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Chapter 5: Kilkenny Cats, footnote 82, page 205

Ch5 fn. 82
p. 205
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Discursive, Published Letters/Correspondence, Government Documents, Corporate and Business Organization

The seven routes in 1885 were (1) the UP and CP, (2) ATSF and SP, (3) SP and TP, (4) SP to New Orleans, (5) Burlington, D & RG, and CP, (6) NP, (7) A&P and SP. To these would quickly be added the Canadian Pacific and the Oregon Short Line. By the early 1890s there was also the Great Northern.

Adams to E. D. Sawyer, Feb. 13, 1886, UP, PO, OC, vol. 34, ser. 2, r. 29.

Adams to CPH, May 17, 1886, UP, PO, OC, vol. 35, ser. 2, r. 30.

Exhibit 12, J. C. Stubbs, July 26, 1887, PRC, 5:2598.

for tonnage, Exhibit 12, J. C. Stubbs, July 26, 1887, PRC, 5:2601.