[451] Senate Interstate Commerce Committee, Hearings, 1897. Twelfth Annual Rep. I.C.C., p. 59, well describes the situation.

[452] Compare chap. XX, p. [638], infra. Other references on internal waterways are as follows: 1905. Senate (Elkins) Committee, Digest, App. IV.—1908. Report Inland Waterways Commission, 2 vols.—1910. Reports U. S. National Waterways Commission, especially Document 11. Traffic History of the Mississippi river. Cf. also, Railway Age Gazette, June 2 and 30, 1911 and Jan. 12, 1912: Bulletin 21, Bureau of Railway Economics; and the Bulletins of the U. S. Census.

[453] Compare vol. II, on railroad consolidation in this territory, since 1900.

[454] 6 I.C.C. Rep., 343.

[455] 23 I.C.C. Rep., 140.

[456] Cf. p. [248], supra.

[457] Senate (Elkins) Committee, 1905, Digest, App., III p. 93; gives a list of new basing points created since 1887.

[458] Southern Railway and Steamship Association Proceedings; Meeting of Aug. 12, 1880.

[459] Fully discussed at pp. [248] supra and [588] infra.

[460] McPherson, Railroad Freight Rates, p. 92, is best on this. Cf. pp. [127] and [243], supra.