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Pacific Coast Company records

Inventory

Accession No: 2241-001

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PACIFIC COAST CO. INVENTORY

NOTE: Records are those of the Company's main office in New York City.

Box 1

v. 1 v. 2

v. 11 v. 2 v. 3 v.

Box 2

v. 4 v. 5 v. 6 v. 7

Box 3

v. 8 v. 9 v. 10 v. 11

Box 4

v. 12 v. 13 v. 14 v. 15

Box 5

v. 16 v. 17 v. 18 v. 19

Box 6

v. 20

CORRESPONDENCE-OUTGOING

Chairman's Letter. Books 1898-1903

Nov 7, 1898-Sept 11, 1901 Is the first part of v. 3 of Secretary Letter Books (following)

Secretary's Letter Books, 1903-16 20 v.

Feb. 17, 1903-Nov 1, 1904 Nov 2, 1904-0ct 20, 1905 Oct 20, 1905-Apr 28, 1906

Apr 30, 1906-Dec 20, 1906 Dec 21, 1906-Apr 22, 1907 Apr 23, 1907-Aug 31, 1907 Sept 3, 1907-Apr 6, 1908

Apr 7, 1908-March 17, 1909 March 18, 1909-Apr 11, 1910 Apr 11, 1910-Apr 22, 1911 · Apr 29, 1911-Jan 31, 1912

Jan 31, 1912-0ct 21,1912 Oct 22, 1912-Apr 4, 1913 Apr 5, 1913-Aug 6, 1913 Aug 7, 1913-Jan 5, 1914

Jan 6,1914-Sept 22, 1914 Sept 25, 1914-May 17,1915 May 17, 1915-Dec 16,1915 Dec 18, 1915-July 5, 1916

July 7, 1916-Nov 6,1916

•

Box 6 (continued)

v. l v. 2 v. 3 v. 4

Box 7

v. 5 v. 6 v. 7 v. 8

Box 8

v. 9 v. 10 v. 11 v. 12

Box 9

v. 13 v. 14

v. 1

President's Letter Books

Oct 13, 1904-May 8,1906 May 9,1906-Dec 10,1906 Dec 21,1906-Nov 25,1907 Nov 26,1907-Aug 19,1908

Aug 20,1908-June 29,1909 June 29,1909-Jan 22,1910 Feb 1,1910-0ct 10,1910 Oct 11,1910-July 6,1911

July 6,1911-Jan 25,1912 Jan 27,1912-Nov 6,1912 Nov 13,1912-Aug 20,1913 Aug 21,1913;-Apr 8,191!-1-

Apr 14,1914-Feb 23,1915 Feb 24,1915-Feb 18,1916

Treasurer's Letter Book May 11,189 -Feb 7,1903

Pacific Coast Inventory/page 2

GENERAL CORRESPONDENCE 1898-1927 (Arranged alphabetically by subject, chronologically within each subject group.)

NOTE: Consists of interoffice correspondence between the ma.in office and the branch office in Seattle, correspondence with subsidiary companies, and correspondence with outside individuals and organizations.

Box 10,11,12

Major Correspondents (found throughout all subjects) ca. ca.. 1,800 Alexander, H.F.""' Bankers Trust Co. Barnum, Walter .,,., Barnum, William Milo .. ,.., Cannon, H.W .-Farrell, J. D ."' Ford , J. C . ,,,. Kelly, J.H.-Moore , N. D . .-Simpson, Thacker and Bartlett (Morrow, Dwight W.) Ward, E.C ......

Coal Business in General

Major Correspondents Butler, Lamb and Pope, lawyers National Coal Association,;

1900-1913, 1916-

1926

Box 10,11,12 (continued)

13-(1-2)

13-3

13- (1}-)_9)

lh- (1-7)

14(8-17)

14(18-20)

14(21-23)

15(1-3)

15(4-20)

15-21

15(22-26)

15-27

15(28-29)

15-30


U.S. Bureau of Mines • U.S. Office of Federal Fue.l Distributor, Washington -Washington Coal Produeers Assn. -Washington State Federation of Women's Clubs -

Companies and Mines

Western Fuel Co . ..,,. Black Diamond Mine H>I Franklin Mine l!JI'

Newcastle Mine'° Wilkeson Mine .,-Pacific Coast Coal Co . ....,. British Columbia Coal Mines

Coal Business, Specific. Ji..rranged alphabetically by subject A-Z.

Major Correspondents

Pennsylvania Coal and Coke Co. Washinc;ton Coal Operators Assoc. calso named Washington

Re:

Coal Producers Assoc.J National Coal Association U.S. Dept. of Commerce U.S. Fuel Administration' U.S. Coa.l Commission ..,...

Bayne Mine ,,;;.. ';

Co • f Q.,,.-~,..x:f.~ Black Carbon Coal

Black Diamond Mine

Re: Briquet Pla.nt

Bunkering-American, Hawaiian rt II - Cromwell and Thurlow

26

17

240

105

15.0

50 rt II - Foreign Representatives50

" II - Pacific Coast Coal Co. 50 tt II - Miscellaneous 250

Bunkering Reports 4

Burnett Mine .; i',Q,e"l:..~t-- 70

Cars for Mines 7

Re: Cedar Mountain Coal Co.~ o.,,A 11 ;:,/;,

Central Coal Co. - 10

1917-1918

1925

1903-11

1916-1922

1922-1926

1921-24

1923-1924

1923-1925

1922-24

1924

1918-19 1923-25 1922-1926

1904-1911

1922-25

15-31

15-32

15-33

16(1-6)

16(7-12)

16-13

16(14-15)

16-16

16-17

16(18-21)

16-22

16-23

16(24-28)

16(29-31)

17-1

17-2

17-(3-5)

17-6

17(7-24)

18-(1-3)

18-(4-8)

18-9

18-(10-16)

18-(17-21)

18-(22-30)

20-(1-9)


Coal Distribution

Coke

Conveyors

2

9

18

Re: S.S. Cape Romain 65

Corbin Coal and Coke Co. , Ltd. J.,.,.a(.~,_ Bo

Dale Mine 1

Dealer Distribution 30

Denny-Renton Clay and Coal Co." ,1 3

John C. Eden (Bellingham) 6

Elk Coal. Co. and Kangley 32

Everett Fuel Yard and Keithly Fuel Co. 13

Federal Export Corp • , N. Y • 1 7

Flack (D.L.) and Sons, Ltd. London 106

Franklin or Cannon Mine 23

Glacier Anthracite Property - Washington 2

Gentil, Eugene (France) 6

Government Control 1+2

Havercamp Property 7

Re: Hoist Reports ccorrespondence aboutJ 300

II " It

Hyde Mine

Importation of Coal

Issaquah Mine (or Havercamp)

,Jones Property (Roslyn-Cascade Mine)

Re: Lahor

Correspondents

Ballinger, Richard A. ' Webster, J. Stanley,;'(H. of Rep.)

" 50

6

96

44

560

1925

lG24-1926

1924

1922-1925

1925-1926

1925

1925-1926

1917-1918

1922

1923-1926

1920-23

1918

1918-1919

1919-1922

1924

1924

1922-1923

1917

1921

1926

1918 1926 1923

1921

1917

1917-1924

1919-1925

Box 20-(1-9) Continued

20(10-14)

20-15

20-16

20-17

20-18

20-(19-28)

20-(29-33)

21-(1-3)

21-4

21-(5-7)

21-8

21-(9-10)

21-(11-19)

21-20

21-21


Miller, J.F.,,. (H. of Rep.) Hadley, Lin H: 11

" <f II II Johnson, Albert

Jones, Wesley L"':" 11

Poindexter, Miles..., " Clark, E.W._.,,(Los Angeles) Wilson, 'i'-Toodrow ,· .... Pres. of U.S. (copy) . National Association of Manufacturers-~ Wash. Dept. of Labor and Industries Bethlehem Steel Co. '

Labor Reports

Correspondents Federated Industries of Washington Associated Industries of Seattle

Leitch, Malcolm..,.

Liebman, A.G • .,,,,

Madison Park Coal Yard

Matlock Coal. and Iron Corp.

Meetings

Re: Mine Council Plan

Correspondents Gano, Moore Coal Mining Co. National. Metal Trade Association..,

Mortgages

Mount Baker Anthracite Coal Field

Correspondents

39

4

9

9

3

145

64

14

26

1919, 1921-23

1918

1919

1916-1921

1919

1916-1926

1922-1925

1918-1921

1923-24, 1926

Ardern and Glosmacher, London and New York

Mutual Benefit Assiciation of Pacific Coast Coal 3 1923

Nanaimo Mines, Vancouver Is~and, British Columbia

Correspondents

Western Fuel Company

"New"B.la.ck Diamond Mine

New Castle Mine (Coal Creek)

Newcastle Timber

30

235

22

9

1920

1924-

1919-1926

1923-24

21-22

21-23

21-24

21-(25-31)

22-(1-6)

22-(7-8)

22-(9-13)

22-14

22(15-17)

23-1

23(2-13)

23(14-15)

23-16

23-17

23-18

23-19

23-20

23 (21-22)

23-23

24-1

24-2


Nome Coal Case cU.S. vs. Pacific Coast Coal Co.) 12 1919-1920

Northern Pacific Property

Northwest Sales Organization

Correspondents

5

12

Washington University College of Business Administration

Oil

" Re: Orders •.. for Coal

Re: Output Connnercial Mines, Washington

Re: Portland Bunker

Powdered Fuel

Correspondents

Hawley Pulp and Paper Co. Seattle Nata:torium Co. Quigley Furnace Specialties Co. Conclusion Engineering Corp.

Price Control

Price Fixing of Coal

Prices

Rainier Coke and Coal Co.

Rates on Coal

Renton Mines

Reserve Funds

Reynold's Property at Ravensdale

RheolaveurProductions

Roslyn-Cascade Property

St. Paul and Tacoma. Lumber Co.~

Shorela.nds on Lake Washington

150

35

67

8

55

4

220

25

17

29

17

4

10

22

5

7

9

1918

1921-1922

1922-1926

1923-1926

1924-1926

1918

1917-1926

1918-1919

1917-1918

1917-1926

1921-1924

1922-1925

1917-1922

1918

1925

1925-1926

1920

1921

1917-1918

24(3-5)

24(6-13)

24-14

24(15-25)

24-26

?4-27

24(28-30)

24-31

24(32-38)

25-1

25(2-3)

25(4-6)

25-7

26-27

28,19(1-21)

29(22-25)

Pacific Coast Company/page 7

Smith (G.J.) Properties 33 As Subject Central Coal Co.

Re: Smithing Coal 195

South American Markets 3

Tarrifs on Coal 29 Correspondents

Poindexter, Miles Hadley, Lin H.

Timber Reserves 3

Trent process 5

S .s. Wabash 30 Pacific Coast Coal Co. U.S. S.S. Wabash

Wages 18

Washington Coal Producers Association 60 Correspondents

Roslyn Fuel Co.

Wenatchee Coal Yard 11

West Coast Mines Property 28 1,;,,,,

Western Fuel Company / J-cv" 41

Wilkeson Coal and Coke Co. _,.,. '' 8

GENERAL CORRESPONDENCE

Columbia and Puget Sound Railroad Co. ,,. 1899-1913

1921-1925

1922-1925

1924

1920-1922

1923

1921

1924

1916-1922

1920-1926

1917-1925

1925-1926

1917

1925

Pacific Steamship Co. fin general) 1899-1913, 1916-1924

NOTE: Name was Pacific Coast Steamship Co. 1899-1917,/ and changed to the above 1917-1921~.

Major Correspondents Higbee, George H ......... Lorriner, Wm._....,(u.s. Sen.) Pacific Navigation Co,.,.... Robert Do.llar Co., San Francisco Manhattan Trust Company U.S. Shipping Board.,.... Canada, Customs and Excise Department

450

Pacific Steamship Co. Correspondence with H.F. Alexander, Pres. 1917-18 30

Pacific Steamship Co. (By Specific subjects, arranged alphabetically.)

29-26

29-27

29(28-32)

29(33-46)

30-1

30-2

30-3

30-4

30(5-6)

30(7-21)

31(1-13)

31(14-17)

31(18-28)

31(29-40)

32(1-12)

32(13-18)

32(27-42)

32(27-42)

33(1-7)

Pacific Steamship Company/page 8

Re: Capitalization, etc. 3

Depreciation of Vessels 7

Insurance 50

Meetings 135 As Subject: Pacific Coast Railway Co.

Oil Matters 9

Rates 7

Taxation of Vessels lQ

Transfer of Vessels 31

Steamship Business (arranged alphabetically by subject)


Pacific Coast Ste2Jnship Co. Pacific Steamship Co. Pacific Alaskan Navigation Co.

Re: Charter Parties

-Charter Parties and Requisition by U.S.

Government

New Ships

Steamship Sales

Correspondents

Gross cup and Morrow, Tacoma., Wash. U.S. War Trade Board

Stock Certificates ./ S.S. Columbia (formerly S.S. Great

Northern and renamed H.F. Alexander)

30

190

6o

120

1917

1918

1919-1922

1917-20, 1924

1917

1917

1916

1917-1918

1909

1900-1916

1917-1918

1916-1918

1917-1919

1922

1916-1920

1922-1923

S .s. Congress / 350 1911-1912

Correspondents Widrig, Charles U.S. Shipping Board U.S. Dept. of Navy U.S. Customs

1916-1918

33(8-12)

33(13-1+3)

34(1-7)

34(8-41)

35(1-3)

35 (lt-5)

35 (~-hJ)

36(1-4)

36-5

36-6

36(7-16)

37 38(1-3)

38(4-5)

38(6-10)

39(1-4)

39(5-10)

40(1-13) 41(1-6)

41(7-9)


S .s. Goodrich

Re: S.S. Governor'

Correspondents •·

Keen, John "'(u .s. Sen) Dickie, G.W .. ,

A, Shea, J.J. Capt. New York Shipbuilding Co. Chase National Bank, N.Y.

S. S . Mont ara

60

615

510

S.S. Moonlite.,.,(renamed S.S. Admiral Pear;) 60

S.S. North Pacific,,..

S .s. President _,,,,,

Correspondents

Dickie, G.W.

S.S. Santa Roaa /

S.S. Willamette . .,, f,· /

S.S. Yale and S.S. Harvard

Construction of lunkers, tracks and wharves


Columbia and Puget Sound Ralwey Co. Pacific Coast Steamship Co.

30

510

60

12

15

150

Re: Rentals, Lands Sales, Etc. in Seattle 700

Dividends, Stock Transfers 300

Dividend Checks 200

Btlnk Statements 500

Annual Reports 500

Monthly Letters 1000

Interstate Commerce Commission Regula-tions 1500

.Statements of unauthorized expenditures

1923

1906-07,1921

1905-1910 1914-1916

1923-24

1922

1904-1907

1918-1922

1899-1902

1917-1918

1900,1903-04, 1906-1914

1899-1914

1905-1913

1903-1914

1903-1914

1900-1913

1909-1914

1901-1910

1913-1915

42

43(1-11)

43(12-15)

43(16-21)

44 (1-7)

45 (1-3)

46-47

48-52

53-55

56-57

58

59(1-5)

59 (1-5)

59-8

Oversize

60(1-2)

60(3-13)


Cash Account

Earnings, Steamship Dept.-

Earnings and Expenses, coal dept.

Federal Trade Commission

Monthly Financial Statements

Steamship Dept. 1917

Miscellany

1899-1902 1898-1903

ca. 1000

200

60

90

200

1899-1914

1916-1925

1918-1920

1918-1921

(unidentified item folder 47-3, 1927)

FINANCIAL RECORDS

Statements of account, monthly

Journal entries, monthl~r

Statements of Account, Misc.

Statements of Gross Earnings, operating expenses

Statements of Earnine;s and Expenses

Statements of Mine Operations

Investment in Mines and Net Return

Oversize; filed unboxed on shelves

Journal (not numbered)

Journals (numbered)

Ledgers

Cash Books

Dividend Register

U.S. Income Tax Return crecordJ

REPORTS

Re: Bunkering 1926

Hoist, 1921-1926

Property

Dec. 1897-Dec. 1908

1903-1913

1900-1916

120

110

15.

l

1 vol.

1903-1916

1898-1903 unknown years

1918,1923-26

1921

1908-16

20 vols. 1897-1911

6 vol.

1 vol.

2 vol.

1 vol. 1914-1917

61-1

61(2-3)

61 (4-5)

61(6-7)

62-1

62(2-3)

62(4-8)

65

66

66

67 -',f

68-69

70(1-3)

70-4

70-5

70-6

70-7

70-8

70-9


Corbin Coals

Western Fuel Co.

Proposals for ... S.S. Congress

Steamship Sales

LEGAL DOCUMENTS

Contract with New York Shipbuilding Co for S.S. Governor

Briefs before U .s. Bituminous Coal Commission

Cedar Mountain.Coal Co. Includes agreements with Richard A. Ballinger and others.

Abstracts of Title

3 loose lea!' volume (unf'oldered)

12 loose lead volumes

Mortgages, 1918-1919

Proxies for Annual Meetings

1910-1917

1918-1921

S":,ock Transfers

1908-191q

1921-1927

Stockholders List

BLUEPRINTS, MAPS, ETC.

General

Black Diamond

Dealer Distribution

Conveyors

Issaquah Mines

Nanaimo Mines

"New" Black Diamond

II

11 bound volumes

3 Vol.s

70-10

70-11

71-1

71-2

71-3

71(4-5)

71-6

71-7

71-8

71-9

71(10-11)

71(12-13)

71(4-5)

71-17

71-18

71-19

71-20

71(21-22) 72(1-10)

72-11

72-12

72-13

72-14

72-15


Newcastle Mines

Reynold I s Property

Roslyn-Cascade Property

West Coast Mines

Western Fuel Co.

S.S. Conc;ress

S.S. President

Construction

Plans for Engine Cylinder from George W. Belcher, Lumme Rocle, Conn. to Walter Barnum

PHOTOGRAPHS

Bunkering

S.S. Congress

CIRCULARS- PACIFIC S.S. COMPANY

General Announcements

Tarriff

CLIPPINGS

Briquet Plant

Bunkering

Corbin Company

Dealer Distribution

Oil

Pacific S.S. Co.

Powdered Fuel

S.S. Congress

S.S. Governor

S.S. President

80

100

300

1916-18, 1920,1921

1918,21

1922-1926

72-16

72(17-19)

73

Oversize


BROADSHEETS

United Mine Workers of America

Washington Coal Operators Assn.

Miscellaneous Publications

U.S. Interstate Commerce Commission 17 United Mine Workers of America Washington Coal Opera.tors Independent Coa.l Operators U.S. Federal Fuel Distributor American Rheolaveur Corporation Koppers Company Pennsylvania Coal and Coke Corporation Washington. State Mines Inspect.or

SCRAPBOOK

Pacific Coa.st Co. Advertisements "Reports, circulars, advertisements" ....

1 vo.l. 1898-1922

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