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Excerpt from Annual Report of the Railroad Commissioner, for the Year Ending December 31, 1897: Made to the General Assembly at Its January Session, 1898 To the Honorable General Assembly of the State of Rhode Island: Gentlemen: - In accordance with the provisions of Section 6, Chapter 187, of the General Laws, I present the following report of the financial condition and operations of the several railroad corporations organized or doing business in this State, and such other statistics and matters connected therewith as I trust will be of interest to all concerned. The returns of the several corporations are made, as required by law, for the year ending on the 30th day of June, 1897. These returns will be found in full in the appendix to this report, together with tables compiled therefrom, giving the more important statistics up to that date. As in previous years the general report covers the entire year from January 1st to December 31st, 1897. The general railroad business of the United States has shown an improvement over that of the previous year, and this improvement was largely in the last half of the year. The crops of cereals in the western and north-western States were the largest ever known, and the resources of the railroads have not been sufficient to provide speedy transmission of the same to tide-water. Nearly all of the large systems have shown a substantial advance in net earnings, and some roads that had previously passed their dividends have resumed their place among the dividend paying roads. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.