Report Of The Commission To Consider The Improvement Of Transportation Facilities In The Commonwealth And Especially In The Five Western Counties Thereof PDF Download

Excerpt from Report of the Commission to Consider the Improvement of Transportation Facilities in the Commonwealth and Especially in the Five Western Counties Thereof: January, 1915 Resolved, That the governor, with the advice and consent of the council, shall, within thirty days after the passage of this resolve, appoint five persons, citizens of the commonwealth, one of whom shall be designated as chairman, as commission to investigate and consider further the subjects as considered by the Special legislative committee whose report is contained in senate document No. 300 of the year nineteen hundred and thirteen; and also to consider generally the needs, possibilities, and probable bene fits, both to the commonwealth and to the five western counties thereof, of a development and extension of transportation facilities, and of a utilization of the agricultural, dairy and Stock-raising opportunities of said counties; and to study the causes and remedies for the diminution of population and the decline of industries and agriculture therein; the best method of securing the necessary transportation facilities, including the feasibility and probable cost of construction by the commonwealth of and the best kind of construction and most practicable and useful routes for, a system of railroads, street and electric railways or state highways to serve, and to promote the development oi, said counties; the advantages and defects of the operation of such a transportation sys tem either by agents of the commonwealth itself, or by leases to, or operat ing agreements with, existing railroad corporations or street railway companies, of otherwise; the desirability and feasibility of securing the construction of such a system of transportation by existing transportation companies through financial aid from the commonwealth by subscriptions to stocks, purchase of bonds, direct loans, or guaranty of stock or bonds, or otherwise; and the expediency, either as a part or independently of the introduction of such transportation system, of a state plan of agrif cultural credit, under proper safeguards, to present or prospective ih habitants engaged in agriculture or stock-raising. 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.