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FOOTNOTES
[87] Quoted from “Niles’ Register” of 1812 by Dunbar.
[88] Stevens’ pamphlet published in 1812.
[89] Stephenson’s first locomotive was put out in 1814. His _Rocket_
and Ericsson’s _Novelty_ had their famous contest resulting in favor
of the _Rocket_ in 1829.
[90] Brown’s “History of the First Locomotive,” letter from Cooper,
1869.
[91] The coning of wheels is an invention of Jonathan Knight,
Engineer of the Baltimore & Ohio Railroad Company.
[92] Dunbar, “A History of Travel in America,” 932.
[93] Dunbar, “A History of Travel in America,” 960.
[94] The _Albany Argus_, August 11, 1831.
[95] “History of the Railroads and Canals of the United States,”
1860, Vol. I, p. 377.
[96] Dunbar, “A History of Travel in America,” 998, 1383.
[97] Dunbar, “A History of Travel in America,” 1071.
[98] _Potter’s American Monthly_, July, 1879.
[99] T. C. Smith, _American Nation_, Vol. XVIII, p. 60.
[100] E. W. Martin, “History of the Grange Movement,” 1874, p. 35.
[101] Donaldson, “History of the Public Domain.” University of
Wisconsin Bulletin: “Congressional Grants of Land in Aid of
Railways,” by J. B. Sanborn, Pol. Sci. and History Series, Vol. II,
No. 3.
[102] The “History of the Grange Movement,” a subscription book by
Edward Winslow Martin, published in 1874, but which can hardly be
taken as wholly reliable, says: “The lands granted by the Government
to various railway corporations make up a total area of 198,165,794
acres, or about 300,000 square miles--an area larger than the State
of Texas, which contains 237,504 square miles ... and the railway
subsidies comprise nearly one-tenth of the entire Union.”
[103] Dunbar, “A History of Travel in America,” Chap. LVI, et seq.
Donaldson, “History of the Public Domain.”
[104] Senate Executive Document No. 78, 33d Congress, 2d Session.
[105] U. S. Statutes. Acts of 1862 and 1864.
[106] By subsequent provision the right of way was cut to two hundred
feet, although the company still holds four hundred feet through
parts of Nebraska.
[107] Thomas Donaldson’s “History of the Public Domain.”
[108] “House Reports,” 42 Cong., 3d Session, No. 77.
[109] U. S. Statutes, 51 Cong., 1 Sess., Chap. DCXLVII.
[110] Digest U. S. Supreme Court Reports, Vol. IV, “Monopoly,” pp.
4043-4052, The Lawyers Co-operative Publishing Company, Rochester, N.
Y., 1908.
[111] Funk and Wagnalls’ Encyclopedia.
[112] Jointly with Gould Interests.
[113] Jointly with Rockefeller, Kuhn, Loeb, & Co., Vanderbilt and
other interests.
[114] Jointly with Standard Oil interests.
[115] Jointly with Erie, Reading and Vanderbilt interests.
[116] “The Story of the Pullman Car,” by Joseph Husband. A. C.
McClurg & Company, Chicago, 1917. Cf. _Literary Digest_, February 10,
1923, p. 25.
[117] Funk and Wagnalls’ Encyclop.
[118] “Special Reports, Streets and Electric Railways,” U. S. Census
Bureau (1902). This, of course, was not a practical machine.
[119] “American Nation,” Vol. XXIII, 39.
[120] U. S. Eleventh Census (1890), “Transportation on Land.”
[121] See Maps in Century Dictionary.
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