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divided in the ratio of 3 to 5, the British Section
would receive 30 cents for carrying the coolie 22
miles while the Chinese Section would get only 50 cents
for 100 miles or only cent per mile, which is the
actual cost in my opinion of carrying a 3rd class
passenger one mile.
The Chinese Section would get no profit at all
and I am therefore leaving such a division of profite
out of the question entirely and am going to base my
calculations on an. eran division by mileage.
This Railway enters into competition with water
carriage in "arious places along its length. The Chief Station is Canton, to which place the carriage
by water is extremely low and as I said before some
inducement such as greater speed must be held cut to
draw traffic to the line. The number of coolies
travelling however is so large that a very small
profit per mile mounts up to a good sim of money and
for reasons stated above this division of profits for
this traffic must be by mileage. I will enter into
figures later on.
Another centre of passenger traffic for which I
have got figures is Sam Chum a town of some importance
about one mile over the frontier in Chinese territory.
The "are by steamer from Hong Kong is 30 cents. The
first part of the journey is by stean launch and then
as the tide rery often does not allow of the steamer
reaching the landing stage, passengers have to tranship
into a stern wheel boat. The landing stage is about
This is a place to which much
a mile from the town.
higher rates per mile can be charged and yet easily gat
all the passengers.
In the first place owing to
shallow
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