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Show jj AUTO HAS BEEN A BOON TO RAILROADS "The perfecting of tho automobile has proved a great boon for the railroads rail-roads of the United States, who earn over $10,000,000 a year accessories," Bays Clayton E. Balloy, vice president of tho Abbott Motor company, commenting com-menting on the recent dearth of freight cars in the city of Detroit "An automobile factory pays for ton times as many freight cars at a much higher rate than a carriage factory fac-tory producing au equal number of horse-drawn vehicles, and something like 125,000 freight cars leave automobile auto-mobile factories In a year. 'These shipments go to every part of the continent and thousands of carloads abroad. Alany big plants give the roads an average of a tralnload M a day. Shipments of raw material . H and accessories also bring In a con- H stunt stream of cais. Tho express H companies come in for a large share t M of profits, earning over a million H dollars on rush orders of tires and H other accessories," M |