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Excerpt from The Fifth Annual Report of the Philadelphia, Wilmington and Baltimore Railroad Company: With the Report of the Chief Engineer, and Proceedings of the Stockholders' Meeting, Held January 9, 1843 The great reduction in the consumption of this article over 1841 is in part owing to the introduction of soft metal bearings in 1841, the greater part of which year had the benefit of their use, though not all of it; but the chief saving has been produced by restricting the distribution of Oil to two points, Wilmington and Canton, and charging every one with the quantity taken.' In the Spring of 1842 there were seven points for the distribution of Oil, each supplied with a cask or barrel. A still greater diminution 111 the consumption of Coal will take place. 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.