CPH to HEH, Jan. 5, 1898, HEH 4168, box 62, HEH Collection, 1794-1970.
E. B. Crocker to Hopkins, March 29, 1867, LB, 10:7, box 24, Hopkins Collection.
Carman and Mueller, "Contract and Finance Company," 333-34
Bain, Empire Express, 408, 739.
Johnson and Supple, Boston Capitalists, 209-10.
Testimony of Cornelius S. Bushnell, Report of the Select Committee of the House of Representatives, Appointed under the Resolution of January 6, 1873. To Make Inquiry in Relation to the Affairs of the Union Pacific Railroad Company, the Credit Mobilier of America and Other Matters . . . , 42nd Cong., 3d sess., 1873, H. Rept. 78, pp. 40-42.
According to the best estimates of accountants who later examined the Central Pacific's books, Crocker and Company had received $13,657,624.70 in securities and cash, while the Contract and Finance Company had received $32, 615,452. These figures represented the discounted value of stock. In the case of Crocker & Company, the par value of the stock was $14,701, 710.22 and in the case of the Contract and Finance Company $23,726,000. The discounted value of the Crocker & Co. stock was $5,121,609; it was all turned over to the Contract and Finance Company. The accountants put the discounted version of stock held by the Contract and Finance Company at $8,889,452.
Bagley, Scoundrels Tales, 264-81.
Lavender, Great Persuader, 260-61, 280, 301.
David Stewart, vs. Collis P. Huntington, Depositions of Leland Stanford and Charles Crocker, Taken on the Part of the Defendants (New York, 1881), 90-125.
There was a charter for a railroad of 165 miles linking the oceans at one of the continent's narrowest points at the Isthmus of Tehuantepec. There was a British line from Vera Cruz and a charter for a road from Vera Cruz to an unspecified terminus on the Pacific coast in Oaxaca, Guerrero, or Michoacán, and another linking the Gulf Coast between Tecolutla and Tampico to the Pacific Ocean somewhere between Zacatula and San Blas.