Of course he retained a certain inevitable interest in railroads, and a bias against railroad owners, perhaps the most powerful class of industrialists in the country.
If higher-ups ever found out that permission had been given to Gideon Kent, the radical newspaperman who regularly attacked railroad owners, someone could lose a job.
In the United States, railroad rights-of-way are generally considered private property by the respective railroad owners and by applicable state laws.
The railroad owners had no intention of ending the line there, and the line was extended to Tuolumne City, some 16 miles from Jamestown.
Legal battles ensued between the State of Florida and the railroad owners about who owned the rights to sell reclaimed land in the Everglades.
He warned railroad owners that they had three months to fire all of their Chinese workers or "remember Judge Lynch."
A small band of railroad owners has walked away from the national interest and forced Congress to come to their rescue.
Harding proposed a settlement that gave the shop workers some concessions; however, the railroad owners objected.
Denis Kearney led a mass movement in San Francisco in 1877 that threatened to harm railroad owners if they hired any people who were Chinese.
When it was finally completed, the station had cost its railroad owners one million dollars to build.