FOOTNOTES:

[1] For authorities, see note at end of chapter.

[2] F. H. Dixon, Traffic History of the Mississippi river, prepared for the National Waterways Commission, 1909, is best on this.

[3] U. B. Phillips, A History of Transportation in the Eastern Cotton Belt to 1860, 1908, is a standard authority in this field.

[4] U. S. Report on Internal Commerce, 1880, p. 72 et seq.

[5] H. G. Pearson, An American Railroad Builder, John M. Forbes, 1911, for this field.

[6] Yale Review, 1906, pp. 259-282.

[7] Dixon, op. cit.

[8] Cf., p. [36], infra.

[9] E. D. Fite, Social and Industrial Conditions at the North during the Civil War, 1910, pp. 42-77.