Salt Lake Tribune | 1919-09-28 | Page 41 | Seat Capacity of U. S. Autos is 30,000,000

Seat Capacity of U. S. Autos Is 30,000,000 THE seating capacity of the 6,-000,000 6,-000,000 automobiles in use ill tho United States is not less than 30,000,000 persons. The total seating capacity of railroad cars, of which there are 55.705, is about 3,500,000 people. To carry tho people now carried by automobiles an equal distance would require 00,000 now passenger cars $11,000 each at a cost of 8660,000,000; 14,972 new locomotives locomo-tives $35,000 each at a cost of 5524.000,000, and duplication of passenger pas-senger tracks, depots and employees at an expense impossible to calcu- ! late. I I