Report to the Stockholders of the Union Pacific Railroad, for the Year 1875 (Boston, 1876), 37.
"An Act to Authorize the Commisioners of Her Majesty's Treasury to Guarantee the Payment of a Loan...21 July 1873," in Correspondence respecting the Canadian Pacific Railroad Act So Far As Regards British Columbia (London: Harrison and Sons, 1875), 98-99.
Pacific Railroad Act (1862), chap. 120; Act of July 2, 1864, Statutes at Large 13 (1865): 356.
Klein, Union Pacific, 16.
Lavender, Great Persuader, 164.
Act of March 3, 1865, Statutes at Large 13 (1865): 504.
"General Railroad Law of California: An Act to provide for the Incorporation of Railroad Companies, and the management of the affairs thereof, and other matters relating thereto" (approved May 20, 1861; as amended to May 6, 1862). That the company may have sold $100,000 is based on 10 percent down on 10,000 shares.
Annual Report of the Central Pacific Railroad Company of California to the Secretary of State of California of the Year Ending the Thirty first Day of December A.D. 1869, California State Archives.
Lavender, Great Persuader, 146-47.
Fletcher M. Green, "Origins of the Crﾎdit Mobilier of America," Mississippi Valley Historical Review 46 (September 1959), 238-51.
Klein, Union Pacific, 35.