The total cost of the service for the year on these seven subsidized
routes was $1,114,603.47, a net excess over the amount allowable at
present rates to steamers not under contract of $346,677.39, or,
deducting the amount would have been paid non-contract steamers for the
despatch of the foreign closed mails which these steamers carry without
additional cost to the department, a total excess of $293,013.40.[IQ]
"All other mail service between the United States and foreign
countries," the postmaster-general regretfully reported, is "wholly
dependent on steamships over whose sailings the department has no
control."[IR]
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The total tonnage of the United States in 1910 as given by Lloyd's was
5,058,678 tons:
No. of vessels. Tons.
Sea 2774 2,761,605
Northern Lakes 606 2,256,619
Philippine Islands 89 40,454
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Total 3469 5,058,678
The number of ships on the lakes as given does not include wooden
vessels trading on the Great Lakes.
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