This and the discussion that follows is from William R. Siddall, "Railroad Gauges and Spatial Interaction," Geographical Review 59 (Jan. 1969), 29-57.
This account and what follows is drawn largely from Samuel Richey Kamm, "The Civil War Career of Thomas A. Scott," (Ph.D. Dissertation, University of Pennsylvania, 1940).
See also, Robert C. Angevine, The Railroad and the State: War, Politics, and Technology in Nineteenth-Century America (Stanford, CA, Stanford University Press, 2004), 133-34.
Kamm, "The Civil War Career of Thomas A. Scott," 3-4 11-18.
Douglas E. Bowers, "Logrolling to Corruption: The Development of Lobbying in Pennsylvania, 1815-1861," Journal of the Early Republic 4 (Winter, 1983), 469-70.
Lloyd Tevis, one of the great landholders of California, estimated that the Southern Pacific doubled the value of surrounding lands.
Henry George, Our Land And Land Policy, in The Complete Works of Henry George (New York: Doubleday, Page and Company, 1904, original edition 1871) 8: 24.
Tevis to Huntington, Jan. 29, 1878, CPH Papers, ser. 1, r. 14.
Huntington wanted to make sure that Philip Stanford did not get a 1/6 share and that all the securities were kept together.
Report of the Commission and of the Minority Commission of the United States Pacific Railway Commission (Washington, D.C.: GPO,1887), 69-70.
Bain, Empire Express, 129.