TRANSCRIBER'S NOTE
Fractions have been left in the form a/b except for ¼ ½ ¾. A dozen or so occurrences of 'nn a-b' have been changed to 'nn-a/b', mainly on pages 27-40, for consistency.
Footnote anchors in a table are of the form (a) and the corresponding Footnote is placed at the bottom of that table. Other Footnote anchors are of the form [A] with placement at the end of that Chapter.
Obvious typographical errors and punctuation errors have been corrected after careful comparison with other occurrences within the text and consultation of external sources.
The Table of Contents has been expanded to include the seventeen sections under the 'Statistics' chapter at [page 291].
Except for those changes noted below, all misspellings in the text, and inconsistent or archaic usage, have been retained. For example: employes, employees; pay roll, pay-roll; reconnoissance; asperse.
[Pg 15], 'would built' replaced by 'would build'.
[Pg 19], 'incontestible' replaced by 'incontestable'.
[Pg 38], column headings, copied from the earlier similar table on [pg 36], have been added to this table for clarity.
[Pg 42], 'transhipment' replaced by 'transshipment'.
[Pg 97], 'Oamha' replaced by 'Omaha'.
[Pg 97], 'remainding' replaced by 'remaining'.
[Pg 133], 'uniformily' replaced by 'uniformly'.
[Pg 177], missing Table Footnote '(a) January to July, only.' added.
[Pg 181] Footnote [F], '89 and 95' replaced by '89 to 95'.
[Pg 200], 'correst' replaced by 'correct'.
[Pg 205], 'leachlike' replaced by 'leechlike'.
[Pg 210], 'inocuous' replaced by 'innocuous'.
[Pg 226], 'parlimentary' replaced by 'parliamentary'.
[Pg 272], 'is practical' replaced by 'its practical'.
[Pg 295], '(m = 1,000.)' replaced by '(m = 1,000; d = decrease.)'.
[Pg 298], 'phenomenonally' replaced by 'phenomenally'.
[Pg 316], 'direct charges' replaced by 'Indirect charges'.
[Pg 316], '$250,635.34' replaced by '$240,635.34'.
[Pg 318], Table 11th row, 'XII' replaced by 'XI'.
[Pg 331], 'arbitraters' replaced by 'arbitrators'.
[Pg 335], 'desponding' replaced by 'despondent'.
[Pg 357], Table note (b), 'Bureau 99' replaced by 'Bureau in'.
[Pg 357], Table note (b), 'December, in 10' replaced by 'December, is'.