Item #43452 THE CENTRAL PACIFIC RAILROAD CO., ITS RELATIONS TO THE GOVERNMENT. IT HAS PERFORMED EVERY OBLIGATION. ORAL ARGUMENT OF CREED HAYMOND, ITS GENERAL SOLICITOR. Creed Haymond.

THE CENTRAL PACIFIC RAILROAD CO., ITS RELATIONS TO THE GOVERNMENT. IT HAS PERFORMED EVERY OBLIGATION. ORAL ARGUMENT OF CREED HAYMOND, ITS GENERAL SOLICITOR.

San Francisco, CA: H.S. Crocker & Co., 1888. First edition thus. Hardcover. Item #43452

The long title continues, "Made Before The Select Committee Of The U.S. Senate, Consisting of Senator Frye, Chairman, And Senators Dawes, Hiscock, Davis, Morgan, Butler and Hearst, March 17th And 26th And April 7th, 1888." Howes, H-346. "Defends this carrier from attacks by Crocker, Huntington and Stanford. Practically a history of the overland railroad project." The original edition published in a small quantity in Washington, DC, was soon exhausted. This edition is a reprint, with minor corrections, of the argument as it first appeared. Bound in original brown cloth with lettering in gilt. Covers show damping and mottling. Text not affected. A good copy.

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