Ninth Annual Report of the Board of Railroad Commissioners of the State of California for the Year Ending Dec. 31, 1888 (Sacramento: J. D. Young, 1889), 38.
"Union Pacific Rebates," New York Times, July 1, 1887, p. 5.
Klein, Union Pacific, 385, 592-99.
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.
Address of S. F. Pierson, Proceedings of the General Ticket and Passenger Agents Association, New York, Sept. 8, 1876, in Records of the National General Tickets Agents Association (Chicago: J. M. W. Jones, 1878), 440.
Friesen, Canadian Prairies, 190-91.
James Wilson to Adams, Dec. 16, 23, 1888, UP, RG 3761, box 70, f. 2.
Adams to Wilson, Dec. 17, 1888, UP, PO, OC, vol. 45, ser. 2, r. 40.