Archive Record
Images
Metadata
Object Name |
Chart |
Collection |
Oil Museum of Canada Collection |
Accession number |
OMC 2023.500 |
Catalog Number |
OMC 2023.500.016 |
Date |
Nov 1872 |
Dates of Creation |
November 11 - 30, 1872 |
Title |
Payroll Expense Chart |
Scope & Content |
Chart showing payroll from November 11 to November 30, 1872 for men employed to survey for the Dresden and Oil Springs railway. Fourteen men are listed with their job description, rate of pay per day, days worked, total time and the total amount owed. The surveyor and engineers earned $4 per day, the axmen earned $1.75 per day, and the picketman earned $1.50 per day. |
Extent of Description |
Legal size sheet of paper when folded in half. |
Search Terms |
Axman Document Dresden Engineers Oil Springs Payroll Railway Survey |
People |
Cleveland, Robert Curry, Alex Deline, John Devon, Alex Johnson, Ed Jordan Kinney, E.C. Malcolm, Sherman McDonald, Donald McGuire Prescott, Thomas Scott, Walter |