Richard White, "Information, Markets, and Corruption: Transcontinental Railroads in the Gilded Age," Journal of American History 90 (June 2003): 1943.
Julius Grodinsky, Transcontinental Railway Strategy, 1869-1893: A Study of Businessmen (Philadelphia: Univ. of Pennsylvania Press, 1962), 2-4.
In his testimony to the Pacific Railway Commission, Stanford, either from normal befuddlement or by lying, reversed this and had Fisk and Hatch owing the Central Pacific money.
CPH to Stanford, May 19, 1874, LB, 7:57, box 23, Hopkins Collection.
Testimony of Leland Stanford, July 28, 1887, PRC, 5:2497.
"Losses in Railway Securities."
Public Aids to Transportation, vol. 2 Aids to Railroads and Related Subjects (Washington, D.C.: GPO, 1938), 18-19.
Texas Pacific, S. 647, Feb. 22, 1871, with House Amendments, 41st Cong., 3d sees.
Thirty-second Parallel Pacific Railroad, Remarks of CPH . . . before the Committee on Public Lands of the U.S. Senate, Feb. 2, 1884, on House Bill 3933 (New York: John C. Rankin, 1884), 10.
Texas and Pacific Railroad Company Backbone Grant Act, March 3, 1871, 41st. Cong., ch. 122.
16 stat. 573.
David Lavender, The Great Persuader: The Biography of Collis P. Huntington (Niwot: Univ. Press of Colorado, 1998), 304.