Adams to Callaway, March 18, 1886, UP, PO, OC, vol. 33, ser. 2, r. 28.
for Gould, L. S. Anderson to G. M. Lane, June 22, 1886, UP, OC, vol. 1, L. S. Anderson, r. 1.
The seven routes in 1885 were (1) the UP and CP, (2) ATSF and SP, (3) SP and TP, (4) SP to New Orleans, (5) Burlington, D & RG, and CP, (6) NP, (7) A&P and SP. To these would quickly be added the Canadian Pacific and the Oregon Short Line. By the early 1890s there was also the Great Northern.
Adams to E. D. Sawyer, Feb. 13, 1886, UP, PO, OC, vol. 34, ser. 2, r. 29.
Adams to CPH, May 17, 1886, UP, PO, OC, vol. 35, ser. 2, r. 30.
Adams to C. F. Morse, April 16, 1885 UP, PO, OC, vol. 28, ser. 2, r. 24.
for the Huntington system, Grodinsky, , 163-65.
CPH to Crocker, March 14, 1883, CPH Papers, vol. 30: 49-50, ser. 2, r. 6.
Adams to F. Ames, April 23, 1885, UP, PO, OC, vol. 28, ser. 2, r. 24.
Grodinsky, Transcontinental Strategy, 164-65.
Adams to G. W. Cushing, July 16, 1889, UP, PO, OC, vol. 48, ser. 2, r. 43.
Testimony of CPH, PRC, 1:41.