C. F. Crocker to CPH, March 16, 1887 CPH Papers, ser. 1, r. 45.
Adams to Callaway, Oct. 19, 1886, UP, PO, OC, vol. 38, ser. 2, r. 34.
Dillon to Adams, March 13, 1886, UP, SG2, ser. 1, box 37.
The rate wars did stimulate California traffic.
Adams to S. Dillon, March 18, 1886, Adams to G. Shattuck, March 27, 1886, UP, PO, OC, vol. 34, ser. 2, r. 29.
California Traffic, W. Wing, April 1, 1886, UP, SG2, ser. 1, box 34, f. 2: Callaway.
James Thorpe, Henry Edward Huntington: A Biography (Berkeley: Univ. of California Press, 1994), 69, 306-35.
For Timothy Hopkins, Sidney M. Ehrman, "Timothy Hopkins, 1859-1936," California Historical Society Quarterly 15 (March 1936): 97-98.
"A Big Sensation Caused," New York Times, Aug. 1, 1891.
"The Hopkins-Searles Will," New York Times, March 6, 1892.
on Hopkins, CPH to Gates, March 9, 1889, CPH Papers, ser. 1, r. 47.
for Southern Pacific officers and board members, see Poor, Manual, 1889, 912.