The men of 1919 have proved the equals in industry of the men of 1871, in rebuilding the wasted fields. In the devastated areas, 7,447,297 acres have been cleared of projectiles, trenches and barbed wire, leaving less than 1,000,000 acres to be cleared; 19,920 out of 22,160 factories have been rebuilt; more than 1,235,000 acres out of 4,941,000 of devastated farmlands have been put under the plow; the main railway system has been repaired; nearly all the water ways made navigable; of 36,450 miles of ruined roads, 19,743...
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