COMPARATIVE STATEMENT of certain items taken from the abstracts of the reports of steam roads for 1874-1875. DEDUCTIONS FROM THE FOREGOING RESULTS. Roads operated with Steam : Average number of miles traveled by each passenger, 26.49 52.29 113.16 122.42 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.... Aggregate movement of freight trains is equivalent to passing over the entire single track... Average number of trains passing daily over the road, about ... ..... Average number of trains passing daily over the entire single track, about .... 135 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.. ..... .... Average number of miles of travel for each passenger killed... 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 freight one mile .... Average number of miles of travel for each passen ger killed or injured... 10,125,485 Average number of passengers carried for each one killed ..... 2,999,025 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 number of passengers carried for each one 5.3030 cents. 4.3319 30,268,696 3,228,661 |