agricultural interests of the great west. By having placed in their hands the large grants of land and subsidies voted to railroad corporations, they acquired the means of controlling the principal roads throughout the country. Roads in Texas, Louisiana, Alabama, Arkansas, Kansas, Nebraska, Iowa, and in other states and territories, are owned and managed in the exclusive interest of capitalists in the eastern cities who have no interest in the communities where these roads are located, save to realize large dividends by extortions and oppressions. All of the roads receiving large grants and subsidies, whether from the general or state government, or as local aid, are in the hands of this class of men, with their fiscal and transfer agencies in the cities above named. This statement has its illustration in the Kansas City, St. Joseph, & Council Bluffs company, which has five directors in Boston, two in New York, one in Michigan, and one in Missouri--Fiscal agency and transfer office, Boston. Peoria & Bureau Valley company has its principal office in New York; Chicago & Northwestern--Financial and transfer office, Wall street, New York; Dubuque & Southwestern--all of the directors, save one, and its financial agency, in New York; Atchinson, Topeka, & Santa Fe company--fiscal agency and transfer office, Boston; Galveston, Harrisburg, & San Antonio company--Fiscal and transfer agency, Boston; Leavenworth, Lawrence, & Galveston company--Fiscal agency and transfer office, Boston; Kansas City & Sante Fe company--Fiscal and transfer agency, Boston; Cedar Falls & Minnesota company--All of the directors reside in New York; Iowa Falls & Sioux City company--Of the directors, John B. Alley, Oliver Ames, P. S. Crowell, and W. T. Gilden, reside in Massachusetts, J. I. Blair in New Jersey, and W. B. Allison and Horace Williams in Iowa--Fiscal and transfer agency, Boston; Colorado Central company--Of the directors, Oliver Ames, Frederick L. Ames, and four others, reside in Massachusetts, and the fiscal agency is in Boston, and the principal office in California; Cedar Rapids and Missouri River company--John B. Alley, Oliver Ames, and nine other of the directors are in the eastern states, and James F. Wilson, and three others, are of Iowa; Northern Pacific company--Principal office, New York; Hannibal & St. Joseph company--Fiscal and transfer office, New York; Burlington & Missouri River company--Fiscal and transfer office, New York; Union Pacific (central branch)--All but two of the directors in Washington City and the east, and principal office in New York; Union Pacific--Among the directors are Oliver Ames, Oakes Ames, and eleven others in New York and Massachusetts, one in Illinois, and G. M. Dodge in Iowa--Fiscal agency, Boston; transfer offices, Boston and New York; Fremont, Elkhorn, & Missouri Valley company--John B. Alley, of Boston, John I. and D. C. Blair, of New Jersey, C. G. Mitchell, of New York,