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Excerpt from Annual Report of the Railroad Commissioner: For the Year Ending December 31, 1906, Made to the General Assembly at Its January Session, 1907 To the Honorable the General Assembly of Rhode Island. Gentlemen: - Section six, chapter one hundred eighty-seven, of the General Laws of this State provides that "the Railroad Commissioner shall annually report to the General Assembly the condition and proceedings of the several railroad corporations, so far as the public interest may require, with such suggestions and recommendations as he may deem necessary and expedient." In accordance therewith I present the following report. The annual returns of the several steam and electric railroads, organized under the laws of this State or doing business or operating railroads within its territory, will be found in full in the appendix to this report with tables compiled therefrom, giving the more important statistics of their operation. As the law requires, these returns are made up to the 30th day of June, 1906, for the fiscal year ending on that date. The general report, however, is for the calendar year from January 1, 1906, to December 31, 1906. The year 1906 has been a most successful one for the railroads of this country, and in many respects a record-breaker. More miles of new railroad have been builded than in any year except the year 1902; more cars and locomotives have been turned out than in any previous year; and the number of passengers carried has been largely in excess of previous years; and yet there have been more complaints of lack or cars, both freight and passenger, than were ever known. 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.