For Mexico, Pletcher, Rails, Mines, and Progress, 34-93.
The demand to raise money to pay interest is a constant theme in the Huntington/Hopkins correspondence.
CPH to Hopkins, May 8, 1872, LB, 2:117, CPH to Hopkins, Aug. 21, 1872, LB, 2:147, box 20, CPH to Hopkins, Dec. 2, 1872, LB, 3: 57, box 21, Hopkins Collection.
for Northern Pacific, Cooke to Fahnestock, May 26, 1873, LBs, Cooke Papers.
Klein, Union Pacific, 250.
Standard, Oct. 24, 1874, Foreign Bondholders Cutting Files, r. 219.
National Car Builder, quoted in Railway Age, Oct. 19, 1876, 343.
"Capital and Railroad Extension," Bankers Magazine and Statistical Register 10 (Oct. 1876): 279.
Lees & Waller to Mills, Ralston, and Bell, Dec. 7, 1872, Lees & Waller to Bell, Dec. 9, 1872, f. 5, Ralston Correspondence.
CPH to Charles Crocker, Aug. 21, 1874, Huntington Letters,4:164-65.
Hopkins to CPH, Dec. 29, 1872, CPH Papers, ser.1, r. 5.
Naomi Lamoreaux, Insider Lending: Banks, Personal Connections, and Economic Development in Industrial New England (New York: Cambridge Univ. Press, 1996), 17.
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.