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cents per mile if every carriage were full. The fact
that the first class carriages are seldom if ever full
generally makes the carriage of first class passengers
of no profit to the Railway.
The ordinary office clerk, small shop keeper
and the house toy class generally pay 1/50 or 1/20
for the trip to Canton and I see no difficulty in
obtaining all this traffic and running them at 1 cent
per mile to Canton.
When this traffic is taken from the steaners,
I
it will not pay them to run the 35 cent coolie.
think these coolies could be charged 90 cents for the
trip or say '75 cents per mile9.
Then assuming that the traffic is bound to increase,
a moderate estimate of the traffic to be expected from
the passengers between Hong Kong and Canton on the
Railway is as follows for the British Section only:- 500 2nd Class passengers at -/02 per mile 22 niles -- $220
1700 3rd 1
11
H
3000 4th 11
ዝ
-/01
# -/00.75
#
#
ม
11
Total receipts.
#t
#
-$374
$495
$1089
This ignores any receipts from 1st class passengers.
The actual cost of running these passengers is as
follows:-
500 2nd class at -/00*75 per mile 22 miles $ 82.50.
1700 3rd "
+1
-/00 5
H
"
# 1
$187.00.
3000 4th #
非
-/00 45
[!
11
+
11
$297.00
Total.
$566.50
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