. Electric railway review . ociation and F. L. Boyer of Dayton. is grand secretary-treasurer. 296 ELECTRIC RAILWAY REVIEW Vol. XIX, No. 10. MILK TRAFFIC ON THE AURORA ELGIN & CHICAGORAILROAD. The Aurora Elgin & Chicago Railroad is the only electricrailway which carries milk into Chicago. In developing itsmilk business this road has had as competitors four steamroads. While statistics are not at hand showing the totalnumber of cans of milk carried since the practice of runningtrains each day especially for this traffic was first started, fig- price of milk by producers to dealers, and a con
. Electric railway review . ociation and F. L. Boyer of Dayton. is grand secretary-treasurer. 296 ELECTRIC RAILWAY REVIEW Vol. XIX, No. 10. MILK TRAFFIC ON THE AURORA ELGIN & CHICAGORAILROAD. The Aurora Elgin & Chicago Railroad is the only electricrailway which carries milk into Chicago. In developing itsmilk business this road has had as competitors four steamroads. While statistics are not at hand showing the totalnumber of cans of milk carried since the practice of runningtrains each day especially for this traffic was first started, fig- price of milk by producers to dealers, and a consequent ad-vance in prices by retail dealers to consumers in following figures show the number of 8-gallon cans car-ried per month, with the daily average: Daily Daily Total. avge. Total. avge. October, 1905. 6,514 210 February, 1907 .12,447 445 October, 1906. 11,444 369 March, 9,545 308 October, 1907. 14,268 460 March, .14,620 471 November, 1905 7,417 247 April, .10,098 336. Milk Traffic on the Aurora Elgin & Chicago Railroad—End View of Chicago Receiving Platform.
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