Denver Consolidated Tramway Company (Denver, Colo.)

Resolution of the Jefferson County Board of County Commissioners granting the Denver Consolidated Tramway Company a franchise to build and operate a single or double track railway to carry passengers and mail, and granting the right-of-way over county roads from Jefferson Ave. at eastern line of County to two miles east of Golden.

Collection contains Board of County Commissioners' resolutions granting franchises and rights-of-way to petitioners wanting to construct, operate and maintain single or double track passenger railways in Jefferson County during the 1880s and 1890s. Franchises were granted to cross county roads. In some cases bonds and/or petitions signed by property owners and residents along the proposed lines accompany the resolutions.