Excerpt from Changes in the Rates of Charge for Railway and Other Transportation Services Introduction to revised edition Sources of information Currency values reduced to equivalents in gold Railway freight trafiic Table 1. Volume of traffic, efficiency of service, and earnings Table 2. Per cent of the railway mileage of the United States represented by averages under similar headings in Table 1 16 Table 3. Average rates per ton permile, in cents, miscellaneous railroads 21 - 29 Table 4 Average rates per ton per mile, in cents, lines now operated by New York, New Haven and Hartford Railroad Table 5. Average rates per ton per mile, in cents, lines now Operated by Boston and Maine Railroad Table 6. Average rates per ton per mile, in'cents, lines forming the Union Pacific system Table 7. Average rates per ton per mile, in cents, lines in New England now operated by various companies Table 8. Average rates per ton per mile, in cents, lines in Middle States now operated by various companies Table 9. Average rates per ton per mile, in cents, lines in the South now operated by various companies Table 10. Coal - average rates'per ton per mile, in cents Table 11. Miscellaneous commodities - average rates, regardless of quan tity shipped, in cents per 100'pounds, New York to Buffalo, by rail Table 12. Miscellaneous commodities - average rates for less than car load quantities, in cents per 100 pounds, New York to Buffalo by rail Table 13. Miscellaneous comm'odities - average rates for carload quanti ties, in cents per 100 pounds, New York to Buffalo, by rail Table 14. Miscellaneous commodities - average rates, regardless of quan tity shipped, in' cents per 100 pounds, New York to Chicago, by rail Table 15. Miscellaneous commodities - average rates for less than carload quantities, in cents per 100 pounds, New York to Chicago, by rail Table 16. Miscellaneouscommodities - average rates for carloads, in cents per 100 pounds, New York to Chicago, by rail Table'17. Miscellaneous commodities - average rates, regardless of quan tity, m cents per 100 pounds, New York to Chicago, by lake and rail Table 18. Miscellaneous commodities - average rates for less. Than car load quantities, in cents per 100 pounds, New York to Chicago. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.