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Excerpt from Dr. Norvin Green, President Western Union Telegraph Co: Before the House Committee on Post Offices and Post Roads, April 8 and 11, 1884
I could Show by statistical exhibits that, with the exception of three or four grand commercial centres, more than half the business of any of the large offices was within a hundred miles, and therefore that in the interior towns of 'the State more than half their business is within the State. 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.
