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$40 lines will probably be joined at centom or is
to allow of through traffic betneen liong Kong and lankox.
For this reason, I have allowed very high working
Expenses per mile as compared with other Railways.
I have no figures for a similarly situated Pailway
and therefore cannot bring forward any actual example
to check my estimate of actual cost of running and
can only base my calculations on a comparatively high
unit cost per mile compared with longer Railway.
ESTIMATE OF TRAFFIC.
Now to begin with the passenger traffic to and
from Canton. As far as I can find out from the figures
at my disposal, the fares paid by the 4500 (2250 each
way) passengers are as follows:-
79% OF 315 pay 1/50 for the trip
30% or 1350 1/20
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11
11
-/35
It
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#
$472. $1620.
$ 992.
63% or 2835
making a total of $3084 as the daily receipts or say roughly $3000 per day of which the British Section would get $500 as its share if receipts were divided
by mileage.
For ordinary passenger traffic in China, I think
four clases will be necessary. The 4th class being
to accommodate the coolie who pays only 35 cents on
the steamer and has to find room for himself wherever
he can.
The cost of running a passenger depends on the
number that can be crowded into a carriage, Taking
an ordinary carriage 60 ft. long. It should carry
say 50 first class, 75 second, 100 third and 120 fourth
class at a cost respectivaly of 1,
75, 50 and *45
cents
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