[400] “It will hardly be claimed,” said the Interstate Commerce Commission, of the Southern Railway in 1900 (8 I. C. C. Rep. 583), “that the cost of reproducing that property in its present state would equal $40,000 a mile.”
[401] This route followed roughly the old Santa Fe Trail.
[402] Chron. 29:583, 1879.
[403] Ibid. 33:23, 1881.
[404] Chron. 34:315, 1882, Circular of Sonora Railroad Company to stockholders.
[405] Chron. 29:630, 1879. Statement by Vice-President Baker.
[406] Ibid. 29:630, 1879.
[407] Chron. 34:243, 1882.
[408] Chron. 41:444, 1885.
[409] Annual Report, 1885, contains a discussion of the Atlantic & Pacific and of the California Southern projects.