C. F. Adams to A. Millar, Aug. 22, 1889, UP, PO, OC, vol. 48, ser. 2, r. 43.
C. F. Adams to W. H. Baldwin, Dec. 5, 1889, C. F. Adams to J. B. Haggin, Dec. 5, 1889, UP, PO, OC, vol. 49, ser. 2, r. 44.
William Mahl to Gates, April 12, 1889, CPH Papers, ser. 1, r. 47.
Albert Fink, Cost of Railroad Transportation: Railroad Accounts and Governmental Regulation of Railroad Tariffs (Louisville: John P. Morton, 1875)
Alfred Chandler, The Visible Hand: The Managerial Revolution in American Business (Cambridge: Harvard Univ. Press, 1997), 116-20.
Albert Fink, Argument before the Committee on Commerce . . . on the Reagan Bill . . . , Washington, January 14, 15, 16, 1880 (New York: Russell Brothers Printers, 1880), 7.
George H. Miller, Railroads and Granger Laws (Madison: Univ. of Wisconsin Press, 1971), 140-60.
Ripley, Railroads: Rates and Regulation, is the classic contemporary account of the making of rates.