APPENDIX. TABLE SHOWING DECLINE OF FREIGHT RATES IN NORTH AMERICA. The following table, compiled from official figures, shows the average freight rates per ton per mile charged by the railroads named in the years mentioned. These roads fairly represent the railway system as a whole. The marked decrease shown has, it should be said, been gradual year by year; and is the outgrowth of economic laws and in no way attributable to government pressure. It confirms all that is said throughout this book that the rates of rail roads are self adjustive; i. e., are governed by natural laws. Cleveland, Cincinnati, Chicago & St Louis... 1853 3.030 1903 .644 Chicago & North Western... Chicago, Rock Island & Pacific. (1868 3.130 cts, 1903 .889 1863 2.350 1903 1863 2.680 1903 1013 " .864 1868 2.810 " Cohn, Professor.... 124 99 Colson, C., of the Government Council of the French Rail- Committee of State Railroad Commissions and Interstate Cooley, Judge T. M., Chairman Interstate Commerce Com- mission..... ..157, 158, 166 262 93 "The Doctrine of Presumed Dedication of Private Cullom, Senator Shelby M.... Curtis, George Ticknor... Dabney, W. D.....54, 87, 123, 124, 125, 126, 127, 128, 135, 155, 157 Dorsey, E. Bates, Member Am. Society of Civil Engineers.169, 243 Ely, Professor R. T................... Farrer, Sir Thomas.... PAGE 257 245 153 Findlay, Colonel George... "The Working and Management of an English Railway." Fink Albert...... Gournerie, M. de la, Inspector General (France). Hadley, Professor Arthur T.. .46, 82, 155, 159 ...108 55, 56, 62, 63, 64, 88, 153, 230, 231, 232, 233, 234, 238 Hale, Edward Everett... 'Railroad Transportation." ..253 15 .31, 34, 35, 52, 111, 112, 114, 119, 224 Herbert, Sidney........ Hudson, J. F.. 66 The Railways and the Republic." Interstate Commerce Commission, First Annual Report.115, 140 Commission.. Seligman, Professor.. State Railroad Commission of Michigan... An Investor's Notes on American Railways." Taussig, F. W...................... 74 49 73 .100, 101, 103, 104 “A Contribution to the Theory of Railway Rates." |