urn:taro:tslac.10220 An Inventory of Records Relating to Railroads at the Texas State Archives, 1836-1950, undated (bulk [ca. 1880]-[ca. 1910]) Finding aid by Paul B. Beck and other Archives staff This EAD finding aid was created in part with funds provided by the Texas Telecommunications Infrastructure Fund Board for the Texas Archival Resources Online project. Texas State Library and Archives Commission August 1986 Finding aid encoded by Carolyn Foster in EAD Version 1.0 as part of the TARO project, April 2003. Finding aid written inEnglish. Tue Jul 22 15:33:12 CDT 2003 urn:taro:tslac.10220 converted from EAD 1.0 to 2002 by v1to02.xsl (20030505). Overview Records relating to railroads 1836-1950, undated (bulk [ca. 1880]-[ca. 1910]) These records consist of correspondence, annual reports, valuation reports, financial statements, and stockholders meeting minutes, dating 1836-1950, undated (bulk [ca. 1880]-[ca. 1910]) of Texas railroad companies. The records were removed from the records of the Texas Comptroller of Public Accounts office, the Texas Secretary of State, and the Texas Governor's Office, and placed together to create this artificial collection probably by the staff of the Texas State Archives in the 1970s. Many of the materials pre-date the existence of the Railroad Commission of Texas, which was created in 1891. 9.4 cubic ft. English. Restrictions on Access

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Preferred Citation

(Identify the item), Records relating to railroads. Archives and Information Services Division, Texas State Library and Archives Commission.

Agency History

Railroads in Texas were regulated by or were the concern of several state agencies during the time period of this collection. Foremost among these was (and still is to a limited extent) the Railroad Commission of Texas. However, this collection consists of records from state agencies other than the Railroad Commission.

The Texas Comptroller of Public Accounts received annual reports of railroad operating costs from railroad companies in Texas from 1853 to 1895. Legislation approved February 7, 1853 entitled, An Act to Regulate Railroad Companies, was later enacted in 1879 into Article 4249 of the Revised Civil Statutes of Texas. This article was repealed in 1895. The responsibility for gathering the information had been taken over by the Railroad Commission of Texas, a new state agency created in 1891. Article 6466 of the Texas Revised Civil Statutes still requires the Railroad Commission to collect information on the operating costs of railroads.

Other records in this collection addressed to the Comptroller's Office were in compliance with the Texas Constitution of 1876. Article VIII, Section 8, required that all property of railroads be assessed and taxes collected. This constitutional provision in part became Article 5083 of the Texas Revised Civil Statutes which concerned the value of rolling stock. Railroads were required by Article 5083 to send rolling stock valuation reports to the tax assessor of the county where the railroad had its principal office in Texas. The statute required that one copy also be sent to the Comptroller. Railroads are still taxed on the valuation of their rolling stock as required now by Article 7169 of the Texas Revised Civil Statutes.

The Texas Secretary of State's Office also received railroad records required by legislation. Substitute House Bill 227, 23rd Legislature, required the valuation of all railroad property in addition to the rolling stock. The act, passed on April 8, 1893, was entitled An Act to define franchises; to make public the value of railroads. It became Article 4584c of the 1895 Revised Civil Statutes and required the Railroad Commission to file with the Secretary of State's Office a valuation report by a railroad company of all of its property. Also required by Article 4584c was the registration of both certificates of stock and of bonds issued by railroads with the Secretary of State, once authorization to issue has been approved by the Railroad Commission.

The Secretary of State's Office received other railroad related records as well. Charters and articles of incorporation, resolutions of stockholders and boards of directors, and deeds are all part of the paper work that every type of corporation was required to file with the Secretary of State by various statutes.

Other early legislation dealing with railroads led to correspondence between the governor's executive office and railroads. A January 30, 1854 law from the 5th Legislature, entitled An Act to encourage the construction of railroads in Texas by donation of lands, required an inspection of the railroad by a state engineer appointed by the governor before any state lands could be given to the railroad. Later, the 1876 Texas Constitution, Article XIV, Section 3, required that a railroad have ten miles of track in running order before receiving any state land. These laws led to correspondence between railroads and the executive office.

Scope and Contents of the Records

The types of records found include annual reports of railroads, correspondence, valuation reports of railroad rolling stock, inspection reports of track, resolutions of stockholders and boards of directors, articles of incorporation and charters, and deeds. Not all of these types are found in every railroad's file. Frequently, only one or two documents are in a file. The records date from 1836 to 1950, undated (bulk [ca. 1880]-[ca. 1910]). This collection combines the records from various Texas state agencies that generated or received records concerning railroads except for railroad records from the Railroad Commission of Texas. The major agencies present in this collection are the Comptroller of Public Accounts, the Secretary of State, and the Governor's Office.

The Comptroller of Public Accounts received annual reports of railroad operating costs listing capital stock and the amount actually paid in; amount expended for purchase of land, construction, buildings and rolling stock; indebtedness; earnings from passengers and freight; tonnage and types of freight; amount paid out for repair of cars, engines, buildings and payroll; dividends declared; description of employees; injuries; accidents; and, any sale of lands that had been donated to the railroad by the State of Texas. Annual reports in this collection date from 1853 to 1895.

The Comptroller also received valuations of rolling stock which included quantity, average value, and total value for each type of locomotive, coach, and car; total length of track in miles, value of rolling stock per mile of road bed, and the counties in Texas through which each railroad ran with the number of miles and proportionate value of rolling stock in each county. Valuation reports date from the late 1870s up to the 1910s.

A small amount of correspondence between railroads and the Comptroller is scattered throughout the collection. Incoming correspondence from railroads and counties concern taxes. Some routine outgoing letters from the Comptroller ask delinquent railroads to file their annual reports or tax statements. All correspondence dates from before 1891.

Other miscellaneous Comptroller records include copies of county and municipal railroad subsidy taxes and a list of railroads chartered in Texas in 1881.

The valuation reports received by the Secretary of State list the value of all franchises, appurtenance, and property including rights of way and depot grounds; track ties and steel rails; bridging and culverts; excavations, ballasting and embankments; furniture and fixtures; road crossings fencing, and cattle guards; depots, section houses, platforms, water stations, stock pens, telegraph lines; legal, engineering, and charter expenses; interest during construction; and, rolling stock of all kinds. These reports date from 1894 to about 1914.

A few examples of registered stocks and bonds required by the Secretary of State are present for 1895 to 1915. In addition, the Secretary of State received records on the creation of corporate offices, extensions of corporate charters, deeds of sale and merger, mortgages and the issuance of bonds, and stockholders reports. These types of records in this collection date from 1853 until the early 1890s.

Correspondence between railroads and the governor dealt with gubernatorial appointments of inspectors, reports of inspectors, and requests for state land. Also sent to the executive office were petitions for inspection, the reports of the inspectors on the length of track completed, affidavits from railroads that they had commenced work, and letters from the Attorney General that a railroad was in compliance with state regulations. These records concerning state land donations date from the 1850s until the 1880s.

The collection includes some miscellaneous railroad records issued or received by other state agencies. These miscelleanous records consist of scrip issued by the General Land Office to railroads in 1859; petitions to the Legislature from railroads in 1879; and letters to the Attorney General from the Executive Office concerning the donation of state land to railroads from the 1880s.

Finally, printed materials relate to legislation dealing with railroads on both the state and the federal levels. Included are printed copies of acts, speeches, committee testimony, and legal briefs dating from 1878 to the 1910s. There are also some promotional brochures distributed by the railroads from the early part of this century.

Some records have not been processed and are not well described.

Arrangement of the Records

Most of these records are arranged by individual railroad company. All state agency records dealing with a particular railroad were placed in a file except those that remain unprocessed. Unprocessed reports and correspondence follow and printed materials are last.

Index Terms

The terms listed here were used to catalog the records. The terms can be used to find similar or related records.

Subjects: Railroad companies--Texas. Railroads--Texas. Railroads--Texas--Finance. Railroads--Texas--Valuation. Document Types: Correspondence--Texas--Railroad companies--ca. 1836-1950. Reports--Texas--Railroad companies--ca. 1836-1950. Minutes--Texas--Railroad companies--ca. 1836-1950. Financial records--Texas--Railroad companies--ca. 1836-1950. Related Material

The following materials are offered as possible sources of further information on the agencies and subjects covered by the records. The listing is not exhaustive.

Texas State Archives

Texas Comptroller's Office, Ad Valorem Tax Division, Annual reports of pipeline companies and railroads, 1948-1964. Railroad Commission of Texas, Rail Division, Annual reports of railroad companies, 1859-1967, 1873-85, 1890-1996, 380.24 cubic ft. Index to the annual reports of railroad companies (a database) Railroad Commission of Texas, Rail Division, Historical files, 1836-1996, undated (bulk 1850-1960), 5 cubic ft. Texas Secretary of State, Statutory Documents Section, Railroad charters and related records, 1876-1988, 7.84 cubic ft. Texas Comptroller of Public Accounts, Reports of taxable property of railroads in Texas, 1873-1876, 1883-1890, 1899, 0.97 cubic ft. Processing Information

Inventoried by Archives staff, 1970s.

Described by Paul B. Beck, August 1986

Accession Information

Accession numbers: 1941/007 and other unknown accessions

Some of the annual reports of railroads included in these records were transferred to the Archives and Information Services Division of the Texas State Library and Archives Commission by the Texas Comptroller of Public Accounts on March 19, 1942. The other records were generated or received by various state agencies including the Secretary of State, the Governor's Office, and the Comptroller of Public Accounts and were probably transferred to the Archives and Information Services Division directly by those agencies, but exact accession information is lacking.

Detailed Description of the Records Records relating to railroads 1836-1950, undated (bulk [ca. 1880]-[ca. 1910]), 9.4 cubic ft. Files by railroad, 1842-1939 4-3/441 Acme, Red River & Northern Railroad Company, valuation report, 1905 4-3/441 Air Line Railroad Company, list of clothing for prisoners employed, [undated] 4-3/441 Angelina & Neches River Railroad Company, charter, correspondence, 1905-1906 4-3/441 Aransas Road Company, correspondence, act of incorporation, 1857-1860, 1876 4-3/441 Atchison, Topeka & Santa Fe Railroad Company, correspondence, 1907 4-3/441 Austin & Battle Mountain Railroad, correspondence, 1875 4-3/441 Austin & Northwestern Railroad Company, annual reports, correspondence, 1882-1888, 1891-1923 4-3/441 Austin & Pacific Short Line Railway Company, report, correspondence, 1877 4-3/441 Austin & Southeastern Railroad Company, annual report, correspondence, 1881-1882 4-3/441 Austin City Railroad Company, correspondence, 1877 4-3/441 Beaumont & Great Northern Railroad Company, stockholders meeting minutes, correspondence, 1912 4-3/441 Beaumont Wharf & Terminal Company, valuation report, 1903 4-3/441 Bering, Kiam, & Southern Railroad Company, correspondence, 1913 4-3/441 Brazos & Colorado Railway Company, correspondence, 1882 4-3/441 Brazos & Galveston Railroad Company, directors meeting minutes, 1842 4-3/441 Brazos Branch Railroad, correspondence, 1867-1868 4-3/441 Brownsville & Gulf Railway Company, reports, valuation report, 1886-1888, 1905 4-3/441 Brownwood North & South Railway Company, stockholders resolution, 1912 4-3/441 Bryan & College Interurban Railway Company, authorization (bonds), 1915 4-3/441 Buffalo Bayou, Brazos & Colorado Railway, reports, correspondence, 1853-1854, 1856-1868, 1875 4-3/441 Calvert, Waco & Brazos Valley Railroad Company, stockholders resolution, 1901 4-3/441 Cane Belt Railroad Company, valuation reports, 1902, 1905 4-3/441 Central & Montgomery Railroad Company, correspondence, 1879-1881 4-3/441 Central Texas & Northwestern Railway Company, annual reports, correspondence, 1881-1882, 1884-1888, 1895, 1901 4-3/441 Central Texas Narrow Gauge Railroad Company, correspondence, 1877 4-3/441 Chicago, Rock Island & Gulf Railway Company, reports, valuation report, financial records, tax records, correspondence, deeds, 1903, 1905-1906 4-3/441 Chicago, Rock Island & Mexico Railway Company, valuation report, 1903 4-3/441 Chicago, Rock Island & Texas Railway Company, valuation reports, 1895, 1901, 1903 4-3/441 Chicago, Texas & Mexican Central Railway Company, report, correspondence, deed, 1881-1882 4-3/441 Columbus, San Antonio & Rio Grande Railroad Company, report, 1860 4-3/441 Columbus, Tap Railroad Company, stockholders meeting minutes, report, correspondence, 1868, 1871 4-3/441 Corpus Christi & Nueces Valley Railroad Company, annual report, 1883 4-3/441 Corpus Christi, San Diego & Rio Grande Railroad Company, reports, correspondence, 1877-1879, 1881 4-3/441 Corsicana & Northwestern Railway Company, correspondence, 1882 4-3/441 Corsicana & Palestine Railway Company, correspondence, 1882 4-3/441 Dallas & Western Railway Company, annual report, 1882 4-3/441 Dallas & Wichita Railway Company, reports, annual report, correspondence, 1872, 1875-1878, 1880-1883 4-3/441 Dallas, Cleburne & Southwestern Railway Company, valuation report, 1903 4-3/441 Dallas Terminal Railway & Union Depot Company, valuation report, correspondence, 1905-1906 4-3/441 DeKalb & Red River Railroad Company, valuation report, 1895 4-3/441 Denison & Pacific Railway Company, report, correspondence, 1877, 1879-1880 4-3/441 Denison & Southeastern Railway Company, reports, correspondence, 1878-1880 4-3/441 Denison & Washita Valley Railway Company, valuation report, 1897 4-3/441 Denison, Bonham & New Orleans Railroad Company, stockholders meeting minutes, valuation report, 1903, 1914 4-3/441 Denison, Sabine Pass & Rio Grande Railroad Company, correspondence, 1883 4-3/441 Denver & New Orleans Railroad Company, annual report, 1883 4-3/442 East Line & Red River Railroad Company, reports, annual report, correspondence, 1876-1879, 1881, 1883, 1885 4-3/442 East Texas Railway Company, charter, contract, reports, correspondence, 1881-1882, 1908 4-3/442 Eastern Texas Railroad Company, board of directors meeting minutes, contract, agreement, annual and valuation reports, financial records, tax records, bond, correspondence, 1858-1861, 1863, 1866, 1870, 1905-1906 4-3/442 El Paso & New Mexico Railroad Company, annual report, 1883 4-3/442 El Paso Southern Railway Company, financial records, tax records, correspondence, 1901, 1905 4-3/442 Fairfield East & West Railroad Company, correspondence, 1882 4-3/442 Ft. Worth & Denver City Railway Company, annual and valuation reports, correspondence, 1881-1888, 1905 4-3/442 Ft. Worth & New Orleans Railway Company, annual reports, deed, 1887-1888, 1901 4-3/442 Ft. Worth & Rio Grande Railway Company, annual and valuation reports, financial records, tax records, correspondence, 1886-1888, 1905-1906 4-3/442 Ft. Worth Belt Railway Company, financial records, tax records, correspondence, 1906, 1916 4-3/442 Ft. Worth Western Railway Company, annual reports, 1887-1888 4-3/442 Galveston & Brazos Navigation Company, correspondence, 1855 4-3/442 Galveston & Camargo International Railway Company, correspondence, 1882 4-3/442 Galveston & Eagle Pass Air Line Railway Company, stockholders meeting minutes, by-laws, annual report, 1881, 1884, 1887 4-3/442 Galveston & Red River Railway Company, reports, annual report, correspondence, 1856-1857 4-3/442 Galveston & Rio Grande Railroad Company, annual report, 1882 4-3/442 Galveston & St. Louis Railway Company, stockholders meeting minutes, correspondence, 1882-1883 4-3/442 Galveston, Brazos & Colorado Narrow Gauge Railway Company, reports, correspondence, 1876-1877 4-3/442 Galveston, Brazos & Southwestern Railway Company, correspondence, 1900 4-3/442 Galveston, Harrisburg & San Antonio Railway Company: 4-3/442 charter, reports, financial records, correspondence, 1874-1876, 1880-1882, 1891, 1908 4-3/442 annual and valuation reports, correspondence, 1871-1872, 1874, 1877-1879, 1881, 1883-1886, 1894 4-3/442 directors and stockholders meetings minutes, annual and valuation reports, financial records and tariffs, correspondence, 1871-1872, 1874-1875, 1879-1882, 1905-1906, 1910 4-3/442 Galveston, Houston & Henderson Railroad Company, charter, annual and valuation reports, financial records, tax records, correspondence, 1857-1858, 1860-1861, 1868, 1871-1875, 1879-1888, 1895, 1905-1906, 1908, 1910 4-3/442 Galveston, Houston & Northern Railway Company, directors meeting minutes, valuation reports, correspondence, 1905 4-3/442 Genesee Valley Canal (N.Y.), stock certificate, 1854 4-3/442 Georgetown Railroad Company, annual reports, correspondence 1878-1881 4-3/443 Gonzales Branch Railroad Company, directors and stockholders meetings minutes, annual reports, release, correspondence, 1882, 1884, 1905 4-3/443 Granite Mountain & Marble Falls City Railroad Company, deed, 1901 4-3/443 Gulf & East Texas Railway Company, correspondence, 1882 4-3/443 Gulf & Interstate Railway Company of Texas, correspondence, 1906 4-3/443 Gulf, Beaumont & Great Northern Railway Company, valuation report, 1903 4-3/443 Gulf, Beaumont & Kansas City Railway Company, valuation reports, 1895, 1903, 1905 4-3/443 Gulf, Colorado & Santa Fe Railway Company, charter, annual and valuation reports, financial records, tax records, correspondence, 1876-1888, 1895, 1905-1906, 1908-1909, 1912 4-3/443 Gulf, Western Texas & Pacific Railway Company, directors and stockholders meetings minutes, annual and valuation reports, financial records, tariffs, correspondence, deed, 1873-1886, 1894-1895, 1905 4-3/443 Hearne & Brazos Valley Railroad Company, stockholders meeting minutes, reports, valuation report, correspondence, deed, 1895, 1906, 1914 4-3/443 Henderson & Overton Branch Railroad Company, reports, annual report, correspondence, 1877-1881 4-3/443 Hockley & Montgomery Railway Company, correspondence, 1875 4-3/443 Houston & Brazos Valley Railroad Company, valuation report, 1910 4-3/443 Houston & Great Northern Railroad Company, reports, annual report, correspondence (also includes International & Great Northern Railroad Company, annual report, correspondence, 1873-1875), 1871-1875 4-3/443 Houston & Texas Central Railway Company: 4-3/443 annual reports, correspondence, 1866-1868, 1873, 1883-1888 4-3/443 directors resolution, reports, annual report, financial records, tariff, correspondence, 1860-1876, 1878-1879, 1883-1886 4-3/443 directors meeting minutes, agreement, financial records, tax and bonds, correspondence, 1857-1860, 1864, 1866-1871 4-3/444 annual reports to Comptroller, 1860-1872 4-3/444 annual reports to Comptroller 1876, 1879 4-3/444 financial records, tax records including tax to unorganized counties, correspondence, 1880-1883 4-3/444 reports, correspondence, 1858-1873 4-3/444 charter, reports, annual report, financial records, tax records, correspondence, deed, 1857-1858, 1867, 1871-1872, 1875-1876, 1881, 1905 4-3/444 reports, financial records, correspondence, opinion, 1857-1859, 1866, 1874 4-3/444 stockholders meeting minutes, valuation reports, financial records, correspondence, deed, protests, 1856-1857, 1870-1873, 1877-1878, 1887-1894, 1901, 1903, 1905, 1910 4-3/444 financial records, tax records, list of stockholders, correspondence, 1857-1859, 1869, 1875-1876, 1889 4-3/444 correspondence, 1857-1861, 1866-1868, 1871-1873, 1877-1878, 1883, 1906 4-3/444 charter and by-laws, financial records, correspondence, Board of School Commissioners meeting minutes, 1857-1858 4-3/445 Houston Belt & Terminal Railway Company, stockholders meeting minutes, 1907 4-3/445 Houston Belt Railway Company, annual reports, correspondence, 1882-1883, 1885-1888 4-3/445 Houston East & West Texas Railway Company, charter, annual and valuation reports, financial records, tax records, correspondence, 1875-1888, 1895, 1905-1906, 1908 4-3/445 Houston, Oaklawn & Magnolia Park Railway Company, stockholders meeting minutes, 1903 4-3/445 Houston, Sabine Pass & Denison Railroad Company, correspondence, articles of incorporation, 1879, 1882 4-3/445 Houston, Shreveport & Chesapeake Railroad Company, correspondence, 1882 4-3/445 Houston Tap & Brazoria Railway Company, reports, annual report, financial records, correspondence, sale, 1856, 1858-1861, 1867, 1869-1871 4-3/445 Houston Tap & Brazoria Railway Company, financial records, bonds, correspondence, 1859-1869, 1871 4-3/445 Houston Tap & New Orleans Railroad Company, correspondence, 1868 4-3/445 Houston, Texas & Red River Railway Company, annual reports, correspondence, 1881-1883 4-3/445 Houston, Trinity & Tyler Railroad Company, correspondence, protest, [undated] 4-3/445 Huntsville Branch Railway Company, stockholders meeting minutes, annual reports, 1872-1873 4-3/445 Huntsville, New Orleans & Western Texas Railway Company, annual reports, 1881-1882 4-3/445 Indianola Railroad Company, annual reports, correspondence, 1858-1861, 1873 4-3/445 International & Great Northern Railroad Company: 4-3/445 annual reports, list of stockholders, correspondence, 1875-1881 4-3/445 charter, directors and stockholders meetings minutes, reports, valuation report, financial records, tax records, correspondence, article of incorporation, joint committee of Senate and House of Representatives report, investigating committee brief, 1875-1878, 1880-1881, 1887, 1895, 1901, 1903, 1905-1906, 1908 4-3/445 financial records, correspondence, joint committee of Senate and House of Representatives minority report, investigation, 1889-1991 4-3/445 financial records, correspondence, joint committee of Senate and House of Representatives report, investigation, legislative investigating committee brief, 1890-1891, 1913 4-3/445 directors meeting minutes, report, annual report, financial records, tariff, correspondence, 1871-1876 4-3/443

[See also, Houston & Great Northern Railroad Company file for more International & Great Northern Railroad Company records.]

4-3/446 Kansas & Gulf Short Line Railroad Company, annual reports, correspondence, 1881-1882 4-3/446 Kyle, Lockhart & Northern Railway Company, annual report, 1882 4-3/446 Lake Creek Railway Company, annual reports, 1885-1888 4-3/446 La Porte, Houston & Northern Railroad Company, certificate of purchase, 1895 4-3/446 Longview & Sabine Valley Railroad Company, annual reports, correspondence, 1878-1883 4-3/446 Longview & Texarkana Railway Company, correspondence, 1882 4-3/446 Louisiana Western Extension Railroad Company of Texas, annual and valuation reports, correspondence, 1880-1881, 1885-1886, 1895 4-3/446 Marshall & Carthage Railway Company, correspondence, 1882 4-3/446 Marshall & Mansfield Railway Company, correspondence, 1882 4-3/446 Marshall & Northwestern Railroad Company, annual reports, 1882-1886 4-3/446 Mechanics Bank of Memphis, charter, financial records, 1854, 1856 4-3/446 Memphis, El Paso & Pacific Railroad Company, stockholders meeting minutes, reports, annual report, correspondence, court appeal, 1857-1861, 1872 4-3/446 [a military railroad between San Antonio and Laredo], correspondence, 1877 4-3/446 Mississippi & Pacific Railroad Company, contract, financial records, correspondence, proposal, opinion, 1854, 1856 4-3/446 Missouri, Kansas & Texas Railway Company of Texas, stockholders meeting minutes, annual reports, correspondence, 1879-1881, 1908 4-3/446 Missouri, Kansas & Texas Railway Company of Texas, charter, annual and valuation reports, correspondence, 1871, 1880, 1887, 1894, 1901, 1905, 1908 4-3/446 Missouri Pacific Railway Company: 4-3/446 financial records (voucher and receipts), correspondence, 1884, 1887 4-3/446 financial records (receipts), 1884-1885 [3 folders] 4-3/447 New Orleans, Mobile & Chattanooga Railroad Company, correspondence, directors, articles of incorporation, 1869 4-3/447 New Orleans, Opelousas & Great Western Railroad Company of Louisiana, correspondence, pass, 1859, 1863 4-3/447 New Orleans Pacific Railroad Company, correspondence, 1882 4-3/447 New Orleans Railroad Company, correspondence, 1868 4-3/447 New Orleans, Texas & Pacific Railway Company, correspondence, 1882 4-3/447 New York Pacific Company, correspondence, 1854 4-3/447 New York, Texas & Mexican Railway Company, directors and stockholders meetings minutes, annual and valuation reports, financial records, correspondence, deed, 1881, 1894, 1905 4-3/447 North Texas & Louisiana Railroad Company, annual report, 1883 4-3/447 Orange & Northwestern Railroad Company, valuation reports, financial records, tax records, 1903, 1905-1906, 1910 4-3/447 Pacific & Great Eastern Railway Company, correspondence, 1872 4-3/447 Pacific Express Company, financial records, 1889 4-3/447 Pacific Railroad Company, correspondence, 1854, 1861 4-3/447 Panhandle & Gulf Railway Company, correspondence (right of way), 1904 4-3/447 Panhandle Railway Company, valuation report, correspondence, 1894 4-3/447 Paris & Great Northern Railroad Company, annual and valuation reports, 1881-1882, 1895 4-3/447 Pecos & Northern Texas Railway Company, valuation report, financial records, tax records, 1905-1906, 1908 4-3/447 Pecos River Railroad Company, valuation reports, financial records, tax records, correspondence, 1894, 1906-1907 4-3/447 Red River & Rio Grande Railway Company, directors meeting minutes, correspondence, act of incorporation, 1875 4-3/447 Rio Grande & Eagle Pass Railway Company, reports, valuation report, correspondence, 1885-1886, 1905 4-3/447 Rio Grande & El Paso Railroad Company, report, correspondence, 1881 4-3/447 Rio Grande & Pecos Railway Company, annual reports, 1883-1885 4-3/447 Rio Grande Frontier & Seaboard Railway Company, correspondence, 1882 4-3/447 Rio Grande Railway Company, stockholders meeting minutes, valuation report, correspondence, 1881, 1912, 1914 4-3/447 Rusk Transportation Company, charters, report, correspondence, 1875, 1878 4-3/447 Sabine & East Texas Railway Company, annual and valuation reports, correspondence, 1881-1882, 1885 4-3/447 Sabine & Galveston Bay Railroad & Lumber Company, annual report, correspondence, 1858-1860 4-3/447 Sabine & Northwestern Railway Company, report, 1883 4-3/447 Sabine & Western Railway Company, correspondence, 1882 4-3/447 Sabine Pass & Denison Railway Company, stockholders meeting minutes, 1881 4-3/447 Sabine Pass & Northwestern Railway Company, stockholders meeting minutes, by-laws amendment, correspondence 1879-1880, 1882 4-3/447 Sabine Pass & Texas Northern Railway Company, annual reports, correspondence, 1882-1884 4-3/447 St. Louis, Arkansas & Texas Railway Company in Texas, annual reports, correspondence, 1886-1888 4-3/447 St. Louis, Brownsville & Mexico Railway Company, directors meeting minutes, annual report, correspondence, 1906, 1910 4-3/447 St. Louis, San Francisco & Texas Railway Company, financial records, tax records, 1905 4-3/447 St. Louis Southwestern Railway Company of Texas, stockholders meetings minutes, annual and valuation reports, correspondence, 1895, 1899, 1903, 1905-1906, 1908 4-3/447 St. Louis, Texas & Gulf of Mexico Railway Company, annual report, 1883 4-3/447 San Antonio & Aransas Pass Railway Company, charter, report, correspondence, 1894, 1906, 1908 4-3/447 San Antonio & Border Railway Company, correspondence, 1882 4-3/447 San Antonio & Gulf Airline Railway Company, correspondence, 1882 4-3/447 San Antonio & Gulf Railroad Company, stockholders meeting minutes, valuation report, 1905 4-3/447 San Antonio & Mexican Gulf Railroad Company, charter, reports, financial records, promissory notes, correspondence, 1851, 1858-1862, 1866, 1882 4-3/447 San Diego & Northeastern Railway Company, correspondence, 1882 4-3/447 Sherman, Tyler & Henderson Railway Company, directors resolution, 1876 4-3/447 Sherman, Wichita & Panhandle Railway Company, directors resolution, 1876 4-3/448 Southern International Pacific Railroad, correspondence, 1868 4-3/448 Southern Kansas Railway Company of Texas, annual and valuation reports, 1887-1888 4-3/448 Southern Pacific Company, 1887-1888 4-3/448 Southern Pacific Railroad Company: 4-3/448 directors resolution, reports, annual report, financial records, bonds, correspondence, 1857-1860, 1865, 1867-1871 4-3/448 reports, annual report, correspondence, 1860-1872 4-3/448 reports, annual report, correspondence, deed, 1856, 1858-1863, 1866-1868, 1870-1872 4-3/448 Southern Trans-Continental Railway Company, correspondence, 1872 4-3/448 Sussex Iron Company of New Jersey, report, correspondence, act of incorporation, 1853-1854 4-3/448 Texarkana & Ft. Smith Railway Company, valuation reports, correspondence, temporary restraining order, 1895, 1901, 1905-1906, 1908, 1928 4-3/448 Texarkana & Northern Railway Company, annual report, correspondence, 1887-1888 4-3/448 Texas & Great Western Railroad Company, annual report, 1882 4-3/448 Texas & Gulf Railway Company, valuation reports, 1905, 1908 4-3/448 Texas & Louisiana Railroad Company, stockholders meeting minutes, annual and valuation reports, 1883, 1903 4-3/448 Texas & New Orleans Railroad Company, annual and valuation reports, financial records, tax records, correspondence, court records, 1867, 1874-1876, 1879-1882, 1884-1886, 1907 4-3/448 Texas & New Orleans Railroad Company, stockholders meeting minutes, charter, annual and valuation reports, financial records, tax records, bonds, correspondence, deeds, 1860-1868, 1870, 1874-1877, 1899-1900, 1905, 1908, 1914 4-3/449 Texas & Pacific Railway Company: 4-3/449 directors and company meetings minutes, reports, financial records, correspondence, deed, 1872-1878, 1881 4-3/449 annual and valuation reports, financial records, tariff, correspondence, act of incorporation, 1872, 1875, 1878-1879, 1882, 1894, 1906 4-3/449 annual reports, correspondence, map (company - U.S.), 1873-1878 4-3/449 annual reports, financial records, tax records, 1862, 1873-1878, 1880 4-3/449 annual and valuation reports, financial records, tax records, tariff, correspondence, 1873-1877, 1879-1880, 1882-1883, 1905, 1908 4-3/449 Texas & Sabine Valley Railway Company, valuation report, 1895 4-3/449 Texas & St. Louis Railway Company in Texas, reports, annual report, correspondence, 1880-1885 4-3/449 Texas Central Railway Company, stockholders meeting minutes, reports, valuation report, financial records, tax records, correspondence, 1879, 1881-1882, 1884, 1905-1906, 1908, 1914 4-3/449 Texas Coast Line Railway Company, correspondence, 1882 4-3/449 Texas, Louisiana & Eastern Railway Company, valuation report, correspondence, 1895 4-3/449 Texas, Louisiana & Western Railway Company, annual reports, 1881-1882 4-3/449 Texas Mexican Northern Railway Company, annual and valuation reports, correspondence, 1886-1888, 1895 4-3/449 Texas Mexican Railway Company, annual and valuation reports, financial records, tax records, correspondence, 1881-1888, 1896-1897, 1905, 1908 4-3/449 Texas Midland Railroad Company, annual and valuation reports, correspondence, 1884, 1895, 1901, 1905-1906, 1908 4-3/449 Texas Northwestern & Gulf Railroad Company, annual report, 1882 4-3/450 Texas Sabine Valley & Northwestern Railway Company, directors and stockholders meetings minutes, annual and valuation reports, correspondence, 1888, 1895, 1904 4-3/450 Texas Short Line Railway Company, valuation reports, 1903, 1905 4-3/450 Texas Southeastern Railway Company, valuation report, 1908 4-3/450 Texas Southern Railway Company, contracts, agreement, reports, valuation report, financial records, estimate sheets, correspondence, deed, 1887, 1900-1909 4-3/450 Texas Southern Railway Company, financial records, estimate sheets, 1902-1903 4-3/450 Texas State Railroad (Rush Penitentiary - Southeast), correspondence, deeds, release, 1898, 1907-1908, 1910 4-3/450 Texas Transportation Company, annual and valuation reports, financial records, tax records, correspondence, 1878-1882, 1888, 1895, 1905 4-3/450 Texas Trunk Railroad Company, annual and valuation reports, correspondence, 1881, 1883-1888, 1895 4-3/450 Texas Western Narrow Gauge Railroad Company (also known as Texas Western Railway Company after 1881), reports, correspondence, 1876-1877, 1879, 1881-1882, 1909, 1939 4-3/450 Texas Western Railway Company, annual reports, financial records, correspondence, 1855-1856 4-3/450 Thirty-Fifth Parallel Railroad Company, correspondence, 1872 4-3/450 Timpson Northwestern Railway Company, financial records, tax records, correspondence, 1906 4-3/450 Transcontinental Railroad, correspondence, [187-] 4-3/450 Transportation Company, correspondence, 1875 4-3/450 Trinity & Brazos Valley Railway Company, stockholders meetings minutes, valuation reports, correspondence, 1904-1905, 1908 4-3/450 Trinity & Sabine Railway Company, correspondence, 1882 4-3/450 Tyler Southeastern Railway Company, stockholders meeting minutes, valuation report, 1895, 1899 4-3/450 Tyler Tap Railroad Company, stockholders meeting minutes, reports, correspondence, 1875-1878 4-3/451 Union Terminal Company, directors and stockholders meetings minutes, 1912, 1914 4-3/451 Velasco, Brazos & Northwestern Railroad Company, valuation report, 1903 4-3/451 Velasco Terminal Railway Company, valuation report, 1895 4-3/451 Victoria & Columbia Railroad Company, stockholders meeting minutes, annual report, correspondence, 1872-1873 4-3/451 Waco & Northwestern Railroad Company, annual and valuation reports, financial records, correspondence, 1872 4-3/451 Waco Tap Railroad Company, reports, annual report, correspondence, 1869-1870 4-3/451 Warren & Corsicana Pacific Railway Company, valuation report, financial records, tax records, 1905-1906 4-3/451 Waxahachie Tap Railroad Company, stockholders meeting minutes, annual report, correspondence, 1879-1881 4-3/451 Weatherford, Mineral Wells & Northwestern Railway Company, annual and valuation reports, 1895, 1905-1906, 1908 4-3/451 Wells Fargo & Company Express, financial records, receipts, correspondence, 1890 4-3/451 Western Narrow Gauge Railway Company, correspondence, 1875-1876 4-3/451 Wichita Falls & Northwestern Railway Company of Texas, valuation report, 1908 4-3/451 Wichita Falls & Oklahoma Railway Company, valuation report, financial records, tax records, correspondence, 1906, 1908 4-3/451 Wichita Falls & Southern Railroad Company, valuation report, 1908 4-3/451 Wichita Falls & Wellington Railway Company of Texas, stockholders meetings minutes, 1914 4-3/451 Wichita Falls Railway Company, valuation report, 1908 4-3/451 Wichita Valley Railway Company, valuation reports, correspondence, 1894, 1905, 1908 Annual and valuation reports, 1857-1861, 1865, 1876-1877, 1879-1888, 1994-1897, 1901, 1903-1905, 1908

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4-3/452 Dallas & Greenville Railway Company - Trinity & Sabine Railway Company

These reports are not in alphabetical order. Reports are present for railroads beginning with the letters D-G, K, M, P, R-T.

Reports to the Comptroller, 1892-1894

These reports are filed alphabetically.

4-3/454 Austin & Northwestern Railroad Company - Louisiana Western Extension Railroad Company 4-3/455 Missouri, Kansas & Texas Railway Company - Wichita Valley Railway Company Correspondence and records, 1838, 1853-1859, 1864, 1867-1868, 1872, 1874, 1876-1890, 1892-1895, 1897, 1900, 1908, 1912, 1927, 1932-1942, 1946, 1949-1950

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4-3/459 Records including financial (taxes, some by county) 4-3/459 Reports including valuation 4-3/459 Correspondence including charter, deed, circular, and concerning river Correspondence and records, 1836, 1861, 1867-1868, 1871-1875, 1877-1880, 1885-1886, 1889, 1891, 1903, 1920-1948

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4-3/460 Records including financial and railroad scrip, freight 4-3/460 Reports including geological, educational 4-3/460 Maps including geological, county, blue prints 4-3/460 Correspondence including charter, deed, American Board of Transportation and Commerce convention Printed material, 1858-1859, 1870, 1875-1884, 1890, 1899, 1901, 1903-1905, 1907, 1911, 1922, 1927, 1929, 1931, 1940, 1942-1944, 1948-1949

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4-3/461 Records including financial and rates 4-3/461 Reports including directors and stockholders meeting minutes, annual reports 4-3/461 Legislative documents 4-3/461 Arguments, addresses, speeches, deeds, agreements, charters, by-laws, executive documents regarding the consolidation of lines, and concerning the development of railroads, extension of lines, colonization and settlement of Texas, economy of Texas 4-3/461 Maps including coast and counties of Texas, and other than Texas maps (especially railroad lines)