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6495	Myers, Gustavus	Great Fortunes from Railroads			.txt	text/plain	104298	5098	64	United States Senate Committee on Public Lands, reporting on June 20, railroad company to get a land grant from Congress was the Illinois The trading, banking and landed class had learned well the old, allimportant policy of having a Government fully susceptible to their In 1824 the United States Government began giving land grants for laws." [Footnote: Report of the Swamp Land Investigating Committee, On the New York Central Railroad alone the Vanderbilt payroll New York and Harlem Railroad Company was forced by action of the controlling mass of stock in the New York and Hudson River Railroad. Vanderbilt now had a complete railroad system from New York to as Vanderbilt's in New York State; their political power was as great $500,000, [Footnote: Report on the New York and Erie Railroad Railroad Investigation of the State of New York, 1879, ii: 1765.] Railroad Investigation of the State of New York, 1879, ii: 1765.]	./cache/6495.txt	./txt/6495.txt