Jasper County Democrat, Volume 22, Number 99, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 10 March 1920 — Page 7 Advertisements Column 3 [ADVERTISEMENT]

AMERICANS BIGGEST USERS OF RAILROADS; SERVICE HERE FAR OUTSTRIPS EUROPE

capita carried by the railroads were 631 and in France 447. Since 1913 the increase in ton milea per capita carried by the railroads of the United States was more than the total carried by either of the two other countries in that year. In comparison with the total of 631 carried by tho railroads in Germany and the total of 447 carried by the railroads In Franco the Increase carried by the railroads in the United States since 1913 was 7» ton miles per capita. The chart below shows the transportation supplied in the United States, Germany and France In 1918 and tho Increase in railroad service In the United States since 1918.

The railways of the United States in point of actual railway service lead the world. Americans buy more railway service, and a greater amount of transportation is supplied and used in the United States than in any other country. According to statistics prepared by the Bureau of Railway Economics, the ton miles per capita carried by United States railroads in 1913 were almost five times the ton miles per capita carried by Germany, which was second to the United States in this respect. The ton miles per capita carried by the United States railroads in 1918 were 8,101. In Germany the ton miles per

Ton-Miles Per Capita. 1913' Since 1913. • • ‘ . . to* «»3/ - , u ... - * . ~ _ . . a • The Increase alone since 1913 In Un. miles per capita (freight tone carried one mile for every one of the population) on American was more than the total of any of the next leading countries for 1913, the last year for which comparative data Ie available.