Guide to the Manzanita Water Company Records
Processed by Special Collections staff; machine readable finding aid created by Steven Mandeville-Gamble
Stanford University Libraries.
Dept. of Special Collections & University Archives.
1997
Copyright © 2013 The Board of Trustees of the Leland Stanford Junior University. All rights reserved.
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Overview
Call Number: SC0012
Creator:
Manzanita Water Company
Title: Manzanita Water Company Records
Dates: 1876-1916
Physical Description:
1 Linear feet
Summary: Correspondence, journal, stock journal, bylaws, description of lands, water grants, legal documents and other papers pertaining
to Leland Stanford's association with the Manzanita Water Company. Also includes papers relating to Leland Stanford's San
Francisco properties and recommendations of the Pacific Improvement Company to sell Monterey Peninsula holdings.
Language(s): The materials are in English.
Repository:
Dept. of Special Collections & University Archives.
Stanford University Libraries.
557 Escondido Mall
Stanford, CA 94305
Email: speccollref@stanford.edu
Phone: (650) 725-1022
URL: http://library.stanford.edu/spc
Administrative Information
Provenance
Transferred from the Stanford University President's office,
1965
Information about Access
Collection is open for research; materials must be requested at least 24 hours in advance of intended use.
Ownership & Copyright
Property rights are held by the repository.
Cite As
[Identification of item], Manzanita Water Company Records, SC 012, Stanford University Archives, Stanford, Calif.
Scope and Contents Note:
This collection contains correspondence, journal, stock journal, by-laws, description of lands, water grants, legal documents,
and some papers pertaining to Leland Stanford's association with the Manzanita Water Company. Also included are miscellaneous
records concerning the Vina Ranch and San Francisco properties of Leland Stanford and the Pacific Improvement Company recommendations
to sell Monterey Peninsula holdings.
Access Terms
Pacific Improvement Company.
Spring Valley Water Company (San Francisco, Calif.).
Stanford, Leland, 1824-1893.
Vina Ranch (Calif.)
San Francisco (Calif.)
San Francisquito Creek (San Mateo Co., Calif.)
Collection Contents
Box 1, Folder 3
Spring Valley Water Company
Box 1, Folder 7
Land indices (i.e. West Union Creek, Corte Madera Creek, Bear Gulch)
Box 1, Folder 8
Land indices (i.e. West Union Creek, Corte Madera Creek, Bear Gulch)
Box 1, Folder 10
Stanford University and water companies
Box 1, Folder 11
Description of land along creeks
Box 2, Folder 1
Manzanita Water Company journal,
1883-1886
Box 2, Folder 3
Manzanita Water Company by-laws,
1883
Box 2, Folder 4
Laws, ordinances and acts of incorporation affecting the franchise of the Spring Valley Water Works,
1893
Box 2, Folder 2
Manzanita Water Company stock journal,
1891-1908
Box 2, Folder 4
Contract between Spring Valley Water Works, Leland Stanford and Jane Lathrop Stanford, and Manzanita Water Company,
1885
Box 2, Folder 4
Report of G. F. Allardt and C. E. Grunsby, Inspection of San Francisquito Creek,
1888
Box 2, Folder 4
Miscellaneous papers pertaining to Stanford properties
Box 2, Folder 5
Pacific Improvement Company recommendation to sell holdings on the Monterey Peninsula,
1916
Box 2, Folder 6
Norton property. Vina Ranch. 1876 court decree
Box 2, Folder 7
Abstracts of title to San Francisco land: Western addition, block 270 and 271; Clay and Buchanan Streets (Western Addition
block 269); Folsom Street beach and water lot number 434
