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E Army who had been in command at Yuma to give information about the
country, and the association thus formed lasted through life. There was
not much to be done in Washington, so I went over to New York, the seat
of "The Texas Pacific Railroad Company." This company had been organized
under a munificent land grant from the State of Texas. The capital stock
was a hundred million dollars. The scheme was to build a railroad from
the Mississippi River to the Pacific Ocean on the proceeds of land
grants and bonds, and make the hundred millions of dollars stock as
profit, less one tenth of one per cent to be paid in for expenses and
promotion money. The President of this company was Robert J. Walker,
Secretary of the Treasury under President Polk; Vice-President, Thomas
Butler King, of Georgia, late Collector of the Port in San Francisco, my
recent superior; Secretary, Samuel Jaudon, late Cashier of the United
States Bank. Mr. Walker, the President of the Company, received me at
dinner at his mansion on Fifth Avenue, and my acquaintance with Thomas
Butler King was renewed over sparkling vintages. This company had
parcelled the world out among its officers. Robert J. Walker was to have
the financial field o