They, in part, seem to have intervened to stop Jay Gould from taking control.
Bryant, Atchison, 150-51.
C.P. Huntington to [Gates], March 14, 1889, cipher telegram, CPH Papers, ser. 1, r. 47.
Bryant, Atchison, 153-55, 158.
Bryant, Atchison, 143, 156-57. Huntington to [Gates], telegram, March 14, 1889, CPH, r. ser. 1, r. 47.
Albro Martin, James J. Hill and the Opening of the Northwest (St. Paul: Minneapolis Historical Society Press, 1991), 410-11.
Alfred Chandler, The Visible Hand: The Managerial Revolution in American Business (Cambridge: Harvard Univ. Press, 1977), 109-20.