For attempts to monitor the credibility of stock and bond offerings, see John Bonk to J. L. Worth, Feb. 3, 1876, CPH Papers, ser. 1, r. 9.
For break with the Crockers, Hopkins to CPH, Oct. 16, 1870, LB, 1:160-61, box 20, CPH to Hopkins, May 2, 1871, LB, 1:177, box 20, Hopkins Collection.
CPH to Hopkins, March 17, May 2, 1871, CPH to Stanford, June 6, 1871, Huntington Letters, 3:264, 271, 281.
Hopkins to CPH, Oct. 10, 1872, CPH Papers, ser. 1, r. 5.
CPH to Hopkins, June 7, 1870, CPH to Crocker, Dec. 21, 1870, Huntington Letters 2:175, 225.
Summers, Press Gang, 109-10.
Adams to Usher, Oct. 13, 1884, UP, PO, OC, vol. 23, ser. 2, r. 19.
The Union Pacific's attempts to vote their workers en masse created scandal and resentment.
Jay Gould was no more adept.
Crocker to CPH, Oct. 25, 1883, Crocker Papers.
Testimony of Edward Rosewater, June 28, 1887, PRC, 3:1339-40.
William R. Childs, The Texas Railroad Commission: Understanding Regulation in America to the Mid-twentieth Century (College Station: Texas A&M Univ. Press, 2005), 61-63.