Louis. as far South as Evansville. and as far North as Chicago. When it reaches the latter place. which is the most distant. being 258 miles. its chief cost is the cost of transportation. When it gets to Chicago it finds no competition from the pauper labor of Europe. but it finds the most nipping and close competition from the laborproducing coal coming from Ohio. Pennsylvania. and Illinois. and competition possibly not so nipping of other railroads leading into Chicago. but such as to require it. when it gets there. to be thrown upon the market at $2.50 per ton. If when it got there it would bring $3.50 per ton. every person who has ever done business with railroads knows that the freight would be just $1 per ton more.
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