. Electric railway journal . ntly constructed,together with sizes and type of construction. Table IV has been made up to indicate the growth offreight traffic in the items of rice, beans, grains andraisins moved in carload lots at various warehousepoints. It permits comparison of the growth in ton-nage and revenue in the year 1918, when warehousefacilities were available, with these items in 1915, whenthere were no warehouse facilities. At the nine pointswhere warehouses have been constructed the increasein tonnage is, on the average, 1120 per cent. 1000 Per Cent Increase in Business Done ByWa
. Electric railway journal . ntly constructed,together with sizes and type of construction. Table IV has been made up to indicate the growth offreight traffic in the items of rice, beans, grains andraisins moved in carload lots at various warehousepoints. It permits comparison of the growth in ton-nage and revenue in the year 1918, when warehousefacilities were available, with these items in 1915, whenthere were no warehouse facilities. At the nine pointswhere warehouses have been constructed the increasein tonnage is, on the average, 1120 per cent. 1000 Per Cent Increase in Business Done ByWarehouses Naturally some of the growth indicated in the upperportion of Table IV was due to increased acreage. Togive some idea of what this normal growth has been,the figures for Tarke Station are given. At this pointa warehouse existed both in 1915 and 1918, so that anincrease in business at this point would indicate thenormal growth of the traffic uninfluenced by any ad-ditional warehouse facilities. In this way the normal. WAREHOUSE AT SACRAMENTO growth of tonnage is seen to be approximately 108 percent, which checks with the increase of 114 per cent infreight business over the entire system, as shown inTable I. In other words, at normal points, the growthof traffic in four years has been roughly 100 per cent,while the introduction of warehouse facilities has in-creased this traffic by more than 1100 per cent. All of these warehouses were provided with portablegrain stackers, operated by 220-volt, three-phase motorswhen this source of power was available, otherwise by600-volt direct-current motors drawing power fromthe third-rail. Obviously the warehouse must be of capacity suf-ficient to take care of the tributary acreage. In one in-stance recently a warehouse at one point was not largeenough, and business to the extent of upwards of 12,-000 sacks of beans, 20,000 sacks of barley and 10,000sacks of rice was lost. This was approximately 80 car-loads. A salient fact in connec
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