Railroaded

in collaboration with The Spatial History Project


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.