Decker, Railroads, Lands, and Politics, 65-67.
Pacific Railroad Act (1862), chap. 120; Act of July 2, 1864, Statutes at Large 13 (1865): 356.
Klein, Union Pacific, 16.
Lavender, Great Persuader, 164.
Act of March 3, 1865, Statutes at Large 13 (1865): 504.
"General Railroad Law of California: An Act to provide for the Incorporation of Railroad Companies, and the management of the affairs thereof, and other matters relating thereto" (approved May 20, 1861; as amended to May 6, 1862). That the company may have sold $100,000 is based on 10 percent down on 10,000 shares.
Annual Report of the Central Pacific Railroad Company of California to the Secretary of State of California of the Year Ending the Thirty first Day of December A.D. 1869, California State Archives.
Lavender, Great Persuader, 146-47.
Fletcher M. Green, "Origins of the Crﾎdit Mobilier of America," Mississippi Valley Historical Review 46 (September 1959), 238-51.
Klein, Union Pacific, 35.