I. Bromley, The Newspapers and the Company, Aug. 10, 1886, UP, SG2, ser. 1, box 32, f. Bromley-Burness.
In the mid 1880s both the Knights of Labor and rival newspapers believed Jay Gould had taken control of the Associated Press and the New York Sun.
I. Bromley, "The Newspapers and the Company," Aug. 10, 1886, U.P., MS 3761 SG2 S1, Box 32, f. Bromley-Burness. CPH to Hopkins, May 12, 1876, 9: 19, box 24, Hopkins Correspondence.
CPH to Colton, Dec. 8, 1876, Octopus Speaks, 325.
Grodinsky, Transcontinental Railway Strategy, 2-4.
CPH to Colton, Oct. 15, 1874, Octopus Speaks, 50-51.
Crocker to CPH, Sept. 18, 1883, Crocker Papers.
Or, as John Murrin has put it, as an "extremely sensitive barometer for measuring the hopes, aspirations, and anxieties expressed in American public life."
CPH to Crocker, April 12, 1878, CPH Papers, ser. 2, r. 6.