The Northern Pacific has a mileage of 375, crossing the northern central portion from Fargo through Bismarck in an almost direct westerly line through the Territory.
It would cost me all of three large dollars--and one can’t draw mileage for that sort of travelling.
Besides, it would cost you all of three large dollars--and you can’t draw mileagefor that kind of travelling.
The mileage is so great however, and the construction so heavy and expensive, that County funds available for permanent work are altogether inadequate.
The natural result is an extra large mileage of roads, and many of them run through mountainous districts.
As in most other Eastern Oregon Counties, Morrow County has to wrestle with the problem of maintaining a large road mileage with a constant shortage of road funds.
Morrow County has received favorable consideration from the Highway Commission in the matter of surveys, it being the only county in Eastern Oregon in which the total mileage of State roads has been surveyed.
In addition they have graded a large mileage and in some localities unusual attention is given to road maintenance.
In addition a considerable mileage of reconnaissance surveys have been made preliminary to definite location.
The main roads or trunk highways through the County have had the benefit of a large percentage of local funds but owing to a large mileageand character of improvement necessary, there remains a great deal yet to be done.
Each beneficiary was to receive a mileage of one livre for every league she had to traverse.
The Wisconsin Highway Commission has constructed a very large mileage of excellent gravel roads and the sizes specified for their roads are as follows: "Bottom Course Gravel.
We may at this juncture have recourse to river mileage estimates.
The stream mileage for the San Joaquin system as a whole within the Mono boundaries amounted to 100 miles.
If this is so, the stream mileage and area comparisons may be more accurate than otherwise might be supposed.
And so he merely listened to the beating of the boat's engine, and tried to estimate with what speed they were running and how much mileage the craft was covering.
In actual mileage the distance covered by this trip is 4,199.
There are nine lines, with a total mileage of three hundred and eighty-five miles, which radiate in all directions through the populous and rich country of which Dayton forms the center.
The city railway lines, three in number, have a total mileageof nearly one hundred miles and render excellent service.
Mileage ranging in amount from ten cents per mile to twenty-five cents is usually allowed, and in a number of states there is a small allowance for postage, stationery, and newspapers.
In addition, each member receives an allowance for a secretary, a small sum for stationery, and mileage of twenty cents per mile going and coming by the nearest route between his home and the national capital.
This mileage is intended to cover the traveling expenses of the member and his family.
Do you think members of Congress are morally entitled to "constructive" mileage, that is, for mileage not actually traveled, as where one session merges into another?
The total mileage run is very small, on account of the light traffic early in the year.
They were making mileage slowly, but the awful strain was telling on the men and on the bank account.
The mileage of the system, at that time, was equal to one-half that of Great Britain; and upon the companies' payrolls were ten thousand more men than were then in the army of the United States.
A glance at the table will show that the greater the mileage and the larger the load, the less will be the overhead expense and consequently the cost per mile per thousand feet.
In addition, tire mileage will be double that obtained over a pole road, and the gasoline and repair expense will be very materially cut.
For very heavy-duty trucking, where resiliency and long service are prime considerations, the giant type is rapidly superseding the old dual type as the former contains more rubber and gives more mileage with the least truck vibration.
An extension of this route lay from Horsham through Steyning, bringing up the total mileage to sixty-one miles three furlongs.
It will be observed that in this first one of a new series half a mile is dropped, and henceforward the mileage to Brighton becomes by authority 51 miles.
Many years ago the government ownership of railroads was tested in various European nations and the tendency toward the extension of government mileage and the diminution of the mileage of privately owned roads has been constant.
As has been shown by the mileage warrant the remuneration paid to the coach proprietors for horsing the mails was, with the exception of two or three cases, always very small.
Mexico and Argentine, having each an area only about one-fourth that of Brazil but a railroad mileage nearly one-fourth greater, have been pushed to this development primarily by a common lack of inland navigation.
The mileage over which mails are carried by railway has been constantly increasing with the development of the railway system, but a far larger number are still carried by runners and boats.
The main line mileage of the road at this date, not counting spur and sidetracks is, within the city of Cedar Rapids 12.
She built coaches, as well as horsing them, and earned a profit by charging her partners down the road the mileage which in the usual course of business would have been paid over to a coach-builder.
Until some ten years ago, when the Great Western adopted a shorter route, and cut off some of the generous curves with which Brunel had endowed the Cornish portion of the line, the mileage was 328.
The stone was perhaps a milestone, but there is very much more about the ruling monarch than modern travellers would welcome, and if there was ever a mileageinscription as well, it has wholly disappeared.
