The mail earnings are $6,156 per month, or $205 per day.
The total earnings of the passenger trains on this road are $1,195,000 a year, and the mails required 10.43 per cent of the passenger train facilities; on this basis they ought to pay $125,000 a year.
These post office cars are hauled 534,000 miles every year. The Postmaster-General estimates that the actual cost to the railroads of operating a sixty-foot postal car is 18 cents per mile. At this rate the Burlington Company should be paid $96,000 a year for the service of the postal cars only.
It is, in fact, paid for all the mail service on this road $73,872 annually.
V.
Route 135,010. Galesburg to Quincy (Ills.). 99.93 Miles. Average Daily Weight, 19,727 pounds.
| Per cent Space | Per cent Earnings | Should Earn on Space | Did Earn. | |
| Passenger | 69.45 | 79.44 | $28,864 | $33,015 |
| 19.70 | 8.45 | 8,187 | 3,511 | |
| Express | 10.85 | 12.11 | 4,509 | 5,034 |
| $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.