The sinking funds remained a source of corruption well after the Colton Trial
Colton Case Testimony, 3:1011, 1015-16, 1022-31, 1:98-99, 228-33, 6:2632-33.
CPH to Colton, Nov. 16, 1877, Octopus Speaks, 432.
Charles F. Crocker to CPH, July 26, 1889, CPH Papers, ser.1, r. 48.
Colton Case Testimony, 3:998-99.
W. Milner Roberts to Jay Cooke, Jan. 1, 1872, Cooke Papers.
CPH to HEH, Jan. 5, 1898, HEH Collection.
Colton Case Testimony, 11:5048-59.
San Francisco Call, May 14, 1884.
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).
Adams to E. P. Alexander, July 16, 1885, UP, PO, OC, vol. 29, ser. 2, r. 25.
Alexander to Adams, July 20, 1885, with cover letter, RG 2362, box 20, KS Div., Labor Disputes.