Colton Case Testimony, 8:3555-57.
The Associates kept virtually all the stock for themselves, although they often put it in other peoples names.
Colton to CPH, Aug. 8, 16, 1877, Octopus Speaks, 401, 403.
David Lavender, The Great Persuader: The Biography of Collis P. Huntington (Nivot: Univ. Press of Colorado, 1998), 300, 308, 328.
The sinking funds remained a source of corruption well after the Colton Trial
Colton Case Testimony, 3:1011, 1015-16, 1022-31, 1:98-99, 228-33, 6:2632-33.
CPH to Colton, Nov. 16, 1877, Octopus Speaks, 432.
Charles F. Crocker to CPH, July 26, 1889, CPH Papers, ser.1, r. 48.
W. Milner Roberts to Jay Cooke, Jan. 1, 1872, Cooke Papers.
CPH to HEH, Jan. 5, 1898, HEH Collection.
Colton Case Testimony, 11:5048-59.
San Francisco Call, May 14, 1884.
William Mahl to Gates, April 12, 1889, CPH Papers, ser. 1, r. 47.