CPH to Hopkins, Sept. 27, 1873, LB, 5:111, box 22, Hopkins Collection.
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.
Richard White, "Information, Markets, and Corruption: Transcontinental Railroads in the Gilded Age," Journal of American History 90 (June 2003): 1943.
Julius Grodinsky, Transcontinental Railway Strategy, 1869-1893: A Study of Businessmen (Philadelphia: Univ. of Pennsylvania Press, 1962), 2-4.
CPH to Hopkins, Dec. 19, 1872, LB, 3:177, box 21, Hopkins Collection.
Goldsmith and Hart (sic) CPH, Oct. 22, 1878, CPH Papers, ser. 1, r. 15.
Hopkins to CPH, Nov. 28, 1872, CPH Papers, ser. 1, r. 5.
Blondheim, News over the Wires, 149, 165, 175.
CPH to Hopkins, March 31, 1876, LB, 8:135, box 23, CPH to Stanford, Jan. 30, 1874, LB, 6:121, box 22, Hopkins Collection.