Our country and its resources; . count as on page 152, including onlyClass I. roads. MISCELLANEOUS FINANCIAL The railroads of the United Statespay a generous proportion of the na- tions taxes. The official figures for1914 show that the huge sum of$1^0,531,575 was turned into thevarious treasuries from all the rail-roads, a percentage of of theearnings. The taxes amount to$.(71! per mile of road, more thandouble the tax of 1900 and almostthree times the tax of 1890 when$199 was the tax per mile. Therelative proportion of tax to earn-ing capacity, however, has not risenso fast. In 1S90
Our country and its resources; . count as on page 152, including onlyClass I. roads. MISCELLANEOUS FINANCIAL The railroads of the United Statespay a generous proportion of the na- tions taxes. The official figures for1914 show that the huge sum of$1^0,531,575 was turned into thevarious treasuries from all the rail-roads, a percentage of of theearnings. The taxes amount to$.(71! per mile of road, more thandouble the tax of 1900 and almostthree times the tax of 1890 when$199 was the tax per mile. Therelative proportion of tax to earn-ing capacity, however, has not risenso fast. In 1S90 per cent ofearnings were paid in taxes, while in1914 the amount had only increasedto per cent as above. In NewJersey railroads pay $3,068 per mileof line, in South Dakota but $255. It is interesting to compare therelative prices paid for fuel and theamount expended during the last fif-teen years, for the measure of fuelused is a measure of the power ex-pended. Unofficial figures for 1915place the cost of locomotive fuel at. HELD GATE BRIDGE, OVER THE EAST RIVER, LONGEST ARCH BRIDGE YET BUILT 152 UB COUNTRY AND ITS RESOURCES $215,359,532, which is considerably road receives comes from the sources less than the official figures for 1914, shown on page 153. which are $242,800,799. Fifteen public service years ago but $90,593,965 was paid Passengers for fuel, although the cost of coal ,„, *, „ 0/w,,wwv per ton at the mine was $ in Tbere av* upwards of 3,000,000 1900 and but $ in 1914. The TM,lla,:e ***** f territory in the 1915 cost was less, compared with nolo ,eS *£? m°™ ^ operating expenses, than at any time 1^. people If every man for fifteen years, which may indi- ™n, *?* ,clnld m tlu\ l ,^ cate that the new campaign for econ- States had taken a journey in 1915, omy of operation and coal saving has according to unofficial figures, that had a visible effect 3£u™?y woul miles. Ac- the hailkoai/s money cording to t
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