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Show Toe statsi.rent of the legal representative rep-resentative of the Government is interesting in-teresting in that it asserts that the railroad company spent only $G8,-000,000 $G8,-000,000 to build a road and later sold more tlhan $205,000,030 worth of land. It still retains six million acres. This looks like the Government paid a higu ririce to get private capital to construct railroads. The history cf much railroad construction con-struction in this country reveals the enor.r.ious sutsides fro.n( the Government. Govern-ment. In no sense were the undertakings under-takings the result of private initiative. initi-ative. In some cases, the subsidies, land grants and contributions in dennection with the construction of railroads amounted to a. scandal. |