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Show CARLOADS An Increase of one ton in the av-'a.'e av-'a.'e load per freight car in American Amer-ican railroads is equivalent to an iditi-in of about eighty thousand lrs The average tonnage achiev-1 achiev-1 by the railroads in August, was Vj C . . . 1 . . - ujui; .am to s in August! 19 IS. Therefore the American rail, roads, using the same equipment as I ': st y, ar. made it produce the equi-i '.lent of eighty thousand addition-: 1 cars, c- Miice t:ie roads were returned to, vivate management on March 1st,! :he averag- mileage per freight car! Ms bren constantly increased. It' ! 'mn,- ! (rni 24. 2 miles in August. ''n, to 27.4 miles in August 1920.1 n increase of one mile in the aver-j 1 !e 'ivement per rar per day is ! - 'I'-g-'lv equivalent to the addition. ,one hundred thousand cars. ' Mr. Frank H. Fayant furnishes! ,?T--e illuminating statistics, which! "rve to show very conclusively what! flicienry can do in handling the ansportation of the country. With their labor in an apparently satis-1 'ictory condition the railroads have t last been able to bring all of their emergencies to bear toward reducing the freight congestion with the eq.u-':ment eq.u-':ment which they found left over -.hen the governnr nt ceased to 'run 'he railroads regardless of the con-'quenccs." |