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Chapter 2: Annus Horribilis: 1873, footnote 120, page 49

Ch2 fn. 120
p. 49
Tags:
Capital/Finance, Collis P. Huntington, Manuscript Collections, Special Collections (Stanford University)

For these negotiations, see CPH to Hopkins, Feb. 7, 1873, March 8, 1873 (3 letters), March 10, 1873 (2 letters), March 11, 1873, May 3, 1873; CPH to Stanford, Feb. 19, 1873, April 7, 1873, April 30, 1873, Letters from Collis P. Huntington, 3:393-94, 403-409, 4:5-7, 15.

CPH to Stanford, Feb. 28, 1873, v. 3: 149, Box 21.

CPH to Hopkins, March 1, (two letters both) March 7, 1873, v. 3: 151, 169, 171, Box 21.

CPH to Hopkins, March 10, March 13, March 19, March 20, March 26, 1873, v. 4: 5, 13, 2, 33, 39, Box 21, all in Hopkins Collection. For the quoted valuation, Poor, Manual of Railroads, 1873-74, 680-82.

They also offered the Southern Pacific for $15 million, but this was deemed "too much."

CPH to Stanford Oct. 1, 1872, Letters from Collis P. Huntington, 3: 360.