CPH to HEH, Jan. 5, 1898, HEH 4168, box 62, HEH Collection, 1794-1970.
E. B. Crocker to Hopkins, March 29, 1867, LB, 10:7, box 24, Hopkins Collection.
Carman and Mueller, "Contract and Finance Company," 333-34
Bain, Empire Express, 408, 739.
Stanley P. Hirshson, Grenville M. Dodge: Soldier, Politician, Railroad Pioneer (Bloomington: Indiana Univ. Press, 1967), 89, 69-71.
Bain, Empire Express, 159.
Lavender, Great Persuader, 166.
According to the best estimates of accountants who later examined the Central Pacific's books, Crocker and Company had received $13,657,624.70 in securities and cash, while the Contract and Finance Company had received $32, 615,452. These figures represented the discounted value of stock. In the case of Crocker & Company, the par value of the stock was $14,701, 710.22 and in the case of the Contract and Finance Company $23,726,000. The discounted value of the Crocker & Co. stock was $5,121,609; it was all turned over to the Contract and Finance Company. The accountants put the discounted version of stock held by the Contract and Finance Company at $8,889,452.
Heywood Fleisig, "The Central Pacific Railroad and the Railroad Land Grant Controversy," Journal of Economic History 35 (Sept. 1975): 555-56 .
Poor, Manual, 564, 682 .
"The Railroad Problem in American Politics," August 1, 1874, in Crane, ed., Newton Booth of California, 161.