. The street railway review . j^/b^ accord any mill owning its own car current and right-of-way over the tracks to any depot reached, at a chargefor the service of a sum not exceeding $ per car per^day. With one car such as that in use the wheat in andthe flour out of a 1,000-barrel mill can be handled infifteen round trips, or in one days work. The routeselected is on a street, the property on which is suitablefor wholesaling purposes, and already some of the prop-erty owners are agitating the question of putting spur jjtracks into their property, so that freight can not only be Jjhandled
. The street railway review . j^/b^ accord any mill owning its own car current and right-of-way over the tracks to any depot reached, at a chargefor the service of a sum not exceeding $ per car per^day. With one car such as that in use the wheat in andthe flour out of a 1,000-barrel mill can be handled infifteen round trips, or in one days work. The routeselected is on a street, the property on which is suitablefor wholesaling purposes, and already some of the prop-erty owners are agitating the question of putting spur jjtracks into their property, so that freight can not only be Jjhandled in but handled out in less than carload lots, thusdoing away with the cost of drayage between the whole-|sale establishments and the depots. | The last two months of operation has demonstrated jthat even with the convenience now perfected, the mill jproduct can be handled at a less charge per steam freight ^. greater part of the business at present, is delivered to thecar. At Camden, the northern terminus, eight milesnorth of Rockland, the street railway has a freight depotat which goods are left under the same conditions as onsteam roads. The rates are $ a ton, except in the case of largeshippers, who get a rate of $ Freight is billed toall points on the Maine Central and connecting usual to transfer all freight from the steam to thestreet railway cars at Rockland, but in several casesstandard freight cars heavily loaded with machinery havebeen hauled the eight miles to Camden. There aresome very sharp curves and steep grades (in one placeiiyi per cent on a curve) but as yet everything has beenIhauled that the attempt was made to handle. 1 FRANKFORT, KY., is the scene of other profitable operations in the way ofstreet railway freight. The Capital Railway Com-pany, with its $% miles of electric line, of which PatMcDonald is president, and John T. Buckley, secretary
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