I. C. C. Rep. 1903, p. 24. Sometimes the payment for a refrigerator car is much more than $1 a day. James J. Hill says: “If we take another railway company’s car, we pay 20 cents a day for it for the time we have had it, and we are in a hurry to get it back; and we load the other man’s car back if we have anything to put in it. That is always understood. But they do not want anything put in their cars. They say: ‘Hurry it back; get it around quickly, and pay us, in place of 20 cents a day, three-fourths of a cent a mile.’ They used to ask a cent a mile, but I think that has been abandoned.” “SENATOR NEWLANDS. How much does that amount to a day, say at the rate of a cent a mile? “MR. HILL. If they got a cent a mile and we hurried that car through to the coast, we would take it about 300 miles a day, so that they would get about $3 a day for the car. “SENATOR NEWLANDS. So that in the one case you pay 20 cents? “MR. HILL. And in the other we pay $3. “SENATOR NEWLANDS. And the private car-lines you pay $3. “MR. HILL. Yes—well, $3 would be the extreme figure. We will say $2.50.” (Sen. Com. 1905, p. 1505.) Footnote 271: A refrigerator car costs $900 to $1000, as a rule. A first-class steel-framed freight car costs about the same. Private stock cars of good build cost about $800 each. (See evidence in Hearings on Private Cars, I. C. C. April, 1904, pp. 19, 100; I. C. C. Rep. 1904, p. 14.) The contracts provide that the railroads are to carry no perishable goods except in Trust cars if the Trust cares to furnish the cars. If by chance the railroads use their own or any other refrigerator cars than those of the Trust they are to charge the full Trust rates and turn over the said charges to the car-line just as if its cars had been used. Footnote 272: Sen. Com. 1905, p. 776: 49,807 total, 15,269 railroad and 34,538 private refrigerators; 14,792 tank cars; 11,357 stock cars; 325 poultry cars; vehicle cars and furniture cars, 1,621. These with coal and coke cars and other private cars make a total of 127,331 private cars. The entire freight car equipment belonging to the railroads is about 1,700,000 cars. Footnote 273: