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Show AN INTERESTING ANALYSIS TT7"HEN you hand a newsboy a nickle W for a morning newspaper," said R. J. Clancy, assistant to General Manager Man-ager of the Southern Pacific, "you have spent almost twice as much as the railroad rail-road receives for transporting a delicious deli-cious cantaloupe and a sun-kissed orange or-ange from the fields and groves of California Cal-ifornia to the breakfast tables of New York. 'It costs more to send a letter through the mails from New York to -San Francisco than to ship a $5 Dunlap, Knox or. Stetson hat the same distance by freight. "At some factory in the East that pair of shoes you are wearing, and which has doubled in price, was loaded into a car and hauled 3000 miles to the Pacific Coast for one-third of what your barber would charge you for a shave. "That suit of clothes you have on was hauled in freight trains one-third of the distance around the world at a total cost of about nineteen cents. "If living in San Francisco, Oakland or other Bay points you would have to eat four Petaluma eggs every day for two months before the cost of transportation transpor-tation thereof would equal the price of a two-cent postage stamp. "A pound of live beef from Nevada is hauled more than 300 miles to San Francisco over a mountain range a mile and a half high, and lowered a mile and a half to sea level, for about one-third of a cent. O |