The most detailed account of the railroad grants comes from Public Aids to Transportation Table 13. Table 13 actually is two tables, with one table reflecting adjusted grants (that is with forfeited grants subtracted) for some railroads and another table reflecting unadjusted grants, where the amount lost by forfeiture or errors was not clear. Among the roads with adjusted grants, the Union Pacific received 11.4 million acres; the main line of the Central Pacific received 7.88 million acres, and the Kansas Pacific got 7.09 million acres. For those roads with unadjusted grants, the Northern Pacific got 39.4 million acres over its entire system.
Huntington wanted to make sure that Philip Stanford did not get a 1/6 share and that all the securities were kept together.
Report of the Commission and of the Minority Commission of the United States Pacific Railway Commission (Washington, D.C.: GPO,1887), 69-70.
Bain, Empire Express, 129.
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.
Hopkins to CPH, July 19, 1865, Feb. 16, 1866, CPH Papers, ser. 1, r. 1.
Hopkins to CPH, Feb. 15, 1867, E. B. Crocker to CPH, Feb. 12, 25, 1867, Stanford to CPH, Feb. 8, 1867, CPH Papers, ser. 1, r. 1.