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715 of capital and 1,311,246 employees receiving $378,878,966 in wages to 533,769 plants in 1905 with $13,872,035,371 of capital and 6,723,926 employees receiving $3,625,911,957 in wages. In 1860 the value of the products of the manufacturing plants was $1,885,861,676, and in 1905 it was $16,866,706,985. In 1850 there were only 8,571.48 miles of railroad in the United States, or 3.71 miles for each 10,000 people, and in 1909 there were 236,868.53 miles of railroad and 342,351 miles of track, or 37.2 per 10,000 people. In 1880 the gross earnings of the railroads were $615,401,931. In 1909 they were $2,418,677,538. In 1888 American railroads transported 61,329,000,000 tons one mile, and in 1910 they transported 250,418,000,000 tons one mile, an increase of 324 per cent in volume of service, and the rate per ton-mile the railroads received declined 24.5 per cent. In 1888 they carried 10,101,000,000 passengers one mile, and in 1910, 33,270,000,000, an increase of 229 per cent, though the average receipts per passenger per mile declined 26.9 per cent in