Excerpt from Corporation Finance Every day of the year numerous opportunities for the production of wealth are being brought forward, deposits of minerals are discovered, franchises obtained, patents granted. Railway extensions are constantly bringing new land, timber, and coal into the market. Increasing population offers a basis for water, light and transportation plants. New inven tions stimulate new wants, and these wants in their turn produce new means of satisfaction. In 1900, the production of bituminous coal in the United States was tons in 1908, eight years later, this amount had more than doubled, rising to tons. The production of pig iron, which accurately shows the increase in the construction of the plant of society, during the same period increased from tons to tons, and the production of steel increased in practically the same ratio. The produc tion of lumber in thousand feet dflnflw rose from to i w. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.