Richard White, "Information, Markets, and Corruption: Transcontinental Railroads in the Gilded Age," Journal of American History 90 (June 2003): 1943.
Julius Grodinsky, Transcontinental Railway Strategy, 1869-1893: A Study of Businessmen (Philadelphia: Univ. of Pennsylvania Press, 1962), 2-4.
For European investment in general, see Lance Davis and Robert E. Cull, International Capital Markets and American Economic Growth, 1820-1914 (New York, Cambridge Univ. Press, 1994), 22-26, for Dutch and Germans and West, 25.
For Dutch investment, see Veenendall, Slow Train to Paradise.
CPH to Stanford, Nov. 16, 1872, LB, 3:37, box 21, Hopkins Collection.
David Lavender, The Great Persuader: The Biography of Collis P. Huntington (Niwot: Univ. Press of Colorado, 1998), 182.
John J. Madden, British Investment in the United States, 1860-1880 (New York: Garland, 1985), 95-96.
For continuing attempts to get information and shape policy, see Edward H. Miller to Speyer & Co., March 21, 1876, CPH Papers, ser. 1, r. 9.
Speyer Brothers to Southern Pacific, July 10, 1879, CPH Papers, ser. 2, r. 2.
Philip Speyer & Company to CPH, Oct. 31, 1873, LB, 5:163, box 22, Hopkins Collection.