Lorena Parlee, "Porfirio Diaz, Railroads, and Development in Northern Mexico: A Study of Government Policy toward the Central and Nacional Railroads, 1876-1910" (Ph.D. diss., University of California, San Diego, 1981), 168.
Norbert MacDonald, Distant Neighbors: A Comparative History of Seattle and Vancouver (Lincoln: Univ. of Nebraska Press, 1987), 12-13, 26-33.
Leonard, Diplomatic Forces, 29-31.
quote, Van Horne to A. B. Rogers, Dec. 8, 1884, Van Horne LB, 3:91-96, vol. 2.
Berton, Impossible Railway, 444-46.
Report of the California Board of Commissioners of Transportation to the Legislature of California, December 1877 (Sacramento: F. P. Thompson, 1877), 291-93.
Eight Annual Report of the Board of Railroad Commissioners for the Year Ending December 1, 1890 [sic],State of Kansas (Topeka: Kansas Publishing House, 1890), table VII, xlvi-xlvii.
Interstate Commerce Commission, Sixth Annual Report on the Statistics of Railways in the United States for the Year Ending June 30, 1893 (Washington, D.C.: GPO, 1894), 84.
The totals, 7,369,447 tons going west and 5,585,332 tons going east, are confusing because the combined figures are far short of the total of 22,824,299, and these lines were predominantly east-west lines, indicating less traffic going north/south.
Sixth Annual Report of the Board of Railroad Commissioners for the Year Ending December 1, 1888 (Topeka, 1888), table III, p. 191.