Show interesting Inter erting when you hand a newsboy a tickle nickle for a morning newspaper said R J clancy assistant to general manager of the southern pacific you have spent almost twice as much a as the railroad rai road d receives for tran transporting porting a delic delicious ous cantaloupe and a sun bun kissed orange from the fields field and groves of california to the breakfast tables table of new york it costs more to send a letter the mails from new york to san francisco than to ship a 6 5 dunlap knox or stetson list hat the same distance by freight at some factory in the east that pair of sh shoes you are wearing and which has haa doubled in price was loaded into a car and hauled 2000 miles I 1 its to the pacific C coast t for oc one t third hird of what your barber would charge barge you for a shave that suit suitor of clothes you yon have on was hauled in freight trains one third of the distance around the w world arld a at t a total cost of about if it living v ing in san francisco oak land or other bay points you would have to eat four petaluma Pet aluma eggs ev ery cry day for two months before the cost of transportation thereof would the price of a two cent post age slam finup p A pound of live beef from ne vada vad is a hauled more than miles mile to san francisco over a mountain r range a a ge a mile and a half high and lowered a mile and shelf to sea le yet vel for about one third of a cent |