. Electric railway journal . of business whichundoubtedly would have gone to the steam roads exceptfor the convenience and speed of the service provided. From Sept. 1, 1920, until March 15, 1921, the com-pany made a charge of 10 cents per 100 lb. for haulingmerchandise between Austin and Franklin and Mon-trose stations. This charge was simply added to themileage charge between the Montrose terminal and anypoint on the railroad. With the great increase in com-petition since the first of the year, due to the materialfalling off in business available to all carriers, the com-pany on March 15 issu
. Electric railway journal . of business whichundoubtedly would have gone to the steam roads exceptfor the convenience and speed of the service provided. From Sept. 1, 1920, until March 15, 1921, the com-pany made a charge of 10 cents per 100 lb. for haulingmerchandise between Austin and Franklin and Mon-trose stations. This charge was simply added to themileage charge between the Montrose terminal and anypoint on the railroad. With the great increase in com-petition since the first of the year, due to the materialfalling off in business available to all carriers, the com-pany on March 15 issued a new tariff which made theFranklin and Austin station a regular railroad shippingpoint, for which the same rate in effect between railpoints applied. On this basis, the gross charge on first-class shipments between the Montrose and the Franklinand Austin stations, as handled by motor trucks andincluding the extra handling at the downtown terminal,is cents per hundredweight. 134 Electric Railway Journal Vol. 58, No. 4. Franklix and Austin Station Loading Platform and RearEnd op Trailers Showing Gates Used A recent study on the actual cost of this service madefor Mr. Budd by H. A. Johnson, organization engineer,developed some very interesting information which con-firmed fairly accurately the estimates made prior to theinstallation as to the cost of securing the business whichcomes as the result of the downtown terminal. Ex-clusive of the cost of the operation of the station atFranklin and Austin, and the cost of loading and un-loading trucks at this station, the cost of operating thetrucks alone is shown in Table I. The total business handled during the four monthsperiod named above, September to December, 1920, was14, torn, and the mileage operated was 36, average tonnage of merchandise per trip figuresout to be On the basis of these figures for fourmonths, it is estimated that the company would handleduring the year a ton-mieage of 103,, from w
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