The Pacific Mail Steamship Company, vols. 42, 44, 45 46, 49, Pacific Mail Mss.
H. F. Scott to CPH, Aug. 12, 1892, CPH, ser. 1, r. 51.
Stuart Daggett, Chapters on the History of the Southern Pacific (New York: Ronald Press Company, 1922), 293-301.
W. H. Mills to CPH, June 7, 1892, CPH Papers, ser. 1, r. 50.
San Francisco merchants also gained an advantage over eastern wholesalers by carrying bills for three to twelve months, while eastern wholesalers demanded payment in thirty days.
See, e.g., CPH to Hopkins, Sept. 14, 1872, LB, 2:175; CPH to Hopkins, May 7, 1872, 2:115, both in box 20, Hopkins Collection.
Central Pacific Railroad Company v. Alfred A. Cohen, Statement of the Case (1876), p. 1, Huntington Library.
CPH to Hopkins, May 19, 1871, Huntington Letters, 3:276, also CPH to Hopkins, Nov. 2, 1870, Huntington Letters, 3:212.
CPH to Stanford, Nov. 5, 1870, Huntington Letters, 3:214.
Hopkins to CPH, Feb. 4, 1873, CPH Papers, ser. 1, r. 5.