AMERICAN RAILWAYS.
The following American statistics are interesting:—There are 193,000 miles of railway in the United States. The companies work the lines with nearly 38,000 engines, and almost 1,500,000 carriages and waggons. Every 100 miles of line employs 529 workmen, and the wage bill is nearly £116,000,000 sterling. The capital is £2,298,206,792, and the dividends work out to an average of 5£ per cent. No fewer than 7865 persons were killed on the railways in the period of June, 1900 June, 1901, and 50,000 were injure'd. These figures include the trespassers as well as travellers, the former contributing no fewer than 4346 to the killed and 4580 to the injured. One passenger in every 2,316.648 was killed, ard one in 139,740 injured.
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Greymouth Evening Star, Volume XXXI, 12 November 1901, Page 4
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