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.
Some 6.3 times as much freight moved within California by rail as was shipped outside in 1873, in 1883 4.6 pounds of goods still moved within California for every pound shipped out.
Thirty-Fourth Annual Report of the Chamber of Commerce of San Francisco . . . (San Francisco: C. A. Murdock, 1884), 41-42, see Chart D below or in the appendix.
The eighteen items were grains, beans, borax, canned fruit, dried fruit, green fruit, hops, hides/pelts, lumber, leather, mustard seed, quicksilver, salmon, sugar, tea, wine/brandy, and wool.
For shipment of canned goods by clipper ship, Testimony of W. R. Wheeler, Report of the Industrial Commission on Transportation, vol. 9, 754. See Graphs A, B, and C below or in the appendix.
Williams doesn't believe corruption played a role, but Ward McAfee presents a very strong case that it did.
Williams, Democratic Party and California Politics, 40-46.
Ward McAfee, Local Interests and Railroad Regulation in Nineteenth Century California (Ph.D. Dissertation, Stanford, 1965), 164-168.
Adams to Callaway, April 22, 1886, UP, PO, OC, vol. 31, ser. 2, r. 23.
Adams occassionally wavered and thought through traffic would improve, Adams to Callaway, Aug. 24, 1886, vol. 32, ser. 2, r. 27.