I read your last annual report and saw that you collected last year for transporting the goods of others the sum of fourteen millions of dollars.

The firms I control dug the material from the hills, made their own goods, and sold them to a much greater value than that.

You are really a very small concern compared with Carnegie Brothers and Company." My railroad apprenticeship came in there to advantage.

We heard no more of the Baltimore and Ohio Railroad Company entering into competition with us.

Mr.Garrett and I remained good friends to the end.