H. F. Scott to CPH, Aug. 12, 1892, CPH, ser. 1, r. 51.

Stuart Daggett, Chapters on the History of the Southern Pacific (New York: Ronald Press Company, 1922), 293-301.

W. H. Mills to CPH, June 7, 1892, CPH Papers, ser. 1, r. 50.

San Francisco merchants also gained an advantage over eastern wholesalers by carrying bills for three to twelve months, while eastern wholesalers demanded payment in thirty days.

Margaret Kolb Holden, The Rise and Fall of Oregon Populism: Legal Theory, Political Culture and Public Policy, 1868-95 (Ph.D. diss., Univ. of Virginia, 1993), 231.