CPH to Hopkins, July 12, 1876, LB, 9:53, box 24, Hopkins Collection.
Dodge to Throckmorton, Dec. 21, 1875, box 160, LBs, Texas & Pacific Railroad, Dodge Papers.
Bardwell to CPH, Oct. 18, 30, Dec. 9, 1878, Boyd to Gates, Sept. 13, 1878, CPH Papers, ser. 1, r. 15
Bardwell to CPH, May 15, 1879, CPH Papers, ser. 1, r. 17.
Huntington to Colton, Jan. 22, 1878, Jan. 28, 1878, Feb. 5, 1878, Feb. 12, 1878, Feb. 19, 1878, Feb. 25, 1878, Octopus Speaks, 454, 457-58,465, 468, 470, 472.
For California Railroad Commission, see Deverell, Railroad Crossings, 51-52.
Grodinsky, Transcontinental Railway Strategy, 60-62.
On the other hand, the Southern Pacific was interested in protecting the Texas & Pacific land grant, which it claimed to have inherited.
CPH to Crocker, Dec. 22, 1881, Jan. 19, 1882, v. 29, CPH Papers, ser. 2, r. 6.
"Thirty-Second Parallel Pacific Railroad, Remarks of CPH . . .Before the Committee on Public Lands of the U.S. Senate, Feb. 2, 1884, on House Bill 3933" (New York, John C. Rankin, Jr. Printer, 1884).