With government ownership a
farmer could ship his products
' south at the same rate he could
. east, and as ocean traffic is so
. many times over cheaper than rail-
• road transportation, it would be of
1 inestimable benefit to the West,
and no damage to the East. For
I the benefit of the curious, and
r those who have more to do than
myself, I have compiled a few fig-
I ures to show something like what
. form one million cars of produce
< would assume if all were strung
• out in a line. Allowing thirty cars
’ to a train, it would make nearly
, 34,000 trains of cars, with 34,000
: engines, 34,000 cabbooses and as
» many crews of men to handle
them. At thirty-two feet per car
’ for 34,000 trains of cars of thirty
, two cars each, counting the engine
and cabbocse two cars, if would
form a solid line for over 6,590
miles, or would make two lines of
cars from New York city to San-
■ francisco, and have some to spare.
I This freight would load the Groat j
, Eastern 478 times, or all modern I
ships of her capacity, and would
I make a string of shix?s over sixty- ■
three miles long.
H. W. Brewer.
The Half that Was Told.
The republican papers down the
road worked themselves into a lit'
over the rumored removal of Chas, i
Bellamy from the surveyor gener ,
al's office to make room for an Ar
kansas carpet-bagger. It now
j transpires that Bellamy will stay '
right where he is. and thus the re-:
' publicans are deprived of another
, promising campaign issue. Raw- j
■ tins Journal.
