Excerpt from The Anthracite Coal Combination in the United States: With Some Account of the Early Development of the Anthracite Industry Quarterly Journal of Economics, and for inspiration and counsel, I am much indebted to Professor F. W. Taussig. I wish, further, to thank the many governmental officials, state and national, who have most courteously supplied me with documents and information; the library authorities of Boston, New York, Phila delphia, and Washington for the use of the material at their disposal; and the ...
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Excerpt from The Anthracite Coal Combination in the United States: With Some Account of the Early Development of the Anthracite Industry Quarterly Journal of Economics, and for inspiration and counsel, I am much indebted to Professor F. W. Taussig. I wish, further, to thank the many governmental officials, state and national, who have most courteously supplied me with documents and information; the library authorities of Boston, New York, Phila delphia, and Washington for the use of the material at their disposal; and the coal mining companies for permission to make an extended trip through the mines and breakers. For the preparation of the charts I am indebted to my brother Chapin. But most of all I wish to express my deep obligations to my father for unfailing stimulus, and for emphasis, within the class room and without, on a scientific spirit and on the majesty of fact. 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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