[10] Railway Age Gazette, 1912, p. 125, reprints statistics since 1840 of all sorts concerning rails.

[11] U. S. Reports Internal Commerce, 1876, App. 31.

[12] Pp. [361] and [404], infra.

[13] P. [404], infra.

[14] Pooling is discussed in vol. II.

[15] Chapter X, infra.

[16] Report of Committee on Canals of New York State, 1899, gives elaborate statistical data. Cf. especially table 14. Also Rep. U. S. Internal Commerce, 1881, p. 179, and 1884, p. 5.

[17] U. S. Reports on Internal Commerce, 1876, App. p. 29.

[18] More fully treated in the chapters on speculation and finance in the second volume.

[19] Cf. the diagram on p. [21], supra.