Cooke to Fahnestock, March 3, 1873, LBs, 1873, Cooke Papers.
In 1869 Huntington proposed to Cooke that he make an alliance with the Canadian Pacific.
The Early of Dufferin to the Earl of Kimberly, May 3, 1873, no. 1, p. 1-2 in in Canadian Pacific Railway Correspondence.
Den Otter, Philosophy of Railroads, 170.
Cooke to Hon. L.S. Huntington, Aug. 19, 1871 Northern Pacific Letters No. 1 (Letterbook), Jan. 19, 1870-Sept.
Berton, National Dream 124-45.
For Cooke, Cooke to Fahnestock, March 3, 1873, Cooke to McCulloch, March 28, 1873, Letterbooks, Cooke Papers.
The demand to raise money to pay interest is a constant theme in the Huntington/Hopkins correspondence.
CPH to Hopkins, May 8, 1872, LB, 2:117, CPH to Hopkins, Aug. 21, 1872, LB, 2:147, box 20, CPH to Hopkins, Dec. 2, 1872, LB, 3: 57, box 21, Hopkins Collection.
for Northern Pacific, Cooke to Fahnestock, May 26, 1873, LBs, Cooke Papers.
Klein, Union Pacific, 250.
Standard, Oct. 24, 1874, Foreign Bondholders Cutting Files, r. 219.
National Car Builder, quoted in Railway Age, Oct. 19, 1876, 343.
"Capital and Railroad Extension," Bankers Magazine and Statistical Register 10 (Oct. 1876): 279.
Lees & Waller to Mills, Ralston, and Bell, Dec. 7, 1872, Lees & Waller to Bell, Dec. 9, 1872, f. 5, Ralston Correspondence.