ECONOMY OF ETJEL FOB STEAM MACHINERY. 



337 



magnitude to demand attention, and the time is not far distant when 

 it will materially affect the tariff rates at which the traffic can be 

 worked, as is already found to be the case in the New England States. 



Any contrivance in discovery, therefore, which tends to reduce the 

 consumption of Fuel in the creation of motive power, is of peculiar 

 importance to the public as well as to Railway proprietors. 



The following Table shewing the cost of Fuel in relation to the 

 working expenses and earnings of twelve Roads in the United States 

 and of two in Canada for the year 1855, has been calculated with a 

 view to exhibiting the importance of fuel in Railway Economy. 



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These roads embrace a length of 2,180 miles, and the train mileage 

 for the period covered by the returns amounts to 12,750,000 miles, 



