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KING AND TRANSPORTATION, t d d r e a a by r . R o b e r t W. Hunt, P r e s i d e n t , Robert W, Hunt and Cor a n y . F n g i n e e r e , Chioago, I l l i n o i s .

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the constantly advancing progress of this /•ery marked and satisfactory feature of its t is along lines so directly bearing upon ; material requirements of the times. Cerb two features of our economic life great-

in importance two which are

pan those of Mining and Transportation; and pre olosely associated and interdependent.

he gentlemen who have preoeded me this evening nd eloquently dealt with transportation problems er required by them; but without the products of me pru

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e could not have either, unless perhaps in their ins. Transportation itself, without mining, is

adequate to the needs of the present, but if we mited to it in the past, our present civilization npoi iou direct consumption lessened, and in m aotioal abandonment coal for transi districts water t ? the uso of minorge

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all certain that Mr