{
  "name": "US bonds issued to the Pacific railroads and the gold received",
  "desc": "US bonds issued to the Union, Central and Western Pacific and the gold the Central and Western Pacific say they received, each row naming the person who gave the figure to the commission in 1887; sums and differences checked by this site.",
  "lic": "CC BY 4.0",
  "lic_url": "https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/",
  "by": "Treaties & Tradeoffs",
  "url": "https://treatiesandtradeoffs.com/logistics/transcontinental-railroad/",
  "from": [
    "Report of the United States Pacific Railway Commission, Testimony, vol. 5 (Senate Ex. Doc. 51, 50th Cong., 1st sess., pt. 6, 1887)"
  ],
  "how": "Compiled by Treaties & Tradeoffs from the data listed",
  "data_by": [
    "Report of the United States Pacific Railway Commission, Testimony, vol. 5 (Washington: Government Printing Office, 1887), accessed 2026-11-02, US government publication, public domain; company statements are reported as the companies' accounts"
  ]
}