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COMPARATIVE STATEMENT of certain items taken from the abstracts of the reports of steam roads for 1874-1875.

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DEDUCTIONS FROM THE FOREGOING RESULTS.

Roads operated with Steam:

Average number of miles traveled by each passenger,
Average number of passengers in each train ......
Average number of miles each ton of freight was
transported...

Average number of tons in each train..

Aggregate movement of passenger trains is equivalent to passing over the road...

Aggregate movement of passenger trains is equivalent to passing over entire single track..... Aggregate movement of freight trains is equivalent to passing over the road.....

26.49

52.29

113.16

122.42

2,636 times

1,762

4,779

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Aggregate movement of freight trains is equivalent. to passing over the entire single track.... Average number of trains passing daily over the road, about ....

3,150

201

Average number of trains passing daily over the

entire single track, about....

13

Average cost, per mile of road, for maintaining roadway....

$2,263 52

Average cost, per mile of road, for repairs of ma

chinery...

1,504 03

Average cost, per mile of road, for operating road..

4,444 12

Average cost, per mile of single track, for maintain

ing roadway

.....

1,501 03

of machinery...

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Average cost, per mile of single track, for repairs

Average cost, per mile of single track, for operating

road

Average sum received for carrying one passenger one mile

Average sum received for transporting one ton of

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Average expense is 67.42 per cent of all the earnings.

Roads operated with Horse Power, etc. :

Average sum received for carrying each passenger,
Average cost for carrying each passenger..
Average expense is 73.07 per cent of gross earnings.
Average number of passengers carried for each one
killed ....

Average number of passengers carried for each one
either killed or injured ...

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YEARS.

COMPARATIVE STATEMENT of deductions from the abstracts of the reports of steam roads from 1858 to 1875, inclusive.

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$1,483 62

1,398 49

Average cost per mile of road for repairs of machinery.

Average cost per mile of road for operating road.

12.33

2,276

15.50

10.42

2,447

17.50

10.82

1,921 33

,867

2,759

20.33

12.30

2,459 73

4,391

2,671

20.33

12.40

3,038 66

5,570

3, 194

25.94

14.87

2,991 70

287 34

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