Perkins to Forbes, Jan. 29, 1884, 3.2-3.5; Perkins to Forbes, Jan. 4, 1884, 1880, 7.2, both in CB&Q.
M. Hughitt to C. F. Adams, Dec. 29, 1888, UP, SG2, ser. 1, box 64, f. 1.
Julius Grodinsky, The Iowa Pool: A Study in Railroad Competition, 1870-84 (Chicago: Univ. of Chicago Press, 1950).
Charles Francis Adams, "Which Will Quickest Solve the Railroad Question: Force Bills or Public Opinion?," Oshkosh, Wisc., Sept. 3, 1875, in Charles Francis Adams, Railway Pamphlets, Stanford Univ. Library, 9.
Adams to Callaway, Jan. 11, 1887, UP, PO, OC, vol. 39, ser. 2, r. 34.
Fred L. Ames to Adams, Oct. 5, 1886, UP, MS 3761, SG2, ser. 1, box 31, f. Adams-Anderson.
For early dependence on competition, see Miller, Railroads and the Granger Laws, 19, 22.
Joseph Nimmo Jr., Railroad Federations and the Relation of the Railroads to Commerce . . . (Washington, D.C.: GPO, 1885), 13.
Southern Pacific R.R., Northern Division, Local Freight Tariff, January 1, 1880, Special Notice, Huntington Library.