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Chapters on the History of the Southern Pacific

ILLUSTRATIONS

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“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 José Railroad in 1862 121

Proposed route of the Southern Pacific Railroad, January 3, 1867 124

View south from over the San Fernando tunnel—Southern Pacific Railroad (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 the Sacramento Valley, 1876 260

Chart showing rates on miscellaneous commodities in the San Joaquin Valley, 1892 261

Diagram showing adjustment of freight rates between San Francisco and 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 Angeles and points north and east of Los Angeles, 1916 269

Map showing the line of the San Francisco and San Joaquin Valley Railway, together with portions of the systems of the Southern Pacific and of the Atchison, Topeka and Santa Fé, 1898 325

Map showing mileage owned in 1913 by the Central Pacific Railway and the Southern Pacific Railroad (opposite) 432

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