On the other hand, the Southern Pacific was interested in protecting the Texas & Pacific land grant, which it claimed to have inherited.

CPH to Crocker, Dec. 22, 1881, Jan. 19, 1882, v. 29, CPH Papers, ser. 2, r. 6.

"Thirty-Second Parallel Pacific Railroad, Remarks of CPH . . .Before the Committee on Public Lands of the U.S. Senate, Feb. 2, 1884, on House Bill 3933" (New York, John C. Rankin, Jr. Printer, 1884).