Chapters on the History of the Southern Pacific

by Stuart Daggett

CONTENTS

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Chapter		Page
I	Inception of the Project	[3]
II	Resources for Construction—State and Local Aid	[21]
III	Federal Land Grants and Subsidies	[45]
IV	Progress of Construction—Construction Companies	[65]
V	The Search for a Terminal	[83]
VI	Acquisition of the California Pacific	[104]
VII	Building of the Southern Pacific	[119]
VIII	Organization of the Central Pacific-Southern Pacific System From 1870 To 1893	[140]
IX	The Case of David D. Colton	[154]
X	Financial Difficulties from 1870 To 1879	[169]
XI	The Railroad Commission of 1880 To 1883	[181]
XII	The Southern Pacific and Politics	[199]
XIII	Water Competition	[222]
XIV	The Rate System of the Central Pacific	[237]
XV	Local Rates in California	[257]
XVI	The Transcontinental Tariff	[275]
XVII	The Traffic Association of California	[293]
XVIII	The San Francisco and San Joaquin Valley Railway	[317]
XIX	Operating Characteristics of the Southern Pacific Lines	[347]
XX	The Thurman Act	[370]
XXI	Final Settlement of the Central Pacific Indebtedness to the Government	[395]
XXII	The Southern Pacific Merger Cases	[425]
XXIII	Oil and Timber Land Litigation	[441]
XXIV	Final Remarks	[454]

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ILLUSTRATIONS

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		Page
“The Golden Gate”	[(Frontispiece)]
Theodore Dehone Judah	(opposite)	[6]
Sketch of train on the Sacramento Valley Railroad 1860	”	[10]
Leland Stanford	”	[16]
Henry P. Coon	”	[32]
Chas. Crocker	”	[66]
Summit Valley, Emigrant Mountain and Railroad Pass	”	[72]
Summit tunnel before completion—Sierra Nevada Mountains	”	[80]
Map of Oakland and Brooklyn		[93]
Boundaries of Railroad Tide-Land Grant, as proposed in 1868		[96]
Map of California Pacific Railroad		[106]
Map showing northern end of the San Francisco and San JoséRailroad in 1862		[121]
Proposed route of the Southern Pacific Railroad, January 3, 1867		[124]
View south from over the San Fernando tunnel—Southern PacificRailroad	(opposite)	[128]
David D. Colton	”	[160]
Mark Hopkins	”	[176]
George Stoneman	”	[192]
C. P. Huntington	”	[208]
Chart showing rates on second-class freight and on grain in theSacramento Valley, 1876		[260]
Chart showing rates on miscellaneous commodities in the SanJoaquin Valley, 1892		[261]
Diagram showing adjustment of freight rates between San Franciscoand Stockton, 1916		[266]
Diagram showing adjustment of freight rates between San Francisco,Santa Rosa, and Sebastopol, 1916		[268]
Diagram showing adjustment of freight rates between Los Angelesand points north and east of Los Angeles, 1916		[269]
Map showing the line of the San Francisco and San Joaquin ValleyRailway, together with portions of the systems of the SouthernPacific and of the Atchison, Topeka and Santa Fé, 1898		[325]
Map showing mileage owned in 1913 by the Central Pacific Railwayand the Southern Pacific Railroad	(opposite)	[432]

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