Denver, Northwestern and Pacific Railway

Franchise for road crossings for a standard guage railway from the eastern line of county as part of the through railroad being constructed from Denver to Salt Lake City, Utah. Right-of-way across county roads.

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.