Railroaded

in collaboration with The Spatial History Project


Some 6.3 times as much freight moved within California by rail as was shipped outside in 1873, in 1883 4.6 pounds of goods still moved within California for every pound shipped out.

Thirty-Fourth Annual Report of the Chamber of Commerce of San Francisco . . . (San Francisco: C. A. Murdock, 1884), 41-42, see Chart D below or in the appendix.