Increases Per Cent. 1895 to 1905. 1905 to 1910. 1909 to 1910 Mileage 21 11 1.5 Locomotives 35 22 3. Passenger Cars 23 16 3.3 Freight Service Cars 45 23 3. Passenger Mileage 95 36 11. Freight Ton Mileage 118 37 16.6 Business is beginning to feel the swell of a revival. The freight ton mileage of the country was less by seventeen and a half billions in 1909 than in 1907, and very little more than in 1906. Contrast this with the growth of the single year between 1909 and 1910. The freight ton mileage grew in that year eleven times as fast as trackage, and five times as fast as equipment. This ratio will be subject to increase rather than decrease. It will be much greater in this year of large crops and added tonnage. If any manufacturer were confronted with such conditions, it would be clear to him that he must either refuse business or more than double his plant. The railroad cannot refuse business. If it could do so legally, that policy would still mean national panic and individual ruin. It must enlarge its plant. Just what this means in the expenditure of billions of dollars on new track and rolling stock I demonstrated more than five years ago, and the facts have now been accepted by all authorities. But even the existing plant cannot be worked to its capacity without larger terminals. Hence the supreme importance at the very outset of this factor of the transportation problem.