Quote source search: Did Collis Huntington say ';Whatever is not nailed down is mine';? When and Where?

This attribution is in the new Yale Dictionary of Quotations, but it only references another quotations book. My search of formal histories of late 1800s rail magnate Huntington and his railroads has come up dry, along with a query to one historian who had not come across the quote. By the way, the quote continues, ';Whatever I can pry loose is not nailed down,';Quote source search: Did Collis Huntington say ';Whatever is not nailed down is mine';? When and Where?
In his 1985 book, Money Talks: The 2500 Greatest Quotes on Business from Aristotle to Delorean, Robert Kent attributed the saying to Huntington.





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Yes, tanks, Moonspot, but this is the reference given in the Yale Dictionary. However, it does not answer my question, which is when or where Huntington said it. I am looking for the original source. Does Kent give this information?

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