[114] Colton case, pp. 266-68, deposition of Collis P. Huntington.
[115] United States Pacific Railway Commission, p. 2640, testimony Leland Stanford.
[116] Ibid., p. 3661, testimony Charles Crocker; p. 2637, testimony Leland Stanford.
[117] United States Pacific Railway Commission, pp. 3436-37.
[118] United States Pacific Railway Commission, p. 2897, testimony W. E. Brown; p. 3062, testimony E. H. Miller; pp. 3511-20, testimony R. F. Stevens.
[119] United States Railway Commission, pp. 2712-17, testimony D. Z. Yost.
[120] Ibid., pp. 2875-92, testimony John Miller; pp. 3028-33, testimony N. Greene Curtis.
[121] There is some evidence that $6,000,000 of this cash was not strictly cash, but took the form of notes of the Central Pacific Railroad which were ultimately settled in land-grant bonds at $86.50. (United States Pacific Railway Commission Report, p. 75.) Mr. Crocker says that the interest on a portion of these bonds paid his expenses on a trip to Europe. (Ibid., p. 3668, testimony Charles Crocker.)
[122] United States Pacific Railway Commission Report, pp. 74-75.
[123] United States Pacific Railway Commission, pp. 2655-56, testimony Leland Stanford; p. 3668, testimony Charles Crocker. Mr. Huntington said in 1873 that he thought his dividend amounted to about $1,000,000, but in 1887 he admitted that he had earlier mistaken the facts. (Ibid., pp. 4026-28, testimony C. P. Huntington.)