[186] Colton case, pp. 231-32, testimony F. S. Douty; United States Pacific Railway Commission, pp. 3626—27, testimony F. S. Douty.
[187] United States Pacific Railway Commission, p. 2832, testimony Leland Stanford.
[188] United States Pacific Railway Commission, p. 2994, testimony C. F. Crocker.
[189] Colton case, pp. 7646-54, 1586.
[190] Ibid., pp. 9669-73, testimony Charles Crocker.
[191] San Francisco Examiner, October 8, 1889.
[192] Jay Gould once testified that Huntington had offered an interest in the Southern Pacific to himself and his Union Pacific associates, and that they had offered to take an interest, provided that Huntington would cut the Southern Pacific bonds outstanding from $40,000 to $25,000 per mile, and throw the stock in. Gould thought that $25,000 per mile was all that the road had cost. (Colton case, deposition Jay Gould, pp. 8, 23-24.)
It should be observed that a great deal of the mileage now owned by the Southern Pacific Railroad was not originally built by that company, but by or for small separate companies, most of them organized by the Huntington group, which were later consolidated with the parent corporation. The complete list of these consolidations is as follows:
October 12, 1870. Consolidation of the Southern Pacific Railroad Company, the San Francisco and San José Railroad Company, the Santa Clara and Pajaro Valley Railroad Company, and the California Southern Railroad Company.
August 19, 1873. Consolidation of the Southern Pacific Railroad Company and the Southern Pacific Branch Railroad Company.