GOODS TRANSPORT. 



These results are important to the holder of stock in these 

 western lines, in so far as they demonstrate how permanent and 

 secure must he the revenue of the western railroads. The vast 

 hulk of the western population is agricultural, and will long con- 

 tinue to he so, and hy far the largest proportion of the receipts of 

 their railways will he from the transportation of freight. There 

 is, besides, hardly a country in the world where the same amount 

 of labour produces an equal amount of freight. These, and other 

 reasons which will suggest themselves from the facts given, go to 

 show how solid the basis would seem to be for the prosperity of 

 the western roads generally, while the premium for which their 



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