Show transportation cheapest thing in united states today manufacturing cost over five times as much in 10 1910 as in 1870 government in allots divisions cost aix times timea as much mining cost seven times as much mich transportation cost not quite four times as aa much the latter ab absorbing a steadily declining proportion of the national income comparing our costs with those of ither aher peoples probably transports tran tion lion is the cheapest thing in the united stati stat 8 today the cartage bill of the country is five ave and perhaps ten times as much as the freight bill saturday evening post |