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But their material progress has been marvelous. In 1877, the mileage of wire belonging to the Western Union Telegraph Company was 200,000 miles; in 1884, they have 433,726 miles of wire; so that during the seven years their mileage of wire has more than doubled.
Bud turned his face slightly to one side. "How about stopping; I'll have to feed her some oil and it wouldn't hurt to fill the gas tank again. These heavy roads eat up a lot of extra power. What's her average mileage on a gallon, Foster?" "How the deuce should I know?" Foster snapped, just coming out of a doze. "You ought to know, with your own car and gas costing what it does."
"Well, if she minds, we'll fix that." He took out his pencil and a little pocket notebook as if it were all settled. "What is your address there?" She fumbled her purse which contained the address slip. He reached down in his hip pocket and took out a fat purse. It was filled with slip of paper, some mileage books, a roll of greenbacks. It impressed her deeply.
This seems a fortune after being penniless" she smiled ruefully. "Are you sure you have not reduced yourself to that condition? Have you saved enough to carry you home?" "Oh, I have my mileage book with me," he said happily. It pleased him absurdly that she had not declined the pocketbook. "Thank you so much.
Let's see whether we can get on to Norwich, anyhow, shall we? We may find that there are bridges down on that line." They relapsed once more into silence. Presently the guard reappeared. "Instructions to take you on to Yarmouth, if possible, sir," he announced, "and to collect the mileage at our destination." "That will be quite satisfactory," Mr. Dunster agreed.
The Whigs nominated a respectable man named Brown, but a short while before the election John Henry, a member of the State Senate, announced himself as a candidate, and appealed for votes on the sole ground that he was a poor man and wanted the place for the mileage.
Casey was just thinking that they would soon run out of gas, and that he would then have a fighting chance, when he was startled almost into believing that he had spoken his plan. "I told you there's a twenty-gallon tank on this car; well, it holds twenty-five. I've got a special carburetor that gives an actual mileage of twenty-two miles to the gallon on ordinary desert roads.
Nathaniel Billings, who travelled from his home in Williamstown by the exhibition of a red ticket. Austen Vane had to pay his own way from Ripton, but as he handed back the mileage book, the conductor leaned over and whispered something in his ear that made him smile, and Austen thought he would rather have that little drop of encouragement than a pass.
"No," said Foy, slowly, speaking in a whisper; "we'll build on snow, for it's hard and safe; and in the spring we'll ease it down and make a road-bed." They did so. They built and bedded the cross-ties on the snow, ballasted with snow, and ran over that track until spring without an accident. They were making mileage slowly, but the awful strain was telling on the men and on the bank account.
But the once familiar figures of the bonanza farms of the Northwest the pictures of their long lines of reapers or selfbinders, twenty, thirty, forty, or fifty machines, one after the other, advancing through the golden grain the pictures of their innumerable stacks of wheat the figures of the vast mileage of their fencing the yet more stupendous figures of the outlay required to operate these farms, and the splendid totals of the receipts from such operations these at one time were familiar and proudly presented features of boom advertising in the upper portions of our black land belt, which day just at the eastern edge of the old Plains.
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