In addition to the foregoing, the Burlington Company transported on its trains during November postal clerks in charge of mail for the Government a distance of 3,109,747 miles in the aggregate.
If the Government had paid their fare at two cents per mile the amount paid would have been $62,174.94.
These items of station facilities and other service rendered to the Government for the mails amounted to $86,689 for November, or at the rate of more than one million dollars annually.
Express Expense.
| Rental value of space in station buildings used for express, for which no rent is paid | $488.68 |
| Rental value of tracks used for advance loading of express | 191.11 |
| Value of 42,298 miles of free transportation to Express Company officials and employees at two cents per mile. | 885.96 |
| $1,565.75 |
In addition to the foregoing, the agents and employees of the railroad company in the month of November rendered service at stations in handling express and in other ways for the Express Company to the amount of $10,274, but the Express Company paid to the same persons $14,538 in commissions.
The Express Company also shared in the salaries paid to certain baggage men and other joint train employees in November to the amount of $7,480, in addition to the payment of commissions, as aforesaid.
All the items of expense to the railroad company on account of the express in the way of space furnished and free transportation to employees, and services of station agents, amount to $11,840, while the cash payments by the Express Company to the railroad Company indirectly, through payments in commissions to station agents and the salaries of baggage men amounts to $22,018, a pecuniary gain or income from express of $10,178 per month, or at the rate of $124,136 annually, compared with a large outgo annually on account of the mails as shown in the foregoing items.
[Form 2603.]