CPH to C. Crocker, Feb. 3, 1871, Letters from Collis P. Huntington, 3:252-53.
For implications of fraud for interpretations of Gilded Age politics, Peter H. Argersinger,"New Perspectives on Election Fraud in the Gilded Age," Political Science Quarterly 100 (Winter, 1985-86), 669-687.
Crocker to CPH, Oct. 25, 1883, Crocker Papers.
Richard Taylor to Samuel Barlow, Feb. 10, 26, 1879, March 1, 1879, box 130, Richard Taylor to Samuel Barlow, March 9, 1879, box 110, Barlow Papers.
The President's Report on p. 4 values the "farming lands" at $30 million dollars, but the Land Agent's Report on p. 47 makes it clear that the railroad counted the entire land grant of the Central Pacific, California and Oregon as farming lands amounting to 11,722,400 acres with a value of $29,306,000, p. 47. The Southern Pacific valued its real estate, depot grounds "including an undivided half-interest in 60 acres land in Mission Bay" exclusive of its land grant and improvements at $7,644,636.
No. 7, Central Pacific Railroad, Special Freight Tariff . . . Feb. 1, 1876.
Report of the Board of Commissioners. . . 1877, 28, 67, 69.
Agents were instructed not to show the tariff book to customers so that they could not compare rates.