. The Street railway journal . 13 km; in 1904they were F. 200,400 for a length of 26 km, and in 1905F. 202,927 for a length of 32 km. The receipts for 1906will in all probability exceed the figure as is inferred fromthe reports for the first nine months of 1906, which showan average receipt per kilometer of F. 201,000, against ,000, representing the average of the first eight monthsof 1905. Two main reasons explain this result, the firstbeing the reduction of working expenses and the other isthe creation of new traffic on existing lines. This latter factor generally evades all valuation,
. The Street railway journal . 13 km; in 1904they were F. 200,400 for a length of 26 km, and in 1905F. 202,927 for a length of 32 km. The receipts for 1906will in all probability exceed the figure as is inferred fromthe reports for the first nine months of 1906, which showan average receipt per kilometer of F. 201,000, against ,000, representing the average of the first eight monthsof 1905. Two main reasons explain this result, the firstbeing the reduction of working expenses and the other isthe creation of new traffic on existing lines. This latter factor generally evades all valuation, but is illustrated bysuch an example as this: On line i the average daily re-ceipt was F. 23,000 in 1901 and increased to F. 28,000 in1903 by the sole addition of line 2. The opening of line2 (south) similarly raised the daily receipts of line i byF. 5000 per day. The important engineering scheme for the uniting of thetwo shores of the English Channel has been receiving re-newed attention both in France and in England. It may. SINKING A TUNNEL SECTION IN THE MIDDLE OF THERIVER be taken for granted that French public opinion and finan-cial circles are ready for the immediate floating of the com-pany to undertake the work. There is actually a bill beforethe British Houses of Parliament for the necessary author-ization to start the work and form the necessary the Anglo-French approachment in 1906 there hasbeen less hostility shown to the proposals on the Englishside of the channel and there are serious probabilities of thebill passing into law. It is therefore interesting to notethat the capital of the company would be raised equally inFrance and in England and would amount to $40,000, is estimated that the annual number of passengers wouldamount from the opening of the tunnel to 1,300,000 and theannual receipts from all sources to $7,700,000. The annualexpenses, as calculated by British as well as French au-thorities, would amount to $2,000,000, and the balanc
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