U. S. Statutes, 41st Congress, 1st Session, Chap. DCXLVII, Sherman Anti-Trust Law. U. S. Statutes, Railroad Bills, 1850-1880 House Report 42d Cong., 3d Session, No. 77. FOOTNOTES [87] Quoted from “Niles’ Register” of 1812 by Dunbar. [88] Stevens’ pamphlet published in 1812. [89] Stephenson’s first locomotive was put out in 1814. His _Rocket_ and Ericsson’s _Novelty_ had their famous contest resulting in favor of the _Rocket_ in 1829. [90] Brown’s “History of the First Locomotive,” letter from Cooper, 1869. [91] The coning of wheels is an invention of Jonathan Knight, Engineer of the Baltimore & Ohio Railroad Company. [92] Dunbar, “A History of Travel in America,” 932. [93] Dunbar, “A History of Travel in America,” 960. [94] The _Albany Argus_, August 11, 1831. [95] “History of the Railroads and Canals of the United States,” 1860, Vol. I, p. 377. [96] Dunbar, “A History of Travel in America,” 998, 1383. [97] Dunbar, “A History of Travel in America,” 1071. [98] _Potter’s American Monthly_, July, 1879. [99] T. C. Smith, _American Nation_, Vol. XVIII, p. 60. [100] E. W. Martin, “History of the Grange Movement,” 1874, p. 35. [101] Donaldson, “History of the Public Domain.” University of Wisconsin Bulletin: “Congressional Grants of Land in Aid of Railways,” by J. B. Sanborn, Pol. Sci. and History Series, Vol. II, No. 3. [102] The “History of the Grange Movement,” a subscription book by Edward Winslow Martin, published in 1874, but which can hardly be taken as wholly reliable, says: “The lands granted by the Government to various railway corporations make up a total area of 198,165,794 acres, or about 300,000 square miles--an area larger than the State of Texas, which contains 237,504 square miles ... and the railway subsidies comprise nearly one-tenth of the entire Union.” [103] Dunbar, “A History of Travel in America,” Chap. LVI, et seq. Donaldson, “History of the Public Domain.” [104] Senate Executive Document No. 78, 33d Congress, 2d Session. [105] U. S. Statutes. Acts of 1862 and 1864. [106] By subsequent provision the right of way was cut to two hundred feet, although the company still holds four hundred feet through parts of Nebraska. [107] Thomas Donaldson’s “History of the Public Domain.” [108] “House Reports,” 42 Cong., 3d Session, No. 77. [109] U. S. Statutes, 51 Cong., 1 Sess., Chap. DCXLVII. [110] Digest U. S. Supreme Court Reports, Vol. IV, “Monopoly,” pp. 4043-4052, The Lawyers Co-operative Publishing Company, Rochester, N. Y., 1908. [111] Funk and Wagnalls’ Encyclopedia. [112] Jointly with Gould Interests. [113] Jointly with Rockefeller, Kuhn, Loeb, & Co., Vanderbilt and other interests. [114] Jointly with Standard Oil interests. [115] Jointly with Erie, Reading and Vanderbilt interests.