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Table III. 



Amount Total number 



Name of Railway Company. of of 



Capital Stock. Shareholders. 



Arkansas & Choctaw railway $ 15,230,000 6 



Chicago, St. Louis & New Orleans 10,000,000 22 



Cincinnati & Northern 6,800,000 6 



Dubuque & Sioux City 10,999,600 31 



Eastern Railway company of Minnesota 16,000,000 6 



Erie Railroad company 176,000,000 17 



Fremont, Elkhorn & Missouri Valley 36,940,000 8 



Kansas City, Fort Scott & Memphis 28,510,000 17 



Kansas City Southern 51,000,000 15 



Northern Pacific 155,000,000 17 



Morgan's Louisiana & Texas Railroad and Steamship 



company 15,000,000 6 



Southern Railway company 180,000,000 13 



St. Joseph & Grand Island 13,598,500 9 



St. Louis, Iron Mountain & Southern 25,795,055 32 



St. Paul, Minneapolis & Manitoba 20,000,000 69 



The New England Railroad company 25,000,000 51 



Wilmar & Sioux Falls 7,000,000 6 



Wisconsin Central 30,000,000 12 



Yazoo & Mississippi Valley 6,168,400 14 



NEW ENGLAND RAILROADS. 

 Table IV. 



Amount Total number 



Name of Railway Company. of of 



Capital Stock. Shareholders 



Boston & Lowell $6,529,400 2,142 



Boston & Providence 4,000,000 1,668 



Connecticut River railroad 2,630,000 952 



New Haven & Northampton 2,460,000 7 



New London Northern 1,500,000 379 



Providence & Worcester 3,500,000 902 



Vermont & Massachusetts 3,193,000 1,312 



Worcester, Nashua & Rochester 3,099,800 805 



Boston & New York Air line 3,907,968 610 



Central New England 6,600,000 277 



Hartford & Connecticut Western 2,712,800 641 



Naugatuck Railway company 2,000,000 463 



Norwich & Worcester 3,006,600 941 



Atlantic & St. Lawrence 5,484,000 1,647 



Concord & Montreal 7,197,600 2,214 



Maine Central 4,975,300 824 



Manchester & Lawrence 1,000,000 545 



Northern Railroad company 3,068,400 1,179 



Bennington & Rutland 1,000,000 8 



Newport & Richford 3,200,000 9 



Rutland railroad 6,719,700 about 600 



St. Johnsbury & Lake Champlain 3,848,500 432 



Vermont Valley 1,000.000 59 



Bangor & Aroostook 2,178,307 24 



Grand Trunk railway 5,484,000 1,630 



Portland & Rumford Falls 1,000,000 50 



Washington County Railroad company 1,999,000 27 



A glance at the foregoing tables reveals a striking contrast 

 between different railways as to the proportion between the 



