Endicott to Villard, Sept. 27, 1880, Villard Papers; loss, Adams to J. S. Cameron, May 17, 1888, UP, PO, OC, vol. 43, ser. 2, r. 38.
Julius Grodinsky, Jay Gould: His Business Career, 1867-1892 (Philadelphia: Univ. of Pennsylvania Press, 1957), 227-49.
For the roads making up the Burlington system, see Poor, Manual, 1885, 650.
Adams to G. Dodge, Sept. 2, 1886, UP, PO, OC, vol. 36, ser. 2, r. 31.
Harley, American Railroad Construction, 798-803.
Adams to G. Callaway, Sept. 12, 1884, UP, PO, OC, vol. 24, ser. 2, r. 20.
Adams to Callaway, Dec. 28, 1885, UP, PO, OC, vol. 33, ser. 2, r. 28.
G. Dodge to Adams, Oct. 27, 1886, UP, SG2, ser. 1, box 38, f. 1.