Henry V. Poor, Manual of the Railroads of the United States for 1872-73 (New-York: H.V. & H.W. Poor, 1872), xxxii-xxxiii, hereafter Poor, Manual of Railroads.
Bain, Empire Express, 142.
Report of the Commission and of the Minority Commissioner of the United States Pacific Railway Commission . . . (Washington, D.C.: GPO, 1887), 71.
Lavender, Great Persuader, 140.
Report to the Stockholders of the Union Pacific Railroad, for the Year 1875 (Boston, 1876), 37.
"An Act to Authorize the Commisioners of Her Majesty's Treasury to Guarantee the Payment of a Loan...21 July 1873," in Correspondence respecting the Canadian Pacific Railroad Act So Far As Regards British Columbia (London: Harrison and Sons, 1875), 98-99.
The most detailed account of the railroad grants comes from Public Aids to Transportation Table 13. Table 13 actually is two tables, with one table reflecting adjusted grants (that is with forfeited grants subtracted) for some railroads and another table reflecting unadjusted grants, where the amount lost by forfeiture or errors was not clear. Among the roads with adjusted grants, the Union Pacific received 11.4 million acres; the main line of the Central Pacific received 7.88 million acres, and the Kansas Pacific got 7.09 million acres. For those roads with unadjusted grants, the Northern Pacific got 39.4 million acres over its entire system.
"General Railroad Law of California: An Act to provide for the Incorporation of Railroad Companies, and the management of the affairs thereof, and other matters relating thereto" (approved May 20, 1861; as amended to May 6, 1862). That the company may have sold $100,000 is based on 10 percent down on 10,000 shares.
Annual Report of the Central Pacific Railroad Company of California to the Secretary of State of California of the Year Ending the Thirty first Day of December A.D. 1869, California State Archives.