i6o REPORTS ON inve;stigations and projects. 



Division 3. — Mining. 



No publication of results has as yet been made in this department, which 

 is under the charge of Edward W. Parker, of the Geological Survey, but 

 he has several chapters of his final work nearing completion, and has no con- 

 cern about the ultimate result. 



Division 4. — Manufactures. 



Dr. Victor S. Clark is making a very thorough study of the development of 

 manufactures, and is receiving most cordial responses from all parties, both 

 north and south. The work in this department was delayed by the resigna- 

 tion of Mr. S. N. D. North, on account of his arduous duties in the Census 

 Office, and the whole work of the division turned over to myself. I have 

 employed Dr. Clark as my assistant in this, and I think the division has made 

 advances nearly equal to those of any other. The work is progressing rapidly 

 and satisfactorily. 



Division 5. — Transportation. 



Prof. B. H. Meyer is conducting this particular work, and is making rapid 

 headway. The only papers which have received financial assistance from the 

 Department in their preparation, and which have thus far been published, are 

 the essays of Professors Ripley and Phillips, but the following works, in all 

 probability, will be finished during the next six or eight months : 



"Railway pools," by Alton D. Adams. A good-sized monograph, ready for the printer. 



"The Granger movement," by S. J. Buck. 



A series of five monographs embracing such topics as "Railway construction," "Finan- 

 ciering," "Receiverships," etc., by Dr. F. A. Cleveland, New York City. 



"Railway accidents," by Prof. C. W. Doten, Boston, Mass., whose work has been pub- 

 lished since the report of the collaborator in charge was made. 



"Early transportation in Ohio," by W. F. Gephart. 



"A congressional history of railways," by Dr. Lewis H. Haney, one volume of which is 

 ready for the press. 



"Canals," by Chester Lloyd Jones, of Philadelphia, ready for the press. 



"The struggle between Atlantic seaports for trade from the interior," by Dr. G. D. 

 Luertscher. 



"The relation between Canadian railways and the railways in the United States," by 

 Prof. S. J. McLean. 



"Railway development in Southern territory," by Prof. U. B. Phillips, of the University 

 of Wisconsin, published in the Quarterly Journal of Economics, May, 1906, and two 

 other chapters by him, ready for the press. 



"The history of railway transportation in Texas," by Prof. C. S. Potts, Austin, Texas. 



"Rate systems of trunk lines and southern territory," by Prof. W. Z. Ripley. The first 

 part of his work was published in the Quarterly Journal of Economics last February. 



"Commerce on the Great Lakes," by Dr. G. G. Tunnell, Chicago. 



"River transportation in the United States," by Dr. R. B. Way, Northwestern Univer- 

 sity, Evanston, Illinois. 



"Railway transportation in the Oregon country," by Prof. F. G. Young, University of 

 Oregon. 



It will thus be seen that the Division of Transportation has already com- 

 pleted a great deal of its work. 



