Frank Leonard, "Diplomatic Forces of the New Railroad: Transcontinental Terminus Entry at Vancouver and Seattle," Journal of Transport History 28 (March 2007): 21-58.
Lorena Parlee, "Porfirio Diaz, Railroads, and Development in Northern Mexico: A Study of Government Policy toward the Central and Nacional Railroads, 1876-1910" (Ph.D. diss., University of California, San Diego, 1981), 168.
Norbert MacDonald, Distant Neighbors: A Comparative History of Seattle and Vancouver (Lincoln: Univ. of Nebraska Press, 1987), 12-13, 26-33.
Leonard, Diplomatic Forces, 29-31.
quote, Van Horne to A. B. Rogers, Dec. 8, 1884, Van Horne LB, 3:91-96, vol. 2.
Berton, Impossible Railway, 444-46.
Report of the California Board of Commissioners of Transportation to the Legislature of California, December 1877 (Sacramento: F. P. Thompson, 1877), 291-93.
The President's Report on p. 4 values the "farming lands" at $30 million dollars, but the Land Agent's Report on p. 47 makes it clear that the railroad counted the entire land grant of the Central Pacific, California and Oregon as farming lands amounting to 11,722,400 acres with a value of $29,306,000, p. 47. The Southern Pacific valued its real estate, depot grounds "including an undivided half-interest in 60 acres land in Mission Bay" exclusive of its land grant and improvements at $7,644,636.