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THE UNITED STATES 



last eight years, and the freight receipts of the Illinois 

 Central Railroad Company in respect thereto : — 



* Nine months. 



The schedules of fruit and vegetable trains from 

 Southern Illinois points to Chicago show that the speed, 

 including stops, is twenty miles per hour, and, not includ- 

 ing stops, twenty-one miles per hour. In 1902, however, 

 the train scheduled from Centralia ran at a speed of 

 twenty-five miles per hour. 



P'rom points in the Southern States the returns in re- 

 spect to freight tonnage and receipts give the following 

 totals for the " seasons " of the undermentioned years — 

 the " season " covering in each instance the months from 

 March to July, inclusive : — 



xVt several places situated on the Southern lines a 



