. The Street railway journal . ounted to 82,233 cu- yds.; masonry, in-cluding rubble and concrete, 9105 cu. yds. The estimatedamount of excavation yet to lie made amounts to 15,000 , and the estimated amount of masonry yet to be put in,600 cu. yds. This covers a distance of 8400 ft. out of thetotal length of the new extension of miles, the remain-ing distance having been graded and the necessary wallsbuilt by the County Commissioners and the traction com-pany some two years ago at a cost of $48,000. The estimatedcost of the new connection between Steubenville and Mingo,8400 ft., is
. The Street railway journal . ounted to 82,233 cu- yds.; masonry, in-cluding rubble and concrete, 9105 cu. yds. The estimatedamount of excavation yet to lie made amounts to 15,000 , and the estimated amount of masonry yet to be put in,600 cu. yds. This covers a distance of 8400 ft. out of thetotal length of the new extension of miles, the remain-ing distance having been graded and the necessary wallsbuilt by the County Commissioners and the traction com-pany some two years ago at a cost of $48,000. The estimatedcost of the new connection between Steubenville and Mingo,8400 ft., is calculated at $150,000. This sum, of course, onlycovers the building of the track and overhead equipment, anddoes not include any expense for power station equipment,feeder w ire, or rolling stock. The saving in running time between Mingo Junction andSteubenville made possible by the cut-off amounts to twentyminutes for each trip, as the time can be reduced from fortyminutes via the hill-line to twenty minutes by the This enables the company to give exactly the same scheduleservice with two cars less. For the purpose of working outthe policy with respect to grade elimination the managementhas assumed that it costs $5,000 a year to operate a car overthis particular line, or in other words if the same servicecan be given with two less cars the actual saving to thecompany will be $10,000 in operating expenses. This is thedirect saving. As indirect factors in determining the amountof money that could be profitably spent in building this cut-oft, the management also took into consideration the savingsthat could be made by operating longer and heavier cars onthe cut-off, the saving in car mileage and power, and also thereduced accident hazard. From the preliminary surveys it was found that the build-ing of the cut-off would be rather a difficult engineeringproblem, as the Ohio Valley is very narrow at this point andthe strip of bottom land between the river and the bluffsi
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