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The excerpt represents the core issue or deciding factor on which you must meditate, and is drawn from The Riverman by Stewart Edward White: Newmark produced a note-book and began to jot down figures.
"Do these men all conduct separate drives?" he inquired.
"All but Proctor and old Heinzman. They pool in together."
"Now," went on Newmark, "if we were to drive the whole river, how
could we improve on that?"
"Well, I haven't got it down very fine, of course," Orde told him,
"but in the first place we wouldn't need so many men. I could run
the river on three hundred easy enough. That saves wages and grub
on two hundred right there. And, of course, a few improvements on
the river would save time, which in our case would mean money. We
would not need so many separate cook outfits and all that. Of
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