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vast a difference as is endeavored to
be shown.
The Union Pacific railroad charges
about seven mills per hundred pounds
of freight per mile. The Great East
ern routes, competing -for freight be
tween the great cities of the East and
the great West, charge from two and
a half to four mills per hundred
pounds per mile, they having all the
advantages of civilization, concentra
tion, transportation, the cheapness of
material, fuel, repairs, &c.; while the
western roads —the roads east of the
Missouri river—charge four and five
mills on one hundred pounds per
mile. Many of the local southern
railroads charge four, five, six, and as
high as seven mills per hundred
pounds of freight per mile. As to pas
senger fare, the Union Pacific Bail
road Company are now charging ten
cents per mile; the Northwestern
Railroad Company four cents per
mile • the Chicago, Rock Island,, and
Pacific Railroad Company three and
a half cents per mile ; the Richmond,
Danville, and Piedmont Railroad
Company six cents per mile; and
these roads are all in a heavily settled
country, with heavy local business,
while the Union Pacific railroad runs
five hundred miles into a wilderness,
without comparatively any local bus
iness, nearly all their freight and trav
el going but one way.
