The daily gazette., 1881-03-03
THE Pennsylvania RAILROAD.
TME WONDERFUL RESULTS OF A
YEARS OPERATION.

YRAR's OPERATION.
Summing up the years opera
tions for all the divisions east OF Pitts
burg and Erie, we find their gross earn-
ings Sal, $780, 72, with resulting net
income, after all operating expenses and
all other expenses and losses were PAID,
amounting to S9,0l6,176. The figures
representing the gross income will be con-
coded to be very large, aud we have yet 10
add the gross earnings off the lines west OF
Pittsburg, which make what may be
called, without exaggeratlon, an i'm
mense total. The earnings of these
western lines for the year 1880 were
SIS, sos, oS9' TO recapitnlate, the earn
ings of the lines east of Pittsburg aud
Erie were. ..................S4 vi ,2oO,UI2
the earnings of those west
OF Pittsburg were. 2s,5O3,se9
The earnings of both divls-
ions. SO, 7e4, 061
These figures are brought promi-
nently TO the reader simply because of
their great magnitude. They are the
largest ever reached by this great
company. But they are not the only
mum bers that assume enormous pro-
portions. We might give some others
ii the tracks of the road would only
stop extending themselves long enough
to be measured, and the rolling stock
would keep still long enough to be
counted. The number of miles of
line owned and operated by the Penn
sylvania Railroad Company must be
nearly, if not quite, seven Thousand
miles in aggregate length. They were
over sixty-six hundred miles six years
ago, and are continually extending.
Tn re were carried over these roads
last year 40, 701, AGA tons Of merchan-
disc of all sorts. This is equal TO
fifty thousand ship loads of the old
fashioned sailors of one thousand tons
each. passengers there were trans
ported 26, al 036, which numbers are
rather more than one half of the
whole population of the United States.
The rolling stock to move this enorm-
Gus traihc consists, as nearly as We
can count it, while it 10 in motion, of
more than thousand locomotives
and more than forty Thousand cars.
The microscopic figures Of the report
are equal curiosities. On the main line
Of the Pennsylvania road they earned
last year for carrying one ton Of freight
mile, eight hundred aud eighLy-Sue
Jhousandths of one cent. The average
cost Of Transporting each ton per mllr
vas four bundled and seventy -four one
thousandths OF cent, leAyIng as the
average profit four hundred and SIX oue
Q t..r a D. - ha.1k
mile. On the Philadelphia aud Efie
She prohL Of carrying one ton a mile
was Two huudred and two one thou
saudths Of a cent, or about a fifth OF a
cent per mile. On the PENNSYLVANIA
main line the charge for carrying pass
enger one mile is two cents and two
hundred and iii. y.three one lAousAudLh s
ot cent the average cost OF tSans-
porting each passenger per mile being
one cent and six hundred aud four one
Jhousaudths Of a cent, showing the net
pr FL II carrying one passenger per
mile to be SIX hundred aud ferty-uIne
ole tnOUsandlhs Of cent. The aver
age profit on the Jersey roads OF cany-
Jug pa 'seuger one mile is tour hundred
and thirty i've one thOusandlhs of
cent, while between here aud Erie the
profit in carrying passenger is four
hundred ana ninety nine one thou
sandths of a cent per mile. 1t costs the
company more TO carry woman aud
her trunk one mile than it does to carry
ton of merchandise.
The great bulk OF the earnings OF the
road Il will be seen, is made east OF
Plttsburg and Erie, ard the locsl freiR /,
contrary TO the popular notion on sucG
matters, sums up much larger than the
through trelgh t. these are some of the
meresS outlines Of interest n this huge
report. What the Company proposes TO
do 4 the near future, the enterprises Il
nas blocked out, as well a. the eompari
| sou Of detailed earnings and costs Of =
| branches and leased roads, all Of much
| pueIc interest, deserve to have an artlc le
| 70 themselves. The PhiladeIphiau vic
sees the Company's busy berry tugs
| crossing the upper har5or Of New York,
| or tracks the red passenger cars Penn
| syIyauIa" westward aud 10 The north.
W t. or who watches the piers At Prlue
| street, Glrard Point. Green which, Wal
nut street, and Harslmus Cove, W.
| agree that these figures aud facts show
pretty considerable Of a railway