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Excerpt from The Future of Rail and Water Transportation: Letter of James J. Hill, Read at the Lakes to the Gulf Deep Waterway Association Convention, Chicago, Illinois, October 7-9, 1908
Understanding, then, that railroads and waterways are to work together for the development of this coun try and the betterment of its people, how can each be aided most in discharging its vast and valuable func tions in the national economy? I have already stated on different occasions the determining facts bearing upon the future of railroading in this country. The passage of time only intensifies the difficulties of the situation. Two years ago I pointed out that, in the ten years between 1895 and 1905, the railroad mileage of the country had increased but 21 per cent., while the passenger business had grown 95 per cent. And the freight business 118 per cent. The latest report of the Interstate Commerce Commission carries an even graver warning. By the decade ending in 1907, the in crease of mileage as compared with 1897 had crept up to per cent.; but in the same time the increase of passenger business had leaped to per cent and that of freight traffic to per cent. 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.
