Klein, Jay Gould, 250, 258-59, 269-71.
note by Timothy Hopkins on letter, Personal and Confidential, CPH to Colonel Thos A. Scott, May 25, 1877, vol. 9: 185, box 24, Hopkins Collection.
CPH also put U.S. General James G. Ord on his payroll. Ord had earned the appreciation of Diaz supporters by violating direct order to suppress Diaz's raids across the U.S. border into Mexico during Diaz's revolt.
CPH to C. Crocker, June 4, 1881, CPH Papers, vol. 28, ser. 2, r. 6.
receipt, stock, April 23, 1883, CPH to John B. Frisbie, Aug. 25, 1881.
William Deverell, Railroad Crossing: Californians and the Railroad, 1850-1910 (Berkeley: Univ. of California Press, 1994), 58-60.
County of San Mateo v. Southern Pacific Railroad Company, 13 Fed. 145 (July 31, 1882).