Proceedings of the Annual Meeting of the National Board of Trade

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Excerpt from Proceedings of the Annual Meeting of the National Board of Trade: Held in Washington January 1884 This volume contains the proceedings of the National Board of Trade at its Fourteenth Annual Meeting, held in Washington in January last, and will he found no less useful than its predecessors in the light which it throws upon pending questions relating to the commercial and financial prosperity and progress of the country. The speeches of Mr. Dodd on the Commerce, present and prospective, of the Columbia River, of Mr. Dore on Canal Transportation, of Mr. Sterne on Reform in Railway Administration, and of Mr. Butler on Silver Coinage, the paper of Mr. Covington on the Waste of the National Wealth by Fire, and the letter of Mr. Thurber on the Postal Telegraph and Telephone in Great Britain, are full of interesting and important information, and the debates which took place on these and other subjects were intelligent and suggestive. Since the meeting, an article has appeared in the "Nineteenth Century, " from the pen of Mr. William Fowler, M. P., which more than confirms all that was said by Mr. Dore about the rapidly increasing exportation of wheat from India to European countries, and especially to Great Britain. The bearing which this movement has upon the agricultural and commercial interests of the United States, will justify further reference to it here. Mr. Fowler says: "A few years ago no one thought much of Indian wheat as an article of commerce. The trade may be said to have commenced in 1873, when the export duty ceased. Great reductions in freight have recently occurred, and railways, however gradually, have approached some of the great wheat-growing districts. The progress of the trade has been truly astonishing. 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.