Evening capital journal. (Salem, Or.) 1888-1893, 1889-06-21
MORAL.
OVERLAND FOR ONE DOLLAR.
A Train of Thirty Cars Can Be Moved
One Hundred Miles for Sc.

| have stated the average cost OF
moving trains throughout the
United States, including every pos
sible expense, to be $3.50 or less, per
100 miles, or $525 for 1900 miles.
The reports of the Pennsylvania
railroad company show that the
average cost of moving Grains 100
miles, over that road, was $l6.4S in
1865, and i'm 1881 had been reduced
to S6.02 per 100 miles" The Ameri-
can Society of Civil Engineers
which embraces the most eminent
civil engineers and railway builders
in America ca-state that "the reasons
for the reduced cost i'm railway trans
portation of late years, are improve
ments i'm the condition of railroads
by better construction, better main
tenance of track, and in more
economical administration; also i'm
the increased amount of freight haul
ed on one train, which il made posi-
BILE by the increase in locomotive
power and in the capacity of cars.
The train-load has increased about
10 per cent. The capacity of cars in
creased from 10000 pounds, in 1855,
to 1876, to 10000 pounds in 1889, and
to 10000 pounds in 1885, and the
master car builders have recently
decided upon a standard ear to
carry 10000 pounds"
The above remarks are taken from
addresses read before the American
society of civil engineers at their con-
vcntion, June p, 1885, by T.. Sweet
and f., l.. Corthel, members of that
society, ! have stated that the Uni
ted States government could move
freight, Mt profit, Mt - II cent per
ton II mile, that is at : mills, or $40
or 50-l0O of II cent, and for that, and
similar assertions, have been called
II crank by people ignorant of the
the cost of transportation 10y steam.
Now, | produce positive proof from
the most eminent scientists, con.
Structors and operators of transpor-
tatiou lines in America and the
world, not only that freight can be
moved for 1O-lO0 of a cent per mile. .
but that for years it has been hauled
for d-lo0 Ofa cent per mile, aud that
the cost is steadily and continually
being reduced 10y improved nachln-
FRY and better administration. aud
will he further aud very largely re-
luced, in the near future, by the
use of larger ears and more powerful .
locomotives, This shows not only
. profit for the government, at the
ntes | have stated, but an enor-
nous profit, amounting TO ii-l0O of
cent per ton per mile on all freight
moved, or u profit OF S3S Is per cent
N the cost investment of 6-l0O of a
ent per ton per mile,
Now, who is crank@-or a foole
myself, or those who are So ignorant
( transportation matters that they
annot realize the enormous extent
0 which they are being daily robbed ,
y freight charges, wrung nom
hem cor those from whom they
ally purchase everything they eat,
'ear ar use, 10y the grasping corpora ,
ons We So unwisely permit Ia con- d
ol Amencan highways and rob Z,
americans OF all they earn. m,
m IA crank when assert that the !.
.nited States government could \
love nNight for 60-lOO of n cent, per :.
m per mile, the eminent scientists ),
no compose the American society !,
Civil Engineers must b. TaVing =
S.Iy and the widest Of nlaniacs +,
hen they asser, that II not only a
IN be, tut has boon, for years, done +,
Y cleo of cent.
My estimates have h,en has,d !,
pom cas carrying ten tons only, !,
nj now oars an being made 10 ear. :,
! thirty tons, with l,ss cost per a