232 boxes, 13 oversize boxes, and 162 oversize folders. Includes some minutes of meetings of Directors, Executive Committee, and Stockholders, together with drafts of resolutions, sample bond and stock certificates, circulars, annual reports, freight tariffs, reports of committees, acceptances and resignations of directors and officers, proxies, maps, blueprints, sketches, and sundry papers. Oversize items (mostly maps and blueprints but also occasional timetables, tariffs, and other printed sheets) are separated from the main collection, housed in oversize boxes and folders, and identified by Separation Records, filed in the main collection folders by date. Documents are very scattered at the end of the series: after Jun. 17, 1960, there is scant material for Oct. 15, 1965, Apr. 19, 1968, and Nov. 10, 1971 (budget presentation). The Mohr guide (1951) cites particular documents for the years 1850-1906; the text for 1876-1906 is reprinted here.

1876: W.K. Ackerman's report on revenues, Feb.; Statement of real estate purchased by NOJ&GN, June 1870-June 1874, with copies of journal entries, Dec. 1872 and Dec. 1873, and MissCen abstract of vouchers for expenditures; Memo of improvements made to D&SC, 1867-69, 1872-74; Agreement with Illinois Midland, Jan.1; Statements and reports, with letters, from J.B. Alexander, NOStL&C receiver, Mar.-July; Petition of TP&War bondholders, Mar. 27; NOJ&GN treasurer's remittances, Sept. 1872 -Jun. 1874; Letters concerning steel rails Dubuque bridge, NOStL&C, Cairo affairs, etc.; Agreement with TWab&Wes, GC&S and Chicago and Paducah on Gibson pool, Jan. 13; NOStL&C report, Feb. 15, and letter from Southern Railroad Association, Feb. 21; Amnesty bill, Ia., Mar. 18; Memo of views of directors on Southern lines, Apr. 19; TP&War reorganization plan, May 25 and Oct. 18 [printed] and agreement with TP&War receiver, Sept. 14; Opinion on Tanner brake, Nov. 1, and letters and deeds of assignment of patent rights for various brakes; Invoices for locomotives, NOJ&GN, Nov. 16; Cost of property at McComb City, Nov. 1, and memo concerning accounts, abstract of vouchers, accounts of Southern Railroad Association with MissCen, remittances, etc.; Lease of Chicago offices from Ayer & Kales, June 22; Treasurer's report on visit to Chicago, May-Jun.

1877: Minutes of London committee of shareholders, Oct. 1858-May 1859; Instructions to delegates on trip to U.S. for London subscribers, and report of delegates [printed], with letters from H.de M. Oyens for W&S bondholders, Apr.-May, and appendix to report of Capt. Douglas Galton and H.de M. Oyens for London and Amsterdam stockholders, Jan. 26, and GC&S bond issue circulars, Feb. [printed]; Insurance statement, Mar.-Nov.; W.H. Osborn report on reorganization of Southern lines, Nov.1, and opinions of James Emott and B.F. Ayer; Mortgage of NOJ&GN to W.H. Gebhard and L.V.F. Randolph, Aug. 15; Bill of sale and release of John and Ebenezer Buckingham for Cairo elevators, Jan. 17, and papers concerning Buckingham claim on Chicago elevators, Sept.; Vice president's statement of cost of cars built for TP&War, 1871-72; Assignment of judgment, PennRR v. TP&War, Feb. 20; Statement and proposal of special committee to English bondholders concerning Southern lines, and a few letters, Feb.; Agreement of bondholders of NOJ&GN and MissCen on reorganization. Mar. 6, and amendment, Mar. 26, with treasurer's report concerning purchase, Mar. 17, agreement by purchasing committee, Mar. 17, and opinion of J.A. Campbell; Contract with Detroit Bridge & Iron Works for Galena bridge, Oct. 15; Vice president's report on condition of line, June 16; Opinion of B.F. Ayer on TP&War mortgage, June 21, with letters and trustees' notices; C&S articles of incorporation, July 2 [printed] and lease to IC, Dec. 1; Expenditures for foreign delegates, Mar.-June; Report on organization of employees for protection of company property, July 30, and letters about strike; Minutes of meetings of directors and stockholders of C&S, July 21 and Sept. 29; Papers on proposed occupancy of Chicago station by B&O, Aug. 15; Agreement with G.B. Hamilton et al. on payment of claims in Ia. grain dispute, Sept. 12; Plan to reorganize TP&War, Sept. 19 [printed]

1878: Opinion of B.F Ayer on GC&S securities, Jan. 7; Report of committee on Cairo land, Jan. 5; Balance sheets, income statements, etc., to Dec. 1877; Contracts with Chicago and Paducah receivers, Feb. 1, and with American Express Co., Jan. 1, and with Sioux City and St. Paul, Jan. 24, and with C&NW, Mar. 14, and with Wabash, Feb. 23; Proposition to extend tracks to Chicago Dock & Canal Co., Mar. 12; Superintendent's estimate of permanent expenditures, Ill. and Ia.; Details of conveyances of Hyde Park land, with plat, May 2, and accounts, contract and letters concerning T.S. Dobbins' holdings, 1873-74; Deed of Cairo City trustees, Feb.23, and Cairo ordinance, Mar.19; Reports on proposed line, Kankakee to Chatsworth and Strawn, Apr.11 & 27, and on Mineral Point Railroad, Apr.17, and on filter and lime catcher for engines, with blueprint, Apr.22; Letters concerning discontinuance of CB&Q contract, Apr,-May; K&SW articles of incorporation, Mar.1,1872 and May 11,1877 [printed]; List of grain cases in Ill., with letter, June 28; Plat of land in Springfield, Ill.; Opinion of Ill. Supreme Court, Christy, Cobb & Co. v. IC, Jan.1; D&SC circular, Nov.1; Contract for pool with Des Moines & Fort Dodge, Dec.11,1877 and Jan.17,1878.

1879: Reports by president on spurs between Chicago Branch and Chicago and Paducah, Dec. 26,1878, and on Polo branch, with blueprint, Dec.21,1878, and on new line, Springfield division to East St. Louis, with map, Dec.26,1878, and on spurs east of Chicago branch, with map, Dec.26.1878, and on operations and condition of road, Jan.6, and on proposed road from Kempton to Minonk, Feb.15; Balances, expenses and report of Auditing committee, 1878; Figures for settlement with CStL&NO for coupons, Feb.11; Lease of K&SW, Apr. 1,and deed of trust to L.V.F. Randolph and Stuyvesant Fish, Apr.; Prospectus, Apr.-June; Chicago ordinance concerning fencing, Apr.16; Reports on land purchased near Weldon, Ill., with diagram, June 18, and on crop business and prospects, June 13, and on steel rails, July 12, and on protection of revenue, June 18; Letters concerning sale of Hyde Park lands for hotel, July 2, and relating to Dubuque and Dakota and Mineral Point railroads, Sept.11; Reports on proposed extension of Clinton, Bloomington & North Eastern, Aug.12 and Oct.10, with blueprint, and on Mineral Point, Sept.13, with proposition of Luther Beecher, Sept.17; TP&War settlement and agreement, Sept. (draft), Oct.10, and bill, J.F. Secor and William Tracy v. TP&War, and reorganization proposal, June 13,1877 [printed], with letters; Petition for Post Office moneys, Oct.9. with papers concerning Court of Claims appeal, Sept.; Reports on Champaign, Havana & Western, Oct.-Dec., with documents concerning organization, articles of incorporation. etc., 1879 [printed]; Report on car transferring at Cairo, Nov.17.

1880: Reports: Monee grade, Dec.31,1879; Purchase of steel rails, Jan.21; Viaducts and new wharves, Chicago, Jan.30; Cost of K&SW, Mar.31; Completion of Clinton, Bloomington & North Eastern, June 16; Grain transportation, Cairo to New Orleans, July 17 and 30, by Adolphe Schreiber; Sources, volume, direction and rates of grain shipments, by traffic manager, May 17; Barge transportation, Cairo to New Orleans, July 31, Sept.23; Building loop line, Warren to Polo, July 31; Consolidation of K&SW, Kankakee & Western and Clinton, Bloomington & North Eastern, Nov.13; Extension from Kensington to Monee, Nov.13; Cost of Illinois Western Extension Railroad, Nov.13; D&D Bridge stock, by W.B. Allison, Nov.13; Reductions in passenger tariffs, Mar.4; Letters: Concerning rival railroad extensions, Ia., May, and Dubuque Harbor Co. and Dubuque Lumber Co., with drawings; From Mayor Harrison on purchase of Chicago depot grounds, June 11, with reports and letters, Nov.; John and Ebenezer Buckingham about elevator business, June 8; From Thomas Hoyne concerning litigation over Chicago property, July 14; Miscellaneous: Bond given in appeal on sewage block case, Mar.17, with letters; Plan for purchase of Chicago depot grounds, Mar.17; Ill. Railroad and Warehouse Commission Schedule of passenger and freight rates for IC, with Railroad act of 1873 [printed], Mar.1880, and memo of difficulties in application of tariff at junction points, with table of freight rates to and from Chicago, and letters; CStL&NO stockholders' meeting, Mar.3; Profit and loss account, salaries, expenses and Auditing committee report, Mar.17; Agreement with Peoria, Decatur & Evansville, June 7 [printed]; Contract with CM&StP, June 16; By-laws, Oct.20; Agreement with TP&Wes, May 22.

1881: Reports: Building passenger depot, Chicago, Mar.10, and Chicago terminal facilities, Mar.22; Chicago right of way, June 11; D&D Bridge matters, June 16; Ia. connections, Aug.9; Proposed railroad through Yazoo district, Miss., Sept.21 and Oct.6, and map; New Cairo elevator, Oct.15; D&SC lease, Nov.12 & 21, with letters. Letters: John and Ebenezer Buckingham concerning Chicago elevator lease, Jan.13, and lease, Sept.15 [printed]; Purchase of J. L. Lombard's riparian title, and several letters concerning riparian rights, July, Dec.; NYC&StL and Chicago terminal facilities, Nov.12 & 21; Proposed road from Hyde Park to South Chicago, Sept.3; Statements: Balance sheets, accounts, etc., 1880; Lands to which. company's title is defective, Mar.10; Resources and liabilities, CStL&NO, Nov.16, with reports; Funded debt, CStL&NO, and reports, Nov.18-21; Legal: Opinion of James Emott on condition of exchange of CStL&NO bonds, Mar.26, and letters and telegrams including some from Amsterdam bondholders; Mortgage of K&SW to L.V.F. Randolph and Stuyvesant Fish, Aug.1 [printed] and K&SW lease to IC, Aug.1 [printed]; Contract and proposition of E.H. Harriman & Co. for sale of CStL&NO bonds, June 23, Sept.21; Agreement with CB&Q, Aug.17; Opinion of James Emott concerning CStL&NO securities, Nov.22; CStL&NO Executive Committee meeting, Mar.29, Sept.15, Nov.11.

1882: Reports: Chicago terminal facilities for NYC&StL, Oct. 1881, and contract, Mar.14; Future relations of IC to CStL&NO, Jan.14; Insurance, Feb.1, with statement of damages by fire, Mar.6,and letters and propositions; Expenses, balance sheets, etc. of New York office, Mar.14; Western Union telegraph agreement, May 13; Texas and St. Louis, Nov.16; Legal cases, Nov.15; Chicago transfer office, Nov. 5, with letter from Chicago Stock Exchange president, Nov.6; Southern lines accounts, vouchers, surplus assets, earnings, balance sheets, etc., Dec, and for years 1873-81. Letters: CStL&NO securities; including telegrams, report on reorganization, memos, etc., between officials and Amsterdam stockholders, and lease, Mar.30, Apr.6; Chicago terminal, and lake front property, Jan.12; U.S. Land Commissioner's decision on L.L. Merrifield case, Feb.27; Judge Fentress' services, Mar.1; MC and new passenger depot, July 8; CA&N, Oct.5; C&S, Dec.19, Y&MV expenses, and condition of CA&N and CStL&NO, Dec.; Statements: E.T.H. Glbson account of IC investments in New Orleans line, Nov.27; McComb law suit, Oct.3. Legal: Agreement with CB&Q and C&Ia, Jan.1 [printed]; Act concerning organization of CenMiss, Mar.4; The South Chicago articles of incorporation, Sept. 8,1881 [printed] and Hyde Park ordinance granting right of way, Apr. 3 [printed]; Agreement with StLA&TH and Texas and St. Louis, Mar. 29 [printed]. Miscellaneous: J.W. Paramore's proposition concerning Texas and St. Louis securities, Sept.29, and opinion of B.F. Ayer, Oct.3, with letters and report by M. Gilleas, Sept.9; Map of Wisconsin, 1881 [printed]

1883: Reports: Earnings, Dec,28,1882, and estimated expenses, 1883; D&SC, Feb.14, Mar.30, Apr.21, and letters, with lease Apr.5; New York office, Mar.30; Spur at Onarga, Apr.18; Ia. leased lines, Apr.20; Miss&Tenn, Aug. 8, with vol. of documents relating to Miss&Tenn, including mortgages to E.T.H. Gibson and A.G. Hackstaff, Dec.1,1887 [printed], to G.B. Lomon, A.M. Clayton and F.W. Smith, Mar.27,1856, and to F.W. Smith and A.M. Clayton, June 26,1866, and annual reports, 1876-1888 (20th-28th and 30th-32nd); Construction and expenditures, Y&MV and CA&N, with letters, Sept.13; Purchase of iron rails, Sept.13, with letters. Letters: Completion of Yazoo Valley and Aberdeen branches, Jan.24; Morton, Rose & Co. about bonds, Feb.-Mar.; Insurance, with reports, Mar.-Apr.; New Orleans terminal facilities, Mar.; Riparian rights, Chicago, Mar.; MissVal, Mar.23; NYC&StL, May 10; Yazoo City right of way, Sept.13; Cape Girardeau Southwestern, Nov.19. Legal: Opinion on relations between IC and CStL&NO by James Fentress, Feb.10 and Feb.14 [printed]; Contracts for purchase and transport of steel rails, with Lackawanna Iron & Coal Co. and Carnegie Bros. & Co.,Ltd., Feb.17; Mississippi, Alabama and Georgia charter and by-laws, Mar.1882 [printed] with letters, Feb.26; Act concerning bridges across Ohio River, Feb.14 [printed]; U.S. Supreme Court brief for appellee, C.A. Stevens vs. CStL&NO and Miss&Tenn Mar.15 [printed]; D&SC guarantee on Dubuque and Dakota bonds, Mar.; By-laws, amended, Apr.21, with letters [printed]; Legal cases in Ill. and Ia., May 29; Pullman contract with CStL&NO, July 18; Agreement with CStL&NO and The West and East, Sept.19; Lease of CStL&NO, June 13,1882 [printed] with letters; Decision, U.S. Circuit Court, William Kaeiser v. IC, Oct. Miscellaneous: Circular to leased line shareholders, Nov. 21; Map of Washington driving park spur, Chicago, Apr.18.

1884: Reports: NYC&StL claims, Dec.; Lake front lands, with letters, statements, etc., Dec.; Legal passes, by B.F. Ayer, July 1. Letters: Pullman contract, Jan. 8; Libraries in Tenn., Feb. 1; New Orleans property, Mar.31; Chicago and Lake Calumet Railway, with map, May; New Orleans Belt, MissVal, June 4; Coal branch near La Salle, June 3; New Orleans World's Cotton Exposition, June 10; From Amsterdam brokers requesting assurances of financial strength, Oct.-Dec.; B&O proposition concerning the Chicago depot, and notice to leave [printed], May 14, Nov. 3; Y&MV extension, Oct.22; Cairo lands, Sept.27; New line from Wetang to Metropolis with blueprints, Nov.; Land Dept., Dec.8. Miscellaneous: Map of Chicago and Calumet harbors, Dec.; Minutes of meetings of directors of CStL&NO, The West and East, CA&N and Y&MV, Mar. 5, and of The Mound City Railway, Nov.1, and The South Chicago Railroad, Dec.5.

1885: Letters: U.S. Internal revenue tax suits,Jan.19, Feb.2; Cheltenham Improvement Co., Mar.; New Orleans Belt, Mar.3; Chicago lake front property, Mar.; Yazoo extension, Apr.15, Oct.1, Dec.17; Lands near Cairo, May 8, and a few from Peter Daggy about Land Dept. statements, Chicago lands, etc., July-Aug.; Lake front case, Chicago, from B.F. Ayer, June 8; Military post at Chicago, June 30; New Orleans exposition and statement of expenditures, July 28; K&SW rates, Aug.19; Miss&Tenn litigation, with clippings, Oct.; Insurance, Oct.16; Y&MV extension from Tchula to Lexington, Nov.6. Reports: New York office expenses, with statements, Jan.21; Litigation in southern states, by James Fentress, Dec.1,1884; Y&MV extension, Feb.; Surveys to Cape Girardeau from Anna and Wetang, Mar.18; Chicago pier at 13th Street [n.d.]; C&S expenditures by IC, 1884; Legal cases, Ill. and Ia., July 1; Securities, by vice president, Sept. 16 [printed]; Memphis, Selma and Brunswick condition and opinion, with pamphlet on Construction, decree, contract, etc., Dec.1884 [printed] and Decree, Jacob Thompson et al. vs. Memphis, Selma and Brunswick, June 19, and Articles of incorporation, by-laws, etc., Memphis, Holly Springs and Selma, 1881 [printed]. Legal: Lease, The West and East, CA&N, CStL&NO, to IC Jan.1 [printed] and Kosciusko Branch, Jan.1 [printed]; Proposed bill to enable consolidation of railroads, Ill., Jan. 21; Forcible detainer, IC v. B&O, Jan.6; Deed, IC to CStL&NO, Sept.5,1884, and letter about lease, Feb.18; Leases and letters concerning Liverpool Cotton Press Co. and New Orleans Cotton Press Assoc., with proposals and agreement for sale to IC, Apr.2, and opinion of James Fentress, Apr.9; Act to increase power of railroads, July 15 (HR bill 343); Agreement with Cheltenham Improvement Co., June 23 [printed]; Agreement of Memphis, Selma and Brunswick with Green, Hamilton & Co., Jan. 2,1883, and mortgage to Guarantee Trust & Safe Deposit Co., Philadelphia, Oct. 21; Agreement with CB&N, Oct.21, Nov.4, and report of negotiations, Nov.10; Opinions on consolidation of CStL&NO and IC, Sept.11 & 29, by James Fentress and B.F. Ayer; IC general mortgage to U.S. Trust Co., Aug.10,1874 [printed]. Statements: Ia. expenditures, Jan. 21; Advances to CA&N, MissVal account, land sales, earnings, balances, etc., 1884. Miscellaneous: List of Hyde Park lands, May 20; Program of Belgian convention, 50th anniversary of Belgian railways, Mar.17 [printed]; Drawing of Chicago passenger depot, with plans and letters, Aug.27; Report on IC in Memphis, Sept.15.

1886: Letters: Military post at Burnside, Mar.27, with letters; Dobbins' tract, Chicago, Mar.; Branch line from Freeport to Madison, with report by Isham Randolph, May-June; South Chicago Dock Co., May 12; New Orleans passenger depot, with drawing, June 14; Havana, Rantoul & Eastern, May 28; Chicago Auditorium, with circular from F.W. Peck, and drawing, Aug. [printed]; Chicago elevators, Oct. 11; From W.B. Allison concerning D&D Bridge, Nov. 10; Yazoo extension, with map, Feb. 25, 1887; CB&Q, Oct.16. Reports: New York office, 1884-1885; Litigation in Southern states, Dec.1,1885, Dec.15,1886, CB&N, Jan.20; Litigation in Ill. and Ia., Jan.1, July 1; Insurance, Dec.1885-1887; The Honduras North Coast Railway and Improvement Co., with map, May 28, Oct.20; Auditing committee, 1885. Legal: Opinion on New Orleans Belt by James Fentress, with letters, Jan.20; Act authorizing Ohio River Bridge, Mar.29 [printed] with letters; Agreement between Northwestern Improvement Co, and E.H. Harriman for purchase of Miss&Tenn stock, Apr.16; Opinion and suggestions to Secretary of the Treasury touching alleged encroachments by the IC on the lake front at Chicago, by R.S. Tuthill, 1886 [printed]; Ill. vs. IC, in U.S. Circuit Court, May 3, answer and amended information, Mar. 6 [printed]; Alex Hill vs. CStL&NO, opinion and decree, La. Supreme Court, May 19; Agreement with Cincinnati, Indianapolis, St. Louis and Chicago, June 16; Mortgage to U.S. Trust Co., July 21 [printed]; Agreement between The West and East, CA&N, CStL&NO, IC and Y&MV, Aug.16 [printed]; Deed of CStL&NO and New Orleans Belt, Sept.23 [printed]; Deed of Chicago elevators, Dec.15. Statements: Application of income, 1885; Mobile and Northwestern account, Mar.13; Earnings on Cincinnati, Indianapolis, St. Louis and Chicago business, 1886, and agreement, Apr.21; C&S expenditures, 1885. Miscellaneous: Baring Bros. London securities circular, Aug.18 [printed] with letters; Circulars on taxing of aliens, Dec.15; A few minutes of Executive Committee meetings.

1887: Letters: AT&SF, Jan.12; Ia. lines, Jan.13; MC, Jan.5, and concerning Chicago land, some from H.B. Ledyard, Feb.16; Yazoo lines, Feb.28; Kankakee hotel, Mar.16; Cherokee Branch, June 25, with reports and estimates, June 15-17; Entrance to Chicago, with AT&SF, June 16; Rantoul Railroad, May 22; Miss&Tenn stock, July 18; Dodgeville Branch, July 18; Manchester and Cedar Rapids lines, May 10 & 14, and report, Aug.30,1886; Purchase of D&SC stock, with papers concerning surrender, Feb.1885- July 1887, and minutes of D&SC Board, Oct.19; Insurance, Aug.18; Heating cars by steam, Aug.19; Track to Washington driving park, Chicago, Aug. 19; Delinquent subscriptions, from brokers, Aug.; CF&M, Nov.12; Coal cars, Nov.12; Omaha to Sioux City line, Sept. 28; St. Louis, Alton and Springfield, Nov.23; Miss&Tenn debt, Dec. 21. Reports: Litigation, Ill. and Ia., Jan.1, July 1; Chicago, Havana & Western organization, Feb.10; IaF&SC, Feb.16; Legal dept., southern lines, 1887; Statements: Interest, profits, etc., 1886; St. Louis, Kansas and Southwestern, C&S and IC trial balance, earnings and expenses, improvements, etc., Dec.31,1886; Expenditures on branch lines and securities sold, Feb.23; Value of securities and mortgage power of southern lines, Mar.-Apr,; Estimated cost of changing grade, Rantoul line, May 14; Assets and estimated expenses, Sept.28; Permanent expenditures, leased lines, Ia., to Oct. 1887. Legal: Lease, National Park Bank, New York, May 1,1886; D&SC and IaF&SC, opinion by B.F. Ayer, Mar.16; Agreement with IaF&SC, Mar.23; Agreement with Drexel, Morgan & Co. for D&SC stock, May 18; Deed for sale of lands at Jackson to Tennessee Midland, Oct.3. Miscellaneous: Memo on Nebraska, Wyoming, and Utah railroads, June 11, with G.R. Blanchard's proposition, letters from Wyoming and Eastern, pamphlets on "The Broken Bow Country," "Coal-Land Law," July 31,1882, and reports of governor of Wyoming, 1885, with maps of those states [printed]; Memo on organization of CStL&NO, Mar.31; Maps of Ia. and Chicago, 1886 [printed]; Minutes of stockholders' meetings, Jan.18, and Executive Committee, Dec.9.

1888: Letters: Dubuque office building, Jan.18; Meridian, Brookhaven & Natchez, Jan.18; Additions to rolling stock, Mar.6; D&D Bridge stock, Mar.6; Consolidation of subsidiary lines, Apr.5; Miss&Tenn reorganization, Apr.25; CB&N, with drawing, June 2. Reports: Litigation in Ill. and Ia., 1887; Valuation of Dubuque property, Mar.7; Insurance, Apr.5; The South Chicago indebtedness, 1887; Purchase of engines, Sept.11, and freight cars, Sept.12, Oct.16; Amalgamation of Ia. lines, Sept.19; Stock purchase of St. Louis, Alton and Springfield, Sept.19, with articles of incorporation, mortgage to Farmers' Loan & Trust Co., etc., Sept.1.1887 [printed]; Legal: Agreement with D&SC, Jan.18, and mortgage of D&SC to E.T.H. Gibson and A.G. Hackstaff, Oct.17 [printed]; Contract of CStL&NO with Union Bridge Co., Sept.28; Leases to IC of D&SC, Cedar Rapids and Chicago, IaF&SC, C&Dak, Rantoul Railroad, Chicago, Havana & Western, CM&N, CA&N and Y&MV, Mar.15; Agreement with CM&N and CA&N, with drawing, Mar.19 [printed]; By-laws, Mar.19; Agreement for termination of lease of Kosciusko branch, Apr.18; Contract between CStL&NO, IC and Tennessee Midland, Oct.3. Miscellaneous: Statements and vouchers, 1887; Speyer & Co. prospectus, Feb.3 [printed]; Permanent expenditures, 1886-1887. Letters: Cairo Bridge, Oct.-Nov., with report of engineers, Feb.23, 1887 [printed] and profile, Sept.27; Proposition of Union Bridge Co., Oct.26, and contract, Dec. [printed]; New Orleans levee property, wharf rights, etc., Oct.-Nov.; Miss&Tenn merger with CStL&NO, Dec.18. Reports: Miss&Tenn, Nov.21; Meridian, Brookhaven & Natchez purchase, Dec.15, with letters, July-Dec., and estimate of Mississippi, Alabama and Georgia, Nov.20,1883, and charter and by-laws, Mar.9,1882 [printed]; Map of Natchez, Act to incorporate Meridian, Brookhaven & Natchez, Mar.7,1882 [printed] and deed from A.C. McNair to IC, June 6, with master's report of sale. Miscellaneous: Statement of award of arbitrators of rolling stock sold to D&SC, Nov.8; Lien of C&S for money expended, 1887; New Orleans right of way, with drawing, Oct.1887.

1889: Letters: Miss&Tenn, Jan.16, and opinions on consolidation; Rantoul Railroad deed, Dec.1888-Jan.1889, with tracing; President's agreement with Interstate Commerce Railway Assoc., Feb.20, and opinions by B.F. Ayer and C.A. Seward, Jan.20 [printed] with addresses by T.M. Cooley and W.R. Morrison, Dec.11,1888 [printed] and memo on passenger tariffs and rate wars, Jan.25 [printed], with Revised plan for a president's association, and agreement, and proceedings of conference, Jan.1 [printed] and Plan for operating company, Dec.20,1888 [printed]; Also Western States Passenger Assoc. agreement, Feb.1 [printed], C.F. Adams' address on the Interstate Commerce Act, Dec.15,1888 [printed], letter from C.A. Seward to Stuyvesant Fish on the Association, Feb.16 [printed] and copy of the Congressional Record, Jan.22, with clippings; Letter from Ebenezer Lane concerning London Committee request for resignation of president, Dec.1,1859 [printed]; E.H. Harriman donating $6000 for "boys in shop," Feb.20; L.P. Morehouse concerning Land Dept. sales, May 7; Reorganization, between directors and officers, Apr. 1888-Oct.1889, with Executive Committee recommendations on purchase of supplies and duties of departments and report of Committee on Reorganization, May 13 [printed] and pamphlets on Organization for conducting business of the IC [printed]; Tax suit, Gibson Co., Tenn., June 19; Steel rails, July 8, with report Dec.11; Purchase of freight engines, Sept.7; Lake front litigation, Nov.16; CStL&NO stock, Nov.11. with lease to IC, Dec. (draft). Reports: Dividend, Jan.16; Rates in Ill., June 11, and letters. Legal: List of contracts with subsidiary companies for fast freight, Jan.12; Agreement with Wabash for Cairo crossing, Jan.23,1886; Agreement with Railroad News Co., May 1,1888 [printed]; Leases of Mendota depot by CB&Qand IC to Hutchinson & Abell, Feb.15,1888 [printed], and hotel ground, Tenn., by CStL&NO, May 23,1878, and eating houses in Centralia, Sept.30,1881, Decatur, Nov.1,1881, and Champaign, Apr.10, 1884; Agreement with Arthur Dixon for drayage, Dec.26.1888; Water contracts with Kankakee. Dec.26, 1888, Clinton, Ill. Oct.22, 1888, Independence, Ia., Oct.12,1888, Lincoln, Ill., July 1,1888. Jackson, Tenn., Jan.8.1887, Freeport, Ill., Jan.1,1888, Fort Dodge, Ia., May 1,1888, Bloomington, Ill., Sept.10,1883, Decatur, Feb.28, 1884, Madison, Wis., Jan.2.1888 and Storm Lake Ia., June 29,1887; Lease of CStL&NO Memphis division to IC, Apr.4; Agreement with CB&N, Feb.25, with drawing and letters, Mar.-Apr., and purchase of stock. Feb.2; Agreement for Chicago property at St. Charles Air Line crossing, Mar.28; By-laws, amended, Apr.9 [printed]; Opinion of James Fentress and B.F. Ayer concerning authority of officers to fix rates, May 15; Lease by National Park Bank, New York, to IC, May; Lease of Chicago pier, Aug.13; Agreement for Lake Shore and Michigan Southern crossing, Aug.7, and letters. Statements: Y&MV account to IC, Jan.1, and Chicago, Havana & Western and Rantoul Railroad; Work under construction, Oct.; CM&N trial balance, Aug.31; Miss&Tenn inventory, Dec.18. Miscellaneous: Resolution concerning rates of toll, Jan.16; Lien on C&S and The South Chicago, 1888; Drawing of New Orleans wharf, and letters, June; Chicago Auditorium Assoc. list of stockholders, Feb.1, and letters, July; Plan for managing Cairo bridge, and statement of receipts, Dec. 17.1888.

1890: Letters: Stockyards, Jackson, Tenn., and New Orleans, Dec.23,1889; Brakes, steam shovels, etc., Jan.10; Change of date of stockholders' meeting, June 1889 and Jan.1890; New passenger depot, Chicago, Jan., with tracings, and Chicago office building, Jan.; Furniture cars, Feb.5, suburban coaches, Feb.14, postal and baggage cars, May 11, steel rails, July 1. and engines, July 3; Rates, Feb.-Nov., providing reductions; Damage suits, Jan.28; Freeport depot, May 15; Chicago freight house, with blueprints, May; Air brakes, May; Increase of capital stock, May-July; Mounds office buildings, July 8; Chicago Union Transfer Railway Co. stock, with blueprint and circular [printed], June; and statement accompanying letter of Andrew Crawford to Chicago roads concerning Stickney plan, May 21 [printed]; Cotton press property, Memphis, with tracing and map, June-July; Weldon shops, July 22; Grenada, Miss. water works, July 22; Burnside tract, July 22; Insurance, Sept., and reports, Nov.19 and Dec.1; Purchase of Tennessee Midland, Dec.16, and report, Dec.11-12, with many letters, and Tennessee Midland annual report for year ending June 30 [printed]. Legal: Contracts concerning management of Cairo bridge, Jan.9, and lease, Jan.11, and mortgage, Jan.11 (drafts); Opinions on lake front cases by B.F. Ayer, Judge Trumbull and J.N. Jewett, Feb.; CM&N lease, Feb.20; Contract with Southern Express Co., Apr.16 (draft); Agreement with World's Columbian Exposition on submerged lands in Chicago, and letters, Sept.; Opinion, M.K. Jesup vs. IC, D&SC and CF&M, U.S. Circuit Court, Oct.20 [printed] with letters, Nov.; Code of rules for conducting business to IC, amended, Dec.17 [printed]. Reports: Bridges in Ia., Mar.6; Committee on Rates, Revenues and Expenditures, Jan.24 [printed]; The Iowa Land and Loan Co. stock, Jan.13; Memphis improvements, Apr.15; Meetings of presidents of Chicago roads, called by J.P. Morgan, Dec.15, and Proceedings [printed]. Miscellaneous: The South Chicago acknowledgement of indebtedness, Jan.9; C&S line, June 30, Dec.31,1889 and June 30,1890.

1891: Letters: Rate reductions, Jan.-Oct.; New stock, Dec.1, 1890; Purchase of engines, Jan.6, steel rails, Feb.16. snow plow, Apr.15, locomotives and freight cars, May 20, and fruit cars, June 6; Central Elevator Co., Chicago, lease, Jan.19; Western Traffic Assoc., Jan.23; Cairo Bridge mortgage, May 19; Blue Island Railroad, July 9, Aug.17, and contract, Sept.1, with specifications, Oct. 13 [printed]; South American trip, by Adolphe Schreiber and G.C. Power, July 22 [printed]; Mail compensation, Sept.; CM&N entrance to Chicago, Sept.16, and agreements with AT&SF and PennRR, Aug.1 [printed] and agreements with CB&Q, MC, C&NW and Chicago & Western Indiana, June 26 [printed], and with CM&N and Chicago & Western Indiana, Aug.1 [printed] and CM&N and C&A, Aug.1 [printed], and CM&N, Chicago & Western Indiana, PennRR, C&A, and AT&SF, Aug.1 [printed]. Reports: Losses by fire, Jan.2, and insurance, Dec. 10, 1890; Tennessee Midland purchase, Jan.17; Pullman contract, Jan.19, Apr.15, and agreement [printed draft]; Lien on C&S, Dec.31, 1890; B&O vs. IC, in Ill. Supreme Court, Mar.31; New Orleans wharf ordinance, Apr.8; Proposed Chicago lake front ordinance, Mar.31; IC vs. City of Chicago, injunction concerning right of way, Feb.25 [printed]; Meridian, Brookhaven & Natchez reorganization, Apr.15; New Orleans lands, May 16, July 13, and terminals, June 16, and ordinance on depot, Aug., with drawings and letters, and concerning offices, May 16; Chicago terminals, June 6. Legal: Lease of D&SC, Jan.20 (draft) and report, Feb.18; Lease of The South Chicago, Jan.20 (draft) and report Feb.18; CA&N and Y&MV telegraph lines, Aug.1; Map of car works property, Chicago [n.d.]

1892: Letters: Insurance, Jan.2 & 31; Chicago depot, Jan.18, and reports, Mar.18 & 30; Rate reductions, Jan.-Mar.; Steel rails, Jan.8; Cheltenham Improvement Co., with tracing, Mar.15; New equipment, coaches, freight cars, New Orleans freight house and train shed, Jan.-Mar.; Survey of Memphis to Clinton, Ky., Mar.18. Reports: Steam, electric and other motive powers, Jan.20, Feb. 1; Chicago land, Jan.19; Annual inspection of track, Nov.1891 [printed]; B&O rent, Apr.15. Legal: Contract with National Pneumatic Tube Transit Co., Dec.10,1891 [printed]; Agreement with Chicago and State Line and NYC&StL for crossing, Feb.25 [printed]; Lease of Central Elevator Co., Jan.1 (draft); Lease of CM&N, Feb.13 [printed]; Lake front cases filed with minutes of Apr.20, including record, case nos. 14,135, 14,414, 14,415 and 14,416, Oct.1891 [printed volume]. Miscellaneous: Statement of estimate of Monee double track, Mar. 18; C&S lien, Dec.1891, and statement concerning bonds; Resolution concerning Cairo Bridge bonds, Mar.31. Letters: New Orleans elevator, Apr.-May; Chicago street crossings, May 12; Sale of Cairo bridge bonds, May, with statement, Chicago station, Mar.; World's Fair elevation of track, May, with clippings, petition to Mayor by property owners [printed] May 23, and City Council proceedings, May 23, and ordinance [printed] and maps and report on equipment, Oct.19; Freight equipment, July 7, engines, Oct.24, and tools for Burnside shops, Nov.7; Chicago lands, lake front, etc., Aug.11; Rate reductions, May-Dec. Reports: LNO&T, by W.E. Rogers, May 16, with annual reports, 1887-1891, and charter book, 1884 [printed], and statements of equipment, New Orleans export trade, resolution on purchase of securities, July 20, and mortgages to U.S. Trust Co., New York, Aug. 25, 26, Nov.8,1886 and to Metropolitan Trust Co., New York, Sept.18, 1884, and to E.H. Pardee and Albert Crolius, Sept.18,1884, with supplemental deeds, Aug.25,1885 and Aug.27,1886, and letters concerning consolidation with Y&MV, Sept. Miscellaneous: Statement of loans and deposits in trust companies on call, May; Statement of Miss. population [n.d.]; Mortgage of Financial Improvement Co. to Union Trust Co., New York, Nov.1,1890 [printed]; Statement of suburban business, 1882-92; U.S. Supreme Court opinion on lake front case, Dec.5 [printed]

1893: Letters: Central elevators, Chicago, Feb.11, Oct.17, and lease Dec.1; New Orleans property purchase, Mar.3, and depot, Mar.28, and bridge, Apr.29; A.S. Garretson offer concerning sale of Sioux City, O'Neill and Western and Sioux City and Northern, Mar. 8 & 15; Meeting of railway presidents, Chicago, Mar.20, and letter from Stuyvesant Fish, Mar.22 [printed]; Demand of Chicago switchmen, Mar.15; Purchase of Louisiana Ice Co., Apr.18,22; Purchase of Chicago land, June 29; rate reductions, Apr.-Dec.; CF&M litigation,Apr.1891-July 1893, and report Aug.15; Columbian Museum, Chicago, Nov.11; Purchase of law library from James Fentress, Sept. 20; Insurance, Oct. 14, and statement, 1879-1893. Reports: LNO&T stock purchased for Y&MV, Oct.-Dec. 1892; Purchase of suburban engines, Feb.9, steam wrecker, Feb.17, coaches, Mar.6, rolling stock, May 17, and World's Fair cars, Apr.28, and box cars, Nov.15; Inspection of track, Nov.1892; Cairo bridge bonds, June; Miss. Supreme Court decision in Adams Co. tax case, May 15; Chicago, St. Paul and Kansas City indebtedness, June 21, July 14; Sioux City terminal, July 19. Legal: Agreement with American Express Co., Jan.6. and contract, Apr.1 [printed]; Petition for rehearing, U.S. Supreme Court, IC vs. Ill., Oct.1892 [printed] and supplement; Code of rules, amended, Dec.21,1892 and Oct.1893 [printed]; Mortgage of Y&MV to Union Trust Co., New York, Jan.15; Agreement with Lazard Freres, Aug.17; Clinton, Ill. ordinance for right of way, Sept.18. Statements: Suburban train cash collections, Jan.-Feb.; Cost of Chicago passenger station. Apr.18; CO&SW annual report, June 30,1892 [printed], report concerning usefulness, Oct.16, and letters from August Belmont and others about securities, Oct.; Personal injuries, 1888-1893; Circular to employees on purchase of IC stock, May 18 [printed]

1894: Letters: Rate reductions, Jan.-Dec.; Dubuque side track, Feb.15; Steel rails, Jan.31, and contract with Illinois Steel Co., Jan.17; Personal injuries, Feb. 12, June 30; C&Dak extension, Feb.20; Chicago terminal, Apr.18; Chicago fruit house, Apr.13, June 11, with blueprints; World's Fair business, Mar.30; CO&SW securities, and agreement with Amsterdam committee, Mar., Nov.-Dec.; Projected road to Council Bluffs, the Nebraska Central Railway, Jan.9, with tracings and letter from J.J. Hill on Nebraska construction, May 22, and reports on Onawa-Omaha line; Land grant, Ill., July 6; D&SC debt, June-Aug., Y&MV sugar refinery, July-Aug., and plan of organization of Louisiana Land and Sugar Manufacturing Co. with report, Aug.15; Letter from president with vice president's report, June 30 [printed]; Purchase of The Iowa Land and Loan Co. stock, Nov.30. Reports: Inspection of track, Feb.7; Reorganization of Nicaragua Canal Construction Co., Jan.11, with agreement, Dec.8,1893; Exports of breadstuffs from U.S., 1893; Chicago terminal, Apr.16; MissVal, Apr.2; Pullman strike, July 18 & 27; Car mileage, 1891-1894; Purchase of Louisiana Ice Co. property, with blueprint, Oct.18, and other New Orleans property, Oct.28; CF&M bonds, Oct.6, with letters; L&N, Nov.21, Cairo bridge bonds, Dec.14. Legal: With L&N, Jan.11; Agreements with MC for Chicago station Jan.5, Apr.10, May 21, and deed, Apr.27, with agreement, Dec.1,1893 [printed] and map and resolution of MC Board, Apr.27; Agreement with D&SC, Aug.18 (draft); Statement of comparative freight business, Chicago and New Orleans, 1893-1894.

1895: Letters: Rate reductions, Jan.-Dec.; New shop, Burnside, Apr.22; Sugar refinery, Y&MV at New Orleans, called Grammercy Co., Apr.22, Dec.18; Chicago land purchase, June 29, and report on lake front, Sept.5, with City Council proceedings, June 27, Oct.21, and ordinance, Sept.3, and agreement for lake front park, Nov.20 [printed]; Chicago fruit house, Sept.17. Reports: Construction at Water Valley, Miss., with blueprint, Feb.12; Purchase of steel rails, June and Oct., and box cars, Oct.21, and rolling stock, Dec.2; Engine houses, Stations, bridges, etc., and coal lands, June; Inspection of track, Nov.1894 [printed]; Extension to East St. Louis, Sept. 3, with map; Cairo bridge bonds, Sept.11; StLA&TH, Dec.18, with maps, and 28th-32d annual reports, 1890-1895, and letters, Nov., with statement and report of committee on purchase, Dec.20. Legal: New Orleans ordinance for right of way, Mar.7, and Dubuque: Jan.21; Mortgage of D&SC to U.S. Trust Co., Feb.1; Quit-claim deed to Mendota Electric Light Co., Mar.29. with letters and blueprints; Contract with Terre Haute and Peoria, Mar., including agreement with Illinois Midland, Aug. l,1879 [printed]; Agreement of CStL&NO with Western Union Telegraph Co., June 3, and with Postal Telegraph Cable Co., June 10; Deed of New Orleans land to Y&MV, July 23.

1896: Reports: C&S bonds, Feb.13; Rate reductions, Jan.-July; Sale of stock, Mar.4; Personal injuries, Dec. 31,1895; StLA&TH, Mar. 3, Apr. 4; Chicago lands purchase, with blueprint, Mar.27, May 18; New Orleans tracks, Mar.30; Purchase of bonds of Chicago Exhibition Co., Mar.30; Annual inspection of track, Nov.1895 [printed]; Centralia track, with blueprint, June 13; Charles City, Ia. spur and blueprint, May. Legal: New Orleans ordinance concerning wharves, Jan.14, Feb.26. with clippings; Mortgage of Crown Coal and Tow Co. and Union Trust Co., St. Louis, Mar.1,1894; Agreement with Spencer Trask & Co., Mar. [printed, draft] and Apr. 8, and deposit agreement, Apr.8 [printed]; Mortgage to U.S. Trust Co., New York, for StLA&TH lines, Jan.1, Mar.28 [printed]; Lease of StLA&TH to IC, Oct.1,1895 [printed] and agreement with StLA&TH and The Belleville and Southern Illinois, Oct.1.1895 [printed]; Decision in lake front case, J.T. Hoyne et al. vs. IC, May 19; Regulations of Relief Dept., Feb., and letters, June. Statements: Wiggins Ferry Co., Sept.3,1895. Letters: Reduction of rates, Aug.-Dec.; Telegraph, Chicago to Memphis, Aug.; Purchase of land at Coleman, with blueprint, Nov., and at Cedar Rapids and New Orleans, Dec.; Insurance, Nov. 5; Rebuilding LaSalle bridge, Nov.; Louisville property, Nov. Reports: Steel rails, Aug.; New engines, Nov. Legal: New Orleans ordinance concerning Crescent City Railroad crossing, with clipping, Aug.; Contract with CB&N for East Dubuque, Oct.10; Springfield ordinance about B&O tracks, Sept.21; Chicago ordinance accepting sea walls, Nov.; Contract for cars with Pullman and Wells & French, Nov.

1897: Letters: Insurance, Jan.2; Steel rails, Jan.-Feb., with drawings; Engines, July 20, Oct.-Nov.; Purchase of land in Louisville, Feb.3; Stacyville Railroad, July 20; Bank of England account, June-Aug.; Chicago round house, Nov., with drawings; MissCen, Dec., with report of June 1854 [printed]. Reports: Substitution of electricity for steam on suburban trains, Mar.24; Mounds, Ill. double track, June 10; Reorganization of CO&SW and StLA&TH, June 16; Improvements, New Orleans, July 19, with blueprints, and Paducah, July 21; Purchase of box cars, coal cars, and locomotives, Nov.15, Dec.14. Legal: Contract with Hall Signal Co. for block signals, Makanda to Cobden. Nov.-Dec.1896, with letters and blueprint; Agreement of Western Freight Assoc., Oct.22,1896 [printed] with letters, Feb.; Order of sale of CO&SW equipment, Feb.19. and letters; Decision, Louisiana Construction & Improvement Co. vs. IC and Y&MV, Feb.16 (clipping); Opinion of U.S. Supreme Court in Trans-Missouri freight case, Mar.22, pamphlet "Traffic Associations and the Anti-Trust Law," with letters; Agreement with Kuhn, Loeb & Co. and Vermilye & Co., May 11 and June 4 [printed] concerning sale of bonds, circular, and letters; Reorganization of CO&SW and StLA&TH, June 16; CStL&NO mortgage to Central Trust Co., New York, Sept.15 [printed], for Louisville division, and deed of IC and E.H. and Mary W. Harriman to CStL&NO, Sept.15 [printed] and lease to IC, Sept.15, and mortgage of C&S and IC to U.S. Trust Co., New York, and J.A. Stewart for Springfield division, Sept.23,1897 [printed]; Agreement with National Park Bank, New York on CO&SW bonds, Dec.15, and with Kuhn, Loeb & Co. for Louisville Division bonds, Dec.15; Agreement with Chicago on lake front property, Nov.20 [printed] and letters; CO&SW first mortgage bondholders meeting, Apr.20.

1898: Letters: Automatic couplers for air brakes, Jan.-Sept., with statements of fund; Steel rails, Jan.14; Purchase of lands, with tracings, in Louisville and Springfield; Jan.18; Reduction of rates, June; Alabama coal lands, Jan.25; Insurance, Feb.16; Purchase of Ohio Valley telegraph line from Western Union, Feb.16; Extension of Mona Branch through Charles City, Feb.16; Reduction of grades, Fulton to Memphis, Jan.-Feb., with blueprint; Purchase of engines, cars, etc., Apr.-June; Purchase of land at Centralia, with blueprint, Apr. 18; Extension from McClure's to Gray's Point, Apr. 13, with blueprint; Improvements at Carbondale, with blueprint, Apr.8-11; and at Memphis, Apr.11; Traffic agreement with CCC&StL, Apr.11; Lease of CO&SW telegraph lines, Apr.11; New tracks at Murphysboro, with blueprint, May 11; Grading of Cairo levee, May 9; Land purchase, New Orleans, with blueprint, May 3, Aug.; New lines, Philipp to Greenwood, May 2, with blueprint; New yard, Fulton, Ky., Aug. 5, with blueprint; Chicago roundhouse, with blueprint, Sept. 3; Miss. tax suits, Jan. 1894-Oct. 1899; Track, Otto to Gilman, Oct.8; Louisville land, Nov.5; St. John Baptist parish, La. land, Oct.9; New line to Omaha, Nov. Reports: New lines to Council Bluffs, with blueprint, June; New line, West Point, Miss. to Winfield, Ala., Nov.29. Legal: Deed of lands, McComb, Miss., Sept. 13, 1897, with blueprint; Code of rules, amended, Jan.29; Contract with Wells & French for cars, Jan.27 and May 9, and with Haskell & Barker for box cars, Feb.17 and June 1, and report, Mar.1, and for dining cars, Oct.25; Contract with American Express Co., Feb.16, with statement May 11; Mortgage of CStL&NO and IC to U.S. Trust Co., New York, of Ohio Valley and Evansville terminals, June 21 [printed] and deed of Evansville real estate, June 21 and Mar. 30 [printed]; Deed of Ohio Valley from E.H. and Mary W. Harriman to CStL&NO, Mar.29 [printed]; Agreement with Y&MV for lease, June 15 [printed] and letters June 13, July 19; Ordinance of Chicago South Park Commissioners concerning elevated tracks of St. Charles Air Line, July 9, and letters, Oct., with report Sept. 20; Agreement for IC operation of The Hodgenville & Elizabethtown and The Troy & Tiptonville, Aug.; Fort Dodge and Omaha articles of incorporation and letters, Sept.13; Ordinance for Waverly, La. right of way, Sept.21; Lease of Paducah Union Depot property, July 1; Traffic agreement for Nashville, Chattanooga and St. Louis, Nov.25; Agreement with State Trust Co., New York, for StLA&TH bonds, June 29; Springfield ordinance for right of way, Sept.19; Quit-claim deed for Chicago land, Aug.17; Ordinance for East St. Louis right of way, Nov.21. Miscellaneous: Prospectus for St. Louis and Louisville division bonds, Dec.18,1897 [printed] for German buyers, with letters.

1899: Letters: Miss. taxes, Dec.1898; Grade reduction, Fulton to Memphis, with blueprints, Jan.-June, and for Valley Station, Feb. 6; Purchase of engines, Feb.8, Mar.9, Nov.27, and cars, Mar. 20, July 7, Nov.22, and rails, Nov.8, and test cars, Nov.28; Lands sold in La., Feb.4; Bridges, Carbondale to Fulton, Feb.20; New lines, Dyersburg to Obion River, Apr.3; New track, Memphis division, with blueprint, Mar.16; Paducah new yard, Apr.13, and engine house, Aug.3, and tracks, Nov.6; Fort Dodge to Chicago crossings, Apr.11; Estimated cost of Fort Dodge and Omaha, May 11-14; Subscription to St. Louis World's Fair of 1903, May 15-17, with printed circular, July 3; New equipment and tracks, with blueprints, for Louisville, Freeport, Fort Dodge, Dubuque, Jackson to Kenner, St. Louis and Amboy divisions, Effingham, Rantoul, Brookhaven, Mona, Chicago, Pierce, Tenn., etc., June-July and Oct.; Purchase of Cecilia Branch from L&N, Aug.15; Grammercy Co. sugar refinery, New Orleans, Aug.11; Obion, Tenn. station, Aug.11; Block signal system, Kensington to Kankakee, July-Sept.; Omaha Bridge & Terminal facilities, Dec.13; Grantsburg to Golconda extension, with reports, Aug.; Council Bluffs shops, Oct.4. Legal: Contract with Mobile and Ohio for Cairo bridge, Jan.2, Feb.15, with letters; New Orleans ordinance, Feb.28 and Mar.1 [printed]; Agreement with R.S. Grant and E.H. Harriman for Chicago & Texas securities, Sept.9,1897; Chicago ordinance for CM&N roadbed, June 19 [printed]; Contract with American Express Co., Sept. Miscellaneous: Report on passes, Feb.4; Minn. map [printed]; Statement of Pullman mileage, Aug.4.

1900: Letters: Extension of tracks, Brooklyn, Ill., Jan.5, and Hawthorne yard, with blueprint, Jan.5; Improvements at New Orleans, Jan.; Omaha Bridge & Terminal, Jan.; Dining cars, Feb. 8; PennRR pension system, Feb.-Mar., and regulations, Jan.1 [printed] and forms; Banana shipments from New Orleans, 1893-1899, Jan.30; Baggage cars, new tracks, equipment, etc., Jan.-May, and purchase of land, depots, etc.; Chicago tracks, May; Louisville and Memphis division tracks, May. Legal: Agreement with UP for Omaha station, Jan.26 [printed], and letters, and agreements between UP, C&NW, CRI&P and CM&StP, Sept.1,1898 and Aug.1,1899 [sup., printed]; New Orleans ordinance for construction of tracks, Mar.- May, and letters. Reports: Fort Dodge and Omaha construction, Dec. 19,1899, with blueprint; Coal traffic, Jan.15. Letters considering donations to veterans' groups, June 16; Indenture of Wisconsin Central to IC, Dec. 9, 1899 [printed] and between Wisconsin Central, C&NW, CB&Q, MC and IC, Dec. 4, 1899 [printed]; Lease of St. Louis, Peoria & Northern from F.P. Voorhees, July 18; Lease of D&SC Omaha division, June 25 [printed] and mortgage to U.S. Trust Co., New York, July 20 [printed], and lease of Fort Dodge and Omaha to D&SC, June 22; Statement of American Express receipts and excesses paid, Mar. 31, Aug.1901; Memos concerning purchase of Litchfield division of St. Louis, Peoria & Northern, Aug., and organization of Grammercy Finance Co., Dec.

1901: Letters and map showing sale of donated lands in Ill., Dec.1900-Jan.1901; List of employees who received medals for service, Feb.1900-Feb.1901, on 50th anniversary of IC [printed]; Address on Lake Front Question by B.F. Ayer, May 28,1888; Regulations and forms of pension plans of PennRR and C&NW, Apr. [printed] and lists of employees qualifying, Dec.31.1900, with rules and regulations, July 1, and letters; Agreement concerning purchase of L&N's Cecilia Branch by CStL&NO, Dec.; Classification of materials and supplies on hand. July 1; Titles and boundaries of accounting and operating divisions, IC and Y&MV, July 1 [printed]; Agreement with L&N and Louisville, Henderson and St. Louis, Mar.1; Mortgage of Southern Illinois and Missouri Bridge Co. to Mercantile Trust Co., New York, and R.R. Hutchinson, Nov.1 [printed]; Chicago ordinance concerning elevation of track, Nov. 11 [printed]; Lease of Mattoon and Evansville and Peoria, Decatur & Mattoon, July 1.

1902: Letters: Question of liability of estate of C.P. Huntington and R.T. Wilson & Co. for certain losses, Dec.1901; Lease of Chicago elevators, Dec.1901-Jan.1902, and letters accepting ordinance, Aug. 18; Proposed merger of corporations to simplify accounting, Apr.; With J.P. Morgan & Co. concerning railroad situation in the South, with clipping, May 27; Leases of Riverside and Harlem, The Kentucky Western, and The Hodgenville & Elizabethtown, Aug.12, Sept.29. Reports: L&N, Apr.15; Attempted strike of freight handlers, with clipping, July; Terminal Railroad Assoc. of St. Louis, July 16, with blueprint and letters; Pullman gross earnings, May 31; Comparative pensions of IC, Y&MV and PennRR, with letters, Aug. Miscellaneous: Deed of CM&N to Chicago Sanitary District, June 12; Deed of The Hodgenville & Elizabethtown to CStL&NO, and lease to IC, Oct.18 [printed]; Decision in Miss. Supreme Court on taxes, Y&MV vs. Wirt Adams, Dec.

1903: Letters: Agreement on New Orleans terminal, with CStL&NO, Y&MV and L&N, Nov.-Dec.1902; Appropriation for YMCA building, Mounds, Ill., July 1902, and Jan., with blueprint; Agreement with St. Louis and San Francisco for entrance to Birmingham, Jan.-Mar., and blueprint; Infant stockholders, June 1; Rebuilding transfer steamer "Osborn," July-Aug. Legal: Deed of land to Madison, Wis., Jan.9; Agreement with New York Air Brake Co., Oct. 8,1902; Agreement with Rochelle and Southern for use of tracks, Mar. 23, and letters, May; Deed of lands to Mason, Ill., with blueprint, June 15; Contract with L&N, Nov., with blueprints and reports; MC lands leased by IC at Chicago, with blueprint Dec.; NOJ&GN, Dec., with report by G.B. McClellan on merger with MissCen, June 5, 1858 [printed]

1904 - Reconstruction of Omaha bridge, with blueprint, Dec. 1903; Lease of North American Trust Co. to IC, New York office, May 1; Abstract and brief for Y&MV in Miss. Chancery Court case, Hinds Co. et al. vs. Natchez, Jackson and Columbus et al. [Feb. 1904? printed]; IndS charter and franchises [printed 1904?], prospectus, "The Mineral Route," [1903, printed] and letters and contract with IC, June 7, July 1, Aug.16 and Sept.21, with estimates, reports, requests of local citizens, memos, blueprints, and map of Ind. [printed]; Statement of D&SC operation, 1889-1903, July 21, and lease, Oct. (draft) and report of arbitrators, Aug.; Report on transportation of mails, 1900-1904, with letters, Sept., and on MC contract for Chicago tracks, Oct.; Contract (drafts) with Indiana and Kensington, Kensington & Eastern Railroad Company of Indiana, The Chicago, Lake Shore and South Bend, Oct.; PennRR by-laws and organization, Mar.1 [printed] and report of indebtedness of Chicago Union Transfer Railway Co.; Memorial book, Abraham Lincoln as attorney for the IC, Dec. [printed, with photostats][removed]

1905: IndS contract, and letters, Aug.1904, Jan., Report on Ill. and Ind. coal, Feb., with statements and letters; Map of Ill. [printed]; Lease of North American Trust Co., New York, for offices, May 1; Letters estimating losses in New Orleans fire, Mar.; Contract with American Express, Apr.1; Agreement with Southern railways, July; Statement of bond sales, 1899-1905, Sept.; Report on New Orleans terminals, Sept.; Letters concerning Southern Ill. coal, Sept.-Dec. with blueprints; Letters concerning Tennessee Central agreement, and agreement, Nov.24, and agreement with Southern Railway Co. and Nashville Terminal Co., Nov.24 [printed]

1906: Madison Coal Co. statements, Dec.1905, and letters, Feb., with many papers, reports, blueprints, etc., including also Carterville Coal Co., Mar.-June; Report on Ill. state investigation of 7% charter tax, Apr., and letters, Aug.; Contract with Western Union, Feb.21 (draft) and letters; Contract with IndS, Apr.4 (draft); Circular of American Railway Assoc. requesting contributions to San Francisco earthquake sufferers, Apr.27 [printed]