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Division 5. — Transportation. 



Prof. B. H. Meyer, of the University of Wisconsin, makes a very satisfac- 

 tory report of the progress of work under him during the past year. The 

 studies completed and already published are as follows : 



The State works of Pennsylvania, by A. L. Bishop. (Connecticut Academy of Arts 



and Sciences, 1907.) 

 Railroad reorganization, by Stuart Daggett. (Houghton, Mifflin & Co., 1908.) 

 Congressional history of railways, vol. i, by Lewis H. Hanej\ (University of Wiscon- 

 sin, 1908.) 

 Anthracite tide-water canals, by Chester L. Jones. (University of Pennsylvania, 1908.) 

 Transportation in the antebellum South ; an economic analysis, by U. B. Phillips. 



(Quarterly Journal of Economics, May, 1905.) 

 An American State-owned railroad (the Western and Atlantic), by U. B. Phillips. 



(Yale Review, November, 1906.) 

 A history of transportation in the eastern cotton belt to i860, by U. B. Phillips. (The 



Columbia University Press (Macmillan Company), 1908.) 

 The trunk-line rate system; a distance tariff, by W. Z. Ripley. (Quarterly Journal of 



Economics, vol. 20, 1906, reprinted in Ripley Railway Problems (Ginn&Co.), 1907.) 

 Private freight cars and American railways, by L. D. H. Weld. (Columbia University 



Studies (Longmans, Green & Co.), 1908.) 



The studies enumerated below are completed, but not yet published : 



Railway pooling, by Alton D. Adams. 



Financial history of railroads, vol. i, by F. A. Cleveland. 



Railroad accidents, by Carroll W. Doten. 



Congressional history of railways, vol. 2, by Lewis H. Haney. 



Atlantic tide-water canals, by Geo. D. Luetscher. 



Railway transportation in Texas, by C. S. Potts. 



History of navigation on the lower Mississippi, by R. B. Way. 



The studies still uncompleted are: 



History of the Illinois Central Railroad: H. G. Brownson. 



History of the Granger movement: Solon J. Buck. 



Financial history of railroads, vol. 2 : F. A. Cleveland. 



Railway transportation in Ohio : W. F. Gephart. 



Canadian railways in their relation to railways in the United States : S. L. McLean. 



Transportation in the western cotton belt : U. B. Phillips. 



History of transportation on the Great Lakes : Geo. G. Tunnell. 



The development of transportation in California and the growth of the transcontinental 



business : A. A. Young. 

 Development of transportation in the Pacific Northwest : F. G. Young. 



Some of these uncompleted studies will probably be finished before this 

 report can be furnished, while others will probably consume the greater part 

 of 1909, if not the entire year. A year ago it seemed reasonably certain that 

 the manuscripts of all these studies would be completed by September of this 

 year, but unforeseen circumstances have made it impossible for a number of 

 Professor Meyer's assistants to carry out their plans. They have all of them 

 been working to the best of their ability and in good faith, and it may be 

 September i. 1909, therefore, before all these special studies can be turned in. 



The Division of Transportation, as reported, has published the series of 

 studies enumerated above, and it holds the completed manuscripts under the 



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