McLaughlin purchased 78,369 acres in Alameda County, 64,622 acres in Sacramento County, 51, 574.55 acres in Stanislaus County, and 133,223 acres in San Joaquin County.

Walter Alexander McAllister, "A Study in Railroad Land Grant Disposal in California, with Reference to the Western Pacific, the Central Pacific, and the Southern Pacific Railroad Companies," (Ph.D. Dissertation: University of Southern California, 1939), 255-56, 262-63.

Lavender, Great Persuader, 186-88.