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In 1875, Charles Crocker, Mark Hopkins, Collis Huntington, and
Leland Stanford of the Southern Pacific Railroad Company began
taking steps to construct a southern transcontinental railroad line
east from California. The implementation problems encountered over
the next six years, the company's internal disagreements along with
those it had with its rivals, and the anticipated regional economic
benefits the tracks would bring comprise the concluding chapters of
Slavery, Scandal, and Steel Rails. crossed was purchased from
Mexico in 1854. cross-country railroad in 1846 to improve his
hometown's economy and to export slavery west of Texas. At the
conclusion of the Mexican American War two years later, the United
States obtained 600,000 square miles of new territory, but not
enough to accommodate the southern route. That is why, at the
urging of Jefferson Davis, Gadsden was appointed Minister to
Mexico. several factors, including dubious instructions from a
secret messenger. He was able, however, to finalize a treaty, which
was later substantially altered by the United States Senate, that
resulted in the Gadsden Purchase.
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