Waterways as Creators of Prosperity |
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American railway Austria-Hungary average citizen average freight rates average rate Belgium bonds Britain and Ireland canals and inland capital Census cent charge per ton-mile cities Comparative revenues competition contribution cost of wagon Creators of Prosperity Diagram dividends duties on imports earnings and income equal Erie Canal estimates expenditures express companies fact fiscal foreign trade franchises Frankfort German railway German roads governmental granted greater gross earnings growth haul higher highway improvement industry inland waterways interest interior waterways Interstate Commerce Commission lakes lands leprosy Liverpool manufactures mile of line million mills per ton-mile minor civil divisions National Government ocean ocean harbors operated Orleans Philadelphia population port portation profits Prussian rail railroad railway revenues rate per ton-mile revenues of United Royal Commission square miles steamboats tariff three countries tion tolls tons trans transportation question transportation taxes United Kingdom United States railways Waterways as Creators York