Author: Joseph Nimmo Jr.

Publisher: Forgotten Books

Published: 2018-10-11

Total Pages: 66

ISBN-13: 9781391988894

Excerpt from The Relation of the Railroads to the Public Interests: Being Part 2 of the Report on the Internal Commerce of the United States; Submitted December 1, 1879 The following chapters in regard to direct trade over connecting lines, competition, the apportionment of traffic, the cost of transportation, uniformity of railroad accounts, the publicity of the acts and doings of railroad companies, discriminations, and the governmental regulations of railroads, have a direct bearing upon the relation of the railroads to the public interests. The main object in view in the preparation of these statements has been to describe the evils which have Sprung up in the Course of the development of the railroad system, and the measures which have been proposed or adopted for the correction of such evils. The topics treated of embrace the more important features of what is known as the railroad problem. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.