The most detailed account of the railroad grants comes from Public Aids to Transportation Table 13. Table 13 actually is two tables, with one table reflecting adjusted grants (that is with forfeited grants subtracted) for some railroads and another table reflecting unadjusted grants, where the amount lost by forfeiture or errors was not clear. Among the roads with adjusted grants, the Union Pacific received 11.4 million acres; the main line of the Central Pacific received 7.88 million acres, and the Kansas Pacific got 7.09 million acres. For those roads with unadjusted grants, the Northern Pacific got 39.4 million acres over its entire system.
CPH to HEH, Jan. 5, 1898, HEH 4168, box 62, HEH Collection, 1794-1970.
E. B. Crocker to Hopkins, March 29, 1867, LB, 10:7, box 24, Hopkins Collection.
Carman and Mueller, "Contract and Finance Company," 333-34
Bain, Empire Express, 408, 739.
White: "Information, Markets, and Corruption: Transcontinental Railroads in the Gilded Age," Journal of American History 90 (June 2003): 19-43.
Hopkins to CPH, Nov. 11, 1873, CPH Papers, ser. 1, r. 5, Hopkins to CPH, Dec. 4, 1873, ser. 1, r. 6; Fisk and Hatch to the Holders of Central Pacific Railroad Bonds, Jan. 1, 1874, LB 6:45, L. Von Hoffman and Co. to CPH, Nov. 24, 1873, box 22, Hopkins Collection;.
Bagley, Scoundrels Tales, 264-81.
Lavender, Great Persuader, 260-61, 280, 301.
David Stewart, vs. Collis P. Huntington, Depositions of Leland Stanford and Charles Crocker, Taken on the Part of the Defendants (New York, 1881), 90-125.
Sanderson to CPH, Feb. 4, 1871, LB, 11:59, box 25, Hopkins Collection.