Excerpt from Investors' Supplement of the Commercial and Financial Chronicle, Vol. 48: January 26, 1889 Among the larger companies the St. Paul, like the Atchison, has stopped altogether on its common stock, though on the preferred stock there was only a reduction - the last semiannual dividend being per cent, instead of 3} per cent. As a rule, the roads which have suffered most are those which until lately were especially promi nent in adding new mileage and extending their systems. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com 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.