[332] Ibid., pp. 1765-66, Huntington to Colton, April 3, 1877.
[333] It has also been asserted that the failure of Mr. and Mrs. Stanford to attend one of the Huntington weddings was sharply resented by Mr. Huntington. J. M. Bassett, at one time secretary to Mr. Stanford, says that the latter came to regard Huntington as an individual of shady characteristics, and was not inclined to trust him further than he could throw Trinity Church up the side of Mt. Shasta. For his part, Huntington spoke of Stanford as a “blanked old fool.” (San Francisco Daily Report, July 21, 1894.)
[334] San Francisco Examiner, April 10, 1890.
[335] San Francisco Examiner, April 10, 1890.
[336] Ibid., April 13, 1890; April 18, 1890.
[337] United States Pacific Railway Commission, pp. 3697-98, testimony C. P. Huntington.
[338] Colton case, p. 1729, Huntington to Colton, June 24, 1876.
[339] Report of the chief engineer upon the preliminary survey, revenue, and cost of construction of the San Francisco and Sacramento Railroad, 1856.
[340] Biennial Report of the Commissioner of Transportation of the State of California for the years ending December 31, 1877 and 1878.
[341] Hittell, “The Commerce and Industries of the Pacific Coast of North America,” 1882, Ch. XI; Sheppard. “F. F. Low, Ninth Governor of California” (in University of California Chronicle, April, 1917); San Francisco Argonaut, June 22, 1878.