Evening Republican, Volume 14, Number 240, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 8 October 1910 — Coal a Great Expense. [ARTICLE]

Coal a Great Expense.

One-quarter of the coal mined on the North American continent is used by its railways, the 60,000 locomotives in the United States alone taking over 100,000,000 tons each year at a rising price (1909, about two dollars a short ton). This expense for locpmotive fuel is practically a tax of one cent a day on every man, woman and child In the country.