For an interpretation and emphasis different from my own, see Grodinsky, Transcontinental Railway Strategy, 56-68.
CPH to Hopkins, Jan. 10, 1877, LB, 9:123, box 24, Hopkins Collection.
CPH to Crocker, Jan. 8, 1870, Huntington Letters, 3:56.
CPH to Hopkins, March 16, 1872, LB, 2:51, box 20, Hopkins Collection.
CPH to Colton, April 27, 1876, Octopus Speaks, 240.
Wm Mills to CPH, Dec. 21, 1879, CPH Papers, ser. 1, r. 16.
J. A. Slye to CPH, April 10, 1878, CPH Papers, ser. 1, r. 14.
John P. Young to Richard T. Colburn, Aug. 9, 1876, CPH Papers, ser. 1, r. 10.
In the mid 1880s both the Knights of Labor and rival newspapers believed Jay Gould had taken control of the Associated Press and the New York Sun.
I. Bromley, "The Newspapers and the Company," Aug. 10, 1886, U.P., MS 3761 SG2 S1, Box 32, f. Bromley-Burness. CPH to Hopkins, May 12, 1876, 9: 19, box 24, Hopkins Correspondence.
CPH to Colton, Dec. 8, 1876, Octopus Speaks, 325.
Lavender, Great Persuader, 241-42.
For a similar transaction, see CPH to Hopkins, Dec. 30 1871, v. 1 p. 199, Box 20, Hopkins Collection.