Testimony of CPH, PRC, 1:41.
Klein, Jay Gould, 250, 258-59, 269-71.
note by Timothy Hopkins on letter, Personal and Confidential, CPH to Colonel Thos A. Scott, May 25, 1877, vol. 9: 185, box 24, Hopkins Collection.
CPH to Crocker, May 3, 1882, CPH Papers, vol. 29, ser. 2, r. 6.
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.