Huntington to Colton, Jan. 22, 1878, Jan. 28, 1878, Feb. 5, 1878, Feb. 12, 1878, Feb. 19, 1878, Feb. 25, 1878, Octopus Speaks, 454, 457-58,465, 468, 470, 472.

For California Railroad Commission, see Deverell, Railroad Crossings, 51-52.

Grodinsky, Transcontinental Railway Strategy, 60-62.

Report of the California Commissioners of Transportation to the Legislature of the State of California, Dec. 1877 (Sacramento: F.P. Thompson, Supt. State Printing, 1877), Appendix 2: 42, Appendix 3: 281, 362.

It listed a floating debt of $11,598,820 for 1877on a company with capital stock of $54,275,000. This represented a doubling of floating debt in a year. Since the Southern Pacific had a floating debt of $1,829,644 but was doing most of the building, the implication was that the Central Pacific was borrowing for a road whose own credit was shaky.

For reform, CPH to Hopkins, March 21, 1876, v. 8: 119, Box 23, Hopkins Collection.

For analysis of Scott's involvement see Railroad Lives section on A.A. Cohen and Towne to CPH, March 7, 1876, CPH, r. 9, ser. 1.

For complexities of Archer Bill, see Ward M. McAfee, "Local Interests and Railroad Regulation in California During the Granger Decade," Pacific Historical Review, 37 (February 1968), 51-66.