CPH to Hopkins, March 19, 1872, LB, 2:63, box 20, Hopkins Collection.
On constituency I differ from Margaret Thompson's impressive account of Gilded Age lobbying, and the friendship I describe is not the same as what she discusses.
The Morrissey quotation is from Union Pacific Employes' Magazine, (September 1886), 1.
The second quotation is from Mark Wahlgren Summers, Era of Good Stealings, (New York : Oxford University Press, 1993), 109.
Texas Pacific, S. 647, Feb. 22, 1871, with House Amendments, 41st Cong., 3d sees.
Thirty-second Parallel Pacific Railroad, Remarks of CPH . . . before the Committee on Public Lands of the U.S. Senate, Feb. 2, 1884, on House Bill 3933 (New York: John C. Rankin, 1884), 10.
The mainline of the Texas and Pacific from Shreveport, Louisiana did not reach Ft. Worth until the summer of 1876. It covered 222 miles. In all, the T. & P, had 444 miles of road. The T. & P. would have 20 sections a mile through Texas and California and 40 sections a mile through Arizona and New Mexico.
C. Vann Woodward, Reaction and Reunion,: the Compromise of 1877 and the End of Reconstruction (Boston, Little, Brown, 1951), 73-77.
American Railroad Journal, Nov. 29, 1873.
Julius Grodinsky, Transcontinental Railway Strategy, 1869-1893: A Study of Businessmen (Philadelphia: Univ. of Pennsylvania Press, 1962), 17-21.