Central Pacific Railroad Company: telegraph books

[DUPLICATE of Leland Stanford Papers, Central Pacific Railroad Company: telegraph books, Untitled Page 20]

[preprinted] The Western Union Telegraph Company. Pacific Division. [/preprinted]

Sacramento Dec. 3[?] 1868

To Leland Stanford

Salt Lake

The powder went from here yesterday. Do you want Nick Dodsworth to furnish fresh beef at Humboldt [Wells?], or East of that.

Mark Hopkins

[preprinted] The Western Union Telegraph Company. Pacific Division. [/preprinted]

Sacramento Dec. 8th 1868.

To C. P. Huntington

54 William St. New York

Difficulty bridging Cosumnes river with the uncertainty of winter weather here, will probably delay Commissioners Report on Western Pacific Rail Road till late in January

Mark Hopkins

[preprinted] The Western Union Telegraph Company. Pacific Division. [/preprinted]

Sacramento Dec. 10th 1868.

To C. P. Huntington,

54 William St. New York

Cone [notation] [Comm?] Report [/notation] sent by Express today from [notation: flake] four [notation: Delia] hundred [notation: Ovid] & thirty [notation: Ursula] to [notation: task] fifty. [notation] [M??w] [/notation]

Can [notation: Boy] you [deposits?] with Lees & Waller & advise Bk of Cal. [notation: city] Two [notation: Bella] hundred [notation: Ovid.] and [notation:Alms] fifty [notation: Widow] thousand [notation: Phillip] dollars. [notation: Nut]

Mark Hopkins

[preprinted] The Western Union Telegraph Company. Pacific Division. [/preprinted]

Sacramento Dec. 12th 1868.

To Leland Stanford or Geo. E. Gray.

Salt Lake

Who is the contractor West of Mormon Contract. Shall we furnish all he calls for, Tools, Provisions &c.

C. Crocker