Report of Special Committee, The Texas & Pacific Railway Co., Dec. 8, 1885, Powderly Papers, r. 11.
Sandra Kuntz Ficker, Empresa extranjera y mercado interno: El Ferrocarril Central Mexicano, 1880-1907 (Mexico, D.F.: Colegio de Mexico, 1995), 46, 59.
Johnson and Supple, Boston Capitalists, 292.
Matias Romero, Geographical and Statistical Notes on Mexico (New York: G. P. Putnams Sons, 1898), 196, 214-15.
The Mexican National was a relatively poorly built narrow-gauge line.
Trade and Commerce of Paso del Norte, Reports from the Consuls of the United States, vol. 39 (Washington, D.C.: GPO, 1889), 50th Cong., 2d sess., H. Misc. Doc. 141, 754.
Ficker, Economic Backwardness, 279.