But by the opening decade of the twentieth century the railroads had become victims of their own success.
Part of the increase in the number of weeks worked and wages earned between 1834 and 1837 was due to new work on the railroad.
Between 1862 and 1872, the federal government spent millions of dollars and allotted over 100 million acres of land to railroad corporations.
This period also witnessed an increase in railroad mileage as well as growth in such industries as timbering, sawmills, and cotton textile mills.
These three opinions, however, did not complete the transformation with regard to the liabilities of railroads to passengers.
A want of proper circumspection on their part is liable to produce disastrous consequences to railroad travelers, as well as to themselves.
Hundreds of blues songs treat the railroad thematically.
And, before the railroad, travel was difficult enough to preclude any sort of concert circuit of touring virtuosos, even had the demand been there.
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