In 1869 Huntington proposed to Cooke that he make an alliance with the Canadian Pacific.
The Early of Dufferin to the Earl of Kimberly, May 3, 1873, no. 1, p. 1-2 in in Canadian Pacific Railway Correspondence.
Den Otter, Philosophy of Railroads, 170.
Cooke to Hon. L.S. Huntington, Aug. 19, 1871 Northern Pacific Letters No. 1 (Letterbook), Jan. 19, 1870-Sept.
Berton, National Dream 124-45.
For Cooke, Cooke to Fahnestock, March 3, 1873, Cooke to McCulloch, March 28, 1873, Letterbooks, Cooke Papers.
The demand to raise money to pay interest is a constant theme in the Huntington/Hopkins correspondence.
CPH to Hopkins, May 8, 1872, LB, 2:117, CPH to Hopkins, Aug. 21, 1872, LB, 2:147, box 20, CPH to Hopkins, Dec. 2, 1872, LB, 3: 57, box 21, Hopkins Collection.
for Northern Pacific, Cooke to Fahnestock, May 26, 1873, LBs, Cooke Papers.
Klein, Union Pacific, 250.
Cooke to Puleston, Sept. 1, 1871, Northern Pacific, Letters no. 1 (LB), Jan. 19, 1870 - Sept. 27, 1871, Private Letters, Cooke Papers.
For Cooke's optimistic assessments into June of 1873, see Cooke to Wm. Fenney, June 9, 1873, Letterbooks, 742 ff. , Cooke Papers.