The History Of The Erie Railroad Ever

Consequently Many Large Railroad Systems Of Heavy Capitalization Bid Fair To Run Into Difficulties On The First Serious Falling Off In General Business

The United States As We Know It Today Is Largely The Result Of Mechanical Inventions, And In Particular Of Agricultural Machinery And The Railroad. One Transformed Millions Of Acres Of Uncultivated Land Into Fertile Farms, While The Other Furnished The Transportation Which Carried The Crops To Distant Markets.

People Began To Understand That With The Acquisition Of California The Nation Had Obtained Practically Half A Continent, Of Which The Future Possibilities Were Almost Unlimited, So Far As The Development Of Natural Resources And The Genera Production Of Wealth Were Concerned.

Horses And Mules, And Even Sail Cars, Made More Rapid Progress Than Did The Earliest Locomotive.

When The Scheme For The Construction Of A Railroad From Baltimore To The Waters Of The Ohio River First Began To Take Form, The United States Had Barely Emerged From The Revolutionary Period