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Show SOME nAILWA,V.9TATI8TICO. !t' Hue raaafnger liut l Carrlttl rita tlllea la VtrH,rt trnU Last )oar tho railway- of the United State carried ow1 11000,000000 la't-longer la't-longer one inlW'Tdey. alio carried 95,000,000,000 toqji Ofrelght ono mile ' The total amount pnljUtp. dividends on stock wat tkTltU,31lrm (,' H8,000,-000 H8,000,-000 Of the li'.(,ij.er;Jnj(i ot iho railway rail-way about 70 !tt relit came frbm freight aervlceiiiid 30 per, cent from, passenger tefvfee Let in atiume. then, that ot Hie WQrOCO0 paid In dividend's di-vidend's 70 rr' emt, or f 01 O00.000.was. praDl un frlexbt ten Ice nnd 129,4(0,400, wat profit nn pnssnige service. llA!t' U drop fruc'lont and Call It C:,000,000 from friljlit a'nd ISC Old 000 from passenger. pas-senger. Hy dividing' the pattenger profit Into the -number '.of jstehgerii carried US.OOOrWO.OOO) -sWe- fhid tbe. railways bad to oasr)tn passenger CCJg mllra-ln order to earn 1 of pro!U.vw flte mllm to-rarn esqj, Their aV.cj-age aV.cj-age profit, therefor, whs ets ' limn two-troths oM-uml for1 cifrrylog ra-paasenger ra-paasenger (aiid-hls boggirge) l.i!)lfi Ily dltldJng tho trrleltl profit 'InW the frclgjA pilleage I ii OOHB00 000) wo find that tho railways had to carry one ton of freight 1,(30 mllea In order to earn II, or over fifteen nillia to tarn 1 cent. The average profit, therefore, wat less than one-fifteenth of a cent for carrying a ton of freight (besides loading and unloading It) one tnlle. |