London Times, February 3, 1876, Hour, Feb. 4, 1876, Newspaper Cuttings Files, vol. 6:88, r. 22l.
Rezneck, Distress, Relief, and Discontent, 495.
Surrender of Charter, encl. in no. 8, Chamber of Senate, Oct. 23, 1873, Canadian Pacific Railway Correspondence, 86.
Pletcher, Rails, Mines, and Progress, 67-69, 91.
W. to Plumb, April 15, 1873, box 2, f. 23; newspapers, Plumb to James Mackie, Oct. 12, 1873, box 2, f. 23, Edward L.; El congreso de la Union . . . Nov. 12, 1873, box 3, f. 25, Plumb to Hurlbert, Nov. 22, 1873, box 3, f. 25; Plumb to P. H. Sheridan, March 31, 1874, box 3, f. 26, all in Plumb Papers.
Klein paints a somewhat different picture of this maneuver and does not mention Dillons actions.
Gould to Dillon, Aug. 21, 1874, enclosed with Dillon to Atkins, Aug. 21, 1874.
Dillon to Elisha Atkins, Aug. 21, 25, 26, Sept. 18, 1874, Union Pacific, OVP, IC, n.s. 16000, r. 1.
Klein, Union Pacific, 312-13.
All of this is visible in his Sept. and Oct. correspondence.
CPH to Hopkins, Sept. 19, 21, 22, 23, 24, 1873, Oct. 29, 1873, LB, 5:81, 87, 91, 95, 99, 159, all in box 22, Hopkins Collection.