PORTABLE HAND CARS. 



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Patent Portable Raileoad and Hand Cars. 

 These have lately been introduced in this country and appear 

 to be coming into general use and favor. The company owning 

 this improvement, as it seems to have a right to be called, claim, 

 that by means of their track and cars, which can be used every- 

 where that a wheel-barrow or a horse-cart can go, and in a great 

 many places where these vehicles cannot go, they effect a very 

 large saving, as much in some cases as -| of the cost by the other 

 means of transport. There are no data published as yet to make 

 tables from similar to the foregoing ; from the company's pam- 

 phlet, however, one given case which occurred on Staten Island 

 in 1867, may be analyzed and tabulated as follows: — 



Distance of transport, in feet, 



550 



