Our country and its resources; . £/ ^ ^ Xs. 154 OIK COUNTRY AND ITS RESOURCES FEEIGUT In 193 1. Class I. and II. roadsmoved 85,555,053 tons of the prod-ucts <if agriculture, 23,763,262 tonsof animals. 539,255,980 tuns of min-ing products, 108,506,272 tons of for-est products, 135,175,536 tons ofmanufactured products, 36,519,321tons of merchandise and :;;7tons of miscellaneous freight. These statistics show the some-what curious result that over 55 percent of freight moved in this coun-try is from mines and that both for-est products and manufacturingproducts form a greater percenta
Our country and its resources; . £/ ^ ^ Xs. 154 OIK COUNTRY AND ITS RESOURCES FEEIGUT In 193 1. Class I. and II. roadsmoved 85,555,053 tons of the prod-ucts <if agriculture, 23,763,262 tonsof animals. 539,255,980 tuns of min-ing products, 108,506,272 tons of for-est products, 135,175,536 tons ofmanufactured products, 36,519,321tons of merchandise and :;;7tons of miscellaneous freight. These statistics show the some-what curious result that over 55 percent of freight moved in this coun-try is from mines and that both for-est products and manufacturingproducts form a greater percentageof the weight moved than do ag-ricultural products. Reducing to aunit hasis official figures show thatin 1914, there were 288,319,890,210Ions of freight carried one mile,equivalent to the transportation ofa fleet of Lusitanias numbering6,; iii other words, an un-thinkable number. MAIL AND EXPRESS In addition to the public serviceof moving passengers and freight. the railways haul the mail and theexpress, two activities which are
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