[124] United States Pacific Railway Commission, pp. 2977-88, testimony W. E. Brown.
[125] An Account of the Ceremonies Attending the Inauguration of the Work of Constructing the Central Pacific. Scribner’s Magazine for August, 1892, contains an article describing the completion of the Central Pacific and also a reproduction of the well-known painting, “The Joining of the Central and Union Pacific” (“The Last Spike”).
[126] The indenture making this assignment, dated October 31, 1864, is printed in full in the appendix to the journals of the Senate and Assembly of the 20th Session of the Legislature of the State of California, Vol. 6 (1874), No. 2. pp. 27-29. It covers not only the right to build and operate a railroad between Sacramento and San José, but also “all the rights, grants, donations, rights-of-way, loan of the credit of the Government of the United States, or the bonds thereof.”
[127] United States Pacific Railway Commission, p. 2785, testimony Leland Stanford.
[128] Laws of California, 1852, Ch. 107.
[129] City of Oakland v. Oakland Water Front Company, transcript of testimony, p. 649, deposition Horace W. Carpentier; p. 1755, testimony A. J. Moon.
[130] City of Oakland v. Oakland Water Front Company, transcript of testimony, pp. 704-5, deposition Horace W. Carpentier; Wood, “History of Alameda County”; San Francisco Examiner, June 26, 1892, July 3, 1892.
[131] Moon, one of the trustees who approved the grant, was afterwards taken into Carpentier’s employ. Adams, another trustee, secured the property now known as the “Adams Wharf” to the east of the narrow-gauge bridge.
[132] City of Oakland v. Carpentier, 13 Cal. 540 (1859); 21 Cal. 642 (1863). The Oakland ordinances were ratified and confirmed by act of the California legislature passed May 15, 1861. (Laws of California, 1861, Ch. 377.)
[133] City of Oakland v. Oakland Water Front Company, transcript on appeal, pp. 652-54, deposition Horace W. Carpentier.