RAILWAY REFORM- ACROSS THE AMERICAN CONTINENT FOR ONE DOLLAR.

Waikato Times, Volume XXV, Issue 2031, 14 July 1885, Page 3

RAILWAY REFORM- ACROSS THE AMERICAN CONTINENT FOR ONE DOLLAR.

TO Till. HMTDK. Sir, — Sonic fi ien<l h»s posted to mo a copj of tlic Nan Fiancisco Ohionicle of the Ist June last, which contains an account of a lecture dclm red in that city by a Mr \V. D. Southwoitli. Ik advocates the taking oicrthe lailways by the Amencai) (Joveinment, and thrtt they should woik them at low faies. He ■tates that at the rate of a dollar per heat! for the whole journey across the continent, the profit made would be so great that it would pay the entire cost of purchasing the lailroadsin one year ; and he quotes liguies to show that the cost of carrying a passenger oujjht not to be more than two and a half cents per 100 miles, or. in our money, one penny farthing per 100 miles. What Mill my critics, who think I do not Know- what I am talking about, when I put the cost at 4id, say to this? To show that Mi Southworth is not so \ciy far out in his calculation, andtopiove that mine is a veiy safe one, I may mention that it is everyday w oik on one of the punctual lines in gie.it Britain to cany goods at an average minimum late of one eighth of a penny (J 1) per ton per mile. This, in weight, is c(jiial to curbing a passenger one mile for the one bundled and twentieth (1 1 20 th) pait of a penny. The pike we pny foi tiansit is simply lidiculons The inoie I study this question, and the moie intoimation I gather from all paits of the woild, the moie lam convinced that we could make enormous reductions in our chaiges, and at the same time add at least half a million per annum to our revenue. I believe that by a wise administration of oni lailwwys we could speedily biint? back to this country such an era of pioipeiity as has not dawned on it for many a day. — I am &c, Auckland July 7 Sun tr, Vailk.

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