[111] Chron. 23:233, 1876; Ibid. 26:419; Ibid. 29:358, 1879; Hepburn Committee Report, vol. 2, pp. 252–7, Exhibits.
[112] Chron. 26:419, 1878.
[113] Ibid. 26:469, 1878. For indenture executed by the new corporation and for text of the first and second consolidated mortgage and of the second consolidated funded coupon mortgage, see Hepburn Committee Report, vol. 2, Exhibits, pp. 315–50.
[114] Mott, p. 268.
[115] Mott, p. 269.
[116] Annual Report, 1882.
[117] Chron. 36:427, 1883. For the necessity of Erie’s extension westward see testimony of First Vice-President Felton before the Senate Committee on Transportation Interests of the United States and Canada, 51st Congress, 1st Session, Report no. 847, pp. 130–1.
[118] For some account of the trunk-line rate wars see the chapter on the [Baltimore & Ohio].
[119] Chron. 39:234, 1884.
[120] Annual Report, 1884, p. 12.