Excerpt from American Railways as Investments The discrepancy between the magnitude of such interests, and so much unconscious ignorance on the part of a shrewd and enquiring people, curious especially in matters of finance, and in none so much as railway finance, is the apology for the following Tract. 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.