[112] Poor’s ‘Manual of the Railroads of the United States,’ 1881.
[113] Report of the Committee of Ways and Means.
[114] Poor’s Manual for 1881, p. xxxviii.
[115] Including in the latter year nearly 1½ million bushels of beans and oatmeal.
[116] ‘Annual Report on the Commerce and Navigation of the United States’ for 1884, p. xlxi.
[117] Consisting of 23 inclined planes and 23 lift locks.
[118] ‘Railroad Transportation,’ p. 31.
[119] ‘Report of the Tenth Census,’ vol. iv. pp. 29-31.
[120] ‘Transactions of the American Society of Civil Engineers,’ vol xiv. p. 99.