Railroaded

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Chapter 3: Friends, footnote 61, page 109

Ch3 fn. 61
p. 109
Tags:
Discursive, Referral, Manuscript Collections, Published Letters/Correspondence, Huntington Library, Capital/Finance, Politics

The road was chartered as the Texas and Pacific in 187l and reorganized as the Texas and Pacific in 1872,

S. 724, 42d Cong., 2d sess., April 25, 1872.

Poor, Manual, 1873-74, 605;

Poor, Manual, 1878-79, 858-59.

Texas and Pacific Railroad, 44th Cong., 2d sess., Rep. 139, pt. 1, 1-8.

For description of progress, Dodge to Scott, Jan. 12, 1874, box 160, LBs, Texas & Pacific Railroad, Dodge Papers.

For debts, CPH to Colton, Jan. 29, 1876, Huntington Letters, 4:453. This letter says, "The Texas P. seems to owe almost every one in the whole country." The same letter in Octopus Speaks, 230, says own instead of owe.