Mail Carrying Railways Underpaid

Note B — IV. THE MAIL SERVICE SUPPLIED BY THE RAILWAYS COSTS THEM MORE IN OPERATING EXPENSES AND TAXES THAN THEY ARE PAID FOR IT, AND LEAVES NOTHING FOR RETURN ON THE PROPERTY.

Reading edition

A car-foot mile is a unit equal to moving one foot in car length (regardless of width or height) one mile. Thus to move a car sixty feet long one mile results in sixty car-foot miles; to move the same car three miles results in 180 car-foot miles, etc.

Return to IV. THE MAIL SERVICE SUPPLIED BY THE RAILWAYS COSTS THEM MORE IN OPERATING EXPENSES AND TAXES THAN THEY ARE PAID FOR IT, AND LEAVES NOTHING FOR RETURN ON THE PROPERTY.