Memorandum, undated, unsigned, box 2, f. 20, Villard Papers.
Van Horne to Harry Abbott, Oct. 7, 1886, LB, 18, v. 3.
CPH to A. N. Towne, Feb. 12, 1880, CPH Papers, ser. 2, r. 12.
William Deverell, Railroad Crossing: Californians and the Railroad, 1850-1910 (Berkeley: Univ. of California Press, 1994), 58-60.
County of San Mateo v. Southern Pacific Railroad Company, 13 Fed. 145 (July 31, 1882).
Royce D. Delmatier et al., eds, The Rumble of California Politics, 1848-1870 (New York: John Wiley & Sons, 1970), 91-93.
Callow, "San Francisco's Blind Boss," 277.
Williams, Democratic Politics, 103-7.