Commissioner Anderson, in Testimony of Leland Stanford, July 26, 1887, PRC, 5: 2630.
Julius Grodinsky, The Iowa Pool: A Study in Railroad Competition, 1870-8 (Chicago: Univ. of Chicago Press, 1950), 70-71.
Villard to Grey, April 26, 1875, LB 1, Kansas Pacific Railroad, Villard Papers.
Testimony of Henry Villard, May 14, 1887, PRC, 1:428-35, 56.
For its overcapitalization, see Report of William Calhoun, Accountant, PRC, 4891-4919.
Henry Villard, Memoirs of Henry Villard, Journalist and Financier, 1835-1900, 2 vols. (Westminster: Archibald and Constable & Co., 1904), 2:280-81.