Excerpt from Transportation and Industrial Development in the Middle West Every effort has been made to avoid the usual errors in collecting, recording and organizing the numerous facts which have been drawn from many scattered sources. No apology is offered for the extensive use of newspapers as sources of material for certain parts of the study; for while the chief source has been the official documents, yet these only state results. In order to discover what the people were thinking about various policies of the state and local governments and the different phases of their industrial and transportation development, no better source of information is known to. The writer than the newspaper. In many cases official reports have been found unsatis factory, and an investigation of the original documents has been necessary. 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.