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R.S. Stevens to A.A. Talmage, Sept. 14, 1872, Statement of O.B. Gunn, n.d., H..H. Harding and James Baker to M. Hilton, Dec. 4, 1871 in Missouri, Kansas & Texas, received 20 Jan. 1872, from George Denison, containing statement by Frank Bond, Case II, no. 4, register One 378, Records of the Lands and Railroads Division, Department of Interior, RG 48, National Archives.

The average rates per ton-mile were $5.95 on the Central Pacific and $4.26 on the Union Pacific in 1870; in 1885 the rates were $1.83 and $1.49, respectively.

Freight Rates on Central Pacific and Union Pacific Railroads, PRC, 5:2585.