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Show TRAFFIC INCREASE TREBLED SINCE 1198 Greater Efficiency Enabled Railroads Rail-roads te' Meet Country's Growing Demands. The Amerlcaa railroads ar more than one-third of the railways of th world. The traffic hauled on th railway! rail-way! of the United States Is now three times an creat as It was twenty ycarm ago. Ia four months now the railroads carry as much freight and an many passengers as they did then In a year. Iti the three months alon of the liar-vest liar-vest tnTement In 1010 the traffic equal ed that of the whole year of 1808. In 1805 freight ton miles carried by the railroads of the country were more than 109,000,000,000 a year. In 1010 they wero more than 200,000,000,000, la 1013 moro than 500,000,000,000 nnd In 1018 more than 400,000,000,000. Although Al-though the railway mileage increased, only about 05 per cent since 1800, Ira-prorcments Ira-prorcments In tracks, terminals, equipment, equip-ment, etc., hare been so marked that the Talume of goods carried (measured In the namber of freight tons carried one mile) Increased more than fire, times from 1800 to 1017. Increased Efficiency. Taking account of both freight and passenger sen-Ice, the railroads In 10W hauled 180,000 traffic units (freight tons carried one mile, plus passengers carried ono mile) for each railway employee. em-ployee. By 1017, the last year of prl-rata prl-rata operation of the railroads prior to the entry of the United States Into the war, that 180,000 had been Increased to 200,000. The following table shows the Increase In-crease In efficiency of American railroads rail-roads since 1000, which enabled the railroads to keep pace with the growth of the country: Ton miles Increased 100 Passenger miles Increased. . 170 Trackage Increased M) Cars nnd engine Increnscd. . 75 Workers Increased 8!5 Output per worker Increased 00 ATeruge train load Increased 130 Theso figures show that the traffic I hauled by the railroads of the country has Increased more than three times as fast as the truckuge, moro thnn twice as fast as the equipment and more than twice as fnnt as the number I of workers. This has been mado possible pos-sible by far-sighted Inrcstincnt of new capital U Increase the efficiency of the transportation facilities and thereby eaaala tat railroads to Increaso the aateant af traffic handled and reduce tae amouat of labor required t handle H. |