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Excerpt from Proceedings of the Special Committee on Railroads, 1879: Appointed Under a Resolution of the Assembly to Investigate Alleged Abuses in the Management of Railroads Chartered by the State of New York Q. As compared with what points? A. As compared with most of the west, even the far west. Q. When you speak of the far west, what points do you speak of? A. I speak more especially of the rates from Chicago, Milwaukee, St. Louis, Cincinnati, and even as far west as Kansas. 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.