Chapter V

Route 135,010. Galesburg to Quincy (Ills.). 99.93 Miles. Average Daily Weight, 19,727 pounds.

_Per cent _Per cent _Should Earn _Did
Space_ Earnings_ on Space_ Earn._
Passenger 69.45 79.44 $28,864 $33,015
Mail 19.70 8.45 8,187 3,511
Express 10.85 12.11 4,509 5,034
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$41,560

Mail earnings from all sources $3,511 per month, or $117 per day.

The service is performed in three 60-foot postal cars, two 16-foot apartments and one 27-foot apartment, each way daily; also one 44-foot postal car and one full storage car, daily except Sunday, in addition to some space furnished for closed pouches in ordinary baggage cars.

The car space provided for the mails on this route is equivalent to ten full sixty-foot cars daily, over the whole length of the route, or 365,000 car miles a year. At 18 cents per mile the pay would be $65,700, whereas the actual pay is only $42,132. If the Government paid for the service in proportion to the facilities it demands and receives, it would pay $98,244.