Texas and Pacific Railroad Company Backbone Grant Act, March 3, 1871, 41st. Cong., ch. 122.
16 stat. 573.
David Lavender, The Great Persuader: The Biography of Collis P. Huntington (Niwot: Univ. Press of Colorado, 1998), 304.
Henry Blair to CPH, July 19, 1889, CPH Papers, ser. 1, r. 48.
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.
I. Bromley, The Newspapers and the Company, Aug. 10, 1886, UP, SG2, ser. 1, box 32, f. Bromley-Burness.
Grodinsky, Transcontinental Railway Strategy, 2-4.
CPH to Colton, Oct. 15, 1874, Octopus Speaks, 50-51.
Crocker to CPH, Sept. 18, 1883, Crocker Papers.