Excerpt from The Railroaders' Next Step Amalgamation Most of this is rich farming, mineral and timber land. It is now worth billions of dollars. One unacquainted with the greed of the railroad companies might think that they would have been satisfied with this gigantic steal. But not they; they are money mad; they want the whole country. It happened that some of their land grants included desert land; so, in the guise of helping poor settlers, they had a law passed allowing anyone who had received government desert land to exchange it for government farming land. Then they hastily dumped in acres of desert land and took in exchange, not farming land, but acres of Northwest timber land, the finest on the globe. This was a typical railroad fraud. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books.

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