Evening Republican, Volume 21, Number 102, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 8 May 1918 — Cost of Locomotives. [ARTICLE]

Cost of Locomotives.

According to a calculation made by an official of the Southern Pacific, the increase in the cost of a Mallet locomotive over what it was two .years ago would buy a 160-acre farm at $125 an acre, build a $5,000 residence on it, provide for $2,500. worth of implements and farm machinery, 25 dairy cows at $75 each, S7OO for teams and wagons, a $1,500 automobile, and still leave $l5O for incidentals —and this represents the increase in the cost of only one locomotive. —San Fraud* co Argonaut. \