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Show The railroad export believes that tho numher of revenue tons hauled per mile is the best Indication of a railroad's rail-road's ability to handle traffic at the lowest cost of transportation. As is well known, the receivers of the Baltimore Bal-timore & Ohio Railroad have been spending millions on improvements L and have not completed the work, the lines west of the Ohio river being in need of a general rehabilitation, which they are to nut this year. But the revenue haul per mile in 1S97-9S was increased to 311 tons and a special report re-port for the six months ending December De-cember 31, 1S"S, shows an average of 331.9 tons, quite an appreciable advance. ad-vance. It is confilently expected that Etill further improvement will be shown before long. |