The Adair County news., 1921-02-16

tons; IN 1898 226 tons; IN 1908, $50
tons; in 1918, 62S tons, and in 1920,
for six months, 10 TONS Every dec
ade from the first has shown marked
advances, with the curious coincidence
that in 1888 the average trainload in
this country was greater than the Brit
ish average for 1920, while the Amer
lean average for 1888 was almost the
same as that for one or two of the in
dividual companies that top the list
n England today.
Average Revenue.
Quoting these figures, a bulletin Of
he Association of Railway Executives
,ays: "An important statistical unit
in the new English statistics is aver
age revenue, or receipts per ton per
mile. The average gross receipts per
son-mile in England for the month of
January, 1920, were 2.32S cents, and
.,ere increased to cents in the month
of June, 1920. This increase was due
to the higher level of freight rates
made effective on January 10, 1920.
The average for the six months ended
tune was 2.S66 cents. These average
are gross receipts, and include charges
or collection and delivery. Excluding
such charges, the average net receipts
per ton mile were: First four weeks
Ito January BY 2.107 cents; second
four weeks february, 2.689 cents;
month of June, 2.7O8 cents; average
for six months, 1929 cents.
1.-The average receipts per ton-mile
for class 1 railroads I'm the United
States, which correspond to the Brit
ish averages, exclusive of collection
and delivery charges, were 972 cents
for the six months to June 80, 1920.
"For the six months ended June 80,
1920, the class railroads in the Unit
ed States carried 1S9,997, 457, 900 ton
miles of revenue freight, earning ST.
S47, oil, with an average receipt
per ton-mile Of .972 cents. According
to the new British statistics, the aver
age receipts per ton-mile for the six
months ended June 20, 1920, were 2.629
cents.
IF the average receipts per ton
mile which have been collected by the
British railways during this six
months period had been charged
against the freight traffic carried by
the class 1 railways In the United
States, for the six months ended June
80, 1920, the latter would have earned
S., 455, 1927, 11S instead of $1,S47, 217, 911.
"In other words, British rates ap-
piled to American traffic would have
cost the shippers of the United
States $500, 100000 in six months, or
81, POO, 100000 DER year.
British Cars Smaller.
1.-THE 2O7, 2S1, 100000 ton-miles, in
Guiding non-revenue freight, hauled by
the class / railways In the United
States for the six months ended June,
1920, were carried by an average train
consisting of 80 cars averaging 20
tons each.
eff the railways In the United States
had used British cars, which have an
average load of six tons, in moving
the tonnage quoted above they would
have moved trains consisting of 120
cars, or more than three times the
number of cars per train.
"In hauling the 2O7, 2S1, 100000 ton
miles of freight during the six months
period, class 1 railways In the United
States operated 252, $4,000 freight
train-miles, /. e., in trainloads of
10 tons. Applying the British train
load of $50 tons to the ton-mileage
hauled in the United States, the rail-
ways in the United States would have
been forced to operate 1875, 356, 900
train-miles, or nearly five times as
many train-miles as the number &C
tually needed under American operat-
ing conditions
1.-The estimated length of haul in
the United States for the six months,
was 316 miles. The average length of
haul for the British railways for the
same period was 81 miles. If the aver
age haul of the British railways had
been in effect in the United States,
American freight would have been IN
terchanged 5.54 times as often as it
was.
"In other words, If railways in the
United States had carried their freight
at the rate per ton-mile charged by
the British railways, they would have
earned 50 600 000 O00 moro -