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Excerpt from The Railways and the Government: Address by Howard Elliott at the Annual Dinner of the Railway Business Association, December 11, 1913
Out of which the railways earned in 1910, 306, or were distributed in wages and salaries; in 1911, out of or and in 1912, out of 917967, or 439770. And each year this wage distribution has been taking a larger proportion of the railway dollar. Between 1910 and 1911 there was an increase of in the payroll and only in the operating revenues. Between 1911 and 1912, the increase in the payroll was and in operating revenues There are no very complete statistics of the amount of material purchased by the railways, but it is very large, many hundreds of millions of dollars. 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.
