Testimony of Leland Stanford, Aug. 3, 1887, PRC, 5:2769, 2774.
Testimony of Daniel Strong, Aug. 4, 1887, PRC, 5:2864-65, interjections by Cohen and Stanford.
Testimony of Jay Gould, May 19, 1887, PRC, 1:588.
Testimony of Edward Rosewater, June 28, 1887, PRC, 3:134951.
James F. Hudson, The Railways and the Republic (New York: Harper & Brothers, 1886), 276-84.
Testimony of Leland Stanford, July 29, 1887, PRC, 5:2527.
Testimony of Jay Gould, May 19, 1887, PRC, 1:588.
For actual costs, Testimony of James W. Davis, June 21, 1887, PRC,3:1087.
The best American bar iron was running between $146 (its peak) a ton in 1865 and $75 in 1870. Pig iron ran between a little under $60 to a little under $40 during this same period. Ties usually ran 25 to 50 cents.