They, in part, seem to have intervened to stop Jay Gould from taking control.
Bryant, Atchison, 150-51.
C.P. Huntington to [Gates], March 14, 1889, cipher telegram, CPH Papers, ser. 1, r. 47.
Bryant, Atchison, 153-55, 158.
Bryant, Atchison, 143, 156-57. Huntington to [Gates], telegram, March 14, 1889, CPH, r. ser. 1, r. 47.
Albro Martin, James J. Hill and the Opening of the Northwest (St. Paul: Minneapolis Historical Society Press, 1991), 410-11.
Bryant, Atchison, 143, 156-57.
CPH to [Gates], telegram, March 14, 1889, CPH Papers, ser. 1, r. 47.
Adams to C. S. Mellen, May 14, 1890, UP, PO, OC, vol. 50, ser. 2, r. 45.