In his testimony to the Pacific Railway Commission, Stanford, either from normal befuddlement or by lying, reversed this and had Fisk and Hatch owing the Central Pacific money.
CPH to Stanford, May 19, 1874, LB, 7:57, box 23, Hopkins Collection.
Testimony of Leland Stanford, July 28, 1887, PRC, 5:2497.
Hopkins to CPH, Nov. 11, 1873, CPH Papers, ser. 1, r. 5, Hopkins to CPH, Dec. 4, 1873, CPH Papers, ser. 1, r. 6.
Fisk and Hatch to the Holders of Central Pacific Railroad Bonds, Jan. 1, 1874, LB, 6:45, L. Von Hoffman and Co. to CPH, Dec. 30, 1873, both in box 22, Hopkins Collection.
Annual Report of the Board of Directors of the Central Pacific Railroad Co. to the Stockholders for the Year Ending Dec. 31, 1873, 7.
Quoted in Gerald Berk, Alternative Tracks: The Constitution of American Industrial Order, 1865-1917 (Baltimore: Johns Hopkins Univ. Press, 1994), 38.
"The Truth Needed about Railroads," Railway Age, Oct. 19, 1876, p. 372.
"American Railroad Credit," Railway Age, Jan. 10, 1878, p. 20.
CPH to Hopkins, May 11, 1872. v. 2: 121, Box 20, Hopkins Collection.