Testimony of Russell Sage, May 13, 1887, PRC, 1:383. Testimony of Jay Gould, May 18, 1887, PRC,l:524-28.
Testimony of Oliver Ames, May 31, 1887, PRC,2:812.
For defense of Gould, see Klein, Union Pacific, 412.
CPH to Crocker, Nov. 3, 1881, CPH Papers, vol. 29, ser. 2, r. 61.
CPH to Crocker, Jan. 7, 1881, CPH Papers, v. 28, ser. 2, r. 6.
Klein, Jay Gould, 240-42.
The Union Pacific was not quite so helpless.
See, e.g., the Union Pacific's involvement with the Salina, Lincoln, and Western Railway.
Adams to George Miller, April 30, 1886, Memorandum, May 1886; quote, Adams to Hon. A. S. Hewitt, Dec. 10, 1886, 1886, all in UP, PO, OC, vol. 37, ser. 2, r. 32.
Veenendaal, Slow Train to Paradise, 52-53.
Adams cast a more positive light on all this in a letter to his lobbyist, Moorfield Storey, intended for use in modifying the Thurman Act
Adams to Storey, Jan. 14, 1887, UP, PO, OC, vol. 37, ser. 2, r. 33.
Testimony of Charles Francis Adams, PRC, 1:86.
Adams to Henry McFarland, Aug. 13, 1885, UP, PO, OC, vol. 29, ser. 2, r. 25.
Julius Grodinsky, Transcontinental Railway Strategy, 1869-93: A Study of Businessmen (Philadelphia: Univ. of Pennsylvania Press, 1962), 199-202.