CPH also put U.S. General James G. Ord on his payroll. Ord had earned the appreciation of Diaz supporters by violating direct order to suppress Diaz's raids across the U.S. border into Mexico during Diaz's revolt.

CPH to C. Crocker, June 4, 1881, CPH Papers, vol. 28, ser. 2, r. 6.

receipt, stock, April 23, 1883, CPH to John B. Frisbie, Aug. 25, 1881.

note of John Frisbie, NY, July 29, 1881, Copy of the agreement celebrated between Messrs. Frisbie and Fernandez, Nov. 16, 1881, Agreement between the International Construction Company and the Mexican International Railroad Company, March 17, 1883, all in Mexican International Railroad Company, JL1, box 2-12, ser. 1, PIC Records.

Hart, Empire and Revolution, 168.

Don M. Coerver, "Federal-State Relations during the Porfiriato: The Case of Sonora, 1879-1884," Americas 33 (April 1977): 576.

CPH to Stanford, Feb. 2, 1881, CPH Papers, vol. 28, ser. 2, r. 6.

Hart, Empire and Revolution, 66-67.