The mainline of the Texas and Pacific from Shreveport, Louisiana did not reach Ft. Worth until the summer of 1876. It covered 222 miles. In all, the T. & P, had 444 miles of road. The T. & P. would have 20 sections a mile through Texas and California and 40 sections a mile through Arizona and New Mexico.
C. Vann Woodward, Reaction and Reunion,: the Compromise of 1877 and the End of Reconstruction (Boston, Little, Brown, 1951), 73-77.
Henry Blair to CPH, July 19, 1889, CPH Papers, ser. 1, r. 48.
CPH to Crocker, Jan. 8, 1870, Huntington Letters, 3:56.
CPH to Hopkins, March 16, 1872, LB, 2:51, box 20, Hopkins Collection.
CPH to Colton, April 27, 1876, Octopus Speaks, 240.
Wm Mills to CPH, Dec. 21, 1879, CPH Papers, ser. 1, r. 16.
J. A. Slye to CPH, April 10, 1878, CPH Papers, ser. 1, r. 14.
John P. Young to Richard T. Colburn, Aug. 9, 1876, CPH Papers, ser. 1, r. 10.
In the mid 1880s both the Knights of Labor and rival newspapers believed Jay Gould had taken control of the Associated Press and the New York Sun.
I. Bromley, "The Newspapers and the Company," Aug. 10, 1886, U.P., MS 3761 SG2 S1, Box 32, f. Bromley-Burness. CPH to Hopkins, May 12, 1876, 9: 19, box 24, Hopkins Correspondence.
CPH to Colton, Dec. 8, 1876, Octopus Speaks, 325.