Book excerpt: Excerpt from Supplement to Commerce Reports, Vol. 39: Daily Consular and Trade Reports Issued by the Bureau of Foreign and Domestic Commerce, Department of Commerce, Washington, D. C.; April 18, 1917 In spite, however, of all the efforts made, the fact still. Remains that the most pressing problem before the people of Bolivia to-day is transportation} With an area of nearly square miles, a total population of scarcely or about 3 to the square mile, a land characterized by high mountain ranges that impede railway development and make the construction of highways and railroads so expensive that only the most favored can be looked upon as directly profitable, with a population made up to a great extent of Indians of low industrial and economic efficiency, Bo'livia has a difficult problem. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.