Interesting New York Times Article, April 28, 1887

From: KyleKWyatt@gmail.com

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[C.P. Huntington testimony to the Pacific Railroad Commission.]

—Kyle

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UNDER FOUR MEN'S HANDS

INTERESTING BITS OF CENTRAL PACIFIC HISTORY.
C.P. HUNTINGTON ON THE VALUE AND COST OF "EXPLANATIONS," AND HIS THEORY OF RAILROADING.

New York Times, April 28, 1887, Wednesday, Page 9

Mr. C.P. Huntington told a long story to the Pacific Railroad Commissioners yesterday. It was a history of his connection with the Central Pacific, and it took the witness and his examiners nearly four hours to work down from 1861 to 1885. ...

Frank Vanderbilt Smith

From: "Mark & Donna Smith" mark-donna@comcast.net

My great-grandfather, Frank Vanderbilt Smith b. 1854 was supposed to have been an employee with CPRR in Carlin, Nevada circa 1880. He may have been an engineer. In 1900, his wife, Lily Virginia Fowler Smith Peters, shows up on the census in Oakland, California married to a Ferdinand Peters, also a RR engineer. We can find a marriage record in Carlin of Frank and Lily – 1880, but nothing else. Do you have any information on these three people?

—Mark B. Smith, Oakley, CA