The only district that earned its standard return was the Southern District, comprising the states east of the Mississippi and south of the Ohio and Potomac. The result in the South is attributed to the recent improvement in the physical condition of... The Quarterly Journal of Economics - Page 590edited by - 1919Full view - About this book
| JAMES FREEMAN CLARKE - 1863 - 920 pages
...recruit its army exclusively from its own population ? The whole white population of the nine slave states east of the Mississippi and south of the Ohio and Potomac, in 1860, was only 5,26V,549 ; and of this number there were in Kentucky, which remains loyal, and in... | |
| 1900 - 656 pages
...the interest of any section, and tells in an interesting way the rapid strides made in the country east of the Mississippi and south of the Ohio and Potomac. The Southern Railway is the publisher of this volume, which is in no sense a railroad advertisement. It... | |
| United States - 1901 - 944 pages
...of the Ohio and Potomac rivers, and the States west of the Mississippi River. The increase shown in the States east of the Mississippi and south of the Ohio and Potomac rivers as compared with other divisions is of particular interest as indicating the industrial development... | |
| Frank LeRond McVey - Railroads - 1910 - 508 pages
...York. The Southern classification is administered through a committee in Atlanta over the territory east of the Mississippi and south of the Ohio and Potomac. The Western classification prevails in the country west of the Mississippi, the headquarters of the committee... | |
| Emory Richard Johnson, Grover Gerhardt Huebner - Railroads - 1920 - 572 pages
...territory and with shipments eastbound to points beyond its territory. In the southern part of the United States east of the Mississippi and south of the Ohio and Potomac are the (5) Associated Railways of Virginia and the Carolinas, and the (6) Southeastern Freight Association,... | |
| Emory Richard Johnson - United States - 1915 - 394 pages
...Products. Coal and Coke. 160, 'US Census 1900, Manufactures. IV. 140, Texas, Louisiana, Arkansas, and all the States east of the Mississippi and south of the Ohio and Potomac Rivers, except Kentucky and Tennessee; the chief timbers of this section were the longleaf and the... | |
| Frank Haigh Dixon - Railroads and state - 1922 - 408 pages
...railroad revenue fell short of the amount required to meet the "standard return" by over $200,000,000. The only district that earned its standard return...south of the Ohio and Potomac. The result in the South was due in large measure to the fact that investment in betterments did not begin to show results until... | |
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