[6] Judah manuscript, letter of Mrs. Anne Judah.
[7] Evidence concerning projected railways across the Sierra Nevada Mountains, sup cit., testimony L. L. Robinson.
[8] United States Pacific Railway Commission, pp. 2960-61, testimony D. W. Strong.
[9] Sacramento Union, January 9 and 10, 1861.
[10] Sacramento Union, January 4, 1861.
[11] Stanford’s election to the United States Senate was resented by Huntington, and led eventually to an open breach between the two men. It is not improbable, however, that Stanford’s friends, and not Stanford himself, were responsible for the latter’s candidacy. It would not have been difficult to persuade a man of Stanford’s temperament that he was performing a public service in allowing his name to be used.
[12] Crocker said of his own personal appearance during the sixties: “While I was building the road, I weighed nearly all the time 264-5 pounds; at one time, in China, I weighed about 274 pounds; the Chinaman who weighed me called me a 4-picul man—a ‘picul’ being 66⅔ pounds.... While I was building the road, I weighed the first year, 244, which increased to 265, and when I finished the work, was weighing that. I am 5 feet 10¾ inches tall.” (Crocker manuscript, p. 63.)
[13] Huntington manuscript, p. 36. The Bancroft Library of the University of California possesses notes of interviews with a number of men prominent in California history collected by H. H. Bancroft or his representatives. In some cases these notes are very full and informing. They will be referred to in the present volume as “Huntington manuscript,” “Crocker manuscript,” etc. See also Redding, “Sketch of the Life of Mark Hopkins” (San Francisco, 1881).
[14] Huntington manuscript, pp. 9-10.
[15] Crocker manuscript, pp. 28-29. See also Hittell, “History of California,” Vol. 4.