and three Cedar Rapids men, directors (this is a part of the Sioux City & Pacific road); Winona & St. Peters company--Fiscal and transfer office, Wall street, New York; Burlington & Missouri River (in Nebraska)--Principal office, Boston; Sioux City & Pacific company--Directors: Oakes Ames, and six others, in the east, and G. M. Dodge, of Iowa--Fiscal and transfer office, Boston; Missouri River, Fort Scott, & Gulf company--Fiscal and Transfer office, Boston; Central Pacific company--Fiscal offices, San Francisco and New York; [A]New Orleans, Mobile, & Texas company--Oakes Ames and twelve other directors, resident in New York and the east, and two in New Orleans; principal office, New York; Houston & Texas company--Fiscal agency and transfer office, New York; Chicago & Northern Pacific Air Line company--Principal office, New York; Elizabeth, Lexington, & Big Sandy company--Principal office, New York; Dubuque & Sioux City company--General offices, Dubuque, Iowa, and New York. [B]Texas and Pacific company--Principal office, New York. [A] NOTE.--This company has a donation from the state of Louisiana of $3,000,000; a subscription of stock by the same state to the amount of $2,500,000; and the same state has indorsed the company's bonds to the amount of $12,500 per mile. This company has also received other large sums in municipal aid and other donations. [B] NOTE.--This company has a grant of 13,440,000 acres of land, and other aid. We might continue the above list indefinitely, but think we have extended it sufficiently to sustain our charges. If the reader is desirous of learning who compose these various companies, the Railroad Manual will disclose the same set of leading men, divided into three or four principal squads or companies, who raid from one end of the country to the other; control all the roads that have received aid, and at once place them under the direction of the central railroad combinations in Boston and New York; diverting the grants and donations supposed to have been made for the benefit and in the interest of the people, to their own selfish purposes; making the aid thus granted a means of oppression to the people, rather than an agency for their relief. CHAPTER XIV. THE IMPOVERISHING TRANSPORTATION SYSTEM.--THE WAREHOUSE CONSPIRACY.