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Show Vnlleil NUtrs llallwajr MalU. At the closo of tho last fiscal year thoro wcro 2,017 railway mall routes In this country, of a total length of 170,720 95 mllce, over which the mall care traveled that year 287,C91,2C9 21 miles. Tho go-eminent paid for tho railway postofllco cans, 11,170,721 80, and for tho transportation of tho malls, 131,9(2 1C0 83, or a total to tho railroad of 130,117,870 7s, which wat an avcrago of 12(4 cent per mile for transpoprtatlon and postal cart combined, com-bined, or H4 ccnta n mils for the cars alone |