ded carriage and pay for the same, when economy
being the one important point to him, he would
rather pay less for ruder accommodation? Of course
the only object the railroad directors can have by
this unique and singular arrangement is to
increase the receipts. But does it do so? I say
no; many times no. How empty the carriages are! In
my own case, had there been a cheap class, I
should, since I have been here, have once or twice
a week visited Denver or the Springs. Instead of
perhaps twenty trips, I have made three (my family
none), and the last time there were only two other
passengers with me in the carriage. None of the
ranchmen around use the rail. If they have to go
anywhere on the line they drive, and all say it is
far cheaper to do so and pay livery for the team
than incur such high rates. Is not this an
absurdity? The rate is, I believe, six cents a
mile, which is just about three times that for
the third class in England. A railway should
increase and foster travel. It always does so. No;
one exception: the D. and R. G. Railway does not.
In the same way as individuals use their legs,
horses, anything in preference to the rail, so it
is on this line found cheaper to cart crops to
market, and it is so done. Another result: crops
don't pay here because the cost of taking them to
market is so high. So not only does the railroad
not get the existing crops, it also forfeits all
which would be grown were the rates reasonable.
Truly the policy figured is a strange one and
exemplifies exactly the best way "not to do it."

But I dare not trespass more on your space, or I
could enlarge greatly on other singular facts.
How, because there is competition in one case and
not in the other, short distances cost more for
both passengers and goods than longer ones. How it
was (I am not sure as to the present) cheaper to
take a through ticket when the destination was an
intermediate station and get out at that
station--if you could! These and much more are not
peculiar to the railroad under discussion, though
peculiar to America. The whole system of railroads
in America puzzles me. With much that other
countries might with advantage copy, there are
crying evils which, were public opinion more