Talk:Charles Crocker

Plagiarism

Lots of blatant word for word plagiarism on this page lifted from their references.

http://www.pbs.org/weta/thewest/people/a_c/crocker.htm

Career Section was lifted entirely, word for word, from the above link Running a Railroad section was about 50% plagiarized word for word.

below is everything i'm removing.

Career

When news of the fortune to be made in California spread across the nation, Crocker's Forty-niner party arrived in 1850. Two years in the mines convinced him that mining was no way to make a fortune, and so he opened a store in Sacramento. By 1854 he was one of the wealthiest men in town and had a strong business relationship with Mark Hopkins, Collis Huntington and Leland Stanford — who together with Crocker came to be known as "The Big Four" for their prominence in California's stunningly rapid economic development.

Political positions and further business opportunities accompanied Crocker's initial economic gains. In 1855 he was elected to Sacramento's city council, and in 1860 to California's state legislature.[1] In the early 1860s, the Big Four began to plan and manage the construction of the Central Pacific railroad, which was to cross the rugged Sierra Nevada mountains and meet with the Union Pacific headed west from Nebraska.

Running a railroad Crocker managed the actual construction of the railroad. He overcame shortages of manpower and money by hiring Chinese immigrants to do much of the back-breaking and dangerous labor. He drove the workers to the point of exhaustion, in the process setting records for laying track and finishing the project seven years ahead of the government's deadline With this success, Crocker's business activities reached a new level. He became president of the Central Pacific railroad, helped connect San Francisco to Portland by rail, became involved in banking and northern California industry, and made even more money as a real estate speculator. He was an early proponent of the massive irrigation projects which eventually transformed California into a fruit and vegetable growing center.

Early Life After hearing of the California Gold Rush, Crocker led a party of Forty-niners overland to the Pacific coast, and arrived in 1850.

Pretty much this entire article is plagiarized but the above is all the flat out blatant plagiarism Jgeddis (talk) 11:31, 27 February 2009 (UTC)

The Wall

Are there any reliable sources for the wall he built around his neighbour to try and get him to sell? 82.32.236.16 (talk) 19:58, 31 March 2011 (UTC)

The wall is evident in a photograph taken in 1878 by Edwaerd Muybridge. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 23.119.205.88 (talk) 02:03, 4 March 2014 (UTC)