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28. Park Bank, New York the finest Bank Building in the 



United States .................................................................. 192 



29. Omaha Eastern Terminus of the Union Pacific Railroad ...... 196 



30. Scene on the Truckee Central Pacific Railroad .................... 200 



31. Wild-Cat Railroad Lands ..................................................... 203 



32. View of the Country to be opened by the Southern Pacific 



Railroad .......................................................................... 204 



33. In the Tunnel Sierra Nevada. Central Pacific Railroad ...... 205 



34. Duluth Eastern Terminus of Northern Pacific Railroad ...... 209 



35. Puget Sound. Proposed Western Terminus of the Northern 



Pacific Railroad ............................................................... 213 



36. The Falls of the Yellowstone, on the Route of the Northern 



Pacific Railroad ............................................................... 217 



37. Camp of Railroad Builders on the Northern Pacific Railroad.. 226 



38. Inhabitants of the Country through which the Northern Pa- 



cific Railroad was being built ............................................ 238 



39. Evening Recreations of Railroad Gamblers ........................... 241 



40. Crossing the Plains on the Union Pacific Railroad ................. 243 



41. Snow Sheds on the Central Pacific ....................................... 249 



42. United States Treasury the Medium through which the 



National Legislature robs the People .................................. 252 



43. Mining Village in Pennsylvania ............................................ 256 



44. Interior of a Coal Mine ......................................................... 262 



45. Vertical Section of a Coal Mine ................ . ........................... 268 



46. Scene in the Coal Regions ..................................................... 272 



47. Western Coal Mine .............................................................. 276 



48. Wagoning Grain to Market .................................................. 287 



49. St. Paul, Minnesota .............................................................. 290 



50. The Middle-Man's Dream of his Plunder .............................. 296 



51. Life among the Middle-Men .................................................. 305 



52. Camp of Wagoners hauling Grain to Market... ....................... 315 



53. What is left of a Crop after paying Railroad Charges ............ 323 



54. Raising the Rates of Railroad Freights ................................. 326 



55. Fanner Green tries his Reaper ............................................. 342 



56. Farmer Green mortgages his Farm ....................................... 345 



57. S. M. Smith, Secretary of the Illinois State Farmers' Asso- 



ciation ............................................................................. 358 



58. W. C. Flagg, President of the Illinois State Farmers' Asso- 



ciation ............................................................................. 362 



.59. The Granger's Home ............................................................ 375 



60. Ixincan M'Kay, Treasurer of the Illinois State Famers' Asso- 



ciation .............. i .............................................................. 534 



