Excerpt from The Irrigation Age, Vol. 26: November, 1910 Mr. Mellen could testify that he saw the great North ern Pacific wrecked by the crowd of political leeches that it supported and enriched in its early days. Had the Northern Pacific spent as much money on irrigation systems and farm development as it did in running the politics of the Northwest up to the time Mr. Hill took it over, that company and the people along its lines would have been far more prosperous between 1880 and 1900. Mr. Mellen's words ought to be ...
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Excerpt from The Irrigation Age, Vol. 26: November, 1910 Mr. Mellen could testify that he saw the great North ern Pacific wrecked by the crowd of political leeches that it supported and enriched in its early days. Had the Northern Pacific spent as much money on irrigation systems and farm development as it did in running the politics of the Northwest up to the time Mr. Hill took it over, that company and the people along its lines would have been far more prosperous between 1880 and 1900. Mr. Mellen's words ought to be considered by many other railroad men. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at ... This 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.
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