sept. 1905 28. Memo for insurance 29. DNW&Pry from Jct. Rollins Pass to Idlewild Ff 15 Estimates 30-31 Apr.-May 1905 30. DNW&Pry from Hot Sulphur Springs to Pool 31. Move coal from Pool to Utah Jct. FF 16 Estimates 32-34 Mar., June 1905 32. DNW&Pry from Sulphur Springs to Kremmling 33. DNW&Pry from Pool to Daniels Pass 34. DNW&Pry from Kremmling to Oak Hill coal FF 17 Estimates 35-37 Nov. 1905-May 1906 35. Letter to D.H. Moffat, annual business after line completed to Salt Lake 36. Utah Jct. to Kremmling 2 37. Track requirement, Gore Siding to Steamboat Springs FF 18 Booklets 38-39 August 1906 38. Oil Fields of DNW&PRy 39. Towns of DNW&PRy FF 19 Estimates 40-41 Sept.-Oct. 1906 40. DNW&Pry from Utah Jct. to Kremmling 41. Preliminary line Utah Jct. Stock Yard FF 20 Estimate 42 Nov. 1906 Extending DNW&Pry from Kremmling to Salt Lake FF 21 Estimates 43, 46 [No numbers 44, 45] ND 43. Estimated gross earnings after reaching Routt County coal fields 46. Indian Creek Pass to Springfield FF 22 Construction Contract 1- 47 [Incomplete] ND FF 23 Construction Contract 1- 48 [Incomplete] ND FF 24 Estimates 49-50 ND 49. Comparison 2% line Boulder Park 50. DNW&Pry Gore Canyon to Union Depot FF 25 W.F. Jones, Secretary of the Colorado-Utah Construction Company 3 .
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