Excerpt from Addresses of James J. Hill to the Illinois Manufactures Association Chicago: June 4, 1902And this is done while every article used by the railroads, including labor, costs more in this country than it costs in Europe with the exception of coal and right of way. Wages in the United States are, as a rule, more than twice as high, and this high cost in the United States is constantly increasing. Take, for instance, the material in an ordinary box car, the cost of which has increased in the past three years over 20 per cent.About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.comThis 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.