Adams to Powderly, Oct. 28, 1885, UP, PO, OC, vol. 30, ser. 2, r. 26.
Wolff, Industrializing the Rockies, 97.
For a wonderful account of coal mining and its environmental, social, and political ramifications in Colorado, see Andrews, Killing for Coal.
Daniel Burns, The Elements of Coal Mining (London: Edward Arnold, 1917), 97, also 90-105.
Herbert W. Hughes, A Text-Book of Coal-Mining for the Use of Colliery Managers and Others (London: Charles Griffin, 1901), 148.
Neasham quotes, Neasham and J. N. Corbin to General Manager and President of the Union Pacific, Sept. 19, 1885, in Bromley, Chinese Massacre, 74.
Neasham and J. N. Corbin to General Manager and President of the Union Pacific, Sept. 19, 1885, in Bromley, Chinese Massacre, 74; "A Plea for Free Labor," in Bromley, Chinese Massacre, 90.
quote, Storti, Incident at Bitter Creek, 84-8.