Norris, Octopus, 369.
CPH to A. N. Towne, Feb. 12, 1880, CPH Papers, ser. 2, r. 12.
It is difficult to follow Stanford's activities in the same detail as Huntington's, since his records no longer exist. It was probably Jane Stanford who destroyed them.
William Deverell, Railroad Crossing: Californians and the Railroad, 1850-1910 (Berkeley: Univ. of California Press, 1994), 58-60.
County of San Mateo v. Southern Pacific Railroad Company, 13 Fed. 145 (July 31, 1882).
Williams, Democratic Politics, 103-7.
"Stanford Scored," Los Angeles Times, Jan. 14, 1891.