File:Outing (1885) (14595749648).jpg

Identifier: outing51newy (find matches)
Title: Outing
Year: 1885 (1880s)
Authors:
Subjects: Leisure Sports Travel
Publisher: (New York : Outing Pub. Co.)
Contributing Library: Tisch Library
Digitizing Sponsor: Boston Library Consortium Member Libraries

View Book Page: Book Viewer
About This Book: Catalog Entry
View All Images: All Images From Book
Click here to view book online to see this illustration in context in a browseable online version of this book.

Text Appearing Before Image:
an in the lead. An application of crude oil would lay the dust. 224 The Outing Magazine ter to a mile of property fronting on oneor both sides of the road, and in many in-stances it is miles of highway that pass infront of one mans property. PROFITABLE LENGTH OF HAUL OF FARMPRODUCTS Railroad officials state that in a fairlylevel country such as Indiana or Ohio, asteam railroad will have sufficient freightto haul to make it a safe financial invest-ment if it receives the freight produced from macadam and establishing proper grades,each wagon, in place of carrying one ton,will be enabled to carry with the same teamthree or four tons in less time than the oneton was formerly carried the ten miles tomarket, and that, too, for the same priceof $2.50 for the haul, thus reducing thecost to six cents or eight cents per ton permile. The following table shows the costof hauling product five miles, which givesreadily to the eye the reason why a longerhaul than five miles is not profitable unless
Text Appearing After Image:
An unimproved highway in Clinton County, Pa. the farms for a distance of five miles oneither side of the steam road, and the roadis long enough. In other words, steamroads in rich agricultural sections are prof-itable investments if located ten milesapart, and will not disastrously interferewith the business of each other in securinglocal freights. The cost of transportationon dirt roads is figured at $2.50 for thehauling of one ton ten miles, or a cost oftwenty-five cents per ton per mile, and byimproving the highways with gravel or the product hauled is of a greater than or-dinary value to the usual product carried. $1.25 will haul a ton S miles on a common road , 12J to 15 miles on a well made stone road. 25 miles on a trolley road 250 miles on a steam railway. Cost per Mile .25 .12 .05 .005 1,000 miles on a steamship 00012 It can be mathematically demonstratedand actually shown to the eye by the useof highway maps that the improvement offrom 8 per cent, to 16 per cent, of the tota

Note About Images