American Railroad Journal, Nov. 29, 1873.
Julius Grodinsky, Transcontinental Railway Strategy, 1869-1893: A Study of Businessmen (Philadelphia: Univ. of Pennsylvania Press, 1962), 17-21.
Henry Blair to CPH, July 19, 1889, CPH Papers, ser. 1, r. 48.
I. Bromley, The Newspapers and the Company, Aug. 10, 1886, UP, SG2, ser. 1, box 32, f. Bromley-Burness.
Grodinsky, Transcontinental Railway Strategy, 2-4.
CPH to Colton, Oct. 15, 1874, Octopus Speaks, 50-51.
Crocker to CPH, Sept. 18, 1883, Crocker Papers.
The legislative history is very complex, but for a sample of Scott's requests: guarantee of interest for Texas & Pacific and connection to Atlantic and Pacific, which he also controlled.
H.R. 3869, Dec. 8, 1874, [House Mis. Doc. No. 6] 43d Congress, 2d Session.
seeking a junction with the Atlantic and Pacific with much of the Atlantic and Pacific land grant reverting to the United States, "A Bill" Dec. 14, 1875, H.R. 25, 44th Congress, 1st Session.