Report of the Commission and of the Minority Commissioner of the United States Pacific Railway Commission . . . (Washington, D.C.: GPO, 1887), 84, table 29, showing the gross earnings, operating expenses, and net earnings of the Central Pacific Railroad Company, table 31, Legal Expense Account, PRC, 8:4659, 4747.
Jordan, Roscoe Conkling, 413, 417.
CPH to Colton, Dec. 17, 1877, Octopus Speaks, 443, 148; CPH to Crocker, Nov. 11, 1874, Huntington Letters, 4:213.
testimony of Leland Stanford, Aug. 5, 1884, PRC, 5:2949.
Congress had to decide who was responsible for paying for the survey of a railroad land grant for without a survey, the land could not be patented. Congress then had to determine when a patent could be issued and if the railroads had to apply for a patent. The courts had to rule on whether unsold lands in a railroad grant were open for preemption -- the right to settle on unsurveyed land -- as the grants themselves usually explicitly stipulated. Only in 1910 did Congress finally require railroads to deposit the money to complete the surveys of the grants.
Decker, Railroads, Lands, and Politics, 54-55.
William S. Greever, Arid Domain: The Santa Fe Railway and Its Western Land Grant (Stanford: Stanford Univ. Press, 1954), 116.
W. H. Mills to Stanford, June 20, 1887, PRC, 5:2563-64.
E. A. Kincaid, The Federal Land Grants of the Central Pacific Railroad (Ph.D. diss., Univ. of California, Berkeley, 1922), chap. 13.