The basic outlines of the arrangement of Peirce were broached in 1880.
CPH to Stanford, April 5, 1880, CPH Papers, vol. 27, ser. 2, r. 6.
CPH to Crocker, May 9, 1881, CPH Papers, vol. 28, ser. 2, r. 6.
Endicott to Villard, Sept. 27, 1880, Villard Papers; loss, Adams to J. S. Cameron, May 17, 1888, UP, PO, OC, vol. 43, ser. 2, r. 38.
Julius Grodinsky, Jay Gould: His Business Career, 1867-1892 (Philadelphia: Univ. of Pennsylvania Press, 1957), 227-49.
CPH also put U.S. General James G. Ord on his payroll. Ord had earned the appreciation of Diaz supporters by violating direct order to suppress Diaz's raids across the U.S. border into Mexico during Diaz's revolt.
CPH to C. Crocker, June 4, 1881, CPH Papers, vol. 28, ser. 2, r. 6.
receipt, stock, April 23, 1883, CPH to John B. Frisbie, Aug. 25, 1881.
The Mexican National Railway (Palmer-Sullivan Concession), 1881 (n.p.) APS Pamphlets Pertaining to Mexican Railroads, vol. 2, no. 15.
Hart, Empire and Revolution, 119-23.
CPH to Crocker, May 20, 25, 1880, May 19, 1881, June 6, 1881, CPH LB, 28, ser. 2, r. 6.