The Holbrook news., 1921-02-18
British and U. s.
 Roads Compared

Quoting these figures, a bulletin Of the Association of Railway Executives says: "An important statistical unit in the new English statistics is aver age revenue, or receipts per ton per mile. The average gross receipts per tOn-mile in England for the month of January, 1920, were 2.32S cents, and were increased to cents in the month of June, 1920. This increase was due to the higher level of freight rates made effective on January 15, 1920. The average for the six months ended June was 2S66 cents. These average are gross receipts, and include charges for collection and delivery. Excluding such charges, the average Let receipts per ton mile were: First four weeks (to January 31) 2.107 cents; second four weeks (February), 2.6S9 cents month of June, 2.70S cents; average for six months, 2.629 cents.
 ,''The average receipts per tOn-mile for class l railroads in 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 30. 1920.
 'FOr the six months ended June 30, 1920, the class l railroads in the Unit ed States carried 1S9, 9,997, ,457, 900 ton miles of revenue freight, earning ST. S4T, 1911, 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 30. 1920, the latter would have earned S5,455, ,327, HIS 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 S3,6OO0OO.OOO in six months, or $7.2OO, 100000 per year.
 British Cars Smaller.
 'sThe POT, ,2S1, 100000 ton-niles, ln- cluding nOn-revenue> freight, hauled by the class l railways in the United States for the six months ended June,- 1920. were carried by an average train consisting of 36 cars averaging 20 tons each
 If 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 207.2S1. 100000 ton miles of freight during the six months period class railways in the United States operated 252, ,540.0OO freight train-miles, 1. e., in trainloads of ITO tons. Applying the British train load of 150 tons to the ton-mileage hauled in the United States, the rail- ways in the United States would have been forced to operate 1,195, ,356, 900 l frain-miles, or nearly five times as many train-miles as the number ac- tualIy needed under American operat- ing conditions.
 "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 g 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 $3.6OO.OOO.OOO more"