(WEST WYOMING) Payrolls of the Union Pacific Railroads Wyom

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(WEST--WYOMING.) Payrolls of the Union Pacific Railroad's Wyoming, Kansas, and Colorado Divisions. [267] numbered printed forms completed with manuscript and inked stamps. Folio, 17 x 14 inches, original 1/2-cloth post binder, worn; minor dampstaining and wear to contents, crude portrait of a woman on verso of sheet 1012. No place, October-November 1899

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Monthly payrolls listing thousands of railroad workers, their positions, time worked, monthly or daily rate of pay, and date of payment. Employees range from division superintendents to clerks, dispatchers, police, station agents, conductors, brakemen, carpenters, and many laborers. They are arranged within each division: stationmen, agents (with stations named), freight trainmen, and stationmen. Many of the Kansas Division track maintenance workers are arranged into sections named for the nearest town, listing a foreman and perhaps a dozen laborers for each. All of the sheets are for work done in October, with most workers stamped as paid at some point in late November. Each sheet bears 6 signatures of railroad administrators, some of them stamped, plus an auditor's stamp.