Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 35, Number 48, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 20 February 1903 — Economy of Railways. [ARTICLE]

Economy of Railways.

The United States has 200,000 miles of railways upon which thevo are 548 employes for each 105 miles. The cost of operating these roads with steam power Is $502,000,000 a year, but to carry on the same amount of work with men *du horses would cost the country $11,308,500,000.