Judsonia weekly advance., 1921-02-17

 same as that for one or two of the in diyidual companies that top the list in England today.
 Average Revenue.
 Quoting these figures. q 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 8 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 uas 2.S66 cents. These average are gross receipts, and include charges for collection and delivery. Excluding such charges the average net receipts per ton mile were: First fonr weeks (to January 3D 2.107 cents; second four weeks (February). 2fS9 cents; month of June, 2.70S cents; average for six months, 2.629 cents.
 "1he average receipts per ton-mile fol class 1 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 90. 1920.
 "For the six months ended June 3O 1920. the class l railroads in the Chit cd States carried 9.99T, ,457 GOO ton miles of revenue freight. earning $1,- S8i2fGS11, With an average receipt per fon-mile of .972 cents. According 10 the new British statistics, the aver aec receipts per tonmie for tue six months ended June 20. 1920. were 2.62o cents.
 If the average receipts per ton mile Aehich have been collected by the British railways during this six months period had been charged against inc freight traffic carried by fhe class railways in the United States for the six months ended June 20. 1920, the latter would have earned &5. .455. .32T, HIS instead of S1. .S47, 7,2iT.911.
 In other words. British rates ap- piled to American traffic would have cost the shippers of the United States S3.60o0000 GOO in six months, or &7.2oo 100000 per year.
 British Cars Smaller.
 The POT 2S1 100000 ton-milcs. in clHdng non-revenue freight, hauled by the class 1 railways in the United States for the six months ended June. 1920 were carried by an average train consisting of 36 cars ging 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 ears. or more than three times the humber of cars per train.
 In hauling the 207,2S1 GOO ton miles of freight during the six months period, class 1 railways in the United States operated 252540.Oo0 freight train-lniles, i. e., in tranlonds of 710 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 1,1g5.356.OOO train-nlies. or nearly five times as many train-miles as the number ac- tually 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 57 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.
 Tn other words, if railways in the United States had carried their freight at the rate per ton-mle charged by the British railways, they would have earned $3,600,000,000 more."