The payment to Platt was phrased as a "loan."

Huntington to Colton, March 4, 1876, Octopus Speaks, 234.

T.C. Platt to CPH, Sept. 4, 1876, CPH Papers, ser. 1, r. 10.

Huntington to Hopkins, March 3, 1876, Letters from Collis P. Huntington, 4: 467.

Summers, Railroads, 172-73.

Dodge to Scott, Dec. 21, 1875, Box 180, Letterbook Calif.

Texas Railroad: Letters 1874-78, Dodge Papers.