. Electric railway journal . used with specially built bodies arrangedfor eleven passengers. These were then replaced with%-ton White trucks with a seating capacity of twelve. August 4, 1917] ELECTRIC RAILWAY JOURNAL 185 The total distance covered on this route was 130,134bus-miles and the revenue was $12, or centsper bus-mile. Operating expenses per bus-mile cents; depreciation, cents, or an average to-tal operating expense of cents per bus-mile. Monthly earnings varied from $661 to $1,177 and op-erating expenses ranged from $697 to $2,000. Depreci-ation for th
. Electric railway journal . used with specially built bodies arrangedfor eleven passengers. These were then replaced with%-ton White trucks with a seating capacity of twelve. August 4, 1917] ELECTRIC RAILWAY JOURNAL 185 The total distance covered on this route was 130,134bus-miles and the revenue was $12, or centsper bus-mile. Operating expenses per bus-mile cents; depreciation, cents, or an average to-tal operating expense of cents per bus-mile. Monthly earnings varied from $661 to $1,177 and op-erating expenses ranged from $697 to $2,000. Depreci-ation for the seventeen months totaled $2,292 and inter-est on the investment $334. The net monthly earningsranged from a loss of $1,364 to a profit of $172 andthe net result from seventeen months of operation wasa deficit of $4,524. No Nourishment on an Intake of Centsper Bus-Mile The Studebaker trucks taken from the Enumclaw-Buckley route were put on the 10-mile line connectingOrting with the interurban railway at Puyallup. This. CAR ON BOTHELL LINE, INTERNATIONAL CHASSISAND BRILL BODY route was paved for its entire length and had no badgrades. Through bus service to Tacoma was alreadyoperating on this line, so that there was competitionfrom the outset. Operation was continued for eight months, duringwhich time operating expenses were $6,557 and depreci-ation $995. These figures compared with the totalearnings of $5,515 gave a deficit at the close of theperiod of operation of $2,136. The total distance covered on this line was 59,879bus-miles. Earnings averaged cents per bus-mile,and operating expenses averaged cents per bus-mile. As the depreciation was cents, the total ex-pense was cents per bus-mile. In the case of each of the three routes cited therewas some form of auto-bus transportation already inthe field. The new lines therefore had to meet com-petition from the start. It is believed that if the totalavailable revenues from each route could have beenta
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