Sixth Annual Report Of The Commissioner Of Railroads And Telegraphs To The Governor Of The State Of Ohio For The Year Ending June 30Th 1872

Railways and wires remade Ohio in the 1870s. This official record shows how, line by line. In vivid detail.Facts. Names. Numbers. Consequences. Power.Compiled by O. L. Wolcott, the Sixth Annual Report of the Commissioner of Railroads and Telegraphs to the Governor of the State of Ohio (year ending 30 June 1872) is a revealing government annual report and state agency report from the Ohio reconstruction era. It brings together the machinery of Ohio railroad regulation and telegraph industry oversight: company returns, compliance questions, and the hard evidence behind policy. Wolcott writes at the point where private enterprise met public duty, and where the state tried to count, compare, and govern a new networked economy. For anyone who wants more than anecdotes, the detailed railroad traffic statistics and administrative summaries illuminate what passengers, freight, and capital were doing across the state as gilded age railroads accelerated commerce and risk.Valued by railroad history researchers and readers of Ohio 1870s history alike, this volume also speaks to American telegraph history, tracing the parallel infrastructure that carried prices, news, and authority at unprecedented speed. Out of print for decades and now republished by Alpha Editions, this facsimile reprint edition is restored for today’s and future generations. More than a reprint -- a collector’s item and a cultural treasure -- it belongs in an archival reference collection beside local histories, legislative papers, and family records, while remaining gripping for the curious reader who wants to see progress measured in ink and tables.