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COMMERCE YEARBOOK
Table 4,—Ton-Miles of Revenue Freight Carried by Class I Railways, by Months
[All figures in millions of ton~-miles]
Month
ranueary....
February...
‘Aarch......
is 1 1 ST
day cue...
une.........
uly...
lugust._...
jeptember_.
Jetober___.
November...
December. _|
1021
26, 627
2, 200
1 932
* 084
5252
+ 442
©. 397
/, R20
1922
23, 742
25, 453
29, 468
22, 290
%5, 064
“a, 477
47
All roads
1623 |
1924
1925 |
34, 020
29, 464
35, 302
34, 794
35, 994
34, 234
4 A] ¢
30,614
») 135
% 970
29, 092
30, 522
8, 759
29, 925
9 "26
40
33, 147
30, 565
31,918
20, 358
"2,178
"2,780
, 487
, 704
.3,005
‘0, 382
7, 254
34, 899
*7
053
Eastern
district
1924 | 1025
13, 844
4, 857
5, 478
2, 806
2,912
7 73
2 ue
, 463
3, 864
1 266
2, 523
)927
,454
5 130
} 602
"418
3,575
5, 903
15. 015
£0
4
766
4 118
Southern
district
1924
1925
6, 625
6, 919
7,109
5, 410
5300
5,125
3, 209
3,811
3,015
"688
7,426
7 782
7,31
8, 771
7,106
< 853
490
207
21
28¢
661
026
2 053
Western
district
1924 | 1025 °
10,145 |
10, 359
10, 383
9,876
Nn, 220
798
61¢
04%
L775
2, 154
.2, 565
11, 153
11,367
9,930
10, 546
9,982
10, 761
.1,028
11, 676
12, 889
14, 208
_5, 146
13,125
11 832
Source: Interstate Commerce Commission.
Chart IL—TON-MILES OF REVENUE FREIGHT (CLASS I ROADS)
BILLIONS OF TON-MILES
Or ED
Eastern~f
Caper
Onan nnn og dog,
1921 1922 1923 924 1988 sits
Revenue Freight Originating, by Commodities.
The character of the freight traffic handled by the railroads is shown
in Table 5. Products of mines have made up well over half of the
freight originating in each year, amounting to 54.4 per cent in 1925
as compared with 56.1 per cent in 1913. Since 1913 the volume of
agricultural products handled has been over 100,000,000 tons annually
not counting livestock) and has varied comparatively little. There