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Excerpt from Railway Expenditures, Their Extent, Object and Economy, Vol. 1 of 2: Treating of the Elements of Cost of Constructing and Operating Railroads; The Relation They Sustain to Other Industries; The Principles That Govern the Organization of the Forces of Railway Companies; The Relative Cost of Construction and Operation
Some years ago, I had occasion to write a short pamphlet on the disbursement accounts Of railroads. This was followed by a small book on the same subject. Both Of these productions met with a very flatterin g reception; this was owing, doubtless, to the fact that they were the first publications of their kind. I can see now that they were at best exceedingly crude and incomplete; indeed it was the conviction that this was so that prompted me to continue to give the subject such consideration as I was able. The result is the accompanying volumes which, while they are still far from being entirely satisfactory to me, come nearer, I think, a just conception Of the subject in its entirety, than the productions referred to above. 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.
