Dec 04, 2003 - Sale 1988

Sale 1988 - Lot 359

Price Realized: $ 575
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 200 - $ 300
(PACIFIC RAILROAD.) Manuscript draft of a report by a committee of the New York Chamber of Commerce, advocating Whitney's route, with a review of the various competing routes and reasons for the necessity of a transcontinental railroad, including the "acquisition of California, the discovery of its mines of Gold." Signed by James David Ogden and Charles Augustus Davis. 4 pages, 4 folio sheets, attached together. New York, 20 July 1849