Chapter II

Route 157,028. Odell to Concordia, Kansas. 72 Miles. Average Daily Weight, 282 Pounds.

_Per cent _Per cent _Should Earn _Did
Space_ Earnings_ on Space_ Earn._
Passenger 80.82 81.44 $2,482 $2,501
Mail 11.76 9.38 361 288
Express 7.42 9.18 228 282
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$3,071

Mail earnings $288 per month (26 days), or $11 per day.

This service demands a twenty-five-foot apartment car each way for which the pay amounts to 7.64 cents per car mile run, or about the fares of two passengers at three cents per mile who may occupy one seat.

The service is six days per week, but the aggregate weight carried in the six days is divided by seven to obtain the Cortelyou "average" on which the pay is based.

The payment for a twenty-five-foot traveling post office is a little over half the pay per mile for a rural route carrier.